300 TALE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONIGEE. 
[SEPTEMBER 4, 1875, 
ЕСИНЕ E 1875. 
SEP 
13 and r4.—Carnatio а Show а "a Botanical entend Old 
Trafford, Peor le 
and 16. Royal al Caledonian ne International Fruit and 
i: Flower Show a е Sec., J. Stewart, 5, um 
Street, Edinbur 
and 16. —Stamfor d Е Fioral and eim m Society's Exhi- 
= ben) in En ey Park. . Secs., Messrs. Johnson 
23. —Royal H Horticultural Societ afe ou Autumn Show. 
A есе 12314 n Stre 
29 and до: ‘Potato Show at the Alexandra Tol Hon. Sec., 
Mr, Р. McKinlay, 23, - 'Thames Street, Lois 
6.—Royal Horticultural Society, ý South Laem зеза Meeting 
of Fruit and Floral Committees, Fungus Show 
ov 
10. — Royal Horticultural Society, ‘South Жане, Meeting 
of Fruit, i and Scientific Com 
agh Chry: erem о aad Fruit Show. 
MLN Baxter Gate, sed нй h. 
25.—Royal Horticultural онгу o of Ireland. Private Winter 
Exhibition. Sec., A. as 28, Westland Row, Dublin 
1.—Royal Herticditunil soci, "South Kensington. Meeting 
of Fruit, Floral, and 
Gardeners Chronicle, 
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1875. 
APPOINTMENTS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. 
E 
TUESDAY, Sept. 7 bitio 
x of Fancy Poultry and Pigeons, at 
Stevens' Rooms. 
p and West of Scotland Horticul- 
€ s Autumn Show. 
ne Heenan Society’s 
mo Dutch Bulbs, 2 be ‘Stevens’ Rooms. 
Blackheath Horticultural Society’s 
SATURDAY, Sept. 114 Thornton Heath Public Show. 
Sale of Dutch Bulbs, at Stevens’ Rooms. 
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W* alluded briefly in our last to a telegram 
which we had received from COLOGNE 
with reference to the INTERNATIONAL HORTI- 
CULTURAL EXHIBITION, opened in that city on 
the 25th ult., by H.I.H. the Crown Prince of 
GERMANY. We are now enabled 
another column, 
principal objects exhibited, and may, in this 
place, lay before our readers some general im- 
pressions as to this extensive exhibition. 
The phrase “ second-rate,” which appeared in 
ich was forwarded to us from 
Ms зуе back to the 
preliminary flourishes, and r embering, with 
gratitude and something Tike. astonishment, 
the lavish public hospitality, and the exuberant 
loyalty manifested by the Rhinelanders to their 
Prince, we can but feel that horticulture 29058. 
іп another column, the mind, i in ithe attempt to 
ition, wanders 
back to the profuse hospitali? offered to the 
jurors, and pre-eminently to the magnifi- 
cent reception accorded to the Crown Prince— 
a reception, the festivities primu ith 
which the foreigners present a t Cologne were 
privileged to witness and take part in. Break- 
fasts, luncheons, dinners, suppers followed one 
another with perplexing rapidity ; festival can- 
tatas, fireworks, torch-light processions, “hochs” 
and “ hurrahs ” were alike innumerable, These 
d such as these take the first place in the 
memory of these tfi and horticjitors plays 
t a шесе part 
поетот, and, though we are in за 
а peret 
urhood well over with enthusiasm 
the fact that the Prince was the guest of the 
Flora Society. 
To realise this state of things let our readers 
suppose that H.R.H. the Prince of WALES was 
invited, as he very possibly, and we hope ere 
long, will be, to open such an exhibition here, 
would the whole town for three whole days run 
mad, as it were, with joy and excitement? 
'Some will point to the case of Sheffield a week 
ortwo ago,as an affirmative response to our 
question, but the case is not parallel. It was 
not the Sheffield Horticultural Society that 
invited the Prince, it was the Municipality. At 
Cologne, on the other hand, it was the local 
Horticultural Society which invited the Prince, 
and the Municipality and the inhabitants fol- 
паар e lead ; and the result was a display o 
exuberant loyalty, which even in our own 
favoured land could hardly be excelled. We 
note this the more as, so far as we have seen, 
the ordinary journals have scarcely noted the 
occurrence, and the special correspondents seem 
to have been at “ Zes eaux,” or, at any rate, were 
not on duty, else they would scarcely have failed 
to report the magnificent illumination of the 
city and of the exquisite cathedral on the night 
of the 26th ult. —— RE 
For some 30 or odd miles, from Rolandseck 
above Bonn to Cologne, on this evening, the 
Prince's progress down the Rhine was a sort of 
Carnival de Venise—every little village, every 
x boat-house was ablaze with light, or 
rved as a battery for the noisy loyalty of gun- 
cadem 
The grandeur of the spectacle culminated at 
Cologne. It is impossible to convey by words 
an idea of the splendour of the scene, particu- 
larly of the Cathedral, illuminated as it was by 
coloured fires, which give * an appearance as 
if at a transparent red hea 
It must not be thought that oe this was 
official and to order ; y sponta- 
neous, and, with the е of the SA 
— ons—which 
— O 
were | y 
work of private individuals, ene о 
the headquarters ers of Roman Catholicism in 
Germany anxious to show their loyalty to their 
Protestant Prince. These are signs of the 
times which, it appears to us, the politician 
should not lightly ignore. 
All this, however, has little to do with horti- 
for alluding to it. The spontaneous loyalty of 
the people, however, manifested itse 
effectively in these pyrotechnic displays than in 
any floral display such as we have been accus- 
tomed to in this country of late years, In fact, 
the art of the floral decorator has apparently 
not advanced beyond its first infancy in this 
t of Germany. A few Spruce Fir boughs 
ak up here arid there, a few huge but tasteless 
bouquets, an array of miserable pot-plants in 
the dirtiest of pots, constituted all tha 
attempted in the way of floral decorations. In 
this — we apes of late years gone to the 
opposi and in our wealth and luxury 
Mann and "daily commit, gross errors in 
taste in these particulars, sacrificing valuable 
plants merely because they are valuable, re- 
gardless of the fact that much cheaper materi 
MOS № quite or even more effective for the 
pur 
je ы Horticultural I ы vu the pre- 
parations were ewhat a and the 
arrangements were b no means сше at the 
appointed time. One feature, however, stands 
out ami 1 di d confusi 
2 
— 
kind—we allude to the catalogue. It is hardly 
possible to speak in too warm terms of the 
boon that was offered to those who had busi- 
ness at the exhibition, in the ce that 
means favourable t 
whether of the меа in the case of 
a well — well printed, and, so far 
saw, complete catalogue was pla ced in di 
hands of the visitant on the very first day of the 
exhibition. As to the other arrangements, the 
selection of the jury, the tedious formalities 
connected with their installation, the long 
delays ere they were in a position 
their work, and other m 
kind, the Cologne folk w 
most of the Continental towns in like case, 
Without arrogance, and having, we hope, a due 
ex 
o 
c 
friends would do well to adopt the system and - 
copy the arrangements made on similar occa- 
sions in England, when the whole business is | 
flatter ourselves, is quite as well done. 
point we venture to call attention to, lest it may 
become a precedent, and that is the practice of 
some exhibitors turning the space allotted to 
but wholly out of place in a horticultural exhi- | 
bition. The managers should have power to 
exclude such groups, or to relegate them to shop - 
counters or bazaars apart from the general exhi- | 
bition, Of the m y Anto plants for exhi- 
bition purposes, of w here were so man 
hie eauntri 
obvious cases at "Cologne and which, unfortu. - 
a 
@ 
Uu 
tely, preva 
more to say on план occasion. 
tice which, if it be, as many con 
restrictions, and sh 
publicly, so that "y public may know which 
exhibitor buys his spurs, and which wins them 
by his own skill. 
THE experience of the past season does but 
WATERING, | 
the frequent inference ' 
confirm, in respect to ARTIFICIAL 
which must have been 
applies with 
elevated situations, such as we have more espe- 
cially in view ; and possibly the conditions 
referred to affect in a much less degree what 
are called holding soils. Тһе explanation seems 
wd ipae eec such light soils as those 
under consideration are kept constantly m. 
by oft-repeated ES е: fairly soak thé 
upper strata of earth, th 
supply, instead of strik 
their supply from 
under other circumstances ; and thus when s 
few days of hot sunshine, possibly accompanied | 
, the surface moisture of | 
requirements of the plant A are very greatly 
ased. After two or e days of such 
weather the plants begin ^ pacts and if the 
parching continues over a few more days they 
to an extent which is by no - 
io the perfect development, - 
veg 
crops, or of =: РРО іп the case d 
ornamental flow: 
Under such Eisen as those which have - 
fas 
just mel indicated, r uld at once be- 
The latter 
mulching and 
pek be done Жау р а soak- _ 
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“ива prac | 
nsider; to some — 
extent inevitable, € be hedged round by | 
uld be done openly and ~ 
ES | 
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more force to light soils and warm - 
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