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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER, 
[ July 11, 1878, 
Mr. Bull offered silver cups of the value of fifteen, ten, and six 
guineas to private growers. Mr. Hammond won the first and Mr. 
Tudgey the second. Mr. Bull also offered cups of the same value 
to nurserymen, the first of which was won by Mr. B. 8S. Williams 
of Holloway. For those private growers who had not previously 
won any of Mr. Bull’s cups the Hon. A. C. C. Maxwell won the 
second, a silyer cup of the value of ten guineas and £7; and the 
Preston Nursery Company among nurserymen. 
The fruit generally is of excellent quality, the collections and 
Grapes being especially superior ; vegetables are also admirably 
exhibited by the several competitors. Amongst cut flowers the 
Hereford Roses sommand much attention by their great excellence, 
The Show is a success, the town decorated, the company nume- 
rous, and the weather dull. 
The President of the Society, the Right Hon. Lord Aberdare, 
arrived at Preston at midnight, and was met by the Mayor and 
8. Jennings, Esq., the Assistant Secretary. His lordship during 
his stay in Preston is the guest of W. Burley, Esq., The Larches. 
The Show was opened by his Lordship at one o'clock on Wed- 
nesday, the Mayor and Corporation attending with the mace (the 
finest in England) and civic paraphernalia, and afterwards a grand 
luncheon was provided on the grounds, and a gardeners’ and ex- 
hibitors’ dinner was held in the town at night. 
The Show is both great and good, and continuing as it does 
throughout the week, all who are interested in horticulture should | 
make an effort to see it. 
The officials, one and all, work earnestly and willingly in seek- 
ing to render the Exhibition both enjoyable and successful. Their 
courtesy is also unfailing, and they accord an hospitable welcome 
to all who aid in promoting the work in which they are so laud- 
ably engaged. Only fine weather is required to render the Show 
in every respect what we trust it will be—a Show of “happy 
memories.” 
NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 
THE thirty-fifth anniversary of that admirable Society 
the GARDENERS’ ROYAL BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION was held 
at the Albion Tavern, Aldersgate Street, London, on the even- | 
ing of the 3rdinst. The chair was occupied by Robert Mar- 
nock, Esq., who was supported by a large body of gentlemen | 
and horticulturists ; amongst whom we noticed Professor Bent- 
ley, J. J. Mechi, Esq., Mr. Sergeant Cox, F. A. Philbrick, 
Esq., Q.C., Dr. Hogg, Mr. Shirley Hibberd, Mr. T. Moore ; 
Messrs. H. J. Veitch, Williams, Bull, W. Paul, C. Turner, and | 
others interested in the success of the institution. The dona- 
tions and subscriptions received during the evening were 
stated by Mr. Cutler, the Institution’s excellent Secretary, as 
amounting to upwards of £600. 
—— THE summer Show of the Botanical and Horticultural 
Society of DURHAM AND NORTHUMBERLAND, which will open 
at Newcastle-on-Tyne on the 18th inst., is expected to be both 
extensive and excellent. The schedule is very comprehensive 
and the prizes are both numerous and liberal. In the open 
class for fifty plants in bloom £25 and the Royal Horticultural 
Society’s silver Knightian medal are offered as the first prize, 
the remaining prizes in the class being £15 and £10. Under 
the skilled superintendence of the active Hon. Secretaries, 
Messrs. Taylor and French, good management is assured, and 
a Show worthy alike of the patronage of exhibitors and visitors 
is anticipated. Mr. J.J. Gillespie is the acting Secretary. 
THE UPPER NORWOOD HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY'S 
Frest SHow was held on the 4th inst. in the grounds of F. 
Harford, Esq. The exhibits were arranged in a spacious tent 
170 feet by 50 feet under tke direction of Mr. F. Minchener, 
the energetic Hon. Secretary, and his colleagues. The gentle- 
men and gardeners of the district staged admirable collections 
of plants, and Mr. Wills, Anerley Nursery, contributed a 
splendid group. Roses were superior, Mr. Coppin, Shirley, 
being the chief prizewinner. The Exhibition was a highly 
successful one. 
— THE summer Exhibition of the BRENTWOOD HortTI- 
CUETURAL Socrety, held on ihe 4th inst. in the grounds 
adjoining Middleton Hall, the residence of the Countess Tasker, 
was in every respect a complete success. The plants, fruit, 
and yegetables were equal to, and the Roses—notably those 
shown by Mr. B. R. Cant, Colechester—much in advance of 
exhibits on former occasions. Mr. Lane, gardener, Pyrgo Park, 
Romford, gained the premier prize for plants; and Messrs. 
Bones, Havering Park, Romford; Bradley, South Weald ; 
Mann, Brentwood; Wise, Hampton House, Warley; Miller, 
Halstead ; and Saltmarsh & Son, Chelmsford, were all winners 
of one or more first prizes in the various plant classes. Mr. 
B. R, Cant was first for forty-eight Roses, and Messrs. Salt- 
marsh & Son second. In the amateurs’ classes Mr. Atkinson, 
Warley, was first for twenty-four Roses ; and Mr. Pemberton, 
Havering, for twelye Roses. Fruit and vegetables were exten- 
sively and well shown both by gardeners and cottagers. Mr. 
Bones was first for a collection of fruit; Mr. Lane for black 
Grapes; and Mr. Foster, Warley, for white. Mr. J. Smith, 
Romford, was very successful in the classes for Strawberries, 
Mr. Lane was first for eight varieties of vegetables, and Mr. 
Pope for a brace of Cucumbers. An autumn Show will be 
held on the 12th of September. 
— Mr. Lucrkuourst informs us that EARLY BEATRICE 
PEACH was ripe at Oldlands, Sussex, on the 1st of July in an 
unheated Peach house. 
—— WE have received from Messrs. Charles Lee & Son of 
Hammersmith fruit of the WEEPING BLACK BIGARREAU 
CHERRY. This is in every sense a true Bigarreau in the fruit, 
which is of large size and excellent flavour, but it is remark- 
able from ripening a fortnight earlier than the Bigarreau, and 
the habit of the tree being weeping, so that it is equally an 
ornamental and fruit tree. We believe this is the first time it 
has fruited in this country. It was introduced from the Con- 
tinent, where it is still a novelty as well as in this country, 
and where it is known by the names Bigarreau Pleureur and 
Bigarreau Noir Monstrueuz Pleureur. 
THE western entrance to BATTERSEA PARK is now 
rendered extremely gay by the large and brilliant clumps of 
Lilium umbellatum. This hardy and free-crowing and flower- 
ing Lily is very valuable for pleasure-ground decoration in the 
early summer months. Almost rivalling the Lilies in effect 
are the purple and scarlet Pentstemons which are now flower- 
ing in rich masses. The plants have been in the border all 
the winter, and in the spring the straggling shoots were pruned 
rather closely. We never before saw such a fine display of 
Pentstemons so early in the season. The great work of bed- 
ding-outin this Park is nearly completed. The carpet-bedding 
designs are very pleasing, and the subtropical and other beds 
have been planted with great taste. In a few weeks the Park 
will be in its summer attire, and will be as enjoyable and 
instructive as it has been in previous years. 
— ENGLISH writers have, says the ‘‘ Journal of Forestry,” 
made the poet POPE’s WILLOW AT TWICKENHAM quite his- 
toric. About 150 years ago an English merchant, Mr. Vernon, 
doing business in Aleppo and Smyrna, brought to Alexander 
Pope a package of Figs encased in a basket made of un- 
pealed osiers. Noticing that one of the scions penetrating 
into the moist Figs was budding Pope carefully cut it out and 
planted it. Thence grew the famous “Syrian Willow,” which 
became a favourite with the poet, and finally with the English 
people—so much so that his successor on the Twickenham 
estate felled the tree to avoid the annoyance of the crowds 
of visitors which it attracted to his grounds. Its successor is 
now growing at the Twickenham villa. It was also planted 
soon after on the banks of the Thames in Kew Gardens, where 
it still thrives. 
WE omitted stating in our report of the LEEDS SHOW 
-that Mr. S. W. Thackray of Burley, near Leeds, exhibited a 
span-roofed greenhouse glazed on Helliwell’s new patent sys- 
tem without putty. The house was extremely light, the whole 
of the woodwork being covered with glass: the squares ap- 
peared also to be quite secure against displacement by high 
winds, and the roof was evidently watertight. 
—— IN Spain the LEMON-SCENTED VERBENA (Aloysia ci- 
triodora), says an American contemporary, which we cultivate 
as a scented garden plant, is collected and stored for winter 
use. With the Spaniards it is said to form one of the finest 
stomachics and cordials, and is taken either made into a de- 
coction and drank cold with water and sugar as 2 tonic, or 
with the morning atid evening cup of tea. A sprig of about 
fiye or six leayes of the Lemon Verbena is first put into the 
cup, and the hot tea poured uponit. By using this, Spanish 
authorities assert, ‘‘ you will never suffer from flatulence, never 
be made nervous or old-maidish, never have cholera, diarrhoea, 
or loss of appetite. Besides, the flayour is simply delicious ; no 
one who has once drunk their cup of tea with this addition 
will ever drink it without a sprig of Lemon Verbena.” Per- 
haps English tastes are different. 
—— Our correspondent, Mr. Witherspoon, has written as 
follows on the crops in his district (Chester-le-Street) and on 
his VINEs :—‘“I find that I haye more Pear trees than Pears ; 
the finer varieties are very uncertain in the north. With the 
