July 13, 1876, ] 



JOURNAL OF HOKTICULTUKE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



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Leee (Roses). July 18th. Mr. S. Cartwright, Sheep Market, Leek, Stafford- 

 shire, Hon. Sec. 

 Ejlmabnoce. Boses, July 18th and 19th. General Exhibition, September 



14th. Mr. M. Smith, 11, King Street, Sec. 

 Tonbbldge. July 19th. Mr. W. Blair, Hon. Sec. 

 Royal Hobticultubal Society, South Kensington. July 19th and 20th 



{Roses, &c). November 8th (Fruit). 

 Thornton Heath. July 2 1st and 22nd, and September let and 2nd. Mr. 



W. Raines, 10, St. John's Villas, Bensham Manor Road, Thornton. Heath, 



Hon. Sec. 

 Tewkesbury. July 25th. Mr. P. Moore and Mr. H. J. Cochrane, Hon. bees. 

 ■Wrexham. July 25th. Mr. J. B. Shirley, Hon. Sec. 

 Huntingdon. July 26th. Mr. J. Dillev, Market Place, Sec. 

 Headingley. July 26th and 27th. Mr. T. Atkinson, Borleywood, Head- 



ingley, Leeds, Sec. 

 Abeedeen (Royal Horticultural Society). July 26th, 27th, and 28th, Mr. 



Archibald J. Rennie, 128J, Union Street. 

 Brighouse. July 29th. Messrs. C. JesBop & E. Rawnsley, Hon. Sees, 

 Saltaike. July 29tb. Mr. G. A. White, Hon. Sec. 

 Kxlsby (Flowers). August 1st. Mr. C. E. Bracebridge, Sec 

 Heworth (Horticultural). August 2nd. Mr. R. H. Feltoe, Hon. Sec. 

 Rawtenbtall (Rosendale). August 4th and 5th. Mr. M. J. Lonsdale, Sec. 

 Southampton. August 5th and 7th. Mr. C. S. Fuidge, 39, York Street, Sec. 

 Finedon. August 7th. Mr. G. C. Mann, Sec- 

 Taunton Deane. August 10th. Mr. F. H. Woodforde, M.D., and Mr. 



Clement Smith, Hon. Sees. 

 Filey. August 11th. Mr. Walter Fisher, Hon. Sec. 

 Otley. August 12th. Mr. Alfred Suttle, Hon. Sec. 



Clay Cross. August 15th. Mr. J. Stallard, Clay Cross, near Chesterfield, See. 

 "Weston-super-Mare. August 15th and 16th. Mr. W. B. Frampton, Sec. 

 Preston. August 16th and 17th. Mr. W. Troughton, Hon. Sec. 

 Shrewsbury. August 16th and 17th. Adnitt & Naunton, Hon. Sees, 

 Ledbury. August 17th. Mr. J. B. Masefield, Hon. Sec 

 Norton, near Stockton-on-Tees. August 18th. Mr, C. Turner, Sec 

 Mtrfteld. August 19th. Mr. G. Senior and Mr. J. Rushiorth, Hon. Sees. 

 Calne (Wilts). August 22nd. Mr. H. Blackford, Sec. 

 Newbury. August 22nd. Mr. H. Seymour, Hon. Sec 

 Dorset County. August 23rd (at DorohesterJ.J |Mr. A. Pope and Mr. C. 



Parsons, Sees. 

 Chepstow. August 23rd. Mr. R. Thorn, Hon. Sec. 

 Carshalton, Wallington, and Beddington. August 24th. Mr. J. 



Baines, Leicester House, Carshalton, and Mr. W. Clark, the Nurseries, 



"Wallington, Hon. Sees. 

 Seaton Burn. August 26th. Mr. R. Richardson and Mr. W. Eliott, Sees. 

 Isle of Thanet (Margate). August 30th. Mr. CD. Smith, 8, Marine 



Terrace, Margate, Sec 

 Pooklington. August 31st. Sec, Mr. J. E. Ross. 



Montrose. September 1st and 2nd. Mr. Ales. Burnett, 2, High Street, Sec. 

 Dundee (International). September 7th, 8th, and 9th. Mi-. W. R. McKelvie, 



26, Euclid Crescent, Sec. 

 Glasgow. September 12th and 13th. Mr. F. Gilb. Doughall, 167, Ca n n in g 



Street, Sec. 

 Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society. September 13th. 

 Ipswich. September 17th. Sec., Mr. W. B. Jeffries, Henley Road, Ipswich. 

 Northampton (Chrysanthemums). November 14th and 15th. Mr. W. 



Gutteridge, 51, Denmark Road, Northampton, Sec. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 

 %* All correspondence should be directed either to " The 

 Editors," or to "The Publisher." Letters addressed to 

 Mr. Johnson or Dr. Hogg often remain unopened unavoid- 

 ably. We request that no one will write privately to any 

 of our correspondents, as doing so subjects them to un- 

 justifiable trouble and expense. 



Padley's Pippin {T.Hall). — It is thus described in Dr. Hogg's "Fruit 

 Manual": — Padley's Pippin (Padley'B Royal George Pippin). — Fruit small, 

 2 inches wide and 1A high; roundish-oblate. Skin pale greenish yellow, 

 rather thickly covered" with thin grey russet, and faintly tinged with orange 

 nest the sun. Eye small and closed, set in a shallow and rather angular 

 basin. Stalk three-quarters of an inch long, slender, and inserted in a rather 

 shallow cavity. Flesh yellow, juicy, sugary, brisk, and richly aromatic. A 

 dessert Apple of first-rate quality; in use during December and January. 

 The tree is of small dimensions, but healthy and a prolific bearer. It is well 

 adapted for dwarf training when grown on the Paradise or Doucin stock. 

 This variety was raised by Mr. Padley, gardener to His Majesty George in. 

 at Hampton Court. According to Rogers, Mr. Padley was a native of York- 

 shire, and after coming to London and filling a situation of respectability he 

 ■was appointed foreman in the kitchen garden at Kew. " On the death of the 

 celebrated ' Capability Brown,' Mr. G. Haverfield was removed from Kew to 

 Hampton Court, and took Mr. Padley with him as foreman. On the death of 

 Haverfield Padley's interest with his Sovereign outweighed all the interests 

 of ether candidates, though urged by the most influential persons about 

 Court. 'No, no, no,' said His Majesty, 'it is Padley's birthright.'" We 

 believe it can be purchased at the nursery you name. 



iSably Second Pea.— Mr. "Warren, the Earl of Portsmouth's gardener, 

 highly commends Carter's Commander-in-Chief. 



Second-hand Books (F. H. T. E.).— You had better put them into a sale 

 near you. Imperfect works are not saleable to a London bookseller. 



Hollyhock Leaves Diseased [M. Cross). — It is a fungus, not an insect, 

 which iB scourging the leaves. Pick the leaves off and burn them, and dust 

 the plants with flowers of sulphur. 



Excluding Snails.— TV. O. says a ridge of quicklime along the top of the 

 wall will prevent the snails passing. A horsehair rope stretched aloDg the top 

 of the wall would be a barrier. 



Seedling Gloxinias {E. C. B.).— They are good, especially 1 and 5. The 

 other blooms were damaged ; 4 is good if the corolla is not flimsy. 



Vines Failing (J. L.).— Not sufficient ventilation and want of watering 

 are the causes. You opened the windows after the miBchief had occurred. 



Peach Leaves Browned (J. McMurray). — Deficient supply of sap is the 

 cause, probably from the roots not being sufficiently and regularly watered. 



Plantains on Lawn (C. 3f.).— There is no mode of destroying them so 

 cheap or effectual as cutting them out with a knife. We call it "the-old- 

 woman-and- old- knife remedy." 



Cantebbubt Bells (P. P.). — Plant these a foot apart in order to obtain 

 fine spikes of bloom ; the other flowers you name half that distance. 



Impregnating Melons (Z>. E. F.).— This is done by rubbing the dry pollen 

 taken from the male flower upon the stigma of the fruit or female flower, an 

 operation that is considered necessary only for very early crops. At this 

 season of the year under good culture and a free syBtem of ventilation arti- 

 ficial impregnation is unnecessary. Due attention to providing suitable Boil, 

 thinning, stopping, watering, and ventilation usually leads to Buccess. This 

 formula rules our practice, and we are now cutting plenty of good fruit. 



Fern Cclttjre (H. W. (?.).— You will find directions and descriptions in 

 our " Fern Manual." 



Gebabd's Catalogue (J. H. R.).— Mr. Jackson has not published it. He 

 might lend you a copy. 



Plutm Stocks fob Peach Trees (An Amateur). — The Brompton and 

 Muscle Plum stocks are used for grafting or budding upon. Any respectable 

 nurseryman can supply them. We have found the common Bullace, which 

 is propagated by suckers, a good stock. 



Melon Leaf (Constant Reader). — We fail to notice any insects or trace of 

 them having infested the leaf enclosed. There are traces of sulphur, which is 

 perfectly innoouous, on the dried leaf, probably due to extravasated sap, the 

 stem being dead; or it may arise from damp at the collar of the plant. 



Annuals fob Spring Bedding (J. A. 8.). — The best are the Silenes 

 pendula and vars. alba, compacta, compacta alba, ruberrima; Lasthenia cali- 

 fornica, and Collinsia verna, which should be sown about the second week in 

 August, also at the same time Veronica syriaca. Others to be Bown the early 

 part of September are— Collinsia bieolor, C. candidissima, and C. graudiflora; 

 Nemophila insigniB, N. insignia alba, N. atomaria ; Limnanthes Douglasi, 

 L. graudiflora ; Saponaria calabrica, S. calabrica alba ; Campanula pentagonia 

 and var. alba, VenuB's Looking-glass, blue and white vars- Candytufts and 

 Clarkias are also useful, with Larkspurs sown at the same time. 



Oak Tree Bleeding (Henry Seymour). — The bleeding will shortly cease 

 of itself, and no untoward consequences will result beyond a scar. You may, 

 however, fill the opening or hole with cement, and over this the bark will in 

 time grow, the cement not coming out further than the wood, and fill-up 

 level with the bark with the patent knotting used by painters, which will 

 partially if not wholly check the bleeding. 



Coccus Caitellle (S. C. A.).— It it recurs repeat the application. Whether 

 it would live on the Vine we do not know, but do not think it would, but it 

 would on Azaleas. 



Stove for Consebvatory (Sol). — Select one from our advertisement 

 columns, buthave a tube flue to convey the fames of the fuel into the outer 

 air. 



Destroying Fctngi on a Lawn (Nimrod).— We do not know of any 

 method of destroying fungi without doing injury te the grass. The spawn 

 is, of course, the primary source of your annoyance, and as that spreads 

 more freely near the surface among the roots of the grass than elsewhere 

 during the season of growth, the only remedy is to remove the whole of the 

 affected turf and soil, replacing it with some other that is free from the pest, 

 or to dig up the lawn, burning every particle of soil and turf which contains 

 the thread-like spawn, and then levelling it down again, and either sow grass 

 seed or returf it. 



Names of Plants (F. W.).— The specimens are not numbered, so cannot 

 be referred to. (Mac). — Spmea ariasfolia. (A Reader). — Mnscari comosum, 

 var. monstrosum. [E. E.). — 1, Collomia grandiflora ; 2, Lapsana communis. 

 (J. F.). — 1, Cares paladosa ; 2, C. distans, var. ; 3, C. ovalis ; 4, C. pallescens; 

 5, C. distanB ; 6, C. pendula. (R. F. B.). — Mitraria coccinea. {Mrs. H.). — 

 1, Iris pumila ; 4, Sedum album or an ally ; 5, Looks like a Phlomis, but too 

 withered. (L. M.). — 6, Asperula arcadiensis; 7, Hieracium aurantiacum; 

 S, Lutus corniculatus. Specimens of Ferns insufficient. (A. Boyle). — 1, A 

 Sedum (perhaps S. Sieboldii), cot a Saxifrage ; 2, Astilbe barbata, often mis- 

 called Spiraea japonica. (E. H. B.). — a double Larkspur, species in- 

 determinable. 



P0ULTEY, BEE, AM) PIGE0K OHEOUIOLE. 



DISQUALIFICATIONS. 



We have before ns the schedule of the Warminster Cottagers' 

 Garden Society, and we read among the rules of the poultry 

 department — " The Judge will be instructed to disqualify any 

 pens, &c. In this case the cause of disqualification will be 

 posted on the pen and in the prize list." We consider this rule 

 admirable, and would recommend its being inserted in all 

 schedules. The word disqualification is itself so ugly, and 

 carries with itself so much that is unpleasant, that we consider, 

 in justice to exhibitor and judge, the cause of the disqualification 

 should always be made known. In many cases a bird is entered 

 in a wrong class, and the pen is consequently "disqualified;" 

 but a bird with plucked hocks, false tail, dyed legs, or cut wings 

 is also " disqualified " when the case is detected. Visitors at 

 shows, however, and distant exhibitors are very often quite un- 

 able to know whether a bird they see with a disqualified ticket 

 is so disgraced from a mistake in making the entry, or for being 

 doctored dishonestly to secure a prize. We feel that a bird 

 which is wrongly entered, or a young bird which is entered in 

 an old clasB, or any case which shows the mistake could only 

 have arisen from a blunder and not from desire of deception, 

 should not be disqualified at all, but should be ticketed " entered 

 in the wrong class," or with some such label on the pen and in 

 the catalogue, and the word disqualified would then, if only 

 used for cases of trimming and such like, at once imply some- 

 thing really wrong. It is a most difficult matter to know where 

 trimming and doctoring legitimately begins and ends in these 



