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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ August 31, 1876. 



bad, but that the Kaki was pleasant and good. I shall be 

 glad if information oan be given by anyone having experience 

 of this fruit.— G. S. 



DOVER FLORAL AND FRUIT EXHIBITION. 



This was held on the 29th inst. in the grounds of Dover Priory, 

 and merited praise in all the divisions. The out flowers, fruits, 

 and vegetables were especially excellent. A fuller notice we 

 hope to publish next week, but we must promptly particularise 

 the success of one exhibitor, so well known and welcomed in 

 our pages — the Rev. H. Honywood Dombrain. He had awarded 

 to Mm the chief prize and a seoond for Gladioluses, and it is 

 enhanced by the fact that he had as a competitor Mr. Baker, 

 whose collection is so vastly larger in numbers than Mr. Dom- 

 brain's. The Gladioluses in his first-prize stand were Blanche, 

 Murillo, Norma, Adolphe Brogniart, Lady Bridport, Sir Red- 

 mond Barry, Marie Stuart, Rossini, Meyerbeer, Madame Des- 

 portes, Genievra, and Leda. 



We would observe that the excellence of Mr. Dombrain's 

 flowers were done justice to by their superior arrangement and 

 the style in which each spike was displayed. This was rendered 

 more striking by some of the competing collections appearing 

 distasteful by the careless way in which the spikes were placed 

 in the stands. — G. 



NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 

 We have received the schedule of the International Hor- 

 ticultural Exhibition which is to be held at Dundee on the 

 7th, 8th, and 9th of September. The schedule is very com- 

 prehensive, numbering 206 classes — namely, 64 for fruit, 57 for 

 plants, 36 for cut flowers, 10 for table decorations, &i., and 

 39 for vegetables. The prizes offered are liberal, amounting 

 in the aggregate to upwards of £1000, besides gold and silver 

 cups and medals. For twenty sorts of fruit, prizes of £15, 

 £15, and £10 are offered ; a gold cup of the value of £20 being 

 given by the Earl of Strathmore to the winner of the first 

 prize. For eight varieties of Grapes a gold medal is added to 

 the first prize of £15, the second prize being £12, and third 

 prize £7. For twelve stove and greenhouse plants prizes of 

 £20, £15, and £10 are offered, a gold medal being provided 

 for the winner of the first prize ; a gold medal is also offered 

 in the class for nine stove and greenhouse plants. Messrs. 

 Dickson & Turnbull give a silver medal to the winner in the 

 class for six greenhouse plants in flower, and Messrs. Robert- 

 son & Galloway a Bimilar medal for twelve spikes of Gladioli. 

 A special committee is appointed to take charge of the exhibits, 

 and every facility is offered to intending exhibitors. Arrange- 

 ments have been made with the railway companies to carry 

 plants, &c, at a single fare for the double journey, such plants 

 &c, not changing ownership; and the Caledonian, North 

 British, Glasgow and South-Western, and Highland Railway 

 Companies have agreed to carry all passengers going to the 

 Exhibition the double journey for a single fare — the tickets to 

 be available from Wednesday, September 6th, to Monday, Sep- 

 tember 11th, on condition that the railway tiokets are stamped 

 at the Show. A large and successful gathering is anticipated. 



Rev. W. F. Radclyffe writes as follows on Pea protec- 

 tion : — " Before sowing Peas dip them into benzoline and im- 

 mediately sow them. Mice will not touch them before they 

 come up, and sparrows will not damage them after they are 

 np. Aloes dissolved in water is also a good protection. Put 

 the Peas into the solution the night before sowing. The sorts 

 I use, and they are good, are Ringleader, Princess Royal, and 

 British Queen. Gardeners and amateurs love, like Athenians, 

 some new thing. The prices charged for new Peas are enor- 

 mous : 7s. 6d. for a quarter of a pint amounts to £96 per 

 bushel of thirty-two quarts !" 



The second show of the season of the Burton-on- 



Teent Horticultural Society, which was held on the 23rd 

 inst., was very successful. There was a good Bhow of stove 

 and greenhouse plants, Ferns, Roses, Stocks, Hollyhocks, 

 Dahlias, bouquets, Marigolds, Phloxes, and Verbenas. Among 

 the fruits there were some fine blaok and white Grapes, 

 Cherries, Apricots, and Apples. The best specimens of vege- 

 tables might be found among the French Beans, Celery, Car- 

 rots, and Potatoes. Mr. W. Bennett, gardener to Mr. M. T. 

 Bass, M.P., Rangemore, was first for stove plants, Begonias, 

 Ferns, collection of miscellaneous plants, table decorations, 

 cut flowers, collection of fruit, Pine, Black Hamburgh Grapes, 

 black any other sort, Peaches, Nectarines, CherrieB, Black Cur- 

 rants, ScarletBeans, French ditto, Cauliflowers, Carrots, white 

 Celery, and culinary herbs. Other successful exhibitors were 



Mr. Tobin, gardener to Mr. F. Gretton, Bladon House ; Mr. E. 

 Hollis, gardener to Mr. J. T. Poyser, Stapenhill ; Mr. G. Gough, 

 Little Malvern ; Mr. G. Chitty, gardener to Mr. Guy Nadin ; 

 Mr. H. Draycott, Leicester; Mr. F. Wood, Derby; Mr. W. 

 Cunningham, The Forge ; Mr. G. Bentley, gardener to Mr. 

 R. S. Tomlinson ; Mr. T. Wilson, gardener to Mr. J. Nadin, 

 Ashby Road ; Messrs. Perkins & Sons, Coventry ; Capt. Webb, 

 Lichfield; E. D. Salt, Esq., Newton; Mr. R. Spencer, gar- 

 dener to Mr. R. Ratcliff ; Mr. H. Frettingham, Beeston, &c. 



By the kind permission of Lord Eversley the gardens 



at Heckeield Place, Winchfield, may be inspected by the 

 public on the 4th, 11th, and 18th of September; and from the 

 well-known reputation of Mr. Wildsmith both as a flower-garden 

 and fruit cultivator a treat of a high order may be anticipated 

 by those who can avail themselves of the privilege which ia 

 now again offered by the noble owner of these renowned gar- 

 dens. Applications for tickets of admission should be made to 

 Mr. Wildsmith. 



We recently noticed in the flower garden at Wimbledon 



House some fine plants of Chaslepuce diacantha, which 

 are noticeable as having been raised from s;ed sown last 

 autumn in the open border, the seedlings having had no other 

 protection during the winter than that afforded them by a 

 common hand-light. That, Mr. Ollerhead states, is the best 

 mode of raising a supply of these distinct plants ; and now 

 that he has shown us how easily they may bs produced they 

 will probably bo found in more gardens in the future than has 

 hitherto been the case. The seed may be sown in light soil in 

 September, and the plants may remain with the slight pro- 

 tection alluded to until they are large enough for removal in 

 the spring. C cassabona? may be increased in the same simple 

 manner. 



A correspondent writes thus on the subject of To- 

 matoes preventing Wasps erou entering Vineries: — 

 " Those who find Tomatoes a deterrent of wasps have either 

 different kinds of wasps or different sorts of Tomatoes to deal 

 with than those coming under my experience. In the vinery 

 in my charge Tomatoes are largely grown, and they are no 

 more effectual in frightening away the wasps from the Grapes 

 than is a hat stuck on a stick in driving away the blackbirds 

 from the Strawberries. If aDy gardener has a Tomato that 

 will really keep wasps out of a vinery, I shall take it as a great 

 favour if he will send me a pinch of seed through the Editors 

 of the Journal of Horticulture, and for which I will gladly pay 

 postage." 



Considerable attention having been given recently to the 



cultivation of Hevea brasiliense, which yields the best rubber 

 or caoutchouc, imported from Para in Brazil for introduction 

 to Ceylon and other tropical countries, it will doubtless be of 

 interest to give particulars of the first large consignment. The 

 seeds were received at Eew in June of the present year, and just 

 at the expiration of eight weeks thirty-eight Wardian cases, 

 each containing fifty plants, were sent to Ceylon. Other cases 

 have been sent to Singapore, and about 2600 plants will alto- 

 gether be distributed. The seeds live but a short time, and in 

 the present importation scarcely 4 per cent, were alive when 

 received. The number was about seventy thousand, and as 

 each is as large as an average Gooseberry the space occupied was 

 considerable. The plants grow with great rapidity, as must be 

 imagined from the time within which the seeds were received 

 and the plants sent away — indeed the cases had to be of such 

 a height that would allow the plants room for growth during 

 their confinement. The growth is not continuous from the 

 first ; after producing the first few leaves there is a few days' 

 cessation, then when the stem is so far firm another rapid 

 growth is commenced. 



We have received from Mr. W. Lovel, Weaverthorpe, 



York, a post box containing Strawberry plants and cut flowers, 

 which arrived in a perfectly fresh state. The box is worthy 

 of notice. It is made of stout cardboard, ingeniously folded 

 and pinned at the ends. Mr. Lovel states that these boxes 

 can be made by a boy at the rate of eight or ten per hour, and 

 their cost is not more than a halfpenny to a penny each, accord- 

 ing to size. Any person can make them after seeing a pattern. 

 They require no stitching and no paste, and would be much 

 used if generally known. 



• The " Correspondence Botanique" for 1876 has just 



been published. It is a directory of all the botanic gardens, 

 professors, curators, and distinguished botanists throughout 

 the world, and is one of the most valuable publications of the 



