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JOTJENiL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ October 19, 1876. 



Mr. David Turtle, Aghalee, Ireland. 

 This list is not included in the twenty-nine amateurs, but is included in 

 the Irish table. 



1. Secateur Vaisse 25. Comtesse de ChabriUant 



2. Gloire de Dijon 26. La Brillante 



3. La France 27. Duchesse de Caylus 



4. John Hopper 28. Charles Lawson 



5. Duke of Edinburgh 29. Due de Rohan 



6. Duchesse de Horny 30. Comtesse d'Oxford 



7. Abbe Bramerel 31. Triomphe de Caen 



8. Alfred Colomb 32. Beauty of Waltham 



9. Baronne de RothschiltJ 33. Professor Koch 



10. Baronne Prevost 34. Edward Morren 



11. Abel Grand 35. Fisher Holmes 



12. Antoine Ducher 36. Lord Clyde 



13. Boule de Neige 37. William Griffiths 



14. Charles Lefebvre 38. General Jacqueminot, 



15. Louis Van Houtte 39. Jean Cherpin 



16. Due de Cazes 40. Jules Margottin 



17. Prince Camille de Rohan 41. Lord Macaulay 



18. Marie Baumann 42. Dr. Andry 



19. Annie "Wood 43. Mdlle. Eugenie Verdier 



20. Pierre dotting 44. Prince Leon 



— 45. Marquise de Mortemart 



21. Monsieur Noman 46. Monsieur Boncenne 



22. Paul Verdier 47. Souvenir de la Malmaison 



23. Victor Verdier 48. Maurice Lepelletier 



24. Marquise de Castellane 49. Comtesse Jaucourt 



GREASY COAT APPLE. 



This local name strikes one as being very appropriat to the 

 Apple referred to by " J., Lincolnshire," and " J. J., Lanca- 

 shire," and, like them, I think there are few if any to excel 

 it as an autumn culinary Apple. From the description given 

 of it in the Journal, page 298, I have no doubt of it being the 

 same variety known in some parts of Scotland as the Irish 

 Codlin, Manks Codlin, and Irish Pitcher of Dr. Hogg. The 

 Apple is grown here, but I regret to say we have no fruit of it 

 this year, or I should have had much pleasure in forwarding 

 you specimens for examination, that you might be the better 

 able to compare them with descriptions and examples from 

 your other correspondents. — J. F. 



[Manks Codlin and Transparent Codlin are distinct sorts. 

 Both are excellent autumn Apples, and both have greasy Bkins. 

 —Eds.] 



ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Theee appears to be a very laudable disposition on the part 

 of those who are interested in the success and advancement of 

 horticulture at the present time to do whatever lies in their 

 power to promote the usefulness and welfare of the Boyal 

 Horticultural Society — a Society which, notwithstanding the 

 great benefits it has conferred on the country, has fared as 

 badly as if it had been guilty of some great national crime. 

 The tide of public opinion has lately turned in its favour, and 

 it is to be hoped that this will go on advancing till the Society 

 receives that justice which is its due. The dissensions pro- 

 moted and fostered by a small party of local Fellows at South 

 Kensington, who thought more of their own little wants than 

 of the common good, have served for several years past to 

 keep the Society in a state of chronic dispeace, and the only 

 result of their agitation has been to bring about such a state 

 of things as will in all probability deprive them of the use and 

 amenity which an agreeable promenade has for some years 

 past afforded them. 



The result of all this points to a termination of the agree- 

 ments between the Boyal Commissioners and the Society; and 

 thoughtful men, foreseeing what must inevitably arise, are 

 considering in what way the Society can best be constituted 

 for the future. We publish to-day two such propositions, one 

 by Lord Alfred S. Churchill and the other by Mr. G. F. Wilson. 

 We commend both to the consideration of the Fellows, and 

 without giving a decided opinion upon either we hope that the 

 subject will receive careful consideration, and that some useful 

 and practical scheme will be devised. All we can say for the 

 present is that we trust the Fellows will stick by the Society, 

 and thereby enable it to start a new life with as great or greater 

 vigour than it has yet manifested for some years past. 



The question of reconstructing the Boyal Horticultural 

 Society is beginning to attract attention. It is high time that 

 it should do so, and that some definite scheme should be pre- 

 pared before the annual meeting of the Society in[February next. 



If the horticulturists throughout the country could only 

 agree upon the principles on which this oonld be best effected 

 it would ^materially strengthen the hands of the Council in 



their nfgotiatiors with the Commissioners. It is the belief 

 that the Society is past resuscitation that has induced the 

 Commissioners ito treat it in the cavalier manner they have 

 done lately. 



I enclose the outline of a scheme as a basis on which the 

 Society's reconstruction could be effected. In doing this I 

 have no wish to put it forward as the only one likely to'answer j 

 it is solely my own idea, which I submit for consideration in 

 conjunction with others that may be proposed.- — Alebed S. 

 Chuechill. 



Suggestions et Lokd Aleeed S. Chubchtt.l. 



1, Bye-laws to be altered. 



2, Fellowships, £2, 2s. No entrance fees. 



3, Associateships, £1 Is. 



i, Gardeners in the employment of Fellows, 10s. Gd. 



5, All voting power to be confined to Fellows paying £2 2s. 



6, Provincial shows to be encouraged. 



7, Quarterly journal to be published and supplied gratis to 

 Fellows. Associates to pay half price. 



8, Fellows, Associates, and subscribing Gardeners to have free 

 admission to Chiswick Gardens, and to all shows either in the 

 provinces or in London given or promoted by the Boyal Horti- 

 cultural Society. 



9, Fellows and Associates to have the power of admitting 

 friends to Chiswick either by order or personally. 



10, Provincial horticultural societies subscribing to the Boyal 

 Horticultural Society five guineas per annum to receive two 

 silver and two bronze medals, also copy of journal. Ditto sub- 

 scribing three guineas, to have two bronze medals and journal 

 only. N.B.— And so on for every five or three guineas sub- 

 scribed. 



11, Tbe President or Secretary of subscribing societies to be 

 an ex-officio Fellow of the Society during the time he may con- 

 tinue to hold his office, and to vote at all meetings on behalf of 

 his society. 



12, The Secretary of Boyal Horticultural Society to open com- 

 munications with foreign horticultural societies, and publish a 

 precise copy of correspondence in journal. 



13, Shows and meetings to beheld in London by arrangement 

 with Her Majesty's CommiBioners. 



14, Scientific Committee to be held as at present, and ver- 

 batim reports of proceedings to be published in journal. 



Suggestions et Mb. G. F. Wilson. 



Seasons for joining the Boyal Horticultural Society as 

 Fellows paying guinea subscriptions : — 



The Society is doirig important and useful work, which bene- 

 fits all who value their gardenB or who care for fruit, vegetables, 

 or flowers. 



The Scientific Committee is now the recognised authority on 

 all subjects connected with plant life, disease, and plagues, and 

 does much other valuable work. 



Its Fruit and Floral Committees examine new fruits, vege- 

 tables, and flowers, work which can only be done by a great 

 central society. Their judgments, immediately published by 

 means of the gardening press, are now received with respect, 

 and acted upon all through the country. 



In the Society's garden at Chiswick flowers, fruit, and vege- 

 tables are grown Bide by side, are tested and judged by the 

 highest authorities, and troublesome Bynonyms got rid of. 



The Society, being relieved from the heavy charge of South 

 Kensington, will have only Chiswick Garden to keep up, and to 

 provide for shows and committee meetings if possible at South 

 Kensington, otherwise in the neighbourhood ; the great country 

 shows will be self-supporting. 



The guinea subscription will enable good horticulturists to 

 come into the Society from every corner of the kingdom. 



It is hoped that some of the old supporters of the Society who 

 have long paid their four-guinea subscriptions will, at least for 

 a time, continue to do so, and that some wealthy and enthusi- 

 astic horticulturists will join their number. The subscribers of 

 not less than four guineas will be called Patron Fellows. 



As Boon as the Council of the Boyal Horticultural Society can 

 arrange with H.M. Commissioners of 1851 in the interest of the 

 debenture-holders the lease of the South Kensington Garden 

 will be surrendered, and it may be expected that the subscrip- 

 tions of those Fellows who paid to get the exercise ground for 

 their children will be discontinued. It is therefore most desir- 

 able that new Fellows should be in readiness to supply their 

 place. It was lately suggested to form a large and influential 

 Committee headed by the Editors of the four leading London 

 horticultural journals (to show unanimity of feeling, at least in 

 the leaders). This Committee to bind itself to nothing but to 

 aid in bringing in guinea Fellows when the Society is freed from 

 its present incumbrances. Three out of the four Editors have 

 given their names ; the fourth, being Secretary of the Sooiety, 

 can hold no other position. 



Very influential gardening names have already been received 



