November 16, 1871. ] 



JOUENAL OF HOETICULTUEE AND COTTAGE GAEDENEB. 



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open air or in a freely aired pit or frame, before putting it in 

 a higher atmospheric temperature, such as that of a foroing- 

 house or pit ; and in other respects the treatment should be 

 the same as for Lily of the Valley. — W. S. (in Gardener). 



STOKE NEWINaTON CHRYSANTHEMUM SHOW, 



The twenty-fifth annual Show of tlie Stoke Newington Chrysan- 

 Ihemam Society was held on the 14th and 15th inst. ; and though not 

 equal to several of its predecessors either in the number or the quality 

 of the specimens and blooms exhibited, that circumstance appears to 

 be solely due to the unfavourable season, and not to any falling-oS in 

 the interest taken in the flower. 



Of pot plants there was but a small display ; a few were very good, 

 acme were passable, and many indifferent as specimens. Most of them 

 had the flowera but imperfectly expanded, and in another week or ten 

 days will be seen to much greater advantage. The best three plants 

 of the large-flowerins kinds came from Mr. Howe, Shacklewell ; the 

 second best from Mr. Sharpe ; the third best from Mr. James, of the 

 Eochester Castle, a veteran grower. Among the varieties best repre- 

 sented were Dr. Sharpe, Gloria Mundi, Annie Salter, and Prince of 

 Wales, the last full of bloom but not expanded. 



For six Pompons Mr. Martin, gardener to F. Appleford, Esq., 

 Woodbury Down, Stoke Newington, was first with good plants of Lilac 

 and Golden Cedo NnlU and Andromeda. For three plants Mr. Martin 

 ■was also first. Mr. James had a first prize for very good standards of 

 the White, Lilac, and Golden Oedo NuUi, Bob, and others ; Mr. 

 Goodenongh, Stamford Hill, being second. 



Collections came from Messrs. James, Howe, and Goodenongh, who 

 had prizes in the order in which they are named. These comprised 

 well-flowered plants of Gloria Mundi, Little Harry, John Salter, Prince 

 of Wales, Mrs. Sharpe, and some Pompons. 



Of cut blooms the show was likewise not very large, nor were the 

 blooms so fine as in former years, still some of those exhibited were 

 remarkably good. We will note the varieties which were best repre- 

 sented, not because of their extraordinary size, but because they were 

 the best in a bad year, and were also the best in stands which we shall 

 pass ever. Mr. Kowe, of Roehampton, who was first for twenty-four 

 cut blooms, had fine examples of Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, 

 ■Queen of England, Empress of India, Beauty, Mrs. George Rundle, 

 Lady Slade, and John Salter — altogether a very even good stand. 

 Mr. Berry, gardener to the Earl of Leven, Melville and Roehampton, 

 was second -with Miss Mary Morgan, Bronze Jardin des Plantes, and 

 several of those already named. For twelve, Mr. Kowe and Mr. Berry 

 ■were again first and second ; Mr. Prickett, gardener to Mrs. Bower- 

 bank, Stoke Newington, being third, and Mr. Drain, De Beauvoir Town, 

 fourth. Among the blooms shown in these collections. Princess of 

 Wales, from Mr. Rowe, was very fine, and the most notable of the 

 others were Lady Slade, Mr. Bmnlees, and Princess Teck, together 

 ■with some kinds already named. The awards for sixes went to Messrs. 

 Berry, Butcher, Rowe, and Holmes in. the same order as their names 

 occur. Li the class not open to nurserymen and gardener, the principal 

 prizetakers were Messrs. Sanderson, James, Yorley, Howe, and Slade. 



Among other subjects exhibited there were several dishes of Apples 

 from Mr. James ; dishes and baskets of Apples and Pears from Mr. 

 "Smith, fruiterer. Stoke Newington ; some Ferns ; Palms and plants 

 for table decoration from Mr. A. Forsyth, Stoke Newington ; and a 

 pretty Bouvardia called Qaeen of Roses from Messrs. E. G. Hender- 

 son, of St. John's Wood. 



round and brought an action against the salesman for fraud. It also 

 appeared in the course of evidence he had been actually paid over and 

 above what his things realised, and therefore some extra profit, when 

 it could fairly be made, was necessary to balance one transaction 

 against another, and I was surprised the Judge did not notice this 

 circumstance. — T. Taylor. 



COKNICK VERSUS BLACK 

 As I was reading the Journal on Friday last I was much surprised 

 to see a very garbled account of a case in the Westminster County 

 Court, headed " Cornick i\ Black." I happened to be there on the 

 26th of September last, and heard the case opened ; for knowing some- 

 thing of the parties, and being independent alike of each of them, I 

 thought. Well, now, these market gardeners are a very ill-used set of 

 men, to judge from their frequent appearance of late before the public, 

 and here is one who has a veritable cause of complaint ; but as 

 the case proceeded it seemed to possess some very unusual features. 

 The person who styled himself a market gardener in it was in the 

 habit of sending, or taking himself, his goods to market, and had every 

 opportunity of ascertaining their value before he parted with them to 

 the salesman. 



Somewhere in the latter part of April, 1S69, he sent some things 

 ior which he received cash payment early in the May following, and 

 •continued sending, I think he said, to the end of the month, receiving 

 ■cash for his consignments, without preferring any complaint against 

 ihis salesmen ; but the whole amount of the articles sent seemed to me 

 a very limited afi'air. I purposely attended the day of the trial — viz., 

 ■the 24th of October, and to my great surprise found that on two sub- 

 sequent occasions when he went to the market he adopted a piece of 

 very sharp practice, and took some one with him. After leaving his 

 things with his salesmen, he so contrived that the person he brought 

 ■with him should go and purchase some of the best of the things as a 

 retail buyer. As soon as he ascertained the price given he concluded 

 that would be his price, but finds out his mistake when the account 

 -sale is furnished ; and because he was not allowed to make out the 

 affair to comprise both wholesale and retail trading on his part, turned 



MORE ROSE GOSSIP. 



If yon and your readers are not tired, for this year, of Rose 

 gossip, will you let one more humble enthusiast give his notions 

 as to the best two dozen Roses in cultivation ? The follow- 

 ing well set up would, I think, be found hard to beat by Mr, 

 Pochin or Mr. Baker: — Dr. Andry, Edouard Morren, Charles 

 Lefebvre, Paul Neron, Comtesse d'Osford, Dake of Edinburgh, 

 La France, Exposition de Brie, Aarore Bor^ale, Baroness 

 Rothschild, Fernando, Alfred Colomb, Marquise de Castellane, 

 Senateur Vaisse, Nardy Fieres, Mdlle. Eaj^enie Verdier, Lady 

 Saffield, Birou de Noirmont (B.), Marie Baumann, Louis Van 

 Houtte, Mareshal Kiel (N,), Annie Wood, John Hopper, and 

 Sombreuii (T.). 



The above I consider perfectly distinct in form and colour 

 and vigorous hardy growers ; the only kinds having any in* 

 firmities are La France, which remains too frequently in the 

 bud, and Annie Wood shows a yellow eye, but is the most 

 brilliant-coloured of Roses. Louia Van Houtte is, I am afraid, 

 a feeble grower. Paul Neron is an improvement on Anna de 

 Diesbach, almost if not identical in colour, but more double. 

 I should have liked to have a Moss Rose in my twenty-four, 

 but Lanel is the best, and rarely comes large enough for a 

 show Rose among so limited a number. 



li I may give an opinion as to tbe best new Rose I have seen 

 this year, I ^^lect one I saw at Messrs. Pauls', of Cheshunt, and 

 which I was told was to be named Mr. Gladstone — a promising 

 Rose in colour (dark) and habit of growth. Robert Marnock is 

 large, but will look, I think, a plebeian beside Mr, Gladstone. — 

 F. H. G., Risendeniensis. 



P.S. — If anyone wishes for a very free-growing, free-bloom- 

 ing Hybrid Perpetual to cover a wall rapidly, I recommend 

 him to try Fernando. 



BUILDING A GREENHOUSE ON A SLOPING 

 SURFACE, 



I SHALL be obliged by your advice as to the best mode of 

 heating a greenhouse which I am now building, first premising 

 that, having rebuilt my dwelling-house, I found it necessary to 

 pull down and remove to another site a range of old coach- 

 houses and stabling, and so exposing to view, on approaching 

 the house, a cowhouse, piggery, poultry-yard, &c. To conceal 

 these was my chief object in erecting the greenhouse, which 

 will face nearly due south. 



The position of the house and greenhouse is on ground 

 sloping steeply from the south to the north, in length about 

 250 yards, and about halfway up ; the slope upwards from the 

 house being greater than that downwards to the carriage-en- 

 trance. In fact, the top of the garden is higher than the roof 

 of the house, and are all eastward of, and nearly parallel to, 

 the turnpike road, but considerably above it. 



In pulling down the old stabling, &g., the site of which was 

 originally excavated, we left the back wail standing to the height 

 of about 10 feet, the level of the ground behind, forming a sort 

 of dry area, the object being to hide the cowhouse, tfcc. We 

 have built the greenhouse on four brick arches or vaults, com- 

 municating with each other by doorways. The vault farthest 

 east has also a front doorway, this being the place where the 

 heating apparatus is to be placed. The others are built up in 

 front, and lighted with a piece of thick glass fixed, and venti- 

 lated with a terra-cotta air-brick, and small air-shafts in the 

 back wall, rising to about 3 feet above the level of the ground 

 behind. In these vaults I intend to store roots, &o. The 

 intervals above in the roofs of the vaults are filled up with 

 concrete, as also the floor level above to from 3 to 6 inches,^ 



Of the greenhouse the back wall is carried up to the height 

 of 10 feet above the ground level. There are four wooden ven- 

 tilators in it at about 9 feet from the ground level. Its total 

 length, inside measurement, will be 34 feet ; its width, 14 feet ; 

 its height to the inside of the hipped roof, 14 feet. There will 

 be a glass partition dividing it into two parts at about one-third 

 of the distance from the east end. The roof is to be fixed, Tha 

 glass, Hartley's rough, is borne on ratters 4^ inches by 2 ; that 

 of the roof and sides, three-eighths of an inch thick ; that in 

 1 front, one-quarter of an inch thick. The rafters to be 1 fooL 



