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JOURNAL of hoeticultueE and cottage gaedenee. 



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tilters and housemaids' brushes and trays, hardly come up to 

 one's notion of garden necessaries. 



Mr. Rogers showed, in Stand 3, a gardeners' pest-exterininator, 

 of which we have had no experience, and we have been inundated 

 of late with nostrums for insects ; whereas the only sure pest- 

 exterminators are cleanliness and care, syringe and pure water. 



In Stand No. 4 Mr. Matthews, Weston-super-Mare, showed a 

 very good collection of garden pottery, of superior make and 

 quality, at reasonable prices. 



Stand No. 5. — Messrs. Fellows & Bates showed two very good 

 forms of garden lawn-mowers — the Clirnax, with a back delivery 

 easily worked by a boy, up to 10-inch ; and the Anglo-American, 

 an adaptation of the Archimedean, 'with the improvement that 

 it can be used either to collect the grass or scatter it, and, work- 

 ing with simple cogs, is not so liable to get out of order as 

 "Williams's Archimedean. Our experience with the latter is 

 that it is invaluable for dry seasons, especially on lawns inclined 

 to bum up, as the grass that is scattered acts most beneficially 

 as a mulching, but in wet seasons or on rich soil it makes the 

 grass grow too rapidly. 



Stand No. 6, garden frames, will be alluded to next week. 



Stand No. 7. — Mr. Baker, Chester Street, Aston Boad, Bir- 

 mingham, exhibited a very interesting assortment of wirework 

 in its different branches. 



In Stand No. 8, Messrs. Mapplebeck & Lowe, we had one of the 

 most complete collections in the whole Exhibition of wirework, 

 croquet chairs, seats, and tables ; cast-iron vases and other garden 

 decorations, as fountains, Fern and flower stands, bouquet- 

 holders, &c. They deserve great credit for the assortment dis- 

 played, and where. all was so good it is difficult to particularise, 

 their collection of garden machinery, tools, &c, being very 

 complete. 



Stand No. 9. — Messrs. Dickson & Sons, Chester, exhibited a 

 small tent full of stove and greenhouse plants, conspicuous 

 amongst which were the small Palms now so much used for 

 dinner-table decorations. 



Stand No. 10. — Mr. Frederick Reynolds obtained the gold 

 medal for the best collection of garden furniture. They were 

 beautifully got up, but it struck us that many of them were not 

 calculated to stand hard usage and weather ; still, we must 

 acknowledge there was much taste displayed. 



Stand No. 11. — Mr. Joseph Davis had a very good assortment 

 of thermometers and barometers, with microscopes, manure and 

 milk tests, &c. It would be well if more gardeners made them- 

 selves acquainted with the use of the thermometer and baro- 

 meter, rain-guage, &c. 



Stand No. 12. — Mr. Le Butt exhibited a self-acting hand seed- 

 drill, which we have had in use now for two years and can 

 highly recommend. It will drill Onions, Carrots, and all garden 

 seeds with great accuracy, and the price is only 10s. 6<Z., which 

 may be saved in seed and labour in a large garden in a very 

 short time. 



Stand No. 13. — Maw & Co. exhibited ornamental pottery for 

 greenhouses, window-boxes, &c. Their garden labels were par- 

 ticularly to be commended. 



Stand No. 14. — Mr. Fox exhibited wirework, Pea-guards, &c. 



Stand No. 15. — Mr. William Hudspeth had a fine collection of 

 tazzas, floral arborettes, &c. 



Stand No. 16 was scarcely a garden exhibit. 



Stand No. 17. — Messrs. Wood & Ivery exhibited tiles, quarries, 

 coping, &c. 



Stand No. 18. — An assortment of garden engines, syringes, 

 pumps, water-barrows, &c. 



Stand No. 19. — Mr. Chapman, Bristol Road, Gloucester, who 

 had a silver medal, showed some very useful cut-flower exhi- 

 bition and transmission cases, combined flower and fruit cases, 

 plant-protectors for raising seeds, cuttings, and also for protect- 

 ing plants during the winter, and cases for transmitting small 

 pots of plants for table decoration. All these cases are of great 

 utility to gardeners who have to supply fruit, flowers, or plants 

 from the country to the family in town. We have thoroughly 

 tested the cut-flower boxes and found them very efficient. Mr. 

 C. J. Perry, who is so successful as a Verbena raiser and Rose 

 and Pelargonium grower, always exhibits Verbenas in these 

 stands. 



Mr. Doulton, Stand No. 20, showed a good selection of pottery, 

 chiefly vases and Fern cases. 



Stand No. 21. — Mr. Farwig showed his patent gas calorigen, 

 very useful for small conservatories in the suburbs of towns. 



Stand No. 22 was chiefly devoted to King Croquet; No. 23 to 

 Mr. Haynes's hydronettes, which, though good, are rather hard 

 to work. In Stand 24 Mr. Powell showed some good fruit walls 

 by Mr. Tuck. In Stand 25 Mr. Purser, Warwick Street, Bir- 

 mingham, had his new jet d'eau (see page 481 of last volume), 

 which seems a decided improvement on the hydronette, as it 

 will work equally well upwards as downwards, which the hydro- 

 nette will not do. 



Stand 26. — Messrs. Dick Radclyffe & Co. had blinds, shading, 

 frost-protectors, &c. No. 27. — Another collection of vases. 

 No. 28. — Hydropults, watering pots. 29. — Carriages, not a gar- 



den necessary, we hope. Stand No. 30. — Messenger's boiler, to 

 which we shall allude hereafter. 31. — Cast-iron labels for 

 garden flowers, as Roses, &c, by Messrs. Bell & Thorpe, Strat- 

 f ord-on-Avon ; very durable, but we fear they would be expensive. 



Stand No. 32. — Rendle's patent. Every number in the stand 

 we observed was called Rendle's patent, but what there was 

 particularly novel or particularly good to deserve a patent we 

 could not see. Grooves in brick and adaptations of wood and 

 glass must have some very decided merit to deserve patenting. 



Mr. Bennett, Stand No. 33, had a large collection of ironwork. 



Stand 34. — Mr. Looker had some better-finished brickwork 

 than Stand 32 ; and his new patent ventilating bricks, which 

 may be opened and shut by means of sliding boards in grooves, 

 seem likely to be very useful, especially for ground vineries. 

 They are still capable of improvement and likely to be service- 

 able, and we shall be interested in seeing the improvements 

 carried out so as to make them build in well with ordinary 

 bricks. 



Stand 35 did not in our mind belong to garden accessories, as 

 the longer we can keep bicycles out of our gardens the better. 

 Stand 36. — Metal flower-boxes, &c. In Stand 37 were some very 

 useful garden hand-lights with handle in centre, but the price 

 seemed high. Stand 3S. — Some small fancy boilers. Stand 39. 

 — The Archimedean lawn mower. 



Stand 40. — Some powerful garden engines, which will act as 

 fire-engines as well, exhibited by Mr. Richard Read, 35, Regent 

 Circus, Piccadilly, London. In Stand 41 we had again carriages, 

 which are hardly suitable for horticultural shows, but which 

 seem to find their place innearly all kinds of shows, though why 

 we hardly know. 



The report on gardening machinery, especially boilers and 

 horticultural buildings, will be continued next week. 



SOME PEEDATOEY INSECTS OF OUE 

 GABDENS.— No. 32. 



Duking the early part of this present season some horticul- 

 turist friends of mine were anxious to know whether it was 

 likely we should have an excessive multiplication of insects in 

 consequence of the mild winter of 1871-72. Though not pre- 

 tending to be a prophet, I ventured to give an opinion to tLe 

 effect that, speaking generally, it appeared as if garden pests 

 would not be particularly troublesome, unless we had a hot 

 and dry summer, which was not very probable. The variable 

 spring has been followed by a summer marked as yet by a 

 large proportion of cold and wet weather in most parts of 

 England, and though this has destroyed many grubs and cater- 

 pillars, some species have thriven and increased beyond the 

 average. Owing to the abundant rainfall many plants in the 

 flower and kitchen gardens seem to have sustained less injury 

 than usual from the attacks of larva?, because they have been 

 enabled to put forth an abundant leafage. Flowers and fruit, 

 however, have suffered, and will still suffer much, in some dis- 

 tricts ; and of our constant enemy the aphis there is no lack. 



I have been rather amused on some wet days in observing 

 the effect produced upon that disagreeable-looking garden 

 visitant, the well-known cuckoo-spit (Tettigonia spumaria). 

 The steady downpour washed away its defensive covering, and 

 sent the insect on its travels, when it would be seen wandering 

 upon the twigs in a rather disconsolate manner, apparently 

 aware, that though the rain supplied the moisture which is 

 necessary to its life and growth, though it had removed its 

 investiture of sap, the latter had an additional value as being 

 a protection from the attacks of birds and other devourers of 

 this species in its larval state. As soon as possible after there 

 was an improvement in the weather T. spumaria was at work 

 again busily engaged, like school-boys, in blowing bubbles, 

 though not of soapsuds, and was ere long once more ensconced 

 in its peculiar covering. Owing to the backwardness of the 

 season these larva grew more slowly than usual, and there 

 were many of them about at midsummer, though most years we 

 find May is the chief month for them. 



The Small Ermine Moth (Yponomeuta padella) was also con- 

 siderably retarded in its growth this season, keeping time, 

 however, pretty exactly with the Hawthorn, to which it is so 

 partial ; for in Kent and Surrey, and doubtless elsewhere this 

 shrub was not in full foliage until three weeks beyond the 

 average date in ordinary years. We observed these caterpillars 

 in numerous colonies thriving and rapidly extending then' webs 

 from bush to bush, and from tree to tree, in spite of the showers 

 at the commencement of June ; and we could not but think 

 that gardeners would have much less reason to complain of 

 the injuries caused by the insect to fruit trees were they care- 

 ful to deal with it in early spring on the hedges, from which it 



