jvnks. 1912. THE GARDENERS' MAGAZINE. 



issued, and by May 8 fourteen other adults 

 ^all female. In five other similar experi- 

 ments with virgin females, eggs were freely 

 laid and caterpillars hatched. 



Presentation to a. Dumfries- 

 shire Gardener. — Mr. John John- 

 stone, gardener to Mrs. Hunter Arundel, 

 at the fine old mansion of Barjarg Tower, 

 Dumfriesshire, being about to retire after 

 the long service of forty-three years with the 

 family; was presented with a testimonial 

 the other day as a token of the respect and 

 esteem in which he is held by his friends 

 and neighbours. Mr. J. M'Kie occupie<] 

 the chair, and Mr. R. Clark, forester on 

 Barjarg Estate, made the presentation in 

 highly appropriate terms, in which he 

 eulogised Mr. Johnstone s character and 

 abilities as a gardener. He handetl over 

 the presents, which consisted of a substan- 

 tial sum of money for Mr. Johnstone, and 



was compiled from information supplied 

 oflSciallv. 



American Gooseberry Mil- 

 dew. — On the 2oth alt, a local fruiterer 

 was summoned at Malton for a contraven- 

 tion of an Order of the Board of Agricul- 

 ture in failing to observe the conditions of 

 a licence for the removal of fifty currant 

 hushes from "Wisbet-h. As the garden from 

 which thev were obtained liad been sche- 

 duled, the bushes should liave l)een grown 

 for a year in the buyer's garden, whereas 

 some were sold. A technical ca.se was ad- 

 mitted, and fine of 10s. was im]>osed. 



Fareham Sweet Pea Society 



is the most recent addition to the list of 

 organisations formed in the interest of 

 sweet peas. At a meeting lield a few even- 

 ings since, it was decided to form a sweet 

 pea society for Fareham, and Colonel Mat- 



423 



HORTICULTURAL 

 EDUCATION* 



There is always a certain stamp of autho- 

 rity about anything that appears in the 



Times," no matter whether that staid 

 journal is discussing a question of Imperial 

 iinportame or sucli a commonplace topic as 

 the education of a gaixlener, and tlierefore 

 the article on the latter question which re- 

 cently occupied the columns of the " Times 

 has doubtless been read with interest by a 

 good many members of the horticultural 

 profession 



Reading between the lines of the article 

 referred to one gathered the impression 

 that it was largely based on what was said 

 at the recent Conferen(*e on Horticidtural 

 Education, which took ])la<*e in connection 

 Avitli the Internationa] Exhibition, and I 

 quite agree with the Times that the 



^L.^:OCARPUS CYANEUS. 



A beautiful Australian shrub easily grown in a warm greenhouse. It was introduced in 1803, and has neat, lanceolate, reticulately 

 veined leaves. The drooping, gra<:eful, white flowers, each with a little cluster of yellow stamens, are carried on racemes produced 



from the axils of the leaves. The species was figured in the "Bot. Mag." t.l737, in June, 1815. The white flowers are followed by 

 blue olive-like fruits. Under the name of E. reticulatus (a synonym), this gained an F.C.C., E.H.S., June 4, and was shown by 



Messrs. Jas. Veitch and Sons, Chelsea. 



a handsome silver teapot for his wife. Mr. 

 Jolnistone made a suitable reply in ac- 

 knowledgement, and referred to the kind- 

 ness and consideration always shown by his 

 employers and his friends. 

 ; R.I.H.E. Awards. — In the list of spe- 

 cial awards published in our issue of June 

 1, Messrs. C. P. Kinnell and Co., Lim., 

 are credited with having been awarded a 

 silver-gilt medal for their exhibit at the 

 J<oyal International Horticultural Exhibi- 

 tion. We are glad to learn that they 

 received the more appropriate award of a 

 gold medal. Messrs. R. H. Bath, Lim., 

 ^ere awarded the Van Waveran silver cup 

 tor their fine collection of British -grown 

 tulips. The Potash Syndicate were awarded 

 a sdver medal for their exhibit. Our list 



thews was elected president, and Mr. M. 

 Colan, hon. secretary. The date of the show 

 was fixed for June 4. 



Mr- W. Gelder, who has l>een the 



hon. secretary of the Knaresborough Hor- 

 ticultural Soc-iety during the past six years, 

 has found it necessaiy. through advancing 

 years to retire, and the other evening 

 the committee presenttxl liim with a 

 silver inkstand as a mark of their appre- 

 ciation of the splendid service he had ren- 

 dered the society during the period of his 

 office. Mr. A. A" Gibson, who presided, and 

 made the presentation, testified to the ad- 

 mirable manner in which Mr. Gelder had 

 performed his duties, more particularly 

 with regard to the collection of subscrip- 

 tions, and to his unvarying courtesy. 



tendencv of the Conference was rather to 

 advertivse existing m(»tbo<ls tlian to formu- 

 late any ^ciu-ral ])(>li( y that might be 

 adopted in tliis country. 



The Times " grades gardeners int;> three 

 sections: (1) the man working for an em- 

 ployer, the fruit grower or market gar- 

 dener eomiucting a business of his own. and 

 (3) the horticultural expert— teacher or in- 

 vestigator. It is not quite clear where the 

 nurseryman comes in, but perhaps under 

 the second heading, since he does not 

 answer to the description of either of the 

 other two. 



Referring to the education of the three 

 grades referred to above, the ''Times" 

 seems to think that the most difficult is that 

 of the working gardener, which is not an 



