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THE GARDENERS' MAGAZINE. 



Atjgtjst 3, 1912. 



to present hrni with a testimonial as a re- 

 cord and appreciation of liis long and able 

 services. In his younger days Mr. Gard- 

 ner w-as a successful exhibitor, while his 

 success as a gardener is well known. Mr. 

 J. Gardner, of Batsford Park Gardens, one 

 of our contributors, is a son of the Mr. J. 

 Gardner whose portrait aiprpears in this 

 issue. 



Grant of £500 a Year for 

 perimental Work in Fruit Cul- 

 ture. — The Board of Agriculture lias 

 intimated its willingness to make a j^rant 

 of £500 a year towards the provision of a 

 plantation wherein trials may be con- 

 ducted and experiments carried out in 

 fruit culture. The lioard suggests the 

 cx>op e r a t io n of t ho Co lya ty Co u noi Is of 

 Kent, Surrey, and Sussex, and the grant 

 Trill be made only on condition that the 

 authorititss at Wye Agricultural College 

 make themselves financially responsible for 

 the conduct of tho work. We understand 

 that the Jxlucation Committee of the Kent 

 County Council has recommended a sub- 

 stantial grant for the purpose, and it is 

 estimated that the cost of necessary land 

 and buildings will amount to about £2,500. 



Patrinia 



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throw out of employment many thousands 

 of workpeople employed by them, and would 

 also render it impossible for persons of 

 moderate means to enjoy the benefits of a 

 garden. Finally, the committee urgently 

 claims that land should be relieved from 

 the crushing and increasing burden of rates 

 and taxes at present imposed to cover the 

 cost of various public services which should 

 properly be borne by the Imperial Ex- 

 clioquer. 



Proposed Rose Siiow for the 



City of London.— Respecting this pro- 

 posal, Mr. David Aitchison, St. Mary Axe, 

 E.C., writes: I think rMr. Protheroe's sug- 

 gestion (p. 568) an excellent one, and am 

 sure there would be no difficulty in getting 

 a sufficient number of members to start such 

 a society, provided the annual subscription 

 were not too high^ as many people would 

 willingly pay 5s. per annum, while only 

 enthusiasts would give more. I believe the 

 only society of the kind in the City at pre- 

 sent is the Baltic Rose and Sweet Pea 

 Society," St. 'Mary Axe, which ivas formed 

 in 1907, and has been a great success, the 

 last show, held on July 2, being the best 

 of all, hut this society is confined to mem- 

 bers of the BaltiCj Mark Lane, and Lloyds. 



Open Space for Shoreditch. 



piece of plate of half a guinea value. The 

 prizes to be determined by three umpires 



the majority of the coi 



chosen by 



pany. 



On Saturday last the gardens surrounding ^or competition. 



a conse- 

 quence of an unfortiuiate printer's error, 

 the inscription prepared for an illustration 

 of a new fern was attached to our illustra- 

 tion of Patrinia palmata, on p. 571, iu our 

 issue of July 27. Those of our readers who 

 file the Gardevers' Magazine will kindlv 

 note that the proper inscription should 

 road: ^'Patrinia palmata. A dwarf hardy 

 perennial, with palmate or trilobate leaves 

 and flattish corymbs of clear, bright yellow 

 flowei-s . A . AL ^ R . H . S. , J uly 16 . Miss 

 Willniott, V.M.H., (gardener, Mr. C. 

 FieUi^^r, V.M.H.), Warley Place, Great 

 War ley." 



A Novel Window Display.- Dur- 

 ing its Cricket Week, Tunbridge Wells adds 

 to its natural beauty and gaiety by means 

 of various decorations. The Tradesmen's 

 Association offers several prizes for the best 

 shop window display, and the premier 

 award, a haiulsomo cup, w^as won this year 

 by Mr. John Charlton, whose display re- 

 presented an Old English Garden. The 

 foreground was a paved walk, with low- 

 growing plants among the stones. Towards 

 the terraced end a sun-dial figured, and on 

 the terrace stood the figure of a boy carry- 

 ing a flower-laden basket on his head. At 

 the back of the window a bold herbaceous 

 border was arranged, finely filled with 

 hollyhocks, liliums, campanulas, delphi- 

 niums, violas, etc., with pillar specimens 

 of rambling roses, honeysuckle, and clema- 

 tises, at intervals, the whole being backed 

 by a hedge of Cupressus Lawsoniana. This 

 display was very greatly admired, and Mr. 

 Charlton is to be congratulated. 



Horticulture and Land Taxes. 



The following resolution was passed 

 unanimously by the Horticultural Advisory 

 Committee of the Land Union, on Tuesday, 

 July 23: The Horticultural Advisory Com- 

 mittee of the Land Union, consisting of 

 practical men engaged in the horticultural 

 trade, emphatically protests against the 

 proposal to impose further taxes on land 

 (as distinct from other forms of property), 

 and states without hesitation that the prac- 

 tical result of such taxation would inevit- 

 ably be to compel many British gi-owers, 

 who necessarily cultivate considerable 



quantities of land, to close down (they one guinea and a-half value ; to him that 



Each persons that shews to subscribe two 

 shillings and six-pence towards the prizes, 

 and to prove on oath that the flowers are 

 his own blowing from the layers or plants 

 from the spring potting 



The Hampton Court Vine, now 



144 years old, is this year carrying a crop 

 of about 300 bunches of grapes, many of 

 these weighing over two povinds each. The 

 crop will soon be fit to cut. 



Progress at Brighton.— It h 



with very great pleasure w^e learn that the 

 Brighton and Sussex Horticultural So- 

 ciety has secured two hundred new mem- 

 bers since January last. The exhibition 

 recently held in the Dome and Corn Ex- 

 change was a good one, and the Corpora- 

 tion Challenge Bowl and Gold Medal for 

 the most meritorious exhibit was won by 

 Mr. G. Chandler, gardener to S. C. Wit- 



Esq., HoUingbury Copse, Patcham. 

 For" the third successive year Mr. Chand- 

 ler also won the cup presented by the late 

 Alderman J. VV. Hewlett for the best 

 group. This trophy he has now won out- 

 right, but the society will not be the loser 

 as Mr. Witting has presented another cup 



ting, 



the old almshouses in Kingsland Road, 

 Shoreditch, were opened for the use of the 

 public. A lily pool and fountain have been 

 provided^ and a portion of the gardens has 

 been reserved for games for the children. 

 The almshouses belonged to the Ironmon- 

 gers' Company, and were erectod in 1715 

 with the money bequeathed by vSir Robert 

 Geoffreys, who was Lord Mayor of London 

 in 1686, when Shoreditch was but a little 

 village. Now, Shoreditch has an area of 

 543 acres, and a population of 111,463, so 

 this little open space will be a pleasant 

 oasis in a wilderness of*hricks and mortar. 



Hertford's New Garden.— Hert- 

 ford Castle and its surrounding five acres 

 of grounds have been leased to the Cor- 

 poration of Hertford, for the public use, 

 for seventy-five ye?rs, at an annual rental 

 of half-a-crown. This unique arrangement 

 is due to the generosity of Lord Salisbury, 

 who, on Saturday last, amid much enthu- 

 siasm and rejoicing, opened the fine new 

 entrance gates presented by Mr. Osmond 

 McMuUen. These gates are practically in 

 the centre of the town, and so are a great 

 convenience as well as a handsome orna- 

 ment. The Corporation presented Lord 

 Salisbury with a gold key and with a silver 

 model of the castle. 



Proposed Boating; Lake for 



Hull.— The Rt. Hon. T. R. Ferens, M.P., 

 the new High Steward of Hull, has offered 

 to construct a large boating lake for Hull, 

 between East Park and the King George 



We need hardly add 

 of Hull have grate- 



V. Playing Fields, 

 that the Corporat: 

 fullj^ accepted this 



generous 



Show a1 



offer. 



at Boskoop 



in 1913.— A large exhibition of roses will 

 be held at Boskoop, Holland, in July, 1913. 

 Mr. T. H. Van Nes is president of those 

 who are promoting the exhibition. 



Wild-flowe 



wood 



South 



Addition 



to 



Brandelhow 



Park. — Manosty Park, about ten acres 

 in extent, has been acquired by the Na- 

 tional Trust. This adjoins, and will be 

 added to, the beautifully wooded area of 

 about two hundred acres, known as Bran- 

 delhow Park, situated on the western shore 

 of Derwentwater. 



Carnation Feast at Reading 



in 1787- —The following quaint record of beautiful old brown stuccoed frontage, noff 



Botanical Institute, at Norwood, is a gar- 

 den about seventeen yards square, wherein 

 ;VIr. Griffin, the Curator, grows a quite 

 remarkable collection of British wild 

 flowers, together with examples of those 

 exotics that have settled down in this coun- 

 try and become naturalised. Those living 

 in the south-east of London and wishing to 

 improve their knowledge of British botanv 

 might well make a call at 323, Norwood 

 Road. In the institute is a collection of 

 some 40,000 dried specimens. 



Front Flower Gardens at Not- 



tingrham. — Wo have pointed out time 

 after time how very greatly the beauty 

 and attractiveness of a town could be in- 

 creased if the residents took some pains 

 to make their own front gardens present- 

 able. In this connection a correspondent 

 points out that ooasideraible art is diS" 

 played by many of the citizens of Nottnig- 

 ham in the laying out of their small front 

 gardens. He writes : Take my street 

 an instance, what could be more pretty txw 

 enchanting than Dryden Street, with itf 



particulars concerning a Carnation Feast 

 held at Reading in 1787, appeared recently 

 in the ^' Daily Telegraph": A Carnation 

 Feast will be held at Mr. Smith'&, the 

 Horse and Jockey Inn, Castle Street, Read- 

 ing, on Friday, the 27th instant, when the 

 person that exhibits the eight best whole- 

 blown French carnations, of eight different 

 sorts, will be entitled to a piece of plate of 



being already hard-pressed by the competi- 

 tion of growers in other parts of Europe). 

 The committee further desires to point out 

 that this result would not only ruin many 

 nurscLymen and market growers, but would 



shews the eight second-best ditto of eight 

 different sorts, a piece of plate of 



one 



guinea value ; and to any person that ex- 

 hibits three seedlings of his own blowing, 



a perrect mass of greenery and creeptio- 

 the ivy and Veitohi and Virginian creeper 

 completely festooning its windows 

 doorways, while many of the gardens are 

 a perfect blaze of colour wath beautitji 

 flowers. I often go out of my way to ^'^-^ 

 down such streets, and I think it would 

 a good thing if our Public Parks Comnut- 

 tee, or those in power in the Horticultura 

 Society, would do as many of the rail^'^T 

 companies and other authorities are doing^ 

 that is, give prizes for the best-kept fr^". 

 gardens. It would encourage the art <^ 

 gardening and tend to make many parts 



of this year's raising, to ibe intitled to a our old city pleasant and attractive 



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