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GARDENERS' MAGAZINE. 



Decembek 21, 1912 



and both as a cultivator and raiser 

 achieved a high degree of success, placing 

 himself in the forefront of the large 

 body of amateurs who gave attention to the 

 Golden Flower. Concurrently with his 

 work in connection w^ith chrysanthemums, 

 Mr. Shea evinced a warm interest in roses, 

 and for some vears he exhibited with much 

 success in the amateurs' classes at the lead- 



he ture a loan of £1,000 without interest to 



replace an overdraft on capital account in- 

 curred in connection with the Liberton 

 Experimental Garden. 



spreads rapidly, and produces a dense jun- 

 gle-like growth that completely ousts oth ' 

 vegetation. Experiments proA-ed that th, 



exhibitions. 



Not 



did Mr. 



cultivate 



only 



and exhibit with much 



mg 

 Shea 



success both chrysanthemums and roses, 

 but he devoted some share of his attention 

 to the management of the two leading so- 

 cieties associated with these flowers, and, 

 possessing administrative abilities of a high 

 order, he soon obtaintxl a prominent posi- 

 tion in the respective executives. In due 

 course he became president of the National 

 Chiysanthemum Society, and so admir- 

 ably did he perform the duties associated 

 with the position that th^^ National Rose 

 Society, on the death of Dean Hole, unani- 

 mously elected him as his successor. At 

 that time a rule to the effect that the pre- 

 sident should not remain in office more 

 than two consecutive years was adopted, 

 and consequently, at the end of the second 

 year of his occnpancy of the presidential 

 chair, Mr. Shea returned to his position 

 among the vice-presidents. His excellent 

 work was not, however, forgotten, 

 and , when a vacancy occurred in the 

 presidency this year, by the retire- 

 ment of the Rev. J. H. Pemberton, 

 a strong desire was felt by the mem- 

 bers of Council and others that Mr. 

 Shea should be invited to accept office as 

 president a second time. Prnctical expres- 

 sion was given to this drsiir. jiud, as shown 

 by our report, he was unanimoxisly elected 

 president, and in the interest of both Mr. 

 Shea and the National Rose Society, w(^ 

 trust his s(MHiud period of office may be 

 not less successful than the first. 



Popularity of Garden Roses. ^,^[^}^^^^^ 



The high degree of popularity that is 

 now enjoyed by roses of special value for 

 beautifying the garden was evidenced in 

 no uncertain manner at the meeting of the 

 Muswell Hill Horticultural Society the 

 other evening, when Mr. George Gordon, 

 V.M.H.. e:ave a lecture on " Garden 



ciety. 



gave a lecture on 

 Roses," illustrated by lantern slides, 

 meetingj over which Alderman Cooper, 

 Deputy Mayor of Hornsey, presided, was 

 held in the Wesleyan Church Hall, and this 

 building, which seats 500 persons, was so 

 well filled that the audience must have 

 numbered considerably over 400, and, 

 judging from the discussion that followed 

 the lecture, the liveliest interest was 

 evinced in the subject. 



Ns^tional Chrysanthemum So- 



A long special meeting of this 

 Society's Floral Committee was held at 

 Essex Hall on Monday, December 16, to 

 settle various matters that had arisen in 

 the work of this committee during the pre- 

 sent season. It was decided to grant special 

 market certificates and commendations dur- 

 ing the 1913 session, and judgment is to 

 be recorded by pointing. For this particu- 

 lar purpose the general scale of points will 

 be : Colour, 20 ; form, 20 ; fulness, 10 ; petal, 

 10; stem, 10; foliage, 10; habit of plant, 

 20; total, 100. 



code is slightly different: Form, 20 ; colour, 

 20; petal, 10; eye 10; stem, 10; foliage, 

 10; habit of plant, 20; total, 100. This 

 method of procedure was adopted unani- 

 mously. Another piece of business, also 

 adopted unanimously, was a motion that the 

 Floral Committee should not in future re- 

 cognise a varietal name in which the raiser's cembei' 3 



pulped stems had some value for papei- 



Clayton, Beadle and Stevens, as recorded in 

 the ^*Kew Bulletin,'' show that the pajx^- 

 so produced is of exceptionally good qualitv 

 for if the pith cells are retained in th 

 paper, "they give it parchment-like pro- 

 perties to an extraordinary degree. Thev 

 also render the paper ink-bearing; without 



Xhe "the addition of any sizing material." 



w Mcnogfraph of the Ivy. 



— Dr. F. Tobler has published an important 



t 



For single varieties the 



monograph of the genus Medera Di* 

 Gattung Hedera," Gustav Fischer, Jenai. 

 The author, we learn from Nature/' de- 

 scribes tM'o new species of ivy (Hedera 

 himalaica and H. japonica), making six 

 species in all, which are well illustrated hv 

 reproductions from photographs. Besides 

 detailed descriptions of the morphology of 

 the genus, the work includes an interesting 

 chapter on the biology and physiology of 

 the ivy, followed by chapters on the history 

 of the genus and the culture of the speci 

 as garden plants. 



_ ^^ual-Flowering Car 



nation Society, recognising the sup- 

 port which it receives from the province^, 

 and alive to the intei-ests of its provincial 

 members, has decided to hold its next spring 

 show in the Midlands. Leamington, geo- 

 graphically the centre of England, has been 

 chosen as a suitable venue for the event, 

 and the show, for which arrangements are 

 already well in hand, will he held on 

 April 10 and 11, 1913. Schedules may be 

 obtained from the Iron, secretary, iMr. T. A. 

 Weston, Floradale, Orpington. The so- 

 ciety's London show of 1913 will be held 

 at the Roval Horticultural Hall on De- 



DisbMdded Orchids—Hitherto it or distributor's surname is used as a. prefix 



has been the rule of the Royal Horticul- 

 tural Societv's Orchid Committee to ignore 



Yet one other matter was ^carried, and 

 eventually accepted by tho General. Com- 

 mittee, and this was a proposal to charge a 

 fee of one shilling for every variety entered 

 for the consideration of the Floral Com- 

 mittee, About 250 varieties were con- 

 sidered this season, and very many were 

 Titter rubbish ; the new regulation will pro- 

 bably impose a necessary check, and if it 

 does not, then possibly a higher 



fee may 



rged 



Additional Public Park for 



a plant which carried a disbudded spike 

 when such plant was submitted for award, 

 but, feeling that this rule might prove some 

 hardship, and that tlie members should be 

 allowed to use their judgment as to whether 

 disbudding -had unfairly enlarged or im- 

 proved the flowers presented, the commit- 

 tee carried the following resolution at its 

 meeting of December 17. on the motion of 

 Mr. de Barri Crawshay and Mr. J. O'Brien : 



Awards will not be recommended to any Paisley. — The late Sir William Dunn, 

 plants, the natural size and character of 

 the flowers of wli i oh have been , in the 

 opinion of the committee, improved 

 through di>budding m* di'cssing/' 



Horticultural Representation 

 on Scottish Collegre Board. - 



A movement, originating with the 

 members of the Scottish Horticultural As- 

 sociation, to have a direct representative 

 of horticulture on the board of the Edin- 

 burgh and East of Scotland College of Agri- 

 culture, has been laid before the trovernors 



Bart., late M.P. for the burgh, has left 



to the town of 



Paisley. 



of the latter by a letter from Mr. A. D. 

 Richardson, secretary of the Scottish Hor- 

 ticultural Association, and is to be con- 

 sidered at the next meeting. It appears 

 that co-option is the only means by which 

 such a member could be appointed to the 

 governing body, but horticulturistvS in 

 general will agree that it is highly advis- 

 able that some one, representing i'itlicr the 



T?oyal Caledonian Hortirnltu]';! i Soi iety or 

 theScottish Horti<MdtiiraI Association should 

 be on the College Board, which, through its 

 highly competent staff, can-ies; out courses 

 of instrurtion , conduct an experimental 

 gardf u. nnd in other ways further horti- 

 H^ultnral education. The governing body is 

 now to receive from the Board of Agricul- 



cpressed by the 



some valuable bequests 



The principal amount is for 



charitable purposes, but his trustees are 

 authorised to expend a sum of not more 

 than £5,000 in the provision of a public 

 park for the west end of the burgh — a part 

 in wliich Sir William Diuin had special in- 

 terests. Some legal difficulty has arisen 

 with regard to the several wills made by 

 the testator, but all these make the same 

 provisions for the public legacies. The be- 

 quests were intimated by the Provost of 

 Paisley at a meeting of the Town Council, 

 and much pleasure was 

 members— a gratification shared in by the 

 inhabitants, especially by those in the part 

 of the town in which the park will be 

 situated. 



Hedychium coronarium a 



Source of Paper. Many cf cur 



readers will be familiar with Hedychium 

 coronarium, a strong-growing member of 

 the Ginger family, and one that produces 

 large spikes of white fragrant flow jrs in a 

 warm house, such as the Lily ITovise at 

 Kew. It appears that this species has 

 become naturalised in Brazil, where, in 

 some places, it 



ing Value of Potato 



Haulm.— We learn from the ''Journal 

 of the Board of Agriculture that in the 

 experiments \conducted by Voltz, at the in- 

 stitute of Fermentation Industries, Berlin, 

 potato haulm harvested early in October i^as 

 dried partially in the field, and later m 

 drying kilns, and then chopped and ted to 

 two sheep. The analysis of the dried tops 

 was as follows : Water, 19.83 per cent. ; 

 crude protein, 10.13 per cent.; carMh}- 

 drates, 28.71 per cent. ; crude fat, d.o» F 

 cent.; crude fibre, 27.03 per cent. ; asm 

 10.72 per cent. The following were tne 

 efficients of digestibility: Crude protein. 

 61.2 per cent.; crude fat, 41.7 per cent; 

 crude fibre, 56.4 per cent. ; carbohydrau >. 

 76.9 per cent. The tops were found to J 

 a greater digestibility when ""^'^'^/.^i 

 meadow hay. The tops were, it is staiw^ 

 eaten with avidity by the animals, ana 

 bad effects resulted, but nothing is saw • 

 to whether such food was beneticiai 



them . 



The ' Botanical MAgAzinf J' 



dedicated to Mr. John MetiK 

 Wood A.L.S., " whose devotion to tlieir^^ 



1912 



IS 



grows spo 



terests, during the many years that ne 

 held charge of the Durban Botanic 

 dens, has been of signal benefit 

 horticulture and to botany." The is^u^ 

 December opens with a double-page 

 tration of Pinus flexilis, a sommvhat r ^ 

 .-pecies from Colorado, and worth gi.o^ 

 for its distinct appoaranoe^ ^ „Usian 

 lowe,l bv Primula Julia>, a Transcaucasi 

 sper irs. ^^ itb purple, yellow-throated flov^^^^ 

 and a species readily propagated b> , , ^if 

 of seeds or its stolon-like growths : --^ . 

 Hilli, a small Australian tree witn ei b^^^ 

 pinnate loaves and paiiielos of wlnre 

 —it recentlv flmvcrod at KfW i" t"*', 

 can House. 'for the first time, attei ' 



