362 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 
TOBACCO WASH. 
A Fellow writes asking how to make a Tobacco wash for winter appli- 
cation to trees and vines : 
To 1 lb. of Soft-soap dissolved in 
1 gallon of hot water, add f 
1 pint of Tobacco juice, 
and stir them well up together. This will be found a perfectly safe 
dressing for Vines or for fruit trees inside or outdoors, always provided 
that the trees are at rest, and not growing. It is most efficacious if 
applied whilst warm. 
A MONSTEE LILY BULB. 
A. DoMEiER, Esq., F.R.H.S., tells us that three years ago he planted a 
single bulb of Lilium speciosum ruhrum in his garden at Sydenham. It 
was left in the ground, and this year (1900) it had extended to sixteen 
spikes bearing 150 fine blossoms. The central or parent bulb alone had 
eleven spikes. Three of the side bulbs were taken off', and were found to 
be very large indeed, one of them measuring 1 ft. 6f in. in circumference, 
and weighed 2 lb. 3 oz. The parent bulb was not lifted, but it appeared 
to be very much larger still. 
AFFILIATED SOCIETIES. 
There are now 120 local Societies affiliated with the Royal Horticultural 
Society. These Societies will certainly have an average of 200 members 
belonging to each, which gives a total of 24,000 horticulturists who are 
reached by the Society's Journal and other publications, for each affiliated 
Society has a copy of the Journal to hand round among its members and 
subscribers. Some of these Societies have club rooms, where they hold 
weekly or monthly meetings, and it would be a kindly, and probably not 
an unprofitable, thing if horticultural firms would send a copy of their 
Catalogues to each of these Affiliated Societies, whose names and addresses 
will be found on page 132 of the " Report of the Council." 
A letter received recently from the Secretary of one of these Societies 
says : " Our members are all very keen to get the R.H.S. Journal, so much 
so that we have been obliged to impose the limit of a fortnight as the 
longest any member may keep it." 
RENOVATION OF OLD FRUIT TREES. 
It may be read in the Minutes of the Fruit Committee, p. clxxv, how Mr. 
John Matthews, gardener to Mrs. Maltby, at Botley, in Hampshire, 
