THE GARDENERS' MAGAZINE. 



November 6, 1909. 



osition he most satisfactorily filled 

 n years. He was next employed 

 intendent of Nunhead Cemetery, 

 ig his twelve years' stay there he 

 en opinions from all with whom 

 0 do. Since 1901 Mr. Witty has 

 perintendent of the Highgate 



ection with the i 

 > the body for th( 



Dru 



ng-pla 



Mr. Witty had some 

 chrysanthemums a few years ago, and he 

 has interested himself in lobelias and 

 fuchsias. For very many years he has been 

 a prominent member of the Executive and 

 Floral Committees of the National Chry- 

 santhemum Society, and he was for several 

 years vice-chairman of the General Com- 

 mittee. He was one of the founders of the 

 Highgate Chrysanthemum Society, and 

 also instituted the Brookfield Horticultural 

 Society at Highgate. Mr. Witty has asso- 

 ciated himself with the British Gardeners' 

 Association, and is a member of the Council 

 of that body; he is also a member of the 



Fund. Quite r 



Royal Gai 

 ntly Mr. Witty has" 



Highgate Cemetery 



view of the greatly im 

 the varietal forms as 



decorative plants, it Mill; A. glutinosa, Gaertn ; , Radicul 

 ge for greater pub- Nasturtium aquaticum, sylvestris, pah 



licity. The contents 

 fore us includes artick 

 of ferns, fern coUerti 



f the issue now be- tris, amphibia; Melilotus altissima a 

 s on the life history indica ; Solanum Dulcamara and nigrun 

 ig, and wild sports Mentha aquatica subglabra and arvensi 



of British ferns, and, 



as the whole of the Polygonums, Convolvulus and Persioari 

 pon of Mr. Druery, Parietaria officinalis, Angelica sylvestr 



aJticler C severarof t^i 

 in the next issue. Tlie 



t. ^We are promi.sod c io ^aquaticus, Scrophularia ^aq'uatTc 

 e leading authoritirs (Enanthe crocata, Lythrum Salioaria a 

 annual subscription IJarbarea vulgaris. 



of five shillings to the 

 four issues of the pi 

 information of those w 



society includes the ''Some Beautiful Shrubs" 



blication. For the the title of a lecture to be given by Mr. 

 10 may wish to com- Beckett. V.M.H., at the meetin<T of t 



municate with the edi 

 tion that Mr. Druery's 



tor, we would men- Roval Horticultural Society on Tuesd 

 address is Stanwix- „ext. The lecture will be 'illu.stratod 



Shaa Road, Acton, W. 

 Supervision of Trees in Ken- 

 sington For the third consecutive 



year the Metropolitan Public Gardens Asso- 

 ' ' ' ' ^ by the Royal 



Borough of K< 

 pruning and lo 

 thorough fines 



Smoice and Suniigrht.— Iii 



'ers. sweet peas, and chrysanthemums ; 

 he chief subjects grown. 

 Biacic Scab of Potatoes.- 



eply to a question in the House of C( 

 aons on Monday with reference to 



Staffol 



(valent in allotments and cottage 

 in Cheshire, North Shropshire, 

 ihire, South Lancashire, and parts 

 irickshire, Derbyshire, and Notts. 

 !en found in certain parts of Fife, 



1 fields under rot:i- 



he results of the investigations which have 

 )een instituted will be available in the 



>e at once cohimunicated to every occupier 

 •f premises on which the disease is known 



French Horticulture.— In view of 

 he important position to which horticul- 

 ure has attained in France a Technical 

 ^'ommission of Horticulture has been 

 ireated by decree of the President. The 

 luties of this Commission will be to deal 

 rith all questions relating to plant im- 

 )rovement, cultural methods, and the 

 ;ransport and marketing of produce at 

 lome and abroad. The Commission will 

 (onsist of thirty members, and will include 

 he president of the National Horticultural 

 1 the dii 



ure at Ve 



British Fern Gazette " is 



title of the new quarterly publication of 

 British Pteridological Society, and un< 

 the editorship of Mr. C. T. Drue 

 V.M.H., it should prove most useful to i 

 members of that body. At the ann 

 meeting of this society at Kendal in Aug 

 last, a resolution was passed that a qu 

 ation should be established a 



ssued dealii 

 •ularly from "the v 

 object of this 



The 



National Carnatii 

 Picotee Society. Wo 



by Mr. Henwoml. tlie luui. ,se 



alight, 



months the smoke in an ind 

 al>.sorbed one-quarter of the 

 compared with a station or 

 During the month of June last the amount 

 of daylight in the centre of the town often 

 fell to one-half as compared with Garfort'h, 

 several miles beyond its boundaries. 



British Gardeners' Associa- 

 tion.—On Friday next, the 12th inst., Mr. 



ice Ha 



the Anns and Objects of the British (h 

 deners' Association." Mr. W. H. Dive 

 of Belvoir Castle Gardens, will preside. 

 Aldsate's Old Fig Tree.-ln 



interesting note on the Aldgate \\a 

 School the "City Press" makes the f 

 lowing reference to the old fig tree that 1 

 ho long a period was a characteristic f( 

 ture of the school building: "Aldgate 

 scarcely an Arcady, but there is soniothi 

 • iircadian in Aldgate sitting under its o' 

 fig tree. The tree (unfortunately there v 

 iio vine to keep it company), under vvhi 

 Aldgateians sat and meditated, long gr 

 in fi-ont of the ward school in Jewry Str. 

 —how long nobody knew. It was go 



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grounds 

 Trinity, 



. the 



pectable one, of course, 

 s somehow understood tliat 

 the trees that adorned the 

 he ancient abbey of Holy 



I the Aldgate neighbourhood, 

 inary was erected on a part 



Sir John Cass Foundation, and the old fig 

 tree has disappeared no one knows where. 

 Its loss will be regretted by muny. 

 Luckily, however, it has left a successor. 

 Two or three years ago Mr. A. M. Sly. 

 then one of the churchwardens of >t. 

 Katharine Cree, took a cutting from tlie 

 tree, and planted it in the churchyard of 

 that parish, where it is in a flourishing 

 state, though we fear the offspring can 

 never become so interesting or so hallowed 



