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proving invaluable for spring bedding, and most effective associ¬ 
ated with Aubrietias. 
- In the same garden the Standard Morello Cherries 
are proved to be a decided acquisition, and will in future be exten¬ 
sively grown, as during the past year they have borne heavy crops 
and ripened the fruit well. 
- Just on the eve of going to press we learn that the fol¬ 
lowing are the approximate numbers of visitors to the Royal 
Horticultural Society's Show exclusive of Fellows; and the 
results show the deterrent influence of the unfavourable weather 
on the two popular days, Monday and Tuesday. Friday, 1288 ; 
Saturday, 1610 ; Monday, 3632 ; and Tuesday, 2200 : making a 
total of 8730. 
- We have received a copy of a revised edition of the 
“ School Garden ” by Mr. T. Wilkinson, the original issue of 
which has been already referred to in these pages. The present 
edition is slightly enlarged and modified in various ways, but 
in other respects it is precisely similar to the first edition. It is 
published at the Gazette Office, Harrow. 
■- Two of the most attractive occupants of our shrubberies 
at the present time are Halesia tetraptera and Exochorda 
GRANDIFLORA, both of which have been figured in this Journal, 
the former in vol. xxxvi., page 481, and the latter in vol. xxxvii., 
page 71. These trees are not so well known as they deserve to be, 
for they are scarcely rivalled as ornamental flowering trees, their 
value being increased by the fact that they are (especially near 
London) in their most attractive condition just as the species and 
varieties of Pyrus, Cerasus, and allied genera which contribute so 
much to the adornment of our gardens, are losing their flowers. 
The scarlet varieties of Hawthorn are, however, excellent com¬ 
panions for the two named, the brilliant colour of the former’s 
flowers contrasting well with the pure white pendulous Snow- 
drop-like flowers of the Halesia, and the large, open, pearly-white 
blossoms of the Exochorda. The Snowdrop Tree and the Pearl 
Bush are the elegant popular names by which these plants are 
respectively known. 
- The last issue of “ L’lllustration Horticole” contains 
an engraving representing a Basket of Orchid Flowers 
which was presented by the “ Chambre Syndicate des Horticul- 
teurs Belgiques,” to Princess Stephanie on the occasion of her 
marriage with Prince Rudolph. The basket was extremely ele¬ 
gant in design, rather more than a yard in height, and about 
32 inches in breadth, beings entirely filled with Orchid flowers of 
the choicest and most diverse kinds. They were very tastefully 
and informally arranged, so that they drooped gracefully over the 
sides of the basket, some being twined around the high arching 
but slender handle. They were secured from fading by a founda¬ 
tion of Ferns being placed in the basket, among which small phials 
of water were hidden, and in these the stalks of the flowers were 
inserted. Although, as may be imagined from the size of the 
basket, a large quantity of flowers were required, it is said that 
quite four times as many as were needed were forwarded to the 
Committee. This novel and handsome present was greatly 
admired by the Royal recipient. 
-A correspondent writes as follows on the Small Case¬ 
bearing larva on Rose as referred to by Mr. Lester on page 
393. “We have not seen this alive, but presume the species 
is the Coleophora rosacella of some authors. The larva constructs 
a horn-like granulated case out of the leaves upon which it 
feeds, occurring upon the Rose, generally in April and May. A 
much larger case-bearer has been taken on this plant, particularly 
in the west of London. This is the grub of the Rose caddis fly 
(Lvda inanita), which travels from leaf to leaf, disfiguring the 
plant, and it attains the length of nearly an inch. The season for 
this species, however, is the month of July. For either of these 
there can be no remedy save the tedious one of hand-picking.” 
- A plant of the peculiar’ARlSTOLOCHiA Goldieana has 
recently produced several flowers in one of the houses in the 
gardens of the Royal Botanic Society, Regent’s Park. An en¬ 
graving and full description of this extraordinary plant appeared 
in vol. xxxviii. of this Journal, page 456. This is said to be the 
third time the species has produced flowers in Great Britain. 
- We are requested to remind our readers that the Scot¬ 
tish Pansy Society’s Show will be held in Edinburgh on the 
17th inst., and as no notice is required from competitors the Com¬ 
mittee hope that southern exhibitors will enter the lists. We 
are informed that the plants in Scotland, owing to the cold 
season, having as yet made but little growth, the flowers are not 
in their usual good condition. 
- A correspondent, “ G. F.,” writes as follows on the 
Night-Blooming Cereus :—“Last evening, June 5tb, I had 
the first bloom this year on my plant of the Night-blooming 
Cereus, C. grandiflorus. There are twenty-one buds still to open. 
Although this plant usually yields a number of blooms, I do not 
think I ever remember quite so many before. The flower at 930 
p.m. measured about 2 feet in circumference, the centre 4 inches 
in diameter. Its scent, which is just like^Vanilla, was quite over¬ 
powering, and I had to remove the flower from the room in which 
I was sitting.” 
- We are sorry to have to announce the death of Mr. John 
Sangster, formerly a partner in the old seed house of Hay, 
Anderson, & Sangster, which was flourishing at Newington Butts 
in Surrey a century ago. The business was established by Walter 
Hay, a native of Aberdeen, about the middle of the last century ; 
and he was succeeded at his death by his brother, Mr. John Hay, 
who by his ability raised the house to one of high standing in the 
seed trade. At his death Mr. John Hay was succeeded by his 
nephew, Mr. J. Anderson; and Mr. Sangster, who was formerly 
in business at Aberdeen, having married Mr. Anderson’s sister, 
was admitted a partner of the house. After the death of Mr. 
John Hay the business lost its guiding spirit; and though Mr. 
Sangster devoted his best energies to carry it on successfully 
he failed in doing so, and ultimately, yielding to the force of 
circumstances, he was compelled to retire without having any 
provision against the requirements of old age. Mr. Sangster took 
an active part in the formation of the Gardeners’ Royal Benevo¬ 
lent Institution, and was one of the first ten-guinea life members. 
For many years he took a leading part in its management, and 
ultimately he was forced to become a pensioner on its funds—a 
boon which he gratefully received for upwards of eighteen years. 
It may not be generally known that Mr. Sangster was the raiser 
of the early Pea called Sangster’s No. 1. The writer of this 
remembers seeing it at the nursery in St. George’s Fields about 
the year 1846, when the whole stock consisted of a single row 
about 4 yards long. It was selected from a variety then known 
by the name of Cormack’s Prince Albert, which in its turn had 
been selected from the old Early May. For several years the 
seed was saved in the nursery, and when the stock amounted to 
some bushels it was sold retail at half-a-crown a quart. Soon 
after it was sent out a portion of the stock fell into the hands of 
Mr. Waite, a seedsman who, it was said, was fortunate in a race 
won by a horse called Daniel O’Rourke at Epsom, and he sent out 
the Pea under that name. The true Sangster’s No. 1 is difficult 
now to be obtained, many other names doing duty for it in the 
seedsmen’s catalogue, and the nearest approach to it in its true 
form is that known as Dillistone’s Early. An experiment which 
he conducted on rather a large scale was to raise early Potatoes 
from cuttings of the young spires in the hope of thereby avoiding 
