JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
June 16, 1881. ] 
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- “ R. P. B.” sends the following observations on the 
weather IN Scotland :—Two or three days in the beginning 
of June were remarkable for the heat, over 80° in the shade having 
been registered on the hottest day. The second week has been 
quite as remarkable for its cold. Hailstorms have been preva¬ 
lent in the north of Scotland, and frosts have done much 
damage. On the 10th inst. occurred the most disastrous frost in 
this neighbourhood. The Vegetable Marrows only have been 
destroyed here, but much damage has been done to Potatoes in 
some positions. In one market garden the whole of the early 
Kidney Potatoes, which would have been ready for market in a 
fortnight, were cut down. In fields there has also been much 
damage ; and the Turnip crop, which in Scotland is one of great 
importance, has received fresh injury. This has been an extremely 
bad season for germinating Turnip seed, on account of the ravages 
of the fly. 
-- At the autumn Show of the North Otago Horticultural 
Society held on April 17th, the principal prizetaker was Mr. 
Adam Forsyth, late of Stoke Newington, gardener to the Hon. 
M. Holmes, who obtained the cup offered by His Worship the 
Mayor of Oamaru, for the taker of the largest number of prizes. 
- A remarkably distinct plant for the base of a rockery or 
borders is Diphylleia cymosa, a member of the Barberry family. 
The stems are 2 to 3 feet high, each bearing near the summit two 
large bi-lobed and irregularly cut bright green leaves, and termi¬ 
nating in a cyme of a dozen or more white flowers about half an 
inch in diameter, containing six oval petals and the same number 
of stamens bearing bright yellow anthers. The plant is a native 
of Carolina and Virginia, where it has been found at considerable 
elevations on the banks of small streams. It will be seen from 
this that it requires a moderately moist position, where its creep¬ 
ing roots can spread freely. 
- Another pretty rock plant is Erinus alpinus, which at 
this season of the year brightens many a nook with its purplish 
pink flowers. It is of dwarf habit, usually attaining a height of 
6 or 7 inches. It has small irregularly toothed leaves and racemes 
of neat flowers, which but for their five petals might be taken 
from their general appearance to be related to the Cruciferous 
plants instead of the Scrophularias, their true relatives. The 
plant succeeds well in a light compost of peat, loam, and sand, 
and is admirably suited for little recesses of the rockery, where it 
becomes established if due provision is made for carrying off 
superabundant moisture. 
- We learn that Mr. W. H. Cloake is now the manager of 
the metropolitan establishment of Messrs. Thomas Green & Son, 
Blackfriars Road, the eminent horticultural engineers of Leeds 
and London. 
- Mr. Edward Wilson writes :—“ Having seen my ap¬ 
pointment recorded on page 444, I wish to correct the address. 
Instead of ‘ Highfield,’ Bickley, it is Fernside, Bickley, Kent.” 
•-We have received a draft of the proposed Catalogue of 
Exhibition Roses that is to be published by the National Rose 
Society, and which will no doubt be useful when completed. One 
hundred and twenty Hybrid Perpetuals are enumerated, and forty- 
six Teas and Noisettes, but spaces are left for the addition of any 
other varieties which may be thought worthy of being admitted. 
The particulars concerning each variety are to be arranged in 
seven columns under the following heads :—Correct Spelling of 
Name, Date of Introduction, Raiser’s Name, Form of Flower, 
Colour of Flower, Habit of Growth, and Distinguishing Charac¬ 
teristics. Rosarians will anxiously await the appearance of this 
work, which if well executed will supply a want felt by many 
cultivators of their favourite flower. 
-A few weeks ago we observed a very pretty example of 
spring bedding in Mr. C. Turner’s nursery at Slough, and 
though there was no attempt at elaborate arrangement the simple 
tasteful disposition of the distinct colours in lines produced a 
pleasing effect. This was particularly noticeable in the central 
walk that extends through the nursery, where the principal 
features were the rows of that old but useful bright yellow Wall¬ 
flower Belvoir Castle, the bright pink dwarf Silene acaulis lite¬ 
rally a mass of flowers, the handsome rich-coloured Viola Clevedon 
Purple, the bright-tinted Viola Blue Bedder, with marginal lines 
of double white and crimson Daisies. In other portions of the 
nursery were some large and beautiful beds of the two Violas 
named above with various edgings. 
- A Dublin correspondent writes to us as follows on Frost 
IN June :—“ Mr. Bedford, gardener at Straffan, Co. Kildare, was 
here to-day (9th). He told me the thermometer was 10° below 
freezing last night, and the frost has injured many bedding and 
other plants. Ten degrees of frost in ‘rosy June,’ and in Ireland 
too, is a phenomenon. We have had heavy but not long-lasting 
hailstorms during the week, but being rather sheltered and near 
the sea we do not feel the frost so much as they do further inland.” 
- We have received the very unpretentious schedule of the 
Wirral Rose Society, the Show of which will be held at Birken¬ 
head on July 16 th. In the open class for seventy-two varieties 
the prizes are £8, £6, and £4. In the amateurs’ classes of thirty- 
six and twenty-four blooms, plate of the value of £10, £5, and 
£4 are offered, and silver and bronze medals and plate are pro¬ 
vided for local exhibitors. The Society’s Show last year was one 
of the finest of the season, and an earnest endeavour appears to 
have been made to command success this year. 
- Messrs. Cassell, Petter, & Galpin send us the follow¬ 
ing parts, forming a continuation of some of their serial works. 
“ Paxton’s Flower Garden,” part 10, which contains an excellent 
and faithful coloured representation of Anthurium Andreanum with 
descriptive notes. A coloured figure of Viburnum plicatum is also 
given, but scarcely does justice to the plant. In the “ Gleanings ” 
are woodcuts of Luvunga scandens, Arnebia echioides, Hedychium 
chrysoleucum, Siphocampylos orbignyanus, Gaultheria Lindeni- 
ana, Dianthus cruentus, Echeandra terniflora, and Lilium Wal- 
lichianum. “ Familiar Wild Flowers,” part 51, has plates and 
description of the Yellow Water Lily, Nuphar lutea, and the 
Shepherd’s Needle, Scandix pecten. “ Familiar Garden Flowers,” 
part 28, gives coloured figures of Begonia intermedia and Cra¬ 
taegus oxyacantha, with cultural and historical notes. 
- Nature states that “a monument of the celebrated Natu¬ 
ralist, Freiherr von Siebold, was unveiled in the park of the 
Vienna Horticultural Society on April 22nd last. The monument 
is 4 metres high, and is in the form of an obelisk with a granite 
pedestal. The upper part is formed by a very ancient memorial 
stone ornamented with floral designs, which was originally sent 
to the Vienna Exhibition by the Japanese Government, and was 
afterwards destined for this monument. Below this stone is a 
slab of marble bearing an excellent bas-relief of Siebold, the 
work of Schwanthaler. The whole monument is surrounded by 
living Fir trees, which were obtained from the Rax Alpe.” 
The same journal announces the death of “Mr. John Sander¬ 
son, one of the oldest colonists of Natal, and well known to 
European botanists as an ardent explorer of the South African 
flora. His name is commemorated by the beautiful genus 
Sandersonia.” 
- A correspondent sends the following clipping respect¬ 
ing fragrant Camellias —“The Vienna Vaterland reports 
that the gardener attached to the Palazzo Ferentino at Naples 
has, after the labour of years, succeeded in raising Camellias 
