JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
April 28, 1881.] 
at home. Have exhibitors not a right to ask that all such foolish 
restrictions be done away with ? ” 
- A spring Exhibition was held by the Royal Horti¬ 
cultural Society of Ireland last Thursday, and it is stated 
to have proved very successful both in the number and quality of 
the exhibits and the attendance of visitors. Azaleas, though not 
numerous, were represented by some fine specimens, the chief 
prizetakers being the Rev. F. Tymons, with Messrs. Westby andG. 
Orr Wilson. Palms were well shown from the gardens of Lord 
Justice Deasy and Mr. G. Orr Wilson, the last-named exhibitor 
with Mr. Westbv contributing a pretty display ofjstove and green¬ 
house plants. The Rev. F. Tymons and Mr. R. Pim staged the best 
examples of Roses in pots, and cut Rose blooms. Hyacinths 
formed a strong feature, some being very fine, especially those 
from Lord Justice Fitzgibbon and Messrs. Wilson and H. J. Jury. 
Many other plants, with a few dishes of Apples and Pears, served 
to constitute a very satisfactory Show. 
- The bulb beds at Duneevan were never more worthy 
of notice than they are now. Some twenty beds of Hyacinths, in 
which nearly six thousand bulbs were planted of the best bedding 
varieties in mixture, one-third being double, produce a charming 
and imposiDg effect. Each plant is supported with a galvanised 
wire stake, than which nothing can be more suitable, and hun¬ 
dreds of spikes are of exhibition quality. The beds are margined 
with Crocuses, the foliage of which forms an elegant green fringe 
to the masses of stately flowers which it encircles. The Hyacinths are 
about 8 inches apart, and one round bed contains a thousand plants, 
scarcely one haviDg failed. The intermixture of double flowers 
imparts a more massive appearance to the beds than if single varie¬ 
ties alone had been planted. The Tulip beds are similarly fine. 
Mr. McIntosh has proved La Belle Alliance to be the richest and 
best scarlet bedder of all, and has superseded Vermilion Brilliant; 
the blooms are very large, colour intense, and foliage fine. Chrys- 
olora has proved the best yellow for beds, the flowers being 
singularly clean and without spot or blemish. Moli£re, a fine 
purplish flower with orange base, makes a striking bed, the more 
so as the orange colour shines through the base of each flower like 
the reflection from an enclosed lamp ; and Wouverman, a glowing 
plum colour, forms a mass of great richness. The bulbs were 
planted 6 inches apart, and as there are practically no blanks the 
effect produced is as satisfactory as could be desired. The varieties 
named may well be kept in mind by those contemplating having 
fine beds of Tulips another year. Only newly imported bulbs of 
both Hyacinths and Tulips were employed, a few planted a second 
year being poor in comparison. 
- Messrs. James Carter & Co. have sent us a box of 
Cineraria flowers in twenty varieties grown in their nursery 
at Perry Hill. They are large and good in form and substance, 
the seifs being rich and varied in colour, and the particoloured 
blooms clear and well defined. Well-grown plants of such varie¬ 
ties as those before us would be valuable for decorative and exhi¬ 
bition purposes. 
- The American “ Gardeners’ Monthly ” gives the following 
note on Vitis Californica as a Stock against Phylloxera : 
—Professor Eugene W. Hilyard says, “ Among the resistant 
stocks most readily available to California Grape-growers, the 
native wild Grape, Vitis Californica, deserves earnest attention. 
In its botanical character it stands near the wild species, from 
which the Clinton and Taylor are derived ; and while it does not 
seem to harbour naturally either variety of the Phylloxera, ex¬ 
periments made by planting it among infested Vines seem to show 
that, although some insects will migrate and attach themselves to 
its roots, it does not suffer in any sensible degree from this attack. 
It should be understood that under similar circumstances the 
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roots of the Clinton and Taylor are also visited by the insect, but 
without injuring vitality.” 
- The Reading Observer states that on Wednesday, the 
20th inst., the marriage of Mr. Arthur Warwick Sutton, 
third son of Mr. Martin Hope Sutton of Cintra Lodge, Reading, 
with Miss Arabella Constance Pym, second daughter ofjthe late 
Rev. Edward Gambier Pym, M.A., Rector of Willian, Herts, and 
grand-daughter of Robert Baxter, Esq., of Westminster, took 
place at Christ Church, Westminster. After the ceremony*the 
wedding breakfast was served at Mr. Robert Baxter’s residence, 
the guests assembled numbering about forty. Later in the day 
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Sutton left for the continent, their destina¬ 
tion being the Italian Lakes. There were over a hundred 
presents, including a very handsome silver tea and coffee 
service presented by the employes of the firm, a marble clock 
from the members of the Mildmay Club, a pair of vases from 
the Grovelands Club, a pair of etageres from the Abbey Hall 
Choir, a silver bowl from Lord and Lady Kinnaird, a pair of 
vases from Sir Henry and Lady Every, and a silver bracelet 
from Lady Anne Campbell, besides many costly and very beau¬ 
tiful presents from other relatives and dependants of the two 
families. In the evening the whole of those employed by the firm 
were entertained at the dinner in the Reading establishment. 
- A correspondent writes to us respecting A new 
Vine District —“A Queensland paper, published in the western 
farming country, has the following account of a new agricultural 
neighbourhood opening up some three or four hundred miles from 
the seacoast, and long thought too distant for farms. The rail¬ 
way, however, now connects it with the port of Brisbane.! t The 
Roma fruit region is described. * Mr. Bassett,’ says the writer, 
‘ is now reaping the fruit from his vineyard, which covers over 
twenty acres of ground, and contains 22,000 Vines, all bearing 
and looking as healthy as it is possible for them to look. The 
names by which the Grapes are generally known are—the black 
ones : Black Prince, Black Cluster, and Black Wine Grapes; 
white ones : Sweetwater, White Table Grape, and White Wine 
Grape. The Black Prince is a beautiful large Grape of an 
oblong shape, the largest grown in this district; it has a pleasant 
taste, and produces a very good wine. Of the white Grapes the 
White Wine Grape is the best. A stranger to the vineyard would 
probably take this Grape to be diseased, as it is slightly speckled 
with brown, which is, of course, its nature. It is a good yielding 
Grape, and produces a very good wine.’ We are further told by 
the reporter that Mr. Bassett was putting in 15,000 more Vines at 
Roma Villa, and has a large press for the crushing season.” 
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
April 26th. 
Roses unquestionably constituted the most generally attractive 
feature of this meeting, though there were many other exhibits of 
excellent quality and interest. Altogether the meeting would bear 
very favourable comparison with any other held at this time of yeait 
Fruit Committee.— Major Mason in the chair. There were only 
three exhibits, so the work of the Committee was very light. Mr. 
Lyon, gardener to Sir E. H. Scott, Bart., Sundridge Park, Bromley, 
sent a dish of Keens’ Seedling Strawberry, very well ripened and of 
good colour. A cultural commendaticn was awarded, and also to 
each of the following—to Mr. Burnett, gardener to Mrs. Hope, 
Deepdene, Dorking, for several fine Paris Market Lettuces ; and to Mr. 
J. Sutton, gardener to W. J. Cookson, Esq., Worksop Manor, Notts, 
for pods of Vanilla, finely ripened, and each 6 to 8 inches long. 
Floral Committee.— Dr. Denny in the chair. The chief plant of 
interest among those staged in the Council-room was contributed by 
the Hon. and Rev. J. T. Boscawen of Lamorran, Probus, Cornwall, 
who sent a magnificent specimen of Cattleya Skinneri. Such has 
rarely been exhibited before. It was in a 10-inch pot, and had 
thirteen spikes, each with nine or ten flowers of the lovely soft 
purple tint peculiar to the species. The plant was in excellent 
health, the foliage firm and vigorous. A cultural commendation and 
a silver Flora medal were deservedly awarded to Mr. Boscawen for 
this handsome specimen. Messrs. James Veitch & Son, Chelsea, 
