JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ May 26, 1881. 
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down this until it reaches the pith of the main branch. The only 
remedial measures are to kill the moth whenever seen, and to 
split down the withered branches and serve the caterpillars 
similarly. 
At a general meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society 
held last Tuesday, Major F. Mason in the chair, the following 
candidates were duly elected Fellows of the Society—viz., Miss 
Florence May Baird Smith, Colonel Blundell, Mrs. Bosman, Mrs. 
T. T. Bucknill, Alexander T. Cory, Dr. R. T. Daniel], Viscountess 
Folkestone, Sir George Macpherson Grant, Bart., M.P., Viscountess 
Harberton, R. Nasmyth Irving, H. Heming Johnson, Mrs. Henry 
Kent, Arthur Kimble, Mrs. Bonnor Maurice, Archibald Milman, 
William Pawley, J. Mostyn Pritchard, and Reginald Yorke, M.P. 
Major Higginson, R.H.A., and Mrs. Higginson, were elected guinea 
members. 
- On the old rockery at Kew one of the finest Forget-me- 
nots we have seen is now flowering; it is named Myosotis 
DISSITIFLORA YAR. SPLENDENS, and is similar in habit to the 
well-known typical form, but is rather taller and more robust. 
The flowers are, however, considerably larger, some being half 
an inch in diameter, and the colour is an extremely bright clear 
blue. If the plant referred to is not an unusually healthy ex¬ 
ample, the variety is a valuable acquisition not only for the border 
or rockery but for growing in pots, as some specimens in the 
greenhouse at Kew well indicate. 
- A Norwich correspondent, “ D. C.,” writes as follows in 
reply to “ G. O. S.” concerning Ixias :— “ I would observe that, 
being natives of the Cape of Good Hope, they require a light open 
soil. Piant as late ai-Joossible and very early in December 6 inches 
deep in light soil. Do not cover them at all either with handlights 
or any other protection ; they will come up quite soon enough with¬ 
out any assistance, and unless any unforeseen circumstance takes 
place every bulb will stand the spring, and by early summer they 
will be in perfection. Take them up in the autumn and lay them 
on the shelf of a hot greenhouse or in the sun, which is the tem¬ 
perature they undergo in their native habitats, where they enjoy a 
long period of rest. I have not lost a bulb this long trying cold 
weather.” 
- Mr. W. Charley writes as follows concerning Pyrus 
Maulei —“ On seeing ‘ W. K.’s ’ article in your last issue (page 
393) I was rather disappointed that Pyrus Maulei was not in¬ 
cluded. Last autumn it was recommended to me, and I planted 
it in a shrubbery border. This spring it has been covered with 
flowers and has been greatly admired. The tree is 5 feet high, 
the branches are pendant, and I think it deserves a better situa¬ 
tion than a shrubbery border. When it can be moved with safety 
I shall plant it out as a specimen.” 
-A LIST Of PLANTS FOR DISTRIBUTION BY THE ROYAL 
Horticultural Society has been published, and it is stated 
that the Council are desirous that the privileges of the Fellows 
should be exercised to the utmost legitimate extent, in order that 
the cultivation of the most approved varieties of fruits should be 
promoted throughout the country for the public benefit. In 
former years plants were distributed by ballot, but on in¬ 
vestigation the Council found the result was not satisfactory, as 
rare and valuable plants frequently fell into the hands of those 
who had not the proper appliances for their cultivation. Fellows 
are now entitled to select for themselves any plants which they 
may desire to cultivate, and which, being the legitimate property 
of the Society, the Council are enabled to distribute. Every 
application must be in writing, and not more than one specimen 
of any variety or species can be supplied. Four-guinea Fellows 
and forty-guinea Life Fellows are entitled to select thirty plants, 
and two-guinea Fellows and twenty-guinea Life Fellows half that 
number. The list should be marked and signed by the Fellows 
and sent to the Superintendent, Royal Horticultural Society’s 
Gardens, Turnham Green, who will forward the plants as may be 
directed, provided they are still in stock. Should any of the 
plants selected have been all distributed, others of a similar 
character may be substituted. The plants included in the list 
will be ready for distribution about the beginning of July, and 
will be distributed in the order in which the applications are 
received. 
- The Calceolarias at Bedford Hill House, Bal- 
ham, the residence of J. Brand, Esq., are extremely fine this 
year. The plants, about four hundred in number, as arranged 
in a house 100 feet long, have a remarkably rich effect. By 
careful selection and fertilisation Mr. Rapley has succeeded in 
establishing a strain of undoubted merit. The plants are not 
more remarkable for their large flowers of good form and varied 
colours than for their firm stout branching habit. Many of the 
plants need no stakes, and the growths have not once been 
stopped, yet the plants are as compact and sturdy as the most 
exacting cultivator could desire. Many of the flowers are 
2^ inches in diameter, a yellow self of great smoothness exceed¬ 
ing that size, and the dark seifs and spotted forms are in all 
respects of superior quality. 
- Writing respecting Garden Ranunculi, the Rev. 
C. Wolley Dod observes :—“Your correspondent in his notes on 
these last week omitted to mention one very ornamental plant, 
the double Ranunculus repens. This name may frighten gar¬ 
deners who know it only as a most pernicious weed in wild 
shrubberies or new plantations, but it is easily kept within bounds 
on a border like other running plants by doubling back the 
runners to their parent, and so forming a compact mass of flower¬ 
ing heads. It bears flowers twice the size of those of R. acris on 
stalks half their height, and produces them freely.” 
- The Royal Horticultural Society of Liege an¬ 
nounce that their twenty-eighth Exhibition will be held on the 
24th to the 28th of July this year. Two hundred and six classes 
are provided for all the usual horticultural exhibits, 422 prizes 
being offered, consisting of gold, silver gilt, and silver medals of 
a total value of 11,265 francs. The chief distinguishing features 
are the number of classes for special exhibits, such as particular 
genera or families. These are arranged in the schedule under 
their great botanical divisions of Cryptogams, Gymnosperms, 
Monocotyledons, and Dicotyledons. Some of the most remark¬ 
able classes, or rather those which we are best accustomed to see 
in English exhibitions, are the following—Ten Gymnogrammas, 
six Platyceriums, twelve Cycadaceous plants, forty Caladiums, 
forty Marantaceous plants, a collection of Musaceous plants, and 
similar collections in Iridacese, Amaryllidacese, Bromeliacese, and 
Liliacese, with special classes for such Orchids as Cypripediums, 
Cattleyas, Vandas, Phalaenopsis, and Masdevallias. Other natural 
orders provided for are Piperacese, Euphorbiacese, Melastomaceae, 
Myrtacem, Crassulaceas, Apocynaceae, Asclepiadeas, Solanacese, 
and Gesneraceae. Bouquets, fruits, and garden implements have 
also several classes devoted to them. 
- During the past and present week a great number of 
visitors interested in Orchids and rare plants generally, have 
inspected what was announced as a Collection of Odonto- 
GLOSSUMS AND MASDEVALLIAS AT MB. BULL’S NURSERY 
