30 JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. [ January 12, 1882. 
Nature and. Art combined to do their utmost, the majestically 
beautiful Auricula.” 
“And then, indulging in sweet poetic license, he describes some 
seedlings of his own raising. ‘ No gardener is worth his manure 
who has not a fine conceit of his own skill. I should like to have 
some of those Lancashire fellows or a few of those Kentish brag¬ 
garts here (I don’t think I am one of them, perhaps I am),’ this 
man said aloud, being apt to encourage his thoughts when alone 
with the company of words. ‘ If I know anything of the matter, 
this green-edged seedling, beautifully named Dartmoor Oasis by 
my Rose, and this grand self one would gaze at all the day ; and 
above all this white edge, this glorious white edge, have they 
anything fit to hold a candle to them ? Consider the paste, take 
the measure of the thorn [thrum ?], dwell upon the band. Can 
you spy a single slur ? Above all, if you have a particle of judg¬ 
ment observe the quality of the pips, the perfection and fulness 
and true circle of the truss, and the grand, columnar, mealy, mag¬ 
nificent, starchy, upright (no stake), and splendidly proportioned 
—really you might say pillar of the stalk.’ ” 
Mr. Blackmore has a fine appreciation of the overdoing of 
bedding-out and stands up bravely for our old garden plants. 
He has a hard word, too, for the assumptions of science, and a 
good contempt for those who, half-scientifically-taught, consider 
themselves qualified to despise their neighbours. Yes, for all who 
value good and noble thoughts set in plain and solid English, and 
especially to all who love a garden and the wider garden of our 
English landscape, I would say, By all means read “ Christowell.” 
—D., Real . 
Jim»GLEPNGS. ft 
At a general meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society, 
held on Tuesday last, Henry Little, Esq., F.R.H.S., in the chair, 
the following candidates were duly elected Fellows of the Society 
—viz., Daniel Baker, R. D. Blackmore, Mrs. Blackwood, Mrs. 
N. Bowden-Smith, Cecil Dunn-Gardner, Mrs. Ebden, C. J. G. 
Eiloart, Mrs. Eiloart, Mrs. Halls, John Parry Jones, D. C. Lath- 
bury, Miss Maud Macdonald, Mrs. Marsh, General Maxwell, Mrs. 
Brinsley Nixon, Captain G. S. Sewell-Gana, General Simpson, 
Miss Emily Walds. 
- We learn that the materials for an edition of “ Steudel’S 
Nomenclator Botanicus” brought up to the present time, is in 
course of preparation at Kew. The editorial part of the work is 
undertaken by Mr. Daydon Jackson, Mr. Darwin supplying the 
funds necessary to prepare the work for publication. 
- The two Spring Exhibitions of the Royal Botanic 
Society will be held on March the 29th and April 26th of the 
present year. At the first the principal classes are those for 
Azaleas, Hyacinths, Tulips, and miscellaneous forced plants. At 
the second Roses, Azaleas, Amaryllises, Cinerarias, and stove and 
greenhouse plants are specially provided for. 
- “ A week since,” writes a correspondent, “ I observed 
in the Anerley nurseries of the General Horticultural Company 
a specimen of Dracaena Goldieana showing indications of 
flowering. A terminal bud enveloped in purplish bracts had 
formed — very different from the ordinary Dracaenas. Though 
the individual flowers were not discernible, there certainly 
appeared to be characters sufficient to make it generically dis¬ 
tinct from Dracaenas. Plants have flowered before, 1 believe, 
in France and Italy, but I am not aware that any careful obser¬ 
vations were taken.” 
The colour is a most delicate shade of yellow, and the fragrance 
powerful yet agreeable. 
-Mr. Bardney desires to correct his statement relative to 
the Madresfield Court Vine alluded to on page 3. Instead 
of the stem being 31- inches in circumference as stated, read 
5J inches. The stem is 31 inches at G feet G inches from the base. 
- We learn that our correspondent Mr. Hugh Elliott of 
New Heys, Allerton, Liverpool, sails for Australia on the 19th 
inst. A notice of the excellent condition of the garden that has 
for some years been in Mr. Elliott’s charge appeared in our 
columns in 1S79, and he was described there as a “persevering, 
energetic and able gardener.” That we believe to be a perfectly 
just estimate of a worthy, industrious, and intelligent man, and 
he has our best wishes for his prosperity. 
•- We are informed that Mr. Judd, gardener to C. Seely, 
Esq., M.P., of Brooke House, Isle of Wight, is relinquishing his 
charge there, which passes to the hands of the foreman of the 
establishment, Mr. Trickett. Mr. Edward Kite, late of Severn 
House, Ironbridge, has been appointed gardener to Col. Paulet, 
Wellesbourne House, Warwick. 
- We have received Mr. Shirley Hibberd’s “ Garden 
Oracle,” which is as usual full of useful gardening informa¬ 
tion. The speciality of this year’s issue is “ a synoptical cata¬ 
logue of garden Roses introduced to cultivation within the past 
fifty years.” To rosarians and to lovers of the Rose generally 
this will prove of great value. It is arranged in a tabular form, 
the first column giving the name of the variety ; the second the 
class, whether H.P., T., Noi.; the third the name of the raiser ; 
the fourth the year of introduction ; the fifth the colour ; the 
sixth, size ; and the seventh the habit. 
- Among the Orchids at Kew we recently noticed a speci¬ 
men of the beautiful Dendrobium aureuh flowering very freely. 
It was growing in a basket suspended from the roof of the warm 
compartment, and one growth within the space of about 8 inches 
bore no less than two dozen flowers. The sepals and petals are 
pale yellow, the lip being of a deeper shade and veined with cho¬ 
colate. The bank of Cypripedium insigne and its variety Maulei 
at one end of the cooler division is also now very attractive, the 
plants being in excellent health and bearing a large number of 
flowers. Odontoglossum cariniferum, Oncidium aureum, Brassa- 
vola caudata, and Ansellia africana are flowering similarly well. 
The last-named is a very attractive Orchid at this season, the 
yellowish sepals and petals being barred with rich reddish brown. 
Many others are showing well; while in the porch of the house, 
where the Sarracenias and Droseras are accommodated, a plant of 
the beautiful Pinguicula caudata had one of its fine rosy purple- 
tinted flowers expanded. 
- The Annual General Meeting of the Meteorological 
Society will be held at 25, Great George Street, Westminster, on 
Wednesday, the 18th inst,, at 7 P.M., when the report of the 
Council will be read, the election of Officers and Council for the 
ensuing year will take place, and the President will deliver his 
address. The Council of the Society having determined upon 
holding an exhibition of Anemometers on March 15th, the Com¬ 
mittee are anxious to obtain as large a collection as possible of 
various patterns of anemometers, either full size, models, photo¬ 
graphs, or drawings. Special interest will attach to all apparatus 
bearing upon the history of anemometers and to their modification 
and improvement. The Committee will also be glad to show any 
new meteorological apparatus invented and first constructed since 
the last exhibition. Intending exhibitors are requested to furnish 
within fourteen days a list of what they will be able to exhibit 
and the floor space required to Mr. William Marriott, 30, Great 
George Street, Westminster, S.W. 
- Abundant amongst the numerous flowers in Covent 
Garden Market during the past week have been sprays of the 
fragrant light yellow Acacia DEALBATA, which appears to be a 
great favourite with the bouquetists. The small globular heads 
arranged in a loose panicle-like inflorescence are very pleasing. 
