JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
February 16, 1882. ] 
131 
Annual Revenue Account for the Tear ending 31st December, 1881. 
Debts payable. Total. 
s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 
Expenditure. 
Cash paid. 
Establishment Expenses :— 
£ j. 
d. £ , 
Salaries. 
262 0 
4 
Wages . 
253 15 
4 
Printing, Stationery ) 
120 Q 
6 
and Cards . j 
Postage . 
58 4 
3 
Gas . 
26 14 
3 
Miscellaneous. 
277 16 
7 
Law Charges.. 
50 0 
0 
1,049 0 3 53 13 7 1,102 IS 10 
„ Special Expenses in Relation to Horticulture:- 
Lecturer and Demon¬ 
strator on Botany 
Plant and Seed Dis¬ 
tribution .. 
Journal . 
Fruit and Floral Com¬ 
mittees . 
Grants in aid. 
150 0 0 
84 12 2 
0 0 0 
79 7 
55 0 
368 19 10 134 12 0 503 11 10 
185 0 
„ Chiswick Garden Expenses :— 
Rent, Rates, Taxes, ) 
and Insurance .. ) 
Labour. 1,052 18 8 
Implements, Manure, &c. 135 7 3 
Coal and Coke . 193 18 6 
Repairs. 55 12 10 
Trees, Plants, Seeds, &c. 51 19 8 
Superintendent’s Salary 150 0 0 
Water . 3 0 9 
Miscellaneous. 61 17 8 
1,879 15 7 234 8 11 2,114 4 6 
414 19 3 
„ Kensington Garden Expenses :— 
Rates, Taxes, and In¬ 
surance .. 
Superintendent’s Salary 100 0 0 
Labour. 491 3 
Repairs. 217 0 
Coal and Coke . 43 0 
Implements and Manure 11 16 
Water . 5 1 
Reading Room . 21 9 
Bands . 36 6 
Miscellaneous . 20 9 
„ Evening Fite: 
„ Exhibitions :— 
1,361 6 1 
285 7 10 
166 11 1 
1,527 17 2 
285 7 10 
Advertising. 
, 322 
3 
3 
Prizes and Medals. 
32 
9 
0 
Bands . 
93 
17 
0 
Superintendent of I 
Flower Shows .. 
I 25 
0 
0 
Labour . 
. 97 
19 
4 
Judges’ Fees .... 
0 
0 
0 
Sundries . 
, 177 
10 
9 
Police . 
20 18 
0 
• 769 17 4 786 2 0 1,555 19 4 
£5,714 6 11 1,375 7 7 7,089 14 6 
„ Balance to General Revenue Account :— 
442 12 7 
£7,532 7 1 
Income. 
Cash received. Debts receivable. Totals. 
£ s. d. 
By One-fifteenth Life Compositions.. 501 4 0 
„ Annual Subscriptions . 4,056 3 0 
„ Exhibitions . 1,203 12 11 
„ Medical and Sanitary Exhibition 186 5 9 
„ Evening FSte . 347 10 0 
„ Daily Admissions . 347 14 6 
„ Garden Produce. 443 18 9 
„ Packing Charges. 36 12 6 
„ Miscellaneous Receipts. 126 0 4 
„ “ Davis Bequest ”—interest ap- 'j 
propriated under provisions of > 62 1 7 
Trust towards Prize Money .. ) 
£7,311 3 4 
£ 
d. 
54 12 0 
3 0 0 
142 18 9 
20 13 0 
£ s. d. 
501 4 0 
4,110 15 0 
1,203 12 11 
186 5 9 
350 10 
347 14 
586 17 
36 12 
146 13 
22 L 3 9 
62 1 7 
7,532 7 1 
£7,532 7 1 
We have examined the above Accounts with the Books and Touchers, and we 
find the same correct. JOHN LEE, 
R. A. ASPINALL, ) Auditors. 
28th January, 1882. JAS. F. WEST, 
Cr. £ s. d. 
By Balance of Revenue Account brought forward 1st January, 1881 1,278 11 6 
„ Annual Revenue Account—Balance for the year 1881. 442 12 7 
£1,721 4 1 
We have examined the above Accounts with the Books and Vouchers, and we 
find the same correct. JOHN LEE, 
R. A. ASPINALL, Auditors. 
28th January, 1882. JAS. F. WEST, 
DRESSING ROCK PLANTS. 
The present month is a very good time to give a little attention 
to hardy ferneries, alpine plants, and perennial plants generally. 
Some rock gardens are so closely planted with bulbs and various 
other evergreen perennials, that it is impossible to hoe or dig 
between them, and they can only be cleaned by hand-weeding. 
All such should now be examined, cutting off dead Fern fronds 
and leaves. A small handfork is useful in loosening the ground 
where it is hard. After all has been well cleaned give a top- 
dressing of leaf soil and decayed manure mixed, such as may be 
had from an old Cucumber bed, and if two years old it is in good 
condition. I find the best plan is to chop it roughly with a spade, 
and a man with a half-inch-mesh sieve can then scatter it better 
among the stones and crevices about half an inch in depth. The 
siftings may be thrown into another barrow to be brought away. 
This little will improve the appearance of a rock garden, and, 
what is more, will prove of great benefit to its occupants, 
especially old clumps of Primroses, Hepaticas, and Hellebores. 
The rain will wash any particles of soil off that may have lodged 
on the leaves, and the nutriment washed in will stimulate and 
encourage healthy growth. 
The autumn and winter having being unusually mild, many 
plants are flowering, and amoDg them are the following—Erica 
carnea, Primroses and Polyanthus, Winter Aconite and Snow¬ 
drops, Malcolmia maritima, Crocus, Scilla siberica, Hepaticas, 
Anemone hortensis in variety, Violas, Wallflowers, Myosotis, 
Vinca minor, Narcissus, N. Bulbocodium and Leucojum vernum 
showing flower; Helleborus niger and Helleborus atrorubens, 
which lasts from November to March, and has from four to eight 
flowers on a stalk.—A. H., Peterborough. 
GARDENS NEAR TOWNS. 
•'< South Kensington ” appears to have missed the object of 
my remarks, hence he heads his article “ Trees and Shrubs for 
Towns.” Perhaps I can best illustrate my meaning by what I saw 
at a watering place, and see also at what 1 may term the pleasure 
end of most towns. Villas are wanted. They seem to grow up 
like Mushrooms. They vary in value to suit the pockets of intend¬ 
ing purchasers or tenants. In one respect they do not vary ; the 
nearest nurseryman having a large supply of a certain class of 
evergreens which it suits him to supply, the gardens smaller or 
larger are supplied as if by pattern. Narrow strips of soil are 
left at the edges, and so the gardens are repeated and reproduced 
ad nausteam. I grant that such a plan turns at once a bit of 
building ground into a clothed plot, and that a garden is made at 
a jump. But what I object to is endless repetition, and also that 
the suburban dweller has no English shrub or tree near him, and 
the true country is not brought before his eyes. All this is pro¬ 
duced because people are apt to run in a groove, and so they be¬ 
come the slaves of the nurseryman whose stock of certain class of 
shrubs is most abundant. 
What “ South Kensington ” says of clergymen’s gardens is 
out of the question, they were not referred to. So also planting 
Elms in smoky towns are, of course, not approved ; but I hold still 
that there is a point of value in this idea I met with, and that we 
might have more variety in suburban gardens. 
There must be a limit, of course, as to what are native trees and 
what are not. Thus, if we went only far enough back in history we 
should find very few aboriginal trees and shrubs. But let us have 
more variety, not one villa garden just like its fellow because 
stocked from the same nursery—my eyes are wearied with such a 
Dutch-garden-like uniformity. Nothing in extremes is well, but 
a mingling of varieties breaks a uniformity which is painful.— 
Wiltshire Rector. 
General Revenue Account, 31st December, 1881. 
Dr. £ s. d. 
To Balance carried forward . 1,721 4 1 
Potatoes. —For twelve years in succession (one year excepted) I 
have grown Potatoes on the same piece of ground. The soil thirty 
years ago, I am told, was rather stiff and heavy. Every year or two 
since that time it has been heavily manured with leaves partly decayed, 
and Potatoes have been the principal crop up to the present time. 
Another garden dressed with farmyard manure and leaves from forcing 
