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day previous when I was there he was as cheerful as possible. 
How or what will be done with the plants I cannot as yet say, 
but am inclined to think Miss Woodhead will try to continue 
prowing them, as she had as much affection for the plants as Mr. 
Woodhead had, and there are many fine seedlings amongst them. 
—Geo. Rudd. 
VINES MILDEWED. 
I HAVE seen several complaints lately about the buds and 
leaves of Vines. I noticed something wrong with the leaves of 
mine a week or two ago. Some of the leaves looked as though 
they had been scorched, and I was disposed to think at first that 
air had not been given early enough in the morning, but on 
examining the leaves with a magnifying glass I detected signs of 
mildew. I immediately put on a fire, and turned all the bedding 
plants out of the house and dressed the pipes with sulphur mix¬ 
ture, which I believe will check any further mischief. When the 
bedding plants are in the house in spring I generally keep two 
cans of water in the house for watering the plants to take the 
chill off, but I believe it is a bad plan where mildew is liable to 
occur, and that a little warm water should be got from another 
source to mix with the cold in preference. I once had mildew 
very badly, and the Grapes were quite white with it, but the 
sulphur mixture cured it completely. The receipt is well known, 
I believe, but I can give it if wanted.— Amateur, Cirencester. 
[Your method of using the sulphur would doubtless be accept¬ 
able to many amateurs.] 
AS 
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INKS. 
At a General Meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society, 
held on Tuesday last, James McIntosh, Esq., in the chair, the 
following candidates were elected Fellows—viz., His Majesty the 
King of the Netherlands, C. Bloodworth, Thomas Butler, Lieut. 
General Sir J. H. Lefroy, William Chambers Lefroy, Mrs. Liddill, 
Mrs. Parkinson, Miss Randall, Lieut.-Colonel J. E. Varty Rogers. 
- The tree planted on the 6th inst. at High Beech in com¬ 
memoration of Her Majesty's Visit to Epping Forest was 
a specimen of the Scarlet Oak (Quercus coccinea), from the 
nurseries of Messrs. William Paul Sc Son, Waltham Cross. 
- In the Victoria House at Kew the extraordinary Aristo- 
LOCHIA Goldieana which was figured and described in this 
Journal, pages 413 and 456, vol. xxxviii., is now flowering again, 
and lovers of the curious should endeavour to see one of the 
enormous blooms fully developed. It was in 1880 that the plant 
first flowered at Kew. Last year buds w T ere produced but not 
developed, and now it has three or four in various stages. The 
first one open was 18 inches in diameter from tip to tip of the 
tails, and about a foot deep without the tube. 
-The following provincial Floral and Horticultural Societies 
have been admitted into union with the Royal Horticultural 
Society this year, and have received the usual medals to be 
competed for at their Shows—viz., Atherstone Horticultural So¬ 
ciety, Bristol Chrysanthemum and Spring Show Society, Ciren¬ 
cester Horticultural Society, Dalton-in-Furness Horticultural 
Society ; Durham, Northumberland, and Newcastle-on-Tyne Hor¬ 
ticultural Society, East London Floricultural Society, Maidstone 
Horticultural Society, Norwood Amateur Floral Society, and the 
Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society of Jersey. 
- “ A. B.” asks if any of our correspondents can kindly 
oblige by furnishing “a recipe for making Dandelion wine, as 
made from the flower-heads of the plant.” We will readily pub¬ 
lish any replies we may receive to this query, as the information 
sought could scarcely fail being useful to many of our readers. 
- Mr. Lee of Clevedon has sent us samples of iron labels 
as used in his Violet beds. These are simply iron rods, the strongest 
nearly half an inch in diameter, an inch or more being flattened 
at one end and a point formed at the other. On the top or flat¬ 
tened portion numbers are struck with a brand. These labels are 
nearly a foot long and galvanised. They are practically imperish¬ 
able, and excellent for use in nurseries, or where the system of 
numbering plants is adopted. 
- Very noticeable in the Orchid house at Kew is a fine 
specimen of Epidendruh bicornutum, or Diacrium bicornutum 
as it is there named. It is bearing half a dozen or more racemes, 
each with eight to ten ivory white fragrant flowers with neat 
ovate sepals and petals, the lip being dashed with yellow and 
dotted with violet. This species, though extremely beautiful, is 
at present represented in few gardens, and nowhere does it suc¬ 
ceed better than at Kew, for it is reputedly difficult to grow 
satisfactorily—but there it grows and flowers quite freely. In the 
issue of this Journal, May the 5th last year, page 358, an interest¬ 
ing account of the plant is given by an experienced Orchid 
grower, who observes—“ The best way to grow it is in baskets 
suspended from the roof or on pieces of Tree Fern stem. I have 
grown and flowered it under both systems, and if grown in 
baskets a compost of very fibry peat, moss, aud charcoal should 
be employed. The three most essential requirements are the heat 
of an East Indian house, exposure to sun, plenty of moisture, and 
a moderately low night temperature.” 
- “A. H.” asks if any of our correspondents can inform 
him if the rock called Tufa can be obtained near Bridgend, 
Glamorganshire. 
- Mr. Roberts, The Gardens, Gunnersbury Park, finds 
TroPu-eolum Arthur Veitch and Brilliant two very useful 
varieties for winter flowering. The first-named has flowers of 
moderate size, but excellent form and very dark scarlet approach¬ 
ing maroon in colour. The other has large flowers, also of good 
form and of an intensely bright scarlet hue, well indicated by its 
name. They both seem admirably adapted for culture in pots 
and produce their flowers very freely. 
-Writing under date of May 5th, “Wiltshire Rector” 
observes:—“ I yesterday had a pudding of Dumelow’s Seedling 
Apple saved on purpose to see if they would keep till May. In 
spite of the warm November, and not a sufficiently cold fruit 
room, these Apples cooked as fresh and with the true acid flavour 
as if it were January and not May, so they more than meet Rhu¬ 
barb, and this season, at any rate, last until Gooseberry time.” 
- “Amateur, Cirencester," asks if any of our correspon¬ 
dents can tell him where he can obtain a little seed raised from 
the seed apples of the Magnum Bonum Potato, as plants grown 
on his land generally fail to produce any. We should be glad if 
anyone can supply the information requested. 
- We have received from Messrs. James Carter Sc Co. a 
bouquet of what they term their Giant Empress Anemone. 
They are truly gigantic forms and brilliant varieties of Anemone 
coronaria, and are strikingly beautiful. Several of the flowers are 
4 inches in diameter, borne on stalks nearly afoot long and almost 
as thick as our penholder. The colours are varied and rich, rang¬ 
ing from white through the different shades of lavender to deep 
purple, and from pale red to glowing scarlet and velvety crimson. 
They are the finest single Anemones we have ever seen, and such 
flowers as these before us would be an acquisition even to the 
garden of an Empress. 
- The following Orchids are now in flower in Mr. Smee’s 
collection at Wallington Ada aurantiaca, Cattleya citrina, C. 
Mossise ; Cymbidium aloifolium : Cypripedium barbatum, C. su- 
perba, C. nmvium, C. Argus, C. cordatum, C. Boxalli; Cyrtopodium 
