JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
June 1 1882. ] 
445 
Next season we shall have to fill about a dozen beds only 
with spring plants, and as these will generally during the summer 
be occupied with carpeting plants, one style will not materially 
affect the other, consequently we hope to do both well. 
Several of the kinds enumerated by Mr. Bardney will be grown, 
and in addition some good bedding varieties of Wallflowers, such 
as the Belvoir and other dwarf advertised varieties. We also 
experience much difficulty in preserving young seedlings from 
slugs, but the best remedy is to sow the seed in boxes similar to 
those used for bedding plants. Suitable light soil cau easily be 
employed. The boxes may be placed under a north wall or ashes, 
and the seeds easily kept uniformly moist, thereby insuring the 
germination of nearly every good seed. The seedlings before 
becoming crowded to be pricked out in suitable positions. Wall¬ 
flowers to be sown at once.—W. I. M. 
ROSE SHOW FIXTURES. 
As far as I have as yet been able to ascertain, the following 
are the principal Rose Show fixtures for the present season. Those 
marked * are affiliated to the National Rose Society, and those f 
are not exclusively Rose societies 
June 27tli .... 
.... * Maidstone. 
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28th .... 
.... *Bath (National Rose Society). 
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28th .... 
.... *tCroydon. 
ft 
28th .... 
.... tHitchin. 
ft 
29th .... 
.... e fFarningham. 
ft 
29th .... 
_ Hereford. 
it 
29th .... 
.... Mansion House, London. 
it 
30th .... 
.... *Horsham (?) 
it 
30th .... 
.... * Farnham (?) 
July 
1st .... 
.... Crystal Palace. 
it 
1st .... 
_ Reigate. 
ft 
4th .... 
.... ‘'•'South Kensington (National Rose Society). 
it 
6th .... 
.... Canterbury. 
it 
6th .... 
.... Oxford. 
6th .... 
.... *Brockham. 
it 
7th .... 
_ *Sutton (Surrey). 
8th .... 
.... Alexandra Palace. 
it 
11th .... 
.... Christleton (Cheshire). 
12th .... 
.... Cardiff. 
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12th .... 
.... ♦•■Ipswich. 
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16th .... 
.... ^Birkenhead. 
l*th .... 
.... *Leek. 
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19th .... 
.... * Darlington (National Rose Society). 
it 
20th .... 
.... *Helensburgh. 
Norfolk and Norwich, Farnham and West Kent, I do not exactly 
know.—D., Deal. 
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The number of visitors admitted to the Royal Horticul¬ 
tural Society’s Garden, South Kensington, on payment of 
twopence each on Whit-Monday was 11,158. 
- A Perthshire correspondent, who has been much in¬ 
terested in the account of the Calvary Clover in our issue of 
May 18th, desires to know where seeds can be procur d, especially 
any coming from Mount Calvary. 
- We had the pleasure of inspecting Mr. McIntosh's Rho¬ 
dodendrons early in the week, and they were magnificent. 
Although the early varieties are fading daily, the display will be 
worthy of a visit during the week ; but not a day should be lost 
by those who desire to see the finest varieties in perfection. All 
who are interested in these beautiful shrubs are most readily per¬ 
mitted to see those in question, but numbers of visitors arrive a 
week too late and disappointment ensues. Duneevan, it may be 
added, is a mile from the Walton Station on the South-Western 
Railway. Some of the prominent varieties in this rich collection 
will be referred to in a future issue. 
- At the summer Exhibition of the Royal Horticultural 
Society of Aberdeen, the schedule of which is now before us, 
no less than 173 classes are provided in the different sections of 
plants, flowers, fruit, and vegetables. The Show will be held in 
July, but the date is not yet fixed. The schedule of the autumn 
Show of the same Society comprises 165 classes. Mr. Alexander 
Finlayson, 34, St. Nicholas Street, Aberdeen, is the Secretary of 
the Society. 
-A number of the, leading Belgian horticulturists, 
chiefly connected with the gardening institutions of Ghent, have 
signified their intention to'visit this country with the object of 
seeing examples of the best illustrations of English horticulture. 
A Committee has been appointed, consisting of the Council of the 
Royal Horticultural Society (with power to add to their number), 
who will raise a fund wherewith to meet the necessary expendi¬ 
ture that must be incurred to give a fitting reception to our 
Belgian brethren, who on their part have always shown the 
warmest hospitality to Englishmen whenever they have visited 
the great Belgian exhibitions. I)r. Masters, as Foreign Corre¬ 
sponding Secretary, and Dr. Hogg, as a member of Council of 
the Royal Horticultural Society, have been deputed to form a 
working sub-Committee and to draw out a programme for the 
entertainment of the visitors. Among the places intended to be 
visited are Kew and Richmond Park, Frogmore, Windsor, some 
private gardens, London market gardens and market florists, 
Kentish orchards, large market forcing establishments, and last, 
though not least, it is hoped that an arrangement may be made 
to entertain them at the banquet of the Gardeners’ Royal Bene¬ 
volent Institution. Our visitors, to the number of from twenty 
to thirty, are expected to arrive in London on the 25th of June, 
and on Monday the 26th the first excursion will be made, the 
whole of the remainder of the week being devoted to some par¬ 
ticular attraction. 
- Messrs. Carter & Co. have sent us bulbs of the new 
Golden Queen Onion, which were exhibited at the Royal 
Horticultural Society, South Kensington, December 13th, 1881. 
These bulbs were placed in a cupboard in one of the offices and 
forgotten. They were accidentally discovered on May 25th, and 
there are no signs of growth either at the roots or apex, nor no 
signs of anything having been done to arrest growth. They are 
now, May 30th, perfectly sound. 
- We have received the first part of a work published by 
Messrs. W. <$c A. K. Johnston, Edinburgh and London, entitled 
“ The Botanical Atlas,” by Mr. D. M‘Alpine, F.C.S., lecturer 
on botany at Edinburgh. This is, as the title states, intended to be 
“ A Guide to the Practical Study of Plants Containing Repre¬ 
sentatives of the Leading Forms of Plant Life.” It is to be com¬ 
pleted in thirteen monthly parts, each having four coloured plates 
with descriptive letterpress. That before us has plates giving 
dissections and anatomical details of Chickweed, Maiden Pink, 
Campion, Fumitory, Wallflower, Herb-Robert, white Dead Nettle, 
and Sage, all being admirably executed, and the work will prove 
a most valuable assistant to students of botany. 
- In the Heath house at Kew there are now several very 
interesting plants in flower. In fact, there is always some uncom¬ 
mon plant or flower to be seen in this house. Amongst the most 
noteworthy is the North American Lady’s Slipper, Cypripedium 
spectabilis, which is indeed a charming flower, and should be in 
every garden. Primula mollis, an Himalayan species, is now 
flowering freely. In foliage it so much resembles one of the 
scented Pelargoniums, and when not in flower may easily be mis¬ 
taken for one. The flower spikes are produced in the same way 
as P. japonica; there are as many as six whorls or tiers of flowers 
on the one stem. The individual flowers are not so large as 
P. japonica or even so brightly coloured. Nevertheless, for indoor 
decoration it is worthy of a place. Chacnostoma hispida is a neat¬ 
growing little plant with small foliage, and completely covered 
with its white star-like flowers. 
- There are several species of Oxalis in the same house. 
These charming little plants are greatly neglected, and would well 
