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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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greater number of plants can be grown on tbe same spot of 
ground than by any other; and though it would be wrong to say 
they are individually as large as those planted in single rows, 
yet they are often of a nice useful size for ordinary purposes. 
While on this head, I may observe, that where Celery 
trenches are prepared in the early part of summer, the tops of 
the ridges might be planted with a summer crop of some 
kind or other — Lettuces, Cauliflowers, or early Potatoes are 
all suitable—taking care, however, that they must not remain 
to the detriment of the Celery crop.—J. R. 
“J. W. B.” writes, in reference to Cloves in Covent Garden, 
that “ the variety Gloire de Nancy is one of the best.” It may 
not be the variety the name of which was sought by a corre¬ 
spondent last week ; but it is nevertheless worthy of culture, as the 
flowers are very fine, white, and deliciously perfumed. 
- Belative to Mr. Bunyard’s Boses exhibited at South 
Kensington last week, we are informed that the Floral Committee 
awarded a silver Banksian medal for them, which is sufficient testimony 
of the excellence of the blooms. This award was not made when our 
reporter left the Exhibition. 
-The blooms of Mabel Morris Carnation shown by Mr. 
H. G. Smyth, 21, Goldsmith’s Street, Drury Lane, W.C., at the last 
meeting of the Boyal Horticultural Society, were highly commended by 
the Committee. They were remarkably even, fresh, and bright, fully 
maintaining the high character this variety has already obtained amongst 
cultivators. 
- We learn from the Australian Museum Beport for 1S82, 
just received, that the burning of the Garden Palace caused the almost 
entire destruction of the Museum, which was intended to hold a similar 
position in the colony to the South Kensington Museum and its branches 
at London. The total loss is estimated at nearly £11,000. Space was 
obtained at the Agricultural Hall for such specimens as could be pre 
served, and that is being filled up for the purpose. 
-A Sunday Flower Show may be considered as a some¬ 
what surprising innovation in England, but that held on the 30th ult. 
at St. Jude’s, Whitechapel, had so much to recommend it that it might 
be advantageously imitated in other similar districts. The Vicar, Mr. 
Burnett, fully recognising the humanising and innocent pleasure that 
can be derived by the most humble and illiterate from contemplating 
bright and beautiful flowers, organised a Show to be held in the play¬ 
ground near the above-named church, and his efforts being well re¬ 
sponded to by numerous friends, a pretty and effective display of 
fine-foliage plants and flowers was produced. The inhabitants of the 
district visited the Show in large numbers, all appearing to thoroughly 
enjoy the treat so liberally provided for them. Amongst those who 
contributed, the principal exhibitor was Mr. Holmes of the Frampton 
Park Nursery, who had some attractive groups of plants and cut flowers. 
No prizes were awarded. 
- Mr. J. Gibson, The Gardens, Brentrey House, Westbury-on- 
Trym, Bristol, writes :—“ I send for your inspection two seedling 
Dipladenias. The small flowers are from a plant which flowered last 
season when about 9 inches high ; this season it has thrown out four 
shoots about 15 inches, and flowering on three of them. The plant is 
quite of a shrubby habit, the other is of the same habit as Amabilis, but a 
stronger grower.” Both are extremely beautiful varieties, and well 
worth preserving, as they are undoubtedly distinct. The larger flowers 
are very handsome, of a pale soft delicate pink shading to nearly white 
in the centre of the lobes, but darker in the throat. The colour of the 
other is bright rich rose, with quite a tinge of scarlet, the colour very 
evenly distributed, and the flower neat in form. 
- An amateur writes :—“ As a warning to others respecting the 
danger of FUMIGATING Vines I may briefly describe a serious disaster 
I have recently experienced. A vinery containing Gros Colman and 
other varieties had been occupied with miscellaneous plants until quite 
recently, and when these were removed it was found that aphides, red 
spider, and similar pests were far too abundant. We at once decided 
to fumigate strongly, employing a cheap and coarse tobacco paper for 
the purpose. Very shortly afterwards the foliage of the Gros Colman 
Vines was observed becoming brown, dry, and curled, and now, after 
the lapse of a week, the whole of tbe Vines of this variety present a 
most discouraging aspect, and the crop, which is a good one, cannot be 
exoected to finish satisfactorily. I suppose the fact of the variety suffer¬ 
ing so much is due to the well-known tenderness of the foliage.” 
- Mr. H. W. Ward, The Gardens, Longford Castle, sends us 
samples of the Longford Custard Marrow, and observes—“ It is 
very much appreciated here by everybody who has partaken of it, 
and who (gardeners among them) pronounce it as distinct from any 
other Marrow they had hitherto tasted. I shall therefore be glad to 
have your opinion of it.” The variety is an excellent one, of good 
flavour, and well merits notice. The fruits are not so flat as most 
Custard Marrows, being ellipsoid in form, of moderate size, and clear 
shining yellow in colour. 
- In “ Notes on the Trees and Shrubs of North Europe and Asia,” 
by Mr. Charles Gibb of Abbotsford, Quebec, is the following respecting 
Eleagnus, the Wild Olive 
This is a race of bright silvery-leaved trees and shrubs of great 
ornamental value. In the grounds of the Pomological School at Proskau 
we find a shrub 3 feet high, with grey silvery leaves 3 inches long and an 
inch or more wide. We saw it again in the Botanic Garden at Moscow 
apparently hardy. It was not named. This is very ornamental, and should 
not be lost sight of. E. angustifolia.—In moderate climates this grows to 
a large size. At Warsaw we find a tree 2 feet in diameter of trunk and 30 feet 
high, old, and on its decline. In the cold climate of Orel we saw a tree 35 feet 
in height, but I do not remember it farther north. It has long narrow 
leaves, white on under side, bright and pretty. Of its blossom and fruit I 
cannot speak. E. longipes of Japan we saw at Kew, a shrub G feet high, 
bearing large quantities of spotted red berries like oblong Cranberries. At 
Verrieres, in the garden of M. Henry de Vilmorin, we again see this plant 
bearing heavily ; fruit red, a nice acid, fully equal to Cranberries, and as free 
from seed. It seems a very abundant bearer, and well worthy of culture as 
a fruit-bearing plant—a plant likely to yield quite as much of a fruit as 
good and as saleable as Cranberry. In many nurseries this is known as 
E. edulis.” 
- At the last meeting of the Boyal Horticultural Society at 
Kensington Mr. T. S. Ware of Tottenham, exhibited specimens of this 
Eleagnus edulis and a preserve prepared from the fruits. This was 
tested by the Fruit Committee, and considered by the majority as of 
good flavour. It contains a slight acid, and previous to being fully ripe 
there is a rather unpleasant astringency that is, however, removed when 
more advanced. 
- The annual Exhibition of the Sandringham Cottage Garden 
Society was held on Thursday afternoon in the Park, and was attended 
by large numbers of excursionists from all parts of the coimtry, special 
trains having been run for the purpose. Prince Albert Victor of Wales, 
accompanied by the Bev. J. F. Hervey, chaplain to the Queen and the 
Prince of Wales, and Mr. E. Beck, visited the Show and appeared much 
interested in the various displays. Besides the cottagers’ exhibits there 
was a tent containing some fine flowers and plants from the Boyal estate. 
The whole of the gardens and grounds were open to the visitors. 
- Gardening Appointments. —W. W. Brown, late foreman in the 
New Gardens, Whitby, has been appointed head gardener to Frederick 
Priestman, Esq., Elleron Lodge, Pickering. Mr. Thomas Gardiner, 
late of Owston Park, Doncaster, desires us to say that he is now head 
gardener to Sir Abraham Woodiwiss, The Pastures, Derby. 
- On Saturday afternoon Mr. Edwards, the Sanitary Officer of the 
Vestry of St. George, waited upon the Magistrate, sitting at Southwark 
Police Court, with a request that he should condemn twenty boxes of 
Australian Apples which had been found to be rotten throughout and 
quite unfit for food. He stated that about an hour previously he was 
passing through Butchers’ Bow, St. George’s Market, when his attention 
was called to twenty boxes of Apples from which a fearful stench was 
issuing, and on opening the boxes he found all the fruit completely 
rotten. Mr. Bridge proceeded to the yard, and on his return to the 
bench expressed his surprise that anyone could be found to buy such 
fruit. The stench from them was enough to disseminate disease. A poor 
hard-working man came forward and stated he purchased the twenty 
boxes of Apples from a wholesale firm near Billingsgate. Some small 
Apples were shown him, and he was given to understand that the 
contents of the boxes were of the same character. He had no idea that 
