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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ August SO, 1883. 
deners, and the whole being well filled a good and varied display is 
the result. In the plant classes the most successful exhibitors were 
Mr. Miller, gardener to G. Corner, Esq., Portishead ; Mr. H. K. Ward, 
gardener to W. H. Budgett, Esq., Stoke Bishop ; Messrs. Pease and 
Harris ; and Messrs. Parker & Sons, Bristol. Cut flowers generally 
were a great feature in the Exhibition, the Boses especially being well 
shown by Mr. E. S. Cole, gardener to W. Pethick, Esq.; Mr. J. Burgess, 
Bath : Mr. J. Howe, gardener to L. Fry, Esq., M.P.; and H. Derham, 
Esq. The Gladioli shown by Mr. H. K. Ward were particularly good, 
as also were the Asters shown by Messrs. Burgess, H. K. Ward, and 
A. B. Tanner. Dahlias were also well represented, the prizes going 
to Messrs. A. Hill, H. Derham, and E. S. Cole. The fruit generally 
was good, and many of the examples would have won at larger shows 
this season. The best collection of six varieties was staged by Mr. 
J. Yallance, gardener to J. C. Wall, Esq. Other exhibitors were Messrs. 
Howe ; E. T. Hill, gardener to T. Pease, Esq. ; E. S. Cole ; B. Symes ; 
H. 0. Wills, Esq. ; J. Leech ; Bannister, gardener to H. St. Vincent 
Ames, Esq.; A. M. Otway ; A. M. Edwards ; and S. Otway. About 
twelve creditable collections of vegetables were shown. Mr. Bannister 
was awarded the first prize for an even well-selected lot. Messrs. Virgo 
(gardener to the Bev. C. A. Fowler), Hood (gardener to J. Leech, Esq.), 
and E. T. Hill (gardener to T. Pease, Esq.), followed. Plants, cut 
flowers, fruit, and vegetables were shown in great quantities by ama¬ 
teurs and cottagers, and all gave signs of improved culture. The 
cottagers’ gardens are also remarkably well cultivated. 
- Part 36 of “ Paxton’s Flower Garden ” contains the usual 
letterpress and coloured plates of the following plants :—Three-tongued 
Oncid (Oncidium trilingue), a comparatively dull but curious species 
with yellowish-pink flowers, from Peru. Accompanying this plate are 
descriptions of thirteen species of Oncidium allied to O. trilingue, and 
grouped as Oncidia microchila— i.e., the small-lipped Oncids. Pent- 
stemon azureum, which is described as possessing “ bright azure blue ” 
flowers, these, however, being represented in the plate of a dingy 
lavender. The Gleanings and Original Memoranda contain notes upon 
Anthurium splendidum, Billbergia Porteana, Dracsena Lindeni, Lselia 
Crawshayana, Microglossa albescens, and Odontoglossum tripudians 
Harryanum. Part 77 of “Familiar Wild Flowers ” [also with the follow¬ 
ing from Messrs. Cassell & Co.] gives plates of Polygonum aviculare 
and Colchicum autumnale, with descriptions of the characters and 
history. Part 51 of “ Familiar Garden Flowers ” has plates of Camellia 
japonica and Heliotropium corymbosum, which appears to be an error, 
for the common H. peruvianum is represented, and, moreover, the other 
plant has flowers which are not fragrant, though they are larger. 
- Among the more remarkable of the Orchids now in flower 
AT Glasnevin we give the foremost place, by reason of its novelty, to 
that beautiful pure white Dendrobe, D. Dearii. The peerless purity> 
except a faint shade of green in the throat, of its flowers makes it quite 
remarkable, and it will no doubt become a great favourite with Orchid 
growers. Another notable Orchid, and a pretty one too, is Epidendrum 
nemorale, with flowers of pale delicate lilac, the lip only being prettily 
streaked with rosy purple. Oncids are represented by the old but pretty 
yellow Oncidium flexuosum, the yellow and chocolate O. crispum, the 
curious and pretty O. dasystylum, its flowers mimicking a bee, and 
O. Wentworthianum, and O. obrysatum, remarkable for the great length 
and floriferousness of their flower spike3. Of Odontoglots the most 
conspicuous are the lovely Odontoglossum Boezlii, and its perhaps still 
more lovely white variety ; also 0. Lindleyi, 0. trupudians, and 0. has- 
tatum. A remarkably fine variety of Brassia bracteata impressed us 
very much as being a great advance on the normal form, each division 
of the perianth being fully a span long, and we thought the raised bosses 
of olive green on the lips and the black dots on base of the sepals much 
more pronounced than in the more familiar form, Aerides odoratum, 
A. quinquevulnerum, and Saccolabium Blumei. Among Slipperworts 
(Cypripedia) C. Boezlii, remarkable for the lateral petals being distinctly 
banded and margined with crimson, Veitch’s fine var. of C. superbiens, 
noteworthy for its dark, almost black, lip and the lateral petals being, 
as in the preceding (but not so pronounced), banded with crimson ; 
C. Dominianum, with its curious tail-like appendages, C. Beichenbachii, 
and several others. Numbers of Disa grandiflora serve to make the 
various shelves gay, and the rarer and less showy waxy white Disa 
megaceras is also in flower ; and for last, but by no means least, we 
reserve what we felt inclined to regard as the gem of the whole, an 
exquisite specimen of the lovely little Dendrochilum filiforme, with no- 
less than a dozen of its minute and exquisitely graceful flower scapes,, 
challenging an amount of admiration which the more showy aristocrats 
of the tribe fail to win.—( Irish farmers' Gazette.') 
- In a notice in the Journal of Forestry of Newbattle Abbey,. 
the residence of the Marquis of Lothian, situated some seven or eight 
miles from Edinburgh, and near Dalkeith, it is stated that in front 
of the mansion stands a handsome Beech, which surely deserves to be 
named “ The Pride of the Lothians.” It has.a circumference of branches 
of 110 yards, and at 8 feet up the bole the girth is 20 feet. In 1798 this- 
tree was measured and found at the same height (8 feet) from the ground 
to be 16 feet in circumference. 
- Writing in the “American Gardener’s Monthly” respecting the 
Manetti Bose, Mr. H. B. Ellwanger has the following “ Since the 
Manetti became known as a desirable stock on which to graft Boses 
our firm has made use of them, importing or growing a considerable- 
quantity each year. This June we will have 55,000 Boses in flower 
that are on Manetti roots, and we have planted out for July budding 
upwards of 90,000 Manetti stocks and 10,000 GrifEeraie stocks. This 
is one-third of our entire stock of Boses, and will show in what estima¬ 
tion we hold the Manetti. Now, as to the qualities, good and bad, of 
the Manetti as a foster-parent. It throws out suckers from the roots,, 
which, if undisturbed, ultimately choke the variety it has been budded 1 
with. This is certainly an objectionable feature, but it will not weigh- 
much when placed in the balance and compared with the qualities 
which commend it for use. By budding Boses on a stock like the- 
Manetti or Grifferaie we propagate many varieties which cannot be 
grown from cuttings, at least not without great loss ; such kinds are 
Baroness Bothschild, Abel Grand, Marguerite de St. Amand, Crested 
Moss, Gracilis, Persian Yellow, &c. ; we also propagate varieties of 
somewhat feeble habit, like Horace Vernet, Louis Van Houtte, Marie 
Baumann, Xavier Olibo, &c. These sorts are among the most beautiful 
Boses, but they need the vigour of growth which another stock can- 
alone supply. The matter may be summed up thus : Persons who know- 
nothing of Boses should obtain varieties which are on their own roots>- 
and be content with kinds like General Jacqueminot, La Beine and Paul 
Neyron. Amateurs who are capable of discriminating may be safely trusted 
to plant budded Boses of such kinds as are improved by being worked 
the suckers of the Manetti are easily cut off and give very little annoy¬ 
ance to those who know Boses.” [Manetti stocks rightly prepared da 
not produce suckers in England.] 
- A Nevada correspondent writes to Vick's Magazine as follows 
relative to Lilium Washingtonianum at home :—“ The Lily stalk 
comes up through the Manzanita and Madrona shrubs, and is cool at the 
root. The deep snow, leaves, and the shrubs cover it in winter and keep* 
it cool in summer, and it likes the sun when in bloom. I think it should 
do well among shrubbery. It is never very warm where it grows ; the 
nights are generally cool. It grows around Lake Biglar, Tahoe, and high 
up in the mountains, some miles from here, but I have never seen it in 
the foot hills on this side (eastern slope) of the Sierras. It is certainly 
a hardy plant, and I think just wants putting in the ground and letting: 
alone.” 
- From the same publication we cite the following relative to 
Flowers in Middle Florida :— “ Florida has been well named * The 
Land of Flowers.’ Its wonderful climate seems to be especially adapted 
to the growth of every blooming tree and shrub and plant, from the 
hardy natives of colder latitudes to the most tender and delicate blooms- 
found elsewhere only in conservatories and hothouses. From majestic 
Century Plant, which blooms but once in its long life of about twenty- 
five years, to the tiny Violet, there is a wealth of perfection in colour and 
perfume throughout the greater portion of the year, that would make the 
fortune of a florist who could possess them in sufficient proximity to a 
good market. Among the blooming trees and shrubs which adorn the 
woods and fields of middle Florida, without the aid of cultivation, are 
the stately Magnolia, whose powerful fragrance fills the air for miles in 
the early spring ; the Bed Bay, with its Magnolia-like flowers, more deli¬ 
cate in perfume than the Magnolia ; the Snowdrop Tree, with drooping 
pure white blossoms ; the Sparkle-berry, the Dog-wood, the Clove Tree, 
the Bed-bud, the wild Crab-apple, the Swamp Willow, and a hundred 
others of greater or less beauty. The wild Vines, too, are a brilliant- 
feature of every hedgerow and thicket. Earliest and sweetest is the 
yellow Jasmine, with its golden bells, filling the air with the most 
