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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ October 25,1883. 
required three may be placed in 6 -inch pots. The tubers should be well 
covered with soil, and the pots placed in a cool position. They can be 
covered with cocoa-nut fibre until the growths are visible, when it must 
be removed at once, and the plants kept afterwards as near to the glass 
as possible. No attempt must be made to force them, or failure will 
result. The double forms are undoubtedly the most valuable for cutting, 
and should be grown in 6 -inch pots, three tubers in each. Any fairly 
rich soil will suit them, and a mixture of loam, sand, and a little manure 
will be found admirable. Frost should be excluded from them while 
they are in cold frames, and abundance of air must be given when the 
weather is favourable.— Scientia. 
We learn that it is proposed to hold an Exhibition of Apples at 
Manchester. Mr. Bruce Findlay, the Curator of the Botanic Gardens, 
has issued invitations to growers, and it is stated that the Show will be 
opened to the public on November 1st. 
- The suite of apartments in Hampton Court Palace vacant by 
the death of the Right Hon. William Beresford have been offered to and 
accepted by Mr. A. Graham, Superintendent of the Royal Gardens. Mr. 
Graham already occupies apartments in another part of the Palace. 
- Mr. Cutler informs us that the simultaneous collection in aid 
of the Pension Augmentation Fund of the Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent 
Institution for this year will finally close on November 30th. We are 
pleased to hear that the amount collected up to the 23rd inst. is 
£434 I 65 . 1(M, as against £331 5s. Id. at the same date last year. 
- The exhibition of Chrysanthemums in the Inner Temple 
Gardens will, by the liberality of the Benchers, be opened to the public 
to-day (Thursday), and the display will well maintain the prestige that 
Mr. Newton has so deservedly earned as a cultivator of these popular 
plants. About 600 specimens are arranged in the glass house near the 
Thames Embankment, and they are all remarkable for their dwarf 
compact habit, vigorous foliage, and abundant buds. In a few days 
there will be a fine display of flowers; and already there are good 
blooms of Elaine, Chinaman, James Salter, Comte de Germany, Curiosity, 
M. Delaux, Chevalier Domage, Golden Beverley, Lady Selborne, Cry 
Kang, Ossian, and the pretty Pompon Rose Trevenna. A number of 
new varieties are included, and visitors will have a good opportunity 
of judging their respective merits. 
- The Middle Temple Chrysanthemums are also unusually 
promising, ihe plants being in far better condition, more healthy, with 
finer foliage and larger buds than we have previously seen them. One 
thousand plants are grown, representing between 400 and 500 varieties, 
both old and new. They are arranged to form a sloping bank in the 
show house near the Fountain Court, and the effect that will be 
produced by a bank 100 feet long when the blooms are fully out may 
be readily imagined. Prominent amongst the earliest may be noted 
the indispensable Elaine. James Salter, La Charmeuse, Lady Selborne, 
Prince Alfred, Tendresse, and Catherine Talfourd. The exhibition 
will be opened on November 1st, and Mr. John Wright, under whose 
charge these gardens are now placed, deserves much credit for his first 
season’s success. 
- Messrs. H. Cannell & Sons, Swanley, send us flowers of some 
extremely pretty and distinct Single Dahlias, amongst which two 
charming varieties are Midget (Cullingford), with very neat bright 
scailet flowers 2 inches in diameter, and with florets of great substance. 
The other is named Chryso, and is exactly similar in size and shape, but 
of a rich clear yellow hue. These are two of the neatest varieties we 
have seen. Other notable forms are Gem of the Stripes, a small flower, 
the florets white in the centre and with broad dark scarlet margins. 
Virgo, also small, white. Curiosity is slightly larger, of a peculiar 
orange-buff hue. Mr. Moore is similar in form, but the florets are rich 
maroon, lighter at the base. Two varieties of still larger type are Mrs. 
Wright, with broad florets, white in the centre, margined with pale crimson, 
and Mrs. Goldring, a very large flower with broad petals of a soft rosy 
lilac tint. 
- Flowers were also included of a distinct new Japanese Chrysan¬ 
themum Gloire Rayonnante, a superb variety of the Gloire de Toulouse 
style, with the florets quilled nearly to the point, much larger and of a 
warm lilac tint. It is a handsome and useful variety, the flowers being 
admirably adapted for vases, owing to their graceful appearance and soft, 
colour. 
- Mr. Joseph Witherspoon writes respecting Lord Derby Apple 
as follows—“ This Apple I have proved to be a most excellent variety for 
the north of England, it having borne heavily for the last three years. 
There it is not so large as Lord Suffield, but is of much the same nature- 
and keeps longer.” 
- Royal Meteorological Society. —The Home Secretary has 
acquainted the Meteorological Society that Her Majesty has been 
graciously pleased to grant it permission to adopt the prefix “ Royal.”' 
The Society accordingly becomes the “ Royal Meteorological Society.” 
- “ T. W. S.” writes—“ I saw the other day a large quantity of the 
showy old plant Amaryllis Belladonna blooming in profusion in a 
narrow border in front of one of the conservatories at Buxted Park. 
These, I believe, were planted out many years ago, and, as they 
require but little attention and a limited amount of space, are worthy 
of a place in all gardens. It is, however, essential that the position 
be a dry one, and, as a rule, plenty of such similarly narrow borders 
occur in most gardens, which might be profitably occupied with masses- 
of this showy old plant. I write profitably, since the large yield of 
flowers at this season will be found useful for cutting for decorative- 
purposes.” 
- The same correspondent finds that “ Ipoma:a Learii succeeds- 
remarkably well planted inside and trained up the roof of the winter 
garden. We allow it to grow unrestrictedly, and the majority of its 
shoots to hang gracefully down from the roof. It has borne an 
immense number of its beautiful blue flowers for months past, and 
will continue to do so for some time yet.” 
- The forty-third ordinary meeting of the Essex Field Clur 
will be held at the head quarters, 3, St. John’s Terrace, Buckhurst Hill 
(opposite the church), on Saturday, October 27th, at 7 o’clock P.M. 
The following papers will be read :—1, “ Deneholes and their Relation 
to other Earthworks, &c.,” by F. C. J. Spurrell, F.G.S. 2. “ Miscel¬ 
laneous Notes on Deneholes, 1883,” by T. V. Holmes, F.G.S., M.A.I. 
The rooms will be open at 6 o’clock for the exchange of books and for 
the convenience of exhibitors at the meeting and conversazione. 
- “ C. L.” writes—“ An enormous specimen of the fungus Poly- 
porus squamosus was recently found near the Welsh Harp, Hendon. 
Its greatest width was 3 feet, and the transverse diameter was 
2 feet 8 inches, the stem being 7 inches across. Several others of 
slightly smaller dimensions have also been found in various districts 
this season.” 
- Gardening Appointments. — Mr. George Newnham has suc¬ 
ceeded Mr. H. King as gardener to Mrs. Carter at Ospringe House, 
Faversham, Mr. Newnham having previously been foreman in the same 
gardens. Mr. Thomas Hope, late gardener to the Hon. R. F. Boyle of 
Purley Lodge, near Reading, Berks, is now gardener to the Hon. Mrs. 
Eyre, Lindley Hall, Warwickshire. 
A HORTICULTURAL RAMBLE. 
The ramble was not undertaken for-that purpose. It had several 
objects in view. Clerical duty, the opportunity of visiting some kind 
and valued friends who had often wished me to do so, the seeing of some 
historic places, notably a pilgrimage to the “birthplace of the immortal 
bard,” as the Yankees say ; but as in all my “gurging to and fro” hor¬ 
ticulture has ever a charm for me, so I determined on this occasion to 
keep eyes and ears open, to gain information, to see what I could, and to- 
tell afterwards what I thought might interest the readers of the Journal, 
especially as many of those whom I visited are not unknown to its 
columns as contributors to the general fund of information its pages give 
on all gardening subjects. Of the glories of Kenilworth and Guy’s Cliff, 
as they have no horticultural interest I forbear to speak, but 
WARWICK CASTLE 
must not be left unnoticed. The situation of this splendid specimen of 
mediaeval architecture is beyond expression beautiful. The beautiful 
stretch of the Avon, the magnificent view from the Laxtons, and the 
glorious Cedars which form the chief attraction of the grounds combine 
to form a feature of surpassing beauty which lingers on one’s mind ever 
