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all at their best, and visitors to the principal competitive exhibitions 
should by no means miss the opportunity of seeing how Chrysanthemums 
can be grown in the midst of London smoke and fogs. 
Proposed National Chrysanthemum Society. —We are 
informed that at a full meeting of the Borough of Hackney Chrysan¬ 
themum Society, held on Tuesday night, it was resolved and carried 
almost unanimously that at the end of the current year this Society be 
constituted a National Chrysanthemum Society. 
" The “Journal of Forestry ’’ for November contains, amongst 
other papers, interesting articles on “Forest Hambies in Finland,” 
'‘Through Sherwood Forest,” “Industries of Shetland,” and “An Excur¬ 
sion to Ettrick Forest,” together with a variety of news and notes. 
' The Durham, Northumberland, and Newcastle, Incor¬ 
porated Horticultural and Botanical Society held their fifty-ninth 
annual meeting in the Alexandra Hotel, Mayton Street West, on October 
31st. Councillor Thos. Gray presided. The Secretary, Mr. Gillespie, read the 
report, which showed the income was in excess of the expenditure by 
•£143 16s. 8d. Paying a balance of debt of £86 7s. Id. leaves now to the 
• credit of the Societv £57 9s. Id. It must be a matter of congratulation 
to all connected with this Society that it is out of debt, and that it will 
be able to still further aid the development of horticulture in the north. 
The Society will hold its spring show on April 23rd and 24th, 1884, and 
the summer show on the 23rd, 24th, and 25th of July. The President 
this year is H. G. Mayton, Esq., West Denton, and the Vice-president 
the Mayor of Nev^hstle. 
Gardening Appointments. —Mr. J. Clark, recently gardener 
to Lord A. E. Hill Trevor, Brynkinalt, Chirk, has been appointed gardener 
to J. F. Le Trove Bateman, Esq., Moor Park, Farnham, Surrey. Mr. 
Frederick Burgess, lately foreman at Idsworth, Horndean, Hants, has 
been appointed gardener to W. Pink, Esq., Shrover Hall, Horndean, 
Hants. Mr. G. Grant has resigned his situation as gardener to J. B. 
Cooper, Esq., Horley Hall, Surrey, to take charge of the garden and 
• grounds of the New County Asylum, Cane Hill, Surrey, and is succeeded 
nt Horley Hall by Mr. Squibb, his late foreman. Mr. J. Mabin, late 
gardener to Sir J. Astley, Orleans Club, Twickenham, has been appointed 
gardener to Col. Carden, Stargrove, Newbury, Berks. Mr. James Lloyd ( 
foreman at Ashton Court Gardens, Bristol, has been appointed gardener 
to Vincent Stucky, Esq., Hill House, Langport. 
- Seldom is Kniphofia quartiniana seen in such perfection 
&s it is at present near the new rockery at Kew. This is the most 
•distinct of all the Kniphofias, and even when out of flower the fine 
glaucous leaves are quite ornamental ; they are from 1 to 2 feet long, 
and gradually tapering from the base to the point. The flower spike is 
from 2 to 3 feet high ; and the individual flowers, which are about 1 inch 
long, are of a dull red before opening, changing when fully expanded 
£o deep orange ; the anthers are bright yellow, and protrude above 
"the flower. In habit this much resembles one lately received from 
Natal, and which is said to be the finest of the genus. We believe 
a painting was made by Miss North during her recent visit to South 
.Africa, and is included amongst the pictures now being added to the 
collection in the north gallery at Kew. 
-The Secretary of the International Forestry Exhibition 
has received the following letter from Her Majesty’s Secretary of State 
for Foreign Affairs, which is highly gratifying to the promoters of wha 
bids fair to be an undertaking of national importance, alike in its educa t 
tional as in its commercial aspects :—“ Foreign Office, October 27tb 
1883. The attention of Her Majesty’s Government has been directed 
to a project for an International Exhibition of Forestry to be held at 
Edinburgh in the summer of 1884, the organisers of which are desirou g 
of securing the co-operation therein of such foreign countries as the 
matter may concern. There is reason to believe that the proposed 
Exhibition, for which the necessary funds have been guaranteed, will 
be influentially and ably supported. The object is one which, in the 
opinion of Her Majesty’s Government, deserves every encouragement, 
scientific forestry having hitherto been much neglected in this country ; 
nnd I have therefore to request that you will bring the Exhibition in 
•question to the notice of the Government to which you are accredited 
ns being one in which their participation might be attended with ad¬ 
vantage to both countries. I enclose for communication to the proper 
•quarters copies of programmes and other documents connected with the 
proposed Exhibition, which have been supplied by the Committee._I 
am, with great truth, your most obedient humble servant, Signed (for 
Earl Granville), Edmond Fitzmaurice.” 
•- Writing to the London Daily News in reference to Kentish 
Apples and the Appletons, Mr. Lewis Appleton says :—“ In con¬ 
nection with the National Apple Congress, it has been justly stated that 
the county of Kent is the chief English contributor. Reaching back as 
far as the eleventh century, Kent has been famous for its Apple gardens 
and orchards. In 1066, the year that William of Normandy invaded, 
conquered, and was crowned King of England, several of his Royal 
followers settled in Kent, amongst whom was a lady of his court named 
Mahilia. This lady fixed her residence in the vicinity of a forest of 
Apple orchards, and in consequence she received the surname of Mahilia 
d’Appletone, or Mahilia of the Apple Orchards. From this Norman lady 
sprang the family of the Appletons, who for eight centuries have main¬ 
tained their ground as an ancient family in Kent and the adjacent 
counties. In 1641 a member of this family, John Appleton, was one of 
the ‘ Puritan Fathers ’ who sailed in the ‘ Mayflower ’ for the American 
continent, and from him sprang the family of Appletons in the United 
States. Charles Sumner and the poet Longfellow intermarried into that 
family. The crest of the family became, at a very early date, a bough 
with leaves and Apples, and it still remains the crest of the family, of 
which I subscribe myself a humble descendant.” 
- A writer in the American Gardener's Monthly thus describes 
the Gardens at Victoria, Vancouver’s Island: —“Though the 
mountain tops some fifty miles away are perpetually white with snow, 
except when the morning and evening sun lights them up in purple and 
gold, the air in the town is warm, though without sultriness, owing to the 
long day’s sun (sixteen hours now) warming the sheltered spots where 
the high mountain ridges keep off the arctic winds. The people are 
fond of flowers, and almost every cottage was embowered in Vines, and 
seemed ready to break down with their load of blossoms. In my early 
life in England I have memories of whole buildings completely covered 
from roof to the ground with sweet Roses and gratefully Bcented Honey¬ 
suckles, but I have often found that early memories become magnified* 
The distance of time lends an enchantment to the early view. I had 
come to suspect that the Roses may not have been quite so strong, nor the 
Honeysuckles quite so sweet, as these early memories recorded them. But 
here they were even excelling these impressions and giving a new echo to 
the voices of youth. The tale was true. The wild English Honeysuckle, 
running up by the cottage door, rambling under the eaves to almost 
gable end, dropping in festoons between the windows, and only by the 
aid of art permitting a glimpse of the within, and giving out thousands— 
yes, thousands of bunches of their deliciously scented purple and white and 
yellow flowers. And the Roses, and the Pyracantha, and the evergreen 
Ivy, and scores of other plants—here may they be seen climbing in won* 
derful luxuriance, or making bushes, in some cases nearly as large as the 
abitations they adorned. 
- “ It is wonderful how the Roses do here. Even the standard or 
tree Rose is grown to an enormous extent, and make the same beautiful 
ornaments in yards that they make in the Old World. And the indige¬ 
nous Rose—Rosa cinnamomea or Cinnamon Rose—grows in a state which 
I may almost call grandeur. I have it growing in my Germantown 
garden, but about 3 feet is all the height it cares to grow for me. Here 
you may see bushes—nay, masses—scores of feet in diameter, 10 feet or 
more high, and bearing thousands of their remarkably sweet rosy flowers, 
giving a fragrance to the air for long distances away. In many instances 
the Sweet Briar and Eglantine of the Old World had become naturalised) 
and had got into the fraternal embraces of their native brother; but 
these also were growing with equal luxuriance, showing that it is the 
climate which does it all.” 
GRAPES AT CHISWICK. 
All who had not the opportunity of seeing the great show of Apples 
recently held at Chiswick certainly lost a rare treat. I availed myself 
of the opportunity to visit the show, and did so for a threefold purpose. 
First, to see the large collections of Apples ; second, to see Chiswick ; 
third, to see the Grape conservatory. The last, but not least, was a sight 
worth seeing. This may be termed the school for Grape-growing, for 
here no doubt Mr. Barron has made it the base of operations in compiling 
his treatise on the cultivation of the Grape Vine.’ 
This is a very able and masterly work, which I can strongly recom¬ 
mend to all interested in Grape-growing. The Grapes in this huge 
vinery gave evidence of the correct treatment they had received, and 
fully detailed by Mr. Barron in his treatise. We were particularly struck 
