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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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more solid, and lasts longer than the ordinary gas coke, so that I really 
believe it is much cheaper.” 
Ihe Glasgow and West of Scotland Horticultural 
Exhibition next year will be held in the City Hall. The Spring Show 
on Wednesday, 26th March, 1884, and the Autumn Show on Wednesday, 
3rd September, 1884. 
Our correspondent, “W. J. M., Clonmel ,” urges the desirability 
of growing Chrysanthemums outdoors more generally for supplying 
flowers, cutting in October and November, and sends us specimens of 
Golden Christine and Fingal, under the impression that we have seen 
few finer blooms. They are attractive, but we have seen many far 
superior from plants grown in the open air ; indeed really fine blooms 
can be had, especially when the plants are generously treated and 
judiciously disbudded, and the growths trained to walls and fences 
We doubt if the variety sent as Fingal is correctly named. 
The same correspondent sends us sprays of Fuchsia corallina 
from a plant grown in the open bed, where it has had no protection, 
except a mound of coal ash in December, and has been blooming since 
July. These blooms are but a mere fraction of the size of those cut 
hitherto. They are as good as from plants grown under glass. 
- Referring to a class in the schedule of the Southampton 
Chrysanthemum Show, which was provided for twenty-four blooms, 
eixteen incurved or reflexed and eight Japanese, Mr. Moorman remarks 
that it is advantageous, as by “ placing the eight Japanese in the back 
row the other two rows of a stand are filled with flowers that are larger 
in size than if the whole twenty-four were all to be incurved. The effect 
is materially improved also, as the Japanese row at the back are set 
higher and are larger in themselves than the incurved varieties. Further) 
it is easier for an exhibitor to fill a stand with good blooms, for all 
exhibitors well know the strain it is to sometimes procure twenty-four 
good blooms, while from sixteen to twenty can readily be found. This 
class has been a leading feature in the Southampton shows for several 
years, and I strongly recommend its adoption in societies of smaller 
pretensions, especially in new societies.” 
- No. 86 of the third edition of the “ English Botany ” 
continues the description and plates of the Ferns, the species and 
varieties of Cystopteris and Asplenium occupying the chief portion of 
the space. The plates are beautifully executed, life-like in the minutest 
details. The descriptions are also very full and accurate. 
- Messrs. J . Carter & Co. have had for some time past a very 
extensive display of Chrysanthemums at Perry Hill. Some 
hundreds of plants are grown, representing all the leading varieties, 
many new, and some of the old and rare sorts that are now seldom seen. 
They have been well grown and have a great number of blooms, some 
"being large and bright in colour. Incurved, Japanese, Anemones, and 
Pompons are all in strong force and produce a very pleasing show. 
- The Chelmsford Chrysanthemum Exhibition was held on the 
21st inst. in the Corn Exchange of that town, all the classes being well 
filled. Specimen Chrysanthemum plants were well shown by Messrs. 
.Saltmarsh & Son; J. Burrell, gardener to W. IV. Dufiield, Esq.; 
J. Tunbridge, gardener to Wm. Bott, Esq., Broomfield; and cut blooms 
were similarly well staged by the same exhibitors, with Mr. J. Clark of 
Writtle. In the fruit class Mr. Henry Lister, gardener to Lord Brooke, 
Easton Lodge, Dunmow, was very successful, staging some handsome 
Apples. Mr. Smale, gardener to R. Woodhouse, Esq., and Mr. W. Green, 
.Romford, were also prizetakers in these classes. Miscellaneous exhibits 
■were largely contributed, and added much to the attraction of the Show. 
- The second meeting of the Manchester Horticultural 
Mutual Improvement Society was held on Thursday evening, the 
22nd inst., in one of the rooms of the Old Town Hall, King Street, when 
Mr. Abraham Stansfield read a paper on the mode of reproduction in 
-Ferns. Mr. B. S. W. Williams was voted to the chair ; the room was 
■crowded with members. Mr. Stansfield pointed out in bis paper that 
the secret of the reproduction in Ferns was discovered by an amateur. 
He described some of the phenomena of reproduction in the Fern, and 
in some general remarks said the botanist and horticulturist were 
inseparably connected with each other, and no horticulturist without 
some knowledge of botany would proceed clearly in his work. On the 
other hand, a botanist could derive many hints from a horticulturist. 
He believed thoroughly in a practical acquaintance with things, and in 
nothing that was not capable of demonstration. A botanist was a man 
who had helped gardeners in their business. We knew what a Cabbage 
was, a Turnip, a Pear, an Apple, and a Gooseberry ; but a botanist could 
tell us what they had been. He searched and ransacked the world for 
new species, and the gardener cultivated them. With reference to 
Ferns, the number of varieties, especially British, had multiplied 
amazingly; nothing like it was known, and he thought that one 
principle ought to be laid down with regard to naming new varieties, 
which was that the name given should be in some way descriptive of the 
plant itself, not a simple laudation of some individual. He urged upon 
his audience the importance of studying the different varieties of Ferns 
and how they developed. The Chairman, Mr. W. Swan (Honorary 
Secretary), Mr. R. Astley, Mr. Lunt (Stamford Park), Mr. Birkenhead 
(Sale), Mr. W. Plant (Sale), and Mr. T. Rogers joined in the discussion 
which took place, and a vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Stansfield for 
his paper. 
- The Chrysanthemum Show of the Royal Jersey Agricultural 
and Horticultural Society, held in the Odd Fellows’ Hall, Don Street, 
St. Helier’s, on November 14th, was a great success, and one of the best 
the Society has held for some years past, both plants and cut blooms 
being remarkably good. The following were some of the principal prize- 
takers :—In the “ silver cup ” class for twelve plants, four each of laige- 
flowered, Japanese, and Pompons, Dr. Hooper (R. Thorne, gardener), 
was a good first with medium-sized plants, well flowered, and fresh alike 
in foliage and bloom, Judge Falle (Mr. Allix, gardener) was second, and 
Captain J. F. De Carteret’s (Mr. Druce, gardener) third. For eight 
Japanese Mr. G. Ereaut obtained first and the bronze medal; they were 
handsome, fresh, and well-bloomed plants. For a single specimen 
Japanese Mr. G. Ereaut was first with Fair Maid of Guernsey, a very 
fine plant; Mr. G. De Quetteville second with La Nymphe, a fine large 
plant; equal second Judge Falle with a fine plant of Early Red Dragon ; 
third, Dr. Hooper. Judge Falle, Mr. Morris, Captain J. F. De Carteret, 
Mr. G. De Quetteville, Mr. G. Ereaut, and Dr. Hooper were the chief 
prizewinners for Pompons. The cut-flower classes were good. For 
eighteen pairs, twelve large flowers and six Japanese, Mr. G. De 
Quetteville was awarded first and the bronze medal for superior blooms ; 
Mrs. Fothergill (gardener, Mr. Beckford), was a good second with a well- 
matched even set of blooms ; Mr. G. Thorne was third. Twelve Japanese, 
one variety, first Mr. Morris with extraordinary blooms of Madame C. 
Audiguier ; second, Mr. G, De Quetteville with wonderfully fine Peter 
the Great; third, Miss Ainge, very good. For twenty-four bunches of 
Pompons Mr. E. Collas (gardener, Mr. Dingle) was first with very clean 
handsome bloom, second Mrs. Fothergill. Twelve bunches Pompons, 
first Mr. R. Robin (gardener, Mr. Randell), second Captain J. F. De 
Carteret, third Miss Ainge. Extra prizes were awarded to Dr. Hooper 
for a small but very fresh, healthy, and well-flowered piece of Ixora ; 
to Mr. Morris, Anemone-flowered Chrysanthemum, and to Mr. G. Ereaut 
for twenty-four Japanese cut blooms. Mr. Morris also showed some fine- 
foliage plants and Ferns, and Mr. G. De Quetteville specimen trained 
Chrysanthemums, not for competition. 
FRUIT TREES IN POTS AT EWENNY PRIORY 
GARDENS. 
In the remarks concerning these trees, page 433, there was a slight, 
error regarding the number, and it may be well to give the exact 
number, also the size of our orchard houses. Our lean-to house is 40 feet 
long by 14 wide, G feet high at the front, and 13 feet at the back. Trees 
are planted and trained against the back 1 foot from the wall. A 
trellis path 3 feet wide runs lengthways ; in front of this are the tree 
in pots. This being the early house it has a flow and return pipe along 
the front. All the trees in pots are taken out in autumn, and the bouse 
filled with Chrysanthemums. Two Vines are also trained up the rafters, 
and there is a shelf running the whole length at the back for Straw¬ 
berries. The span-roof house is 45 feet long by 12 feet wide, 5 feet 
6 inches high at the front, and 8 feet high in the centre. A 3-feet walk 
runs through the middle of this house, which has no artificial heat. 
Late Peaches and Nectarines are grown there, Pears, Plums, Cherries, 
and Apricots. All the trees in pots grown in both houses are placed 
in this one during winter, and they now amount to over eighty. The 
pots, when placed in this house in winter, are covered with straw to 
prevent frost breaking them. In spring, when the early Peaches and 
Nectarines commence blooming, I remove a sufficient number of the 
earliest to fill the lean-to house. I should advise every lover of trees in 
pots to obtain Mr. Rivers’ book, which is full of sound instruction. I 
syringe more than many do when the trees are in bloom instead of using 
insecticides for green fly. My system of pruning also differs from that 
some practise, but I may write on this subject some other time. 
