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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ July 10, 1884. 
about I.'' inches high, above wbicli rise many stems bearing 
purplish red tlowers in umbels, the llowers an inch across. It 
commences flowering in early June, and keeps on until late 
summer, It requires a well-drained soil, and is a very fine 
border plant. 
Ibis SusiANA flowered finely this season. I was pleased to 
notice the admii-able engraving of this interesting Flag in a 
recent issue. We have it on a south border, where it does well. 
Okoous lathv’Eoides. —This grows erect to a height of 30 to 
36 inches, producing spikes in quantity of small bluish puiq le- 
red flowers. It is a qretty plant in late May and early June, 
and needs rather light soil with sun. 
SiDALCEA CANDIDA has erect branching stems 30 to 36 inches 
high; the flowers arranged on the upper part of the stem. Malva- 
like, pure white, au inch across, and very freely produced over a 
lengthened period. It grows freely in an open soil well enriched 
wdth leaf soil. 
Achilt.ea tomentosa is very pretty from its large heads of 
golden yellow flowers, attaining to a height of about 6 inches, 
it is an admirable front-row plant and very useful for cutting, 
thriving in any light soil and sunny situation 
Pyrethrums, both double and single, were fine, and still 
are (the middle of June); while Delphiniums are coming in and 
promise splendidly. Pinks are fine this year, flowering most 
profusely.—G. A. 
At a General Meeting of the Royal Houticultukal Society^ 
held last Tue-sday, Robert Hogg, Esq., LL.D., in the chair, the following 
candidates vere elected Fellows—viz., John Joseph Coleman, and Beni. 
T. Norton. 
- Messes. J. Veitch k . Sons have now an extensive and beau¬ 
tiful display of Caknations and Picotees at their Chelsea nursery 
which will attract many lovers of these useful town plants during the 
next week or two. The plants are in beds out of doors, slight protection 
from the sun or rain being afforded when necessary, and the bloomg 
expand in excellent condition. All the best varieties are represented^ 
including many promising novelties. 
- TriE Gaedeneks’ Royal Benevolent Institution.—T he 
forty-first annual dinner of the above Institution was held at the “ Albion,” 
Aldersgate Streer, on Wednesday the 2ad inst., George Lambert, Esq., 
F.S.A., presiding. About 130 horticulturists and friends assembled, and 
after the ucsual loyal toasts had been duly honoured the Chairman in 
proposing the success of the Institution appealed for further support to 
the funds, and referred to the benefits that were being bestowed upon 
many needy persons through its means. Mr. John Lee responded in 
appropriate terms ; other toasts being proposed and repJied to by Mr. 
Shirley Hibberd and Mr. Alderman De Keyser. 
- Peuhaps some of our meteorological readers can answer the 
following questions of a Pershore correspondent on average rainfall ; 
—“ Is it a lad that July on an average is the wettest month in the year ? 
and is it a fact that there are more rainy days in June (^on an average) 
than in any m; nth in the year ? ’ 
- The Wirral Rose Society’s Annual Exhibition will be 
held at the St. George’s Hall, Liverpool, on Friday, July lltb, when 
liberal prizes will be offered in twenty-eight classes.’ Gold, silver, and 
bronze medals are also offered, together with pieces of plate. 
- Poinsettia pulcherrima. — Mr. Iggulden writes —“It has 
been pointed out to me by my foreman that I did not do justice on 
page 1 t) our success with Poinsettias last season. A number of plants in 
3-inch pots por.mcted whorls of bracts if inches and upwards in diameter, 
while those in U-inch and larger sizes w'ere proportionately larger and 
more perfect in outline. I must, however, add that we are seldom so 
successful with plants in small pots, and the credit is due to those in 
charge of them.” 
- The Sheffield Botanical and Horticultural Society 
announce an Exhibition of plants, flowers, and fruits, to be held on July 
24th and 25th, in the Botanical Gardens of that town, when a large 
number of prizes will be offered. One hundred and eighty classes are 
enumerated in the schedule, the prizes ranging in value from £6 to Is. (Sd. 
The principal class is that for a group of plants arranged for effect, £6 
and £4 being offered as the first and second prizes. 
- Gardening Appointment.—M r. John Austen, who has been 
for eleven years gardener to Sir Greville Smythe, Bart., Ashton Court^ 
Bristol, has been appointed the successor of the late Mr. Westland as 
gardener to the Earl of Dudley, Witley Court, Stourport. We believe 
that extensive improvements are projected at Witley Court, including the 
making of a new kitchen garden and the erection of glass structures, 
and we suspect it would be difficult to find a gardener more practical and 
competent to carry out the woik than Mr. Austen. We had the pleasure 
of visiting Ashton Court last autumn, and were impressed by the admir¬ 
able condition of every department of the extensive and excellent gardens. 
-Strawberries AT the Bath Show.—I n connection with the 
Rose Show which is reported on another page, prizes were awarded for 
Stjawberries as follows, the fruit being particularly fi.ue :—The best six 
varieties were staged by Mr. J. House, these consisting of very fine 
dishes of Loxfnrd Hall Seedling, Sir J. Paxton, Souvenir de Kieff, Presi¬ 
dent, British Queen, and Countess. Mr. H. S. Dutton was a good second, 
and Mr. G. Garraway, third. Mr. H. Beavis, Weston, took the lead with 
three varieties, these consisting of Sir C. Napier, Sir J. Paxton, and New 
ton Seedling, all large and well ripened. Mr. A. Beavis was first with 
a single dish, staging extra fine Sir J. Paxton ; Mr. A. A. Walters follow¬ 
ing with a fine dish of President; the third prize going to Mr. C. H. 
Smith for Sir J. Paxton, large and good. 
- The Bedford Park Gardening Society held a meeting 
lately, at which the most distinctive feature was a lecture in the garden 
on garden flowers by Mr. Shirley Hibberd, who was appointed to award 
the prizes. The lecturer went far away from the usual method of treating 
the subject of the lecture, for he spoke of time, space, form, and number 
as illustrated in the most striking manner by the characters and relations 
of garden plants. He began near the north pole hy gathering for his 
hearers the creeping Willows and Birches that there prevail. He made 
the alpine flowers carry them back to a time anterior to the glacial epoch, 
and he dissected a flower of an Iris to show how plants conform in their 
structure to geometric, rhythmic, and numerical principles. The address 
was both interesting and instructive. 
- The International Forestry Exhibition was opened on 
the first inst. at Edinburgh by the Marquis of Lothian, in the presence 
of a large company. Many foreign Governments were represented, and 
the Lord Provost and magistrates of Edinburgh attended in their official 
capacity. The Marquis of Lothian, in opening the Exhibition, said that 
a special object was the better forestry education of the country. The 
United Kingdom had more property in the world than any other nation ; 
but in this particular it was behind other nations. We were the only 
country that had not a school of forestry, and we had to send our young 
men abroad to gain the necessary knowledge. That surely was not 
right, and he hoped that out of that Exhibition there would come a 
school for forestry which might possibly be located in Edinburgh. They 
had every possible advantage there; they had the Botanic Gardens, the 
Arboretum, the University, and the Highland Society. All these bodies 
took an interest in the matter, and it only required that opportunity 
should be given for the practical part of the work. It was not too 
much to hope that before long, if the money were got, they might see 
a school of forestry in Scotland. He appealed to the public to make 
the enterprise a success, and, amid hearty cheers, declared the Exhibition 
open. 
- Meteorological Observations at Hodsock Priory for 
June, 1884.—Mr. J. Mallender sends the following summary. “Total 
duration of sunshine 149 5 hours, or 30 per cent, of possible duration. 
The brightest day was the 28th ; we had 13 7 hours of sunshine. Only 
one sunless day, this was the 4th June. We have had less sunshine 
than in the month of May, the mean difference being sixty-three hours. 
Total rainfall 0 77 inches, and 0 27 fell on the 8th. Rain fell on six 
days. This is the first time in nine years that we have had two con¬ 
secutive months so dry as May and June. The velocity of the wind 
was fifty-eight miles per hour, and never exceeded 400 miles on any 
day, and fell short of 100 miles on eleven days. Mean temperature of 
month, 5G 0°, Maximum on the 13th, 80 7° ; minimum on the 1st, 32'3°; 
