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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ August 14, 1884. 
vellous effect. Rose shoots are thrown up with remarkable vigour ; some 
of the trees are already full of bud, and present the most even, healthful, 
and beautiful appearance, while the dry-weather Roses, both dark and 
light, such as Lord Beaconsfield, Pierre Netting, Madame Lacharme, and 
others, are happy and fragrant exceedingly. 
Let us congratulate ourselves on the condition of our Roses if the heat 
is not too trying for them. Let us hope that delicate constitutions may 
he set up, and much good wood ripened early in preparation for the next 
Rose season we trust to see when the coming aftermath, and the, happily 
yet distant, winter are over.—A. M. B. 
Extraordinary Hbat. —According to the meteorological return 
the shade temperature last Monday (August 11th) was as high as 93° at 
Hillington, in Norfolk, 92° in London, and 87° at York. At half-past 
eight on Monday evening the thermometer in London registered 85°) 
and at one o’clock on Tuesday morning 76°. Messrs. Negretti & Zambra 
state that at the Crystal Palace a record of 974° was taken—the highes^. 
for very many years. Mr. Abbey states the thermometer registered 95° 
in the shade on the 8th and 93° on the 9th at Paxton Park, St. Neots^ 
Huntingdonshire ; and in Messrs. Veitch’s Nursery at Chelsea we are in 
formed the sun temperature was 131° on the 11th inst. On Tuesday the 
shade temperature in London was 82°. Yesterday (Wednesday) the 
weather was cooler. 
- The Putney and District Chrysanthemum Society an¬ 
nounce that their Exhibition this year will take place on November 11th 
in the Assembly Rooms, Putney. The usual prizes are offered, including 
the silver cup for the best collection of Chrysanthemums arranged for 
effect. 
- Campanula Vidali. —In a few gardens this plant is now 
flowering, but though very distinct in habit and form of flowers, the 
colour of the latter, a dull white, is not quite pleasing. Possibly some 
improvement could be effected by crossing it with some blue-flowered 
species ; and though there might be a little difficulty in accomplishing 
this it would be worth the trial, as a blue-flowered C. Vidali would be a 
decided acquisition. 
- Exhibiting. —A correspondent writes ;—“ I should like to 
thank Mr. Iggulden, and also “ An Employer,” for their good articles on 
exhibiting. Though I do not think it will induce my employer to 
exhibit, the articles must do good to many of your readers.” 
- Wellingtonia giganteA. —Among the remarkable specimens 
on view at the International Forestry Exhibition in Edinburgh is a section 
—10 feet by 14 in diameter—of one of the world-famous Mammoth Trees 
of California, within the trunk of which it is said a large picnic party 
could be accommodated. Arboriculturists hold that the specimen shown 
in Edinburgh is over six thousand years old. 
- The Jersey Potato Crop.—T his is likely to turn out an 
unusually good one this season. Although the earliest crop did not yield 
over-well, the later ones have made amends, and the Jersey Gardener 
estimates that the total export will probably exceed 45,000 tons, and 
realise over £300,000. 
- Messrs. Bates, Hendy, k Co., 37, Walbrook, have forwarded 
us a copy of the “Monthly Circular of Gardening for India,” 
which is issued by the Indian Seed Stores at Ranikhet. It contains a 
calendar of garden operations on the plains and hills, a letter from a 
London correspondent, and notes on the Early Amber Sugar Cane and 
the Doura. It will no doubt be useful to the persons for whom it is 
intended. 
-Clematises for Arbours.—“J. R.” writesWe have had, 
and still have, a beautiful display of Clematises this year, though our 
garden, which is exposed to some of the worst of London smoke—that 
from the frequently passing engines in a railway close by. The plants 
are trained over a porch of a summer house, not rigidly and formally, 
but naturally, and we have a succession of flowers from early spring 
until autumn. First, the charming white Clematis indivisa produces 
its clusters of pure white flowers in abundance ; this is followed by 
C. Jackmanni varieties, which are still lovely, loaded with wreaths of 
rich purple flowers ; and now the snowy cloud-like C. Flammula is 
expanding its diminutive but pretty white blooms in profusion. The 
beauty of these plants cannot be exaggerated, and their value for 
suburban gardens is inestimable.” 
- Lythrum Gr^fferi in Pots.—T his graceful little plant is 
admirably adapted for culture in pots, and in a greenhouse or con¬ 
servatory it has a beautiful effect if suspended from the roof. In this 
position the long slender shoots droop naturally, and bear their small 
but bright rosy-purple flowers freely and continuously. Any ordinary 
soil suits it, and the best method of treatment is to increase it by 
cuttings every season, placing four or five in a small GO-sized pot, and 
transferring these together into a 48-size. The leaves are narrow and 
curiously reflexed, so that they appear to lie nearly flat on the branches. 
Fresh growths are constantly springing from the root, so that there is a 
cluster of young flowering shoots in the centre of the pot, in addition to 
the older ones trailing over the side. 
- The Journal des Roses for July and August gives plates of 
Roses Madame Prosper Laugier and Red Dragon. The first, it 
is said, was obtained from seed by M. Eugene Verdier in 1869, first 
fl jwered in 1872, and was sent out in the autumn of 1875 at the same 
time as Abel Carriere. The plate fairly represents its colour and form. 
The other is well known as one of Messrs. W. Paul k Son’s productions) 
a seedling from Charles Lefebvre, remarkable for its rich colour and 
handsome globular form. 
- “ R. P. B.” writes respecting East Lothian Stocks : — 
“ ‘ Thinker ’ may rest assured that these Stocks can be had in flower in 
July in the same year as sown. I have had them so repeatedly. The 
seed must be sown in the beginning of February, and there is no doubt 
as to their flowering in July. They are later this year, having been later 
in sowing, but the plants are now coming into flower. At the same 
time it is not unusual to sow in August and keep the plants cool 
throughout the winter. Where seed-saving is kept in view autumn 
sowing is much the better plan, though I do not know that there is 
much to be gained as regards a fine display of flowers in autumn.” 
- Presentation to Mr. J. Austen.— On Tuesday the 5th inst., 
Mr. J. Austen, who is leaving Ashton Court Gardens, Bristol, for Witley 
Court, Stourport, was entertained at a farewell dinner in the Montague 
Hotel, Kingsdown, and presented with a handsome sideboard, and an 
album containing the portraits of sixty subscribers. There was a large 
attendance, Mr. G. Webley, Secretary of the Bristol Chrysaptbemum 
Society, presiding. An address was inserted in the album, the substance 
of which follows :—“ In making this presentation we are actuated by 
feelings of the deepest regard, and with a due appreciation of the talent 
displayed by you in the many departments of your profession during 
the eleven years that you have resided in our midst. We offer you our 
most hearty congratulations upon your succeeding to so important an 
appointment as gardener to the Earl of Dudley, believing that it will 
afford you an extended field for the further development of those abilities 
which have hitherto characterised your career ; at the same time we 
cannot refrain from expressing our sincere regret at parting from so 
genial and valued a friend.” The Committee, who were appointed to 
obtain subscriptions and arrange for the presentation, consisted of Messrs. 
G. Webley (Chairman), J. H. Vallance (Secretary), John Miles, E. F. 
Woodward, H. K. Ward, W. H. Bannister, E. Brown, J. A. Walker, 
H. King, I. Bush, W. A. Garaway, F. I. Parker, and V. Down. 
- Dr. Paterson sends us the following extract from a letter he 
has received from Mr. F. W. Burbidge in reference to the Hen-and- 
chickens Marigold figured last week in this Journal:—“ May I 
venture to ask you for a seed or two of your Hen-and-chicken Marigold ? 
It is a most curious thing, and although some may smile at your remark 
as to its growing near the Hen-and-chicken Daisy, no wise and thoughtful 
person will do so. I have read of plants becoming variegated when 
growing near variegated individuals of another kind ; and only the 
other day I was with .a farmer who drops a few Swedish Turnip seeds in 
his drills or rows] of Mangold Wurtzels, and he always takes the prize at 
our show with the Turnips so grown, although he has acres of Turnips 
cultivated by themselves in the usual way, but they never grow so fine 
as those among the Mangolds. Verily there are ‘many things ’twixt 
heaven and earth not dreamt of in our philosophy.’ ” 
- Manganese in Plants. —Recent researches by M. Maumene 
