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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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these organisations, resolutions were passed that a union of the 
gardening societies of Yorkshire should be formed, to be called the 
Yorkshire Union of Horticultural Societies,” and a Committee of the 
Paxton Societies were asked to form a code of rules for the approval of 
the Paxton Societies joining. This meeting was held in the afternoon 
previous to the ordinary weekly meeting of the Society, at which the 
delegates and others had the pleasure of hearing a lecture from the Rev. 
J. W. C. Hughes of Wragby on “ The Flora of the Ionian Isles,” which 
from the lecturePs familiarity with his subject, gained by along residence 
as Her Majesty’s Chaplain in those islands, proved most instructive and 
a fitting conclusion to the important meeting of the afternoon. 
- At the recent marriage of the Marquis of Stafford, M.P., with 
Lady Millicent St. Clair Erskine, at which the Prince and Princess of 
Wales and Princess Christian attended, Messrs. John Laing & Co. had the 
honour of being entrusted with the floral decoration of the ceremony. 
The flowers chiefly used were Orchids, Eucharis, Gardenias, Stephanotis^ 
Chrysanthemums, and others of the choicest kinds. Messrs. Laing were 
highly complimented on their tasteful displays, which gave great satis¬ 
faction. 
- The following Gardening Appointment has been made by 
Messrs. John Laing & Co., Forest Hill, London, E.C. ;—Mr. Henry Goff, 
late gardener at A. Nichols’, Esq, Cambridge House, Blackheath, as head 
gardener to Mrs. Grinling, Harrow Weald House, Stanmore, Middlesex. 
- The Cornish Telegraph of October 23rd publishes the following 
letter from Messrs. Marshall, Stevens & Co., of Liverpool, on Early 
Potatoes in Jersey:—” Mr. Philip Barbier, the notary public of Jeissy, has 
sent to us some very carefully prepared statistics of the shipment of new 
Potatoes from the island, and we think a few extracts will be useful to 
your readers in West Cornwall. There were shipped from Jersey to 
England between June 4th and July 21st, 1883, 36,300 tons of new 
Potatoes, and this record so remarkable as the prolucts of a little island, 
only something like ten miles by seven, has been beaten during the past 
season (1884) by the extraordinary shipments between May 14th and 
July 23rd of 53,655 tons, estimated to have realised about £375,000. In 
addition to the above quantities, about one-eighth of the crop is retained 
in the island for seed, and other shipments (comparatively small) are made 
before and after the dates given. The largest portion of the crop is con¬ 
sumed in the manufacturing districts of the north of England, and the 
trade is entirely dependent upon and has grown with the facilities of 
transport given by competing railway and steamship companies. The 
Cornish market gardeners feeling with the Great Western Railway Com¬ 
pany the result of the latter’s mistaken poliey, have in the past been 
unable to compete to advantage ; but now that the monopoly of the Great 
Western Railway is broken up the Cornish, market gardeners will next 
season send off a crop at least half as large as that of their Jersey com¬ 
petitors, increasing annually until the whole of the available acreage 
twhich is probably twice that of Jersey) is cultivated.” 
- daffodil James Dickson or Sir Watkin.—M r. William 
George, Brook Street, Chester, writes in the Manchester City News 
as follows respecting this notorious Daffodil :—“ In reply to Mr. James 
Percival respecting the Daffodil Sir Watkin or James Dickson, allow me 
to say that it is not a hybrid, but an old type of the Giant or Mountain 
Daffodil, improved in colour and substance under cultivation. The same 
type can be found in many old gardens through North and South Wales; 
also in its wild state in at least two counties, and has been known to exist 
there over forty years. The blooms have found their way into Man- 
chester and London markets regularly for three or four years, and are the 
same which Mr. Brockbank alludes to. This is the way the old Foundling 
Daffey found its way before the public under a new name.” 
- The Hertfordshire Natural History Society and Field Club will 
hold a CRYPTOGAMIC MEETING AND FUNGUS FORAY AT ST. ALBANS On 
Saturday afternoon, 1st November. Members will assemble at the 
London and North-western Railway station, St. Albans, at 2 p.m. Leave 
Euston at 1 0, Watford at 1'40. Walk along the lane nearly opposite the 
station to the Verulam Hills, then through the woods to King Harry 
Lane, and on this lane to the “Hollows.” From the woods here enter 
Gorhambury Park, and return along the carriage-drive to the Lodge 
Gates near St. Michael’s Church, and then by the “ Water Walk ” to the 
station for the 5’50 train to Watford. Members from Hertford may 
leave by the 1’25 train due at St. Albans at 2T7, joining the party in the 
woods of the Verulam Hills, and returning by the 5 38 train. Dr. M. C. 
Cooke, M.A , A.L.S., and Mr. Worthington G. Smith, F.L.S., will accom- 
pany the members and name the species of fungi collected ; and Dr. 
Braithwaite, F.L S., will identify the mosses. The meeting will be under 
the direction of Mr. A. E. Gibbs. The first ordinary meeting of the 
session 1884-85 will be held at Watford on Tuesday, the 18th of November. 
The dates of the other ordinary meetings in West Herts, most of which 
will be held at Watford, are December 16th, January 20tb, March 17th, 
and April 2lst (the third Tuesdays in each month) ; and in East Herts, 
November 20th, December 18th, January 15th, February 19tb, March 19th, 
and April 16th (the third Thursdays in each month). The anniversary 
meeting will be held at Watford on Tuesday, the 17th of February. 
Several bye-meetings, for microscopical study and other purposes, will 
also be held. Particulars will be announced as usual. 
GASTROLOBIUM CALYCINDM. 
Australia has yielded to European cultivators numbers of handsome 
members of the great Pea family, and amongst the best must be included 
the species represented in fig. 65. The flowers are large, of a rich orange 
colour, and when the plant is well grown they are produced most freely. 
Though, like other leguminous plants from that portion of the globe, 
Gastrolobium calycinum requires careful treatment, it is not difficult to 
obtain it in good condition. A compost of peat, light leafy loam, and sand, 
with well-drained pots, are the chief requisites in its culture, supplying 
water with great care when not growing freely. 
The following is a brief description of the plant:—The branches are 
smooth ; the leaves are opposite (or ternate), elliptic, somewhat keeled, 
glaucous, and terminated by a long pungent awn ; at their base is a pair 
of spreading decurved spiny stipules. The flowers grow oppositely in 
terminal or axillary racemes, and are very large ; the standard deep orange 
