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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ November 20, 1884. 
mium, and Tucca, as well as for miscellaneous, rare, or new bulbous and 
tuberous-rooted plants. 
A large number of medals is besides offered for table decorations, 
bouquets, arrangements of flowers, baskets, fee., with flowers or plants, 
with this peculiar condition, that all the flowers which are put in these 
arrangements are to be those of bulbous or tuberous-rooted plants. 
This Show will doubtless be a great attraction to all those who take 
an interest in bulb growing. It will give a better idea of the collection 
of spring bulbs grown in the neighbourhood of Haarlem than any show 
has done before, and the occasion will afford an excellent opportunity 
for spending a few days among the many interesting attractions that are 
to he found in Holland. 
MRS. PINCE'S BLACK MUSCAT GRAPE. 
I WAS very pleased to notice your correspondent,Mr. Iggulden,writing 
in favour of this fine winter Grape. I do not think the day is far distant 
when it will take the place of Lady Downe’s. Her ladyship has again 
proved a failure with us. The warm weather we had in August, when 
most of our Grapes were stoning, proved too much for this delicate Lady. 
We have scarcely a bunch presentable, the larger half of the berries 
being scalded ; whereas, on the other hand, the Black and White Muscats 
in the same house are better than they have been for some years. Mrs. 
Pince is hanging at the present moment as plump as can be desired, not 
a single berry decaying. Another recommendation this Grape has in pre¬ 
ference to Lady Downe’s is that the flavour is better. The colour is its 
worst fault. I am inclined to think if a cooler atmosphere were given 
when the fruit shows signs of changing colour until it is finished it would 
to a certain extent help to remove this grievance. A Mrs. Pince inarched 
on a strong stock in a cooler house where Hamburghs are grown, and at 
the coolest end, has this year finished four medium-sized bunches 
much finer in colour than those in the warmer house. The warm- 
house Grapes are larger in berry, the flavour being equal in both 
houses.—J. J. 
HoKTictiLTUEAL CLUB. —The usual monthly dinner and con¬ 
versazione took place on the 12th inst., at the rooms, 1, Henrietta Street, 
Covent Garden. Amongst those present were Mr. John Lee, Chairman ; 
Dr. Hogg, The Rev. F. H. Gall, and Th. Flintoff, ^Messrs. Stottentoff, 
Dfuery, Ironsides, Ceilings, T. B. Hall, & Amongst the subjects_,brought 
forward was a very varied collection of Chrysanthemums of the different 
sections from Mr. N. Davis of Camberwell, a collection of dried fronds 
of Ferns of Athyrium Filix-feemina, and some of its more remarkable 
varieties from Mr. H. M. Stottentoff of Lewisham. Mr. Ceilings showed 
remarkable frond of Polystichum which he had found on an imported 
Dendrobium, and which had a most powerful perfume similar] to the 
Tonquin Bean. It was believed to be new. The Secretary]]contributed 
from his garden some remarkably fine specimens of Doyenn6 du Comice 
Pear and Cox’s Orange Pippin and King of the Pippins Apples. A 
very agreeable evening was spent. 
-- Gaedenees’ Royal Benevolent Institution. —Mr. Cutler 
writes: “ Will you kindly announce that in order to meet the wishes and 
convenience of many gentlemen who have collecting cards for the Aug¬ 
mentation Fund of this Institution, that the time for closing the list 
has been extended to Monday, the 15th of December ?” 
- Me. John Woolwbight sends the following “ I am inclined 
to believe that among the “ crowd of people ” that flow to the Chrysan¬ 
themum shows, few would go away without subscribing something 
towards the augmentation of pension fund of the Gardeners’ Royal Bene¬ 
volent Institution, if boxes were placed in different parts of the 
exhibition room with a card clearly printed stating in not too many 
words for what purpose donations, however small, were required. Many 
shows are to come, among them that in St. George’s Hall, Liverpool, and 
I promise that if subscription boxes are there exhibited for the above 
most deserving object, one of them shall receive a sovereign from me.’’ 
We have been awaiting an opportunity for noticing somewhat 
fully Me. Bubbidge’s new woek on the Chrysanthemum, but 
each week the pressure on our space has been too great to enable us to 
do so. The work is mainly a compilation from the writings of various 
gardeners, and of extracts from most of the gardening papers, and there¬ 
fore ought to be good. There is much in it of interest andj]matter} that 
is useful, but there is much left out that should be in to render the work 
fully satisfactory. As a compiler Mr. Burbidge has done his work as 
well as could be expected of him’; but he could have prepared much 
better illustrations. 
- As an example of the recent mildness of the weather and the salu¬ 
brious climate of Walton-on-Thames, we observed last Thursday a Gloiee 
DE Dijon Rose covered with splendid blooms on the residence of Dr. 
Macdonald, and remarkable in the same garden is a boundary line of 
Eucalyptus trees, some 20 feet, and splendidly luxuriant Bamboos, which 
attract attention. We are told there is much of interest in the “doctor’s 
garden ” of an out-of-the-way character. In the same district a gardener 
observed that Heliotropes were flowering freely, which he has never 
seen before]so late in the season. We are told that Laburnum trees are 
in bloom in Hastings, and in Bromley fresh crops of Peas are being 
gathered, and Raspberries are ripening in profusion. 
- Me. a. Aldeeman, The Gardens, Elm Court, Mitcham, writes :— 
“ Will you kindly allow me to correct a slight error in your report of 
Croydon Chrysanthemum Show of the 11th and 12th ult., in which 
it says that Mr. Gibson easily secured the cup given both for incurved 
and Japanese flowers, and that I was placed third in the open class for 
twenty-four Japanese blooms. I was placed second, but ran Mr. Gibson 
so closely that the Judges wished to make us equal first ; but the prize 
being a cup, another could not be provided, so they took the blooms point 
for point, and he only gained by one.” 
-Just on the eve of going to press we learn by telegram that the 
Birmingham Chrysanthemum Show is a great success, both cut blooms 
and specimen plants being well and largely exhibited. The grand feature 
of the Show is the class for forty-eight blooms, twenty-four incurved and 
twenty-four Japanese, distinct varieties, for which the valuable prizes, 
£10, £7, £4, and £2, were offered. The three first have been won by 
Mr. Jellicoe, gardener to J. H. Gossage, Esq., Liverpool; Mr. Barker, 
Hindlip Hall Gardens near Worcester ; and Mr. Comfort, gardener to 
to G. A. Everitt, E q., Knowles. The Show continues upon to-day 
(Thursday). 
- The Hon. and Rev. J. T. Boscawen, Lamorran, Cornwall, 
writes :—“ Although between 8° and 9° of frost have been registered, yet 
Lapageeia rosea and alba against a north wall are uninjured. 
Parochsetus communis on rockwork is also safe.” The specimens sent 
do not show the slightest injury, being as fresh as possible. 
- Liliums in November.—A s is well known Mr. McIntosh’s 
beautiful garden at Duneevan, Surrey, is famed, among other things, 
for Liliums both in pots and in the Rhododendron beds. In the summer 
the flowers abound, but this year they are plentiful in November. Last 
week we observed many splendid blooms of L.auratum in a bed sloping to 
the north with several buds expanding. The flowers were in every 
respect as good, both in substance and colour, as they are usually seen in 
August and September. 
- In a bed on the lawn a number of stately stems bearing seed 
pods freely show how fine Lilium giganteum has been this season. 
The stems are from 7 to 9 feet high, and one of them we hear will shortly 
have a place in the new museum at Newcastle-on-Tyne that was recently 
opened by the Prince of Wales. It is certainly a wonderfnlly fine example 
and worthy of preservation. 
- A correspondent informs us that a Pear Tree in full 
Blossom arrested his attention in a garden in Lambeth the other day. 
He describes it as “ covered with bloom as if in spring,” and numbers of 
persons expressed their astonishment at this singular example of fruit 
blossom in November. 
- A correspondent near London writes :—“We still (November 
14th) continue to enjoy unusually mild weather for this season of the 
year, the beds and borders of our suburban garden being still bright and 
lively with single Dahlias, African Marigolds, Pentstemons, Senecio 
pulcher, Schizostylis coccinea. Stocks, Corn Marigolds, Lobelia cardi- 
nalis, Lithospermum prostratum. Anemone japonica, Androsace lanu¬ 
ginosa, and Salvias. A large standard Gloire de Dijon Rose is in full 
bloom, as also are General Jacqueminot, Marie Baumann, and Souvenir de 
la Malmaison. The latter is growing against a west wall, and is covered 
with fine blooms. Several tufts of the yelliw Primrose are also in 
full bloom. Jasminum nudiflorum is in full bloom, too, against my 
cottage.” 
