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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTIAGE GARDENER, 
[ December 11, 1884. 
The annual general meeting cf the National] Rose Society will 
be held by the kind permission of the Horticultural Club at their 
rooms, 1, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, to-day (Thursday) at four 
o’clock, for the purpose of receiving the report, electing the officers and 
Committee for the ensuing year, confirming or otherwise the arrangements 
made by the General Committee for the exhibitions of 1885, and the 
transaction of other general business. 
- We regret to learn of the death of a very worthy and well- 
known gardener, Mr. D. Judd, who expired last week at Shefiord, in 
Bedfordshire, aged sixty-nine. Mr. Judd was born at Edmonton, Mid¬ 
dlesex, and after serving as a learner at Brockett Hall, Kew, Gunnersbury; 
and C hiswick, he became gardener at Southill Park (Mr. Wbitebread’s)^ 
Althorpe Park (Earl Spencer’s), Hawkstone Park (Viscount Hill's), and 
Brooke House, Isle of Wight (Mr. Seely’s), and was for the last few years 
a pensioner of the Gardeners’ Benevolent Institution. Mr. Judd was a 
thorough all-round practical gardener and an excellent man. 
- Mr. G. Bonsall, The Gardens, Campsmount, Doncaster, 
writes :—“ Will you please correct a mistake which appears in last 
week’s issue respecting the York Show ? Second prize, black Grapes, was 
stated to be awarded to G. Bateson, Yarborough, Heslington, it should 
be G. B. C. Yarborough, whose residence is Campsmount,” 
- A Tadcaster correspondent sends us the following note on 
the Weather in Yorkshire We have had some slight winter 
weather hereabouts, about 3 inches of snow and some frost, but not 
enough ,to kill Pelargoniums, one or two of which in a warm border 
that were planted in 1883 are yet alive. We want rain badly, as springs 
with us, only about 70 feet above the bed of the river Wharfe, are yet 
very low, more so than at any other time for many years. 
-Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent Institution augmen¬ 
tation OF Pension Fund. —The following third list of subscriptions 
to the above fund has been sent to us by Mr. Thomas of Chatsworth ;— 
Mr. Markham, Tapton House, Chesterfield, £5 ; Griffiths Hughes, Esq.^ 
Victoria Street, Manchester, £2 2s. ; Mr. C. Walls, Grantham Hall, West 
Hartlepool, 10s.; C. Markham, Esq., Tapton House, Chesterfield, 10^.; 
total, £8 2s. 
- The following information has been forwarded to us for 
insertion :—“ Messrs. Sutton & Sons, who were the first seedsmen 
appointed by special warrant to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, have 
received a royal warrant appointing them seedsmen to Her Majesty 
the Queen, after being honoured with Her Majesty’s commands for 
thirty consecutive years.” 
-“ J. L. B.” writes as follows on September Brussels Sprouts : 
—“ Those who are in the habit of exhibiting generally try to get the 
choicest productions, and good examples that are a little earlier or a little 
later than usual generally have a little 'more weight with the judges than 
others that are in full season ; and why should not Brussels Sprouts ? 
I do not think the third week in September unusually early for exhi¬ 
bition purposes. I do not grow them for exhibition, yet I had good full- 
sized sprouts sent into the kitchen the second week in September this 
year, yet there was no grumbling because they were too early. I may 
aid that ours are generally in by the end of September. Our seeds are 
sown in the open ground in February. Radishes, Cauliflowers, Lettuces, 
and a few other vegetables are sown at the same time, and all are covered 
with a frame ; as soon as they have two leaves beside the seed leaves they 
are pricked off in the open ground, and finally planted where they are to 
remain for the winter. The varieties I grow are Reading Exhibition and 
Aigburth.” 
- We regret to announce the death of the distinguished agri. 
cultural chemist, Dr. Augustus Voelcker, F.R.S., which occurred on 
Friday, the 6th inst., at his residence, Argyll Road, Kensington, in the 
62nd year of his age. The deceased was the son of Frederick Adolphus 
Voelcker, and was born at Frankfort-on-the-Maine in 1823, and educated 
at a private school and at the University of Gottingen. He was appointed 
assistant to the late Professor Johnston of Edinburgh in 1849, and Professor 
of Chemistry in the Royal Agricultural Society at Cirencester in 1852, which 
post he resigned in 1862, and became Consulting Chemist to the Royal 
Agricultural Society of England. Dr. Voelcker was the author of 
“Chemistry of Food,” “Chemistry of Manures,” “Lectures on Agri¬ 
cultural Chemistry,” and numerous papers on theoretical and agri¬ 
cultural chemistry in the Journals of the Royal Agricultural Society of 
England, the Highland Society, Chemical Society, &c. His loss will be 
widely felt in the agricultural world. 
-The issue of the Florist and Pomologist for December 
contains the following notice ;—“ After regularly appearing month by 
month under several modified forms since 1848, the ‘Florist and Pomo¬ 
logist ’ will now be discontinued. Its thirty-seven volumes, which repre¬ 
sent thirty-seven years of labour on the part of ourselves and our prede¬ 
cessors, furnish a record of the floral work of that period, and its 624 
plate illustrations, for which a first-class character may fairly be claimed, 
will remain as evidence of the advances which have taken place in the 
popular plants, flowers, and fruits, which have more especially engaged 
the attention of cultivators. To those who have aided us in our efforts 
to keep up the character of the work our warmest thanks are due and are 
hereby tendered.” We are glad to learn that Mr. Moore is, to some 
extent, recovering from his recent severe illness. 
- The second meeting of the Liverpool Horticultural 
Association of the present session was held on Saturday evening, the 
6th inst., Mr. Thomas White in the chair. The business before the 
meeting was papers on “ The Cultivation of the Cyclamen,” by Mr. 
Hugb-Ranger of the Aigburth Nurseries ; and the “ Culture of the 
Pelargonium,” by Mr. E. Bridge of Huyton. It is scarcely necessary 
to say Mr. Ranger treated his subject in a very able manner, his repu¬ 
tation as a grower of Cyclamens having long become established. A 
greater proof of his skill could not be afforded than reference to the 
magnificent bank of plants exhibited by Messrs. R. P. Ker & Sons at the 
recent exhibition held in St. George’s Hall. Mr. Bridge has also been a 
successful exhibitor of Pelargoniums at Manchester, York, and other 
places, and gave evidence, by his excellent paper, that he was thoroughly 
master of his subject. At the close of an interesting discussion a warm 
vote of thanks was accorded to Mr. Ranger and Mr. Bridge for their 
papers, and .also to the chairman for presiding. 
-The Lambeth Amateur Chrysanthemum Society held 
their annual meeting and dinner at the Bridge House Hotel, London 
Bridge, on Friday, the 5th inst. Mr. W. Ball presided, the vice-chairmen 
being Messrs. H. Ellis and C. Harman Payne. There were seventy- 
nine members and friends present, and a very agreeable evening was'spent. 
- An American contemporary states that “ Upwards of 60,000 
barrels of Apples arrived in Boston in the first week of November. The 
shipments from Boston during the same period were 17,000 bairels, and 
engagements have already been made for 14,000 barrels this week. 
Advices from Liverpool report a decline of about 60 cents per barrel, 
owing to large receipts, though it is hoped later shipments will do better. 
The margin of profit to exporters is still quite small. Since September 1st 
the exporters of Apples from Boston put up about 130,000 barrels, against 
8000 barrels for the same time in 1883.” 
-At the ordinary meeting of the Royal Meteorological 
Society, to be held at 26, Great George Street, Westminster, cn Wed¬ 
nesday, the 17th inst., at 7 p.m., the following papers will be read :— 
“ On the Reduction of Temperature Means from short series of observations 
to the equivalents of longer periods,” by Dr. Julius Hann, Hon. Mem. 
R.Met.Soc. “The diversity of Scales for Registering the Force of the 
Wind,” by Charles Harding, F.R.Met.Soc. “ Report on the Phenological 
Observations for 1884,” hy the Rev. T. A. Preston, M.A., F.R.Met.Soc. 
As the draft list of otficers and Council for the year 1885 will be prepared 
at the next Council meeting, it is requested that those Fellows who wish 
to suggest names for the new Council will send them in before the 
17th inst. 
- Mr. J. Mallender sends the following Summary of Meteor¬ 
ological Observations at the Gardens, Hodsock Priory, Work¬ 
sop, Notts, for November.— Mean temperature of month, 414 ; 
maximum on the 15th, 58‘6 ; minimum on the 30lb, 21'8 ; maximum in 
sun on the 9th, 101-2 ; minimum on the grass on the 30lh, 19-5. Waimest 
day, the 2nd ; coldest day, 30th. Mean temperature of air at 9 A.M., 41-1. 
Mean temperature ^f soil 1 foot deep, 44'3. Number of nights below 32 , 
