104 JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. E August 3 , im. 
ing place on the Clyde. It has always a great interest for me, not 
only because of the hearty and cordial welcome which always greets 
me, but also because it does my judging credit, of which I shall have 
as usual more to say by-and-by. The Exhibition was held, as it has 
been of late years, in a tent in Westwood Park, but here as elsewhere 
the cry is for some covered hall, where neither the Roses nor the 
company are exposed to the vicissitudes of our varying climate. 
The flowers were arranged on the long stages provided by the So¬ 
ciety, and each exhibitor has to take his Roses out of their own stand 
and place them on these stages. All thus are doubtless on the same 
level; and although the appearance is certainly marred by the yellow 
character of the moss, there has been a very considerable advance 
amongst the local exhibitors ; and although some stands of inferior 
quality were shown there was a very decided general advance, while 
the Messrs. Dickson of Belfast and Newtownards showed such admir¬ 
able stands that we regret very much they cannot enter into 
competition with some of our noted English growers, for I am quite 
sure that they would be victorious in many a contest if they did so ; 
but it is a “ far cry ” to Belfast, and it would hardly be possible to 
get the Roses sufficiently fresh to enable them fairly to compete. 
Pansies were well shown also, but of course the great interest was 
centred in the Roses. I was much amused at the rapid manner in 
which the Roses were sold by auction after the Show was over. It 
was not only the proverbial “ saxpence ” that disappeared, but half- 
crowns for bouquets, and altogether a sum of upwards of £5 was 
added to the funds by this novel method. I was amused at the wit 
and humour shown by the auctioneer and appreciated by the crowd, 
evidently disproving Sydney Smith’s disparaging remarks on the 
difficulty of getting a Scotchman to understand a joke.—D., Deal. 
We are requested to state that the Pelargonium Society’s 
Annual Meeting will be held in the autumn, and the mem¬ 
bers will have timely notice of the date. 
- An Exhibition of Pinks, we are informed, is in process 
of organisation for next season. Persons who are willing to sub¬ 
scribe 5s. each to form a prize fund are desired to communicate 
with Mr. Shirley Hibberd, who has taken charge of the matter for 
the present. 
- A Bristol correspondent sends us the following note rela¬ 
tive to a great hailstorm near Bristol :—“ On the evening 
of the 25th ult. this neighbourhood was visited by one of the 
most extraordinary hailstorms ever witnessed, the ground being 
covered with hail, which remained in many places the whole 
of the night, for on Wednesday morning we measured some 
where it had rolled into a heap 5^ inches deep at seven o’clock. 
We have not a flower left outside, and I fear tender plants such as 
Alternantheras and Coleus are permanently injured, as they were 
covered up for some time in hailstones, and now they have the 
appearance of having been frozen. Everything is more or less 
damaged, Beet especially so.” 
- Mr. J. Smythe, the well-known horticultural sundries- 
man of Drury Lane, has sent us blooms of his new seedling 
Carnation Mary Morris, grown in his garden at Forest Hill. 
Mary Morris is a self of a rich glowing rose colour faintly suffused 
with salmon, the flowers being large and full. As the variety is 
a good grower and free bloomer—Mr. Smythe having cut sixty- 
eight blooms from one plant—it will prove valuable for garden 
decoration and for affording a supply of cut flowers of a colour 
that few can fail to appreciate. Mary Morris was commended 
by the Judges at the National Carnation Show last week, pre¬ 
sumably as a decorative variety, and beyond doubt large masses 
of it would have an excellent effect in gardens. 
- Relative to the note on page 80 on raising Straw¬ 
berries in frames, our correspondent, “ A Northern 
Gardener,” writes “ If ‘ Single-handed ’ would read more 
attentively his criticism would be more effectual. When the 
plants are raised in frames I said, ‘ In dry localities there is risk 
of the plants being injured by remaining crowded in the nursery 
beds too long, or removing them in unsuitable weather.’ I never 
suggested they could not be established in frames ; the question 
was one of removal. I have been in a dilemma more than once— 
the plants spoiled if they remained, and were injured if removed, 
when the sky was cloudless for weeks and the soil like a bed of 
hot ashes. I wrote from experience, which it is quite evident 
your correspondent lacks under the same conditions. The plan 
he advocates is an excellent one wffien planting can be done at 
the proper time, but it has failed with me, as it must fail, during 
a hot and dry season.” 
- A correspondent writes as follows respecting single 
Dahlias —“Lovers of elegant flowers who have commenced the 
cultivation of single Dahlias will not regret the step. Plentiful 
as flowers are just now, there is not another that could be named 
as a substitute for these, and those who have not yet indulged in 
single Dahlias have still an untasted pleasure in store. Ours 
were raised from seed sown in February in heat, and the 
seedlings afterwards nursed on in pots, and finally planted out 
at the end of May, and now, July 21st, they are in full bloom. It 
will thus be seen that they may be very easily obtained. Those 
who have no means for forwarding seedlings in spring can buy 
half a dozen, or as many more as they have room for, and if 
planted on fairly good soil and treated like other Dahlias a rich 
reward will be reaped.” 
- The same writer also sends the following upon wild 
Roses —“ Some of our wild flowers are unsurpassed for beauty 
and elegance, and first among them are wild Roses. They are 
just as worthy of cultivation as are single Dahlias, and for home 
decoration there is hardly anything to equal them. All round 
my district there are wild Roses in plenty, yet in half a dozen 
odd nooks and corners I have planted wild Roses, and I use their 
blooms when they are in flower for dinner-table decoration, and 
find employers and visitors equally delighted. They would pass 
these very blooms on the roadside ; but whenever, instead of 
the ordinary garden flowers, wild Roses are used everybody is 
delighted beyond measure. Just let those who have hitherto 
despised such do so no longer, but put in a plant or two and see 
if the labour is misspent.” 
- We have received an intimation of the death of Dr. 
Carl Eduard Lucas, Royal Garden Inspector, Proprietor, and 
Director of the Pomological Institute of Reutlingen in Bavaria. 
He died on the morning of the 24th July, between nine and 
ten o’clock. Dr. Lucas has been long known throughout Germany 
as an accomplished pomologist and an indefatigable worker in 
the pursuit of pomology. His labours have been incessant, and 
are fully recorded in the eight volumes of the Illustrirtes Hand- 
buch der Obstkunde , to which he was a contributor under the 
editorship of Oberdieck. In conjunction with the same author he 
produced the Pomologisclw Monatshefte, which appeared for twelve 
years. Of his independent works the most important are Aus- 
rvahhverihvoller Obstsorten, Pomologische Tafelnzum JBcstimmen 
der Obstsorten. Besides these there are a score of smaller trea¬ 
tises on various pomological subjects, and his last w r ork was 
Enleitung in das Studium der Pomnlogie. 
- Gardening Appointment. — Mr. Robert Parker, late 
gardener to Mrs. Bertwhistle, Rockwood, Skipton, succeeds Mr. 
Brown as head gardener to C. F. Taylor, Esq., Winsley, Ripley. 
F- “ F. W. B.” observes in the last issue of the “ Gardener ” 
that “ the question of pruning Orchids is as yet far from settled, 
and much depends on the way in which it is performed. We often 
differ in opinion from each other simply because our local sur¬ 
roundings are different, and not so much because we really think 
