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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ August 31, 1882. 
occasions until thoroughly hardy, and then stood outside in a shel¬ 
tered position, and finally planted out in beds or borders prepared 
for them. 
Those haying no glass can pot the cuttings when rooted if they 
choose, but it is preferable to leave them undisturbed in the posi¬ 
tion in which they have rooted uutil spring. To carry out this 
system properly the cuttiDgs should be inserted in rows C inches 
apart, so that fine coal ashes can be placed between the rows and 
well round the plants, only leaving the uppermost eye exposed. 
Nothing will protect them better from sharp frost than ashes. 
These should not be placed between the rows until sharp frosts are 
really expected, when other protecting material, such as mats and 
dry straw, should also be in readiness. If a little protection only 
is given it will be found that the majority will survive. If the 
growth made in autumn from the top bud is destroyed it will prove 
but little detriment to the young plants if inserted in the ground 
a moderate length. The latter is important when they are in¬ 
tended to remain outside during the winter. In spring they can 
either be potted or planted out. " If potted good fibry loam should 
be used, with a seventh of decayed manure and leaf soil, to give 
them a start, and sufficient sand to make the whole porous. 
Last year about this time I made some cuttings from a shoot 
that had been broken off, and dibbled them into the Rose bed out¬ 
side. Ihey were lifted several times to see if they had rooted. 
The lifting killed all but one, which was well rooted in autumn, 
and stood well through the winter without any protection. This 
is now a vigorous plant, flowering freely with three or four strong 
shoots from the base. This is merely mentioned to show those 
who have no glass that a stock of ltoses on their own roots can 
readily be obtained without proving an expensive operation, 
as only a limited amount of intelligence and care is needed to 
propagate Roses from cuttings.— W. Bardney. 
BARNARD CASTLE SHOW. 
Barnard Castle is situated in the southern division of Durham 
close on the confines of Yorkshire, and adjoining the romantic vale’ 
of the Tees, with its charming waterfall. Everywhere the scenery 
is enchanting, rich in woodland, and a fine pastoral country. Rokeby 
Park, immortalised by Sir Walter Scott, Raby Castle, Stratlam Castle, 
and other places are all contiguous. The town of Barnard Castle is 
very old, possessing an exceedingly fine specimen of an old Norman 
castle. It is in the_ castle grounds where the Committee held their 
Flowei Show. I his is close to the '• King’s Head,” where Charles 
Dickens stayed during his visit, and where he pourtrayed so forcibly 
the adjoining educational establishments. 
The Show was not very large, but, in all classes the exhibits were 
of superior merit. For four plants the Society offer £5. Mr. Johnson, 
Darlington, was first with a fine Erica Austiniana and Shannoni 
Olerodendron Balfourianum, and Lapageria rosea. Mr. Westcott Raby 
Castle, was second; and Mr. W. Bowlzer, Rokeby Park, third; he 
had iQnis stand a fine plant of the old Clerodendron fallax over 
3 feet high. For four exotic Ferns Mr. Johnson was again first with 
A? 6 Davallia Mooreana, Gleichenias microphylla and 
Mendeli, and Adiantum farleyense. Mr. Westcott was second, his 
best plant being Davallia Mooreana over 7 feet across. Mr. Westcott 
was first for four foliage plants ; he had a grand Alocasia Lowii 
over 4 feet high, well developed. Mr. Westcott showed some ex¬ 
cellent Cockscombs of his noted strain. Mr. Bowlzer showed fine 
Zonal Pelargoniums. Lizzie Brooks, The Bride, and Mrs. Wright. 
Fruit was a great feature of the Show. For six varieties Pines 
excluded, Mr. Westcott secured the chief prize with Muscat of’ Alex¬ 
andria and Black Hamburgh Grapes, fine in every respect, the 
bunches varying from 3 to 4 lbs., the berries large and finely coloured. 
Royal George Peaches and Pitmaston Orange Nectarines were also 
very good. Mr. Jowsev. gardener to Gilpin Brown, Esq., Ledbury 
Park, showed very fine Black Hamburgh and large Buckland Sweet¬ 
water Grapes, Violet Hative Nectarine, Colston Basset Melon, and 
Royal (xeorge Peach. Ibis collection was an excellent second. Mr. 
Bowlzer was third for two bunches of Black Hamburgh ■ Mr. West¬ 
cott was first with excellent bunches. For two bunches’of Muscats 
Mr t ^?" Sey was fi " st follovy ed by Mr. Westcott. Peaches, Nectarines, 
and Melons were also well shown. 
"V egetables in both the open and amateur classes were very fine. 
The Society would do well to enforce the rule relative to the naming 
of exhibits, and also to have on the exhibition cards the names of 
the owners of the produce as well as gardeners who exhibit it. Mr. 
J. J. Bailey is Secretary, and with an active and efficient Committee 
endeavours assiduously to make the Show a success. 
POTATOES. 
I SHOULD be much obliged to any of your correspondents who 
would kindly supply me, through the Editor, with a few seed 
apples of the Magnum Bonum Po‘a f o. I have looked over acres 
here in several direction*, and cannot obtain what I want. They 
flower, but produce no seed. I have only one seedling of the 
Magnum Bonum, but that is so yery satisfactory, possessing all 
the disease-resisting characteristics of the parent, that I wish to 
proceed further. 
I find a wonderful difference in seedling Potatoes with regard 
to disease-resisting power. I have been carrying on seven or 
eight seedlings now for several years, but find the majority are so 
liable to disease that I have decided on discarding all but one. 
This one has never had the disease in the least as far as the tubers 
are concerned from first to last. It is a round Potato about the 
size of a cricket ball, and not very unlike one, but the skin is 
about the colour of Schoolmaster. I carried these seedlings on 
because some of them were wonderful croppers ; but I shall not, 
I think, do so in future, and discard all which have the disease 
badly in the second year. It is not necessary to occupy much land 
in the trial of seedlings. About a dozen tubers are quite enough 
to carry on until you decide that the variety is worthy of a more 
extended trial. 
The seeds are sown on a mild hotbed in spring, and planted 
out at the end of May or beginning of June. They should be put 
out at least 2 feet apart, and well earthed up. The produce varies 
very much according to circumstances and the season. You may 
have twenty tubers, some of them large enough for cooking the 
first season, or disease may come and you may only have seven or 
eight tubers about as large as peas, and then it takes several years 
to work them up to a respectable size, but it will save trouble if 
you discard in the second year as before mentioned. The seed¬ 
lings require to be well earthed up, as they have more root-develop¬ 
ment than those raised from tubers. Here is a wide field open 
for private enterprise. The Committee appointed by the House 
of Commons recommended the establishment of stations at dif¬ 
ferent parts of the country for the purpose of raising new seed¬ 
lings and improving the cultivation of the Potato, but the Govern¬ 
ment have been too much occupied to be able to give any atten¬ 
tion to the matter. I wish they would offer some prizes worth 
having, and we should then see what can be done in the way of 
new varieties.— Amateur, Cirencester . 
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JffiS. if 
We are informed on good authority that the International 
Potato Exhibition to be held at the Crystal Palace on Sep¬ 
tember 20th and 21st promises to equal in interest the exhi¬ 
bitions of former years and to develope some new features. The 
Committee, aided by the generous co-operation of the Royal Horti¬ 
cultural Society, have been enabled to submit all seedling Pota¬ 
toes sent in for competition to a very complete series of tests, and 
they will be finally judged on their cropping, disease-resisting, cook¬ 
ing, and exhibition qualities. The certificates of the International 
Committee are so much coveted by raisers of new varieties that 
they have felt bound to exercise the utmost caution, and to spare 
no pains in their endeavour to do perfect justice. 
- We have received from Messrs. James Dickson & Sons of 
Chester blooms of their new white Clove Carnation Duchess 
of Westminster. Spotless purity, smoothness and substance of 
petal, with excellence of form are combined in the flowers before us. 
We have never seen any white Carnations more charmingly beau¬ 
tiful, and the flowers are also highly perfumed. On inquiry we 
find that the plant is very hardy and continuously floiiferous, 
early layers taken off and potted flowering until Christmas like a 
tree Carnation. We regard this variety as a valuable acquisition, 
and Messrs. Dicksons, we apprehend, will require a large stock of 
plants to meet the demand that is likely to arise when the merits 
of the Duchess become widely known. Plants of this variety will, 
we believe, be distributed during the present autumn. 
Crystal Palace. —Mr. G. Reay-Mackey, late Assistant- 
Paymaster Royal Navy and Secretary to Admiral Rice and 
Admiral Luard at Malta, has been appointed manager of the 
Crystal Palace ; and Mr. G. G. Cleaiher, manager of the Scar- 
