500 JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. [ November 30, 1882. 
are in the liquid. A glass fingerbowl will do admirably. Sprinkle 
a little on the surface near the top of the glass to first attract 
them.” 
•- Mr. J. Thomas, gardener, Brockham Park, Betchwortb, 
Surrey, asks if any of our readers can inform him if there is a 
gravel pit anywhere near the South-Eastern Bailway, where 
he could obtain gravel the same in every respect as the Shirley 
gravel, Southampton. He will be thankful for any assistance in 
the matter. 
- “ B.” writes that “ in the stove at Calderstones, Liverpool, 
under the charge of Mr. Tunnington, is a very fine batch of 
Calanthe Yeitchii. It is seldom that this grand autumn- 
flowering Orchid is seen grown to such perfection as in those 
gardens. The pseudo-bulbs are of an immense size, many of 
them nearly 18 inches in length and proportionately thick, pro¬ 
ducing their spikes of beautiful flowers, which are fully 4 feet in 
length, with over thirty expanded flowers on a spike. These, 
associated with other plants and a number of Calanthe vestita 
rubra, render the stove very effective. 
■- “ In the same garden Urceolina aurea is producing 
freely in pots and pans its scapes of pendulous flowers, which are 
remarkable both for shape and colour. This plant is worthy of 
much more extensive cultivation, flowering as it does freely at 
this season of the year, and it will stand while in flower in the 
conservatory or any cool house without injury.” 
- Mr. G. Bunyard, The Old Nurseries, Maidstone, sends us 
the following additional particulars concerning the Washington 
Apple we figured last week “ The fruit of this variety which I 
gave to Dr. Hogg was grown in a small unheated orchard house 
in a pot. The tree bore about eighteen fruits, and many were 
much larger and finer than the sample. They were grown at 
Hawkhurst by Theodore Moilliett, Esq., and he kindly sent me 
fruit for the information of the Royal Horticultural Society’s Com¬ 
mittee. The fruit takes two distinct forms in the same way as 
the Beauty of Kent (one like the fruit figured, and the other 
like Cellini Pippin). It is an American variety, and has remark¬ 
ably fine foliage ; it is also said to be equally good in flavour out 
of doors. In habit it is rather diffuse, and with the restricted 
culture (in pots) bears freely, and from its growth appears likely 
to be prolific on the Paradise stock.” 
- Mr. Ernest Wilkins, Hon. Secretary of the Sutton 
Amateur Rose Society, has forwarded to us a small pamphlet 
entitled, “ Practical Hints on How to Grow Roses.” The 
work has been prepared by the Committee of the Society in 
question, with the object of disseminating in a concise form in¬ 
formation that will be of service to the Rose-growers of the 
district. Instructions are given on soils, planting, mulching, 
pruning, exhibiting, disbudding, and manuring. In the remedies 
suggested for destroying insects we observe that the quantities of 
the ingredients are not given whereby the applications may be 
safe yet efficacious. The list of Roses for exhibition is taken from 
our columns—namely the poll of the late election, and duly 
acknowledged; and “Memoranda for the Months” from Canon 
Hole’s “ Book about Roses.” Though the compilers of the pamphlet 
are not desirous of making any capital by its sale, the work can 
be had from Mr. Church, bookseller, Sutton, Surrey, its price to 
non-subscribers being Gd. 
- For some time past there has been a good display of 
Chrysanthemums in the Royal Botanic Society’s Gardens, 
Regent’s Park, a long bank extending the whole length of the 
corridor. About four hundred plants representing all the best 
varieties are grown ; and though no attempt is made at formal 
training an excellent effect is produced, the flowers being ex¬ 
tremely abundant. A number of specimens of Bouquet Fait are 
particularly noteworthy, well showing the floriferous habit of this 
variety, as some of them are literally a mass of flowers. Incurved, 
Japanese, Reflexed, Anemones, and Pompons are all represented 
by numerous varieties. 
- A correspondent writes on November 24th :—“ Mr. S. 
Whitfield, gardener to J. T. Cross, Esq., Beechwood, Aigburth, 
exhibited a fruit of PlTMASTON Duchesse Pear weighing 
25|- ozs. This fruit was the more wonderful for its size, because 
it was grown on a small cordon only obtained last November. It 
would be interesting to know the weight of the heaviest fruit that 
has been grown of this variety.” 
- The Secretary of the Leicester Chrysanthemum 
Show, referring to the note of a correspondent last week, states 
that the Show was not opened till three o’clock in the afternoon 
of Saturday the 18th inst., as many of the exhibitors are working 
men, and not at liberty to attend sooner. He further considers 
that as 150 window bills, 100 schedules, and 2000 small bills were 
circulated, and 500 people visited the Show, that it was not con¬ 
ducted in a “ very quiet manner; ” and adds if our correspon¬ 
dent had visited the Show he would have seen blooms exhibited 
in both the open and amateur classes with which he would have 
been gratified. In the open class for twelve blooms Mr. Landsell, 
gardener to T. Brooks, Esq., Barkby Hall; Rev. J. Bird, Walton 
Rectory ; and Messrs. J. & H. Hickling, Loughborough, were the 
prizewinners. We have not space for the prize list of exhibitors 
in the local classes. Our correspondent visited the school on 
Saturday at 1.30 ; not on Friday, as was printed inadvertently. 
- A correspondent writes that “ At a recent meeting of 
the Manchester Cryptogamic Society Mr. W. Foster exhibited a 
remarkable variety of Polypodium Phegopteris, which he had 
found at Patterdale last August. The pinnae of the fronds were 
cut up into long narrow lobes similar to Polypodium vulgare var. 
elegantissimum, and if the characters prove constant the variety 
will be a valuable one to cultivators of British Ferns.” 
■- Writing in reference to Chrysanthemum Sceur Me¬ 
lanie, Mr. C. Orchard, gardener to J. Galsworthy, Esq., Coombe 
Leigh, observes :—“ I am glad to see the above variety is attract¬ 
ing notice, as I have recommended it for decorative purposes 
several years now. I first became acquainted with it in the 
spring of 1873. Through a little article of mine on the culture of 
the Chrysanthemum in a contemporary a lady living at Rhyl, 
South Wales, kindly forwarded me some rooted cuttings for trial. 
It appeared to be a great favourite in her neighbourhood. She 
had then grown it three years, but had not been able to find the 
name except in one trade catalogue, and was only to be procured 
in Gloucestershire. Mr. C. Turner of Slough was the first that I 
know to bring it out in London amongst a group of plants 
that he exhibited two or three years ago at the Royal Horticul¬ 
tural Society’s meeting at South Kensington, when it was favour¬ 
ably noticed by the press. Last autumn the late Mr. Faulkner, 
gardener at Woolton Hall near Liverpool, sent me two or three 
cuttings of one he grew under the name of Souvenir de Melange, 
but which he said was synonymous with Soeur Melanie, and I have 
proved it is so this season by growing them side by side and giving 
them the same treatment. I have always described it as a small 
Elaine, and have found it best grown as bushes and partly dis¬ 
budded— i.c., pinch off the small side flower buds and leave from 
three to five on a shoot. Perhaps Mr. Bardney will tell us how 
long he has been acquainted with it.” 
- In reference to the York Horticultural Fete, to be 
held in June, 1883, it is stated that “the Exhibition will celebrate 
a quarter of a century’s work in the promotion of horticulture by 
the Committee of this Society, it having been established in 1859, 
