JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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[ November 4 , 1880. 
Floral and Horticultural Society. They grow best in a richly 
dunged bed, and fine spikes may be obtained which will gratify 
the most fastidious florist. I cannot conceive why a flower so 
brilliant in colours should only be grown by few, and also at a 
time when flowers are not very plentiful; they require so little 
trouble and form a great ornament to the shrubbery when planted 
in clumps of six or eight together, taking great care to blend the 
colours well. The Gladiolus produces seeds freely, and if seed is 
required it is well to shelter them from the rain and gather the 
pods as they ripen. 
I have omitted the result of my seedlings, as I only took seed 
from the best of the varieties, and in doing so I discarded all 
faulty varieties, and the result was I had not many to dispose 
of, and for those I obtained 15.?. per hundred. I had a great 
number of varieties equal to any raised in France, and not a few 
of different shades and colours—quite a new style. I find from 
last year’s catalogue that the prices for corms have been greatly 
reduced, and what I then gave 6s. or 7s. each can be bought for 
9d. to Is. each. The following are a few that I should recommend 
to be grown in order to raise seedlings :— 
Light-coloured. —Bertha Eabourdm, pure white ; Madame Binder, 
white: Marie, pure clear white ; Heine Victoria, pure white, 
broadly feathered with deep carmine; Penelope, creamy white 
shading to blush ; Kebecca, white lightly shaded with lilac, deep 
carmine. 
Scarlet. —Comte de Morny, splendid vermilion ; Due de Mala- 
koff, brilliant orange scarlet with pure white veins ; Fulton, rich 
transparent vermilion red ; James Veitch, bright vermilion, 
striped violet; La Titien, bright vermilion ; Meyerbeer, intense 
brilliant, scarlet of petals flamed vermilion ; Sir Joseph Paxton, 
brilliant orange red, lower petals white. 
Rose. —Calendulaceus, pale salmon rose shaded with deeper 
rose ; Diana, delicate blush shaded with rose, lower petals striped 
bright carmine ; Jeanne d’Arc, blush shaded with pale rose, lower 
petals striped with deep carmine ; Lord Kaglan, salmon rose, 
lower petals striped deep vermilion ; Madame Furtado, most 
beautiful, blush flamed with rosy carmine, &c.; Madame Vilmorin, 
deep rose shading to blush, lower petals striped with carmine ; 
Mazeppa, bright salmon rose ; Milton, beautiful blush rose, lower 
petals striped with crimson; Oracle, brilliant cerise rose with 
deeper shades ; Valleda, delicate rose shaded with carmine. 
Gladioli may be grown to advantage in pots ; when planted 
in beds the corms should be 6 inches apart.—J ohn Slatee. 
THE POMOLOGICAL MEETING AT HEREFORD. 
The fourth annual Exhibition of the Pomona Committee of the 
"VVoolhope Club was held at the Free Library, Hereford, on the 27th 
and 28th ultimo ; and this was by far the most attractive and satis¬ 
factory of any of those that preceded it. Four years ago, when the 
attempt was first made to bring together representatives of the many 
varieties of Apples and Pears cultivated in the Herefordshire orchards, 
the object was mainly to ascertain what varieties were best adapted 
as vintage fruit for the manufacture of cider and perry. The old 
historical varieties, it was said, had died out, and their places supplied 
by modern kinds inferior in merit either as pot fruit or for vintage 
purposes ; and the Committee of the Woolhope Club, with the praise¬ 
worthy energy which this Society always exhibits, made this a subject 
for investigation. At the first meeting the number of plates shown 
did not exceed three hundred, and these included a large number of 
dessert fruit grown in the gardens of amateurs ; still there was a fair 
representation of the cider and perry fruit—quite enough to show the 
miserable state the formerly renowned Herefordshire orchards were in 
through negligent cultivation, and the total absence of any regard to 
the varieties of fruits best calculated to add to their wealth and 
reputation. Not much interest was manifested at this first Exhibition, 
though there were some—and fortunate it is that there are always 
some who are ready to assist in any good work—whose names will be 
on record, and who came forward and lent a helping hand in pro¬ 
moting the desirable object. Since then the interest in the subject 
has spread, and year by year the Exhibition of the Pomona Com¬ 
mittee has become one of the annual events of the county, till it has 
attained a magnitude which bids fair to become too great for the 
limited accommodation the Free Library affords. On this occasion 
there were but few short of two thousand dishes of fruit exhibited. 
As might have been expected such a work could not long be con¬ 
fined to vintage fruit only, and in each succeeding year we find that 
dessert and culinary fruit have rapidly increased, while the area of 
competition has widely extended. Not only do the adjoining coun¬ 
ties of Worcester and Gloucester send their contributions, but the 
distant orchards of Kent and Devonshire have their representatives. 
Berkshire puts in a creditable appearance, and far distant Normandy 
stretches out a hand, renewing the ancient connection which gave to 
Herefordshire so many of her original Apples and a knowledge of 
orcharding. 
At the first two Shows there was no competition, all the specimens 
being exhibited gratuitously, and out of a laudable desire to assist in 
obtaining and diffusing information on the orchard fruits of the 
county. It was soon found, however, that to maintain an annual 
exhibition and to obtain still further information on the subject it 
was necessary to hold out some inducement for growers to send their 
specimens, and the usual recourse was adopted of publishing a sche¬ 
dule with prizes. This seems to have become an established custom, 
and this year the schedule extended to thirty-nine classes, with a 
prize list amounting to £51. The first four classes were for pro¬ 
fessional growers, and in these the prizes for dessert and culinary 
Apples were carried off triumphantly by Mr. Lewis Killick, Langley, 
near Maidstone. In Class 1, for dessert Apples, he exhibited Lady Derby 
(Summer Thorle), Duchess of Gloucester, Worcester Pearmain, Yellow 
Ingestre, Old Nonpareil, Warwick Pippin, Cox's Orange Pippin, 
Duchess of Oldenburg, Court Pendu Plat, Hubbard’s Pearmain, 
Aromatic Russet, Mattot’s Pearmain, King of the Pippins, Sharp’s 
Pippin, Ribston Pippin, Sturmer Pippin, Border Pippin, Royal 
Russet, Dungay, Margil, Golden Russet, Court of Wick, Fearn’s 
Pippin, Mannington’s Pearmain, Golden Knob, Bordeaux Reinette, 
Wanstall, Scarlet Nonpareil, and Blenheim Orange. The second 
prize was very creditably taken by Mr. J. Watkins of Wistaston, 
and the third by Mi. J. Griffiths of Tillington. In the class for 
culinary Apples Mr. Killick carried off the first prize with Bedford¬ 
shire Foundling, Loddington Seedling, Warner’s King, Tower of 
Glammis, Beauty of Kent, Winter Nonsuch, Gooseberry Pippin, 
French Royal, Cullen, Hanwell Souring, Norfolk Beefing, Woodcock, 
Queen Charlotte, Winter Quoining, Blenheim Orange, Lord Derby, 
Hoary Morning, Royal Russet, White Apple, Seely’s Apple, York¬ 
shire Greening, Mere de Menage, Lucombe Seedling, Wellington 
(Dumelow’s Seedling), Cox’s Pomona, New Hawthornden, Golden 
Noble, King of the Pippins, Lord Suffield, Graham, Golden Spire, 
French Crab, Northern Greening, and Ecklinville Seedling. The 
second successful competitor was again Mr. J. Watkins, and the 
third Mr. John Barnes of Gloucester. In Class 3, for dessert Pears, 
the first prize went to M. 0. Benoit of Havre, France ; the second to 
Mr. H. Moorman, Tivoli Gardens, Cheltenham ; and the third to 
Mr. Barnes of Gloucester. In Class 4, for culinary Pears, Mr. Barnes 
was first. 
The amateur classes were keenly contested, but Sir H. Scudamore 
Stanhope, Bart., of Holme Lacy, shot far ahead of them all, especially 
in dessert Pears. In the class for dessert Apples he was first with 
very fine Ribston Pippin, Blenheim, Newtown Pippin, Pine Apple 
Russet, Ashmead’s Kernel, King of the Pippins, Cox’s Orange Pippin, 
Margil, Golden Harvey, Royal Russet, Court Pendu Plat, and Lamb 
Abbey Pearmain. Mr. John Pitt of Bosbury was a good second, and 
Mr. H. Jenkins, Nupton House, Canon Pyon, was third. In Class 6, 
for culinary Apples, Sir H. Scudamore Stanhope was again first with 
Gravenstein, Blenheim Pippin, Cellini, Gloria Mundi, Winter Haw- 
hornden, Dumelow’s Seedling, Warner’s King, Tower of Glammis, 
Small’s Admirable, and Alfriston. Lady Emily Foley of Stoke Edith 
was second, and Mr. Higgins of Thingehill was third. In class 9, for 
not less than five dishes of dessert Pears, Sir H. Stanhope was first 
with a splendid collection of choice assortment and meritorious culti¬ 
vation. They were Doyenne Gris, Beurre Bachelier, Easter Beurre, 
Glou Morceau, Doyenne d’Alengon, Doyenne Blanc, Beurre d’Arem- 
berg, Beurrd Superfin, Triomphe de Jodoigne, Beurrd Diel, Duchesse 
d’Angouleme, Zdphirin Gregoire, Yan Mons Ldon Leclerc, Beurre 
Sterckmans, Columbia, Doyenne Boussoch, Doyenne du Comice, 
Beurre Clairgeau, Monarch, Duchesse d’Orleans, Marie Louise, Jose¬ 
phine de Malines, General Todtleben, and Beurre Bose. J. Booker, 
Esq., of Wissington Court, Ledbury, was second, and Lady Emily 
Foley of Stoke Edith was third. Class 10 was for dessert Pears, not 
less than three varieties, and here Sir H. S. Stanhope was again first 
with twenty-one varieties, most of which were in the former class, 
with the exception of Beurrd Hetterick, St. Germain, and Ne Plus 
Meuris. Mrs. Evans, Moreton Court, Ledbury, was second, and Rev. 
C. H. Bulmer of Credenhill was third. 
From Classes 12 to 29 they were all open either to professional 
or amateur growers. In the former, which was for dessert Apples 
for present flavour, Charles Eyre, Esq., of Welford Park, Newbury, 
Berks, and J. Somers Cocks, Esq., of Great Marlow were equal first, 
the former with Margil and the latter with Cox’s Orange Pippin. 
Class 13 attracted great interest. It was for a plate of five culinary 
Apples to be judged for size, weight, and quality. In each case the 
variety shown was Warner’s King, and there was perhaps never 
better examples shown. The first prize was awarded to H. Higgins, 
Esq., of Thingehill, whose five fruit weighed 7 lbs. 3 ozs.; the second 
to Mr. L. Killick, his weighing 5 lbs. 7\ ozs .; and the third went to 
Mr. Bennett, Sutton Hill, Hereford, the five weighing 4 tbs. 12f ozs. 
Classes 14 to 19 inclusive were for single dishes of specific varieties, 
but they did not draw forth anything that calls for special notice. 
Class 20, dessert Pears for present flavour, produced a confirmation of 
the high merits of Thompson’s and Seckle, the former being shown 
by G. H. Piper, Esq., of Ledbury, who took first prize, and the latter 
by Charles Eyre, Esq., who was second. Rev. C. H. Bulmer had 
specimens of Doyennd du Comice of very high character, but unfor¬ 
tunately his plate was one short of the required number and could 
not compete. 
The class for culinary Pears for size, weight, and quality excited, 
like the culinary Apples, a considerable amount of interest. The 
variety was Uvedale’s St. Germain, and the first prize was awarded 
to H. B. Strangways, Esq., Shurdington near Cheltenham, the five 
