50 JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. r January is, im. 
The following persons]'are recommended by the Council to 
be appointed to the offices of President, Treasurer, Secretary, and 
Auditors of the Royal Horticultural Society, at the annual 
meeting on the 13th February, 1883 : — President, Right Hon. 
Lord Aberdare ; Treasurer, William Haughton ; Secretary, Major 
F. Mason ; Auditors, R. A. Aspinall, John Lee, and James F. 
West. The vacating members of the Council are Colonel R. 
Trevor Clarke, Rev. H. Harpur Crewe, and J. T. D. Llewelyn ; and 
the following gentlemen are recommended by the Council to fill 
the above-mentioned ordinary vacancies—Sir Charles W. Strick¬ 
land, Bart., Sir P. Cunliffe Owen, K.C.M.G., C.B., C.I.E., and 
Colonel Beddome. 
- We are informed that'MR. E. Tudgey, who was recently 
gardener to J. F. G. Williams, Esq., Worcester, has commenced 
business as a nurseryman at Waltham Cross. He has purchased 
the handsome specimen plants with which, on behalf of his 
employer, he"'has gained so 'many honours at the London and 
provincial exhibitions, and in future, therefore, he will appear 
in the nurserymen’s classes if he continues showing, as he un¬ 
doubtedly intends to do. 
- Messrs. James Carter & Co. desire us to state that their 
collection of Primulas will be on view at the Nurseries, 
Forest^Hill, up to January 31st. It is necessary that intending 
visitors should obtain a card of admission at their offices, 237 and 
238, High Holborn, London, W.C. .... cverm*.swa, ~~~~~ ■ 
- A Society for the encouragement of the cultivation 
of flowers has [been formed in Lerwick, Shetland. Sheriff 
Rampini has been appointed President of the Society, and Mr. 
R. B. Hunterf Secretary and Treasurer. This, writes “ Northern 
Amateur,” shows that floriculture is receiving an impetus, under 
influential patronage,[even in the far north of Scotland. 
- A subscriber writes :—“ I have amongst a small collec¬ 
tion of Orchids a plant of Dendrobium fimbriatbm, and one 
of Cymbidium [Mastersii, which, though growing vigorously, 
I am unable to bloom, although I have treated them like ether 
Dendrobes, for example'D. densiflorum, clavatum, &c. Will any 
of your subscribers say whether they have experienced similar 
difficulty, and if successful the mode of culture they have 
followed 1 ” 
- The Report on the Condition and Progress of the 
Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1S81 has just been issued, and apart 
from the particulars immediately concerning the home establish¬ 
ment, it contains a number of interesting and instructive reports 
upon various important subjects in connection with the products 
of our colonies and dependencies. This portion of the Report 
annually increases in usefulness, and conveys some idea of the 
extent and importance of the work in which Kew has so large 
a share. To these we shall return on a future occasion, as many 
of the matters treated of have a general interest. The number 
of visitors [to the gardens during the year was greater than any 
previously recorded—namely, 836, 676, an ample proof, if any were 
needed, that while maintaining its position as the leading scientific 
institution in the horticultural and botanical world, it yet con¬ 
tinues to increase in popularity with the general public. The 
many improvements which have been effected under the direction 
of Sir William and Sir Joseph Hooker have greatly tended to this, 
the efforts of the latter having also been aided by the Curator, 
Mr. John Smith, and more recently by the Assistant Director, 
Professor Dyer. 
- Mr. T. S. Murphy, Hillington Hall, writes :—“ I was glad 
to see your correspondent Mr. F. Richardson’s remarks on the hand¬ 
some flowering plant Bougainvillea glabra. A small plant of 
it was placed out here last March against the back wall of the 
Melon house. It was inserted in the path, which consists of sandy 
gravel, and to see it growing and flowering was most astonishing. 
It bloomed the whole season, and supplied us with a large amount 
of cut flowers which we found very useful. I certainly would not 
recommend giving any sort of manure whatever, as poor soil 
seems to suit it best.” 
- A correspondent, “ J. D.,” requests information on the 
subject of vegetation for A rookery, and with the object of 
eliciting it we print his letter as follows :—“ I have just entered 
on a place where there is a large rookery, and underneath the 
old trees that compose it no vegetation is left alive. What would 
be my best way of trying to get some sort of green carpet below 
it ? I do not wish to make away with the rooks. Would any 
kind of Sedum grow under such circumstances ? or would Ground 
Ivy be available ? Something that would hide the bareness, and 
still admit of the masses of fallen leaves being gathered up 
pretty readily, appears to me to be the desideratum.” 
- Mr. Allis, gardener to Joseph Shuttleworth, Esq., Old 
Warden, Biggleswade, has sent us a sample of Pearson’s Golden 
Queen Grape, which we have seldom if ever seen in such good 
condition. The berries are of a clear amber colour without spot 
or blemish, and the flavour is particularly refreshing, having a 
delicate and agreeable aroma of the Muscat. Mr. Allis grows 
this Grape with the Black Alicante, of which he considers it the 
best white companion, both growing and bearing with the same 
freedom, ripening at the same time, and keeping equally well. 
-As Forest tree planting on waste land 3 is a 
matter of considerable interest to the public at present, we record 
the following example of extensive planting :—“ By directions of 
Sir Henry Loch, K.G., Her Majesty’s Commissioner of Woods 
and Forest?, a large extent of Crown lands in the Isle of Man is 
about to be planted with forest and ornamental trees. About 
five hundred acres are now being so planted on the mountain 
called Archallagan, where cabins have been erected by the con¬ 
tractors for the accommodation of the men. Messrs. Little and 
Ballantyne, Knowefield Nurseries, Carlisle, have been entrusted 
with the contract, one of the largest of the kind ever entered into 
in Great Britain, and already the first instalment of a quarter of 
a million of young trees have been shipped from the Carlisle 
Nurseries for the work.” 
- “ G. S.” writes :—“ Easter Beurre Pear is one of the 
most reliable in this locality (South Yorkshire) both for pro¬ 
ductiveness and quality. We are now heading down trees of 
inferior varieties, intending to graft them with this, which I 
consider to be one of our best late Pears. This year it has 
ripened much earlier than usual, also Glou Morceau and 
Josephine de Malines, being all ripe and sent to table before the 
present time. The above are the three best late Pears here. The 
soil is on strong magnesian limestone. Other varieties that I 
have found to succeed well are Jargonelle, Williams’ Bon Chretien, 
Marie Louise, Beurre Diel, and Louise Bonne of Jersey, each in 
their season being of good quality.” 
- Mr. W. Jenkins, The Gardens, Aldin Grange, Durham, 
writing respecting late-flowering Chrysanthemums, ob¬ 
serves :—“ I send you a couple of blooms of Chrysanthemum 
Guernsey Nugget, to show what a useful variety it is, flowering as 
it does into the new year. I find Princess of Teck and Beauty of 
Stoke Newington good companions to it, all three varieties being 
dwarf-growing and well adapted for conservatory work. I think 
the first-named is not sufficiently known.” The blooms received 
