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well merit the praise our correspondent bestows upon them. 
Guernsey Nugget, very bright yellow, fresh, and of good form ; 
Beauty of Stoke Newington, pale pink, nearly white ; and Princess 
Teck, pure white, the blooms very compact and distinct. They 
form a trio of very useful late varieties. 
- “A Northern Amateur,” referring to his notes on 
page 32, writes :—“ Allow me to notice that in speaking of the 
construction of the houses at Fedali, I intended to use the words 
‘ well raised ’ after ‘ the lights in every house were to be seen.’ I 
intended also to say that Mr. Dickson of the Orrueau Park, Belfast, 
* has nearly discarded the named sorts ’ of Verbenas, not his own 
seedlings. Hasty and indistinct writing may have caused these 
errata.” 
-A meeting in support of a profosed Chrysanthe¬ 
mum Show at Lincoln took place last Thursday evening. The 
Mayor, W. T. Page, jun., Esq., took the chair. The meeting was 
attended by a number of gentlemen and practical gardeners well 
known for their interest in horticultural matters. It was resolved 
to form a Lincoln Chrysanthemum Society, with the objects of 
promoting the cultivation of the Chrysanthemum and of holding 
an annual exhibition some time in November. A sub-committee, 
consisting of Mr. Whitbread, Mr. Buff ham, Mr. Cooling, head 
gardener at Monks’ Manor ; and Mr. Wipf, head gardener at East 
Cliff House ; with Mr. B. J. Ward as Chairman, and Dr. G. M. 
Lowe as Hon. Sec., was appointed to carry out details and issue a 
schedule as promptly as possible 
- The Rosarians’ Year Book. —The issue of this wel¬ 
come annual for 1883 (Bemrose & Sons) is now in the hands of 
many readers, to whom it will doubtlessly prove even more accep¬ 
table than previous editions. It includes entertaining articles by 
the Revs. H. B. Biron, J. A. Williams, and the Editor, H. Hony- 
wood D'Ombrain, with Messrs. J. Hinton, D. T. Fish, E. R. Whit- 
well, G. Paul, A. H. Gray, Hubert Bensted, Edward Mawley, and 
C. H. Hawtrey, upon various subjects more or less connected with 
Rose-growing and exhibiting ; in addition being given excellent 
photographic portraits of George Baker, Esq., of Reigate, Vice- 
President of the National Rose Society, and of E. R. Whitwell, 
Esq., the winner of the Amateurs’ Challenge Trophy in 1882. 
As an example of “light reading” we propose to publish Mr. 
Hawtrey’s amusing article in a future issue. 
-- Gardening Appointment. —Mr. James Clark, formerly 
gardener to the late E. Hermon, Esq., Wyfold Court, Henley, has 
entered on his duties as head gardener to Lord Camoys, Stonor, 
Henley-on-Thames. 
- We are informed on the best authority that Messrs. 
James Veitch & Sons have purchased the freehold of the King’s 
Road Nursery, together with that of Stanley House and the 
grounds pertaining to it. The latter will always have an interest 
attached to it from being the residence where the late Mr. James 
Veitch, the founder of the London house, lived and died. We 
cannot but congratulate Messrs. Veitch on having acquired so 
precious a possession, where, we trust, for many years to come 
the family and the family name will be preserved in connection 
with a pursuit they have for four generations already so highly 
adorned. The nursery, which was founded by the late Mr. Joseph 
Knight in 1815, was of small dimensions ; and when Mr. James 
Veitch, jun., left Exeter and succeeded Messrs. Knight & Perry 
in 1853, it very soon became apparent that the new energy he 
introduced into the establishment proved too great for the small 
space in which it was confined, and as a natural consequence 
greater scope had to be provided. In 1857 the acreage of the 
nursery was doubled, Mr. Perry having purchased Stanley House 
and the land adjoining, which he let to Mr. Veitch, and now Mr. 
Harry J. Veitch has become proprietor of the whole. Now 
neither he nor those who would regret to see the old associations 
with the King’s Road severed, need have any misapprehension on 
that point. We congratulate Mr. Veitch most heartily on this 
valuable acquisition, and we, in common with a host of well- 
wishers, hope he may be spared many, years to enjoy his well- 
gotten gain. 
- Last Monday evening a number of the Auricula 
GROWERS of Rochdale, MiddletoD, and Todmorden met at 
Rochdale, and after considering the matter resolved to revive the 
Auricula Show in that town. The meeting were presided over by 
Mr. James Cheetham, who was Secretary of the old Society when 
the shows were discontinued. Mr. C. M. Royds, J.P., was elected 
President, and Messrs. Samuel Barton, J.P., Stakehill, Richard 
Gorton, Eccles, and William Bolton, Warrington, Vice-Presidents. 
The Hon. Secretary and Treasurer is Mr. James Cheetham, 
Waraleworth Brow, and the duties of Hon. Assistant Secretary 
will be discharged by Mr. James Brodie, Mitchel Street. The 
date of the Show was fixed for the day following the Exhibition 
of the National Auricula Society in Manchester, and rules and 
schedule of prizes were adopted. 
- Rev. David Landsborough, Kilmarnock, writes : — 
“Your correspondent ‘ G. L.,’ who wrote recently respecting 
the hardiness of Cordyline iNDiviSA^j(page 8), will be 
interested in the following extract, which appeared in a Scotch 
paper four and half years ago: — ‘In the grounds of South 
Park, Campbeltown, Argyleshire, the residence of Lady Camp¬ 
bell and Sheriff Gardiner, there is at present ’to be seen in 
flower a very fine specimen of the New Zealand Cabbage 
Tree or Palm. The plant is fully 11 feet high, its stem is about 
8 inches in diameter, perfectly straight, and is ensheathed, ex¬ 
cept 2 feet at the lower part, in beautifully green long sword¬ 
shaped leaves. The flower is an immense panicle covered with 
innumerable little florets. It proceeds from the top of the stem, 
but takes a very peculiar twist, and lies toward the sun. The 
plant was raised from seed by Lady Campbell eleven years ago, 
and has stood out of doors all these years without any'protection, 
exposed to all the changes of our very variable climate. It is 
highly ornamental, and apparently quite hardy.’ I may add 
that Cordyline australis, C. indivisa, and C. Veitchii are all quite 
hardy in the garden of Cromla House, Corrie, Isle of Arran, where 
they have grown in the open air for five years without receiving 
the slightest injury. I saw lately a very beautiful and striking 
photograph of the Palm avenue in the Botanic Garden, Ballarat, 
Victoria. Why should not some of our favourite watering places 
possess a similar avenue, as we have those which possess the 
requisite climate and shelter ? ” 
- Mr. C. A. White of Washington has the following observa¬ 
tions in the last issue of Nature on the reversion of Sun- 
FLOWERS at NIGHT :—“ While the fact that Sunflowers turn 
their faces toward the sun in its course during the day is as old 
as our knowledge of the plant, I am not aware that any record 
has been made as to the time of night that they turn to the east 
again after their obeisance to the setting sun. One evening 
during a short stay at a village in Colorado, in the summer of 
1881, I took a walk along the banks of a large irrigating ditch 
just as the sun was setting. The wild variety of Helianthus 
annuus, Linn. ( = H. lenticularis, Dougl iss) grew abundantly there, 
and I observed that the broad faces of all the flowers were, as is 
usual in the clear sunset, turned to the west. Returning by the 
same path less than an hour afterwards, and immediately after 
the daylight was gone, I found, to my surprise, that much the 
greater part of those flowers had already turned their faces full 
to the east in anticipation, as it were, of the sun’s rising. They 
had in that short time retraced the semicircle, in the traversing 
of which with the sun they had spent the whole day. Both the 
day and night were cloudless, and apparently no unusual con¬ 
ditions existed that might have exceptionally affected the move* 
ments of the flowers. I doubt not that many persons like myself 
