184 JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. [ February 15, 1883. 
house devoted to greenhouse plants, where on all favourable 
occasions they receive abundance of air ; water is also given freely, 
particularly in the growing season. I was informed that last 
year a good proportion of loam was mixed in the potting material, 
but on examining the plants it was found that not a single root 
had taken to it, so in consequence it will not again be used. The 
soil to be used in future is the compost named above. I must 
say a word or two in favour of a very fine variety of Angrsecum 
sesquipedale. I have only on one occasion seen a variety to 
surpass this in size, and that one was at Messrs. Veitch’s. I believe 
the flower of Messrs. Veitch’s variety is fully 9 inches across. 
The one I saw at Malvern was 8f inches. The plant is only of 
medium size, but very healthy, not a spot on the leaves. It is 
scarcely necessary to say that it is highly prized by its owner, 
who knows the value of and appreciates really good varieties of 
Orchids. 
The above are only a few of the good plants in this collection, 
but, as I have already stated, the season was anything but favour¬ 
able to see them at their best; however, if flowers were scarce 
plants were plentiful, and it is always a source of pleasure to see 
Orchids in good condition. In conclusion, I may add that not 
only are Orchids, flowering, and fine-foliaged plants well grown 
there, but fruit also, including Vines, Pines, Peaches, Melons, &c. 
There is also one of the prettiest natural ferneries here that I have 
seen, most of the Ferns being planted out, including a fine col¬ 
lection of Filmies. My visit to Davenham Bank will long be re¬ 
membered, and I have to record my appreciation of Mr. Jacques’ 
kindness on that occasion.— George Walters. 
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At the Annual General Meeting of the Royal Horticul¬ 
tural Society held on February 13th, Lord Aberdare in the 
chair, the following candidates were unanimously elected Fellows 
—viz., George Alldred, Robert George Arbuthnot, Capt. Robert 
A. H. Barry, Rt. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, M.P., Prof. Michael 
Foster, F.R.S., Mrs. Goddard, John Harman, William Hatch, Miss 
Margaret Hesse, Mrs. I’Anson, H. Jones, Major A. F. Tandy, 
H. A. Mangles, Barnard Mitchell, Mrs. Morrison, C. S. Mortimer, 
Sir P. Cunliffe Owen, K.C.M.G., C.B., C.I.E.; H. J. Robinson 
Pease, J. G. Rollins, J. S. Smith, Hon. Howard Spensley, Wm. 
Stevens, Arthur W. Sutton, G. D. Taviner, James Thomson, E. 
Tredgett, and James Wyatt. 
-The International Potato Exhibition will be held 
in the Crystal Palace, Sydenham, on the 13th and 14th of Septem¬ 
ber next, under the presidency of the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor. 
The schedule is nearly the same as last year, and the few differ¬ 
ences observable are really expansions. In the great class for 
twenty-four varieties there are six prizes offered. In the classes 
for eighteen, twelve, nine, and six there are five prizes. The 
Royal Horticultural Society will generously assist by affording 
facilities for growing and judging seedlings entered for Classes S, 
T, U, V, as last year. 
- In reply to the inquiry about Chrysanthemum Fair 
Maid of Guernsey, noticed on page 114, Mr. Brotherston 
states :—“ The tops of a few plants were cut off at the beginning 
of the year, and the plants kept in a temperature of about 50°. 
They broke up the stems, and are producing a good crop of 
flowers. With healthy plants to begin with, good feeding, and a 
genial temperature, I have no doubt that good blooms could be 
obtained far into spring by the above means.” 
- Mr. C. F. Bause, recently Manager of the General Horti¬ 
cultural Company’s Melbourne Nursery at Anerley, and previously 
propagator at Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, Chelsea, and in the Royal 
Horticultural Society’s Gardens, Chiswick, is now established in 
business at the Morland Nursery, Portland Road, South Norwood. 
He has three useful span-roofed houses, each 85 feet long, already 
well stocked with Palms, Ferns, Crotons, Spiraea palmata, Roses, 
and miscellaneous plants all in the most luxuriant health, and 
there is sufficient space to permit a considerable extension of the 
glass. Mr. Bause’s skill as a propagator is well known, and the 
great success which attended his efforts to improve Coleuses and 
Dracaenas gives promise of similar improvement resulting in other 
genera of plants to which he may devote his attention. 
- We are informed that the second Exhibition of the 
Sutton Rose Society will be held in the Sutton Public Hall 
on Friday, the 6th of July next. 
- Mr. Thomas Weaver, The Gardens, Christleton Hall, 
near Chester, writes :—“ For comparison with Mr. Leslie’s register 
of rainfall FOR 1882 I send the enclosed, deeming it worthy of 
insertion in your valuable Journal, which has given me much 
pleasure in reading for over fifteen years. The greatest quantity 
of rain which fell in this district during the twenty-four hours 
was on Sunday, April 30th, when it registered 0.85 inch. Janu¬ 
ary, 2.08 inches ; February, 1.56 inch ; March, 1.70 inch ; April, 
3.36 inches ; May, 1.86 inch ; June, 4.57 inches ; July, 3.56 inches ; 
August, 2.89 inches ; September, 1.75 inch ; October, 2.98 inches ; 
November, 3.95 inches ; December, 4.03 inches. Total for the year, 
34.29 inches.” 
- D. A. Milward, Esq., Lavistown, Kilkenny, writes :—“ I 
enclose a copy of our rainfall here for 1882. This place is 
two miles and a quarter from Kilkenny, close to the river Nore. 
This being a mild and dry locality our rainfall is usually light. 
January and February in this year have been very wet. Janu- 
ary, 1.68 inch ; February, 2.34 ; March, 1.82 ; April, 3.55 ; May, 
2.01 ; June, 3.09 ; July, 4.92 ; August, 3.05 ; September, 2.21; 
October, 3.25 ; November, 3.18 ; December, 2.58. Total, 33.68 
inches.” 
- A YOUNG gardener, “G. H.,” sends us the following letter, 
which is creditable to him :—“ I read with great pleasure the 
article in your issue of February 1st by ‘ Excelsior,’ ‘ Thoughts 
on Gardening and Gardeners,’ especially that part relating 
to young gardeners living in bothies spending their spare hours 
in study. I firmly believe one-half of our young gardeners are 
morally ruined by pernicious habits indulged in in the bothy, such 
as card-playing and excessive drinking. I would suggest as a 
remedy for this, for gentlemen who have a bothy attached to their 
gardens, the formation of a small library to be attached thereto. 
This would be a great boon to the men, and I feel sure their out¬ 
lay would be fully repaid by the improvement that would follow 
in their young men. I have lived in bothies in good places 
throughout England, but never yet met with one to which a 
library was attached. I have found in many instances the small 
wages received by young gardeners entirely preclude the possi¬ 
bility of supplying themselves with books.” Another correspon¬ 
dent desires to thank “ Excelsior ” for his communication. 
- Gardening Appointments.—M r. D. Melville, late head 
gardener for J. Hornsby, Esq., J.P., Honington Hall, Grantham, 
has succeeded Mr. H. A. Mann at Mrs. Hornsby’s, St. Yincent’s 
New Somerby, Grantham ; and Mr. G. Abbey, late of Grinkle Park, 
has been appointed gardener to Lord Esme Gordon, Paxton Park, 
St. Neots. 
- A correspondent writes:—“ I wish to make a suggestion 
with regard to Mr. Adnitt’s Pea Protectors, a description of 
which appeared some time ago in the Journal, and again in the 
“Gardeners’ Year Book” for 1883. It is, that instead of two 
boards joined together at the ends with thin iron and covered 
with moveable pieces of glass, I think that (owing to the drawn 
state of the Peas when these protectors are kept on sufficiently 
to protect them from birds) it would be better to have three 
boards instead of two, with wire netting to cover one space 
