JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ March 15, 1883. 
extends from the top to the base without interruption, while the 
margins of the leaves are distinctly folded, as its specific name 
implies. It is remarkable that the green colouring of the inner 
division should be so constant in each species, differing in each. 
I have examined a large number of flowers in each introduced 
species, and found them all constant in this respect, however 
much they varied in other details. 
Hepaticas .—These are amongst the most beautiful of early 
spring flowers, and are admirably adapted for borders, rockeries, 
and spring bedding, and it is a marvel that we do not see them 
more frequently. They are really old-fashioned flowers, and there 
are many old country gardens where they exist in abundance. 
The forms of H. triloba, red, white, and blue, are all very pretty. 
The double forms of the former and latter are most useful, although 
the double blue is rather scarce. There is, as far as I know, no 
duplex white variety, which is a pity. Barlow’s single blue is large 
and of good substance, with broad petals, but there is an endless 
variety of colour in them, particularly among collected species 
from their natural habitats. H. angulosa is really the best blue. 
The flowers are much larger than those of H. triloba, resembling 
a miniature Clematis, of clear sky blue colour, and very lasting. 
The plant is floriferous and hardy—points which render it a 
favourite with all who see it.— Cestrian. 
We are glad to find that the Royal Horticultural 
Society is about to resume its Provincial Shows. An in¬ 
vitation has come from the Mayor of Birmingham for the 
Society to hold a great show there in July next, and with 
the assurance that a complete guarantee against loss would be 
raised. The matter was submitted to the Council on Tuesday 
last, and the invitation accepted, a committee being appointed 
to conduct the arrangements with the Birmingham committee. 
We are rejoiced to see the Society again turning its attention 
to national horticulture, in which alone its mainstay is to be 
found, and by which its greatest prestige is to be maintained. 
The Show will be held in the Lower Aston Grounds, as on the 
former occasion in 1872. These Grounds are now in the occu¬ 
pation of Mr. Reeves Smith, and the facilities for the transmission 
of goods and passengers are now very much increased to what 
they were before, when the Grounds were occupied by Mr. Quilter. 
-At a General Meeting of the Royal Horticultural 
Society held last Tuesday, Maxwell T. Masters, Esq., M.D., 
F.R.S., in the chair, the following candidates were unanimously 
elected Fellows—viz., Professor Allman, F.R.S., Wm. Cornwall 
Cowley, William Fish, Joseph Fromow, W. Ferdinand Hensley, 
Charles C. Laing, Arthur H. Lancaster, Donald Larnach, Mrs. 
Edward Lushington, Joseph Marten, Mrs. Frances Mitchell, Hugo 
Muller, M.D., F.R.S., James O’Brien, George Paul, J. T. Rogers, 
Dr. C. William Siemens, F.R.S., Harry Smith, Joseph Stevenson, 
B.A. (Secretary Agri-Horticultural Society of Madras), Edward 
William Thompson, Mrs. James Walker, Thomas Walker, F.L.S., 
R. E. Webster, Q.C., Coventry A. Woodhouse. 
- The Farningham Rose Show is fixed for Thursday 
July^fith of the present year. 
- Mr. John Nunns writes —“ In your last issue I read with 
great [interest the article on lifting Vines in March. I com- 
pliment^Mr. Bardney on his success, and should be glad if he 
would kindly state the age of the Vines at the time of lifting.” 
- Mr. G. Summers, The Gardens, Sandbeck Park, Rother¬ 
ham, sends us a box of unusually handsome blooms of Marie 
Louise Violets, which he states were gathered from a cold 
frame covered with 6 inches depth of snow. The flowers were 
exceedingly fine, indeed we have never seen better, and we should 
be glad if Mr. Summers would describe the system of culture 
which has produced such satisfactory results. 
- We are not over-sensitive on the question of the 
abstraction OF articles from our pages and inserted in 
other papers without acknowledgment, and it is only in a 
flagrant case of this kind that we make any reference to the 
matter. This week we have answered a correspondent on another 
page in a manner in which we think no exception can be taken 
by unprejudiced readers, and there we had intended the matter 
to end. Since, however, that reply was given our attention has 
been drawn to another paragraph in the same issue of the 
Garden that has undoubtedly been obtained from our columns, 
page 12, vol. iv., the issue of January 5th, 1882, yet not acknow¬ 
ledged ; and still another half column appears from an article 
originally published by us in our issue of January 4th of the 
present year, and the author’s MS. of which is in our possession. 
Having regard to the extraordinary fact that all these extracts 
should appear in one article in another paper, we are justified 
in asking “ F. W. B.” why one paragraph extracted from a con¬ 
temporary should be acknowledged, while for three which he 
takes from our pages for making up the same article no acknow¬ 
ledgment is vouchsafed 1 
-Mr. Charles Bateson, writing in an answer to a question 
about destroying insects on Mushroom beds, observes—“If 
sugar and plaster of Paris are mixed together in any proportion, 
6trewn about an inch high all round the top of the bed, the insects 
will speedily disappear, at least I have found this simple mode 
very efficient. They eat it for the sake of the sugar, and I 
suppose the plaster of Paris must harden in their stomachs and 
so kill them.” 
- Mrs. E. Miles, the widow of the late Mr. W. Miles of The 
West Brighton Nurseries, who died on February the 4th last, has 
issued a circular stating that she intends carrying on the business 
as before with the assistance of her son and daughters, retaining 
the services of the whole of the principal men as foremen, shop¬ 
men, clerks, &c. 
- Messrs. Kay & Son have sent us a sample of Indian 
MUSLIN, which appears a very suitable material for shading in 
summer and protecting the blossoms of fruit trees in spring. For 
the latter purpose it would not require to be rolled up, as, while 
it would afford shelter against ordinary spring frosts and sharp 
winds, it would also admit light and air to the trees. Though 
very light it appears strong, and is worthy of a trial in gardens. 
- At a meeting of the Kingston-on-Thames Chrysanthemum 
Society held last week, the question of the NOMENCLATURE OF 
Chrysanthemums was under discussion, and the following re¬ 
solution was agreed to :—“This meeting resolves that a sub¬ 
committee of six members and the Secretary, Mr. Jackson, be 
appointed as a conference to discuss the nomenclature of the In¬ 
curved varieties of the Chrysanthemum, with a view of settling the 
confusion which now exists, and that invitations be sent to the 
Journal of Horticulture, Gardeners' Magazine, and the Gardeners' 
Chronicle to send representatives on that conference ; and that 
the Editor of the Journal of Horticulture be asked to furnish 
copies of the election and subsequent correspondence which has 
appeared in that paper for the use of the members of the con¬ 
ference.” The members elected on the sub-committee are Messrs. 
Beckett, Croxford, Hinnell, Lyne, Moorman, Orchard, and Shep¬ 
pard. Mr. Moorman to represent Mr. Jackson as Secretary of 
the Conference. This is a step in the right direction, and it will be 
well if it leads to the publication of an authoritative descriptive 
catalogue of Chrysanthemums, which is quite as much wanted as 
was the catalogue of Roses of the National Rose Society, and would 
be equally well received by admirers of the popular autumn 
flower. 
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