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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ March 29, 1883. 
rienced amateur, to whom Filbert-growing is quite a new pursuit ? 
—F. L. E., Nottf, 
[The outline engraving will be of assistance. The fruit of the 
Filbert is produced upon the upper part of the young shoots, and 
upon small branches which spring from the part at which the shoo's 
of the preceding year were shortened. The male blossoms (catkins) 
are produced separately from the female ones. Fig. G5 (p. 255) A 
represents a shoot in which a a are female flowers, and jthe males. 
In pruning, care must be exercised to leave a sufficient supply of these 
male blossoms for the purpose of fertilisation; and therefore the 
trees should not be pruned till early in the spring, when their 
development is obvious. A crop of the fruit is often lost for want 
of attention to this; and it has been found by experiment that 
where a tree has itself been deficient in the supply of catkins, 
cutting them from other trees and suspending them over the pink 
female blossoms has resulted in producing a good crop. The pruner 
must therefore insure an annual supply of these small productive 
twigs.] 
PRUNING ROSES—LADY fMARY FITZWILLIAM. 
I have been reading Mr. Moorman’s interesting article on 
pruning Roses (March 22nd). He advises late pruning. I must 
confess myself rather a disciple of Mr. G. Baker of Reigate, that 
strenuous advocate of early pruning. The present is an excellent 
season for testing the two plans. The end of February was 
most tempting for the purpose ; since then March has been coming 
in too much like a lion all along. All my pruning, except Teas, 
was finished before March began. I saw the garden of a skilful 
Rose-grower yesterday near here, in West Surrey, where not a 
plant had been touched. 1 shall watch with interest which of us 
is nearest “in” on the Rose year’s central day—July 3rd, the 
National Rose Society’s London show day. My impression is that 
it makes but little difference as to the flowering, and that in late 
pruning there is always some danger from bleeding. Even in 
February I found great difficulty with some excitable Manettis 
in cutting down to a dormant bud. 
To turn to another subject. I may remark that Mr. Bennett’s 
Roses seem the novelties of the present season, and Lady Mary 
Fitzwilliam one of the most desirable. The friends of Hybrid 
Teas will be glad to hear that they will have a chance of being 
shown in a class for a basket of Teas introduced by Mr. George 
Paul into the forthcoming National Rose schedule, and which he 
starts, I think, with a silver cup prize.—A. C. 
m ptemlepngs. 
1 
At a General Meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society 
held last Tuesday, Thomas Moore,TjEsq., F.L.S., in the chair, 
the following candidates were unanimously elected Fellows— 
viz., John Barker, Francis Darwin, M.D., F.R.S., William 
Wickham, F.L.S. The Right Hon. Lord Aberdare, President, has 
nominated the following gentlemen Vice-Presidents of the Society 
for the ensuing! year—viz., Sir|j Trevor Lawrence, Bart., M.P., 
J. H. Mangles, F.L.S., R. Hogg, LL.D., F.L.S., Wm. Haughton. 
- We are informed that the Horticultural Exhibition 
at the Agricultural Hall will now form part of the “Furni¬ 
ture Trades” Exhibition, from 23rd April to 16th May, and will 
represent most of the garden furniture, such as glass houses, 
boilers, seats, vases, mowers, rollers, &c., filling the whole of 
new entrance arcade, the space in the hall and galleries being 
entirely filled with other furniture. 
- Mr. H. Cannell of Swanley states that at an Exhibition 
of the Socidte Nationale et Centrale d’Horticulture de France, 
held at Paris on the 22nd of March, he was awarded a first 
prize for plants of the NEW Fuchsia Mrs. Rundell, which 
has also been certificated by the Royal Horticultural Society at 
South Kensington. 
- Mr. J. Clarke of Brynkinalt writes as follows on frost 
and fruit blossom in North Wales :—“Although we have 
experienced 12°, 14°, and 18° of frost incessantly for the past 
fortnight, only the first-expanded blooms are killed here, and I 
am pleased to say they are very few. Peaches, Nectarines, Apri¬ 
cots, Apples, and Pears on walls and otherwise promise abun¬ 
dantly, and we hope with a genial spring our fruit rooms may 
be filled.” 
- Messrs. John Stewart k. Sons inform us that they 
have dissolved partnership with their branch nursery at Fern- 
down, Dorsetshire, managed by their late partner, Mr. David 
Stewart. The nursery and seed business at Dundee and at 
Broughty Ferry, which has been established for over a century, 
will be continued by the firm. 
- The sixth annual Exhibition of the Putney and Dis¬ 
trict Chrysanthemum Society will be held at the Assembly 
Rooms, High Street, Putney, on Tuesday, November 13th, of the 
present year, when the usual liberal prizes will be offered in 
thirty-three classes, besides a number of special prizes for miscel¬ 
laneous plants and cut flowers. 
- “ J. W., Liverpool," writes on hot water as an insecti¬ 
cide :—“ Last spring I read in the Journal that the best way to 
get rid of insects destructive to Orchids was to plunge the pots in 
hot water at a temperature of 120°. I was rather in doubt whether 
it was safe to do this, consequently tried two or three pots that I 
knew were pretty well full of woodlice, or, perhaps I should say, 
appeared so from the condition of the roots. The contents of 
these pots all changed, the insects were killed, and the Orchids 
improved. Seeing that no injury was caused to the plants, I 
last August plunged every Orchid I had in water heated to 120°. 
I have found that it has not injured one plant. Dendrobium 
densiSorum that I subjected to this treatment has now no less 
than forty-two spikes of bloom, and these in a few days will be 
fully expanded.” 
- We have received many letters relative to the extreme 
coldness of the weather and its effects on vegetation. From 
Sussex a correspondent writes :—“ We have it wretchedly cold 
here, the east wind blowing as if it were blowing its last. I wish 
it would 1 Neither man nor beast can stand out in it, and spring 
flowers are so nipped that they can scarcely be recognised.” 
A letter from Scotland describes the weather as “dreadfully bad, 
the ground covered with snow. Vegetation, which was much too 
forward a month ago, has had a serious check, and Broccoli 
where exposed to the wind has melted down into a mass of 
offensiveness.” “ H. B., Louth," writes :—“ The weather in Lin¬ 
colnshire has been very wintry for over a fortnight, with heavy 
falls of snow, wind, and severe frosts. Much damage has been 
done by the latter in the garden, where a large extent of plants, 
such as Wallflowers especially, &c., has been irretrievably ruined. 
Pear trees, which a fortnight ago were profusely covered with 
fruit buds in nearly an expanded condition, appear to be in a 
pitiable plight, the buds being browned as if scorched by fire. 
Apple trees are fortunately in a more backward state. Talking 
of Apples, we wonder the Stamford Pippin is not more spoken of, 
as at this time of year it cannot be surpassed for flavour.” 
- A correspondent, “ J. L.,” writes to us as follows on 
the Cardiff Castle Cucumber :—“ When the seed of this 
valuable all-the-year-round Cucumber was first distributed by one 
of the leading Edinburgh firms some doubts were expressed as to 
its being a new variety. I can endorse all that has been said of 
its value. Last autumn, when passing through a busy market in 
the midlands, I heard a grower recommending it to his friends. 
Holding up some of the finest samples I ever saw, he shouted, 
‘ Cardiff Castle Cucumber: grow no other: pays grower and 
seller better than any other variety in cultivation.’ On looking 
through your advertising columns we find Carter’s Cardiff Castle 
Cucumber and Pettigrew’s Cardiff Castle Cucumber. I have 
