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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[April 5, 1888. 
B. Hardy, Esq., H. Pearks, Esq., J. R. Starling Esq., Messrs. 
Fromow & Sons, the Royal Horticultural Society, Sec. Visitors to 
the Show will receive tickets for promenade in the Royal Horti¬ 
cultural Society’s gardens. The Exhibition of the Chiswick and 
Turnham Green Horticultural Society will be held in the Chiswick 
Gardens on Saturday, July 7th ; the Evening Fete taking place 
on July 19th. 
- A CONFERENCE OF CHRYSANTHEMUM GROWERS, nomi¬ 
nated by the Committee of the Kingston-on-Thames Chrysan¬ 
themum Society, was held on Friday evening last. All the 
leading varieties were under notice, and some rather important 
decisions were arrived at. These the Secretary of the meeting, 
Mr. Moorman, was instructed to tabulate and submit to a future 
meeting for review and ratification, after which they will be 
published. The list of incurved varieties named in the recent 
election was somewhat reduced. Several so-called distinct 
varieties were declared to be either synonymous or so closely 
resembling others as to practically amount to the same 
thing ; many varieties that have been recorded as too much 
alike were determined to be distinct; some names were con¬ 
sidered fanciful, and were not recognised. In the case of 
synonymous varieties the name to be adopted was indicated, 
and the origin and date of introduction of many varieties 
were recorded. As an instance of the revised nomenclature, 
Refulgence (true) and Inner Temple were considered distinct, and 
the latter was recommended to be regarded as a synonym of 
Arigena. This is adduced as an example of the work in hand 
and which will when completed probably result in the compi¬ 
lation of a trustworthy and instructive catalogue that will be 
useful to all cultivators of this increasingly popular autumn flower. 
As much labour is necessarily involved in tracing the origin of 
the varieties, some time must elapse before the work suggested 
can be completed. 
BULBS UNDER TREES. 
As Mr. Richardson has drawn your readers’ attention to the above 
subject, a few remarks as to how anyone having trees on lawns 
may have the ground beneath them gay all spring may not be out 
of place. On the lawn here we have trees of Purple Beech, Chest¬ 
nut, Elm, See., under which we planted three years ago last autumn 
quantities of Snowdrops, Crocuses, Daffodils, &c., in clumps, the 
soil being well stirred and enriched with manure and leaf soil, 
and the turf placed again over the bulbs. They flowered well the 
first season, but have been better each season since, the flowers 
being quite as fine as those from the newly imported bulbs, and 
the leaves considerably larger. I have frequent inquiries as to 
how we get them to live, as most people who have tried them on 
grass lose them in two or three years. Now the secret is in allow¬ 
ing the foliage to be thoroughly ripened and to die before mowing 
the grass under the trees where bulbs are so planted, as cutting off 
the foliage causes the bulbs to dwindle and die in a few seasons. 
As soon as the foliage has appeared above ground in spring we 
give frequent waterings of weak liquid manure, as the soil about 
the roots of large trees is very poor. I have not yet tried 
Hyacinths under similar conditions, but I intend doing so.— 
Wm, Plant, Wood Ilayes Hall. 
CARDIFF CASTLE CUCUMBER. 
I am very pleased indeed to hear such flattering accounts of 
this Cucumber from all quarters. Before I thought of offering it 
to the public I thoroughly tested its merits, and I was so convinced 
of its many good qualities that I told the Messrs. Ireland and 
Thomson, nurserymen and seedsmen, Edinburgh (the first dis¬ 
tributors of it), that I would prefix my name to it as a kind of 
guarantee that it possessed all the good qualities that I stated in 
my description of it. After repeated trials I told them that I 
considered it to be one of the best varieties in cultivation, either 
for summer or winter work—an assertion which I am glad to say 
has been verified over and over again by many persons who have 
grown it. In answer to your correspondent “ J. L.,” I can assure 
him and others that the Messrs. Carter & Co. have the true 
stock of this Cucumber. They purchased all the seed I could save 
of it last year ; but it is quite possible that others may have saved 
seed from the original stock sent out by the Messrs. Ireland and 
Thomson, and retained my name prefixed to it as sent out at.first. 
Large seed firms have got into the habit of late of naming varieties 
of vegetables after themselves, ignoring the raiser’s name alto¬ 
gether. This I venture to say is wrong. It is confusing and 
misleading to purchasers, as has been aptly pointed out by 
“ J. L.’s ” note of last week.—A. Pettigrew, Cardiff Castle. 
In reply to the inquiry of your correspondent “ J. L.,” on page 
256, relative to the above Cucumber and Carter’s Cardiff Castle 
Cucumber, whether “distinct or identical,” I, as advertising it 
under the name of Pettigrew’s Cardiff Castle Cucumber, retained 
the name of the raiser. But it is not unusual now-a-days for 
firms to attach their names to anything that is new and good. 
This may be excusable when they are the original distributors, but 
when once an article is in commerce and largely grown for twelve 
months, some confusion is created if another name is prefixed or 
substituted for that of the raiser. As to the great value of the 
variety for market purposes there can be no doubt. I have grown 
a house exclusively of it for four years, originally from cuttings 
kindly supplied me by my friend Mr. Pettigrew for trial, but of 
course I could not distribute it until it had been placed one year 
in commerce.— Ralph Crossling, Penarth Nurseries. 
NOTES ON CERTIFICATED ROSES. 
A correspondent under the nom de plume of “ A Young 
Rosarian,” writing your initial article on “ Certificated Roses” as 
far back as page 127 of our Rose Journal, asks to be initiated into 
the mysteries of Rose culture. Now your readers will already 
have formed their opinion as to whether the writer has or has not 
passed that rudimentary stage his humility credits him with. I 
am only surprised that the many interesting subjects started in 
his article have not been noticed, and can only account for the 
unusual fact by the unusually depressing weather indisposing 
your readers from making any exertion indoors or outdoors unless 
absolutely necessary. It was only last Saturday that the snow 
disappeared, after lying for a considerable period in our west 
midlands. 
I regret I have only time to reply briefly to “ Young Rosarian’s ” 
question about H.P. Dr. Darwin. This Rose, in my opinion, is 
decidedly the best sent out in 1879. H.P. Abel Carriere runs too 
much to wood, and does not flower with me. The more I grow 
Charles Darwin the more I like the Rose ; but, like that old dark 
favourite Prince Camille de Rohan, it will not thrive where 
others of a similar habit do well. Charles Darwin is one of the 
earliest as well as the latest Roses to bloom, and is alike good as 
an exhibition and garden Rose. I remember George Paul, its 
raiser, telling me the year he sent it out that he thought it would 
burn less than any of the dark Roses, and my experience quite 
bears out the character foretold of it in this important respect. I 
should, however, mention that Charles Darwin, like most very 
early-flowering Roses, is very liable to mildew. I will ask to 
continue the subject on another occasion. — Herefordshire 
Incumbent. 
[A “Young Rosarian” is undoubtedly what his pseudonym 
implies, and he is earnestly desirous of information from experi¬ 
enced cultivators.] 
CLIMBERS OR ROOF-COVERING PLANTS. 
II All D E N BE R GIA COMPTONIANA. 
For many years this plant was generally known as Kennedya 
Comptoniana ; in some gardens or nurseries it still bears the same 
designation ; occasionally, too, it may be seen under the generic 
title Glycine, but that given above is the one now adopted by 
most botanists, and is gradually supplanting the others. It matters 
little, however, in a horticultural point of view what name a plant 
bears. “A Rose by any other name would smell as sweet ” is a 
truism which applies to this as well as to many others that possess 
sufficient merit to insure them a permanent place in gardens. 
When trained to the roof of a greenhouse or conservatory, and 
bearing its long pendulous dense racemes of brilliant blue flowers, 
the beauty of this charming Leguminous plant can be fully appre¬ 
ciated, especially if it be associated with climbers bearing lighter 
or distinctly coloured flowers, as the contrast shows it to better 
advantage. If planted in a border the soil must be specially pre¬ 
pared, a compost of peat, light turfy loam, and sand being suitable, 
providing good drainage, whether it be grown in a pot or border, 
as, like many of its relatives, it cannot endure stagnant moisture 
about the roots. Some care, too, is needed to keep the plant free 
