362 JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
down plants bloomed again, so I waited for the result. This 
year one of the plants produced between thirty and forty blooms, 
and is as handsome and as healthy a specimen as ever grew, 
therefore it has only lost one year’s bloom. I have had forty 
years’ practice in cutting down trees, and if my experience would 
be any use to any of your readers at any time they shall have 
it with pleasure.— The Little Market Gardener. 
The first evening meeting of the Royal Horticultural 
Society for 1883 will be held, by permission of the Linntean 
Society, in their rooms, Burlington House, on Tuesday, May 8th, 
at 8 P.M., when the chair will be taken by the Right Hon. Lord 
Aberdare. Communications from Dr. M. Foster, F.R.S., on “ Iris 
Susiana and its Allies ; their Nature and Culture.” Dr. Hogg 
on “Australian Apples.” Mr. E. G. Loder, on “Hardy Cacti; 
their Habitats and Culture.” Herr Max Leichtlin, on some 
novelties in the garden at Baden-Baden. Mr. W. Goldring, on 
“ Cypripediums,” are announced to be read. Two-guinea Fellows, 
whether ladies or gentlemen, may personally introduce one, and 
four-guinea Fellows two, visitors as guests. 
- We learn from the Athenceum that the Founders’ 
Medal of the Royal Geographical Society is to be given 
to Sir Joseph Hooker, F.R.S., “ for his eminent services to scien¬ 
tific geography, extending through a long series of years and over 
a large portion of the globe, while engaged in voyages in the 
Antarctic and Australian seas, and journeys in India and Him¬ 
alaya, in Morocco, and in the United States of America ; and 
more especially for his long-continued researches in botanical 
geography, which have thrown light on the form of the land in 
prehistoric times, and on the causes of the present distribution of 
the various forms of vegetable life on the earth.” 
- The new Imantophyllum Mrs. Laing, shown by 
Messrs. Laing & Co. of Forest Hill at Kensington on the 24th ult., 
is likely to prove a useful variety, the colour being a rich orange- 
red, the flowers well formed, and the trusses large. These plants, 
with Caladiums and Tuberous Begonias, are now receiving much 
attention from Messrs. Laing, and the last-named are promising 
for a grand display. 
- Yesterday (Wednesday) Messrs. W. Paul & Sons’ 
Exhibition of Roses in Pots was commenced in the Royal 
Botanic Society’s Gardens, Regent’s Park, and will be continued 
until the 10th inst. About 400 healthy well-flowered bush-like 
specimens are arranged in the corridor, forming a most beautiful 
bank, the side stage being devoted to boxes of cut blooms, fresh, 
bright, and highly coloured. A large number of the best varieties 
are represented, including the new ones—Lady May Fitzwilliam, 
Queen of Queens, Distinction, and many others. Of the older 
varieties, Magna Charta, La France, Fisher Holmes, John Hopper, 
Marie Baumann, Countess of Rosebery, Niphetos, Pride of Wal¬ 
tham, Bessie Johnson, and Edouard Morren are very fine. Messrs. 
W. Paul have for several years contributed a handsome collection 
to these Gardens, but this season they have surpassed previous 
efforts, the plants being uncommonly vigorous, the flowers of 
great substance, and the colours rich. The Show will prove a 
great attraction to visitors during the present and next week. 
- The Farningham Rose Show will take place on 
Thursday, July 5th. Fifty-five classes are enumerated in the 
schedule in eight divisions, open, for nurserymen, amateurs, 
ladies, and cottagers. Roses constitute the chief feature, but 
prizes are also offered for miscellaneous flowers, plants, fruits, 
and vegetables. In the Rose classes the resolution of the 
National Rose Society with respect to too-much-alike varieties 
is adopted, and only one of those bracketed together in their 
catalogue of exhibition Roses will be permitted to be shown 
in one stand. 
- The new Clematis Krao, which was shown by Mr. 
C. Noble of Bagshot at Kensington last week, is an exceedingly 
distinct and striking variety, and the first-class certificate awarded 
for it was well merited. The flowers are of good form, the sepals 
broad and ovate, dark purplish shining blue, which is in marked 
contrast with the white stamens and pistils in the centre. This 
last character is a very uncommon one, as usually the dark flowers 
have light centres, and vice versa ; and Mr. Noble states that this 
is the first dark one he has succeeded in raising with a white 
centre. It is a decided advance, and will unquestionably become 
a favourite in most collections owiDg to its distinctness. 
- The South Essex Floricultural Society will hold 
their annual summer Exhibition on Thursday, June 14th, when 
prizes will be offered in sixty open classes for plants, flowers, 
fruits, and vegetables, twenty-two classes being in addition 
specially devoted to amateurs. 
- The Hoop Petticoat Daffodil, Narcissus Bulbocodium, 
has long been a favourite in English gardens ; but it is probable 
that finer specimens in pots than those from Mr. J. Douglas at 
the Royal Horticultural Society’s meeting last week have never 
been publicly exhibited. They caused quite a little furore, and 
there was a cluster of visitors around the table bearing them and 
the Primulas nearly the whole of the afternoon. Pots 6 inches 
in diameter had twenty to thirty large flowers, and the decorative 
value of such specimens is inestimable. Six to a dozen bulbs 
were placed in the pots, a rich light loamy compost being em¬ 
ployed, the plants being in most vigorous health and the flowers 
handsome. 
- Messrs. Backhouse & Sons of York have sent us a 
sample of hearting curled Kale with the following note :— 
“ The heads were gathered from the flat of plants intended for 
seed in an open quarter of our grounds. Considering that for 
twenty-eight nights in March we had continuous frosts, varying 
from 7° to 25°, under which vegetation shrunk terribly, we think 
the sample will be considered a fair type of this very useful 
vegetable. Being of dwarf compact habit helped it much in 
escaping the cutting effects of the bitter winds that cut most 
green things so badly.” The heads are very compact, and so 
finely curled as to resemble Parsley. The variety is similar to 
that for which a first-class certificate was granted last week at 
South Kensington, as it is no doubt a very distinct and excellent 
form of the dwarf curled Kale. 
- The Horticultural Section of the Furniture Trades 
Exhibition now being held at the Agricultural Hall, though 
of moderate extent, is well worth a visit, as several firms con¬ 
tribute samples of garden appliances of considerable merit. The 
portion of the hall reserved for these exhibitors is that near the 
Upper Street entrance, a few also having stands in the galleries. 
Very notable are the numerous boilers shown by Mr. B. W. War- 
hurst, 33, Highgate Road, Kentish Town ; while of other firms 
who exhibit the most noteworthy are Messrs. J. Warner & Sons, 
Cripplegate ; Wrench & Sons, Ipswich ; Messenger & Co., Lough¬ 
borough ; J. Matthews, Weston-super-Mare ; J. J. Thomas and Co., 
Queen Victoria Street; and W. Richardson and Co., Darlington. 
- In a recent issue of La Belgique Horticole a coloured 
plate is given of a very distinct Bromeliaceous plant, Schlum- 
bergera Morreniana, which was originally exhibited by 
Messrs. J. Linden at Ghent in 1878, and Brussels in 1880, 
under the name of Massangea Morreniana. On examining the 
