JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ May 10, 1883. 
382 
Judging from this it would appear that this variety would 
prove an excellent one for planting out in cool houses for afford¬ 
ing a supply of buds during the early spring months. Here it is 
a favourite with everyone, and succeeds far better than Marshal 
Niel and Gloire de Dijon. We have large plants of the two latter 
varieties, but these are planted out and trained up the roof of a 
large winter garden. These, although very large plants, do not 
seem to thrive so well, or rather bloom so satisfactorily, as I would 
wish. As, however, I only took charge of these early in the 
present year, I have not been able to examine the roots, where I 
suspect the mischief lies. We intend removing the Gloire de 
Dijon and planting another Souvenir d’un Ami. I should be glad 
to know your opinion on the merits of the blooms sent.—T. W. 
Sanders. 
[They are very fine examples of a beautiful Rose that might 
with advantage be more extensively grown in the manner 
suggested.] 
At a General Meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society, 
held last Tuesday, Col. R. Trevor Clarke in the chair, the following 
candidates were elected Fellows—viz,, A. C. Adam, Mrs. Barton 
(senior), Alfred Edward Bingemann, W. Campbell, Major-General 
J. Cockburn Hood, Frank Crisp, LL B., F.L.S.; Gaston Chandon 
de Briailles, Miss de Leon, Miss A. de Leon, The Rev. C. Wolley 
Dod, Edward Hilliard, Edward Morell Holmes, F.L.S. ; W. H. 
Johnson, Mrs. G. W. Maxwell, Miss E. Newcome, William Sherwin, 
Robert Ward. 
- Relative to the generous offer of 50,000 trees to aid 
in the project of re-afforesting in Ireland, as recorded 
last week, our correspondent Mr. Brace, Salbris, desires us to say 
that his partner, Mr. Daniel Cannon, joins him in presenting the 
trees in question. We should have mentioned this in our article, 
but were quite unable to decipher this gentleman’s name. 
- A Surrey correspondent suggests that notes from various 
districts on the effects of the late changeable weather on 
vegetation, and especially information on the prospects of 
the fruit CROPS, would be welcome to him, and doubtless 
to other readers. We will readily publish such notes as those 
indicated, and we are not without hope that owing to the 
lateness of the fruit blossom this year that the Apple crop, 
especially, will be better than the crops of the past few years ; 
at the same time we have more than once known the most 
promising of fruit crops ruined after the middle of May. The 
Apple blossom at Chiswick is now expanding, and the trees 
being laden, as were the Pears, the garden has a most attractive 
appearance. 
- A correspondent describes five pans of Narcissus 
Bulbocodium, as exhibited at Rochdale last week by Mr. Barlow, 
as being simply magnificent; and he further observes, “ You 
refer in the Journal to Mr. Douglas’s plants at the Royal 
Botanic Society’s Show with their thirty or forty flowers each, 
creating quite a little furore. To this I may reply that if these 
five pans with their hundreds of flowers had been exhibited at 
the same place they would have caused quite a lively sensation.” 
-The Royal Botanic Society's evening fete will be 
held on June 27th, when also an exhibition of floral decora¬ 
tions will take place. In the latter the prizes will comprise 
three—£10, £7, and £3 for floral decorations for a room, a tent 
being set apart for each exhibition. Other prizes value £5 to 
10s. will be offered for table decorations, groups of plants, baskets 
of flowers, bouquets, &c. 
- Before us is a box of Calceolaria blooms from Mrs. 
Babington, Glendermott Rectory, Londonderry, who appears quite 
proud of her achievement of raising a hundred fine plants from a 
packet of seed procured from Messrs. Carter, High Holborn. The 
blooms are very diversified and beautiful, and the plants have 
evidently been admirably grown, rendering her greenhouse “ like 
a flower show.” 
- A correspondent asks if we do not think Mr. J. Taylor 
(see page 323) made a mistake when he said he was gathering 
fruit of Vicomtesse Hericart de Thury Strawberry If oz. in 
weight. We can only say we made no mistake in publishing 
the note referred to, and if Mr. Taylor has not in writing it the 
fruit was extremely fine. We do not remember having seen 
fruits of the variety in question weighing If oz. in the middle of 
April, but we are not prepared to assert that no such fruit has 
been produced. 
- We have received a box of seedling Pansies from Mr. 
William Hawley of Ash, Surrey, all of which are beautiful, and 
many of them of excellent quality. The plants grow and flower 
so freely that our correspondent is able to gather a peck basketful 
at a time and send them to the hospitals. Most of them are of 
the fancy varieties, and the seed, supplied by Messrs. Yeitch, 
Chelsea, and Suttons, Reading, was sown last June. It is thus 
very easy to render a garden gay and hospitals cheerful with these 
effective flowers. 
- The Cardiff Rose Society will hold their third 
annual Exhibition in the Drill Hall, Cardiff, on Wednesday, 
June 27th. In addition to liberal prizes in twenty-two classes 
provided by the Society, special prizes are offered by the follow¬ 
ing—The Marquis of Bute, Cranston’s Nursery and Seed Com¬ 
pany, the Mayor of Cardiff, Colonel Page, James Ware, Esq., Mr. 
Stephen Treseder, Mr. Crossling. Mr. Thomas, and F. Case, Esq. 
- Mr. B. S. Williams, Upper Holloway, sends us blooms 
of Polyanthuses, very dark, with a neat gold lacing round the 
petals and a rich orange centre. They represent a very good 
and carefully selected strain of these favourite flowers. 
- We omitted to notice in our report of the Auricula 
Society’s Northern Show that the premier Auricula, a 
splendid example of Headlv’s George Lightbody, containing nine 
pips, was shown by Mr. R. Kyrke Penson, and was grown, if we 
mistake not, by the daughter of that gentleman. 
- A new and enlarged series of the “ Journal of Forestry ” 
has now been commenced under the title of “ Forestry,” and 
the issue for the present month contains a good variety of 
interesting and useful matter. In addition to copious editorial 
notes there are articles on Lord Somerville, the Contents of 
Ten Acres, the Beauties of British Trees, Forest Rambles, Bark 
and Bark-stripping, An Old English Park, Reviews of Books, 
Provincial Notes, &c. It continues under the able editorship of 
Mr. Francis George Heath. 
- The weather has been severe again at intervals, the 
wind veering from north to east, and on several mornings during 
the past week several degrees of frost have been registered to the 
we3t of London. On Friday and Saturday last the temperature 
fell to 29° and 28° respectively. On Friday also a hailstorm of 
short duration was experienced in several districts. Towards the 
close of April the weather was very severe in Scotland, snow 
having fallen heavily in the north, the high mountain ranges being 
covered with fresh snow from summit to base. Vegetation has 
been greatly checked there. In the south the Pear trees do not 
appear to have suffered much as far as can be seen at present. 
Another change has now occurred, the temperature is much higher, 
with frequent rains. 
