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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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healthy when lifted. — Charles T. Grahame. [The photograph 
represents a border of vigorous well-flowered plants of L. longiflorum, 
a beautiful feature in any garden.] 
-The best crop of fruit that has this season come under my 
notice is at The Grange, Co. Limerick, the residence of Captain 
Croker. Strawberries and all other small fruits have carried enormous 
crops. The Plums and Pears on walls would surprise many people, 
who run away with the notion that fruit cannot be grown in Ireland. 
Pyramids in the open garden were carrying equally heavy crops. 
Apples, too, are an astounding crop on pyramids and espaliers, but 
the palm must be awarded to an espalier-trained tree at the back 
of the herbaceous borders. As near as I can recollect the tree would 
be 20 feet long and 6 feet high, and was carrying several hundreds 
of magnificent fruit. The gardener, Mr. Wilmot, calls it Summer 
Queen. Is it a local variety ? I have never seen or heard of it 
before. 
-Begonias. —In a conservatory in the same gardens I saw the 
finest collection of single and double Begonias raised from seed pur¬ 
chased from Messrs. Laing of Forest Hill, that I have yet seen outside 
of that famous home for Begonias. If The Grange were near London the 
Messrs. Laing would have to look to their laurels. The present wet 
season has again proved the value of Begonias as bedding plants. Here, 
as at home, we find the beds of Begonias a brilliant mass of flower. 
Pelargoniums, on the contrary, had no flower at all, but a grand lot of 
leaves. In the flower garden two large beds of Clematis Jackmanni— 
formed by training the growth to wires fixed a foot high—were 
strikingly beautiful objects, and well worthy of imitation, 
- Eucharises appear to be happy enough at The Grange, 
judging from the luxuriant foliage and the forest of spikes now com¬ 
mencing to push up. In the same house—an ordinary plant stove— 
was a small collection of Orchids. Dendrobiums had made excellent 
stout short-jointed growth, and the plants were then being removed to 
an early vinery to rest. Cattleyas were making grand growth ; all were 
in excellent health. A fine piece of Davallia fijiensis, measuring 
12 feet in diameter, was especially noteworthy. A few specimen 
Adiantums, with other foliage and flowering plants, are grown here- 
Fruit under glass calls for no special notice. It may interest your 
readers to know that Nuts are a grand crop this year in this county* 
—Handy Andy. 
- Naming Exhibition Flowers. —In order to avoid disappoint¬ 
ment to exhibitors of such flowers as Begonias, Cinerarias, Calceolarias, 
Cyclamen, &c,, would it not be as well if those who have the drawing up 
of prize schedules would state in their rules that such plants should be 
exhibited without names 1 Let the exhibitor only put one card, naming 
the class of plants for the public benefit, for information of visitors. 
The present rule of schedules, which compels the naming of everything, 
surely ought not to apply to seedlings. In these days, when so many 
new varieties of softwooded plants are constantly coming to the front, 
something ought to be done at flower shows to avoid confusion of 
varieties. For my part I do not approve of gardeners exhibiting 
seedling plants or flowers and placing whatever names they choose upon 
them. If they exhibit a collection of Gladioli or Dahlias which have 
been grown from mixed seed, let such be named, “ seedlings only,” 
otherwise a visitor might be tempted to take down a name of some 
striking variety, and in vain try to obtain the plant at some nursery. 
I consider only nurserymen ought to name seedlings, at the same time 
to enter them in their respective catalogues, then the public would 
have a better chance to obtain the varieties exhibited.—A. J. L., 
Hants. 
- The news of the death of Miss Marianne North, the 
accomplished botanist and artist, who a few years ago presented to the 
nation an exhaustive botanic picture gallery at Kew Gardens, will be 
received with widespread regret, This lady, in the course of her travels, 
made a collection of pictures of highly interesting subjects, painted by 
herself from Nature. It is virtually a pictorial record of her expedition 
round the world. Among the countries whose natural products were 
thus carefully delineated may be mentioned Teneriife, Brazil, Jamaica, 
California, India, Ceylon, Borneo, Singapore, Java, Japan, Australia, 
and New Zealand. Besides the scientific interest of the collection there 
are several fine landscapes and striking bits of natural scenery, as well 
as glimpses of the social aspects of life in those lands. The pictures 
and objects are to be seen in a building, specially erected at her own 
expense, in the Royal Gardens, Kew. In the pursuit of her art Miss North 
visited more lands than any painter of the time. A quarter of a century 
ago she visited the East, and for two years knew the fascinations of 
Egypt and Syria. It was her Eastern tour, perhaps, that determined 
her final choice of painting as a profession ; for though she had 
practised it for years it was rather as a pastime and an accomplishment. 
As a painter Miss North specially cultivated landscape and natural 
history. Her Sicilian landscapes, painted twenty years ago, are well 
known, and attracted much attention at the time. Miss North’s last 
journey to South America brought on a long and painful illness, to- 
which she has just succumbed at her residence in Gloucestershire. She 
was sixty years of age. 
- The York Gala.—A meeting of life members and guarantors 
of the York Gala Society was held recently at the North-Eastern Hotel, 
under the presidency of Sir Joseph Terry. The following were present : 
—Aid. Rooke, Aid. McKay, Councillors Browne and Milward ; Messrs.. 
Balmford, Blenkin, Dunkley, Anderson, Craven, and Border. Sir Joseph 
Terry said it was a pleasure to learn that this year the Society had been 
very fortunate. They had given freely of their profits, and they antici¬ 
pated another year giving as they had done on the present occasion, The- 
total profit on the fete had been £258 13s. 2d., and the Committee had 
agreed to make the following donations :—County Hospital, £40, Dis¬ 
pensary £40, Bootham Asylum £20, Charity Schools £20, Boys’ In¬ 
dustrial School £10, Girls’ Industrial School £10, the Penitentiary £10, 
and the Yorkshire Society School in London £10. A few days after 
their last meeting the Committee received information of the death of 
Mr. P». S. Williams of Upper Holloway, and a request that they would 
contribute to the proposed ‘•'Williams” Memorial fund. They had had 
the advice of Mr. Williams since the inauguration of the gala. It was, 
therefore, with much satisfaction that the Committee had resolved to 
give a donation of £10 to the Memorial fund. Votes of thanks were 
accorded to the following officers :—The Sheriff of York (Mr. Councillor 
T. Clayton), President ; Sir Joseph Terry, Chairman ; Mr. Joseph 
Wilkinson, Treasurer ; and Mr. C. W. Simmons, Secretary. Similar 
acknowledgments were paid to the officers of the 10th Royal Hussars*- 
for allowing their band to play at the gala ; to the donors of special 
prizes ; and to Mr. J. Welburn (N.E.R.) for providing a satisfactory ser¬ 
vice of trains. The fixing of the date of the next gala was left to the 
Floral Committee. 
-Many of our readers to whom the name of “Wiltshire 
Rector ” has long been familiar, will regret to hear that through ill 
health he has been obliged to resign his living of Hardenhuish, near 
Chippenham. For many years Mr. Headley charmed as well as in¬ 
structed the readers of this Journal by his admirable papers on rural 
subjects generally, and more particularly by those treating of fowls and 
pigeons. We extract the following from the Devizes and Wiltshire 
Gazette : —“ We regret to learn that the Rev. A. Headley, for many 
years rector of Hardenhuish, and who has been well known in and near 
Chippenham for more than a generation, has been compelled to resign 
the living through failing health. After being at Christian Malford as 
curate to the late Rev. R. V. Law, Mr. Headley went to Hardenhuish in 
1856, first as curate in charge, and afterwards (in 1857) as rector. 
During the thirty-three years that have since elapsed many changes have 
taken place ; and we may add, many improvements, and as long as 
health and strength lasted we know of no one in the neighbourhood of 
Chippenham who took a more lively and sympathetic interest or who 
was always more ready to lend a helping hand in any good cause, not 
only in his own parish, but in the town in whose immediate neighbour¬ 
hood his lot had been cast, than Mr. Headley. In his earlier years he 
was a most active supporter of the Chippenham Literary and Scientific 
Institution, and delivered various interesting lectures in the Town Hall.. 
He was also the President of the Chippenham Penny Readings in their 
earlier and better days, and was widely known as the ‘ Wiltshire 
Rector ’ of the Journal of Horticulture, on whose staff he acted as a 
valued correspondent for upwards of twenty years. He was one of those 
who helped to start the Chippenham Horticultural Society, now twenty 
years since, and always took a lively interest in gardening, poultry, 
pigeons, and other kindred pursuits, which do so much to make a country 
clergyman friendly with his neighbours and parishioners. Turning, in 
conclusion, to the most important part of his work, the spiritual welfare 
of the parish in which he was so long rector, the parishioners generally 
will mourn his loss as one who preached powerfully and eloquently the 
great message of Salvation ; while as a kind friend in trouble and 
affliction he will long be held in affectionate remembrance. Mr. Headley 
was an earnest supporter of the Church Missionary Society, and for many 
years local Secretary of the Church Pastoral Aid Society. Two years 
since he had a slight seizure, followed by another in the beginning of 
