October 2, 1890. ] 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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winter, but they are better thinned as the fruit is removed, and thus 
give the wood every chance of ripening. 
We have long since followed the practice of close pinching during 
summer, and final pruning during late summer and early autumn, with 
the best results. The thinner we have kept the trees, and the earlier 
they have been pruned after it is certain the shoots will not break again 
into growth, the bolder the fruit buds and finer the fruit. The thinner 
the trees in northern or shaded positions the more satisfactory they are 
likely to prove.— Wm. Bardney. 
Events op the Week. —The chief horticultural event next week 
will be the Fruit Show in the Guildhall, London, held under the 
auspices of the Fruiterers’ Company. In another paragraph full par¬ 
ticulars are given concerning this Exhibition, which will be held on 
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, October 6th, 7th, and 8th. The 
Crystal Palace annual Show of hardy fruits will be held on October 9th, 
10th, and 11th, and a good display is expected, as numerous entries have 
already been received. 
- The Weather. — Fine weather has prevailed in London 
during the past week ; little rain has fallen ; the days have been bright 
and the nights clear, but only in a few low districts has slight 
frost been experienced. Tuesday night was rather stormy, but without 
rain. Yesterday the rain began to fall. 
- The Guildhall (London) Fruit Show.— We understand 
that the Exhibition of fruit, promoted by the Worshipful Company of 
Fruiterers, and which opens under Royal and distinguished patronage 
on Monday next, is likely to be as successful as could be expected 
during a season when the fruit crops are proverbially scant. The 
entries, we are informed, have exceeded the anticipated number, and 
produce will be staged from several of the best cultivators in the 
kingdom. It is thought, however, there will be ample space for all the 
collections, as in addition to the main building, which is larger than 
the vinery at Chiswick, in which Apple and Pear congresses have been 
held, the old Council Chamber and further rooms will be placed at 
the disposal of the Committee by the City authorities, who are most 
generously affording all possible facilities in promoting the object in 
view. The attendance will be very large and influential, as some thousands 
of tickets have been distributed amongst the Aldermen and Common 
Council, Stock Exchange, Lloyds’, Society of Arts, City Companies, 
Bank Directors, the Royal Horticultural, Agricultural, and Botanic 
Societies, the Linnasan Society, British Fruit Growers’ Association, 
Crystal Palace Company, and various other corporations, who either 
are or ought to be interested in fruit culture in the kingdom. No 
charge is to be made for admission, and tickets can be had by app'i- 
cants at the Guildhall on the second and third days of the Show. Sir 
James Whitehead, Bart., the Chairman of the Executive Committee, is 
working with great zeal, and is being well supported by his colleagues 
in completing the arrangements for what ought to be a noteworthy 
event in the fruit world. A. H. Smee, Esq., with Mr. 0. C. T. Eagleton 
(the Clerk of the Company), and Mr. J. Wright are appointed Directors 
of the Show, and Mr. R. Dean as Manager. The Exhibition will be 
opened by the Lord Mayor in the afternoon of the first day, and will 
close at five o’clock, and not six, on the third day. 
- Fine Cyclamens. —Mr. William Mowbray, Fulmer Gardens, 
Slough, sends us some very fine Cyclamen flowers with the following 
no te :— 11 The blooms I think are good. The one with double row of petals 
appear to be a novelty; the plant has thrown up six blooms, and they 
are all exactly the same ; also, the other blooms are showing similarly. 
Most of the plants are in 21-size pots, the plants 16 inches through the 
foliage, and will be a mass of bloom by the end of December. The seed 
was sown in the middle of October last and the plants have been in a 
cold pit all the summer.” [We have seen several double Cyclamens, 
but the one alluded to is the finest that has come under our notice. 
The flower is inches across, and the corolla is divided into eleven 
broad segments, carmine at the base, shading to rosy purple. The 
flower stalk is 11J inches long and very stout. The other varieties are 
also good, and the specimens bear the stamp of superior culture.] 
- Potash for Vines. —Messrs. Alexander Cross & Sons write in 
reference to our reply to “J. S.,” on page 61, relative to potash for 
Vines, and state the manure they advertise contains an unusually large 
per-centage of potash, and think gardeners would do well to give it a 
trial. 
- The United Horticultural Benefit and Provident 
Society. —The annual dinner of the above Society takes place on 
October 23rd, at 6.30 p.h., at the Cannon Street Hotel. Mr. E. R 
Cutler will preside. The Secretary is Mr. W. Collins, 9, Martindale 
Road, Balham, S.W. 
- Mr. T. Laxton sends us flowers of Sweet Pea Carmen 
Sylva, a new variety with blue and rose-tinted flowers, but the 
specimens had suffered too much in transit by post to show their 
characters to the best advantage. 
- Chiswick Gardeners’ Association. — We are desired to 
state that the Committee of the above Association are organising a grand 
concert in aid of the Gardeners’ Orphan Fund, to take place on October 
29th next, in the Vestry Hall, Chiswick. 
-Many of your readers will regret to learn of the death of 
Mr. James Hotham, late fruit foreman to Earl Brownlow, Belton 
House, Grantham, where he has been for three and a half years. 
The deceased was a young man of promising abilities, was well 
known and highly esteemed. Deceased was interred at Nafferton, 
W. Driffield, Yorks, on September 20th.—A. M. 
- Gardening Appointment. —Mr. Charles Turner, late foreman 
at Old Warden Park, Biggleswade, has been appointed head gardener 
to J. B. Firth, Esq., Barningham Hall, Norfolk. 
- Cordon Plum Sucker or Seedling— How to Treat.—A 
Plum sucker or seedling has come up beside the wall of my garden 
N.E. aspect. I removed the head, and it has well branched in cordon 
style on each side, the growths this year being about 2 feet long. I have 
been told I must graft it, but would like to know is that absolutely 
necessary to get fruit ? Would some experienced correspondent say 
what treatment is most judicious to produce fruit ? Would lifting and 
root-pruning and less rich soil than that of the vegetable garden be 
desirable, and if so, would November be the best time for this purpose ? 
I should have said the tree is vigorously healthy, and about five years 
old.—W. J. Murphy, Clonmel. 
-Summary of Meteorological Observations at Hodsock 
Priory, Worksop, Notts, for last month. —56 feet above mean 
sea level. Mean temperature of month, 57-8°. Maximum on 5th,. 
77 - 7° ; minimum on the 30th and 31st, 37 4°. Maximum in the sun on 
the 8th, 127-1° ; minimum on the grass on the 31st, 28 7°. Mean tem¬ 
perature of the air at 9 A.M., 59 3° ; mean temperature of soil 1 foot 
deep, 59 3°. Nights below 32°, in shade none, on grass two. Total 
duration of sunshine in month 142 hours, or 32 per cent, of possible 
duration. We had one sunless day. Total rainfall, 2‘15 inches. Rain 
fell on fourteen days. Wind, average velocity, 8 5 miles per hour , 
velocity exceeded 400 on one day, and fell short of 100 miles on five 
days. Approximate averages for August:—Mean temperature, 60 2 .. 
Sunshine, 149 hours. Rainfall, 2'52 inches. A cool month, without any 
really warm weather. The rainfall was below the average, but the last 
ten days were rather showery.— Joseph Mallender. 
_ Exhibition Potatoes. —A Birmingham gardener, Mr. Burden, 
is a good cultivator and exhibitor of vegetables, and in looking through 
his gardens recently he was moving out his crops of Potatoes, so that I 
had an opportunity of seeing what they are as croppers, and the follow¬ 
ing varieties were remarkably good and clean—viz., Sutton’s Satisfaction 
—A main crop variety, a flat kidney, and an excellent cropper. Sutton s 
Abundance.--A cross betwixt Magnum Bonum and Fox’s Seedling, both 
rounds and kidneys being produced as the type, a kidney not being 
fixed in the growth here. It is an excellent main crop, almost as 
late as Magnum Bonum. Windsor Castle.—A second early kidney, and 
a great cropper and short haulm ; a first class variety, and so far disease 
resisting. Sutton’s Nonesuch—A flat round main crop variety and 
excellent cropper, and of good quality and a first-rate cooking kind. 
Sutton’s Matchless.—A second early round, some of kidney form ; a very 
first-rate table variety of medium size, dwarf haulm, and a great croppei. 
In the same garden I noticed a very fine Pea, Sutton s Matchless 
Marrow, with ten peas in a pod, and exhibitors will be glad of such a 
variety.—W. D. 
