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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER . 
-Hull Chrysanthemum Show, as we learn by a telegram 
on the eve of going to press, is in every respect a great one. The 
25-guinea cup has been finally wen by Mr. P. Blair, gardener to the 
Duke of Sutherland, Trentham. 
- Runner Beans.—O f all vegetables I firmly believe that the 
Scarlet Runner Bean is the most popular among the labouring classes, 
and T think that they have reason on their side, for without doubt it is 
the most nutritious vegetable grown. It is so easy of culture and so 
ornamental that no wonder every cottager delights in his rows of Beans. 
There are so many new varieties come out lately that large pods are 
now the rule instead of the exception. I tried two varieties in addition 
to the old scarlet; Ne Plus Ultra, with very long somewhat narrow pods 
and smooth skin, a Bean which for quality cannot be approached, and 
which has high cropping qualities, combined with earliness in addition. 
Titan is very appropriately named, for the pods are truly immense, 
which will make it a great favourite for the exhibition table. In 
addition to being very long the pods are broad, but the skin is some¬ 
what rough. It did not have quite such a good chance as the others, 
but it was a long way in front for size, and was also a very good 
cropper. 1 grow both my main crop and late Peas and my Runner 
Beans where I have the previous year grown Celery, and for that 
purpose plant my Celery at intervals running north to south all over the 
garden, which I find suits my crops of Peas and Beans admirably later 
on. I never grow them at less than 12 feet apart from row to row> 
which I believe enables me to grow more crops in a given space with a 
better return from the Peas and Beans than if I grew them in quarters 
by themselves.— H. S. Easty. 
- Mr. Wm, Falconer contributes the three following notes to 
the American Florist Desmodium penduliflorum was at its best in 
September. Although of sub-shrubby nature we cut over ours close to 
the ground every year as one would a Phlox or Larkspur, and this 
treatment suits it best. The clumps are now 6 feet high, more than this 
across, aDd a solid shower of reddish purple Pea flowers. It is of no use 
for cut flowers, but very desirable as a garden plant. The white flower¬ 
ing form is commonly known as D. japonicum, and although beautiful 
and desirable in its way is not as free and airy as is D. penduliflorum. 
Botanists give us Lespedeza bicolor var. as the proper name of these 
Desmodiums. 
- TIelianthus Maximiliani flowered well throughout October. 
In moderately mild localities, as this is, it is a very desirable and showy 
plant, and especially valuable for its late blooming character. It grows 
from 7 to 10 feet high, and its long stems are terminated for 2 or 3 feet 
with bright golden yellow flowers set in close to the stem. The species 
is a native of the plains and prairies west and south-west of the 
Mississippi, and although not generally regarded as being perfectly 
hardy in the north we find it hardy enough here. It is very easily in¬ 
creased by division and root sprouts in the same way as is H. multiflorus. 
- Rosa NITIDA is a wild Rose indigenous to swamps from New¬ 
foundland to Massachusetts, and rare in cultivation. It grows from 
2 to 3 feet high, has very glossy leaves and mossy prickly stems. It is 
now laden with round bright scarlet fruit, which is very ornamental, 
and so persistent as to remain upon the bushes over winter and till next 
spring. It keeps its foliage late into the fall, and the leaves colour up 
very brightly in autumn. Although it is an inhabitant of swamps it 
takes readily to garden cultivation and spreads considerably at the root. 
This, together with Rosa rugosa and R. rubrifolia, have now the fullest 
and brightest crop of ornamental fruit. A little later on R. lucida will 
also show up prettily, and so too will the Polyantha Roses, especially 
the one called Simplex. 
- Hymenocallis macrostepiiana is the most robust as well 
as the most beautiful and fragrant of all the species of the genus. The 
large, pure white, deliciously scented flowers are arranged in dense 
umbels raised well above the leaves, which are about 2 or 2b inches long, 
oblanceolate, bright green, and in themselves exceedingly decorative, 
even when the plant is not in flower. My plant, received a few 
years ago from B. S. Williams of London, blooms regularly every year 
in September. The bulb has attained a large size, but as yet has made 
no offsets. It is grown in a compost consisting of equal parts of well 
rotted stable manure, leaf mould and sand. All the Hymenocallis in 
my possession—namely, H. speciosa, Id. ovata, H. littoralis, Id. cariboea, 
Id. expansa, H. crassifolia, and H. galvestonensis, grow and flower in a 
living room as freely as Pelargoniums, dd. macrostephana exceeds them 
all in vigour and in ease of management. The flower stem, which is 
thrown up from the heart of the bulb, reached this year the height of 
17 inches, and produced an umbel consisting of seven flowers, each 8.1 
inches long, with a cup 3 inches broad and segments 14 inches long. 
Their Vanilla-like perfume is so strong that one flower scents a large 
room, and a flowering umbel an entire house. No one seems to know 
where this species, the best of the genus, comes from. Mr. Baker, of 
the Kew Herbarium, who has devoted a great deal of attention to the 
study of these plants, is of opinion that it may prove a hybrid between 
II. speciosa and Id. (Ismene) calathina. 1 grow my plant in summer in 
the open in a half shady situation, and bury the pot to the rim in 
coal ashes.—Id. Nehrling, Milwaukee (in American Garden anil 
Forest ). 
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
November 11th, 
Scientific Committee.— Present : Dr. M. T. Masters (in the 
chair), Mr. MoLachlan, Mr. Pascoe, Dr. Scott, Dr. Oliver, Dr. Muller, 
Mr. Blandford, and Rev. G. Henslow, Hon. Sec. 
Grapes Attacked by Larva. —With reference to the Grapes brought 
to the last meeting Mr. McLachlan remarked that the larvae might very 
probably prove to be those of Tortrix botrena. It was a well-known 
pest on continental Vines, and had been exported to America. He 
recommended that the Grapes infested should be covered wflth a fine 
gauze net, and that the larvae should be watched to discover their 
further stages. 
Endogenous (?) bud. —Dr. Masters exhibited a drawing of what 
appeared to be an endogenous bud in the axil of a leaf of Actinida, 
embedded in the cortical tissue. Dr. Oliver remarked that the buds 
which arise from the roots of Anemone japonica are also endogenous. 
Similar buds on the roots of germinating plants are well known and 
described— e.g., by Van Tieghem. 
Bull. See. de Bot. Fr., 1886, page 40; Irmisch, Bot. Zeit., 1857, 
page 48, with pi.—The interpretation appears to be that in roots the 
pericycle is the most active layer, and such buds as arise from roots are 
developed exactly as lateral roots are from this generative tissue. On 
the other hand, in stems the pericycle is more often in abeyance, while 
it is from the cambium from which ordinary buds and adventitious roots 
a-ise. 
Translucent Apple. —Professor M. Ward reported upon the specimen 
sent to the last meeting as follows :—“ The Apple sent for my inspection 
was affected with a disease known as f Glassiness,’ and was totally free 
from fungi in the interior. The parts affected by this disease are 
distinguished by the cells being very full of sugar and singularly poor 
in acids. The intercellular spaces are filled with water, whereas in the 
healthy parts they contain air. This season, a wet one, has been some¬ 
what prolific in such Apples. A condition not unlike this is produced by 
frost, and by any changes which cause the intercellular spaces to fill 
with water.” 
Chrysanthemum “lien and Chicken" Form. —Mr. Gooding of the 
Manor House, Hayes, sent a remarkable specimen of a yellow variety 
with a large circle of small heads springing from the base of the central 
one. The latter was arrested in its growth, and dead. The florets had 
a tendency to be pedicillate, especially the outer ones. It is difficult 
to assign a cause, but possibly it received a check through frost, as no 
trace of insect attacks was discoverable. 
Lyeaste Skinneri, Monstrous. — Dr. Martin exhibited drawings of this 
plant received from Mr. Linden of Brussels, in which the flowers were 
aborted and replaced by petaloid bracts. 
Leucadendron argenteum. —He also showed drawings of germinating 
plants of the Silver Tree of Africa, which showed a curious cavity at 
the base of colyledons concircling the plumule. 
CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETIES AND SHOWS. 
Bailey and District, Nov. 22nd ; John T. Booth, Batley 
Bedford, Nov. 19th and 20th ; J. Sanders Clarke, 49, Linden 
Road 
Bedford and Bedfordshire Chrysanthemum Society, Nov. 19th and 20th ; 
Oliver C. Coombs, 28, Mill Street, Bedford 
Chorley, Nov. 21st and 22nd ; James Sargeant, G4, Market Street, 
Chorley 
Green Street and District, Nov. 19th and 20th ; W. G. Ray, Mount 
Pleasant Nursery, Green Street, near Sittingbourne 
Hull and East Riding, Nov. 19th and 20th ; Edward Harland and Jame3 
Dixon, Manor Street, Hull and 2, County Buildings, Hull 
Norfolk and Norwich, Nov. 20th and 21st; John E. T. Pollard, 7, Lady’s 
Lane, Norwich 
Rugby, Nov. 19th and 20th ; William Bryant 
Scarborough, Dec. 2nd and 3rd ; Thomas Henry Pexton, 136, North 
Marine Road, Scarborough 
Scottish Horticultural, Nov. 20th, 21st, and 22nd ; R. B. Ferguson, 
6, South St. Andrew Street, Edinburgh 
Swansea, Nov. 19th and 20th ; Messrs. T. Kneath and W. Roberts 
Tiverton, Nov. 20th; R. P. Coswav, Lime Cottage, Tiverton 
Westerham, Nov. 19th and 20th ; Frank George Remnant, High 
Street 
York, Nov. 19tb, 20th, and 21st ; J. Lazenby, 8, Spurriergate 
