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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ A r gust 12, 1886. 
March their places can be taken by the latest plants for cool or 
late started structures, or if these are not forthcoming the plants 
can be fruited in the frames or pits so as to maintain the suc¬ 
cession of fruit until those in the open ground continue it. The 
frame treatment to some extent accelerates the forcing process 
by perfecting and forwarding the dower buds, at least they 
start better, not being disposed to make so much leaf growth 
before the trusses appear as plants taken direct from the open 
ground, and this, we think, in consequence of the frame treat¬ 
ment being favourable to the formation of roots. 
Before being placed in position the plants should have any 
decayed leaves removed, but there must not be any attempt at 
close trimming, such as is sometimes done, the crown, or very 
little more being left, but any green foliage be retained. Clear 
the surface of the soil from any mossy growth. The drainage 
must be seen to. If worms are in the pots stop the base with 
clay, and soak with lime water. The worms will be expelled, and 
the drainage can then be put right. The pots must be washed 
clean, and a surface dressing given. 1 find nothing better than 
fresh horse droppings rubbed through a sieve. Turfy loam made 
fine with a quart each of soot and bonemeal, or any advertised 
fertiliser, for I find all good, added to every bushel is a capital 
surface dressing, but I prefer the droppings, or well decayed 
manure. It should be pressed down moderately, leaving suffi¬ 
cient space for holding water.—G. Abbey. 
(To be continued.) 
We have been requested to remind growers and exhibitors of the 
Dahlia that the grand National Show cf these noble autumn flowers is to 
take place this year at the Crystal Palace as usual on September 3rd and 
4th. The Turner Memorial prize (silver cup, value £10, for twelve show and 
six fancy Dahlias) is open for competition on this occasion. Entries for 
the Show should be sent in on or before August 27th, and the schedules 
may be had on application from the Honorary Secretary, Mr. Thomas 
Moore, Botanic Gardens, Chelsea, London, S.W., who will also thankfully 
acknowledge any contributions for the prize fund. We shall be glad if 
the Directors of the Show are well supported in their efforts to extend and 
perfect the culture of the Dahlia in its several forms, and to make the Ex¬ 
hibition a great success. 
- Me. W. Reuse remarks :—“ We have some Onions, raised from 
seed sown in the autumn of 1884 and harvested last year, still sound and 
good, and they have not yet commenced to grow. Is not this rather 
unusual 1 The variety is Trebons. Some of another sort kept well but 
have been over some time. Both were well harvested.” 
- A general meeting of guarantors and life members of the 
Gband Yorkshire Gala and Floral Exhibition was recently bell 
in the North-Eastern Hotel, York, Mr. Alderman Rooke, Vice-Chairman 
of the Committee, in the chair, when it was decided to give to the 
charities of York out of this year’s profits the sum of £40, and a further 
sum of £25 added to their invested capital. Vote 3 of thanks were passed 
to the Rt. Hon. the Lord Mayor, Mr. Alderman Terry, the popular 
Chairman of the Committee, and, as Lord Mayor, President of the 
Society ; also to the Vice-Chairman and other officers, including Mr. John 
Wilson, who has been the active Secretary of the Society from its forma¬ 
tion twenty-eight years since, and to whose untiring interest in the gala 
so much of the success is due. £1370 appears to have been taken on the 
three days of the last Show, and the Committee have an invested fund of 
£1700. June 15th, 16th, and 17th, 1887, will be the date of next year’s 
Exhibition. 
- “ S. C.” writes, “ The value of Mulching was very strikingly 
brought under my notice recently. At the end of May a ribbon border 
was planted with small late spring-struck Pelargoniums, they were in fact 
scarcely rooted. Knowing this, I advised the application of a thin layer 
cf light decayed stable manure, and one-half of the border was so treated 
the other not, and the difference is astonishing. The border is quite 
spoilt, one-half being as large again as the other. No doubt the heavy 
rains have helped the quick growth, but the mulched portion never felt 
the drought and cutting winds. Many a bed or border, especially in 
exposed positions, can be mu’ched without being unsightly, and would 
well pay for so doing.” 
-We are requested to state that the Cheadle Horticultural 
Society (Cheshire) will hold their nineteenth annual F.'ower Show on 
August 21st and 22nd, when £165 will be offered in prizes. 
-A Succession of Peaches in One House. —Mr. J. Muir 
writes: “ Some growers have house after house of Peaches to come in 
after each other, and they need have no difficulty in having a supply of 
Peaches from May until November, but the majority of growers have 
only one or two houses, and in cases of this kind it is a great advantage 
to have each house planted with good successional varieties. Here we 
have a cool house containing six trees, three on the back wall and three 
on the front trellis, and from these we gather fruit for three months. The 
earliest variety in the house is Hale’s. Last year it ripened its first fruits 
in the latter part of June, but this season they were not ripe until the first 
week in July. It was finished som9 time ago, and was succeeded by Royal 
George, which will soon be over, when Prince of Wales comes in, and 
this is succeeded by Late Admirable, which is yet green and will not be 
ripe until September. We have thus a three-months supply of Peaches 
from the one house, and this result is much more satisfactory for a table 
supply than if the house was plauted with only one or two sorts, which 
would be all over in two or three weeks.” 
- The Erdington Horticultural Exhibition at Sir Josiah 
Mason’s Orphanage, near Birmingham, took place on Monday, August 
1st, and was in every way most successful. The Orphanage was 
founded and endowed by the late Sir Josiah Mason, and accommodates 
about six hundred orphan children. The swings used by the children are 
fixtures close to the field where the Exhibition was held, and an unfor¬ 
tunate accident occurred to Mr. A. Wright, of the firm of Wright Bros., 
nurserymen, Erdington, who was struck by one of the swings and his 
shoulder blade broken and his spine injured. At all outdoor flower shows 
it would be well to appoint some active person used to such work to take 
up the management of the grounds and see that order was kept and 
dangers avoided. 
- We are requested to state that Jeyes’ Sanitary Compounds 
Company, Limited, having been originally entrusted with the dis¬ 
infection of the native quarters in the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 
and having carried out the same to the entire satisfaction of all the 
authorities, have now been specially appointed by the Royal Commission 
to undertake the disinfection of the whole of the Exhibition buildings. 
- There is now an excellent collection of Carnations and 
Picotees in the Royal Horticultural Society’s Gardens at Chiswick, and 
a selection of these is given in the following note by a correspondent :— 
“ Beginning with the Carnations, we might start with one oalled Chiswick 
Red. It origina'ed at Chiswick, and is a fine daik red self; a telling 
flower, of good substance. In Scarlet Bizarres, the best of the varieties may 
be found in the following :—Duke of Grafton (Hooper), James McIntosh 
(Dodwell), Robert Lord (Dodwell), Master Stanley (Dodwell), Arthur 
Medhurst (Dodwell). Crimson Bizarres : Albert Chancellor (Aber¬ 
crombie), Stanley Hudson (Dodwell), Thomas Moore (Dodwell). Pink 
and Purple B'zarres : James Taylor (Gibbons), Mrs. Barlow (Dodwell), 
Princess Beatrice (Beardsley), Sarah Payne (Ward), Tom Foster (Dodwell). 
Purple Flakes : Jane (Baildon), Sporting Lass (Fiowdy). Scarlet Flakes : 
Flirt (Abercrombie), Figaro (Abercrombie), Jupiter (Abercrombie), Dan 
Godfrey (Holmes). Rose Flakes: John Kent (Whitehead), Jessica (Turner), 
Rose of Stapleford (Headley). Fancies: Queen Victoria (Benary), Anna 
Benary (Benary), Of those refined flowers, Picotee3, honourable mention 
may be made of the following :—Red-edged : Jewess (Fellowcs), Mr. 
Dodwell (Turner), Mrs. Brown (Payne), Lothair (Fellowes), Lord Valentia 
(Kirtland), Hilda (Dodwell), Robert Scott (Fiowdy). Purple-edged : 
B. B. Coutts (Payne), Edith (Dodwell), Evelyn (Hewitt), Mrs. A. Chan¬ 
cellor (Turner). Rose and Scarlet-edged : Mrs. Payne (Fellowes), and 
Daisy (Dodwell).” 
- The Tropical Agriculturist for July states that recently an offer 
has made by Mr. G. Jasper Nieholls, C.S., to send, at his own expense, to 
anyone app'ying, a supply of seeds cf the Bambusa katang. But 
probably few people not botanists appreciated the meaning of the oifer. 
The Bambusa katang is not only the largest Barnb >o grown in India, out¬ 
side of Burma and Assam, but from its habit of flowering only once in 
fifty-five or sixty years, it is also excessively rare. Some specimens ex : st 
