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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ September 30, 1886. 
purchase the Buccleuch Estate on Richmond Hill, so as to convert 
it into public pleasure grounds, and preserve the view from the Hill. They 
have also authorised the VeBtry to borrow the money for fifty years 
instead of thirty. 
- Gardening Appointments. —Mr. Noah Coppin, late gardener 
to C. 0. Wyllie, Esq., Walden, Chislehurst, has been appointed gardener 
to G. Matthey, Esq., Rosemouot, Eastbourne ; and Mr. Thomas Hill, late 
gardener to R. M. Berens, Esq., Sidcup Place, has been appointed gar¬ 
dener to H, Gardener, Esq., Rocksham, Mertsham, Surrey. 
- The Essex Field Club. —The 69th ordinary meeting of the 
Club will be held in the Loughton Public Hall, Loughton, Essex, on 
Saturday, October 2nd, 1886, at half-past six o’clock. Alecture, illustrated 
with diagrams, will he delivered, “The Darwinian Theory—What it is 
and how it can be Demonstrated,” by Alfred R. Wallace, F.L.S., F.ZS, 
&c. The Hall will be open at six o’clock for the convenience of exhibitors. 
Specimens, &c., for exhibition at the conversazione may be sent to the 
care of the Secretary, Loughton Public Hall, or to the headquarters of the 
Club, 8, Knighton Villas, Buckhurst Hill. 
-The Seventh Annual Cryptogamic Meeting of the same 
Club will be held on Friday and Saturday, the 15th and 16th of October, 
in Epping Forest. It is intended to devote the Friday to collecting 
Specimens, and to their examination and arrangement by the experts, and 
°n the Saturday to hold an exhibition of fresh and preserved botanical 
specimens, microscopical objects, drawings, &c. The exhibition will he 
confined to subjects from the vegetable kingdom, but not necessarily to the 
Cryptogamia, although that division will bold a very important place. The 
exhibition will be opened at about four o’clock on Saturday, October 16th, 
in the large ball-room attached to the “ Roebuck Inn,” Buckhurst Hill. 
Ample time will thus be afforded for its careful examination by the 
visitors present, and all possible facilities will be given to exhibitors. 
- Mr. W. Wildsmith, Heckfield Gardens, thus notes A Good 
Bedding Plant :— “ There have of late been but few good additions to 
our lists of bedding plants, but the present season has brought ns two or 
three, by far the best being Sutton’s Princess Beatrice Begonia. It 
belongB to the fibrous-rooted section, and was obtained by hybridising 
B. semperflorens rosea with the pollen of B. Schmidti. The plant is of a 
dense shrubby habit and grows from 9 to 12 inches high, and is exceed¬ 
ingly floriferous, the flowers being small and in colour white tinged with 
pink. It will not seed, consequently there is no picking or keeping in 
order required from the time of planting to lifting in autumn. We have 
it planted as ‘ dot ’ plants on a groundwork of Alternantheras, and also 
grouped on a cushion of Sedum, and it is alike pleasing in both positions. 
Another season we hope to use it still more largely in the manner just 
named, as also as a dividing line plant, particularly for the outer or front 
line of designs. A word of caution is necessary in regard to its propaga¬ 
tion. It must be increased by splitting up the roots. Cuttings strike 
readily enough, but they will not branch ; they keep to one stem. Last 
spring all we propagated in this manner (some dozens of plants), after 
pinching out the points, cut them down, and in other ways striving to get 
them to break, all proved useless, and we had to throw them away.” 
- At Messrs. Protheroe & Morris’s rooms in Cheapside last week 
Dr. A. Paterson’s Collection op Orchids was sold by auction, and 
the plants being in good condition realised fair prices. Some of the 
principal were the following:—Cattleya Trianae 45 guineas, Lselia elegans 
Turneri 35 guineas, Vanda suavis, Paterson’s variety, £32 11s., Odonto- 
glossum Alexandra, extra fine variety, £33 12s. and £14 3s. 6d., Laelia 
Perrini alba 20 guineas, Cattleya labiata, autumn-flowering variety, 
18 guineas, Cypripedium Veitchianum 15 guineas, Coelogyne Gardneriana 
15£ guineas, Cymbidium giganteum 12 guineas, C. Lowianum 13 guineas, 
Vanda tricolor Patersoni 16 guineas, Dendrobium Ainsworthi 13 guineas, 
Vanda suavis 14 guineas, Lselia superbiens 9 guineas, Coelogyne cristata, 
Chatsworth variety, 8 guineas, Odontoglossum Klahochorum 10 guineas, 
Lrelia anceps Dawsoni 9 guineas, and Vanda Cathcarti 15 guineas. It is 
to be hoped that those sold are only a portion of the collection which has 
attracted so many visitors to Bridge of Allan. 
- A visitor sends the following notes from Drumlanrig :— 
“ Seedling Tuberous Begonias are very fine at Drumlanrig ; all sorts 
of shades and colours are to be seen, and some of the flowers are very 
large. They are being carefully selected, and next year they may be 
expected to be even finer than this. From seed sown this spring hundreds 
of fine large plants covered with brilliant flowers of great size and 
substance have been obtained, and, though they are now past their best, 
they are still well worth seeing. Bedded out they have done finely, and 
at the present time (September 25th) they are still blooming freely, having 
been protected from the frost which visited this district some ten days 
ago. Light pieces of shading thrown over the beds and kept from injuring 
the flowers by stakes placed in the ground, were sufficient protection to 
keep the Begonias uninjured from 5° of frost; and now that the weather 
is mild again they are brilliant in colour, and promise to keep so for some 
time to come. Such samples as are to be seen at Drumlanrig are sure to 
have an effect in increasing the appreciation for, and the cultivation of, 
these beautiful plants. Easily grown, coming quickly into bloom, lasting 
long in flower, and being free from insect pests, Begonias have everything 
to commend them. 
- “ A three-quarter span house about 40 feet long is entirely 
filled with Duke op Buccleuch Grape, which does extremely well at 
Drumlanrig, and this season has been even better than usual. The wood 
made this season is strong and well ripened. A succession of young rods 
is maintained, and plenty of room is allowed for the foliage to develope 
without being crowded. The consequence is well matured wood and 
abundant fruitf ulnees. This is a most important point in the culture of 
Duke of Buccleuch. If grown in a too crowded condition of wood and 
foliage it does not get sufficiently well ripened, and consequently does not 
fruit so well. The rods are trained very wide apart, and abundant 
room is allowed for the proper development of the foliage and ripening of 
the wood. Cracking is almost if not quite unknown in connection with 
the culture of ‘ The Duke ’ in this garden. It is a great favourite with 
the family, and all visitors who happen to see and taste it at the Castle 
are delighted with it. It is certainly a noble-looking Grape, and when 
cut and dished without being subjected to the ordeal of packing and 
travelling per rail, it is the perfection of a white Grape for summer and 
autumn use. This season a good many samples of ‘The Duke’ have 
been shown, and it may he hoped that it will he more cultivated in the 
future than it has been in the past. 
- “ Fine specimens of Lapagerias rosea and alba are flower¬ 
ing at Drumlanrig, and they occupy large square tubs, one at each side of 
a fine large conservatory. They are at one end of the house, and are 
trained along the end and along the roof, reaching more than half way 
along the house, and promising in a year or two to be at the other end. 
The white variety is especially well flowered, the beautiful flowers hang¬ 
ing quite thickly together, and forming a very pleasing sight.” 
- Two recent issues of the “ Botanical Magazine ” give illustra¬ 
tions of the under-mentioned plants. Ranunculus Lyalli is depicted 
in t. 6888, and is a fine representation of this handsome New Zealand 
Ranunculus. The first specimens were collected in Milf >rl Sound on the 
west coast of the Southern Island by Dr. Lyall forty years ago, but it has 
since then been found in several localities, mostly on mountain slopes 
“ where the ground is kept moist during the summer from the trickling 
downwards of the melted snow and is shaded from the mid-day sun. 
It is remarked that thousands of seeds have been sent to England during 
the last twenty years, but very few plants have been raised from them. 
Plants flowered in the collection of the late Mr. Isaac Anderson-Henry in 
1864, from seed which had laid dormant four or five years, though in New 
Zealand they germinate in eight months. The leaves attain the size of 
12 inches in diameter, and the flowers, which are pure white, creamy, or 
pink, are 4 inches across. Other plants figured in the same number are 
Iris Milesi (t. 6889), a new species related to I. tectorum, and received by 
Mr. Frank Miles from “the Kulu and Parbutta Valleys of the North 
Western Himalayas.” Cerinthe minor (t. 6890), an old herbaceous plant 
of little beauty, introduced to England in 1570, and recorded in Aiton s 
“ Hortus Kewensis,” 1789, vol. 1, page 183. Disa atropurpurea (t. 6891), 
one of the hundred species of Disa known at the Cape of Good Hope, but 
not to be compared with the handsome D. grandiflora. It has dull reddish 
purple flowers. 
- A distinct Ericaceous shrub, Befaria glauca (t. 6893) 
“ represents in the Andes the Rhododendrons of the mountains of the 
northern hemisphere, and it is a noteworthy fact that they begin in the 
American continent exactly where the true Rhododendrons find their 
southern limit.” The leaves are like some of the smooth-foliaged Rhodo¬ 
dendrons, the flowers being pale pink and borne in loose terminal panicles, 
the petals narrow and SDreading. B. glauca was found by Humboldt and 
Bonpland at the beginning of the present century, and was introduced by 
M. Jacob Makoy of Liege, with whom it flowered in 1845. Iris Statellm 
