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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ March 3, 1892. 
- Stockport Chrysaijthemum akd Fruit Show. — The 
statement of accounts in reference to the last Show at Stockport we are 
pleased to note as satisfactory, and the dates of this year’s Exhibition 
are November 18th and 19th. 
- The Horticultural Department of the Chicago Exposition is 
planning to have a Rose Garden in which will be 50,000 plants, besides 
large groups in special areas. The garden will be of classic design with 
temples, arbours, archways and trellises. 
-American waggons, as manufactured by the Cortland Waggon 
Co., are to be introduced to the British public through an agency just 
established at 31, 32, and 33, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, of which 
Mr. Thomas Clarke, known in connection with the Excelsior mowers, 
will take charge. 
- Does Frost Destroy Slugs ?—1 am certain that frost does 
not injure many (if any) of our garden pests, certainly neither slugs nor 
snails. The latter will remain all the winter through the keenest frost 
beneath a board half an inch thick uninjured; so you see 1 differ from 
“ 1.,” page 107.—W. T. 
- The Bury St. Edmunds and West Suffolk Horticultural 
Society appears to be in a flourishing condition, a balance of £43 123. lid. 
being declared at the annual general meeting. This year’s Show is fixed 
for June 30tli. Mr. W. Armstrong was re-elected Hon. Secretary, and 
it would have been difficult to find a better one. 
-The Brighton and Sussex Horticultural Society have 
arranged for three Shows this year. A spring Exhibition is to be held 
on March 29th and 30th, a summer Show on June 29th and 30tb, and an 
Exhibition of Chrysanthemums and fruit on October 25th and 26th. 
Mr. E. Carpenter is the energetic Secretary. 
- Etched Labels. —Of the many varieties of labels for flowers, 
&c., 1 have not observed any etched ones. If these were adopted of 
brass, copper, or other metal 1 think they would offer advantages others 
do not possess, such as being permanent, quickly made, written upon 
indelibly, and easily fastened by lead wire to stakes or trees or to insert 
in the ground.—W. T. 
- Black Briony. —Can anyone tell me where or how I could 
get a plant of “ Black Briony,” either by purchase or otherwise ? A 
friend from the extreme north of the kingdom writes me, asking if it 
grows in the hedges here, and, if so, if I will send a plant; but 1 do not 
know it, and am ignorant as to where I could even purchase a plant. 
Can your readers help me through our Journal ?—S. S. 
- Preston and Fulwood Floral and Horticultural 
Society. —The forty-fifth monthly meeting of the members and sub¬ 
scribers of the above Society will be held on Saturday evening next, 
March 5th, 1892, when Mr. W. Troughton, of the Nurseries, Walton-le- 
Dale, will read his paper, “ Notes on the Culture of Hardy Fruits 
Suitable for North Lancashire.” Chair to be taken at 7.30 by His 
Worship the Mayor, Councillor Humber. 
- The eighteenth annual Exhibition of the Eoyal Horticul¬ 
tural Society at Liege will be held at the Casino Grbtry, Boulevard 
d’Avroy, on the 24th, 25th, and 26th of April. The Secretary is Mons. 
Jules Closon, and the President Mons. 0. Lamarche-de-Eossius, Avenue 
d’Avroy, 123, Li^ge, Belgium. The schedule to hand gives particulars 
of 120 classes, embracing Orchids, Eoses, and a number of the leading 
greenhouse and stove plants. 
- The Newcastle and District Horticultural Mutual 
Improvement Association. —A grand concert and ball was held at 
the Grand Assembly Hall, Barras Bridge, Newcastle, on Thursday last, 
the object being to obtain funds to build a horticultural institute. The 
President (Mr. Norman Cookson, Wylam) was present, and supported 
by Alderman Bell, ex-Mayor of Newcastle. The President, in a few 
well-chosen words, congratulated the Society on its success, and said he 
would like to see more employers join the Society, so that mutual 
interests and views might be exchanged. 
- The Rainfall in Sussex. —The total rainfall at Cuckfield, 
Sussex, for the past month was 1‘37 inch, being 1'02 below the average. 
The heaviest fall was 0'29 inch (snow) on the 17th. Rain fell on 
fourteen days. Maximum temperature, 51° on the 7th; minimum 
temperature, 16° on the 17th. Mean maximum, 43° ; mean minimum, 
32°; mean temperature, 37^°. Partial shade readings, 2° below the 
average. On the 17th, 18th, and 19th the temperature was 16°, 18°, 
and 17° respectively. The mean temperature for the three last weeks 
was—second week, 42° ; third week, 30° ; fourth week, 39 8°. Vegetation 
forward for the season.—R. I. 
- Amalgamation of Societies.—A t the last annual dinner 
of the Gillingham Cottage Gardeners’ Society, Mr. C. E. Cheffins, from 
his place in the chair, strongly urged the amalgamation of the 
Gillingham and New Brompton Gardeners’ Societies into one large 
association. Subsequently a meeting of the Gillingham Society was 
held, Mr. Herbert Gibbs in the chair, and a resolution in favour of 
amalgamation was carried almost unanimously. A committee was 
appointed to confer with the New Brompton Society. 
- A New Use for Chrysanthemums. —A Japanese corre¬ 
spondent of the Moniteur d'Horticulture calls attention to the fact that 
the Chrysanthemum is utilised for a purpose not commonly known to 
the inhabitants of the West in Japan. The flowers, he states, are used 
somewhat like salad in Europe, being soaked in vinegar and other 
liquids, and eaten. They are not a fancy, but a popular dish, and 
plenty of flowers can be seen in the greengrocers’ shops. Most of the 
varieties are said to be edible, but preference is given to those with 
small dark yellow flowers. 
- I HAVE noticed in the Journal lately one or two communica¬ 
tions about slugs. Perhaps the following may be of use to some of your 
numerous readers ;—Early in April obtain some young ducks about a 
fortnight old, and give them the run of the garden for a month, when 
they must be removed, another brood of small ones taking their place 
for a similar period. Up to six weeks old they do very little damage, 
whilst they are the best “ slug hunters ” with which I am acquainted. 
Of course, they must have their liberty early in the morning, also till 
late in the evening. It is best to confine the mother under a coop. 
If the above plan is followed every spring there will be little trouble 
with slugs.— Chas. Portsmouth, Haswell. 
- Injurious Insects. —We have received the fifteenth Report 
of Miss Ormerod’s “ Observations of Injurious Insects,” and it affords 
abundant evidence of the author’s untiring diligence and care in 
obtaining and distributing the latest information on the enemies which 
gardeners and farmers have to combat. The diamond-back moth that 
proved so destructive to Turnips in many districts last year is ex¬ 
haustively treated, and all who wish to know what is to be known 
about the invader should read the report. Orchard caterpillars receive 
a goodly share of attention, and much valuable information is given 
respecting them. Several pages are devoted to the Raspberry maggot 
and Currant bud mite, as well as to other garden foes, and various 
useful hints are embodied respecting them. Miss Ormerod evidently 
takes great delight in her work, treats the different subjects in a 
thorough manner, and is doing a service to the horticultural community. 
The Report is published by Messrs. Simpkin, Marshall & Co., and 
contains many illustrations. 
- A PRELIMINARY schedule of the thirteenth quinquennial 
Exhibition at Ghent is to hand. It is proposed to open the Show 
in the last fortnight of April, 1893, and it will be divided into twenty- 
seven sections—new plants. Orchids, hothouse plants, Aroids, Palms, 
Cycads and Pandanus, Ferns, greenhouse plants (flowering or other¬ 
wise), special examples of stove plants, greenhouse flowering plants, 
hardy forced trees and shrubs, hardy plants, softwooded and herbaceous 
greenhouse plants, bulbs and tubers (greenhouse), bulbs and tubers 
(hardy). Azaleas, Camellias, hardy Azaleas, hardy Rhododendrons, 
greenhouse Rhododendrons, ornamental plants for unheated houses, 
ornamental hardy plants; Agaves, Yuccas, Aloes, and succulents ; 
Conifers, results of experiments for instructive purposes, bouquets and 
floral decorations, garden and greenhouse plants, systems of heating, 
tools, &c. Count 0. de Kerehove de Denterghem is the President, and 
Mons. A. L. Eossel the Secretary. 
- Planting out Cyclamens.—P lants that were raised from 
seed sown about the middle of August will now be ready for a shift 
from the thumb pots to a size larger. Ours will be grown in 
a temperature of 55° to 60° until about the middle of April, when 
they may be shifted to a cold frame and kept there until about the 
middle of May. They will then be planted out in a cold frame on the 
north side of a wall. The compost best suited to grow them, both 
when in pots and frames, consists of one-half good fibry loam and 
one-half leaf soil, passed through a half-inch sieve, with a free 
admixture of coarse sand to keep the whole open. They are lifted at the 
beginning of September and placed in pots according to the roots they 
possess, the same kind of soil being used for potting as mentioned 
above. The plants must be kept close for a time to prevent flagging. I 
have found Cyclamens planted out give far more satisfactory results 
than those grown in pots all the year round, and producing from sixty 
to 100 fully developed spikes at one time.— W. Penton. 
