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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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■occupied with climbing plants of some sort, very often Roses. In our 
case it is so, yet plants of Madame Crousse and Alice Crousse planted in a 
narrow border at the foot of the back wall cover their allotted space of 
12 feet high and as much wide, flowering profusely from the early part 
April until the end of October. 
When grown in this way Ivy-leaf Pelargoniums, besides being showy, 
provide a quantity of cut blooms. The same plants have stood in their 
present quarters eight years, and from their appearance promise many 
more years of duty. When the shoots reached the top of the wall they 
were kept topped to induce vigorous growths to push from the nodes 
below, the strongest of these were tied to tiie wires on the wall, while 
others were allowed to hang loosely. The same method has been 
practised ever since. For covering low walls out of doors during the 
summer these Pelargoniums are most useful, especially as they succeed 
well on a southern aspect. Plenty of sun and abundance of water at 
the roots are what are required to induce them to grow and flower freely 
and quickly outside. Autumn struck cuttings grown hardily through the 
winter are the bast for this mode of growth. I have had but little 
success with them bedded, owing to the want of a suitable spot; that 
which is at all shaded is not what they like.—E. M. 
Edinburgh Exhibition. 
The Edinburgh Exhibition for 1892, held under the auspices of the 
Scottish Horticultural Association, is fixed for November 17th, 18th, 
and 19th, and is to be held in the Waverley Market. There are good 
prizes for plants, while in the cut bloom classes they are exceptionally 
liberal. The City of Edinburgh cup, value £20, is offered for forty- 
eight Japanese, with minor prizes of £10, £5, £3, and £2, while the 
Scottish challenge cup and £5 are offered for eighteen incurved and 
eighteen Japanese. There are numerous special prizes. 
Confusion in Nomenclature. 
After carefully perusing Mr. Molyneux’s note in regard to the 
relative merits of the Chrysanthemum sport John Lambert and Golden 
Queen of England, it seems to me the only objection he has to the sport 
is its similarity to the last-named, though in which respect he has not 
made clear to me. Your correspondent by using the adjective “supposed ” 
in reference to the sport implies that it is not a sport at all ; this I con¬ 
sider unjust to Mr. Lambert, and it ceriainly shows a want of confidence 
in the discrimination of the N.C.S. Mr. Molyneux further remarks, 
“ Wny should I wish to disparage any variety which is generally admitted 
to be an improvement on existing sorts.? ” This is the very thing that 
has puzzled me, but nevertheless the fact remains. 
If John Lambert, grown from cuttings sent to Swanmore (not neces¬ 
sarily the best), produced blooms which gained a certificate at Chiswick, 
and elicited from the Judges such remarks of approval, and also in 
the following year, after passing under the scrutiny of the N.C S., 
gained another certificate as a distinct sort under the name of John 
Lambert, surely it must be worthy of a place on the Chrysanthemum 
analysis of 1891. If Mr. Molyneux, notwithstanding his disparagement, 
gave John Lambert premier position at Chiswick in preference to his 
own Golden Queens, and Mr. Lambert has shown it with such great 
success, I do not think I shall regret the step I have taken in sticking 
to the sport and consigning Golden Queen to the fire heap, hoping thus 
to avoid any further “ confusion in nomenclature.”— Lancastrian. 
Mr. Molyneux states in his reply to “Lancastrian ” (page 361) that 
with his wide experience of Chrysanthemum exhibitions he cannot call 
to mind one instance where Golden Queen of England and John Lambert 
have been staged together as distinct. Mr. Molyneux’s memory is not 
very good on the point, perhaps because his experience is so great and 
he cannot therefore retain all that comes under his notice. The two 
have been staged together as distinct in a first prize stand by one of his 
own friends, and the show, with names of the varieties, was duly 
reported in the Journal. He will, on reflection, no doubt call it to 
mind and then admit his little lapse of memory. 
I sent Mr. Molyneux my sport, and he subsequently wrote me that it 
was such a grandly built flower and of such a good colour that tbe judges 
who saw it at Chiswick remarked they were the finest blooms they had ever 
seen. Now please let me ask Mr. Molyneux why he took the blooms of my 
sport and showed them as Golden Queen of England, instead of taking 
his own Golden Queens or Emily Dales ? That is a legitimate question. 
After a two-years trial it gained the “ National’s ” first class certificate 
and its name was not questioned. 
Mr. Molyneux asks why he should wish to disparage any variety 
which is generally admitied to be an improvement upon existing sorts. 
That is best known to himself. I wish to know what right he had to 
change the name of my sport when he exhibited it at Chiswick. If he 
did not like the name he could have left the blooms at home and staged 
some of his own Golden Queens. Mr. Molyneux did not do this, but 
adopted a course for which, so far as I know, there is no precedent. I 
am entitled to a reply on this point, which is a fundamental one. 
The sport is still living, like its raiser ; and I should advise exhibitors 
to be sure and name it Golden Queen if they know Mr. Molyneux is to 
be one of the judges. My advice to anyone who may be plagued with a 
good incurved sport is, keep it to yourself. If you are an exhibitor and 
if it is a good one you will always be able to gain a point or two over 
your opponents. Never give a cutting away, if you intend to sell the 
sport, till you have gained for it the National’s first c'ass certificate, 
oven if Mr. Molyneux refuses to acknowledge it.— John Lambert, 
Powis Cantle, N. Wales. 
RIDGE CUCUMBERS. 
Assuming that a good base of fermenting materials has been pressed 
in a trench 2 feet deep and strong plants raised, they may be put out 
now in half a bushel of loam and leaf soil to give them a start, the 
remainder of the soil consisting of that removed from the trench ; cover 
with handglasses and give tepid water. The glasses should be closed at 
about two o’clock in the afternoon after syringing or damping the plants 
lightly with a fine-rosed watering pot ; this promotes a genial heat for the 
plants. They should only be damped on bright days. 
Train three or four shoots resulting from pinching the tops out of the 
plants a couple of weeks previously, regularly over the bed when they 
are long enough, at the same time placing three brickbats under each 
handlight to allow of the shoots extending outside their limits. When 
the shoots have attained a length of about 18 inches pinch off the 
points. This will cause one or two Cucumbers to set on each and side 
shoots to push forth. The growths should be stopped at one joint 
beyond the fruit. The handglasses may eventually be removed. 
Avoid crowding the shoots and overcropping the plants as the worst 
evils in Cucumber culture, or, for that matter, in the culture of fruit¬ 
bearing plants of any description. Therefore keep the shoots well 
thinned and stopped, and remove all bad leaves as soon as they appear 
on the plants. The plants should be kept uniformly moist at the roots, 
The Cucumbers should be cut before they become overgrown or lose the 
dark green colour which generally indicates crispness, and be placed on 
end in a saucer containing half an inch of water in a cool room or cellar 
until required for use.—H. W. Ward. 
HEPATIC AS. 
Having observed wh.at “ D., Deal," says at pages 373-74, I should 
like to know who does not observe the remarks of that interesting and 
charming writer on our garden pets. Speaking on the failure of the 
Hepaticas double blue and red, he asks, “ Why they should be so 
difficult I cannot understand,” and then proceeds with his 
experience “ when a boy.” It is similar to my own. So 
robust were my plants that I used to relegate them to any out- 
of-the-way place, such as under a shrub, bush, or at the foot 
of a hedge, a bad requital for their charms in spring. As the plants 
increased so they were coveted by friends, and I endeavoured to supply 
all who asked, tearing off tbe young offshoots until the old stools 
refused after many years to grow any larger. New supplies were 
obtained, and for a time promised to do well ; but, alas ! every spring 
brought blighted hopes. A close inspection revealed the cause of my 
great disappointment. The grubs of the daddy longlegs had been the 
depredators, but I am now rewarded by seeing my Hepaticas renewing 
their vigour. I have two blues, or rather purples, but not H. angulosa. 
One of these I had from an old florist who raised it, and for fifty 
years he laboured in vain to laise a white double. 
Now, since tbe smoke has become so great a nuisance, deciduous 
plants are the only ones I can depend upon. Primroses, Auriculas, and 
Polyanthus are difficult to keep. Tneir loss is, however, due more to the 
ravages of the common earthworm than the smoke, at least they are 
the only pests I can find, They cut the roots as if with a knife, the 
frost throws the plants out, then the worms draw them under the surface, 
and that is the end of my plants.—W. T , Dlantyre. 
GARDEN FRAMES. 
Complaints having been made that the excessive cold of the last 
two winters had caused many deaths among half-hardy plants usually 
kept in frames during winter I devised a plan that I think will be 
successful. I bought some feather-edge boards, 2-inch quartering, and 
some slating battens. I knocked the frames apart, sawed an inch off 
each end of the boards where the nails had been, and nailed a 2-inch 
piece of quartering inside at each end to keep the boards together, and 
then nailed my feather edge on the outside, giving only a 1-inch lap. In 
this way I had my frames in four portions with a space between the 
inside and outside boards of 2 inches. I had eight hooks and sixteen 
staples made, and placed a hook on the top and only a staple at the 
bottom alternately, so that the hooks did not both hook the same way, 
i.e. right and left, so that one hook might pull against the other when 
put together. The slating battens I nailed along the two sides, and 
cut a dovetail top and bottom for the guide bar down the centre to rest 
in. The frames cost me altering 20s, each ; that included three coats 
of Carson’s paint. I shall have the space between the boards filled 
with ashes, and will report if I live through another winter the success 
or the reverse of my operation.—C. J., Waldronhyrst, Croydon. 
