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JOURKiL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ March 6 , 1891. 
or alongside old plantations where they were just starved and smothered 
to death, and then they complain of a failure brought about by their 
own negligence and folly. 
I fearlessly assert that we possess no better hedge plant than this 
Plum. It bears the dwarfing proeess of close clipping wich impunity, 
or grows upwards so quickly and with such vigour as to make excellent 
enclosures for plantations of fruit or Hops, both as an efficient fence 
and wind screen. Only attention must be given to the common prin¬ 
ciples of tree culture in the selection of healthy, well-rooted young trees ; 
two-spit trenching, and, if necessary, drainage of the soil; subsequent 
careful cultivation of the hedge, and then there will be success full 
and ample. 
Is hedgerow management becoming a lost art 1 Certainly most 
farmers have let their hedges become mere wild thickets of late years, 
but I am not aware that gardeners have fallen into such slovenly 
habits. It may be so. Look to it, you blue aprons, for if I find it is so 
now that my attention is aroused, I shall not rest content till the fault 
and its remedy have been discussed in the Journal of Horticulture ,— 
IfOEESTER, 
Events of the Week.— To day (Thursday) the Koyal Society 
meet at 4.30 p.m., and the Linnean Society at 8 P.M. On Friday, 
March 6th, the Quekett Club meet at 8 p.m., and on Saturday the 
Loyal Society have a meeting at 4 p.m, A general meeting of the 
United Horticultural Benefit and Provident Society will be held at the 
Caledonian Hotel, on Monday, March 9th, at 8 P.M., for the purpose 
of altering rule 20, the rule to read, “ second Monday in March,” 
instead of “ second Monday in February.” The Royal Horticultural 
Society’s Fruit, Floral, and Orchid Committees will meet at 12 noon 
on Tuesday, March 10th, when a medal is offered for a collection of 
forced Daffodils, and lectures on Snowdrops will be delivered at 3 P.M. 
by Messrs. James Allen and W. Boyd. The Society of Arts also meet 
on Wednesday, March 11th, at 8 p.m. 
- Report op the Weather during February, 1891.—The 
past month here has been remarkably dry. There has only been 0 02 of 
rainfall during the whole month, and that fell on the 6th. There is no 
doubt but it was the dryest month on record here. There has been 
little or no wind, but some cold dense foggy days, whilst ten of the days 
are to be remembered as being some of the brightest and grandest days 
ever known in February, but each day was succeeded by very sharp 
frost at night. The amount of rainfall registered here during February, 
1890, was 0’71.—E. Wallis, The Gardens, Hamels Park, Buntingford. 
- The Weather. —Fogs of a remarkably dense character pre¬ 
vailed in the metropolitan district for ten days, but gradually dispersed 
at the close of last week, and the weather has been remarkably fine on 
several days since. On Monday the temperature rose considerably, 
standing at 56° at 6 p.m. Tuesday morning was colder, but very clear. 
Outdoor plants, fruit trees, and shrubs are now advancing, and a few 
days’ warm bright weather will make a great difference. 
- Native Guano. —We are requested to notice the list of 
testimonials published by the Native Guano Company. It is a most 
comprehensive list, comprising records of experience from cultivators in 
the different counties, who have found the product highly satisfactory 
in the cultivation of vegetables, fruit, and flowers in gardens and various 
kinds of crops on farms. This is a very safe manure for amateurs, who 
are apt to deal too liberally with powerful fertilisers, and its soundness 
is testified to by hundreds of persons whose names and addresses are 
published in the compilation before us. 
- The Annual Exhibition of the Chiswick Horti¬ 
cultural Society will be held on Thursday, July 2nd, this year, in 
the Royal Horticultural Society’s Gardens, Chiswick. The schedule 
enumerates eighty-eight classes, and the prizes are good, including two 
silver cups and two silver medals. A five-guinea silver cup and £2 are 
offered as the first prize for a group of Gloxinias, Ferns, and Palms ; 
while for twenty-four Roses, distinct varieties, a silver cup, value 
twenty-five guineas, and £3 constitute the chief prize. The cup is 
presented by J. Mantell, Esq., Ringstead, Gunnersbury, and becomes 
the property of the exhibitor gaining the first prize three years, not 
necessarily in succession. 
- The next meeting of the Croydon Gardeners’ and 
Amateurs’ Mutual Improvement Society will be held on Tuesday, 
March 10th, at 8 p.m., in the County Tavern, West Croydon, when Mr. 
W. B. Glasscock of Shirley Park will read a paper on Peaches. 
- The usual monthly dinner and conversazione of the Horti¬ 
cultural Club will take place on Tuesday, March 10th, in the Hotel 
Windsor at 6 p.m. The chair will be taken by Sir J. D. Llewellyn, 
Bart., and the subject for discussion will be“ Seeds, Curiosities in their 
Germination and Distribution,” to be opened by Mr. George Bunyard. 
- Stachys tuberifera. —This plant is growing in favour in 
some places where it has been fairly tried. An experienced gardener 
finds it necessary to grow it extensively for the demand in the kitchen, 
and the cook sends it to table fried in butter. It ia grown best ia 
warm sheltered places, and kept well watered in dry weather, growing 
it like Potatoes.—W. D. 
- Sulphur for Onions.—F or the benefit of persons who are 
unable to raise a good crop of Onions on account of the grub, I can 
offer a very good recipe, and it is as follows :—When the Onion bed is 
prepared and the drills made ready for sowing sprinkle a good pinch of 
flowers of sulphur in each drill from end to end, or if it is desirable to 
sow the Onions broadcast, sow the sulphur the same way, and dig it in. 
This will produce a sure crop of Onions, and no grub will trouble them.— 
Thos. Fothergill. 
- The Glasgow and West of Scotland Horticultural 
Society’s Shows for 1891 are announced in the schedule to be held 
on March 25th and September 2nd in St. Andrew’s Hall. The schedule 
for the spring Show comprises sixty-three classes for forced plants and 
bulbs, but cut flowers and vegetables are also provided for. At the 
autumn Show there are 147 classes ; plants, flowers, fruit, vegetables, 
table decorations, and honey having special sections. The Secretary is 
Mr. Franc Gibb Dougall, 167, Canning Street, Glasgow. 
- Rainfall in Mid-Sussex. —The total rainfall at Cuckfield, 
Mid-Sussex, for February was 0'04, the average for the month being 
2 40 inches. This is the smallest amount of rain for any one month on 
our record of eleven years, the nearest approach to it being that of 
June 1889, when 0'23 inch fill. Highest temperature 57° on 28th, 
lojfest 22° on 24th, mean max. 46°, mean min. 30°, mean 38°. Partial 
shade readings about the average. Thermometer below 32° on twenty^ 
one nights, and on seventeen days it rose to 45° or above it.—R. J. 
- We are desired to state that the next meeting of the Royal 
Horticultural Society will take place in the Drill Hall on Tuesday, 
March 10th. Besides the usual novelties in the way of flowers,fruits, vege¬ 
tables, Orchids, &c., an open competition will be held for the silver medal 
offered by Messrs. Barr for the best collection of forced Daffodils. All 
varieties of Daffodils with the exception of Polyanthus may be entered 
for competition. There will also be a good collection of Snowdrops, and 
at three o’clock Mr. James Allen, of Park House, Shepton Mallet, and 
Mr. W. Boyd, of Melrose, N.B., will read papers on their culture. 
- The Long Frost and Insect Life.—I quite agree with your 
excellent correspondents, “ Entomologist ” and Mr. S. T. Wright, that 
severe winters do not extirpate our field and garden enemies, but am 
inclined to believe that we shall have fewer of some caterpillars this 
year, as I observed in November and the beginning of December, 
principally in the first named, myriads of moths upon the wing, when 
suddenly the weather changed from fine to stormy, the moths were 
overtaken, and I think most of them were killed. As the storm lasted 
more or less for days I think few of them survived, while the early 
frosts put a stop to their breeding.—W. T, 
-National Pink Society (Midland Section).—W e have 
received the schedule of the first Show of this newly formed Society. 
It comprises nine classes, five prizes, with one exception, being offered 
in each class, the amounts ranging from 20s. downwards. The Exhi- 
bition is to be held in connection with the Floral Fete at Wolver¬ 
hampton on the 14th, 15th, and 16th of July, The object of the 
promoters of the Show is “ to restore this lovely, interesting, and 
sweetest of sweet-scented flowers to the high position it held in the 
estimation of the public forty years ago.” We wish them success in 
their sweet and loving object so sweetly and lovingly expressed. Mr, 
Charles F. Thurston, Penn Fields, Wolverhampton, is the Honorary 
Secretary of the new Society, and will be glad to hear from all persons 
who may be willing to give their countenance and support to the 
Exhibition. 
