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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER, 
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- GtAkdening Appointment. —Mr. J. Hollingworth, Woodseat, 
Uttoxeter, has been appointed gardener to Lord Tredegar, Tredegar Park, 
Newport. 
- Handsome Legacy, —According to a daily paper, the late 
Lord Calthorpe has left by his will £700 to Mr. Thos. Jones, the head 
gardener at Elvetham Park, Winchfield. 
- The Bamboo Company, late of 58, St. Paul’s Churchyard, 
desire us to mention that they have removed to more commodious 
premises at Great Sutton Street, Clerkenwell, E.C. 
- The Wakefield Paxton Society.—A t the meeting of this 
Society last week Mr. T. Pitts, gardener to Dr. Kendell of Walton, gave 
an interesting and instructive discourse on The Pea,” illustrated by a 
number of specimens of the most popular kinds, fully describing the 
best methods of culture. Several members took part in a discussion of 
the subject. 
- The members of the Highbury Horticultural Society 
made their outing to Swanley on Saturday last. After inspecting the 
neighbourhood they made long inspection of Messrs. Cannell & Sons 
greenhouses and seed farms. A large Wardian case containing seedling 
Chrysanthemums that were shown at Sydney (New South Wales) last 
April, causing much sensation there, had just arrived, and this, together 
with Begonias, Brugmansia Cornucopia (The Horn of Plenty) much 
interested the visitors. 
- Derbyshire Horticultural Society. —We have received 
a schedule and tickets for the Show, which is to be held on September 6 th 
and 7th, but there is no intimation where the Exhibition will be held, 
but presumably in or near Derby. We note that some good prizes are 
offered, including £20, £15, £10, and £5 for groups of plants, and these 
should insure first-class competition. The Exhibition is to be held in 
connection with the Agricultural Show, Mr. W. Bacon, Beckett Mill 
Printing Works, Derby, being the manager of the horticultural depart¬ 
ment. 
- At the annual Exhibition of the Wigtonshire Horticul¬ 
tural Society, held at Stranraer, the leading prizes for Roses were 
won by Messrs. Thomas Smith & Sons and Mr. McMicking, head 
gardener to James McDouall, Esq., of Logan, in the parish of Kirk- 
maiden. A splendid specimen of Charles Lefebvre exhibited in the 
Logan collection was considered absolutely perfect. Mr. McMicking 
was equally successful with his Dahlias, which were remarkably fine. 
The richly coloured Grapes exhibited by Mr. Day, Lord Galloway’s head 
gardener, easily obtained the premier place ; while the Rev. Dr. Barty of 
Kirkcolm was first as formerly with herbaceous fiowers. 
- Liliums at Chelsea.—I n the large show house at Mr. 
Wm. Bull’s Nursery, King’s Road, Chelsea, there are at present in flower 
some very beautiful Liliums. Amongst the best were a large flowered 
pure white variety of the speciosum type named album novum; L. s. 
punctatum, another small pure white flowered variety with coloured 
spots on the petals; L. s. Melpomene, a very dark coloured variety 
having fine flowers and an unusually broad leaf; L. Henryi, the colour 
of which is I suppose a rich apricot, the petals being sparsely speckled 
with brownish crimson. This is a most attractive species with 
extremely fragile looking growth?. L. Batemannae was also seen 
standing out prominently amongst numerous others.—W. 
- Farm Orchards. —Mr. J. Hiam writes :—“ I have read the 
articles on this subject with much interest which have lately appeared 
in the Journal^ and can speak as to the deplorable condition in which 
many orchards are, but with the best material to renovate them running 
to waste down the ditches and into the streams, the liquid from farm¬ 
yards. In my lectures last spring I made this a leading subject among 
country audiences, including many farmers, and placed on the slides 
under the microscopes spots of sewage after evaporation, in order to 
bring most intelligently to their minds and eyes the great waste of 
manure running away at their expense. In support of what I recom¬ 
mended I turned a stream of water in February from an ordinary field 
ditch to irrigate a row of Apple trees. The effect has been that, in 
spite of the excessive dry spring and summer, the trees have made more 
growth than during the past ten years, and the fruit is quite double the 
size I have ever grown of the same sorts, whereas the rule of the season 
is that fruit is very small. Irrigation on well drained ground works 
wonders, and the surprise is that so few appear to realise the advantages 
of brooks and streams with the aid of self-acting rams and other 
means.” 
- Fruit Trees in Switzerland.—I n Switzerland it is stated 
that very stringent laws exist for the protection of fruit trees from 
insects and other pests. No tree owner is allowed to treat his trees as 
he chooses, but a strict watch is kept over both amateur and professional 
horticulturists. 
-Fruit Hawkers in Olden Times.—A ccording to a daily 
contemporary, in the sixteenth century there was a curious enactment in 
England whereby street hawkers were forbidden to sell Plums and 
Apples, for the reason that servants and apprentices were unable to 
resist the sight of them, and were consequently tempted to steal their 
employer’s money in order to enjoy the costly delicacies. 
- Sudden Death op a Jersey Nurseryman. — We regret 
to hear of the death of Mr. Ch. B. Saunders of Jersey, who died 
suddenly from apoplexy on August 1st. Mr. Saunders was born 
January 4th, 1824, and at the early age of twenty-one took over the 
management of his father’s then very extensive business of a nurseryman 
and fruit grower. It is reported that his business will be continued by 
Mr. Becker. 
- A French Pomological Congress.—W e understand that 
the tenth general Show and the eleventh Pomological Congress, 
organised by the Pomological Association of the West of France, will 
take place atVannesfrom October 17th to 22nd, The samples of fruit 
destined for the Show are to be the property of the Society, and must be 
sound, ripe (or almost ripe), and represent the average type of exhibited 
varieties. A special exhibition of instruments, such as crushers, 
grinders, presses, and stills will also be held. 
-Royal Horticultural Society’s Journal. — We have 
received a copy of part 1, vol. xvi., of the Journal of the Royal 
Horticultural Society. This forms a neat book of upwards of 300 pages, 
and contains much useful information. The papers that have been 
read at the meetings held during the first half of the present year are 
included, and these alone are worthy of perusal. Extracts from the 
proceedings of the Society are also given, and the whole of the awards 
made during the above-mentioned period are enumerated. Many of the 
new and rare plants are illustrated. The price of the work to 
non-Fellows is 5s. 
-The Potato Crop in Jersey.—T his is the second year in 
succession the Jersey Potato crop has been unsatisfactory, the price 
made per ton for those exported having been a little less than £5, 
against an averaged value for eleven years of rather over £ 6 . The 
crop is about 11,000 tons less than in 1892. It is stated that the 
earliest consignments only made £20 per ton this year against £52 last 
year, while the latter ones made £3 lOs. per ton against £2 33 . 4d. last 
year. The total amount received for the crop this year is no less than 
£160,275 83 . 4d, less than for the good crop of 1891, in which year no 
Potatoes were sold at less than £5 per ton. 
- Sparrows Again, —The sparrows have undoubtedly many 
sins to answer for from a gardener’s and farmer’s point of view, but I 
can speak from many years’ close observations that they are particu¬ 
larly fond of the Oak leaf-rolling caterpillars, the chrysalids, and the 
moths. Neither are they the only helpers the rooks have in clearing 
Oaks, for starlings, the tit tribe, and in the mature state swallows and 
martins, darting hither and thither among the branches, take the moths, 
and help in the general destruction. Sparrows undoubtedly take much 
insect food when they have young, I once put a brood in a cage, and 
the old birds brought a large number of cockchafers and pushed them 
between the wires, but the young birds dropped them in the bottom of 
the cage, not being able to feed themselves.—J. Hiam. 
- White Antirrhinums, — Why does "T. S.” (page 172) 
refer to the variety in bloom with him as “ Iggulden’s ? ” It would 
be as correct for me to refer to the white Snapdragon which blooms 
so beautifully at Swanmore Park as “ Molyneux’s.” The fact is the 
variety is found in all directions, and though I have never seen it 
anywhere in such profusion or more beautiful than at Swanmore, 
yet it is to be found in many gardens. It is very much more to 
the point to find that such striking effects can be obtained from 
Antirrhinums. There are plenty of other self-coloured forms that 
would answer equally well if grown from cuttings, as this white variety 
is, I had a splendid rich crimson with a white throat at Bedfont, 
named Brilliant, that I have not seen excelled for effectiveness and 
would make a beautiful bedder; for this purpose striking self colours 
are best.—A. D. 
