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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ May 4, 1893. 
toast of “The Visitors,” to which Mr. J. Collingridge and A, White 
responded. 
Mr, A. F. Barron, the Honorary Secretary, announced that the sub¬ 
scriptions promised that evening amounted to £490. The donations 
included—Baron F. de Rothschild, £50 ; Messrs. Hurst & Sons, £100 ; 
Messrs. Rothschild, £25 ; Sir John Llewelyn, Bart., £10 10s,; Sir Trevor 
Lawrence, Bart., £10 lOs.; Mr. F. Sander, £18 18i. ; Messrs. J. Veitch 
and Sons, £10 10s.; Mr. G. Munro, £14 14s.; Mr. J. Wills, £10 lOs.; 
Mr. W. Marshall, £10 53. ; Mr. J. Wimsett, £10 10s, ; Mr. R. Dean, 
£10 10s. ; Mr. F. Q. Lane, £9 8s. ; Mr. A, W. G. Weeks, £8 Is. ; The 
Thames Bank Iron Co., £9 93. ; and numerous other smaller sums from 
various supporters of the Fund. 
Rose Show Fixtuees in 1893. 
June 20th (Tuesday).—Westminster (N.R.S). 
„ 22nd (Thursday).—Ryde. 
„ 28th (Wednesday).—Clifton,* Earl’s Court, and Richmond (Surrey). 
„ 29th (Thursday).—Eltham, Newport, and Windsor. 
July Ist (Saturday).—Crystal Palace (N.R.S.). 
„ 4th (Tuesday).—Bagshot, Canterbury, Diss, and Gloucester. 
„ 5th (Wednesday).—Croydon, Dursley, Ealing, Hereford, and Lee*. 
„ 6th (Thursday),—Bath, Farningham, Norwich, and Sutton. 
„ 7th (Friday).—Hitchin. 
„ 8th (Saturday) Reigate. 
„ 11th (Tuesday).—Harleston and Wolverhampton.f 
„ 12th (Wednesday).—Earl’s Court and Tunbridge Wells. 
„ 13th (Thursday).—Worksop (N.R.S.), and Woodbridge, 
„ 14th (Friday).—Helensburgh. 
„ 15th (Saturday).—New Brighton. 
„ 20th (Thursday).—Trentham. 
„ 2l8t (Friday).—Ulverston. 
„ 22nd (Saturday).—Manchester. 
„ 25th (Tuesday).—Tibshelf. 
„ 27th (Thursday).—Halifax, and Southwell. 
„ 29th (Saturday),—Bedale. 
* Shows lasting two days. f Shows lasting three days. 
I shall be glad to receive the dates of any Rose Shows not mentioned 
above for publication in my next list of fixtures, which will be issued 
early in June.—E dward Mawley, Roselanh, JBerhhamsted, Herts. 
Paris Green foe Rose Caterpillars, 
Having again proved the efficacy of this on Rose bushes, a reference 
may be of interest to some. A friend happened to be in my garden the 
other evening, and noticing the vigour and healthy appearance of the 
foliage, exclaimed, “ _What have you done to your Roses to produce such 
foliage ? ” I told him that I had applied poultry manure as a top¬ 
dressing in winter, and a spraying of Paris green to kill the grubs in 
spring. He rempked he could not obtain such, do what he might. 
There is something one cannot understand about the prices charged 
for Paris green. If I send to Worcester I am charged 2s. 6d. per lb., 
or 4d, per oz, in less quantities ; at Evesham, Is. ; and a friend informs 
me he gets his at 9d. per lb. from a first-class house.—J. Hiam. 
Roses and Rosarians. 
In my article bearing the above title in your last issue there is a 
typographical error which I hope you will kindly allow me to correct. 
In this special instance “ so ” has been substituted for “ if,” and thereby 
my previous arguments are practically undermined, and I am rendered 
logically inconsistent, which I have no special desire to be. The expres¬ 
sion in which this error occurred should read thus : “ If the great 
English, Scottish, and Irish rosarians are unanimous in pronouncing 
this magnificent Rose (Mrs. Paul) to be a pure Bourbon, I accept their 
verdict unquestioningly.” 
But on this point they are not perfectly unanimous, for several of 
them, as I stated in previous contributions, class this stately and 
imposing variety as a Hybrid Bourbon. I am quite disposed to admit, 
however, that the law of variation may have had something to do with 
the formation of Mrs. Paul; for in accordance with this law, and 
especially I think in the case of Roses, attributes and characteristics 
often seem to pass over the second generation, and are found in the 
third. Of course this manifest eccentricity of operation on the part of 
Nature may entail for the recipient either weakness or vigour, either a 
virtue or a vice. The former influence has manifestly been the experience 
of Mrs. Paul. ^ 
With reference to my theories regarding the parentage of Roses, 
and the phrases I have made use of in describing these, Mr. Cranston 
of Hereford writes to me as follows :—“ Seedlings are, of course, as you 
have indicated, distinct from ‘sports ; ’ but a variety producing either is 
the parent under any circumstances.” I think this decision should be 
held as conclusive. I am glad to have the support of so great a rosarian 
and so accomplished a writer upon Rose cultivation. Nor, I may add, 
does he at all object to my previous assertion that the finest Tea and 
Noisette Roses produced in England are grown under glass. 
I learn that these are at present most impressive at Waltham, and I 
only regret that I cannot be in London in time to see Mr. Paul’s superb 
Roses in perfect bloom. He informs me in his latest communication that 
they are three weeks earlier than usual this year. I can confirm this 
assertion, for even in my own garden there are already many Roses 
visible on Gloire de Dijon, Marie Baumann, La France, Lady Mary 
Fitz william, Etoile de Lyon, Belle Lyonnaise, William Allen Richardson, 
and Mar^chal Niel.— David R. Williamson. 
PEAR PROSPECTS. 
I AM not a large Pear grower, but I have besides those on my walls 
some large trees of Williams’ Bon Chretien, Pitmaston Duchess, Comte 
de Lamy, Beurr4 de Capiaumont, and Bishop’s Thumb. They are all 
as full as they possibly can be, and a vast number fall off, but I have 
never in my twenty-five years’ experience seen them so well set, but then 
the lowest reading of the thermometer 4 feet from the ground was 31° 
on the 13th.—D., Deal. __ 
You ask for reports as to Pear promise. I looked in the other day 
upon Mr. E. Bennett, who has recently taken the extensive private 
walled-in gardens at Hampton Court Palace, and found on most of the 
standard trees there, as well as those on walls, quite a heavy set of fruit. 
I could not refer to varieties, for Mr. Bennett does not yet know what 
they are; but as these gardens are within a couple of hundred yards 
from the Thames the full crop is all the more remarkable. Plums in 
every case there are also a heavy set. I learnt over in Middlesex that 
Pears promised a fair crop in the market gardens. “ I think,” said an 
old and experienced grower, “ we shall have a good fruit crop all round 
this season.” That is comforting, although it is certain that rain is 
most badly needed.—A. D. _ 
The crop here promises to be the best I have seen for the last fifteen 
years, especially on the unprotected trees, growing as bushes in 
the open. Such varieties as Doyenne du Comice, Mar^chal de Cour, 
: Williams’ Bon Chretien, Comte de Lamy, Duchesse d’AngoulSme, 
Beurre Clairgeau, and Catillac are very full of promising fruit. All 
varieties growing against walls, whether cordon or horizontally 
trained, likewise promise abundantly, especially the latter.—E. M., 
Swanmore Park. 
I NOTICE several varieties of Pears, which, although well filled with 
blossom, are only going to carry very moderate crops. The Pear weevil 
has been especially destructive, also the Gooseberry caterpillar, which 
has completely destroyed a row of splendid bushes in a cottage garden 
near where I reside.—R. P. R. 
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
April 25th. 
Scientific Committee. —Present : Mr. McLachlan (in the chair) ; 
Mr. Blandford, Prof. Green, Rev. W. Wilks, Mr. Wilson, Dr. Bonavia, 
Prof. Muller, and Rev. G. Henslow, Hon. Sec. 
Eucalyptus Galls. —Mr. Blandford reported upon his examination 
of the large woody galls sent to the last meeting by Baron von Muller 
from Australia (wrongly referred to Acacia). They appeared to be 
formed at the base of the leaves. The gall was occupied by a large 
solitary coccid, the head being turned away from the orifice by which 
the larvae escaped. Mr. McLachlan observed that coccids usually live 
externally on plants ; but for some time a group has been known, in¬ 
cluding several species, which form galls on Eucalyptus in Australia, 
the coccids being sometimes upwards of an inch in length. 
Bardfield Oxliyys Changing Colour. —Rev. C. W. Dod sent a clump 
bearing several umbels of yellow and one of red flowers with the 
following communication. Referring to the specimens brought to the 
last meeting by Dr. Masters he writes : “ I have during the last few 
years investigated many of these cases in which I used to believe, but I 
have come to the conclusion that if a plant growing in the same soil 
and position, and not having been drugged, seems to have changed the 
colour of its flowers, aliquis latet error. In the particular case of the 
Bardfield Oxlip, which I grow in many spare corners of my garden, 
I find the duration of life of the plants to be about four years. Seed¬ 
lings take the place of those that die, and are often amalgamated with 
them, flowering all together ; so that it seems that one with dull red 
flowers (always the first departure from the typical colour in the 
Primula veris, L., class) appears to be part of the same plant which is 
bearing yellow flowers. By the next year the yellow-flowering plant 
is probably dead, and the red-flowering one has quite superseded it.” 
On carefully washing the mould away from the “ clump ” sent by 
Mr. Dod it was readily resolved into seven perfectly distinct plants, six 
bearing yellow flowers and one being dull red flowered, thus entirely 
corroborating Mr. Dod’s account of the origin of a change of colour 
being by seed only. 
Erythronium grandijlorum, giant form, ^'c. —Mr. Wilson exhibited 
a flowering spike of this plant, 16 inches in height, with leaves pro¬ 
portionally large. It appeared first in 1892 among some seedlings, and 
is considerably larger in the present year. He also showed a specimen 
of Narcissus triandrus, remarkable for its strong growth, bearing four 
