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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ May 18, 1893. 
■with clear water in the event of us gettinsj no rain. The strength and 
mode of mixing are as follows :— 
Boil for ten minutes 4 lbs. of common sugar in 1 quart of water, 
stirring so as not to allow the sugar to burn ; add 2 tablespoonfuls of this 
syrup to 2 teaspoonfuls of London purple, make into a paste, allow to 
stand for half an hour, add to 3 gallons of water well stir; 
slightly dew the bushes with a sprayer, and in the course of a few hours 
they will be freed from the pest.—E. Wallis, The Gardens, Hamels 
Parh, Buntinqford, Herts. 
Events of the Week. — A special show of Orchids, cut 
flowers, and fruit will open to-day (Thursday) at the Gardening and 
Forestry Exhibition, Earl’s Court, and continues the following day. On 
Friday, the 19th, an exhibition of Orchids and other plants will be 
opened at the Botanical Gardens, Manchester, this continuing until the 
following Thursday, on which day the Temple Show of the Eoyal 
Horticultural Society opens. 
- The Weather in London. —After a prolonged spell of 
drought (73 days) a welcome change has taken place. On Monday a slight 
shower fell in and around the metropolis, but not sufficient to do any 
material good to the crops. On Tuesday, however, several showers 
occurred, and during the night it rained heavily at times. As we are 
going to press it is close and cloudy, with every appearance of rain. 
- Weather in the North. —Summer weather has prevailed 
throughout the past week, with an occasional chilliness in the evening 
from the wind veering into the N.E, There has been a shower during 
the past night. This morning (16th) is dull, and the barometer is 
falling slightly. The much-needed rain seems to be coming.—B. D., 
Perthshire. 
-Presentation Portrait of Mr. Harry J. Veitch.— -It 
will be remembered that the gardeners of the United Kingdom pre¬ 
sented to Mr. and Mrs. Harry J. Veitch a silver dessert service, also a 
case of silver dessert and fish knives and forks on the occasion of the 
twenty-fifth anniversary of their marriage on the 6th of August last. 
It may also be remembered that it was decided to present Mrs. Veitch 
with an oil painting of her husband as soon as it could be completed. 
Mr. George Clausen, an artist of public repute, was entrusted with the 
work. It has been a long time in progress, but will be eompleted this 
week. On Monday next the portrait will be on view in the nurseries 
at Chelsea, and continue open to inspection for some little time, 
including the Temple Show week, when it may be expected that many 
gardeners will visit the metropolis. Those who call at Chelsea, and all 
are welcome, will find a life-like delineation of Mr. Veitch, uniform 
with and worthy of a place among portraits of his father, grandfather, 
and great-grandfather which hang in the ropm. 
- The Temple Flower Show, — We are informed that all 
arrangements have oeen made for the Show to be held on Thursday and 
Friday, May 25th and 26th, Intending exhibitors are requested to give 
notice of their exhibits immediately to the Society’s Superintendent, 
Chiswick Gardens, who will arrange for the requisite space being 
allotted. Exhibitors’ names, if received in time, will appear in the 
special catalogue of the Show. The Council have arranged that 
gardeners (i.e,, hinid fide employes in a private garden, nursery, 
market garden, or seed establishment) may obtain 29. 6d. tickets for Is., 
which will admit them to the Exhibition at ten o’clock on Friday 
morning. May 26th. These tickets can only be obtained previous to 
May 24th from the Society’s Office, 117, Victoria Street, S.W., and a 
stamped and directed envelope must be sent with postal orders in 
every case. 
- Morisia hvpog^A. —One of the prettiest plants now in bloom 
on the rockwork at Kew is this Crucifer. The flowers are yellow, set 
thickly amidst the leafage, the which though smaller bears resem¬ 
blance to that of the American Cress. The plants are mere tufts, some 
2 inches in height, and really a beautiful little thing for rock corners. 
It is a native of Sardinia, and may be propagated by seed or by cuttings 
or by division.—D, 
- The Royal Gardeners’ Orphan Fund.—A t the monthly 
meeting of the Committee which took place at the Horticultural Club 
recently, the Hon. Secretary announced that the dinner receipts 
amounted to £492 6s, 6d., in addition to the promise of £100 from the 
directors of the Gardening and Forestry Exhibition at Earl’s Court. 
- Botanical Appointment. —We understand that Professor 
Mobius, of Hiedelburg, has been selected to succeed the late Dr. Jannicke 
as second librarian and Professor of Botany at the Senckenberg Insti¬ 
tute, Frankfort-on-the-Maine. 
- Gardening Appointments. — Mr. Hy. Watt, for the last 
twelve years head gardener to G, L. Watson, Esq., Rockingham Castle, 
Northants, has succeeded Mr. Gilbert as head gardener to the Right 
Honourable the Earl of Ancaster, Normanton Park, Stamford. 
- The “Kew Bulletin’’ for February and March contains, as 
usual, much information. The part opens with an instructive article on 
the Palm Weevil in British Honduras, accompanied with two plates* 
There are also “ decade 5 ” of new Orchids, and a number of miscel¬ 
laneous notes from which we extract the following three paragraphs. 
- Kew Appointments. —Mr. Gustav Hermann Krumbiegel, a 
sub-foreman in the Royal Gardens, has been appointed Superintendent 
of the State Gardens under the Government of His Highness the 
Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda, in the Bombay Presidency. Mr. 
Frederick Enos Willey, in the employ of the Royal Gardens, has been 
appointed Acting Curator of the Botanical Station at Aburi, under the 
Government of the Gold Coast, during the absence on leave of Mr. W. 
Crowther. 
- Melhania ERYTHROXYLON (Ait), —This is the Redwood of St. 
Helena, an endemic tree 20 feet high, bearing large tubular flowers, 
white when first expanding, changing in a day or two to pink, and 
finally to red. It is now almost extinct in the island. In 1883 Mr, 
Morris, the Assistant Director of Kew, when on a visit to St. Helena, 
brought home seeds of this plant, which were widely distributed. Plants- 
were successfully grown at Jamaica and put out at the Hill Garden 
attached to the Government Cinchona Plantations. It is doubtful, 
however, whether any of them have since survived, as the tree is, 
evidently, difficult to grow under cultivation to a mature state. One of 
the last of the plants raised from the same seed at Kew was killed 
during the winter of 1891. It would be interesting to learn whether 
the tree has been successfully grown elsewhere outside St. Helena. In 
order to make further trial of it application for a good supply of seed 
was made a short time ago to Mr. W. Grey Wilson, C.M.G., Governor of 
St. Helena. This was obligingly sent in November last, and a portion 
was at once distributed to the following botanical gardens—viz,, 
Berlin, Edinburgh, Glasnevin, Paris, Antigua (Leeward Islands), 
Hakgala (Ceylon), Jamaica, Natal, Port Elizabeth, Sydney, Trinidad, 
and to T. Hanbury, Esq., at Mentone. The seeds sown at Kew 
germinated in a few days, and there are now numerous healthy young 
plants. 
- Californian Plants. —Kew is indebted to Professor E. L. 
Greene of the University of California for a parcel of about 300 dried 
plants from Western Northern America, mostly from California, and 
largely consisting of types of novelties described by him from time to 
time. The specimens are excellent, and form a valuable addition to the 
Herbarium. 
- Tulip Picotee. —This charming Tulip was referred to on 
page 374, last week. The flowers are largely grown for sale in bunches. 
Mr. Ware, jun., of Bath, son of the well-known Mr. Thos. Ware of 
Tottenham, grows thousands of blooms for market, and other beautiful 
varieties, which are comparatively little known. Golden Eagle, rich 
deep yellow, also referred to last week, will become very popular. The 
old Tulipa Gesneriana, the parent of the modern late-flowering florists’ 
Tulip, is amongst our brightest and handsomest early flowering bulbous 
plants, and as it is so cheap no garden should be without it.—W. D. 
- Syringa Josik^a.— Lovers of hardy flowering shrubs should 
make a note of this pretty Lilac. It seems to stand the hot, dry weather 
better than the common kinds. I saw a dwarf bush of this flowering 
at the Durdans, Epsom, last week. It appears to grow freely in light, 
dry soil. The flowers are of a deep colour, and I should think stand 
longer than the common one owing to their firm texture. It is by no 
means a new variety, for I see it was introduced from Germany as far 
back as 1833. Still it is by no means common, and should not be 
lost sight of among the host of newer varieties.—J. Smith, Mentmore 
Buehs, 
