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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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and ready to extend their plantations almost indefinitely if fruit 
growing pays well, the one question with them being, AVill it pay ? 
I do not say there is no profit in fruit growing, but it is not the 
lucrative business that it is estimated to be by some people ; and I 
still adhere to my statement, that in consequence of the low price 
of fruit growers have to enlarge their holdings to get the same 
profit as they used to do from a smaller extent of ground. A few 
years ago 3d. per pound, or 6s. per half sieve, was the usual price 
for Black Currants, as Lea’s “ Small Farms.” The average price 
home per half sieve from London markets from 1882 to 1888 is as 
follows :—4s. Id., 2s. 10d., 3s., 4s., Is. 8d., 3s., 3s. 3d. Since then 
it has been higher, but crops have been light the last two years. 
I quite agree with your correspondent as to the benefit of good 
cultivation, and I think in the main our views are the same. I 
repeat what I said before, that it is my opinion that if fruit grow¬ 
ing is to pay the best sorts must be grown, and the fruit cultivated 
and marketed in the best manner.— Walter Kruse. 
One reason for the prices of Apples being so low in the autumn 
is the glutting of the markets with “ windfalls,” the result of 
heavy gales. These have been sold as low as Is. 6d. a bushel. 
One grower picked up and took into the market sixty bushels of 
fallen Apples in one day. A second reason why Apples are so 
cheap at Michaelmas time is that so many “ little people ” have 
their year’s rent to get ready that off goes the fruit, good or bad in 
quality, to the market and sold for what it will fetch. The two 
causes named are sufficient to glut any market for a time, with 
inferior fruit, and for which there is no present remedy. It is not 
in the power of the persons alluded to to destroy the old and 
inferior trees and to plant new, they being the property of someone 
else. In spite of this, though, good fruit finds a fairly quick sale. 
One grower of about eight acres of mixed fruit told me a short 
time since that he had grown fruit for twenty years, and the better 
he grew it the better he could sell it, and notwithstanding increased 
competition he had no trouble to get rid of all he could grow at 
good prices.—E. Molyneux. 
The National Chrysanthemum Society. 
I wish Mr. Charles E. Pearson would drop such a term as “ metro¬ 
politan exclusiveness.” The Floral Committee is openly elected by the 
General Committee at the first meeting after the election of one-third of 
the number of the latter, a meeting to which all representatives of 
affiliated societies are invited. We generally get sixteen to eighteen 
candidates nominated to fill the five vacant seats on the Floral Com¬ 
mittee, and the contest is always a spirited one, and the voting 
remarkably even. It is an excellent opportunity for the representatives 
of affiliated societies to nominate from the provinces, but they do not do 
so. In an open election, with on an average from fifty to sixty persons 
present, how can there be “ metropolitan exclusiveness ?” I think the 
Floral Committee adequately and completely represents all classes of 
Chrysanthemum cultivators. If Mr. C. E. Pearson will send me the 
names of two or three provincial growers, members of the Society, 
qualified in his opinion to be members of the Floral Committee, I will 
take care they are duly nominated for election ; but I cannot in any 
way control the voting. It appears to me to be a mere waste of time to 
discuss the question alluded to in the latter part of Mr. Pearson’s 
communication until he himself or those who think with him are pre¬ 
pared to indicate an alternative place. I am repeatedly challenging 
objectors to do so. I am still waiting for them to name a more suitable 
building so central and so readily reached from all parts.— Richard 
Dean, Secretary. _ 
are sufficient Chrysanthemum specialists to act as the Floral Committee 
without trade growers. This would place the nurseryman above the 
suspicion of voting on the side of his bread and butter. I am exceedingly 
pleased to see we have no anonymous writers on this matter, which 
serves to show clearly every one has the courage of his opinions and the 
boldness to express them.— Jas. B. Riding, Cliingford. 
Croydon Chrysanthemum Show. 
We are informed that the Borough of Croydon Chrysanthemum 
Society’s Exhibition will be held on November 8th and 9th next year. 
Chrysanthemums in the Antipodes. 
We learn that an Australian Chrysanthemum Society has been 
started in Sydney, New South Wales, and another at Cambridge in 
New Zealand. From this one may infer that the Chrysanthemum is 
becoming as popular in the colonies as it is in this country. 
Chrysanthemum W. W. Coles. 
Early formed buds of this variety invariably produce yellow blooms, 
or nearly so. The florets in this case are fluted at the base, more so 
than in those developed later. From the remark made by “J. H. W.” 
(page 509) “in every case the yellow blooms appeared first” leads me 
to infer that the suggested sport appeared on several plants, which 
strengthens my opinion that the yellow blooms are the result of early 
formed buds rather than a distinct sport.—E. M. 
Mons. R. Bahuant. 
I should very much like to know the proper pronunciation of Mons. 
R. Bahuant through the medium of the Journal of Horticulture.— 
John Bull. 
[It is not easy to clearly represent the pronunciation of many French 
names in print. In this case Bahueang is suggested for improvement 
by expert orthoepists. The “ h ” is not pronounced so forcibly in French 
as in English, and the “u” has much the same sound as “ ue ” in 
flue.'] 
Chrysanthemum Yiviand Morel. 
Although the quality of the blooms shown of this variety have not 
been of such all-round excellence as they were last year, when fewer 
were staged, it has been sufficiently good to rank as the best Japanese of 
the year. From statistics gathered from the report of twenty-five Shows, 
where a prize was offered for the best Japanese. iviand Morel won 
fifteen times. The poorer quality of the blooms may be accounted for 
by the fact of there being such a “ run on ” this variety ; owing to the 
wonderful manner in which it was exhibited last year, compelled 
nurserymen to propagate closely to execute orders. E. M. 
The Hartlepool Chrysanthemum Society. 
The Committee of this Society are to be congratulated on the success 
of their last Show. Starting the year with a balance on the wrong s de, 
and after paying all prize money and expenses incurred, the Treasurer’s 
balance-sheet now shows £42 7s. 4Jd. on the right side. The Committee 
made determined efforts and had ready help afforded them in various ways, 
particularly in respect of the generous offer of Capt. D. G. Irvine to 
provide a magnificent band, which was thankfully accepted, and the 
splendid selection of high-class music rendered by it contributed greatly 
to the enjoyment of those present, besides attracting large num lers ot 
visitors. In recognition of the untiring services of the Honorary 
Secretary, Mr. A. Taylor, gardener, Broomhill, a silver albert was pre¬ 
sented to him through the Chairman, Mr. J. F. Wilson, on behalf of the 
nnmmittee.—G. 
John Farwell and Yiviand Morel. 
We send by post a couple of blooms of this variety for. your inspec¬ 
tion. These will give you an idea of the size and form, though not of the 
colour, they being considerably past their best. The fresh blooms are a 
beautiful rich crimson, one of the most distinct colours we have. We 
also send a photograph of a plant of Viviand Morel, carrying four of the 
finest blooms we have yet seen. The largest of them measured 14^ inches 
in diameter when the florets were held up horizontally.—J. K. uearson 
and Sons. 
[The blooms of John Farwell were large and massive, full of narrow, 
semi-fluted florets, and borne on strong, clear stems. Such 
they were cut from would be effective in groups, as also would Viviand 
Morel, grown so well as it is represented in the photograph in question. 
There are numbers of persons like your correspondent Mr. W. H. 
Divers (p. 509) who are looking out for a satisfactory issue of the matter 
that has been brought before the N.C.S. by Mr. Godfrey. Mr. R. Dean, 
like the good secretary he is, appears ready to pitch full tilt at anything 
and everything that turns up ; but no amount of noise and bustle will 
silence the real question in which the public are interested, and 
what we require from the Committee is a straightforward and definite 
expression of opinion on the subject. Either Mr. Godfrey has made 
unfounded charges against a member of the Committee or they are 
substantially true. Why all this delay in an explicit statement ? The 
allegations are either true or untrue. The case could be settled beyond 
all dispute in a few hours. The best thanks of the Chrysanthemum 
world are due to the Editor of this Journal for the impartial manner he 
has treated the whole question. I am beginning to form the same 
opinion of the Floral Committee as a very prominent exhibitor has 
done—namely, there are far too many tradesmen on it. Surely there 
Sending Chrysanthemum Cuttings by Post. 
The condition of some cuttings just to hand through the medium of 
ie parcels post has prompted me to write a note on this subject 11 
rivate gardeners would only copy the Chrysanthemum specialist m 
ds there would be no need for any suggestion on my part. Unfortunately 
ley will not take a hint. The worst form of packing cuttings to go by 
ost (and I am sorry to say it is a plan very often adopted) is that of 
■rapping them in cotton wadding, simply encasing that in brown paper 
n me times a label is attached for the address and stamps, but where 
lis is absent the cuttings are very often smashed by the force in which 
se post office stamp is employed. The wadding absorbs the moisture 
. om P the cuttings. When these are weakly, as is very often the case 
dth new or scarce varieties, the chances are that the bulk of those 
acked in that manner fail to strike. Cuttings are sometimes sent 
imply enclosed in an ordinary letter without a vestige of pac i g 
