January 18, 1834. 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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who has passed away. Thousands of tourists annually visit Belvoir to 
admire the work of one who will long be remembered in the gardening 
world. The funeral took place at Knipton on Saturday last. 
Death of Dr. T, Graveley. —Another of our old and much- 
respected friends has passed away, after only four days’ illness. The 
deceased was seventy-six years old, and had practised as a surgeon for 
upwards of fifty years. His funeral on Wednesday last week was well 
attended by most of the leading gentry and tradesmen of the neigh¬ 
bourhood, Dr, Graveley’s chief hobby was Rose-growing, and a few 
years ago he was one of our foremost exhibitors. He was also for 
many years the local secretary of the National Rose Society in the 
district in which he resided—Cowfold, Sussex. 
Bhllfixches and Trap Cages,—A correspondent a few 
weeks ago asked for information on this subject. It is too late to 
•expect to do any good in catching these birds this winter, as they pay a 
deaf ear to the call birds. From July to December they are easily 
trapped. The trap cages I use are home-made, different to any I ever 
saw at bird cage dealers, and more substantial, as I have used one 
constantly for twenty years at least, in which hundreds have placed 
themselves out of harm’s way as regards fruit buds. I have noticed a 
great scarcity of these birds this winter.—J. Hiam, 
- Lawn Mowing Machines. —We are requested to state that 
the London Branch of the Chadborn and Coldvvell Manufacturing 
Company, which has hitherto been carried on at 22.'), Upper Thames 
Street, E.C,, under the management of Mr. Thomas Clarke, has been 
transferred to the London Excelsior Company, who will hold the sole 
agency in the United Kingdom for the patent “ Excelsior ” and “ New 
Model ” Lawn Mowers. The new Company will continue to keep a 
large and well-assorted stock of mowers and wearing parts. Although 
relinquishing the active management of the London business, Mr. 
Clarke still retains his position as ofiicer of the Chadborn and Coldwell 
Manufacturing Company. 
- Fruit Packing for Villagers.— The Britannia Fruit Pre¬ 
serving Company, Limited, write:—“We wish the technical classes 
would instruct the poor in basket making. There would not be so many 
out of work in the rural districts if the men learnt to make the baskets 
which are annually required in every market. The new shape which 
is favoured in Covent Garden for Strawberries and Grapes is ordered 
by fruit growers from France in thousands. We have lately received 
some of these, and can give the dimensions. To hold 12 or 14 lbs. of 
Strawberries (according to ripeness), inside measure at top IGJ inches 
long, 9| wide, 4| deep, rounded ends ; to hold about 20 lbs., 17^ by lOJ 
by 6|. Osiers are easy enough to grow. Cuttings should be put into the 
ground immediately, just as for Currant or Gooseberry bushes, and next 
autumn removed to a watery soil. They are ‘ cured ’ by placing them 
in pits with water and lime to take off the bark.” 
- Gardeners’ Associations. —The numerous reports of the 
Droceedings of these various bodies that are continually published in the 
Joxirnal of show how great a force for good these bodies 
are becoming in relation to gardening and its education. Very soon, 
indeed, shall w'e be surprised to learn that any considerable centre of 
gardeners exists where there is no such mutual improvement associa¬ 
tion. Perhaps we may yet even get further, and find employers in¬ 
sisting on their employes being members, at least so far as may be 
practicable. Gardeners may well learn that gardening has its practical 
and its literary aspects. The merely practical man may have very good 
rule of thumb practice, but he cannot be an intelligent, broad¬ 
minded and capable man in the same way—that is, one who, in addition 
to being essentially practical, also enlarges his knowledge through the 
aid of mutual instruction and sound reading. Gardening is one of 
the most intelligent of vocations ; there is not, cannot be, hardly any 
kind of vocation so poorly paid that demands from its workers so much 
of knowledge that is both practical and theoretical as gardening 
does. In a really bright, energetic, capable, intelligent man 
we find the worker of perhaps the highest order in mental capacity 
to be found in any vocation. It is with a desire to see the entire 
profession lifted up to this higher order of gardening, that it seems so 
desirable we should not only have gardeners’ associations everywhere, but 
that active association with them should be regarded as essential to good 
gardening status. There is, too, about gardeners’ associations an element 
of sociability that should have full CDnsideration. The man who 
declines to meet his fellows of the craft in common union is a weak one 
at the best. Happily, gardening is little troubled with that class of 
workers.—A. D. 
- Gardening Appointments. —We understand that Djepdene, 
Dorking, has been leased to Her Grace, Lily, Duchess of Marlborough, 
and that Mr. Chamberlain, foreman to Mr. Whillans at Blenheim. 
Palace, has been appointed head gardener. Mr. W. Burke, for six and 
a half years foreman at Hornby Castle, Lancaster, has been appointed 
as head gardener to Sir F. C. Hunloke, Bart., at Wingerworth HaP, 
Chesterfield, Derbyshire. 
- Sowing Sweet Peas.—I f not done in the autumn a sowing 
of Sweet Peas in pots should now be made. By doing so a great gain 
is effected, for should we have an unfavourable summer, or if the flowers 
are desired early, this sowing is a great advance on the outdoor one. 
Have good loam, leaf mould, and a little manure all thoroughly mixed. 
Fill some 4-inch pots with it, and sow about a dozen seeds in each pot, 
A vinery just started or any warm house vi ill soon cause the seed to 
germinate, and when the plants are well through the soil remove to a 
cool frame. Take the first opportunity to plant them outdoors.—R. P. R. 
- A Gigantic Lily. —At a meeting of the Royal Botanic Society, 
held at the Gardens, Regent's Park, on Saturday, the 13th inst., Mr. 
Granville R. Ryder in the chair, it was reported that, among the 
donations for the Museum la'ely received was a fasciated or monstrous 
flower spike of Lilium longiflorum, which had borne the remarkable 
number of 181 perfect flowers. The stem of this Lily, clothed with 
normal leaves, spread out at the top into the shape of a fan 14 inches 
in diameter, and the flowers were arranged in a waved line extending 
along the summit, It was sent from Bermuda, where this species is 
grown for its bulbs in fields, by Mrs. Hadlow, a corresponding member 
of the Society. 
- Veitch Memorial Medals. —At a meeting of the Veitch 
Memorial Trustees, held on Wednesday, 17th inst., large silver medals 
were awarded to Colonel R. Trevor Clarke, of Welton Place, near 
Daventry, for his life-long labours in the advancement of scientific 
horticulture ; to Mr. Charles Moore, of the Botanic Gardens, Sydney, New 
South Wales; to T. Francis Rivers, Esq., of Sawbridgeworth, for his 
services to horticulture in the raising of new fruits and the develop¬ 
ment of modern fruit culture; to Mr. George Nicholson, of Kew 
Gardens, for his labours in plant culture and garden literature ; to 
Mr. Adolphus H. Kent, of Chelsea, for his valuable treatises on the 
Coniferas and his Manual of Orchidacems plants ; and to Mr. J. Martin 
(Messrs. Sutton & Sons, Reading), for his success in hybridization and 
cross-breeding of various genera of plants. 
- Sweet Peas Travelling.— Mr. W. Cuthertson of Messrs. 
Dobbie & Co., Rothesay, writes :—“ I will tell ‘ Subscriber ’ (page 28) how 
Sweet Peas travelled to meet me at various centres in England last 
summer. My firm exhibited at many of the principal exhibitions in 
London, and being resident at a Hampshire place, I used to go up and 
meet the exhibits and stage them. Sweet Peas always formed a primary 
feature of the exhibits. The flowers were gathered at Rothesay on the 
morning of the day preceding the Show, and made into sprays with a 
little damp moss round the stems. They were packed into wreath 
boxes with tissue paper, and had to leave Rothesay at 2.40 p.m. 
to catch the limited mail from Glasgow at 5,50. They reached London 
next morning—the morning of the Show—and invariably turned out 
fresh and bright. Of course some care was taken at Rothesay to pick 
fresh flowers, but beyond that nothing more was done than I have 
detailed. The boxes were booked at Glasgow as ordinary parcels, and 
were received at Euston about 8 o’clock the following morning.” 
- Eastbourne Horticultural Society. —There was a good 
attendance at the annual general meeting of this Society, which took 
place at the Natural History Society’s room, Lismore Road, on Monday 
evening, 8th inst. Mr. F. Pike, the Hon. Treasurer, in making a financial 
statement, said the honorary,and ordinary members’ subscriptions for the 
year had amountel to £94 12i. (5J.; that £12 13i. accrued to the Society 
from the Spring Show at Dovonshire Park, and £10 Ss. 5i. from the 
Chrysanthemum Show. The balance in hand, after the payment of the 
usual expenses, was £19 8s. 8J. Mr. E. A. Newman, the Secretary, in 
reporting on the proceedings of the Society for 1893, said there were 
105 honorary members and sixty-four ordinary members, of whom 
seventeen honorary and thirteen ordinary had been elected during the 
year. Some of the old members, however, had declined to continue 
their subscriptions. Of the two shows, that in May, when there were 
209 entries, was considered the best the Society had ever held. For 
the Chrysanthemum Show t'nere were 225 entries, and the medal of 
the National Chrysanthemum Socie'y was won by Mr. J. Carpenter 
with four specimen plants which were the best ever exhibited in 
Eastbourne. 
