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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
February 22, 1894 
Nationaii Chrysanthemum Society. 
HARDY FLOWERS. 
On Thursday evening: in last week a meeting of the General Com¬ 
mittee of this Society was held at Anderton’s Hotel, Fleet Street, wnen 
the chair was occupied by R. Ballantine, Esq. It was announced that 
at the annual meeting Mr. E. C. Jukes, who has long acted as Vice- 
Chairman of Committees, would tender his resignation, he being 
compelled to do so on account of local work which took up much of his 
time. The Secretary reported that special prizes, in addition to those 
mentioned in our last report, would be offered by Major Co'lis Browne, 
Mr. H. J. Jones, Mr. Robt. Owen, Mr. J. Smith, Mr. Restall, and 
Messrs. Cannell & Sons. 
In 1894 meetings of the General Committee will he held on 3rd 
September, 8ih and 29th October, 19th November, and 10th December. 
The financial statement and report were then submitted, by which it 
appears that the total revenue for the year 1893 was only about £50 
less than in 1892, a point of some consideration when it is remembered 
that last year in commercial circles is generally regarded as one of 
the worst for many years. Members’ subscriptions amounted in 1893 
to £237 28. 3d. as against £209 153. 7d. the year before. The reserve 
fund at the close of the year stands at £55 23., the total on the credit 
aide of the account being £893 Os. Id. The expenditure is headed by 
prize money paid to exhibitors amounting to £436 6s. 6d , of which 
£14 78. 6d. was awarded at the September Show, £44 8s. 6d.at the 
October Show, £276 19.3. at the one in November, and £37 23. 6J. being 
the amount awarded at the December Show. The other items are 
similar to those which appear in previous balance-sheets. 
The draft report, in reviewing the past year, says it was remarkable 
for the growth of new Chrysanthemums and the large number of exhi¬ 
bitions held at home and abroad, and for the high character of the 
competitive groups. These have brought about a large increase in the 
membership, 157 new names having been added to the Society’s list and 
six societies affiliated during the year. Competition at the November 
Show was very keen, as an instance of which it may be mentioned that 
in the class for twenty-four cut blooms of Japanese there were no fewer 
than nineteen competitors. 
The meetings of the Floral Committee during the past season have 
been well attended and have maintained their interest, the number of 
novelties submitted being beyond all previous experience. The educa¬ 
tional work of the Society has also been furthered by the reading of the 
papers by Mr. C. Pearson and Mr. C. E. Shea, which will duly appear in 
the new schedule. 
Several new members and affiliated societies were admitted, and 
most of the other business was of a purely formal nature. 
On Monday last the annual general meeting of the members of this 
Society was held at Anderton’s Hotel, Fleet Street. There was a good 
attendance and much interest taken in the proceedings, which were 
presided over by Mr. R. Ballantine. The financial statement and report 
lor 1893 were submitted and agreed to. The number of members on the 
roll for the past year was upwards of 600. and the amount received for 
their subscriptions greater than in former years. The Secretary alluded 
to a reference made at the last Committee meeting as to the percentage 
of money paid in prize money, and thought the amount would compare 
very favourably with that paid by other leading societies. The cost of 
the National Chrysanthemum Society’s exhibitions had absorbed £610, 
leaving about £180 for working expenses. He mentioned that about 
sixty per cent of the actual income went in prize money and medals, 
twenty per cent, in expenses of shows and the Floral Committee, and 
the remaining portion in the form of working expenses. During 
the year nine affiliated societies withdrew, but seven others had joined, 
in addition to which four new ones had applied for affiliation since 
the beginning of the year. 
The election of officers next occupied the attention of the meeting, 
with the following result: President, Sir Edwin Saunders ; Vice-Presi¬ 
dents the same as before, excepting the three whose names are removed 
by reason of death, viz.. Lord Ebury, S. Barlow, Esq,, and E. Sanderson, 
Esq.; the additional Vice-Presidents added in their place being C. E. 
Shea, Esq., B. C. Jukes, Esq., and F. A. Beavan, Esq. Mr, J. R. Starling, 
who wiihdrew his resignation at the urgent wish of the Committee, 
was again elected Treasurer; Mr. R. Ballantine, the Chairman of 
Committees; Mr. Brian Wynne, Vice-Chairman; Mr. Rd, Dean, Hon. 
Secretary ; and Mr. Harman Payne, Foreign Secretary, 
Mr, Wynne moved that the best thanks of the Society be accorded to 
Mr. E. C. Jukes, on his retirement from the post of Vice-chairman, for 
the invaluable services he had rendered to the Society, and that the 
vote be engrossed on vellum and presented to that gentleman as a 
slight acknowledgment of his services. The motion was seconded by 
Mr. Ballantine, and was carried unanimously. 
The election of one-third of the General Committee who retire in 
1894 was then proceeded wiih, and other members to fill up places 
caused by resignation or acceptance of office. The following were the 
successful competitors:—Messrs. Bingham, Long, Newton, W. H, Lees, 
Hammill, Mease, Moorman, Waterer, Hicks, Needs, Reeve, Sanders, J. 
Williams, and Witty. 
The Secretary reported that the new schedule was already in type, 
and that the paper by Mr. Shea on judging will not be discussed until 
the schedule is printed and distributed, so as to allow members the 
opp^>rtunity of fully considering it. 
Eleven new members were elected, and the proceedings closed with a 
vote of thanks to the Chairman. 
On January 12th, 1893, there appeared in the Journal a request from 
me that the leading growers and exhibitors of herbaceous plants would 
send me lists of what they considered the best of these plants for ex¬ 
hibition at and from the last week in June. Only one list arrived at 
the office of the Journal, Mr. Hesslewood’s ; but this was especially 
useful to me as coming from quite the North of England. Other lists 
were sent to me privately, but rather late to be of much practical use 
for that year. Moreover, just as 1 was tabulating results I was called 
away from home for some weeks. When I report such names as the 
Rev. W. Page Roberts and Mr. Burrell of Cambridge, the amateur and 
trade champions of East Anglia respectively, as exhibitors of these 
charming and useful flowers as among those who have sent me in their 
opinions, I think your readers may with confilence appeal to the forty- 
eight names to be found below. Other nurserymen, too, I must 
mention, one whose knowledge of hardy plants is perhaps second to 
none in England, Mr. Prichard of Christchurch, and Messrs. Dicksons 
of Chester. 
I trust the list I now give will be in time to be a sort of guide 
to some who wi>h to buy in now, but who are a little in doubt as to 
selection. The names are given alphabetically to enable your readers 
to compare with the trade catalogues the more readily. 
Achillea Ptarm'ca p’ena (The Pearl) 
Aquilegia coerulea or glandulosa 
Alntrbmeria (chilenais and auran- 
tiaca) 
Bupthalmum salicifolium 
Catananche ccerulea 
Campanula persicifolia alba grandi- 
flora 
Campanula grandis alba 
Centaurea macrocephala 
Centramhus rubra 
Chrysanthemum maximum 
Cephalonia a pina 
Coreopsis gr ndiffora 
Coreop^,58 lanceolata 
Delphi liums (especially belladonna) 
Delphinium nudicaule 
Engeron epeciosum superbum 
Eryogium amethystinum 
Eremurus Bungei 
Ecbin ops Ritro 
Ga llardifts 
Galega officinalis alba 
Geum coccineum fl.-pl. 
Gypsophila paoiculata 
Gladiolus Colvilli (The Bride) 
Heme oeallis Thiiubergi 
Hruchera eanguinea 
Harpalium rigioum 
Inula fclaijdulosa 
Lychnis chalceoonica 
Lychnis Haageana 
Lathrrns roiiindifo'ius 
Lat yrns Utifolius albus 
Lattiyius eplendens 
LiLum p rd-liiium 
Lilium umbellaium 
Lilium croceum 
Malva moschata alba 
Morina longifo ia 
Monarda didyma 
CBnoihera speoiosa 
QLnothera Youngi 
Papaver nudicaule 
Potentillas 
Rudbeckia californioa or Newmanni 
Scabio a caucasma 
Spirsea anmeus 
Spiraea filipendula fl.-pl. 
Tualiccrum flavum glaucum 
Next week I hope to send a few notes on the subject, on the 
classing of varieties and kinds, also on the wording of schedules of 
exhibitions.—J. A. Williams. 
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
February 13th. 
Scientific Committee. —Present: R. MacLachlan, Esq., F.R S. 
(in the chair) ; Rev. W. Wilks, Dr. H. Miiller, Dr. Masters, Messrs. 
Cheshire, Jenner Weir, Michael, and D. Morri-i. 
Edible Tubers. —Mr. D. Morris exhibited specimens of an edible 
tuber recently imported into the London markets from the Azore 
Islands. The tubers are cylindric, obtuse, about 2 inches long, as tnick 
as the thumb, brilliant crimson externally, and with thickened leaf 
scales at regular intervals over the surface. Mr. Morris considered the 
tubers to be those known in Peru under the name of Oca, and produced 
by Osalis crenata. Numerous varieties of Oca, differing in size and 
colour, are grown in New Granada, and their tubers are much esteemed 
as esculents. 
Prinmla capitata and Basal Rot in Daffodils .—In reply to a ques¬ 
tion from the Rev. C. Woltey Dod as to the decay of Primula capitata 
at the crown without the formation of a winter bud, and which was 
submitted to the Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew, the following 
answer had been received : — 
“ This species of PrimuU always dies after flowering freely. P. Poissoni, 
P. imp' rialis, and several others, behave in the s me way under culuvation. 
Possibly the plarits could be kept alive by preventing them from flowering. 
Ba-al rot in Diffodils is, we believe, caused bv lilting the bulns before they 
have finished growth, or by bid treatment whilst they are out of the 
ground.— W. T. T. I)., Nooember 30th, 1893.” 
Mr. Wilks dissented from the view of the cause of basal rot in 
Daffodils, being of opinion that the trouble is much more frequent 
when the bulbs are left in the ground all the summer, than when they 
are lifted. 
Potatoes and Sulphate of Copper. — The Superintendent of the 
garden of H.H. the Nawab Bahadur of Mnrsh dabad, reported that the 
Potato crop at R lesbagh and in Mabarak-Maiijil had totally failed. The 
failure was aitiibuted to heavy rain, and partly to the application of 
sulphate of copper. In the opinion of the Commi'tee the proportion of 
cot'per-salr made use of was too large, especially as it was us-ed in a free 
state and uncombined with lime. The result was, the plants suffered 
from the Caustic effect ot the salt. 
American might. — Mr. H. R. Dugmore inquired if there was 
any approved method of preventing the different species of b.ight 
