May 31, 1894. 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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Walnuts for human food ; secondly, if he had intended them for human 
food they were not found in his possession ; thirdly, they were never 
purchased as good ones ; and fourthly, if purchased they were never 
purchased for the food of man. Mr. Justice Cave concurred. 
Mr. Justice Mathew, in dissenting, said that he was of opinion that 
the notice exhibited by the appellant did not relieve him of the 
responsibility imposed upon him by the Act, and he thought that the 
conviction was right and ought to be affirmed. The conviction was 
quashed, and the responsibility attaching to the sale of unsound 
fruit attaches to retail vendors who dispose of the produce direct to 
consumers. 
The Weather in London. —Since publishing our last issue 
several changes in the weather have taken place. Towards the end of 
the week it turned quite mild, Thursday and Friday being very warm. 
On Saturday, however, the wind veered to the north-east again, and 
hailstorms were frequent on Sunday, a slight frost occurring at night. 
Monday and Tuesday were rather cold and showery, with local hail¬ 
storms, but Wednesday opened fine and milder, though showers fell 
during the day. 
- The Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent Institution. — In 
our advertising columns we publish a gratifying list of subscriptions in 
view of the fifty-fifth annual festival dinner in aid of this excellent 
charity, which will take place at the Hotel M^tropole on Thursday 
evening, June 21st, under the presidency of Sir Julian Goldsmid, 
Bart., M.P. Mr. G. J. Ingram, 50, Parliament Street, S.W., will be 
glad to acknowledge further contributions, and add them to the Chair¬ 
man’s list. 
-The Nursery and Seed Trade Association. —The annual 
dinner of the members of this useful Association took place at the 
Guildhall Tavern on Wednesday evening, the 23rd inst., the President, 
N. N. Sherwood, Esq., occupying the chair. About thirty members 
attended and enjoyed the excellent speeches and music of the evening. 
The Association numbers 146 members. The number of debts applied 
for during the past year was 1217, and the amount recovered was 
£6264 53. 2d. Of this sum £2138 ISs. 9d. was collected by the Asso¬ 
ciation, and £1125 63. 5d. by its Solicitor. The amount is the largest 
sum recovered for members since the resuscitation of the Association in 
1885. Mr. G. Worrell, 30, Wood Street, Cheapside, is the secretary, and 
Mr. Charles Butcher solicitor to the Association. 
- Birmingham Amateur Gardeners’ Association. — The 
second annual excursion will take place on Saturday, June 9th, the 
destination being Alcester, permission having been obtained from the 
Marquis of Hertford to visit the grounds and gardens of Ragley Hall. 
The head gardener, Mr. Christie, has kindly offered to conduct the party 
through the various departments. The tickets are Ss. 6d. each, and 
members have the privilege of bringing friends. The party will leave 
Birmingham by the 2.15 P.M. train, and immediately on arrival at Alcester 
will go to Ragley, concluding with a meat tea, to be provided at the 
Swan Hotel, Alcester. Applications for tickets should be made at once 
to the Hon. Secretary, W. B. GriflSn, Wychbury, Alcester Road, Moseley. 
-A Fruit Tree Pest in Cornwall. —A western daily con¬ 
temporary says—“ The fruit growers in East Cornwall are anxious 
concerning the presence of a peculiar insect in their gardens, known by 
the name of ‘ Touch-up,’ which attacks the foliage of the larger trees, 
more especially the Cherry and Plum, thereby reducing the fruit¬ 
bearing power of the tree to a minimum. The appetite of this insect 
is remarkable, a few of them being quite equal to the task of stripping 
an orchard of trees of every vestige of leaf within a very short space 
of time. How to get rid of them is a problem difficult to solve ; mean¬ 
while, the insect is working havoc in the gardens, to the great dismay of 
those who are depending on the culture of fruit for a livelihood. Apart 
from the pressure of the ‘ Touch-up,’ the prospect is decidedly in 
favour of the fruit grower, the small fruit, such as Gooseberries, being 
very abundant. The Apple crop will not be so heavy as last year, but 
if this insect pest can be overcome the Plum and stone fruit generally 
will be equal to the bearing of last year.” 
- Early Strawberries.— We learn from a western daily 
contemporary that Mr. J. H. Nicholls, of Tangier, Lostwithiel, picked 
some ripe Strawberries grown in the open in his garden on Thursday, the 
24th inst. 
- Gros Maro!! Grape. —The Gros Maroc Vines (page 413) in my 
vinery are conspicuous for their robust and healthy growth and for 
the abundant crops of fruit they produce, also for their freedom from 
mildew and shanking. I have never known them suffer from these 
diseases. They are on their own roots, not grafted.—T. Francis 
Rivers. 
- Fern-leaf Parsley. —I saw a splendid strain of this charm¬ 
ing Parsley at the Bedfont Seed Grounds recently. It is one of the 
features of this variety that whilst the leafage is so finely laciniated 
and is so graceful it is also of such a deep green hue, when a good stock 
is had as in the present case, there can be hardly found a more pleasing 
or serviceable Parsley.— Visitor. 
- Death op Mr. W. C. Brewin. —It is with deep regret that I 
have to inform you of the loss sustained by Mr. C. M. Brewin, of the 
Nurseries, Bawtry, Yorks, in the death of his only son, W. C. Brewin, 
who died suddenly after five days’ illness at the age of twenty-seven 
years. The firm will be carried on as usual under the same name of 
Brewin & Son.— Thomas Youdan. 
- Messrs. W. & G. Drover, Fareham, inform us they had the 
honour of making the bouquet which was presented to Her Royal 
Highness the Princess of Battenburg on the occasion of opening the 
fancy bazaar at the Town Hall, Portsmouth, recently. Mr. W. Drover 
was presented to Her Royal Highness, who congratulated him on the 
artistic manner displayed in arranging the bouquet. 
- Miss North’s Gallery of Flower Portraits in Kew 
Gardens has, says “ Nature,” been reopened to the public, the pictures 
having undergone a thorough inspection and varnishing, under the 
advice of the President of the Royal Academy. A bust of Miss North 
has been placed in the North Gallery at Kew. The bust, the work of 
Mr. Conrad Dressier, has been presented by Mrs. Addington Symonds. 
- Papaver umbrosum.—A long dense row of this brilliant 
Poppy was last week a most effective object at Bedfont. Seed sown 
early in the autumn beneath a west wall give strong plants to bloom 
profusely. This, too, is the way to treat the beautiful Shirley Poppies, 
of which we hear so very little now, yet produce flowers of such 
exquisite hues. Both forms of these Poppies may be sown in the spring ; 
but from autumn sowings the plants being duly thinned, the bloom 
produce is greatly superior in every way.— D. 
- Presentation to Mr. and Mrs. Iggulden. — On leaving 
Marston, after a residence of thirteen years, Mr. and Mrs. Iggulden were 
the recipients of gratifying testimony of the respect in which they are 
held in the neighbourhood. On Thursday evening last, at a concert in 
the Marston Schoolroom, the most important part of the proceedings 
was the presentation of a beautifully executed illuminated address, 
(containing a hundred signatures), the work of Mr. Sidney Crees, 
together with a handsome gold keyless lever watch, bearing the 
recipient’s monogram at the back, with the inscription inside : “ Pre¬ 
sented to Mr. W. Iggulden by his friends at Marston, May, 1894,” also 
of a chaste silver tea service to Mrs. Iggulden. The presentation was 
made by the Rector, the Rev. Prebendary Harford, who, in the course 
of an admirable address, remarked, “ A walk round Marston Gardens 
under Mr. Iggulden’s guidance has been a pleasure to many, for he likes 
to talk about his flowers with those who are fond of them and wish to 
know more about their culture, and he is wont to tell all he knows 
which will be most useful in a very kind and pleasant way. Some of 
us, I expect, and I confess that I am one, wish now that we had tried 
‘ to pick his brains ’ more cleverly and frequently than we did now he 
is leaving Marston. He is also an acknowledged expert in the culture 
of fruit trees, and has been most successful in their culture, and, I 
believe, in Bedfordshire he is about to carry out a series of experiments 
which may prove useful to the public in the future. Mr. Iggulden also 
illustrates the saying of the wise man, ‘ that those who wish to have 
friends must show themselves friendly.’ ” Tne gifts were appropriately 
acknowledged, and a pleasant musical evening spent by the assemblage. 
Mr. Iggulden commmences his duties as manager of the Duke of 
Bedford’s Fruit Experimental Station at Ridgmount, on the Woburn 
Estate, on the Ist prox., and there cannot be a doubt that he will be 
equal to all that can be required of him in the practical conduct of an 
extensive undertaking of an important educational character. 
