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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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Conference is to be held in the afternoon on the ‘ possibilities of Co¬ 
operative Allotments and Associated Gardens.’ All persons who would 
like to attend should communicate with the Hon. Secretary, Mr. W. 
Broomhall, 1, Norfolk Street, Strand, W.C.” 
— Royal Warrant. —Messrs. Dickson, Brown & Tait, seedsmen, 
43 and 45, Corporation Street, Manchester, have received the Rojal 
Warrant, appointing them “seed merchants” to His Ro. al Highness 
the Prince of Wales. 
' Cereus graxdiflorus. —Mr. G. Goldsmith, Floore Gardens, 
M eedon, Northamptonshire, writes :—“ For some weeks past several 
varieties of the beautiful Night-blooming Cereus have been flowering in 
Mr. Loder’s garden. On several occasions we have had from sis to 
thirteen flowers open, but on Thursday evening, July 14th, we had 
twenty-one Cereus grandiflorus, which was a grand sight, the size of the 
flowers varying from 11 to 14 inches in diameter. The perfume 
scented nearly the whole garden. The largest flower we have had 
measured over 15 inches.” 
We have received from Mr. Jupp, gardener to Cuthbert N. H. 
Johnson, Esq., of Croydon, the following effectual eemedy against 
Red Spider and Mildew : —Take 2 lbs. of flowers of sulphur, 2 lbs- 
of unslaked lime, and 10 gallons of water, to which add two wineglass¬ 
fuls of petroleum oil. Boil the whole for twenty minutes, but not 
violently, and when cold bottle and cork it tight. To use it put half a 
pint to ten gallons of water, to which add two wineglassfuls of petro¬ 
leum oil, mix all weU with the syringe, and apply it in the evening 
only. 
The Canadian correspondent of the “ Liverpool Journal of 
Commerce ” says :—“ It appears that the Apple crop in Canada 
promises to be a good one. Ontario has not suffered seriously from 
the drought which has been so disastrous in the United States, and 
the crops, as a rule, are in a flourishing condition. All kinds of fruit 
are generally reported to be abundant in the province, and, with a 
favourable harvest, the farmers will have little to complain of except 
low prices.” 
Railway Rates and Producers. —The promoters of the 
scheme for the carriage of fruit and vegetables from Sandwich to 
London by water started upon a trial trip recently. A large amount 
of support was received from numerous growers in the Sandwich dis¬ 
trict, whose petition for a reduction in the railway tariff was refused. 
The freightage, consisting of Strawberries, Cherries, Currants, Goose¬ 
berries, Peas, and Potatoes, was placed in a barge, which was taken in 
tow by a steam tug. A somewhat squally sea was encountered off the 
North Foreland, rand the hatches were kept battened down until some 
progress had been made up the river. London Bridge was reached 
shortly before midnight, and vehicles from the various salesmen con¬ 
veyed the fruit and vegetables from the wharf to the different mar¬ 
kets. The rates charged, it is stated, are about 35 per cent, lower than 
those demanded by the railway company. 
- We are informed that the “ Flora of West Yorkshire,” a volume 
of about 800 pages, by Mr. Frederick Arnold Lees, will be ready this 
month. It will_ be published by the Yorkshire Naturalists’Union, by 
subscription, and will form an extra volume of the Botanical Series of 
the Transactions of the Union. The work is divided into four sections— 
(1) Climatology ; (2) Lithology ; (3) the Botanical Bibliography of the 
Riding ; (4) the Flora proper. With regard to the fourth section, it is 
claimed that “ such a complete flora for any district in the world his 
never before been published, more than 3000 species being dealt with.” 
DESCRIPTIONS OF AURICULAS—GREEN-EDGED. 
(Continued from page 31.) 
Clegg's Lady Blvchei -.—An attractive flower for a pointed petalled 
one with deficient ground-colour. Has many points of resemblance to 
Sir John Moore, and may possibly have had more to do with the parent¬ 
age of that variety than the raiser thinks. Foliage nearly the same, 
deeply indented, light coloured, and flabby. Pip of good size, but 
pointed, and cups in cold weather ; edge apple-green, sensitive of cold, 
which turns it cere ; colour light purple, narrow ; paste good, more than 
usually circular ; eye deep orange yellow, often too much large ; anthers 
low. Useful and pretty, but not first-rate. 
Dickson's Duke of Wellington. —This, the pet of London growers, has 
a robust constitution, foliage light green, smooth, elegant in shape, and 
easily distinguished ; and the flower though small and very faulty has 
certainly many attractions. Pip pointed, but fiat; ^xlge when pure, 
which it often is not, light green, much too narrow, beaded ; ground¬ 
colour rich violet plum, much-too broad ; paste of good substance and 
breadth, but scalloped ; eye yellow but not deep yellow, bleaches after 
a few days. 
D cksnn's Matilda. —A plant of curious growth with a beautiful but 
far from faultless flower. The foliage is broad and dumpy, spreading, 
light green, healthy, with a curiously small serrated edge, easily dis¬ 
tinguished. Pip the most evenly circular of all Auriculas, with broad 
petals, and o;ens with the beautiful cupped form of an opening Cow¬ 
slip. Its edge is rarely light green, frequently grey, sometimes white, 
good in all forms ; but it is most in character when a green edge ; colour 
a beautiful violet purple of sufficient breadth ; paste of the best; ej e 
light yellow which soon bleaches, with concealed anthers. Apt to send 
up more trusses than are wanted, and more pips on each than it knows 
what to do with, as the footstalks are too short for a well-formed truss 
to be possible. 
Dickson's Prince Albert. —One of that raiser’s peculiar colour, and 
about of the average goodness of his flowers. The foliage is full greer, 
symmetrical, keeping its shape equal to that of any Auricula ; pip broad 
petalled, angular, flat; edge apple green, pure ; colour light violet purple ; 
paste white, of good breadth, undefined at the outer edge ; eye lemon, 
and bleaches ; anthers on short stamens ; fair trusser—keeps long in 
perfection except the bleaching of the tube. 
Fin 1 ay son's John Bright.— Large coarse-looking plant. Sends up a 
pretentious truss that when examined has (say) five pips of extra size, 
that begins to open with great promise not warranted by the result. The 
green is pure and deep and the edge of sufficient breadth ; colour deep 
clarety violet; paste thin but broad enough ; eye lemon with concealed 
anthers ; substance of pip leathery and flabby, and though it opens like 
Matilda it is angular ; cups in cold weather. No acquisition. But it 
lasts as long' as any, except Lovely Ann. 
Franklin's Colonel. —A pretty rich-cploured and bright flower of no 
great pretension ; not unlike Moore’s Jubilee, to which it is greatly 
superior, or Litton’s Imperator, which it may challenge ; far more cir¬ 
cular at all points than either ; pip undersized, but well rounded, flat ; 
edge pure grass green, too much broken into by the colour, which is 
reddish brown with a tinge of plum ; paste circular, too narrow, thin ; 
eye too large, cowslip yellow, which bleaches ; short stamens covering 
the tube, anthers depressed. In general not a good trusser. Foliage 
deep green, broad, and smooth. 
Headly's Conductor.—A decided improvement both in plant and 
flower on Beeston’s Apollo. Good trusser ; pip fairly round, even, flat; 
edge good grass green, pure ; colour dark clarety plum, of good breadth ; 
paste good, circular, defined ; eye deep greenish yellow, low anthers ; 
foliage deep green, ribbed, only partially serrated. To be depended on 
for exhibition purposes. 
Headly's Excellent. —Small grower, of foliage intermediate between 
Conductor and Conqueror of Europe. Pip rounded, with large petals, 
smooth, and evenly reflexed ; edge dark and pure green, like that of 
Morris’s Green Hero, too broad, and more like the green of a leaf than 
of a flower edge ; colour black and too narrow ; paste circular, pro¬ 
portional ; eye good, of deep greenish yellow. This also is a show 
flower. 
Heath's Em eraId .—A poor second-rate. Pip broad-petalled, round, 
flat; edge pure vivid green except the bead round the margin ; colour 
dark maroon nearly black, not broad enough; paste good, broad, 
sharply defined ; eye very small and circular, lemon, low anthers; 
calyx as large as the flower ; moderate trusser ; foliage smooth, fleshy, 
light green. 
Hep no th's Robin Hood.—-Very like Olliver’s Lady Ann Wilbraham, 
but less angular and bold, and not so good a trusser. Pip flat but 
pointed ; edge pure, deep green ; colour deep'chestnut dashed with plum, 
sufficiently bold, but not so much so as Lady Ann Wilbraham ; paste 
often purely circular and always good ; eye dark yellow and not too 
large ; anthers low. A fine flower. 
Hogg's Waterloo. —One of the flowers in which colour atones for 
many defects. Pip large, flat, rounded ; edge narrow, light apple green, 
not alwaj s pure ; colour bright reddish plum, too broad ; paste scalloped, 
but sufficient; eye cowslip yellow with low anthers ; foliage light and 
smooth, plant healthy ; not a great trusser. 
Honiara's Lord Ne'son. —A small-growing plant that may occasionally 
be shown. Pip broad petalled but angular ; edge good but not pure, of 
sufficient breadth if it were continuous ; colour- dark velvety maroon 
breaking through the edge in broad irregular cones ; paste thin, hardly 
broad enough ; eye orange, of fair proportion ; foliage dark green, glossy, 
smooth in the edge. 
Hudson's Apollo. —If this were not too small it would be a formidable 
rival to Page’s Champion itself, which it not a little resembles. If in 
comparison it is deficient in body colour, it is flatter and forms a more 
even and elegant truss. Pip flat and sufficiently rounded though still 
angular ; edge vivid emerald green, pure ; colour dark bright purple, or 
light mulberry, scarcely broad enough ; paste very good in substance and 
width ; eye circular, deep greenish yellow, stands well ; anthers beneath 
the surface ; excellent trusser. Plant healthy ; foliage light green, 
veined, slightly serrated, clean looking. 
Lightbody’s Fairy Queen. —-Nice second-rate flower. Pip round and 
flat enough, small; edge impure, apple green ; colour reddish plum, 
streaky ; paste round and good ; eye orange, anthers low ; good trusser. 
Foliage healthy, broad, even, serrated. 
Lightbody's S r John Moore .—A brilliant second-rate, which when it 
can be shown, and it sometimes can, may challenge almost any. It has 
