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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ September 8, 1887. 
as a new departure on the part of the Council. Will you allow me to 
state in your columns that as yet no report of the Narcissus Conference 
has been published, but that a copy of the report on the Primula Con¬ 
ference was sent to every Fellow of the Society without exception? If 
your correspondent be a Fellow and failed to receive a copy, he need 
only have sent a postcard addressed to the Secretary, and another would 
immediately have been sent him. If he is not a Fellow he could have 
procured a copy on payment from Messrs. Macmillan & Co., who for 
some time past have had all the Society’s publications on sale. It may 
be assumed under these circumstances, I think, that your correspondent’s 
failure was in consequence of his not having tried very hard to obtain 
the work.— Edmund Bax, Assistant Secretary H.H.S. 
A limited number of packets of seeds from Sikkim are now 
ready for distribution to Fellows of the Royal Horticultural Society 
and lists can be had on application to the Assistant Secretary at South 
Kensington. 
- The Storms and Fruit Crops. —The late storms have had 
a disastrous effect on the fruit crops in various districts, in some in¬ 
stances practically all the fruit being dashed from the trees. 
- The list of rules and regulations of the Gardeners’ Orphan 
Fund has just been issued, and contains in addition the report of the 
first general meeting on July 12th this year, together with lists of sub¬ 
scribers and donors, and the names of officials connected with the 
fund. 
- Mr. J. Hiam says he has given up Bean stalks as earwig 
TRAPS years ago in favour of Hemlock stalks cut into lengths of 
18 inches without joints, and consequently they hold so many more ear¬ 
wigs. Onthe 5th inst. he caught over 900 in his orchard and garden. 
- Death to Wasps. —Mr. G. F. Warren writes :—“ Having 
tried the new insecticide—‘ death to wasps ’—with satisfactory results, I 
recommend it to all ‘ brothers in the craft ’ who are troubled with those 
enemies among their fruit. This insecticide is a powder sold in tin 
boxes with instructions for use, which are simple. A 3s. Cd. box is cal¬ 
culated to be sufficient to destroy thirty nests.” It is advertised in the 
Journal. 
- The York Chrysanthemum Show opens on November 
16th, and continues for three days. Among the prizes we notice two 
silver cups, one given by the Lord Mayor of York for a group of plants, 
the other by the City Sheriff for thirty-six cut blooms. Messrs. Wood 
and Sons offer a silver Jubilee medal for trained plants ; and in the 
fruit classes a timepiece is offered for six bunches of Grapes in three 
varieties, this being given by the Vice-Presidents and Stewards of the 
Ancient Society of York Florists. 
- We are desired to state that on Thursday in last week fifty 
of the employes of Messrs. W. Cutbush & Sons of Highgate, Finchley, 
and Barnet Nurseries went for their annual excursion, the place chosen 
being Brighton. They were accompanied by Mr. Herbert J. Cutbush, 
Mr. W. Easton, foreman at Barnet, Mr. R. Reid, foreman at Finchley, 
and Messrs. J. Hawker, J. Reed, and T. Snewing, foremen at Highgate> 
After visiting several places of interest they dined at the Grand Concert 
Hall Restaurant. “ Success to the Firm,” coupled with the health of the 
head of the firm, was proposed by Mr. T. Snewing. Mr. H. J. Cutbush 
responded. Various other toasts followed, and the day’s excursion was a 
complete success. 
- The Wakefield Paxton Society.—A t the ordinary weekly 
meeting of the members of the above Society, held on Saturday even¬ 
ing, Mr. J. P. Carter of the Paxton Nursery, Cowick, read a capital 
and thoroughly practical paper on “ The Tomato.” Mr. Carter dealt 
with the question of cultivating the Tomato from a market gardener’s 
point of view, and recommended his fellow gardeners to grow it on the 
single stem or Vine system. He exhibited some very fine specimens. 
- Mr. F A Fawkes, Chelmsford (author of “ Hot-Water Heat¬ 
ing”), offers the following Hints to Amateurs on Heating Green¬ 
houses :— “ Those of us who want warmth during the next winter in 
our hitherto unheated greenhouses arc now beginning to consider how 
we can do this in the cheapest, easiest, and most efficient manner. I 
have thought that a few hints to those who know but little about a 
heating apparatus may be serviceable. I need not say that of course a 
proper hot-water apparatus is the most advantageous, and these are now 
made so cheaply and in forms so easily fixed by any amateur that they 
are within the means of anyone who possesses a greenhouse. It would 
naturally be invidious for me to select any particular make when there 
are so many good ones in the market; but it will save an intended pur¬ 
chaser a great deal of unnecessary correspondence and trouble if, when 
he applies to a manufacturer for prices, he will also say what he intend^ 
to heat ; give a rough ground plan of his greenhouse, figuring the inside- 
length, and width ; indicate the position of doorways ; say whether it 
is a lean-to or span ; give heights to eaves and ridge ; and say what he 
wants to grow. The manufacturer will then be in a far better position 
to recommend what he considers most suitable, and to show the best 
arrangement of pipes.” 
- Mr. G. Hawkins, Ewenny Priory Gardens, Bridgend, an 
excellent cultivator of fruit trees in pots, writes:—“ I have this- 
day sent per parcels post a spray of Blums, Belgian Purple, with seven* 
teen fruits on. The tree is in an 18-inch pot, and for the last twelve- 
years it has not missed bearing a heavy crop. This year it has over 300 
fruits on. I consider it is one of the best Plums we have for pot culture- 
It is good either for dessert or the kitchen. I think you will find the- 
fruit a fair size and well coloured, although the crop is great.” Many 
of the fruits were smashed in transit, but those uninjured were of full) 
size, well coloured, and in every respect excellent. 
- Mr. Jupp, gardener to Cuthbert Johnson, Esq., briefly describes 
his practice of growing Winter Onions as follows :—“ Sow two good) 
seeds a foot apart in good soil; let the plants remain till spring ; then 
draw one out in each case and the other will grow very strong, White? 
Elephant developing bulbs 6 inches across.” 
-“ Juvenis ” sends the following Notes on Peas and Carrots :: 
—“ The recent dry weather has shown, without a doubt, the great 
advantages attendant on sowing Peas deeply. Those that were sown 
in the orthodox manner have long since succumbed to the drought,, 
while those sown very deep and covered with a layer of Mushroom bed 
refuse have passed through the ordeal quite unharmed, without either- 
watering or mulching. With us the Carrots this year have not been, 
attacked with maggots as in former seasons. Last year we sowed a few 
rows among the spring-sown Onions, and they grew to a very large size 
and were quite clean. This year we repeated the experiment with like 
happy results. It must in a certain measure be due to the hardness of 
the soil required for the Onions, as when they are sown in the ordinarily 
prepared soil they soon go bad. We have also grown a very fine crop of 
Carrots on the top of the Celery trenches.” 
- Yucca Aloifolia variegata. —Mr. W. Little states there is- 
at present a fine specimen of this highly ornamental plant in flower in. 
the greenhouse at Moncreiffe House, Perth. The plant, which is aboutr 
twenty years old, is growing in a pot 18 inches in diameter and has attained 
a height of 10J feet, girth of stem at the base 1 foot. The main flower- 
spike, which bears a number of side spikelets, is a little over 2 feet in 
length, and the flowers are of a pure creamy white colour, resembling: 
somewhat those of Y. gloriosa. 
- Mr. John Hewett, gardener to H. B. Mackerson, Esq., Hill¬ 
side House, Hythe, Kent, sends us flowers of Chrysanthemum 
Madame Desgranges and its Yellow Sport, exceptionally fine 
examples of these useful early varieties. The blooms are inches in 
diameter, 3 inches deep, of great substance, respectively pure white and. 
clear pale yellow. They are both up to exhibition form, and such blooms 
would be welcome at the National Chrysanthemum Society’s Show next, 
Tuesday. 
- We are informed that the Show held last week of the Burton- 
in-Lonsdale Floral and Horticultural Society was a very- 
successful one, and admirably managed by the Rev. F. D. Horner. Plants' 
and flowers were good, while it is stated the fruit and vegetable classes in¬ 
most cases hardly conveyed the impression of having had to undergo 
the hardships of an exceptionally trying season ; indeed to the keen 
observer it must be a relief to find such produce can. be grown ina season 
