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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND WTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ December 8, 1887. 
factured from Vines, Beetroot, or Potatoes ; Hops supply the wants of 
her people, though the loss of the Alsatian provinces has reduced the 
growth; Olive yards and Walnuts produce oil for domestic use. France 
supplies the English markets with her early vegetables, the Asparagus 
of Argentcuil, the Artichokes and Broccoli of Rescoff, and the kitchen 
garden produce of the environs of Paris or the Nortillons of Amiens. 
Every grocer’s shop in Europe contains her Almonds, her preserved 
fruits, her dried Apples, or her tinned vegetables. According to the 
season she floods Covent Garden with her Strawberries, Cherries, Pears, 
Apricots, and Plums, her Chasselas Grapes from Thomery, her Peaches 
from Montreuil, or her Melons from Vaucluse. Angers sends her flowers 
famous since the days of King Ren6, and Grasse her perfumes to every 
part of the country.” 
- Me. E. R. Cutler, Secretary of the Gardeners’ Royal 
Benevolent Institution, informs us that “ on Friday, the 25th ult., 
Mrs. Jane Atlee, widow of Richard Atlee, nurseryman at Stockwell, 
and many years gardener to H. Beaufoy, Esq., South Lambeth, died 
in her 100th year, pensioner of the Gardeners’ Benevolent Institution 
since the year 1864.” 
- Carnation Pride of Penshuest and Mrs. G. Hawtrey 
—Mr. G. Goldsmith sends the following :—“ ‘ W. G. D.’ writes, page 447 
asking the difference between Carnations Mrs. G. Hawtrey and Pride of 
Penshurst. Not knowing the former I cannot tell him. If Mrs. G. 
Hawtrey was not introduced till six or seven years ago, how long 
previous to that time had it been in the possession of the florist a 
Sidmouth ? In 1872 I remember seeing a large border of Pride of Pens¬ 
hurst in the gardens at Penshurst Castle, and was so struck with it that 
I prevailed on the gardener, Mr. F. Bridger, to give me a plant, which 
he did conditionally. Now if Pride of Penshurst has been in cultivation 
ever since 1868, as I believe, and Mrs. G. Hawtrey only the last six or 
eight years, and they are identical, in fairness to the raiser of the former 
by that name only should it be known, and not by the adopted name 
Mrs. G. Hawtrey. Perhaps the raiser of each variety will favour us 
with the desired information.” 
-At a recent meeting of the Belgian Horticulturists in 
Ghent the following were present;—M.M. Leon ILalkin, Ernest 
Delaruye, Em. de Cock, Louis de Smet-Duvivier, Baudu, Raph. de 
Smet, and Jules Hye, M. Francois Desbois presiding, and M. Edm. Van 
Coppenolle acted as Secretary. Certificates of merit were awarded for 
Odontoglossum Alexandra album, from M. Edm. Vervaet et Cie; 
Cypripedium Dauthieri striatum, Cypripedium cardinale, and Cypri 
pedium vexillarium, from the same ; Cypripedium Arthurianam, from 
M. Jules Hye ; Cypripedium Bardeti and Cypripedium nitens, from the 
same ; Odontoglossum Harryanum, from M. L. Van Houtte ; Odonto¬ 
glossum Insleayi splendens, from M. James Bray ; Cypripedium 
conchiferum, from the same. Cultural certificates were awarded for 
Oncidium varicosum and Calanthe vestita rubra oculata, from M. L. de 
Smet-Duvivier; Cypripedium Spicerianum, from M. Louis Van Houtte ; 
and Sonerila Hendersoni, argentea, from M. L. de Smet-Duvivier. 
Honourable mention was accordtd for Cypripedium pleistochlorum, 
from M. Edm. Vervaet et Cie ; Rhododendron hybride, from M. Victor 
Cuvelier; Cypripedium Harrissianum superbum (flower), and Cypri¬ 
pedium Spicerianum, from M. Jules Hye ; Lycopodium pinifolium, from 
M. Louis Van Houtte ; Odontoglossum grande, from M. James Bray ; 
Cypripedium calurum, from M. Fr. Desbois et Cie ; Dracmna rubra 
compacta, from M. Louis de Smet-Duvivier ; and Angracum sesquipe- 
dalee, from M. Jules Hye. 
- We learn from Mr. James Douglas, the Hon. Sec., that the 
annual general meeting of the National Auricula Society and 
National Carnation and Picotee Society will be held, by permis¬ 
sion of the Council of the Royal Horticultural Society, in the conser¬ 
vatory, South Kensington, as soon after twelve o’clock as possible on 
Tuesday, December 13th, 1887. The business of the meeting will be the 
election of officers and Committee, receiving the Secretary’s and 
Treasurer’s report, the election of Judges for the ensuing year, and any 
other necessary business as may pertain to the annual general meeting. 
E -“ W. B.” writes : “ Mr. J. Jellico, Camp Hill, Woolton, exhibited 
at the Liverpool Chrysanthemum and Fruit Show, on the 29th and 30th 
inst., a basket of his Hearting Borecole, which was very highly 
commended by the J udges. It is particularly curly and forms a close 
firm heart, more so than other hearting forms with which we are familiar. 
It is after the style of ‘ Read’s Hearting Borecole,’ but the sample ex¬ 
hibited appears to heart earlier, and is firmer than that well-known 
variety.” 
- In the article on Early Forcing, page 466, last issue, the 
word “ branch,” line fifteen from the bottom of the left hand column, 
should be “ bunch.” 
- The annual dinner of the National Chrysanthemum 
Society, as mentioned last week, will this year be held at Anderton’s 
Hotel, Fleet Street, on Tuesday evening, December 13th. Chairman, E. 
SandersoD, Esq., President of the Society. The Sub-Committee, ap¬ 
pointed to make the necessary arrangements, have been very successful 
in securing most suitable accommodation, and also a liberal menu at a 
moderate cost. The tickets are 3s. Gd. each, and dinner will be served 
at 6 for 6.30. 
- The November part of the Botanical Magazine gives five 
plates representing the following plants:—T. 6963, Landolphia 
FLORIDA, a tropical African Apocynaccous indiarubber-yielding plant, 
whieh has been variously described under the names L. comorensis, 
Vahlea comorensis, and Willughbeia cordata. Living specimens were 
received at Kew in 1878 from Sir John Kirk. It is a tall climbing 
plant with large deep green leaves and dense clusters of white fragrant 
flowers. 
- In t. 6964 is given a figure of Phalasnopsis Marine, which 
was found by Mr. Burbidge in the Sulu Archipelago, and named in 
honour of his wife. It was found upon mountains, and possesses a very 
hardy constitution. The flowers are of medium size barred with reddish 
purp'e. 
- The new Mexican Polemonium flavum is represented in 
t. 6965, but it is not a plant of much beauty, the flowers of a yellowish 
white tint and large. 
- The next plate, t. 6966 is one of Morina betonicoides, one 
of the Dipsacem, and a native of the Sikkim Himalayas. It was found 
by Sir Joseph Hooker in 1848 at elevations of 10,000 to 13,000 feet. 
The flowers are rosy red with crimson blotches at the base of three 
lobes. The leaves are tapering, margined with long slender prickles. 
- Vicia Denessiana, shown in t. 6967, is peculiar to the Azores, 
and even there much restricted in its area. The early buds are of a 
fine purple hue, changing to fawn and brown as they grow older. 
- Under the title “ Roses for Amateurs (L. Upcott Gill, 
170, Strand), the Rev. H. Honywood D’Ombrain has published a manual 
describing his experiences in the selection and cultivation of Roses, and, 
as might be expected from such a veteran rosarian, it contains much 
useful information. It comprises sixty-four pages of small type, with 
several illustrations that are, however, the least meritorious portion of 
the book. The cultural instruction is clear, concise, and sound ; a 
calendar of operations for every month in the year is given, and a full 
index adds materially to the usefulness of the production. 
- We learn with much regret that Mrs. Elizabeth Moore, 
widow of the late Thomas Moore, died at the Botanic Garden, Chelsea, 
on the 27th ult. Mrs. Moore was in her seventy-third year, and it will 
be remembered that it is only eleven months since she lost her husband. 
She was buried on the 1st inst. in Brompton cemetery. 
- The first annual meeting of the Scottish Primula and 
Auricula Society was held at 5, St. Andrew Square, Edinburgh, on 
Thursday, the 1st December. The President, Mr. Cathcart, of Pit- 
cairlie, being unavoidedly absent, the chair was taken by Mr. Malcolm 
Dunn of Dalkeith Park. The Secretary and Treasurer submitted an. 
interesting account of the Society’s first Exhibition held in May last, 
which exceeded in extent the expectations of its promoters, although 
accidents in transit had deprived it of something like 150 plants- 
Financially the results were very gratifying, a satisfactory balance re 
maining in his hands. The Chairman congratulated the Society on the 
statement they had heard, and paid a well deserved compliment, which 
the meeting heartily endorsed, to the Secretary, to whose energy and 
courtesy the success of the movement is in no small measure due. In 
addition to a large and extended Committee the following gentlemen 
were unanimously re-elected to their respective offices :—President, Mr. 
R. Cathcart, Pitcairlie, Fife; Vice-President, Mr. W. B. Boyd, Faldonside ; 
Treasurer and Secretary, Mr. W. Straton,Annfield, Broughty Ferry ; Local 
