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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ November 1,1888 
Events of the Week. —The principal Chrysanthemum Shows for 
the present week are the following :—Southampton to-day (Thursday) ; 
Kingston, November 6th and 7th ; the National Society at Westminster, 
November 7th and 8th ; Portsmouth, November 7th, 8th, and 9th; Ted- 
dington, November 8th, and the Crystal Palace, November 9th and 10th. 
Messrs. Smail & Co., 123, Fenchurch Street, E.C., announce sales of 
bulbs, Azaleas, &c., on November 5th, 7th, and 8th; and Messrs. Protheroe 
and Morris will hold a sale of nursery stock on November 6th at Mr. 
T. S. Ware’s nursery, Tottenham. The British Fruit Growers’ Asso¬ 
ciation will hold a meeting in St. Stephen’s Hall, Westminster, on 
November 8th. 
- Gakdeneks’ Oephan Fund. — At a largely attended Com¬ 
mittee meeting held on Friday evening last, Mr. G. Deal presiding, 
donations were announced of £11 8s. 8d. from the local Secretaries :— 
£10 from Mr. A. Dean, including proceeds of a concert at Chiswick ; 
£7 12s. from Mr. W. Wildsmith, the results of a garden f&te ; £5 from 
the Hon. and Rev. J. T. Boscawen ; and £1 from the Oxford Carnation 
Show, per Mr. E. S. Dodwell. Receipts were presented from the 
guardians of ten children for moneys received by them, and accompany¬ 
ing letters showed how greatly the assistance was appreciated. It was 
stated that Mr. 0. Thomas of Chatsworth is making preparations for a 
floral fete in the Stevenson Memorial Hall, Chesterfield, on Novem¬ 
ber 14th, for the benefit of the funds. Mr. Bishop, The Grove, Tedding- 
ton, was appointed local Secretary for that district. Sub-committees 
were appointed to consider special matters, and general routine business 
was transacted. 
- Me. C. Oechaed writes : “ Last Satukday in the Isle of 
Wight was like a summer’s day. The hedgerows full of clusters of 
ripe 1 Blackberries, and the cottage gardens were still gay with their 
summer occupants, mingled with autumn Roses and Soeur Melanie 
Chrysanthemum, which is now blooming profusely out of doors here. 
It is only in the lower gardens that the late frosts cut the Dahlias and 
other tender flowers down. The Myrtle trees are now beautiful with their 
white flowers and buds. Chrysanthemums in this neighbourhood are 
much better than I expected to find them, many of the Queen family 
being very forward.” We may add that our correspondent, in addition 
to his present duties, has been entrusted with the management of 
the Bembridge Hotel, an excellent house and favourite seaside resort 
of visitors in the summer. 
-Chiswick Gaedenebs’ Mutual Impeovement Associa¬ 
tion. —At the annual general meeting of the members of this Institu¬ 
tion held on Friday evening last, October 26th, Mr. George Gordon was 
unanimously elected Chairman of the meetings during the ensuing 
session. The following papers were promised to be read on the under¬ 
mentioned dates November 2nd, Opening Address by the Chairman, 
Mr. George Gordon ; November 9th, “ What Constitutes a Gardener,” Mr. 
John Fraser ; November 23rd, “ Roses and their Cultivation,” Mr. T. 
Bones ; November 30th, “ Economic Plants of the Order Labiatee,” Mr. 
A. Parsons ; December 7th, “ An Over-supply of Gardeners—a Remedy,” 
Mr. J. Barry. 
- Sweet-scented Flowees. —“ W. B.” at page 342 evidently 
thinks that other people’s corn must be measured with his own bushel 
when he states that scentless Roses ought to be discarded. This is a 
common error that many people fall into, not but what I am very fond 
of sweet-scented flowers myself, but a gentleman I had the honour of 
serving would not have a strong-scented Rose or Carnation in the house, 
much as they were liked in the garden. Another gentleman, the owner 
of a very large garden, was of the same opinion. Nor are these cases 
exceptional. Either for a drawing-room or for the decoration of the 
dining table sweet-scented flowers I find are not at all appreciated. 
Self Carnations, like Roses of a pleasing colour, have a rich appear¬ 
ance by artificial light, and when so used the less scent the better.— 
A Decoeatoe. 
- Gakdening Changes. —We understand that Mr. John Crook 
has left Farnborough Grange, Hants, through the death of the late 
Wm. Sherwin, Esq., who was a great lover of horticulture. Mr. Crook 
had charge of the gardens, &c., for eleven years. 
- A slight error occurs in my note on nakeow Vine boedees, 
page 382, twelfth line from the top of the column, which I should be 
glad for you to set right in your next issue. Instead of “lime and 
broken bricks,” it should read, “ mixture of loam and broken bricks.”— 
W. S. 
- “ H. D.” sends the following notes :—“ During a recent visit to 
the well-managed gardens of the Earl of Cork, Mabston House, 
Fkome, I noticed some exceedingly fine Bouvardias, the plants being 
in 5 and 6-inch pots, and were bushy little specimens completely 
studded with buds, and will doubtless prove invaluable during the next 
few months for supplying abundance of their bright scarlet and snowy 
white blossoms, which are so effective when arranged with Maidenhair 
Fern fronds in the form of sprays and buttonholes. The double forma 
find most favour with Mr. Igguklen, who has evidently hit upon the 
right method for growing Bouvardias well. 
- “ In the same garden my attention was drawn to a most useful 
Fern which is not so much grown as it should be. I refer to Adiantum 
mundulum. All who have a great demand for Fern fronds in a cut 
state would do well to secure a stock of this variety, the fronds of 
which are especially suitable for making sprays and buttonholes, being 
of the right size for that purpose, and stiff enough to be used without 
wiring. 
- “ On a shelf at the back of a stove was a fine healthy clean 
stock of Calanthe Veitchi, which had made extra strong growth, 
and promises in due time to yield a plentiful supply of their choice and 
beautiful blossoms. The plants were growing in a mixture of peat, 
sphagnum, and charcoal, as Mr. Iggulden finds they do not thrive in the 
loam he is able to procure, and although others may grow Calanthes 
equally well in loam, the condition of the plants at Marston plainly 
indicates that the treatment they receive suits them in every respect. 
- “ Some very fine fruits of Hebo of Lockinge and Blenheim 
Oeange Melons were ripening at the time of my visit, also a large 
example of a variety raised by Mr. Miller of Rood Ashton Park; and 
although growing to a large size there is nothing coarse about it, the 
outline of the fruit being even and beautifully netted, and the variety 
will doubtless prove very useful for growing a few large fruits for 
special occasions. 
- “ Tomatoes in Pits are trained in a simple and novel way at 
Marston. Common hurdles are fastened about 18 inches from the glass, 
over the surface of which the shoots are trained at will. Treated in 
this way the labour of tying and training is reduced to a minimum, the 
fruits can be fully exposed to the light, and no further trouble is given 
in supporting the heaviest fruits.” 
- Potatoes and Peas in 18S8.—My Potatoes were planted in 
the garden in the second week of April. The varieties were Webbs 
White Beauty, Perkins’ Snowdrop, Improved Ashleaf, and Schoolmaster. 
The first-named turned out a splendid crop of good large tubers nearly 
all good. Perkins’ Snowdrop were fine, but many of them were diseased. 
Improved Ashleaf were quite a failure both as to crop and diseased 
tubers. Schoolmaster, again, were not good with me, the bulk of them 
were bad. My soil is heavy and well manured. I planted Sutton s 
Fiftyfold, Beauty of Hebron, and Reading Russet in the field, and had 
a grand crop of each of them, but Reading Russsets were three parts 
diseased, Beauty of Hebron was one part diseased, and Sutton’s Fifty¬ 
fold were the same. The soil is light on the top of a bank, and I should 
have thought was well suited to them because it allowed the water to 
run off the rows. 
- With regard to Peas 1 grew twelve sorts — William I., 
Early Bird, Duke of Albany, Telephone, President Garfield, Fortyfold, 
American Wonder, William Hurst, Perfection, Yorkshire Hero, Wordsley 
AVonder, and Walker’s Perpetual Bearer. The dwarf Peas with me 
ran up to 2 feet high, and were so thickly covered with pods, and we 
had such a wet season, that they never ripened, and I had to pull them 
up without getting a crop. All the earlier sorts were as bad; they ran 
up to 6 or 7 feet, and the peas I had from them were not good. This 
Walker’s Perpetual Bearer Peas, however, made up for. I have been 
picking pods with nine and ten peas in for the last month, and they 
have been bearing and blooming after being exposed to 10° of frost.— 
Joseph Palmek. 
- Gishubstine. —We are always reminded of the approach of 
“ bad weather ” by samples of this well proved and excellent dubbing 
for boots. Like the Gishurst Compound of the same inventor, it wears 
well and makes boots wear the longer for its application. Workers on 
