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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ April 19. 188?. 
water to the roots, and shade from sunshine until the plants are 
established in fresh soil, when it should be discontinued. Pinch 
the young shoots a few times to cause them to branch. Propagation 
by cuttings inserted in heat is the method of procedure usually 
adopted. Vinca rosea, flowers rose, with dark centre ; V. alba, pure 
white ; V. alba oculata, white, with red eye.—W. 
Events of the Week. —Besides the usual sales there are few 
horticultural events arranged for the present week. On Tuesday next, 
however, the Eoyal Horticultural Society will hold their Committee 
meetings in the Drill Hall, James Street, Victoria Street, and the 
National Auricula and Primula Society’s Southern Show will be held on 
the same day in same Hall, to be followed by a luncheon at the “ Hotel 
Windsor " as noted on another page. 
- Royal Hoeticultukal Society. —-The programme of ar¬ 
rangements for the meetings of the Scientific, Fruit, and Floral Com¬ 
mittees for the present year. The Scientific Committee meet at 111, 
Victoria Street, and the other Committees hold their meetings in the 
Drill Hall, .James Street, Victoria Street, on the following dates :— 
April 24th.—Auricula and Primula day. Azaleas, Daffodils, Crchids. 
May 8th. — Crchid day. Narcissus, Asparagus. May 22nd.—Calceolarias, 
pot Roses, cut hardy and ornamental shrubs. June 12th.—Cut Rho¬ 
dodendrons, hardy Azaleas, flowering shrubs. Ranunculus, Anemones, 
Iris. June 26th.—Begonias, Gloxinias, Pelargoniums, cut Clematis, 
Poeonies, Roses, Pinks. July 10th.—Roses, Lilies, Strawberries, Begonias, 
July 24th.—-Carnation and Picotee day. Ferns and Selaginellas, Ivy¬ 
leaved and Zonal Pelargoniums. August 14th.—Hardy fruits. Phloxes, 
Pentstemons, border flowers and cut Clematis. August 28th.—Holly¬ 
hocks, Gladiolus, fruit of all kinds. September 11th. —Dahlias, Begonias, 
Asters, fruit of all kinds. September 25th.—Grapes, Tomatoes, autumn 
border flowers. Cctober 9th.—Early Chrysanthemums, Apples, Pears, 
October 23rd.—Hardy fruits. Potatoes, Vegetables. November 13tb.— 
Chrysanthemums, English Granges. December 11th.—Hardy shrubs, 
berried plants, Ivies in pots. Primulas, Chrysanthemums, Poinsettias. 
The undermentioned special prizes are also offered for competition on 
July 10th by Messrs. John Laing & Sons, The Nurserie.s, Forest Hill— 
Six Tuberous Begonias, single, distinct, first prize 40s., second prize 30s., 
third prize 20s. Three Tuberous Begonias, double, distinct, first prize 
20s., second prize 15s., third prize lOs. Gpen to amateurs and gentlemen’s 
gardeners only. Schedules of the National Auricula and Primula 
Society’s Show (April 24th) and the National Carnation and Picotee 
Society’s Show (July 24th) are included, with lists of the members of 
Council, officers, and Committees. 
- A List of New Gaeden Plants.—T he issue of the “ Kew 
Bulletin” for April contains a descriptive list of new garden plants, re¬ 
corded from 1st Cctober, 1880, to 31st December, 1887, to which the follow¬ 
ing remarks are prefixed :—“ The number of new garden plants annually 
described in various English and foreign periodicals renders it a matter 
of considerable difficulty to botanists and horticulturists to keep them in 
view. As long ago as 18G0 a list of new garden plants was published in 
the “ Gardeners’ Year .Book and Almanack,” and this list was con¬ 
tinued regularly until the “ Year Book and Almanack ” of 1886, which 
contained the new plants of the year 1885. The new plants up to Gcto- 
ber, 1886, were published by instalments in the columns of the Journal 
of Horticulture during the months of January to May, 1887, inclusive. 
Since that time no list of new plants has been published, and it is 
believed that it is no longer likely to be issued by private enterprise. 
As the publication of a list of new garden plants is of the greatest 
possible interest to botanical establishments everywhere, and as such a 
list would give information respecting many new plants grown at Kew, 
and distributed, in course of exchanges, to correspondents in all parts of 
the world, it has been determined to continue the list as one of the 
regular issues of the Kew Bulletin.’ It is believed that such a pub¬ 
lication will be of service to the horticultural world generally.” 
- It is announced that an Anglo-Danish Exhibition will be 
opened at South Kensington on May 14th next by the Princess of 
Wales. The garden and conservatory recently occupied by the Royal 
Horticultural Society have been devoted to the purpose, and the 
Secretary is Capt. Bax, late Assistant Secretary to the Society just 
named. The surplus arising from the Exhibition is to be devoted to the 
benefit of the British Home for Incurables at Clapham. 
- A COEEESPONDENT notes that “ Cn the occasion of the visit of 
Lord Salisbury to North Wales recently he was the recipient of a NOVEL 
BOUQUET, over 3 feet in diameter, eomposed entirely of Primroses and 
Violets. It was designed and furnished by Messrs. F. & A. Dickson and 
Sons, The Queen’s Nurserymen, Cheater.” 
- The Weathee.—C ur northern correspondent, “B. D.,” says : 
—“ There has been no frost during the week ending the 16th, the 
thermometer during the night only once being as low as 36°. Cold 
W. and N.W. winds prevailed during the first two days. Bright sun¬ 
shine and occasional slight showers have marked the week, and yesterday 
(16th) a close genial rain fell heavily in afternoon and evening. This 
morning (16th) is mild and cloudy.” In the south there has been a very 
agreeable change in the weather ; a much higher temperature and 
occasional warm showers are hastening vegetation very rapidly. The 
shade temperature has varied from 60° to 65° in warm situations. 
-A Sheffield correspondent writes ;—“ Spring appears to be 
with us at last, and everywhere vegetation is starting into life. Grass is 
growing fast. Gooseberries and Hawthorns are bursting into leaf, 
Jargonelle Pear flowers will soon be bursting, and are very plentiful. 
Tliere promises to be a fine display of blooms on hardy fruit trees 
generally, and as it will now necessarily be very late before opening we 
may fairly anticipate a good set and consequently a good fruit year.” 
- Messes. J. Caetee & Co., High Holborn, send us some ex¬ 
tremely fine CiNEEAEiA BLOOMS, gathered from the 500 plants they now 
have in flower at Perry Hill. Some of these arc 3 inches in diameter 
with florets three-quarters of an inch broad, -of gi-eat substance, and 
surprisingly rich varied colours. We are also informed that this firm 
has been selected to supply grass seeds for the London parks under the 
control of the Metropolitan Board of Works. 
- GAEi9ENiNG APPOINTMENT. —Mr. C. W. Chard, lately foreman 
at Cleveden, Maidenhead, succeeds Mr. H. Rogers as head gardener to 
Sidney Lawrence, Esq., Bygrove House, Clapham Park. 
- Euchaeises at Caediff Castle.—A gardener writes— 
About two years ago I regarded the Eucharises at Cardiff Castle as the 
best plants I had ever seen. Since then much has been said about them 
in these pages, and this made me rather anxious to see them once more, 
which I did the other day. I need hardly say I found them looking as 
well as ever, and if anything improving. They are grand specimens ; 
many are growing in pots 20 inches in diameter, and the plants are 
6 feet through. Eucharis culture is not generally well understood, 
and all who wish to succeed could not do better than follow Mr. 
Pettigrew’s advice. There may be more than one way of growing 
Eucharises successfully, but I certainly give Mr. Pettigrew’s system the 
preference. I might write much respecting the excellent crops of Grapes 
now well advanced, the Peach trees, the fruit trees in the open, and the 
fine-foliage plants under glass, but all these were noted recently.” 
— Beitish Peoducts Exhibition in Hambueg.— Mr. G. A. 
Pogson, British Vice Consul, Colonnaden 104, Hamburg, sends us a 
circular on competition in trade, one clause of which states that he has, 
“ after long and mature consideration, decided to establish a sample room 
of British products and manufactures at Hamburg, which will be 
divided into sections comprising articles of consumption, raw products, 
textile fabrics, manufactured goods, new inventions, &;c. The samples 
will, when desirable, be exhibited in cases of uniform size—viz., 6 feet 
high, 3 feet broad, and 1 foot deep, which wili be supplied at a nominal 
cost to the exhibitor. The annual fee for such space, which can be 
secured for one, three, or five years, has been fixed upon the scale of the 
German sample room at the Hamburg Exchange—viz., £7 10s., exclusive 
of insurance and cost of delivery. No trading of any kind will be 
undertaken, but where agents exist, their names and addresses will be 
legibly displayed on the cases, whilst the excellent telephonic com¬ 
munication of the town, combined with the contiguity of the business 
quarters to the sample room, which is close to the Exchange, will ensure 
