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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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minate their enemies, and to do this a dressing of lime was given to 
the whole garden. The year afterwards some of the worst quarters 
were sprinkled with gas lime before being dug. Soot was applied 
to the crops while growing, and since that time I have not known one 
of our Cabbages to club, and wc grow some thousands annually.— 
J. Muie, Margam. 
Events op the Week. —^Oh Tuesday next the Koyal Horticultural 
Society’s Fruit and Mo'ral Committees will meet in the Drill Hall, James 
Street, Victoria Street, when Orchids, Narcissi, and Asparagus are an¬ 
nounced to be the leading features. On Saturday, the 12th inst., the 
summer Show will be held at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham. Several 
sales of Orchids are also announced for the present and following 
weeks. 
-An Exhibition in the Temple Gaedens.— The Koyal 
Horticultural Society will hold an exhibition, under the patronage 
of the Lord Mayor, in the gardens of the Inner Temple, London (by 
the kind permission of the Treasurer and Masters of the Bench) on 
May 17th and 18th next, and schedules have just been issued giving 
the following particulars. Twenty-four classes are provided for groups 
of miscellaneous plants. Orchids, Roses, Azaleas, Pelargoniums, Cle¬ 
matises, Palms, fine-foliage plants. Ferns, hardy plants. Calceo¬ 
larias, &c., a sum of £100 having been voted by the Council to be 
allotted by the Judges to the various classes according to merit on the 
day of the Show. Exhibitors must give notice of their intention to 
exhibit to Mr. A. F. Barron, R.H.S. Garden, Chiswick, not later than 
May 12th. On the morning of the Show exhibits will be received up 
to 9 A.M., when the gate will be closed, and all staging must be com¬ 
pleted by 10.30 A.M. The Exhibition will be closed at 7 p.m. Sche¬ 
dules and all information can be obtained from the Secretary, the 
Society’s offices. 111, Victoria Street, S.W. 
- Gaedenees’ Oephan Fund. —A meeting of the Committee 
was held last Friday, Mr. G. Deal in the chair. It was announced that 
applications had been received from ten candidates for the six elections 
that are to take place at the first annual meeting on July 13th, in the 
“ Can ion Street Hotel.” At the dinner, which is to be held in the 
Hotel on the evening of the same day, it is hoped 500 gardeners and 
friends will attend, as it is desired to make the first gathering as great a 
success as possible. The chair will be taken at 5 p.m. by Sir Julian 
Goldsmid, Bart, M.P. 
- The centenary of the Linnean Society occurring this year, 
a special celebration will take place in connection with the annual 
meeting on Thursday, May 21th. The occasion will be marked by two 
particularly interesting features—the presentation of the Linnean gold 
medal to Sir Joseph Hooker, K.C.S.I., formerly President of the Royal 
Society and Director of Kew Gardens, and to Sir Richard Owen, K.C.B., 
so long Superintendent of the Natural History department of the British 
Museum ; and the delivery of eulogies on Linnseus by Professor Fries, 
the present occu^iant of the chair of botany at Upsala. 
- The Weathee.— “B. D.” writes from Scotland April 
(30th) is going, weeping gently, presumably for her cold and un¬ 
generous behaviour. She has been unsparing of both smiles and 
tears, but her breath has been that of winter instead of spring. The 
last week was cold throughout the first half with high east wind, and 
the second with equally cold westerly gales. Frost occurred on the 
nights of the 2'lth and 25th, the ice being fully one-eighth of an inch 
thick on shallow water on the morning of Thursday last. Hedges and 
trees begin to assume a greenish tint, and pasture is improving.” In 
the south the weather has been milder than the previous week, and 
Monday was quite a summer day, with a slight chilliness in the 
wind. 
__ The Scottish Peimula and Aueicula Society announce 
that their second Show will be held in the Cal ton Convening Rooms, 
Waterloo Place, Edinburgh, on Wednesday, May 9th, this year. Show 
and Alpine Auriculas, Polyanthuses, Primroses, and Primulas have 
twenty-one classes devoted to them, the prizes ranging from 20s. to 
2s. Cd., but in addition, Mr. W. Straton, Annfield, Bronghty Ferry, 
presents a gold medallion as a special prize for sLx self Show Auriculas. 
Certificates will also be awarded for seedlings considered sufficiently 
meritorious. The Hon. Seci'etary and Treasurer is Mr. W. Straton, and 
the Assistant Hon. Sec., Mr. J. Grieve, Pilrig Nursery, Edinburgh. 
-- Adeiculas at Sheffield. —We are informed that in conse¬ 
quence of the prolonged cold and consequent lateness of the season Mr. 
B. Simonite’s Auriculas will not be in bloom before the second week of 
the present month. 
- A EE-issuE of Mr. W; Paul’s cheap popular book on Roses AND 
Rose Cultuee (Kent & Co., 32, Paternoster Row) is just to hand, and 
comprises within its ninety-two pages much interesting and useful 
matter for amateur rosarians. A chapter on new Roses is included, 
selections of Roses for particidar purposes, and a list of varieties reared 
or introduced by English Rose growers. 
-- Me. John Ceook, gardener to Mrs. Sherwin, Farnborough 
Grange Gardens, Hants, writes as follows in reference to the seedlinh 
Peimulas shown at the last meeting of the Royal Horticultural 
Society “ Thanks for your notice of Primula under certificated 
plants. Three of the six plants shown were seedlings, obtained by 
crossing P. ciliatum with other hardy Primulas. Mr. Douglas thought 
the reddish crimson one was a break in colour. The object I had in 
view was to obtain a race of hardy Alpine Primulas with larger and more 
highly coloured flowers. Many of the existing varieties are* unsatis¬ 
factory growers with small flowers. The seedlings are quite hardy, 
strong in habit, and free fiowering.” 
_An essay read some time ago before the members of the 
Nottinghamshire Horticultural Society by Mr. Chas. E. Pearson of 
Chilwell, entitled The Pelaegonium and its Cultivation, was 
subsequently issued in pamphlet form, and has now reached its second 
edition. It comprises in eleven pages cultural information respecting 
Zonal, Show and Ivy-leaf Pelargoniums, including details on summer 
and winter culture, diseases, insects, raising new varieties, potting soils, 
stimulants, aspect for houses, &c. It is brief and practical. 
_ Messes. J. Laing & Sons, Forest Hill, S.E., have at the 
present time a large display of Caladiums, which is one of the 
specialties in the well known Tuberous Begonia nurseries. 
_Gaedening Appointment. —Mr. Archibald Baxter, for nearly 
five and a half years general foreman at Wentworth House, Rotherham, 
has been appointed to succeed the late Mr. Tindall as head gardener at 
Sprotborough Hall, Yorkshire. 
_ We are requested to state that offices have been opened in 
London, at Cornwall Buildings, 3o, Queen Victoria Street, E.C., for the 
AUSTEALIAN Ieeigation COLONIES, which are now being carried out 
on the River Murray, under special Acts of the Parliaments, and regula¬ 
tion by the Governments of Victoria and South xVustralia, by Messrs. 
Chaffy Bros. (Limited) late of Ontario, Southern California. The work 
is intended to remove a chief obstacle to the development of colonisation 
on the Australian continent—namely, the frequently recurring and 
disastrous droughts. 
_Schedules of Shows. —The schedules of Exhibitions to be held 
during the present year are accumulating, and the following are to hand 
this week. 'The Winchester Horticultural Society will hold their fifth 
Rose and Flower Show in the Guildhall of that city on Thursday, 
July 12th, and a Chrysanthemum Show in the same building on Tuesday 
and Wednesday, November 13th and llth. The Wimbledon Royal 
Horticultural Society announce their summer Show to be held in the 
grounds of Wimbledon College on Wednesday, July 4th, and the 
autumn Show on Thursday, November 15th, in the Drill Hall, 
Wimbledon. The South Essex Horticultural Society will hold their 
next Exhibition in the grounds at Knotts Green, on Thursday, June 14th- 
Chrysanthemum Shows will take place at Barnsley on Thursday and 
Friday, November 15th and 16th, and at Brighton on Tuesday and 
Wednesday, November 13th and 14th. We do not remark any special 
alterations or additions to these schedules for the current year. 
