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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ July 16, 1885. 
National he was not successful. He evidently over-estimated his strength, 
and flew at too high game. To exhibit 150 Roses against such competi¬ 
tion and without assistance was beyond his powers. 
Thus the amateur with limited means may derive much encourage¬ 
ment. He will see that a small garden has its advantage, each plant re¬ 
ceiving an amount of care and supervision that will produce more 
satisfactory results than a larger number.—F. C. Pawle, Hon. Sec. to the 
Reigate Rose Association. 
At a general meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society, held last 
Tuesday, Mr. Maurice Young, F.R.H.S., in the chair, the following 
candidates were unanimously elected Fellows—viz., The Comte de 
Yalhamey, Wm, Ellis, Wm. R. Harford, James Higgins, G. C. Leaver, 
Sir Herbert E. Maxwell, Bart., M.P., Mrs. Spencer Meade, A. E. S. 
Sebright, W. H. Smith. 
-The ninth Exhibition of the National Carnation and PicOtee 
Society (southern section) will be held in the conservatory of the Royal 
Horticultural Society on July 28th. The Treasurer, Mr. H. A. Rolt, 
570, Hartfield Road, New Wimbledon, will be glad to receive subscrip¬ 
tions or donations to make the Exhibition a financial success. He re¬ 
quires £20 more than he has yet received. The prizes have to be paid 
immediately after the Exhibition. A few friends came forward and 
generously subscribed the funds to make the Auricula Exhibition a 
financial success. The Committee hope that the more popular Carnation 
Exhibition may receive at least equal support. A few old subscribers 
annually fall off, and if each member would obtain one new subscriber 
the success of the Exhibition would be assured. Intending exhibitors 
will please to send their entries to Mr. Barron, Royal Horticultural 
Society, South Kensington, at least four clear days before the 28th, 
- A Chrysanthemum Show in May. —Some years ago Mr. 
Forsyth was a well-known exhibitor of Chrysanthemums at the London 
shows, and assisted greatly in extending the popularity of that plant by 
his productions. Now he is performing a similar office in New Zealand t 
acd has succeeded in forming a Society which has held several shows. 
The North Otago Times of May 11th, just to hand, records the success 
of an exhibition held two days previous, and remarks that it “ more than 
exceeded the anticipations of those who went so far as to say it would be 
"the best thing of the kind ever held in the colony, and those who have 
witnessed the Chrysanthemum shows of the old country say it was better 
than anything they ever saw there.” Mr. Forsyth was one of the principal 
prizetakers, and we congratulate our far-away friends on their success 
with a plant which must bring to some very pleasant 'memories of the 
mother country. 
- Mr. A. J. Ballhatchet, who has been gardener and bailiff to 
Dr. Temple, late Bishop of Exeter, for six years, continues in his Lord¬ 
ship’s service as head gardener and bailiff at the Bishop of London’s 
residence, Fulham Palace. 
- Is sufficient of the Night-scented Stock, Matthiola bicornis, 
grown in gardens ? No plant is more easy to grow, as the seed only 
requires to be sown like that of any other hardy annual, and there is no 
flower that renders gardens more delightful after nightfall than this 
highly fragrant Stock. For growing near windows that are open during 
the sultry nights of summer this simple annual has claims that are not 
surpassed, if equalled, by any other plant. It is not striking in appear¬ 
ance, but is still pretty, while its perfume after dark is as wonderful as 
it is powerful and refreshing. In the daytime the flowers are quite 
scentless, but at night they are delicious, and everybody having a bit 
o! land, rich or poor, may grow them. 
- Messrs. Ihlee & Sankey, the London agents of Messrs. Balfour 
and Co., LoDgton, Staffordshire, have sent us examples of flower pots 
of a very superior character, both as regards design, material, and work¬ 
manship. Fir halls, balconies, windows, prominent positions in conser¬ 
vatories—in fact, wherever plants are required in something more 
presentable than common flower pots, these very neat and chastely 
qrnamental forms will be acceptable, and without doubt plants will 
thrive in them at least as well as in ordinary flower pots. The new 
ware is red, smooth, appropriate for the purpose, in excellent taste, and 
considering its quality we think the reverse of costly. 
-The following Gardening Appointments have been made 
through Messrs. John Laing & Co., Forest Hill Nurseries :—Mr. Barnett 
as head gardener to — Miller, Esq., Cedar Villa, Kensington. Mr. Bond, 
lately at Beecholme, New Hampton, as head gardener to H. Barry, Esq., 
Bush Hill House, Winchmore Hill, Middlesex. Mr. Leiper as head 
gardener to W. Wilson, Esq., Farkhelme, Richmond. 
- The eighteenth annual Show of the Cheadle Floral and 
Horticultural Society will be held in Dr. Godson’s field on August 
21st and 22nd this year, when prizes will be offered in eighty-two classes 
for plants, fruits, flowers, and vegetables. In the open and amateurs’ 
classes for ten stove and greenhouse plants the prizes are respectively 
£10, £7, and £4. This in invariably one of the best Exhibitions in the 
district, and it is expected that the Show this season will fully equal 
those of previous years. 
- In referring to the Rose LusiADeS, which was sent out on the 
Continent some time ago at the price of 50 francs, M.M. Soupert et 
Notting, writing to the Journal des Roses, state that they have flowered 
the plant, and they “ certify that it is nothing else but Noisette Celine 
Forestier.” The flowers were said to be golden yellow with carmine 
spots, and the announcement caused a sensation amongst Continental 
rosarians. 
- A correspondent sends the appended note. “ At a recent meet¬ 
ing of the French Academy of Science the question of Poisons in Edible 
Mushrooms was discussed, and M.M. Roux and Houde presented a 
report upon some poisonous products which they had obtained from 
Mushrooms purchased in the market. Half the Mushrooms were eaten 
fresh without any bad result, the other half was allowed to putrefy to a 
slight extent, and were then submitted to treatment with a view to extract 
the alkaloids. Four were separated, and these, when injected into the 
tissues of guinea pigs, brought about death with symptoms of intoxica¬ 
tion.” 
- The Odours of Roses have been classed in seventeen divi¬ 
sions as follows :—“ Sweet Briar scent, as in the garden variety; Moss 
Rose scent, as in common Moss and family ; Austrian Briar scent, as in 
Copper Austrian and family ; Musk Rose scent, as in Narcissus, old 
Musk and family; Myrrh scent, as in Ayrshire splendens ; China Rose 
scent, an astringent refreshing scent, as in old Monthly China and 
many others; Damask Perpetual scent, as in Rose du Roi, &c.; Scotch 
Rose scent, as in the early double Scotch ; Violet scent, as in White 
Banksia ; Old Cabbage scent, as in the well-known double Provence; 
Otto Perpetual scent, as in Charles Lefebvre, Madame Knorr, &c.; true 
Perpetual scent, as in Chabrilland, Pierre Notting, &c.; Old Tea 
scent, as in the old yellow Tea or Magnolia Rose, and others almost 
unpleasantly strong for some tastes ; Sweet Tea scent, as in Gouhalt, 
Marechal Niel, &c.; Hybrid Tea scent, as in La France; Nectarine, or 
fruit scent, as in Socrates, Jaune Desprez, Aline Sisley, See. ; and the 
Verdier scent, represented more or less by all the Victor Verdier hybrids, 
such as Eugenie Verdier, Marquise de Castellane, Countess of Oxford, Marie 
Finger, &c. The petals of the highly scented varieties have on their inner 
surface minute peifume glands or vesicles, containing the highly volatile 
essence, under the microscope distinctly visible. Those on the petals of 
Sweet Briar and Moss are almost visible to the naked eye.” 
- An interesting letter from the naturalist of the Afghan 
Delimitation Commission, Surgeon-Major Aitchison, to Sir Joseph 
Hooker, describing the Flora of Northern Afohanistan, is published 
in Nature of the Sth inst. He mentions that in this tour he collected 
about 1200 specimens, representing one hundred species, many of which 
are not in cultivation. One plant is especially mentioned as likely to 
be of garden value — namely, Rosa Margerita, respecting which he 
states that “ it covers the whole country in localised patche*, and being 
dwarf in habit, not above 2 feet, the flowers are seen to perfection. 
They open out, expanding almost flat, when the brilliant eye3 formed by 
the claret-coloured bases of the petals give it quite a character.” There 
are also some floral districts thus described :—“ From the moment of 
entering these valleys they seem a mass of colour—one from Buttercups 
(one specie? only), another from a Poppy, the bed of a stream purple 
with a tall Onion, and the interstices green with various Grasses.” 
- Messrs, Richard Smith & Co, Worcester, have sent us sprays 
