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the bloom buds are formed. After a hot day thoroughly syringe 
the plants, this greatly assisting in keeping the foliage clean and in 
a healthy condition. If the wall is lower and large blooms are 
required the method of training the plants must be altered, and 
planting should be done in the same way, except that the Pompons 
must be dispensed with and the other plants placed 2 feet 8 inches 
apart. In securing the stems to the wall train them in a slanting 
direction across one another ; by this means long branches can be 
accommodated without their extending beyond the top of the wall. 
Thin the branches at the breaks, and select the buds as previously 
described ; but where quantity of flowers is the main object, and 
the wall not so high, top the plants when about 6 inches long, and 
continue this topping till the end of June, laying in the shoots as 
space will allow. As showing the time flowers last upon plants 
grown at the foot of walls under the method described, at Swan- 
more Park they commenced to bloom on October 1st, 1885, and 
continued to do so till the 10th of December, when a severe frost 
coming quickly after rain put an end to them. In favourable 
seasons Chrysanthemums bloom freely when planted in the herba¬ 
ceous or shrubbery borders, planting them according to the natural 
height of growth of each kind ; but I do not strongly recommend 
this system, as a wet autumn spoils the blooms by damping, and a 
sharp frost in November disfigures them beyond recovery. Pompon 
and small -blooming varieties of Japanese and Incurved are the best 
for borders. 
I append the names of some of the sorts I have found succeed 
for walls, and no doubt there are many others equally well adapted 
for the purpose. Beflexed .— Golden Christine, Pink Christine, Mrs. 
Forsyth, King of Crimsons, Phidias, Progne. Incurved .— Reful¬ 
gence, Golden Empress, Lord Alcester, Mrs. G. Rundle, Mrs. Dixon, 
George Glenny, Pink Venus, Othello, Jardin des Plantes. Singles. 
—Oscar Wilde, Patience. Japanese .— Dr. Macary, Bouquet Fait, 
Peter the Great, Elaine, Tendresse, Mons. Mousillac, Margot, 
Mdlle. Lacroix, Harlequin, George Gordon, L’lncomparable, The 
Daimio. Pompons. —White Trevenna, Snowdrop, Golden Circle, 
Nelly Rainford, Rosinante, St. Michael. — E. Molyneux. 
At a general meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society, held 
last Tuesday, Dr. Maxwell T. Masters in the chair, the following can¬ 
didates were unanimously elected Fellows—viz., Mrs. Henry Day, 
Edward Fyson, Mrs. Garbutt, Mrs. Lewin, H. G. Lindesay, S. Nicholls 
A. D. Robertson, Fred. H. Smith. 
- We are informed by the Secretaries of the National Rose 
Society that arrangements have been made by the Royal Caledonian 
Horticultural Society to hold the Provincial Exhibition for 1887 in 
Edinburgh in the second week of July. 
- “ T.W. G.” writes: “ Has not ‘ D., Deal ’ (on p. 317) made a slip of 
the pen in calling ‘ Tea Rose Sunset ’ a sport from ‘ Etoile de Lyon ?’ 
‘ Perle des Jardins ’ is the parent given in Peter Henderson’s circular, and 
generally quoted. Gloire Lyonnaise is not very yellow certainly, though 
its base is just yellow enough ‘ to swear by but it is a pretty Rose— 
more like Lamarque than any other variety that occurs to me—and it was 
well shown by Messrs. Paul of Cheshunt, at South Kensington on the 
20th inst., so that it would probably make a good pot Rose. Is not Mr. 
Mawley (p. 321) perpetuating an error in giving the date cf the Hereford 
Rose Show as July 8th ? I understood it had been postponed to Friday, 
July 9 th. 
- The Taunton Deane Horticultural and Floricultural 
Society will hold their nineteenth annual Show at Viviary Park, Taunton, 
on Thursday, August 12th, 1886. The schedule of prizes enumerates 116 
classes, in some of which the prizes are very liberal. One of the principal 
is that for twelve stove and greenhouse plants in flower, the prizes being 
£20, £12 10s., and £7 10s. The Hon Secretaries are Messrs. Howard 
Maynard and Alex. Hammett, 5, Hammett Street, Taunton. 
- An Edinburgh correspondent sends us a box of large and bright 
Chrysanthemum segetum Blooms, and remarks that he has some 
plants which have flowered most of the winter, and seem as if they would 
continue all the summer. The blooms sent are from two different plants. 
The small flowers are making an attempt to become double. “Like all 
Chrysanthemums, they keep a long time fresh when cut. I have some in 
water that was cut a fortnight ago, and they are as fresh-looking as the 
day they were cut. In the West of Scotland it is found growing freely 
amongst the corn as an annual. I am trying'some experiments with it, 
and would like to cross it with some of the single Chinese Chrysan¬ 
themums.” 
- “ T. N. R. ” writes :—“ In the large conservatory at the 
Botanical Gardens, Manchester, Rhododendron Falconeri is now 
flowering. The plant is under 7 feet high, bearing five huge clusters of 
whitish flowers, which surmount its handsome foliage, producing a distinct 
and attractive appearance. Hitherto I have been under the impression 
that R. Falconeri assumed considerable size ere it evinced a tendency to 
bloom. If any reader of the Journal of Horticulture has succeeded in 
flowering this species it would he interesting to know what dimensions 
the plant has attained when flower buds were formed.” 
- How admirably Orchids are adapted for small town gardens 
is well exemplified by Dr. Duke’s collection at Lewisham. 
Five years ago a dozen plants were commenced with in a house 10 feet 
by 8 ; now 4000 plants are accommodated in seven or eight structures. 
The entire garden does not exceed the eighth of an acre, yet there is a 
good-sized lawn, mounds of Daffodils, a Fern bank, besides the Orchid 
houses. These are packed with plants in a manner seldom seen, nearly a3 
many being suspended from the roofs as are arranged on the stages below 
them. In one narrow span-roofed structure is quite a wall of charming 
flowers from the stage to the glass. We had merely a twilight glance, 
and took no names, but saw sufficient to assure us that Dr. Duke has 
some gems in his collection, and that he is a devoted admirer and skilful 
grower of this beautiful family of plants. Dr. Duke’s residence is within 
five minutes’ walk of Lewisham Junction, and his multum in parvo garden 
is worthy of inspection and merits further notice than can be accorded in 
our present issue. 
- Mr. B. Cowan sends the following note :—“At Pilmore Hall, 
the seat of E. Backhouse, Esq., in one of the plant stoves is a fine plant 
of the old Calanthe.veratrifolia with three spikes. The glass struc¬ 
tures are of great extent. In the conservatory is a Chamacrops Fortuni 
throwing up four spikes, a magnificent Countess of Haddington Rhodo¬ 
dendron, a fine Acacia verticillata, which haDgs down gracefully, and the 
contrast is most pleasing. Azaleas were well flowered and plenty of them, 
while in the outside border Iris reticulata was blooming profusely. The 
gardener, Mr. Simpson, has every department in excellent order.” 
- We have received a copy of the Official Guide to the Collection 
of Timbers in the Museums of Economic Botany, Royal Gardens, 
Kew, which forms the third of the series being issued from this establish¬ 
ment. It comprises eighty pages of closely printed matter, giving many 
interesting particulars concerning the principal home and foreign timbers 
employed in commerce, with brief descriptions of the dimensions the trees 
attain, their uses, general character of the wood, local and scientific names. 
Accompanying the guide is an excellent route map of the Royal Gardens, 
mounted on linen and coloured. This and the guide are sold separately 
at the nominal price of 2d. each. 
- As an example of the style adopted in the above-mentioned 
Guide, we extract the following note on the Teak, TectonA grandis, 
“A large tree of India, Java, Sumatra, and the Malay Islands. It is the 
chief timber of India and Burma, and is largely exported for ship¬ 
building and railway carriages. In India it is used j for similar purposes, 
as well as for bridges, sleepers, furniture, See. Teak is very durable, and 
when once properly seasoned does not split or warp. It is said not to 
suffer when in contact with iron, and is rarely, if ever, attacked by white 
ants. This durability is said to be due to the presence of an aromatic 
oil, which is extracted from the wood in Burmab, and is used medicinally 
as a substitute for linseed oil and as a varnish.” 
- A COMMON but pretty plant for shrubbery or other shaded 
borders is Anemone nemorosa, the Wood Anemone, with its double 
white and other varieties. They are now flowering freely, and have a 
charming appearance dotted about amongst the shrubs in company with 
Corydalis bulbosa, Primroses, and Violets. If cut with a good length 
of stalk below the leaves the Wood Anemones last well in water arranged 
with other flowers. 
- Mr J. Wyatt, The Gardens, Bradenhurst, Cattrham Valley, 
