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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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and the beautiful Cypripedium superbiens. A silver medal was also 
awarded to Messrs. Alfred Peel & Son, Wood Green, for their exhibition 
of amateurs’ greenhouses, which are admirably constructed moveable 
fixtures. The Agri-Horticuitural Society, Tonbridge, exhibited their Acme 
weed killer, and a broad walk was pointed out in the Palace grounds 
where experiments in weed destruction had been made with satisfactory 
results. The weed killer was highly commended. A certificate of merit 
was awarded to Messrs. Ogden & Co., Wood Green, for greenhouses and 
frames designed for small cultivators ; also to Mr. Fhippen, for taste 
displayed in the decoration of a harp with Roses, which was to be used 
in the crowning of the Rose Queen. Fertilising moss, exhibited by 
Messrs. R. Beale & Co., New Southgate, and apparently useful for 
striking cuttings and growing young plants in, was commended. 
Events of the Week. —The following are Rose Show fixtures for 
the ensuing week :—To-day (Thursday) the National Rose Society’s 
provincial Show at Sheffield ; also exhibitions at Helensburgh and 
Salterhebble. On the 19th Ulverstone, on the 20th Manchester, on 
the 23rd Christleton and Tibshelf. The Gardeners’ Orphan Fund dinner 
will be held at Cannon Street Hotel on the 19th. The National Carna¬ 
tion Society’s Show is fixed for Tuesday, July 23rd. at the Drill Hall, 
James Street, Westminster. 
-- Bulbs foe the Royal Paeks. —Messrs. James Veitch and 
Sons, Royal Exotic Nursery, Chelsea, inform us that Her Majesty’s 
Commissioners of Works have again this season, making the fifteenth 
time, accepted their tender for the supply of bulbs (Hyacinths, Tulips, 
Crocus, &c.) for the Royal parks. 
- Long Beoad Beans.—I n reference to your question at page 
26 on this subject I beg to say that I have gathered specimens of 
Carter’s Leviathan Broad Bean varying in length from 15 inches to 
17 inches.—H. W. Wabd, Longford Castle, Salisbury. 
- Cboydon Show. —We are informed that the silver medal for 
the best bloom in the local classes for Roses was won by Rev. W. 
Wilks, and not by Mr. J. Brown, as inadvertently stated in our report. 
- At the last Committee meeting of the Richmond Horticul¬ 
tural Society, a resolution conveying a vote of thanks and congratula¬ 
tions was passed to Ms. W. Beown, florist, St. Mary’s Grove Nursery, 
Richmond, on his success in winning for the third time in succession 
the handsome Jubilee Challenge Vase, value 26 guineas, given by 
Mrs. P. A. Lee to the Chiswick Horticultural Society, for a group of 
plants arranged for effect, and which cup has now become his property. 
- Noble and Oxonian Strawberries. — An “ Amateur 
Strawberry Grower ” desires to state his experience with Strawberries. 
He has been the most successful with Noble and Oxonian. The former 
produced an early and magnificent crop, and the latter is now yielding 
splendid solid fruit. For an early and late Strawberry he does not 
think growers can at present do better than try these varieties. 
- Pkesentation to Me. W. H. Williams. —Last week there 
was a very interesting gathering in the banqueting hall of the Council 
House, Salisbury, the occasion being a presentation to Mr. Walter H. 
Williams, Hon. Secretary of the Wilts Horticultural Society, in com¬ 
memoration of his forthcoming marriage. The present was a beautiful 
cottage piano, the value being 55 guineas. On a silver plate on the 
front of the instrument was engraved the following inscription :— 
“ Presented to Mr. W. H. Williams, Hon. Secretary to the Wilts Horti¬ 
cultural Society, by the Committee, Exhibitors, and Friends upon the 
occasion of his marriage, July, 1889.’’ The Mayor (Mr. S. Parker) 
presided, and having expressed the great pleasure that it afforded him 
being present on that occasion, he called upon Dr. F. W. Coates to make 
the presentation. This was done in an able and highly appropriate 
manner. Mr. Williams, in acknowledging the present in a suitable 
speech, remarked that “as servants of Nature they—the members of the 
Horticultural Society—were drawn into association with one another, 
and were not the beauties of Nature and the harmony of music closely 
allied l They both tended to elevate and lift them above the daily 
round of common toil.” 
-National Caenation and Picotee Society (Southekn 
Section). —The thirteenth annual Exhibition of the above Society will 
be held on Tuesday, July 23rd, under the auspices of the Royal Horti¬ 
cultural Society in the Drill Hall of the London Scottish Volunteers, 
James Street, Westminster. LTpwards of a hundred prizes are offered 
in varying amounts from 40s. downwards. The southern flowers would 
be at their best a week previous to the Show, but better blooms will be 
brought from the midland districts this year. The prospects are good 
for one of the largest exhibitions ever held by the Society. By the 
courtesy of the members of the Horticultural Club a luncheon will be 
provided at the Hotel Windsor, Victoria Street, at 1.30 p.m., for the Judges, 
members of the Society, and their friends ; tickets are 2s 6d. each, and 
may be obtained through the members of the Society. Robert Hogg, Esq., 
LL.D., Vice-President of the Society, has kindly consented to preside. 
The Lion. Secretary will be glad to take the names of ladies or gentle¬ 
men to be proposed as members. Subscriptions were due in January. 
Mr. Henwood Earley. Reading, is the Treasurer, who will gladly receive 
all unpaid subscriptions, or they may be paid to the Secretary, Jas. 
Douglas, Ilford, Essex. 
- “ Walks in Holland.” —Under this title Mr. Percy Lindley 
has issued another of his sixpenny handbooks to travellers, and persons 
who contemplate a visit to the eastern shores of the North Sea will do 
well to possess it, for it is attractive, interesting, and instructive. It is 
published at 125, Fleet Street. 
- Rose Souvenie de la Malmaison. —This old Bourbon Rose 
is presenting blooms this season of extra good quality. Owing no doubt 
to the continuance of warm bright weather, this being anything but a 
wet weather Rose, the blooms are perfect in form ; and the colour, 
always admired, seems to be especially rich in its tint of pink or deep 
blush.—A. 
- Supeelative Raspbeeey. —Mr. George Bunyard sends us 
fruits of this variety, which, however, were shaken into a jam-like mass 
in transit, through the box not having been filled. We know the 
variety very well as a good grower and free bearer of fine fruits. It 
has been honoured with the first-class certificate of the Royal Horti¬ 
cultural Society. 
- Yellow Violas in Window Boxes.—T hese are very showy 
plants for the adornment of window boxes, growing as they do naturally 
all one way. The flowers form dense masses of colour, and if backed up 
with scarlet Pelargoniums an effective contrast is afforded. If the seed 
pods are kept picked off, and the plants freely supplied with water, they 
go on flowering all the summer. 
- Double Petunias foe Bedding.—I lately saw a mass of 
these planted on a sloping bank ; they were not more than 6 inches 
high, and though early in the season were freely covered with blooms 
varied in colour, very double, and most of them beautifully fringed. 
The plants were raised from seed sown early in the present j ear, there¬ 
fore it does not appear necessary to take the trouble to winter a stock of 
plants and propagate from them in the spring to obtain a good display 
of bloom in summer.—M. 
-We are requested to state that the next Show of the Taunton 
Hoeticultural and Floricultural Society will be held, by 
permission of Dr. Kinglake, in the Vivary Park on the 15th August 
next. The old list has been carefully revised by the Committee, and 
several alterations made and new classes introduced. Good competition 
is expected, and one of the best provincial shows in the kingdom. 
Schedules may be obtained of the Hon. Secs., Messrs. H. Maynard and 
A. Hammett, at 5, Hammet Street, Taunton. 
- NiCOTIANA affinis in Pots. —A correspondent writes :—“ In 
one of the greenhouses attached to the Victoria Park, Portsmouth, a 
number of these plants in 4-inch pots are flowering, the spikes being 
about 2 feet long. Mr. Hatch, the gardener in charge, states the seed 
was sown at the end of February and the plants grown in gentle 
heat at first, and subsequently in cooler positions. They are very effec¬ 
tive in the evening.” 
- Seedling Pinks.—“ In the borders of the Park are flowering 
some extremely neat Pinks raised from seed. Some are deeply 
fringed, others not so much so, and the colours are pleasing. Such 
plants are valuable for the margins of shrubbery borders, and few 
persons appear to know how easily they can be raised from seed and 
what a pleasing variety can be obtained in this manner.” 
- Foxgloves. —A very fine sight is presented by a colony of the 
common Foxglove in one of the woods belonging to the Crown in 
