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JOURNAL OF HORTTCULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ August 1, 1889. 
being in excess, the plants flourish vigorously, and flowers appear from 
the month of March, a little more than a year after the sowing of the seed. 
M. Etienne Salomon presented for the first time in 1886 at the meeting 
of the French National Horticultural Society, seedling Vines, obtained 
by this process.— CLe Voltaire.') 
NATIONAL CARNATION AND PICOTEE SOCIETY’S 
SHOW. 
In your kindly and appreciative notice of the above you remark that 
besides well-known growers like Messrs. Douglas, Turner, Henwood, and 
Phillips there were others represented whose names are not so familiar. 
There were also some older even than these. The doyen of the exhibitors, 
Mr. Joseph Lakin, was there. His name should be pretty familiar now, 
as he has been showing Carnations, I believe, since as far back as the 
forties, when he lived at Derby. I should grieve to number you among 
those who know not Joseph. Just as Dean Hole used humorously to 
speak of himself as the greatest clergyman in the Church of England, 
so Mr. Lakin might say that he was the biggest man at every Carnation 
show he attends, and not always merely by reason of his inches either. 
Some of the finest first prize twelves, both of Carnations and Picotees, 
have been staged by him. As a seedling raiser he is well to the front. 
Many of our best seifs have come from him, such as Polly Clarke, 
peach ; Emma Lakin, the most beautiful of all the white seifs ; Black 
Knight, purple maroon, a grand bloom of which was shown by Mr. 
Henwood ; and I believe he has others as good to come. His two latest 
exhibited seedlings—a fine pink and purple bizarre, and an exquisite 
wire edge purple Picotee—were deservedly first in their classes on 
Tuesday. Hale aud hearty, he is yet full of wrinkles, but they are the 
■sort of wrinkles that young growers love to acquire, and which he is 
every ready to impart to them. Another old floricultural hand present 
last Tuesday, and rarely absent from a show of Carnations in the mid¬ 
lands or the south, is Mr. Thomas Anstiss of Brill, Oxon. The raiser of 
more than one good thing himself, he will perhaps be best remembered 
as the grower who first introduced the now famed Favourite (scarlet 
edge Picotee) to public notice some five years ago, when he showed it 
in a remarkably fine first six Picotees at South Kensington. 
These two growers the last season or two have rather fallen away 
from their accustomed high positions as exhibitors, having evidently 
been drawn aside by the fascinations of seedling raising. One cannot 
•eat one’s cake and have it.— M. Rowan. 
SUMMERVILLE, Co. WATERFORD. 
A Marine Residence. 
Sojourning at the beautiful health resort of Tramore, on the Irish 
•south coast, some half dozen miles from the important town of Water¬ 
ford, which is in direct steamboat communication with most parts of 
England and Scotland, and hearing much of the marine residence 
•of the Hon. Dudley and Lady Camilla Fortescue at Summerville, I 
resolved to drive over and see what trees, shrubs, and flowers lived and 
prospered in the immediate neighbourhood of the Atlantic Ocean, for 
this charming place is situated just round Brownstown Head, and on an 
inlet of Tramore Bay. 
Tramore is situated on a warm southern shelving slope of this broad 
bay, and is remarkable for being always dry and salubrious. One hou'r 
after the heaviest downpour finds the town and the wide-extending 
sandy beach—one of the finest promenades in the British Isles when the 
tide is out—perfectly dry, and tempting to the pedestrian, and here on 
the numerous grassy slopes and improvised gardens can be drunk in the 
•ozone-laden pure Atlantic breezes. Though I feel I should be a bene¬ 
factor to your readers in bringing this health resort at length under 
their notice, and I speak from an acquaintance with most parts of the 
British Isles, I must not further digress. 
I was fortunate in finding the head gardener, Mr. J. A. Calthorpe, 
at home, and he courteously showed me around. The residence is ex¬ 
tensive, and was built by the present worthy proprietor on his return 
from Ceylon about 1876, so that he might live on his estate and perform 
the duties of a resident landlord. Though connected with so many 
noble families in Great Britain, this, I understand, the hon. gentleman 
and Lady Camilla have done every year since, performing all the 
public functions their social positions involve. I mention this, as it 
is too common for Irish noblemen and gentlemen to abandon their 
residences and estates to agents, and of all the departments none suffers 
more from this than the garden. 
The Flower Garden. —This is in front of the residence, and contains 
•brilliant beds of the customary Pelargoniums in variety, among the rest 
one named Mrs. Huish (raised at South Moulton many years ago by 
Dr. Huish, the vicar), and retained at Lord Fortescue’s and here since. 
It is a purple crimson, very brilliant—dazzlingly so—and even here 
comes perfectly round with large and numerous trusses. I doubt if 
Mr._ Cannell has anything better for bedding. Another somewhat 
•distinct and free blooming would be Sir John Franklin, seemingly an 
advance on Lady Sheffield. There were distinct beds—scarlet and 
white Vesuvius, from their brilliancy and rude health would seem not 
to object to a douche bath of marine spray, and this must be calculated 
on when the Atlantic is tempest-tossed. The same applies to beds of 
Madame Desgranges, Precocity, and Lyon Chrysanthemums, just now 
coming into bloom, purple and white Violas, Halleri, maximum, and 
Etoile d’Or Marguerites. 
The Plantation and Pinetum. —These are extensively situated on 
the southern front of the residence, and under the special care of the 
honourable proprietor himself, evidently for the purpose of gradually 
finding out what trees and shrubs of the better class would be likely to 
do well with such unfavourable surroundings of soil and position. I 
only took the names of a few, and they will have an interest for those 
planting around marine residences. It goes without saying that all the 
hardier Firs, Spruces, Larches, and Pines grow freely, and after those 
the most numerous Coniferre were Cupressus macrocarpa, and what 
seemed robust growing varieties of it; Abies Nordmanniana, Cupressu3 
Lawsoniana, Pinus excels?, and several handsome specimens of Crypto- 
meria elegans. There are several others, but writing from memory and 
without books of reference I cannot include them. Among choice shrubs 
by far the healthiest and most numerous as well as most effective were 
the quantities of Escallonia macrantha —seemingly, from the numerous 
specimens I noticed, from the Isles of Bute to Eastbourne, Sussex ; and 
from Antrim to Queenstown, the most suitable of all flowering evergreen 
shrubs. Then came Cerasus lusitanica and L. rotundifolia ; Rhodo¬ 
dendron ponticum, Quercus Ilex, Grisellina littoralis—I might have 
bracketed this with the Escallonia, and added Euonymusto make a good 
evergreen trio. By a wall of the garden very healthy were Forsythia 
viridissima, Berberis fascicularis, Jasminum nudieaule, Osmanthus 
rosmarinifolius, and Carpenteria californica. The Nepaul Laburnum 
and Rhus cotinus had a warm corner, and seemed to exult in it. Though 
I have had the New Zealand Flax (Phormium tenax) and Pampas Grass 
(Gynerium argenteum) killed outright inland, here they luxuriate. The 
same applies to a Fuchsia named sanguinea (12 feet shrubs, a mass of 
bloom) ; Hydrangea paniculata, Ligustrum ovalifolium, and Cistus 
laurifolius. 
The Kitchen and Fruit Gardtn. —Here we arrived next and were 
greatly struck at the entrance with the floral wealth of the 12-feet 
central borders, backed by low concrete walls for training the cus¬ 
tomary espalier and cordon Apples, Pears, and Cherries, each being 
suited to the respective position and aspect they are found from 
experiment to do best in. Every gardener finds, as does Mr. Calthorpe, 
that it by no means follows that because Winter Nelis Pear does 
well against a wall with a northern aspect that the more fastidious 
and desirable Marie Louise will do so. On the other hand Cox’s 
Pomona Apple will bear finely here where Ribston Pippin would have 
no chance. A constant experiment thus has to be carried on—testing 
soil, position, the weather, and mechanical appliances. I am sorry to 
say, looking back at my rambles through most gardens this year, the 
fruit crop is generally very unsatisfactory. Here, I understand, on most 
of the wall Pears and cordons the show of fruit, or rather flower, was 
most promising to-day, and after the storm of to-morrow all hope was 
lost, as some of the branches were wrenched oil, not to mention fruit 
or flower buds. Beurre d’Amanlis has a few score fruit, however. 
Usually here Williams’ Bon Chretien, Winter Nelis, and Beurrfi Diel 
among Pears, and Cox’s Orange Pippin, King of the Pippins, and 
Lord Suffield amongst App’es are the most satisfactory. There is a 
fine outdoor crop of Figs, and Mr. Calthorpe informs me they are 
usually very good. His greatest successes are with Melons, her ladyship 
prefers them to anything met with on your side, so frequent supplies 
must be despatched to the London residence. The method of growth 
is a heated pit—two 2-inch pipes in spring and sun heat in summer 
alone. The varieties are Blenheim Orange (Carter), Hero of Lockinge, 
and Horticultural Prize Gem. This last has the welcome peculiarity that 
it sets its own fruit. Mr. Calthorpe thinks this is due to a small black 
insect he finds passing from one to the other, male and female flowers, 
but I also noticed both grow close together on the same vine3. Several 
vines had as many as four large Melons, from 4 to 7 lbs. each swelling. 
Strawberries are largely grown under considerable soil difficulties; the best 
old varieties were President, and now Elton Pine, Pioneer, and British 
Queen did fairly. Next year he means to have Noble, King cf the 
Earlies, and from Mr. Gilbert’s recommendation in the Journal, that other 
creditable hybrid of Mr. Laxton, l; A. F. Barron.” Sutton’s Favourite, 
a crispy curling Lettuce, has the preference, and the finest piece of 
Spanish Onions I noticed this year was here, in Carter’s White Spanish. 
Telegraph and Stratagem are still the favourite Peas of twenty varieties, 
Vineries, Stoves, Intermediate, and Greenhouses. —Including divisions 
of the several glass ranges there are about a dozen houses, but it is 
hopeless to expect several valuable pages of the Journal to do them 
justice, nor is there so much necessity, as most of the occupants of the 
two last are in the open air, and much of the former are of the customary 
description. Mr. Calthorpe is a distinguished prize Grape-grower, and 
this year he is likely to maintain his reputation, especially with Lady 
Downe’s, Black Hamburgh (both in the early and late vinery), Gros 
Colman, Buckland Sweetwater, White Alicante, Foster’s Seedling, and 
Muscat of Alexandria. So far the crop is heavy, promising, and well 
done. 
Though anxious to avoid editorial censure I cannot pass without 
allusion to a house of specimen Coleuses, remarkably brilliant, tall, and 
richly coloured. The varieties principally were Duchess of Edinburgh, 
Ariel, Crimson Gem, Scapin, Lord Rosebery, Rosenthal, Elegans, and 
Countess of Dudley. In the stove noticeable were specimen Crotons, 
Dracajnas, Marantas (six varieties), Calanthes, DiefEenbachias, Pandanus 
Veitchi, Phaius, hybrid Cypripediums, Lycopods, Palms, Tree Ferns, 
and tastefully interspersed here and there Grevillea robusta, Asparagus 
plumosus, and Acacia lophantha. There were large collections of 
Gloxinias, Caladiums, Begonias, Adiantums, and the customary good 
[ things in this and the succeeding houses; but I pass on, noticing the 
