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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ Sep‘emb:r 19 1889. 
- Early Ascot Peach.— A correspondent, “ R. K.” asks if any 
o? our readers who have grown this Peach will oblige by stating their 
experience of its cropping qualities and the flavour of the fruit. 
- We are informed that Messrs. Kelway & Son, Langport, 
provided a display of cut Gladioli, Pyrethrums, Gaillardias, Dahlias, and 
Globe Qui'led Asters at the Paris Exhibition from September 6th to 
11th, and the Jury awarded them a premier prize in addition to the 
awards granted earlier in the season. 
- I saw in a recent issue of the Journal, page 229, an interesting 
paragraph on Yuccas. We have one plant hereof Yucca aloifolia 
variegata, 8 feet high, which is in bloom, though past its best. 
The spike of flowers is a little over 2 feet high, and colour similar to 
the one your correspondent describes at Hamilton Palace. It is a noble 
plant, and splendid spike of flowers. It has been a great source of 
attraction to the visitors to the park, thousands coming to see it. Do 
any of your readers know of one of this variety that is in flower in 
England?— Michael Lander, Manager, Horton Parlt, Bradford, 
Yorkshire. 
- The following is the award of the arbitrators appointed in 
the case of Hawkins & Bennett v. Ware, which was fully sum¬ 
marised on page 215 :—“ We do award and certify that the plaintiffs’ 
and defendant’s Chrysanthemums, the subject of this action, are 
identical. That the plaintiffs are not entitled to any damages for the 
user of the name, title, or description ‘ Mrs. Hawkins’ as applied to a 
Chrysanthemum plant, for which the plaintiffs were awarded two first- 
class certificates of merit in September, 1888, and we award that the 
plaintiffs pay the whole of the cost of the action up to the date of the 
Order of Deference, the 22nd day of August, 1889 ; and we further 
award that the whole of the costs of the arbitration and award be borne 
in equal moieties by the said plaintiffs and defendant respectively.” 
-“ Garden Allotments ; their Advantages and Utilisa¬ 
tion.” —Mr. J. Wright's lecture on the above subject, delivered at 
Nottingham, and which subsequently appeared in this Journal, is, in 
response to requests from clergymen, land proprietors, and gardeners, 
old and young, issued in the form of a neat pamphlet of thirty-two 
pages. We quote from the preface :—“ In order that the greatest 
number to whom it may be suggestive can obtain a copy, it is circulated 
at a low price—3d., by post 3^3. Private gentlemen, clergymen, and 
others who desire copies for distribution will be supplied in Darcels of 
fifty and upwards at the rate of £1 per 100, carriage free. Co-opera¬ 
tion is requested with the object of improving cottage garden and small 
allotment cultivation in various parts of the country.” It is published 
at the office of this Journal. 
- Show of Asters and Marigolds at Kelso.— Encouraged 
by the general success which has attended their former competitions, 
Messrs. Stuart & Mein, the enterprising firm of nurserymen and seeds¬ 
men ac Kelso, offered some time ago four prizes each for Marigolds and 
Asters to be grown from seed supplied directly from them, and accord- 
ingly a Show took place within the premises in Wood Market occupied 
by the firm on Friday last. No fewer than 840 blooms were staged, 
and the competition represented a very wide area, the following being a 
few of the counties from which blooms were sent ;—Forfarshire and 
Aberdeenshire in Scotland ; Staffordshire, Shropshire, Wiltshire, Buck¬ 
inghamshire, Warwickshire, and Cornwall in England ; and also from a 
few of the counties of Ireland. In point of quality the Show was ex¬ 
ceedingly fine, and in the course of the afternoon it was largely 
patronised, the arrangements being similar to those at former competi¬ 
tions.— QHelso Chronicle.') 
- One of the most tasteful and effective Ribbon Borders we 
have seen this season is in Mrs. Treadwell’s garden, Leigham Court, 
Streatham Hill. It is on the lefthand side of the carriage drive leading 
from the main road to the house, and is about 2 feet in width. The 
groundwork is a dense dark green carpet of Herniaria glabra margined 
on the side next to the drive by a neatly clipped low hedge of Euony- 
mus radicans variegata, upon the other side by Ivleinia repens. Upon 
the Herniaria at short intervals are elliptical panels of Alternanthera 
amcena and A. paronychioides aurea alternately, both being capitally 
coloured, and between these are plants of Chamsepeuce diacantha and 
casa-bonas, with a few taller plants of Pachyphyton. It is unpreten¬ 
tious yet very effective and excellent in all respects. The garden 
generally at Leigham Court is a model of good keeping, and show 3 the 
skill and care of the gardener, Mr. E. Butts, in every department. 
- Fruit Growing in England.—D uring the past few months 
the Fruiterers’ Company have received several valuable suggestions as 
to the encouragement of fruit culture in England from the Lord Mayor, 
Mr. Henry Chaplin, M.P., the President of the Board of Agriculture, 
and many other gentlemen, have passed the following resolution :— 
Resolved, that the Fruiterers’ Company feel strongly the great import¬ 
ance of the question of fruit farming in England, and view with much 
concern the want of attention paid to the production of Apples, Pears, 
Plums, and other hardy fruits of fine quality, and deplore the frequently 
neglected state of many of the existing orchards. The Committee 
therefore desire to encourage the development of the profitable culture 
of fruits of high quality in England for the advantage of the grower 
and consumer, and for the better utilisation of agricultural land. With 
this object the Company propose to establish a fund of not less than 
£5000 (towards which they are willing to contribute £500), from the 
income whereof they intend annually to otter prizes for the best 
managed fruit farms, plantations, or orchards. The Lord Mayor has 
undertaken to receive at the Mansion House subscriptions to the fund, 
and they can also be sent to the Clerk of the Company, Mr. O. C. T. 
Eagleton, 40, Chancery Lane, London. 
- Notts Horticultural and Botanical Society. —The 
monthly meeting of the Notts Horticultural and Botanical Society w 
held on Wednesday evening, September 11th, at the Arboretum Rooms 
and was well attended. There was a good show of plants, cut flowers, 
fruits, and Ferns, a speciality being the exhibition of Gladiolus blooms, 
of which several new specimens were shown. Plants, flowers, and 
vegetables were sent for exhibition by Mr. J. Robinson (gardener, 
Mr, J. Plumb), Mr. W. H. Farmer (gardener, W. Attenborough), Mr. 
C. J. Cox (gardener. J. Meadows), Mr. J. Fearfield (gardener, J. Under¬ 
wood), Mr. T. Hallam (gardener, W. Newton), Messrs. J. R. Pearson 
and Sons, Chilvvell ; Mr. E. Massey (gardener, W. Bateman), Mr. T. B. 
Hallam, Corporation Road ; Messrs. James Booth, J. Baker (Basford), 
and J. W. Turner. The exhibits were of a choice description, and 
amongst them were splendid specimens of hothouse Grapes and 
Tomatoes. The feature of the evening, however, was Mr. A. H. Pear¬ 
son’s paper on “ A Visit to the Bulb Farms of Holland.” Mr. Pearson, 
who is a member of the well-known firm of Messrs. J. R. Pearson and 
Sons of Chilwell, has recently paid a visit to the Netherlands—as he 
says the country is properly called—and has given his friends, who are 
inteiested in horticulture, the benefit of his impressions on bulb grow¬ 
ing in Holland. We have been obliged with the paper referred to, 
and it will be published in an early issue of this Journal. 
DOGMERSFIELD PARK, AVINCHFIELD. 
The owner of the beautiful gardens and grounds of Dogmersfield 
Park, Sir Henry St. John Mildmay, Bart., is generous enough to throw 
them open to the pub'ic two days in each year, a privilege which is 
much appreciated in the neighbourhood. On the 2nd of this month, I, in 
company with many others, wended my way thither in response to one 
of these annual invitations, and it occurred to me that a few notes taken 
on the spot might prove interesting to your numerous readers. We 
entered by what are called the “golden gates.” These are massive 
ornamental iron gates, with the shield and arms of the family in 
burnished brass, and they open on the 
FLOWER GARDEN. 
Vases containing choice specimens of Ivy-leaf Pelargoniums, 
Fuchsias, &c., stand on each side of the gates and at approximate angles 
all over the gardens. Inside the gates, on each side of the walk a 
plateau of Ivy with its rich green leaves forms a good background to 
what is one of the chief attractions to all visitors. The carpet bedding 
is a feature here. The beds were arranged in pairs crosswise, say a pair 
of oblong beds filled in with Zonal Pelargoniums—the crimson would 
be opposite the scarlet, and vice versa, thus avoiding formality and 
giving a pleasing distribution of colour. A large number of oblong and 
round beds filled in with every conceivable mathematical design worked 
out in flowers or foliage plants showed exquisite care and skill in the 
exactness of outline, arrangement and blending of colours, and extreme 
neatness combin< d with endless variety. Mr. G. Trinder is the head 
gardener, and what struck me year by year is the way in which he uses 
the simplest p’ants he has at hand to produce the most marked results. 
All the circular beds were raised a foot from the ground, with bevelled 
edges of Herniaria glabra, and this avoided the look of flatness that we 
often see in carpet bedding, and which is an objection. 
Here are a few specimens of the plants used in some of them. Two 
round beds. No. 1.—Central plant a variegated Yew, surrounded with 
Abutilon vexillarium variegatum ; panels, Oxalis tropasolioides ; mar¬ 
ginal line3, Leucophjtum Browni and variegated Thyme ; groundwork, 
Herniaria glabra. Round beds, No. 2.—Centre, Alternanthera versicolor; 
panels, Mesembryanthemum cordifolium variegatum ; marginal lines, 
Leucophytum Browni ; groundwork, Sedum acre elegans. Round beds, 
