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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ November 7, 1889. 
manure may be given with benefit; but abstention must be practised 
with the vaiiegated one, or the result will be similar to that produced 
by rich soil. Like many variegated plants starvation is required in 
bringing them up to the best standard of excellence, and this 
quality is still further assisted by their being restricted in root 
space.—W. S., Fromc. 
Events of the Week. — The Shows have commenced in 
earnest, and in the present week a large number will be held. The 
principal announced are as follows November 8th, Crystal Palace ; 
November 9th, Kettering; November 11th, St. Neots and Surrey; 
November 12th, the National Society’s Show at the Royal Aquarium, 
Westminster, Kingston-on-Thames, Wells, and Exmouth; November 
13th, Bournemouth, Torquay, and Croydon. Several of these are 
two-day shows. 
- We learn that the Lord Mayor of London, Alderman J' 
Whitehead, who has devoted so much attention to the fruit question 
recently, has been created a baronet. The following additions have 
been made to the Fruit Fund now being raised :—Mi. H. R. Williams 
has given £25, Mr. George Cutt £25, Sir William Ogg £25, Colonel 
North £25, and Mr. C. J. Leaf £10. The fund now amounts to about 
£1500. 
- Exhibitions in London. —We learn that a series of horti¬ 
cultural shows will be held in the Royal Aquarium, Westminster, next 
year under the direction of Mr. William Holmes of Hackney, at which 
liberal prizes will be offered for Forced Plants, Florists’ Flowers, Hardy 
Plants, Bulbs, Fruit, and Vegetables. It is intended to hold a show in 
each of the following months—March, April, May, June, July, September, 
October, and November. The arrangements are not completed, but 
particulars of the special features at each exhibition will shortly be 
announced. 
- In the report of Ketton Hall Gardens, which appeared on 
page 101, reference was made to Mr. Hopwood’s Orange-growing estate 
in Florida. Mr. W. H. Divers informs us that he is going for a few 
weeks to inspect that estate, and that his foreman, Mr. John 
Tunnington, will take full charge of the Ketton Hall Gardens during 
his absence. 
- At the monthly meeting of the Teddington Horticultural 
Discussion Society last week, Mr. E. PI. Dou6t in the chair, the 
cultivation of the Tomato formed the subject of a profitable discussion. 
The initiative was taken by Mr. D. Anderson, the well-known nursery¬ 
man, and Secretary of the Society, and most of the members present 
had some useful experiences to relate and suggestions to offer concern¬ 
ing the successful growth of this important plant. 
- Trade Announcement. — Under the title of the English 
Fruit and Rose Company (Limited) a company has been formed to pur¬ 
chase from Mr. J. Cranston the King’s Acre Nurseries, Hereford, and to 
grow fruit, Roses, and other flowers for market. The capital is £30,000 
in £1 shares, 20,000 being now issued. 
A Golden Rod Wedding. —An American correspondent sends 
an account of a recent event in Rhode Island, which is called a Golden 
Rod wedding, because the Golden Rod was used for decoration. i; It was 
put everywhere, upstairs and down, on the steam radiators, the mantel¬ 
shelves were banked up to the ceiling, and no other flower was to be 
admitted except rich, many-coloured Asters, white ones being prominent 
in the arrangement. The bride stood in a large bay window under the 
arch, the whole resplendent with Golden Rod; a marriage bell of the 
same flowers hung above her head.” 
- Berry-bearing Plants. —Whilst the year is quite excep¬ 
tional on account of the openness of the season thus far—and it is 
November—Dahlias, Asters, Sunflowers, and other gay garden graces are 
in all the freshness and richness of the early autumn ; it seems also to 
have been an exceptionally good year for mo9t of the ornamental berry¬ 
bearing plants. Walking through Dickson’s nurseries at Chester—and 
their grounds are bleak and exposed - one day last week I was much 
struck with the wonderful profusion of beautiful berries upon the 
Pernettyas in their ornamental garden. I have never seen their col¬ 
lection equalled, and the large border planted with shapely plants of 
the different hybrids was simply a mass of many coloured beautiful 
heads, and one of the most effective sights I have seen for some time 
past.— Hortus. 
- Tour correspondent, “ J. L.,” may like to try the Zonal 
Pelargonium Mrs. Leavers, which I have found an excellent 
bcdder, and the colour of the bloom, a beautiful bright rose pink, is very 
effective.— Matt. IIodgton, F.R.Il.S. 
- Cross from Rosa rugosa. — M. Bruant, the French Rose 
grower, who is hybridising Rosa rugosa, and who originated the variety 
Madame Georges Bruant, a cross between a Tea and R. rugosa, has this 
season brought out another hybrid. The flowers are said to be large, 
semi-double, of a beautiful deep violet red, deliciously fragrant. The 
beautiful foliage of the type has been preserved in this variety, which 
has not yet been named.—S. 
- Iris Paradoxa. —The Botanical Magazineior October gives an 
illustration (tab. 7081) of the above named Iris, accompanied by the 
following remarks :—“ This very curious Iris has long been known in 
cultivation, but is still very rare. It closely resembles its better known 
neighbour Iris iberica ( Bot . Mag. tab. 5847) in habit, leaves, and the 
inner segments of the perianth, which in both species vary in colour 
from white to lilac ; but the outer segments of the perianth are quite 
peculiar and different from that of any other Iris in being reduced to a 
mere tip and narrow margin to the diffusely bearded claw. All the 
species of the sub-genus Oncocyclus are restricted to the arid regions of 
Western Asia, one or other of them extending all the way from the 
borders of Egypt northward to the Caucasus. Our drawing was made 
from a plant flowered by Mr. R. 1. Lynch at the Cambridge 
Botanical Gardens last May. It is also flowered at Kew at about the 
same time.” 
- Eucharises, “ M.D.” on page 349, refers to the subject of 
this favourite stove plant and its insidious enemy the mite, the exist¬ 
ence of which he formerly doubted but now admits. He thinks it now 
the attendant on bad management. Does he, then, believe in spon¬ 
taneous generation ? Some of the best Eucharises in the kingdom are to 
be seen at Cardiff Castle—leaves 7 to 8 inches wide, proportionally long 
and exceptionally thick, and plants flowering continually. They could 
only have been produced and maintained in their present superb con¬ 
dition by the best of attention to cultural details. Tet the Eucharis 
mite has been an unwelcome visitor there—brought, undoubtedly, with 
purchased plants, which were eventually and wisely destroyed. “ M. D.” 
should see Mr. Pettigrew’s plants as I have done, and he would be 
obliged to admit that reckless watering rendering them unhealthy is not 
the practice at Cardiff ; if it were the plants could not have grown 
from babyhood to their present dimensions and remarkable vigour. I 
have just returned from Cardiff, and was impressed with the high class 
gardening there.— A Londoner. 
•- Tomatoes.—C an any of your correspondents say what variety 
of Tomato is known as Lord Sudeley’s? I saw several plants of this 
variety bearing a heavy crop of fine fruits recently, but there is more 
of a rosy violet shade of colour in it than in Perfection and many 
other sorts ; it grows to a large size and is firm and heavy. I know 
that Lord Sudeley’s fruit farms are very extensive, and presume this 
variety is largely cultivated there ; but as many friends who have 
seen this variety would like to grow it, the question arises, Under 
what name is it to be obtained ? Is it a seedling raised at Tod- 
dington, or a known variety ? I have seen many instances of Tomato 
growing this season, and in nearly every case they have been grown 
in shallow beds of not over-rich soil ; in fact, in most cases, in 
good loams chiefly, with Thomson’s or some other manure used 
during the growing season. Judging from my own experience I 
am sure it is a mistake to grow Tomatoes in rich soil, and feed them 
heavily, and an important point is gained by planting out sturdy 
short-jointed specimens instead of drawn up long-jointed ones.— 
SOLANUM. 
- Laurustinuses in Pots. — A correspondent observes: — 
White flowers are always in demand at Christmas. It is not every 
season that Laurustinus flowers can be depended on outdoors in December 
I and January, but plants in pots removed to a cool house before severe 
