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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ December 12, 1889. 
if generally adopted, to bring discredit on Rose showing. They 
accordingly suggest that the attention of judges and exhibitors should 
in future be directed to the new regulation having reference to this 
objectionable practice. 
They have again to mention the clashing of the shows of some of 
the affiliated Societies. There are, of course, considerable difficulties to 
be overcome, as so many local causes interfere, and particular days are 
in some cases absolutely necessary. Nevertheless, the Committee will 
again do all in their power to bring about as satisfactory an arrangement 
between the different Societies as these local considerations will allow. 
Early in the year the authorised rules for judging at Rose shows 
were revised throughout by the Executive Committee, and afterwards 
printed in the Annual Report. 
Financial Statement.— The Treasurer is again enabled to report 
favourably upon the Society’s financial position. The amount in hand 
at the beginning of the year was £41 2s., and now at its close there 
remains £84 5s. 3d. to carry forward to the next account. 
Arrangements for 1890.—The Committee has again arranged 
with the Directors of the Crystal Palace to hold the Metropolitan Show 
there on the first Saturday in July, the 5th. The Provincial or Northern 
Show will take place at Birmingham on Thursday, July 17th, under the 
auspices of the Birmingham Botanical and Horticultural Society, in 
their Gardens at Edgbaston. The last exhibition held there by the 
Society was in 1886, when over 3000 Roses were staged in competition. 
As many of the finest blooms of the Tea Roses are often over before 
the Metropolitan Exhibition is held, it is proposed, if possible, to offer a 
few prizes for Teas and Noisettes at one of the Royal Horticultural 
Society’s meetings towards the end of June. 
The supplement to the catalogue of exhibition and garden Roses 
being now out of print, a special committee has been appointed to 
prepare a new supplement, which will be issued to members during the 
ensuing year. 
Members’ Privileges.— Subscribers of £1 will, as usual, be en¬ 
titled to two private view tickets to the Society’s exhibitions, and four 
transferable tickets admitting at the same time as the general public ; 
while subscribers of 10s. are entitled to one private view and two trans¬ 
ferable tickets. New Members will each receive a copy of the Society’s 
Illustrated Catalogue of Exhibition and Garden Roses, together with 
one of the new Supplement; also a copy of the Report of the National 
Rose Conference held at Chiswick during the past summer. 
Again the Committee has to record the good work done by their 
local Secretaries, and especially by one of their number, Mr. T. W. 
Girdlestone, who has recently secured for the Society a large number of 
new and influential members. It is scarcely necessary here to remind 
our local Secretaries how much the welfare of the Society is dependent 
upon their exertions. 
BALANCE SHEET, YEAR ENDING C0TII NOVEMBER 18 9. 
RECEIPTS. 
December 1-t, 1883. £ a. d. 
Balance at Bankers. ..4120 
Subscriptions. 845 8 0 
Donations . 5 o 0 
Affiliation Fees and for Medals from Affiliated Societies .. .. 71 9 2 
From Crystal Palace Company.. ii .i o 0 
„ Sheffield.68 17 2 
For Prizes.18 1 4 
Catalogues Sold.„ .. 0 9 1 
December 1st, 1889. _ 
Balance. £U 5 3 
Expenditure. £ s. a. 
Printing, Stationery, and Advertising. 88 8 6 
Postage, Telegrams, and Sundry Exrenses. 28 8 o 
Secretary’s Travelling Expenses to Arrange Sliows . 7 15 R 
Expenses Crystal Palace Show. 8 6 fi 
„ Sheffield „ . 6 14 0 
Medals . 6 18 4 
,, forProvi cial Sieicties. .58 0 8 
Prizes Crys al Pa'ace Show . 276 4 0 
„ Sheffield , .uo 0 0 
Assistant Secretary and Accountant.2» 0 0 
Balance at Bankers. 84 5 3 
£653 6 9 
THOS. BURT HAYWOOD, lion. Treasure 
ERAS. WOLLASTON, ( 
J. D. PAWLE, \ Auditors. 
The appended resolutions were submitted to the meeting and 
adopted. 
1. —That the words “ Half the members of this Committee to retire 
each year according to seniority, but to be eligible for re-electioD,” 
be omitted from bye-law 6. 
2. —That the first part of bye-law 7 be a’tered to read as follows : — 
“That the General Committee meet three times annually—in 
January to elect the Executive Committee ; in March to consider 
the schedules for the year ; and in November to make arrangements 
for the general meeting of the Society.” 
3. —That the following words be added to regulation 8 : “ Dressing 
Roses so as to alter their character is also prohibited. Also the 
insertion of any additional foliage.” 
The following officers and Committee for 1890 were also declared 
duly elected President, the Very Rev. the Dean of Rochester, D.D. ; 
Vice-Presidents, His Grace the Duke of Portland, Right Hon. Joseph 
Chamberlain, M.P., Rev. J. M. Fuller, Robert Hogg, LL.D., James 
McIntosh, the Mayor of Birmingham ; Hon. Treasurer, Thomas Burt 
Haywood ; Hon. Secretaries, Rev. H. Honywood D’Ombrain, Edward 
Mawley. General Committee : H. Appleby, R. N. G. Baker, J. Bate¬ 
man, Rev. H. A. Berners, R. Bloxam, G. Bunyard, G. Burch, Rev. F. R. 
Burnside, J. Burrell, B. R. Cant, F. Cant, Rev. A. Cheales, Captain 
Christy, W. F. Cooling, C. F. Barker, Rev. A. Foster-Melliar, W. H. 
Fowler, Rev. F. H. Gall, T. W. Girdlestone, W. J. Grant, R. Harkness, 
C. F. Hore, W. J. Jefferies, E. B. Lindsell, G. A. Marshall, M. T. 
Masters, F.R.S., G. Mount, Rev. F. Page-Roberts, G. Paul, J. D. Pawle, 
Rev. J. H. Pemberton, A. Prince, W. Rumsey, A. Slaughter, A. Turner, 
R. E. West, E. Wilkins, Rev. W. Wilks, W. H. Williams, and F. T. 
Wollaston. Hon. Auditors, J. D. Pawle and F. T. Wollaston. 
The meeting terminated with the usual votes of thanks to the 
Chairman for presiding, to the Horticultural Club for the use of the 
rooms, and to the Committee and officers for their services during: 
the year. 
Amongst the Roses. 
The weather during the first fortnight of November was well suited 
for garden work. It was taken advantage of by lifting all my dwarf 
Roses, a small collection forming the flower garden underneath the. 
sitting room windows. The Rose trees occupying the beds, which at the 
first were composed of light, stony, unfavourable subsoil, were supplied 
at the top from time to time with dressings of virgin loam, good decom¬ 
posed stable manure, and by these means, together with watching- 
against insects and mildew, and copious syringings, and when necessary 
thorough waterings, my Roses have been generally satisfactory. At 
length the beds became too much above level of the grass, and the 
roots suffered accordingly drought. 
Tempted by the mild still weather I resolved to renovate the beds, 
so after fresh labelling the Roses (about 1201 and lightly laying them 
in where the roots might be protected from drying, or from frost, I had 
the soil dug out, using the upper surface as atop-dressing for herbaceous 
and other borders, and getting rid of all light and worthless soil. The 
bed thus emptied was replaced with a mixture of two-thirds of fresh 
loam and one-third spent cow manure well mixed. In these the Rose 
trees were replaced, with a surface dressing of manure and a sprinkling 
of ashes and soil over all. 
Some weakly and unpromising or worn-out trees were eliminated 
and replaced by newer or more robust varieties. Delightful it is to the 
heart of a Rose lover to know he can count on some new blooms in the 
coming season. I am looking forward to Mrs. John Laing, Gloire de 
Margottin, Gloire de Lyonnaise, The Puritan, Earl of Dufferin, &c. 
Having small space one has to wait until there is a vacancy. I ought 
to say that I have brought all the Teas together by themselves instead 
of having them scattered about amongst the others, and I expect good 
results from the enjoyable occupation. I should have been unequal 
to this work myself, but I honestly shared in it, and am most grateful 
to the strong kind hands which really did the laborious part of it for me. 
We have been engaged during suitable weather in laying out a new 
tennis court. It will be bordered on two sides by fruit trees. Some 
have been in the ground several years, and the Apple trees, Bramley’s 
Seedling and Pearmain Mannington, bear well; the Pear trees take 
longer to fruit. Since the springs are more uncertain than ever, and 
the climate generally of a lower temperature, it is surely important to 
follow the advice given by local growers, who must know both soils and 
seasons, and plant only trees of robust fruit-bearing constitutions. 
Besides Irish Peach, which may at some future time furnish refresh¬ 
ment to the tennis players, Cox’s Orange Pippin would come in too 
late. Then I mean to try Duchess of Oldenburgh, Lincoln Holland 
Pippin, and one or two kindred varieties. Some Crab trees would also- 
be very ornamental. In short, dwarf fruit trees might often take the 
place of ornamental shrubs ; equally, perhaps more, beautiful and more 
profitable.—A. M. B. 
[We trust our correspondent will never lack the aid of “s f rong 
kind hands ” to aid her in the work she loves.] 
PROFITABLE FRUIT CULTURE. 
We have received a number of letters in reference to Mr. J. Wright’s 
essay on the above subject, but some are too lengthy to be published in 
their entirety ; in abridging them nothing in opposition to the teaching 
of the author has been eliminated. 
Many thanks for the very handsome and excellent essay on 
fruit growing. The more I examine it the better I like it.—A. F, 
Barron, Chiswick. _ 
I have had a run through Mr. Wright’s eFsay on fruit culture, and 
am very much pleased with it. It is a sound “ multum in parvo,” and 
cannot fail to be useful to all who may master its contents and have an 
opportunity cf acting on them.—D. Thomson, Drundanrig. 
I have read Mr. Wright’s prize essay, and truthfully assert that I 
have never before seen a subject treated in such a brief yet thoroughly 
instructive manner. The work is turned out in first-class style, and 
gardeners generally ought to possess a copy, for they will find nothing 
nearly so plain, reliable, and instructive in any other work of the kind. 
An extract from a financial paper is, I consider, misleading, as the prices 
of fruit named cannot be sustained. Those given by the author are 
nearer the mark, and I cannot pick holesin his own work.—W. Iggulden, 
Marston. 
The treatise on profitable fruit growing, although so concise* 
really contains all that is necessary, and if the advice in it be followed. 
