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in my experience, anl deserves noting. The Tea-scented Roses with 
their buds and foliage were especially beautiful.— Samuel Baelow, 
Staliehill, near Manchesttr. 
- Death of Me. Geoege W. Young.— This name will be 
recognised as that of a recently elected pensioner on the Gardeners’ 
Royal Benevolent Institution—a pension he has not lived to reeeive. 
He was a most earnest, competent, and industrious gardener, as expert 
in growing specimen Heaths and hardwooded plants as in producing 
high-class Grapes and vegetables. Mr. Young was for several years 
gardener to the late Viscount Barrington at Beckett House, Berks, and 
subsequently became gardener to the late Duke of Buckingham at 
Stowe. While at Beckett he perhaps grew the fickle but beautiful 
Lisianthus Russeliianus better than it has been seen elsewhere, some of 
his specimens bearing from 500 to 700 handsome blooms. After leaving 
Stowe he went into business, but lost rather than gained by the change, 
and eventually returned to work in nurseries and gardens. His zeal and 
cultural ability appear to be inherited by his sons, three of whom are 
head and two under gardeners. Of the former, Mr. Arthur Y'oung is 
gardener to W. Jones, Esq., Abberley Hall, Stourport; Mr. William 
Young gardener to Captain Winthrop, Barton Court, Berks ; and Mr. 
Henry Young gardener to Captain Fisher, Ingerwood, St. Lawrenee, 
Isle of Wight. Of these sons it may be remarked that three of them 
are subscribers to the Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent Institution, and the 
other two have taken steps to follow their good examp’e. Mr. Young 
died on the 4th inst. in his sixty-third year, and was interred in the old 
parish churchyard at Fulham on Monday last. 
- WE are requested to insert the following note : —“ A Society of 
Feench Gaedeners in England was some time ago formed, with the 
objeet of establishing cordial relations between the gardeners in France 
and their English confreres. The results obtained up to the present are 
highly satisfactory. Believing that many English gardeners are desirous 
of sending their sons to the Continent to learn different modes of 
culture, &c., while we know that many French nurserymen and gardeners 
are equally desirous of sending their sons to England, we decided in 
our last meeting to proceed by way of exchange. The Society would 
thus undertake to place in France an English young man, provided 
that someone would take in exehange a young Frenchman. The office 
of the Society is 27, Gerrard Street, Shaftesbury Avenue, where all com- 
munieations should be addressed.” [This Society is worthy of the 
attention of young British gardeners who desire to obtain Continental 
experience.] 
- The Weather in January.—M r. J. Mallender sends the 
following summary of meteorologieal observations at Plodsock Priory. 
Worksop, Notts, for January, 1890.—Mean temperature of the month, 
42'0°. Maximum or. the 6th, 56 4°. Minimum on the 2nd, 21'0°. 
Maximum in’ sun on the 25th, 9G’1°. Minimum on grass on the 2nd, 
18’1°. Mean temperature of the air at 9 A.m., 40’3°. Mean temperature 
of the soil 1 foot deep, 39’7°. Number of nights below 32°, in shade 
seven, on grass eighteen. Total duration of sunshine, forty-seven hours, 
or 19 per cent, of possible duration. We had eleven sunless days. 
Total rainfall, 2 44 inches. Rain fell on twenty days. Average velocity 
of wind, 15’6 miles per hour ; velocity exceeded 400 miles on thirteen 
days, and fell short of 100 miles on two days. Approximate averages for 
January:—Mean temperature, 37’5° ; sunshine, thirty-five hours ; rain¬ 
fall, 1-71. A very mild and stormy month, only two falls of snow and 
they soon melted. 
- The Kei Apple, Aberia Caffea.—A n Australian paper 
has the following note : As many Mildura settlers have at different 
times made inquiries as to the value of the Kei Apple as a hedge 
plant, this aceount may be of use ; The Kei Apple is a large shrub 
or small tree, furnished with strong, straight, long spines, and rather 
small obovate leaves. The fruit is round, 1 inch or more in diameter, 
lemon coloured, of an agreeable sub-acid flavour, considered by some 
to be a desirable fruit for preserves ; in an unripe state it is used 
for pickling. For preserves the ripe fruit is recommended to be used 
in combination with Pumpkin or Pie Melon, giving an agreeable aeid- 
ulous piquancy. The plant is one well suited for hedges, for which 
purpose it must be raised from seed, as it does not strike readily 
from cuttings. Baron von Mueller says the plant resists severe drought, 
but bears only a light degree of frost.” 
Cabbage Plants Clubbing. —Most gardeners have had 
to deal with clubbing in the cultivation of the Brassica family, so for 
the benefit of those who have not yet found a remedy I give a few 
hints as to a method which I have found very efficacious. The ground 
being deeply trenched and liberally manured, I make the drills and 
place in 3 or 4 inches of wood ashes (obtained by burning all the hedge 
clippings, &c.), and then replace the soil. The plants are then put in 
with a dibble 2 feet apart. After they have started into growth I apply 
to each a small handful of the Manchester manure, which I find to be 
very stimulating to vegetables, I also make it a practice to run the hoe 
amongst them weekly. I have used quicklime and also gas-lime, but 
not with such good results as those obtained from tho ashes. I use the 
ashes as much for their fertilising qualities as for the prevention of 
club root, but quicklime has hardly any fertilising qualities that I am 
aware of. Since following the foregoing method I have not been 
troubled with club root.—W. J. B. 
- Birmingham Gaedenebs’Association.— At the fortnightly 
meeting held on February 4th, Mr. Henry Deverill, Banbury, sent some 
of his newer varieties of Onions, which were much admired. Mr. 
Burden, gardener, Moseley, sent a collection of Potatoes of high-class 
quality, amongst them some of Messrs. Sutton’s seedlings sent to him 
for trial, and some of their newer varieties—viz., a very fine seedling 
white kidney, Sutton's Prizetaker, Abundance, and Satisfaction ; and 
their Seedling 152, a very promising first-class variety. Amongst round 
varieties were Sutton’s Best of All, and their Seedling 151, a very pro¬ 
mising flat round ; and Sutton’s Nonsuch, very fine. The Dean and 
Woodstock Kidney, with other sorts, were in good character. Mr. 
Gardiner, Harborne, sent about forty kinds of English and American 
Apples. Mr. Latham, the Botanic Gardens, showed Camellias and 
flowers of a South African greenhouse shrub, Toxicophlaea spectabilis. 
Mr. Cooper, The Gardens, Highbury, sent handsome specimens of 
Cyclamens Veitch’s Charming Bride, atrosanguineum, of a rich dark 
colour, and a seedling feathered form pure white, distinct and 
novel. Mr. F. Denning, florist, contributed some fine white Cycla¬ 
mens ; and Messrs. Hewett & Co., nurserymen, some excellent forced 
Narcissus, General Gordon, Maximus, and Henry Irving ; and selected 
blue and rich dark red Primulas, both very fine in character. 
- In reference to the request on page 46 of your Journal, 
No. 2155, dated 16th January last, I give you, although somewhat late, 
a list of the French works on the manufacture of sugar from Beet, 
writes M. E. Schaettel. “ Trait6 Theorique et Pratique de la Fabrication 
du Sucrii, Guide du Chimiste-fabricant.” Par Horsin-Diion, price 
25 francs. “ La Fabrication du Sucr<5.” Par H. Pellet et G. Sender, 
price 10 francs. “ Traits Theorique et Pratique de la Fabrication du 
Sucre.” Two vols. in 8vo. Par Maumen6, price 55 francs. “ Traitd 
Complet de Fabrication et Raffinage du Sucr6 de Betterave.” Par 
L. Walkhofl’, translated by Mdryot et Gay-Lussac. Two vols. Price 
20 francs. “ Guide Pratique du Fabricant de Sucre.” Three vols. in 
8vo. Par Basset, price30 francs. “Guide Pratique des Fabricants de 
Sucre.” Par Leurs, price 7 francs. “Guide du Fabricant de Sucre 
Indigene, Contenant I’Extraction et I’Epuration du Jus de Betterave.” 
Par Possoz, price 4 francs 60 cents. “ Manuel Pratique de la Fabrica¬ 
tion et du Raffinage du Sucre de Betterave.” Par Gautier, price 3 francs. 
“■ Progres Accomplis dans la Culture de la Betterave et dans la Fabrica¬ 
tion du SucrA” Par Leplay. First part, 1884-1887, price 2 francs 
50 cents.; second part, 1887-1888, price 1 franc 50 cents. These books 
may be had at the office of the “ Sucrerie Indigene,” 10, rue de Louviers, 
Paris. Messrs. Vi'morin-Andrieux & Co. have just issued a small 
interesting pamphlet on sugar Beet seeds, which may be had, free of 
c’jarge, by applying to the firm. 
- The “Botanical Magazine” for January contains coloured 
plates and deseriptions of several plants, but one deserves special atten¬ 
tion—viz., Heliamphora nutans. This is one of the Sarracenia 
family, a native of British Guiana, and related to Darlingtonia and 
Sarracenia in a somewhat interesting manner. Sir Joseph Hooker 
says—“Viewing the relations between these three genera to one another, 
thequestionnaturallyarises,whether to regardHeliamphora as a legraded 
or as an ancestral, member of the order. 1 incline to the latter view, 
though ic points to the surmise that the order originated in a region 
now separated by upwards of 2000 miles from that inhabited by any of 
its other members, in so far as their distribution is known. Possibly, 
not probably, other Sarraeeniaceac may exist in the little known moun¬ 
tain regions of Venezuela, though such may not be expected to occur 
in the volcanic areas of Central America and the West Indies. It 
remains to add that Heliamphora was first re-found by Burke, an 
English Orchid collector, in the Roraima distriet in 1881, who brought 
plants of it to Messrs. Veiteh & Sons ; and that in 1884 Mr. im Thurn 
collected it on the occasion of his reaching the supposed inaccessible 
