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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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- Haarlem Bulb Show. —The Quinquennial Exhibition of 
Hyacinths, Tulips, Narcissi, Armaryllis, and other bulbous and tuberous 
rooted plants will be open at Haarlem, Holland, on the 21st inst. and 
continued for five days. 
- We are informed that Messrs. Sutton & Sons, Reading, 
have adopted the electric light on a portion of their premises. Between 
fifty and sixty lamps have been in use for the past fortnight, and have 
been found satisfactory. 
- Wakefield Paxton Society. — Rev. F. D. Horner is 
announced to read a paper before the members of the above Society 
on the 29th inst., entitled, an “ Amateur’s Experience with Orchids.” 
It will, we suspect, attract a large attendance of members. 
- Gardening Appointments. —Mr. Richard Morse, late of 
Clevedon Hall Gardens, has been appointed head gardener to D. A, 
Thomas, Esq., M.P., Llanwern Park, Newport, Mon. Mr. John Alex. 
Mercer, foreman at Childwall Hall, near Liverpool, has been appointed 
head gardener to Mrs. Kemp, Beechwood, Rochdale. 
- Bccles and District Chrysanthemum Society. —I beg 
to inform you that the Committee of the above Society has decided to 
hold their annual Chrysanthemum Show this year on November 14th 
and 15th at the Town Hall, Eccles, and I should be much obliged if 
you would bring this to the notice of your readers in the text of your 
valued paper.—H. Huber, Sscretary. 
- The New Zealand International Exhibition. — A 
newspaper report of the exhibits of Messrs. Sutton & Sons has been 
sent to us, but as our pages are full to overflowing we can only say 
that a show case of the firm containing their products is described the 
“ most handsome in the Exhibition,” and that the firm “ secured seven 
of the highest prize medals at the Adelaide and seven highest awards 
at the Melbourne Exhibition.” 
- The Weather in Sussex. —March brought us in Mid-Sussex 
very wintry weather. There were 3 inches of snow on the morning of 
the 1st. A bitter N.E. wind prevailed, bringing showers of snow at 
intervals up till Monday morning at 8 A.M., when the snow was quite 
8 inches deep. On Monday and Tuesday the sun was quite hot, but it 
seemed to have as little effect on the snow as a December sun. 
Thermometer readings Morning of 1st, 22° ; 2nd, 24° ; 3rd, 18° ; 
4th, 13°.— R. Inglis. 
- Early Rhubarb. —The Rev. W. H. Sewell writes from 
Yaxley, Suffolk :—“I shall be happy to show any of your readers my 
dwarf Rhubarb, wholly unforced, as it is now growing in the open 
in my garden, requesting only a letter or postcard making an appoint¬ 
ment, any day but Sunday. As the winter was so mild, the Rhubarb 
this year was somewhat later than usual, St. Valentine’s Day. The 
first good gathering was on February 22nd. Since then it has been, 
and is, being pulled as required. Should this note fall under the eye 
of any of the persons to whom, last autumn, I supplied roots, I should 
like again to urge them (even professional gardeners) to please to follow 
the cultural directions sent, which an experience of several years has 
proved to be important.” 
- Spring Show at Westminster. —The first of the series of 
Shows announced to be held in the Royal Aquarium, Westminster, was 
opened on Wednesday last, March 12th, and proved to be most successful 
both in number and quality of exhibits. We regret that this week we 
can only give a cursory review of the character of one of the best 
spring Shows yet held at so early a date in the season. Classes with 
liberal prizes were provided for bulbs, forced plants. Daffodils, Cycla¬ 
mens, Primroses, besides miscellaneous groups of plants, and the entries 
were numerous. The plants were tastefully and effectively arranged by 
the Superintendent Mr. W. Holmes, who may be congratulated on the 
results of the first of the Shows under his management. Some of the 
principal exhibitors were Messrs. J. Laing & Sons, H. Williams & Sons, 
T. S. Ware, J. Turk, W. Clarke, Barr & Son, Collins Bros. & Gabriel, 
D. Phillips, J. Odell, C. Nunn, B. S. Williams & Son, J. Cheal & Son, 
and R. Dean, 
- On the 5th instant thirty of the foremen and clerks of the 
firm of Messrs. Richard Smith & Co., St. John’s Nurseries, 
Worcester, were entertained at dinner by Mr. Smith Carington, the 
senior partner, in commemoration of his mayoralty of the Faithful 
City this year. The company sat down to an excellent repast, and after 
doing ample justice to a liberal bill of fare the rest of the evening was 
spent in speech making, songs and music. The healths of His Worship 
and of Mr. R. C. S. Carington, the managing partner of the firm, were 
proposed in eulogistic terms, and suitably responded to by both gentle¬ 
men. Altogether a most enjoyable evening vi'as spent, the company 
separating at 11 o’clock with hearty good wishes for the continued pro¬ 
sperity of the firm. We are always glad to hear of these pleasant re¬ 
unions, which tend to strengthen the bonds of sympathy between 
employer and employed. 
-A great Horticultural Exhibition will be held in the 
Pavillion de la Ville, Champs Elysdes, Paris, in May, opening on the 
21st and closing on the 2Gth. It is intended to be a general exhi¬ 
bition of the products of horticulture, and of objects of art and 
industry employed in gardening or serving in the decoration of parks 
and gardens. The classes number upwards of 200, and embrace new 
plants, stove, greenhouse, and hardy plants. Ferns, Palms, Orchids, cut 
flowers, fruit, vegetables, and garden implements, amongst others. 
Prizes of honour, gold, silver-gilt, silver and bronze medals will be 
awarded. The Exhibition will be under the auspices of the French 
National Horticultural Society, and inquiries must be addressed to the 
President of the Society, Rue de Crenelle, 84, Paris, before Thursday, 
May 15th. Exhibits will be received from the fifth to the second day 
before the opening, not later, except in the case of cut flowers, which 
will be received up to 7 A.M. on the morning of the Show. 
- Nicotiana affinis for Conservatory and Drawing¬ 
room Decoration. — I notice in the Journal of Horticulture, 
March Gth, page 197 that Mr. Murphy highly commends the above- 
named, and rightly too, for I find it invaluable. I have grown it for 
several years, and we are seldom without plants in flower ; indeed, I 
have received orders to try and keep it in bloom always. I cannot 
recollect having a break for eighteen months. Seed is cheap, and it is 
so easily raised that I do not find it difficult to keep a supply of young 
plants, and it will grow as freely from the root as from seed ; broken 
up every little piece will grow and form a plant if put in a pan and 
placed in a propagating frame. It is useless to keep old plants after 
the first time of flowering. Young plants grow quickly, and produce 
much finer blooms. They will grow in almost any soil, but they pay 
well for liberal treatment. Loam, leaf soil, and manure in equal parts 
with the addition of a little sand suits them admirably, and they are 
benefited if liquid manure can be given when the pots are full of roots. 
They are water-loving plants, as they like plenty at the roots and over 
the foliage in hot weather. The best results are obtained from plants 
repotted from time to time until they are in 8 or 10-inch pots. The 
cultivators will then have good plants self-supporting, with stout 
flowering shoots from the axils of every leaf, and foliage completely 
overing the pots.—W. Spencer, Southport. 
- American Apples. —Apples command high prices. Hard 
Maine Baldwins are worth 3 dollars 75 cents, to 4 dollars per barrel, 
and other New England Baldwins command 2 dollars 60 cents, to 3 
dollars 50 cents. There is a feeling among some of the trade that prices are 
almost too high. The buyers of Apples to sell again complain that there 
is no margin in handling them. Nevertheless, the country is very firm 
on the few that are not picked up. The request for export is only fair, 
prices being too high for a liberal movement through that channel. In 
New York lighter arrivals and a fair demand have combined to make a 
firmer market. Sales have been mainly in the range of our market 
quotations, but here and there an exceptionally fancy lot of Greening 
or Baldwin is placed a little above outside figures. The export of Apples 
from all American ports for the week ending February 19th, as reported 
by A. C. Lombard’s Sons, were 18,694 barrels, including 1,33G barrels 
from Boston, 2,838 barrels from New York, 7,420 barrels from Portland, 
and 7,000 barrels from Annapolis. For the season the total exports 
have been 637,481 barrels, including 131,186 barrels from Boston, 133,505 
barrels from New York, 162,526 from Montreal, 103,324 barrels from Port¬ 
land, 44,930 barrels from Halifax, 37,010 barrels from Annapolis. For the 
same time last year the total exports were 1,209,548 barrels, including 
351,840 from Boston, 411,082 from Montreal, 84,771 from Portland, 
70,160 from Halifax. Boston’s week’s shipments were 1,330 barrels to 
Liverpool. Of the week’s foreign export of Apples, 11,096 went 
to Liverpool, 415 to Glasgow, and 7,983 to London .—{American 
Cultivator.') 
- In the “ Botanical Magazine ” for March the plants 
figured are as follows :—Zamia Wallisi (t. 7103) is “ one of the three 
new species discovered in 1873 by Gustav Wallis when in the employ¬ 
ment of Messrs. Veitch as collector in New Grenada.” The leaves are 
2 to 3 feet high, with two to eight pairs of leaflets, specimens of the 
