March 10,1887. ] 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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The South Kensington Exhibition Grounds. —The Ken¬ 
sington Vestry have petitioned the Queen, praying Her Majesty not 
to grant the supplementary charter applied for by the Albert Hall Cor¬ 
poration enabling the applicants to acquire land at South Kensington 
belonging to the Royal Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, and 
the conservatory and other buildings thereon. 
- The Futuke of the Crystal Palace.—T he Provisional 
Committee appointed a short time ago in connection with the affairs of 
the Crystal Palace have taken steps towards the formation of a National 
Committee composed of noblemen and gentlemen, whose object shall be 
to maintain the Palace as a national institution. It is proposed to pur¬ 
chase the property and make it a People’s Palace, and it will be the 
function of the new Committee to accomplish this by means of an 
extended public subscription, of the success of which the friends of the 
movement are sanguine. 
- Rose Shows. —Mr. Edward Mawley, Rosebank, Berkliampstead’ 
Herts, will be obliged if secretaries of Rose and other horticultural 
societies where liberal prizes are offered for Roses, will send him the 
dates of their shows as soon as they have been definitely arranged. In 
addition to the fixtures published on page 170 last week, the following 
are received Richmond, June 29th; Hitchin and Winchester, July 
7th ; Harleston and Birmingham, July 14th. The North Lonsdale Rose 
Society, which is affiliated to the N.R.S., will hold its annual show at 
Ulverstone on the 22nd July, and not on the 15th as previously 
announced. 
- Just as we are preparing for press letters have arrived re¬ 
specting the proposed Gardeners’ Orphanage, which it is impossible 
to insert this week. 
- Amaryllises at Chelsea. —The display of these gorgeous 
flowers in the nursery of Messrs. James Veitch A Sons promises to be 
highly] imposing. About 1800 plants are now advancing rapidly, the 
flower stems being of great substance and the foliage pushing freely at 
the same time. A few flowers are open, and numbers of buds swelling 
and in the course of ten days or a fortnight one of the richest floral 
spectacles of the year will be afforded to visitors. 
-Liverpool Horticultural Association.—O n Saturday 
evening, the 5th inst., Mr. F. Harrison, gardener to the Earl of Derby, 
Knowsley Hall, Frcscot, read before the members of this Society an ex¬ 
cellent paper on “ Salads and their Culture.” Only a moderate discus¬ 
sion followed, principally on the culture of Celery on ground deeply dug, 
and surface planting r. opening out trenches on the ordinary principle. 
The cause of the Tomato disease was also discussed by Messrs. Ranger 
Bardney, R. W. Ker, Harrison, White (Chairman), and others. The 
usual vote of thanks brought the meeting to a close. Mr. Harrison’s 
paper will be printed in our columns as soon as space permits. 
- We extract the following note on the Infringement of 
Copyright from an evening contemporary :—“ Mr. Marten, Q.C., moved 
before Mr. Justice Kay, sitting in the Chancery Division, for an injunc¬ 
tion in the action of ‘ Bowles v. Robinson,’ to restrain the defendant 
from copying into his journal certain copyright articles which had ap. 
peared from time to time in the plaintiff's journal. The plaintiff is the 
proprietor of a journal or magazine entitled The Lady, and the defendant 
is the proprietor of the Home and Farm. A list of fifty special articles 
which had appeared in The Lady were re-publislied entirely or only 
slightly altered in Home and harm. The defendant, for whom Mr. Far. 
well appeared, said he received the articles as original from one of his 
oldest contributors, and he believed them to be original when he ac¬ 
cepted them. The defendant now apologised, and would submit to a 
perpetual injunction and pay costs. Mr. Marten asked for an inquiry as 
to damages, to which the defendant also consented. His Lordship made 
an order for a perpetual injunction against the defendant, with costs up 
o the present, but reserved the costs of the inquiry.” 
- We have received the prize schedule of the Birmingham Rose 
Show, which is announced to be held in the Gardens, Edgbaston, on 
Thursday and Friday, July 14th and 15th, so that it seems two-days 
Rose Shows that are so unpopular with many rosarians are not quite 
extinct. The prizes range from £5 to 10s. Mr. Hugh Nettlefold is the 
Honorary Secretary. 
- Mr. Hartland sends us from Temple Hill, Cork, flowers of 
the early Double Daffodil Rip Van Winkle. In the fashionable 
parlance of the day t 'is would be described as an artist’s flower. The 
corolla and perianth segments are so much divided that they represent 
a conglomerate mass of pointed florets. The colour is deep yellow, 
suffused with green. This form appears about as dissimilar from 
ordinary Daffodils as Japanese Chrysanthemums are from incurved 
blooms. 
- The preparation of the American Exhibition at West 
Kensington is proceeding rapidly, and the ornamental grounds, under 
the charge of Mr. W. Goldring, are advancing satisfactorily. This portion of 
the Exhibition is likely to be a very interesting one to horticulturists, as 
a large number of the most handsome and characteristic American plants 
will be represented, and the general design appears to have been very 
carefully considered. 
- Zonal Pelargonium Constance.—M i. D. Thomson writes 
from Drumlanrig :—“ Several of your correspondents have recently been 
giving excellent directions for the management of these most useful 
Pelargoniums for winter flowering. In the excellent lists that have 
been appended to the respective remarks I have not noticed Constance 
named, and as I have grown it for many years, and consider it the best 
pink variety I have ever seen, I take this opportunity of recommending 
it. It is, in fact, a perpetual bloomer, and I have had plants of it that 
have been crowded with large and handsome trusses for eighteen months 
without intermission. It has the good quality of not “ drawing ” and 
becoming “ leggy ” in heat during winter. The colour is a fine rosy 
pink, trusses large and produced in great abundance ; altogether Con¬ 
stance is a splendid variety.” 
-At the fortnightly meeting of the Birmingham Gardeners' 
Society, held on the 2nd inst., Mr. C. H. Herbert, the foreman plant 
grower at Mr. Hans Niemand’s Nursery, Birmingham, read a well 
thought-out paper on “ Two of the Most Useful Winter-flowering 
Plants,” and selected the Cyclamen and the Bouvardia, giving the early 
history of both plants, with full details as to cultivation. In reply to 
a question from one of the members as to the most desirable varieties 
of Bouvardias to grow, Mr. Herbert recommended :—Whites—Vreelandi 
and Ilumboldti Corymbiflora ; Pinks—Priory Beauty and Queen of 
Roses ; Scarlet—Elegans ; Yellow—Flavescens. Doubles—Alfred Nie¬ 
mann, white ; President Garfield, pink ; and Sang Loraine, vermilion. 
There was a large attendance of members, and a good discussion 
followed. 
- Mr. Goodacre communicates the following note on Curled 
and Plain Parsley :—“ Parsley is one of those important essentials 
of everyday life that the kitchen must have a daily supply. I never 
remember such a difficulty to do this as it has been this season. I do 
not think we have been less diligent in its culture, but I blame myself 
for indulging in these ‘ extra fine curled ’ strains, which I think are not 
so hardy as the plainer leaved common sort is. The autumn was extra 
fine very late, and up to December we had Parsley 18 inches high with 
leaves almost as broad, with roots as fine as Parsnips, but on the 
approach of severe weather this melted away root and leaf as if it had 
been boiled, and I find the roots of the protected are now quite rotten, 
whereas the old plainer-leaved sort is quite sound both top and bottom. 
Is this the general state of the Parsley crop ?” 
-The February number of the Bulletin of Miscellaneous 
Information, issued from the Royal Gardens, Ivew, gives some par¬ 
ticulars respecting the Cape Boxwood, Buxus Macowani, a recent dis¬ 
covery, the first representative of the genus found in South Africa. It is 
thought that the wood will bi a useful substitute for true Boxwood for 
engravers, but one report does not speak very favourably of it for that 
purpose. The remaining portion of this issue is devoted to some corre¬ 
spondence respecting the “Industries at Mauritius,” in which s: viral 
valuable suggestions are made as to the plants that could be profitably 
cultivated there. A memorandum by Mr. D. Morris is founded upon an 
