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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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and spongy they yielded by far the best ci-op, contrary to our opinions 
of good cultivation. How was this/ My opinion was, that it was 
simply a case of precocity, and had I persisted in preserving tubers for 
planting from them they would have deteriorated.—N. B. 
We are desired to state that the meeting of Fellows of the 
Royal Horticultural Society will be held on June 23th, and not 
on June 14th, as announced in mistake last week. 
- The death is announced of Mr. George Jackman of the 
Nurseries, Woking, at the age of fifty. Mr. Jackman succeeded his 
father in the business some years ago, and assiduously devoted himself 
to the extension of the nurseries which his father had successfully 
carried on before him. His name is closely associated with the hybrid 
Clematises, which he was so successful in raising, and will be perpetu¬ 
ated in that known as C. Jackmanni. In conjunction with the late Mr. 
Thomas Moore, Mr. Jackman was author of a work on the “ Clematis as 
a Garden Flower.” 
- A bright and varied exhibition of Gloxinias is now provided 
in one of the houses at Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons’ Chelsea nursery. The 
colours are very rich and bright—scarlet, crimson, purple shades in 
great variety, besides the delicately dotted forms. Most notable is a 
rich deep scarlet self named Comet, which is one of the erect-flowering 
type, of capital habit, free and beautiful. Acme, also rich scarlet, is 
another fine variety, and one excellent quality of these highly coloured 
varieties is the persistency of their flowers, rendering them much more 
useful for decorative purposes and exhibition. A new variety named 
The Moor is an admirable companion for the above, having large beau¬ 
tifully formed dark rich purple flowers. Argus and Flambeau are other 
good varieties, amongst many more of great beauty, that prove the high 
merits of the strain that has been so carefully formed at Chelsea. 
- In the Rhododendron house of the same nursery several dwarf 
plants of the double Rhododendron balsamin.eflorum album are 
flowering in small thumb pots. Though only 0 inches in height they 
have heads of five and six pure white symmetrical flowers, and have a 
charming appearance. Such plants as these would be very useful for 
arranging with other taller plants, and there is no doubt that the 
variety will become a great favourite for cutting also, as the flowers are 
so neatly formed and well adapted for bouquets or buttonholes. 
- Exhibition of Tulips at Haarlem.— The Tulips in the 
nursery of Messrs. E. H. Krelage & Son, Haarlem, at the Kleiner 
Houtweg, are now in full bloom. There are four beds of Tulips under 
two spacious tents, covering together an area of more than 7000 square 
feet. Two beds each of 700 bulbs contain the best varieties in all 
sections. Two other beds under a smaller tent contain each 840 different 
sorts, bybloemen and roses, all Flemish varieties of the most brilliant 
colours, equalling those which were the models of the best Dutch 
painters of former centuries. This Tulip show, which is now opened for 
the third time, is later than usual this season, and may last till the 
middle of June if the weather is favourable. The collection of late 
Tulips of every description planted in the nursery is very ex¬ 
tensive, and contains everything good and rare in Dutch and Flemish 
varieties. Among the last a number are new. Besides, there is an 
unrivalled collection of Flemish breeders, violets and roses in the most 
striking and brilliant colours, which are most interesting not only as 
breeders but as bedding Tulips. The colours vary from pale porcelain 
to the darkest violet, from soft rose to the most brilliant red, much more 
striking than Gesneriana ; there are light and dark brown shades, and a 
few nearly black. 
- “ W. B., Coventry " writes “ I send two trusses of New 
Decorative Pelargoniums, cut from seedlings raised by myself, and 
should like your opinion about them. They are both seedlings from 
Volonte Nationalc, whicji is quite different, and resemble most Regalia 
and Triomphe de St. Mancie, but superior in both cases as regards 
colour and shape. They are very free, there being eighteen and twenty- 
trusses on each plant.” [They are both fine trusses and useful decora¬ 
tive varieties. One has bright rosy scarlet flowers, margined with white, 
and having few dark veins in the centre of the petals ; the other is of 
a dark purplish colour, with a dark blotch. The flowers are large and 
the trusses full.] 
- A considerable quantity of Loquat Fruits (Eriobotrya 
japonica) has been imported to the London markets, and even made- 
their appearance on the hawkers’ barrows under a variety of names, the- 
favourite title being apparently “ The New Jubilee Fruit.” They vary 
slightly in size, but the largest resemble an Apricot both in size and 
colour, and make a rather pretty dish for the table arranged on dark 
green leaves. Though frequently seen in greenhouses, where it is valued 
for its large handsome foliage, no one seems to have succeeded in its 
culture as a fruit-bearing plant. Occasionally instances are brought to 
notice of plants producing a crop of fruits such as that at Stawell 
nouse, Richmond, which we figured a year or two since, but there 
appears to be much uncertainty about the setting, and with the greatest 
care several seasons often elapse without procuring any fruits, and 
probably without flowers. Out of doors the plant is liable to be killed 
in severe winters, except in the extreme south of England. 
- “A. K. G.” writes that he has “ grown Webb’s Sensation- 
Tomato for two years. It is robust and compact in growth, beginning 
to fruit very close to the bottom of the stem. The fruits are produced 
in great abundance. They are of a large size, smooth, of a bright red 
colour. It fruits alike freely in pots, boxes, or planted out, and it is- 
early. We have been gathering fruit since the 1st of May. These 
plants were produced from seed sown in February, repotted until they 
were in 10-inch pots, then trained on wires in a vinery, and they pro¬ 
mise to bear freely the greater part of the season. As early Tomatoes, 
arc exceedingly valuable everywhere the variety in question is sure to- 
become a favourite.” 
- Rating of Nurseries.—T t is announced that a public meeting 
of nurserymen will be held at the Horticultural Club, Henrietta Street 
Covent Garden, on Tuesday, June 28th, to consider the excessive rating 
of nurseries, and to agree on a combined action in an endeavour to- 
procure the reduction of the assessments. The chair will be taken at 
4 p.m. by T. Wood Ingram, Esq., by the firm of Wood & Ingram. 
Huntingdon. The meeting will be held under the auspices of the 
Nursery and Seed Trade Association, and the Horticultural Club have 
kindly lent their rooms for the occasion. The Secretary is Mr. F. C. 
Goodchild, 25, Old Jewry, London, E.C. 
-Arrangement at Exhibitions. —A visitor writes, “A better 
example of a tastefully arranged and diversified flower show I have 
never seen than that afforded at the summer, meeting of the Royal 
Botanic Society recently ; and beautiful as the shows in their large 
marquee invariably are, they surpassed all previous efforts as regards' 
general effect on the last occasion. Those who have the management 
of large provincial or metropolitan shows, and who are interested in the 
maintenance of their popularity, would do well to take a lesson from, 
the method adopted at Regent’s Park. It might not be possible to pro- 
vidc such well-designed grass banks and mounds in every case, but 
something could be done to avoid the too frequent employment of' 
formal wooden stages that when draped with green baize are scarcely 
endurable, and when left uncovered are positively hideous. Summer- 
shows held in tents and marquees out of doors admit of much more- 
taste being exercised than can be done with winter exhibitions held in. 
rooms and public buildings.” 
- One of the members of the Orange family (Citrus Japonica)) 
is occasionally grown here for ornamental purposes, but in the Southern 
United States, especially in Florida, it is being cultivated commercially. 
According to an American paper there are two distinct varieties of this 
fruit, one having oblong, the other a round fruit. “ They attain the size 
of about a medium-sized Plum or Apricot respectively. The tree is- 
hardy, bears extremely young, the fruit hanging on the branches in the 
greatest profusion. We had plants 15 inches to 24 inches high on which 
we counted seventy-six Citrus fruits. It does not claim to be a table 
fruit, though even eaten raw it has a very agreeable flavour ; the rind 
can be eaten with the flesh, being not thicker than the skin of a Plum 
or Cherry. It has a decided aromatic Orange flavour ; the flesh, is very 
juicy with the sub-acid quality of a Lime, very cooling and refreshing,- 
