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containing two seeds. The main value of this fruit will be for preserv¬ 
ing and crj'.stallLsing. For this purpose it is eminently adapted. It is 
not necessary to take oS the skin on account of its extreme thinness, 
the aroma of the rind blending with the acid of the flesh will make it 
one of the most desirable fruits for preserves, jellies, and crystallised 
fruit. It is a tree which will soon gain favour and stand on its own 
merits, once known among California’s horticulturists. It does not, like 
all Japanese Orange trees, attain any considerable height, its growth 
being very bushy with long divergent branches, 10 or 12 feet being its 
height.” 
- Mr. T. Creswell Dean writes :—“ Having seen in your 
Journal some time ago an account of a Lapageria alba with nine 
open blooms in one spray, I have pleasure in informing you a friend 
■of mine, R. Wardleworth, Esq., of Blackley, near Manchester, has a 
very fine plant, and recently brought me a spray with eleven fully 
-developed blooms and four buds not quite open. This is, perhaps, one 
•of the finest trusses we have ever known in this part, and I am quite 
sure is worthy of notice in your widely circulated paper. This spray is 
more than a foot long, and flowers in substance and form are perfect. 
-- Changing Rose Show Fixtures.—A n indignant protest has 
been forwarded to us from the Secretary of a Rose society complaining 
of the action of another Rose society affiliated with the National having 
altered its date after public announcement because of the lateness of 
the season, and saying that such a proceeding is unjust and misleading, 
and must evidently lead to confusion. 
- Rockwork and Roses. —In another column will be found an 
interesting account of a very considerable and enjoyable rockery that 
we had the pleasure of inspecting a few days after our esteemed corre¬ 
spondent’s “ Alpine Ramble,” and we can testify that not one word too 
much is said in favour of the method of arrangement adopted and the 
•disposition of the plants that are thriving so well. We have only to add 
■that Mr. Paul’s rockery, which will bear inspection, is very accessible, 
Being close to the Broxbourne station of the Great Eastern Railway, not 
‘Cheshunt, which is two or three miles away. It is well that intending 
visitors to Mr. George Paul’s nurseries, who may not be acquainted with 
the district in which they are situated, should bear in mind that Brox- 
-bourne is the station for his Alpines, Cheshunt for the Roses. 
- Approaching the Cheshunt Nursery after our alpine 
ramble we found a feast of Roses under glass, and plants and 
trees starting freely outdoors, but late, for there are very small 
plants ” at Cheshunt, only just visible in the seedling beds, 
and hedges of Roses that have grown into “ trees.” Some of 
the Tea Roses in pots, that would be “in” for Manchester, were 
■bearing their second crop of flowers, in many cases better than the first, 
showing the great value of this section for indoor decoration, and afford¬ 
ing a long season of blooms. Sunset, which is free and good for pots, 
is being increased largely, as also is The Bride. A small Rose that will 
find admirers is the “ Red Pet,” a sport, we understand, from the white 
miniature, which it resembles in character, but the flowers are of a rich 
wed colour. A number of other promising Roses were also advancing. 
In the outdoor seedling beds the plants are left out the first winter witli- 
•out protection, in order that the survivors may be relied on as hardy. It 
*s certainly a very practical method of settling the point. The Tea Rose 
•beds showed all the plants starting strongly. They are grown as if on 
Asparagus beds with alleys between, earth being piled round the base of 
rthe stems before winter, levelled down in spring, and the plants cut 
-closely back - a safe and simple plan of growing Tea Roses. For securing 
the best display of certain Roses, Austrians and Persians among others, 
■the strong growths of the preceding year are not cut back but pegged 
■down, “ and perhaps,” Mr. Paul significantly observes, “ this plan will 
suit Her Majesty." The way an old Mar6chal Niel has been “ cut and 
slashed,” after bearing its early crop of flowers would frighten some 
people ; but it is the way to fill the house with vigorous young shoots 
that bear the grandest blooms. There is much of interest to be seen at 
Cheshunt now—more as the season advances, and always a pleasant 
reception from Mr. George Paul. 
- The Paris correspondent of a London daily paper in referring 
to Floral Fashion remarks:—“Parisian brides and bridesmaids do 
not take with them to church the lovely bunch of white flowers which 
tradition requires the bridegroom and his best men to supply ; but it is 
inherent on the former to heap lovely blossoms in the brougham that 
shall convey him and his newly-made wife back to the house of her 
parents after the ceremony. This is a very pretty fashion, and deserves 
to be kept up. Much more beautiful than the circular and formally 
arranged bouquets that used to be presented by the gentleman anxious 
to get into the good graces of his lady are the rustic baskets of reeds 
filled with growing flowers decorated with bows of ribbon carefully 
chosen as to colour. Long after the poor Roses or what not, subjected to 
the process of wiring, have faded and gone, the plants flourish—a 
pleasant feast for the eyes and a charming decoration for the drawing 
room.” 
- Mr. M. r. Arnold thus refers to the Ipomiea noctiflora or 
Moon Flower in the Florida Despatch. “ It claims Mexico for it 8 
home, but it takes most kindly to Florida, as I can well testify. I 
planted a single seed, given to me by a friend, under the projecting end 
of my kitchen. The soil was dry and sandy, although there was some 
clay mixed with it. The vine made a slow growth at first, but as the 
rainy season advanced it became more vigorous. The leaves were much 
like the common Morning Glory, but much larger. The plant finally 
became rampant, and clambered over the greater portion of one side of 
the house. I had paid but little attention to it for a long time, when 
suddenly one evening I was astonished at five or six immense saucer-like 
flowers of pearly whiteness, which swayed and nodded in the evening 
wind. They exhaled a delicate Jessamine-like odour that was tantalising 
in its evanescent sweetness. By sunrise the flowers were faded and 
gone, but on the succeeding evening a new crop of flowers would 
gradually unfold themselves, and again would steal forth that subtile, 
fleeting perfume of the famed Evening Glory. I have frequently taken 
my chair of an evening and placed it before the vine, and, settling on 
one particular bud about to open, 1 would watch the gradual unfolding 
of this giant of the Morning Glory tribe. It became exciting and 
fascinating to watch the slow expansion of this chaste and lovely flower. 
At length the final crease would be drawn out, and the flower would 
present itself to my admiring gaze. On a dark night a dozen or fifteen 
immense blows would startle a stranger on coming suddenly around the 
corner of the north end of the house. The humming birds were ex¬ 
tremely partial to the flowers, and would frequent the vine almost every 
evening, flitting from flower to flower like feathery sprites.” 
- An exhibition of the products of the Arts and Industries 
relating TO horticulture is being organised at Antwerp by the 
Palais de l’lndustrie des Arts et du Commerce, and will be open from 
the 19th of June to the 15th of October, 1887. A special commission 
has been elected for the organisation of the Exhibition, consisting of 
MM. Edouard Baartmans, I. J. de Beucker, Henri de Bosschere, Charles 
de Bosschere, Antoine Gillis, Gustave Iloefkens, Charles Van Geert, jun., 
and Ernest Van Meerbeeck, with M. Florent Pauwels as President, the 
Baron de Caters as Vice-President, and M. Oscar de Lescluze as Secre¬ 
tary. M. Colinet, Palais de l’lndustrie, 186, Avenue du Sud, Antwerp, 
has been appointed Manager. A park of some 17 acres, and a large hall 
covering more than 5000 square yards of ground, provide the managing 
committee with ample space for the arrangement of all exhibits to the 
best advantage. From a circular that has recently reached us we 
gather that intending exhibitors are required to send before the 10th of 
June, at the latest, an exact and detailed list of the objects they wish 
to exhibit, and that these will lje received from Wednesday, June 1st 
up to Thursday, June loth, at midday ; cut flowers, bouquets, Ac., for 
the decoration of such exhibits, will, however, be received up to June 
18th. The Committee reserves the right of refusing admission to any 
exhibits that it does not consider worthy of being shown. The Committee 
of Adjudication will be invited to take into consideration not only the 
novelty, importance, and beauty of the articles exhibited, but more 
particularly excellence of manufacture and moderateness of price. A 
gold medal, three silver-gilt medals, five silver medals, and six bronze 
medals, with honourable mentions, will be placed at its disposition by 
the Society for each group. One class is devoted to horticultural imple¬ 
ments generally, such as gardeners’ and nurserymen’s tools, water- 
cans, syringes, mowing machines, trellises, espaliers, Ac.; another to 
pictures of plants, flowers, and fruits, herbals, entomological collections, 
horticultural works, plans and designs for ornamental works, vases, 
statuary, tents, rustic furniture, gravel, and other materials for path¬ 
making and draining ; another to furniture for greenhouses and winter 
gardens, garden pottery, mats, aviaries, Ac. ; and a fourth to glass 
structures of all kinds, and heating and ventilating apparatuses. 
