May 19. 
THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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Lincoln Meeting.— Mr. Raymond Barker, Mr. Brandreth, 
Mr. Fisher Hobbs, Mr. Mil ward, and Mr. Brandreth Gibbs, 
having been appointed by the Council at the last monthly 
meeting to act as an Inspection Committee for personally 
visiting the sites and accommodations offered to the Society 
j for the purposes of the country meeting of next year, the 
report of this committee was read and the various localities 
exhibited to the members on a large map, and plans of the 
city of Lincoln and its vicinity, furnished by the authorities. 
The Knight Worshipful the Mayor and the Town-Clerk of 
Lincoln, accompanied by the Hon. A. Leslie Melville, and 
Mr. Torr, the well-known agriculturist of that district, then 
appeared before the Council as a deputation representing the 
authorities of the city, and the gentry and farmers of the 
l county of Lincoln, for the purpose of advocating the claims 
of that part of England for the country meeting of the 
Society; and the Earl of Yarborough, as President of the 
j North Lincolnshire Agricultural Society, supported the 
! memorial sent in by that body, strongly recommending such 
i choice to be made by the Council. These gentlemen 
respectively having furnished to the members present every 
t information required of them, they received from the 
I President the best acknowledgments of the Council for the 
kind trouble they had taken in attending the meeting of that 
day. It was then resolved unanimously, on the motion of 
Mr. Raymond Barker, seconded by Mr. Fisher Hobbs, that 
the city of Lincoln should be the place of the country 
meeting of the Society, for the year 1851; subject to the 
standing condition, that in the course of a fortnight from 
that day the mayor, on the part of the authorities of that 
| city, enter into the usual agreement with the Secretary of 
the Society, acting in the name and on the behalf of the 
Council, under the powers of the Royal Charter; that the 
offers and stipulations on which the decision of the Council 
had been made, should be guaranteed under their hands I 
respectively, and the seals of their respective corporations. 
Country Meeting of 1857.—The Council then proceeded, j 
according to established regulation, to determine the district , 
for the country meeting to be held four years in advance; 
and, decided on the motion of Colonel Challoner, seconded 
by Mr. Milward, that such district shall be formed of the 
counties of Dorset, Somerset, Wilts, and Hants. 
Journal. —Mr.Pusey, Chairman of the Journal Committee, 
reported that, should no unforsecn impediment arise to 
retard the publication of the number of the Journal now in 
the press, it would make its appearance early in June. 
Steward of Implements. —On the motion of Mr. Hamond, 
seconded by Mr. Brandreth Gibbs, Mr. William George 
Cavendish, of Burlington House, Piccadilly, was appointed 
the Steward-elect of Implements at the Gloucester Meeting. 
Judges. —The Council decided that nominations by mem¬ 
bers of the Society, made for Judges of Stock and Implements 
for the Gloucester Meeting, should be received up to the 
23rd ins't., the day of the general meeting, and the whole 
list then printed for the inspection and remarks of any 
member of the Society, who should make application to the 
secretary for a copy of such list; the selection and appoint¬ 
ment of such judges being made by the Council at their 
Monthly Council on the first of June—no exhibitor, however, 
of stock or implements being allowed to vote. 
Gloucester Meeting. — Mr. Raymond Barker, Vice- 
Chairman of the General Gloucester Committee, reported 
the favourable progress of the works for the ensuing country 
meeting, and the recommendation of Wednesday, the 13th 
of July, as the day of the Pavilion Dinner of the Society. 
MOVING STRAWBERRY PLANTS. 
As you have published a wish in The Cottage Gar¬ 
dener, that your readers would send you “ drawings of the 
implements used in their neighbourhoods,” I thought 1 
should not be intruding if I send you a description of a 
simple contrivance of my own, which I have found to an¬ 
swer quite to my satisfaction in removing young strawberry 
plants, Ac., to any part of a garden, with a hall to their 
roots, which I have found difficult by the ordinary means, 
with light soil, 1 have a board two feet wide, by five feet 
long, which fits the top of a wheel-barrow, and resembles a 
1 brick-maker’s barrow. This holds twenty-one tiles when 
laid out upon it. A trench is opened close to a row of plants; 
a tile is then put into the trench with one hand, and a 
plant pulled on to it with the other. The earth is then 
pressed with both hands, and then placed on the board. 
When the board is full, it is easily wheeled (or carried 
between two without the barrow) to the planting ground, 
where a trench has been opened four inches deep. The 
plants are then put into their places, and the tile withdrawn 
with great facility.—S. F. 
ENDIVE. 
From noticing so little of well-blanched Endive, I am in¬ 
duced to communicate to you that I have found the Lon<i- 
leaved Curled the best for blanching, as it can be the more 
readily and effectually bound and tied, so as to resist the 
frost, wet air, Ac., than the dwarfer kinds. 
The transplanting should be finished before the com¬ 
mencing of the autumn frost, and to prolong the season a 
portion may be inserted in pots of what are called 21s, to 
be plunged in the ground for removal for protection from 
severe weather. —Thos. Torbron. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
*** We request that no one will write to the departmental writers of 
The Cottage Gardener. It gives them unjustifiable trouble and 
expense. All communications should be addressed “ To the Editor of 
the Cottage Gardener, 2, Amen Corner, Paternoster How, London.” 
Hastening the Yew Tree (T. H. H. ). —The surest way to hasten 
the growth of a Yew tree, is to open a trench all round it, as if for taking 
it up ; and for your tree, a yard from the stem will be sufficient; the 
trench to be two feet wide and eighteen inches deep. This trench is to 
be filled with the very best fresh, soil you can get, mixed with two bar- 
rowsful of very old rotten dung ; tread it down firmly, and fork the 
ground between the trench and the tree, and pour four or five gallons of 
pond water on the loosened part every Monday, or once a week to the 
end of August; and that ought to make it grow so that you might “ see 
it growing.” There are ten thousand trees and shrubs in this country 
which stand in more need of all this than your Yew tree. 
Angles of Roofs of Forcing Houses ( Scrutator ).—We are glad 
you so fully approve of the gardening part of Mr. Fish’s late article on 
Strawberries. It is always as well, however, to avoid a sweeping con¬ 
clusion ; for there was no want “ of a geometrical and mathematical 
taste combined with the horticultural,” when that gentleman spoke of a 
roof being fiat at 80°, and steep at from 30° to 40°. You might have even 
saved yourself the trouble of drawing a quadrant, if you had reflected, 
that while on some parts of the continent the angle is calculated from 
the base line of the quadrant, it is always calculated from the perpen- 
i dicular line in this country. At page 207 , vol. ii., you will find the mat* 
J ter illustrated by diagrams by Mr, Fish ; and at page 304, of the same 
volume, you will see an easy mode of setting, or calculating, instantly, 
the angle of any roof by the quadrant, and a line and plummet. A 
French, and a British gardening author, mean, therefore, quite a different 
thing by an angle of 80°. With them it would be very upright; with 
us, it would be as flat as a common gardening frame. The context gene¬ 
rally shows which mode is adopted. For the sake of the uninitiated, u'e 
1 may mention, that a perpendicular height above the level of where the 
sash rests in front, equal to the width of the house, will always give an 
[ angle of 45°. When, upon our system of computation, we wash to make 
the roof at an angle of 30°, we must either raise greatly the perpendicular 
i back wall, or lessen the width of the base line. To get the angle of 30° 
on the continental or French plan, we must just do the reverse. The 
j roof would, in their case, be as flat as our 60 ° ; while their 6ft° would be 
; synonymous with our 30°. We regret there is not agreement—but it 
‘ shows no want of taste, or knowledge either, to write of computations as 
: generally established. Had it been convenient to have given a diagram 
of the house, as sent and mentioned in the article on Strawberries, the 
misconception would have been less likely to occur. 
Various (S. E. L.),—Centre bed on lawn, consisting of a circle, and 
eight bent spokes proceeding from it; position sloping to the house. 
What to fill it with ? Something low, and all about the same height. Say 
the centre, White Verbena, and the spokes of the wheel with four or 
eight different colours of the same plant. The side dumps fill, as 
before, with Geraniums and Petunias. But the half-moon shape will 
look meagre by the side of your elegant centre figure ; circles would be 
better, or something more artistic. To hang from a basket, and take 
the place of a Nemophila : Lobelia speciosu, or bellidifoliu, would do 
equally well from the balcony; or, on the latter place, Anugallis PhilUpsi 
would be beautiful. An Anugallis is never seen in perfection unless 
when hanging. Sedum acre, many other Scdums, small Helianlhe- 
mums, and the various kinds of Vinca minor, would grow among stove 
plants, under trees, and keep a green appearance. 
