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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ January, 
a meeting hold on December 4, these documents, with 
the following resolutions, were directed to be printed 
and circulated :—“1. That inasmuch as the causes 
which called the Committee into existence remain 
in undiminished force, the President, Vice-Presi¬ 
dents, Committee, and Hon. Secretary be requested 
to continue their functions. 2. That the subscribers 
be gratefully thanked for the handsome support 
accorded to the Committee, congratulated on the 
beautiful display resulting thei’efrom on April 24, 
and respectfully urged to continue their support 
for the following season. 3. That a copy of these 
resolutions be forwarded to each subscriber, with a 
form to be returned to the Hon. Secretary, stating 
the amount of subscription such subscriber will be 
pleased to accord to the Society.” The receipts 
were £80 4s. 6d. A report in terms almost identi¬ 
cal with the above was also adopted on account of 
the Southern National Carnation and Picotee 
Society, the subscriptions to which amounted to 
£89 14s. 10d., and the balance in hand to £111s. 4d. 
— £1 meeting of the National Rose 
Society took place on December 6, J. Jowett, 
Esq., Hereford, in the chair. A statement of 
accounts was laid before the meeting, but owing to 
the auditor not having certified to their accuracy, 
through the absence of some vouchers, the formal 
passing of the balance-sheet was adjourned. The 
receipts were returned at £417 12s. 4d., including 
£302 15s. lOd. donations and subscriptions, and 
£67 16s. 6d. taken at St. James’s Hall. The prize- 
money paid amounted to £147 10s.; advertising 
and bill-posting, £71 7s. 6d.; printing and stationery, 
£67 17s.; while other items brought the expendi¬ 
ture to £417 8s. 2d. The Crystal Palace Company 
had, it appeared, offered the committee the sum of 
£100, together with the services of their staff and 
exhibition appliances, if the show for 1878 were 
taken to Sydenham. 
— ®jie Annual Meeting of the Royal 
Caledonian Horticultural Society was lield 
in tbe Music Hall, Edinburgh, on December 6, 
Mr. Thomas Methven in the chair. The receipts 
during the past year amounted to £713 14s. Id., in¬ 
cluding £416 16s. for annual subscriptions, £39 4s. 
for special prizes, and £214 18s. 6d. for drawings at 
the various shows. The expenditure in the same 
period was £697 7s. 10^d., which included show ex¬ 
penses to the amount of £256, and prizes to the 
value of £362. The balance on the year’s transac¬ 
tions was thus £16 6s. 2^-d. 
— ®!he graceful Huon Pine ( Dacrydium 
Franlclinii) a very beautiful plant, is growing in 
tbe open air at Longleat, where, says tbe 
Garden, it is hardy and bears fruit. It has attained a 
height of 31 feet, the elegant branchlets being of a 
beautiful grass-green. 
— JIn the Glasnevin Botanic Garden, 
Cuscuta reflexa has recently been very orna¬ 
mental in tbe open air. This species has long 
been a pretty and interesting object in the cool 
greenhouse, where it clothed some of the plants with 
its pearly necklaces. Last year it occurred to Dr. 
Moore to try it out of doors, and it half clothed a 
Forsythia with its pretty bells. During the late 
autumn months the flowers were produced in mar¬ 
vellous profusion, in clusters of ten or a dozen, at 
short intervals all along the brown, fiddle-string¬ 
like twining stems. Each flower is nearly the size 
of, and not unlike in shape, that of the lily of the 
valley, and is pleasantly fragrant. It is a Nepalese 
species. 
— &s a means of destroying insect pests 
by fumigation, Tebb’s Universal Fumigator, 
represented in tbe annexed engraving, may be 
recommended as being simple, handy, cheap, safe, 
and reliable. It is self-acting, and though light, 
sufficiently strong, the parts being rivetted together. 
The cut sufficiently explains its mode of action. It 
will burn any of the preparations of tobacco usually 
employed for fumigating purposes, and the materials 
used are not liable to burst into flame, but give off 
dense smoke if the draught is properly regulated. 
Full directions for use are given. 
— According to tbe Irish Farmers' Gazette 
tbe Great Vine at the Viceregal Lodge, 
Phoenix Park, is at least one of the finest ex¬ 
amples of a single Vine, grown on what is called the 
extension system, to be found in these Islands. The 
crop last season was the heaviest it has yet matured, 
the size and weight of the bunches being beyond 
the average ; not a few would turn the scale between 
3-lb. and 4-lb. weight, the general run of bunches 
being fully 2-lb. each. The number of bunches 
was about five hundred, the heaviest being at the 
extreme end of the house, opposite to that at which 
the Vine is introduced, and from which rods are 
conducted horizontally the entire length of over 
70 feet. Nothing could have been more robust, 
clean, and healthy than the foliage. 
— ®he Gros Colman Grape, writes 
Mr. Wildsmitk, in tbe Journal of Horticulture , 
is a somewhat stubborn Grape to deal with, 
and more especially to colour well, but for the last 
four years we have had no difficulty in this respect. 
We have simply allowed the lateral shoots to ex¬ 
tend themselves as much as possible a week or two 
previous to colouring, and when colouring had com¬ 
menced did not remove a lateral from the vine. 
This, coupled with a reasonable amount of fire-heat, 
I believe to have conduced to perfect finish. Gros 
Colman is essentially the market-grower’s Grape, 
being extraordinarily prolific, of grand appearance, 
and when fully ripened a long way above second- 
rate in flavour. We have had it in fine condition up 
to the end of January, and hope to keep it much 
longer this season. 
