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a strong growtli, it will be well to top them. 
Cleanliness is all-important, and weeds should 
not bo suffered to grow if they can be kept 
down. 
Fruit Garden .—Generally there is but a 
spare crop of fruit, but the trees need attention 
just as if they were liberally rewarding the 
labours of the gardener. All good shoots 
should be nailed-in on wall-trees, so that they 
may have the assistance of the warmth of the 
wall in maturing the wood. If any pyramid 
or bush-trees have become too crowded, they 
should be thinned a little to admit sunshine 
among the spurs and shoots, that should be 
preserved. If this dull wet weather lasts, the 
fruit cultivator will not be troubled very much 
with wasps and flies, and they will not find a 
great deal of fruit to devour.— Scbuebanus. 
GARDEN GOSSIP. 
« IIE Summer Exhibitions both in Lon¬ 
don and the Provinces have been a 
good deal influenced for the worse by 
tlic un]iropitious wcatlier. Especially has thi.s been 
llie case with the exhibitions of Roses and other cut 
flowers, most of which have been postponed in cou- 
serpienco of the lateness of the bloom. The 
N.vrio.vAr Rose Society’s Snow at the Crystal 
Ralacc on Juno 2Stli, lield on the date originally 
lixed, was a failure viewed as an exhibition of 
Rose.s, though Mr. Jowitt, of llereforcl, put up “ one 
of the largest and finest blooms of Niphetos that had 
probably ever been shown.”—The Alexaxdk.y 
Palace Rose Show on July 5th, being later, was a 
considerable impi-ovemont on the National Show, but 
not equal to the shows of former years. Mr. Raker’s 
flowers woi’o here pre-eminently good.—The Rovat. 
Horticultural Society held a show of Roses and 
Pelargoniums ou J uly 8th. The former were, like mo.st 
other.s thi.? soa.son, limited in quantity and generally 
deficient in ([uality, while the latter were of fair 
average merit. A notice of these will be found on 
another page. The evening /c‘fe which took place 
ou July Dth was admirably carried out, and but for 
an unfortunate downpour of rain about nine o’clock, 
must have been an unqualified success. The largo 
conservatory, some parts of the garden, and the largo 
marquee, were illuminated by the electric light. A 
fine effect was obtained by hanging lines of coloured 
lamps from tree to tree along the sides of the walks, 
and upon the most conspicuous of the trees them¬ 
selves, while the fountain was rendered a conspicu¬ 
ous object by similar means. The cascade and 
basin at the foot of the Prince Consort’s Memorial 
were admirably lighted up by two powerful electric 
lights. Every hour the gardens wore illuminated 
with coloured fires. Amongst the objects of iuterost 
displayed were a largo collection of Japanese books, 
and other curious objects, selected from the museum 
of Messrs. Veitch and Sons, at Chelsea; and a col¬ 
lection of Medicinal and Carnivorous Plants from 
Mr. Bull, who also introduced a group of small yet 
exceedingly pretty plants, such as Sonerilas, Anweto- 
ehili, iSc., under the general designation of “Bo¬ 
tanical Jewels.” 
— STiie appointment of Curator of tlio 
Eoyal Botanic Garden, Glasneyin, has 
fallen to the lot of Mr. F. W. Moore, son of 
the late Director, and who has for some time been 
Curator of the College Botanic Garden. Glasnevin 
ts one of the most importaut botanical establish¬ 
ments of the United Kingdom, and the appointment, 
while serving as an encouraging tribute to the 
industry of the sou, will, in a most graceful way, do 
honour to the memory of his late father. Dr. D. 
IMoorc, than whom no man holding so prominent a 
position was more widely respected or more highly 
esteemed by Ids fellows. The vacancy thus caused 
in the staff of the College Botanic Garden has 
been filled by the appointment of Mr. P. W. Bur- 
BiDGE, whose training at Chiswick and Kew, and his 
subsequent varied cxijorienco amongst plants, as 
well as the knowledge acquired by foreign travel in 
search of new plants, point him out as the most 
eligible of the rising generation of garden-botanist 
cultivators, aud eminently fit him for the charge of 
so important a botanical collection. For such a post 
it is not a mere cultivator that is required, but one 
who in addition has a comprehensive knowledge of 
the vegetable kingdom, a subject which, at the pre¬ 
sent day, few young gardeners lay themselves out to 
master. 
— ^T the Alexandra Palace Bose Show, held 
on July 5th, the best and second-best six 
trusses of any New Bose of 1877-78-79, were 
shown by Messrs. Paul and Son, the varieties being 
respectively Emily Jjaxtou and Mabel Morrison. 
English raised Roses, in or out of commerce, wero 
shown only by Messrs. Paul aud Sou, wdio took two 
1st prizes. Conspicuous in these stands was a now 
H.P., named Duke of 'lock, a seedling from Duke 
of Edinburgli, in colour the nearest approach to a 
scarlet yet shown, and of excellent size aud bright¬ 
ness of colour, besides being a strong grower; this is 
the best seedling of the season so far. 
— ©WING to the backwardness of the sea¬ 
son, many flower-shows have had to be post¬ 
poned, and among them, that of the Southern 
Section of the National Carnation and Picotee 
Society, which, as now' fixed, will be held on August 
12th. 
— CTiie Odontoglossums at Trentiiam, 
when in bloom, offer a sight not soon to be 
forgotten. The principal lot occupiy the broad 
front stage of a lean-to house, 80 ft. long, facing the 
north. On them a short time since there wero 150 
spikes of open flowers, and such spikes as only the 
immensely strong grow'ths of plants cultivatcil like 
these can produce. They consist of all the leading 
kinds, including numerous forms of O. crispum and 
O.Posoatorei; with 0. nmvium majus, O. triuuiphaus, 
O. Ilallii, 0. Corvautesii, O. Andersonianuni, and 
O. cirrhosum in its many varieties. There were at the 
time quite as many more spikes coming ou as those 
already open. The pale tints of these Odoutoglots 
w'orc nicely lit up by the introduction amongst them 
of the best high-coloured kinds of Masdevallia. In 
the whole range of plants grow-n for the production 
of cut flowers, tliere are none to beat, and very few' 
to equal Odontoglossums, not only for the length of 
time the individual flowers last, but also for the suc¬ 
cession of bloom that can bo had whore a sufficient 
number are grown. Ilerc they are in flo\vcr more 
or less the whole I'car round, but the greater num¬ 
ber arc in from the commencement of the year up 
to the end of August. The night temperature is 
keiit as near 55° through the summer months as it 
can bo, and never allowed to run above 5° or 10° 
higher than this in the day when the weather is such 
