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GARDEN GOSSIP. 
HE Anniversary Meeting of tlie Pelar¬ 
gonium Society was field at Chiswick on 
September 23rd, when the election of 
committee and officers for 1880 took place. E. B. Fos¬ 
ter, Esq., was elected Cliaii’man, and W. B. Kellock, 
Esq., Vice-Chairman, for the year ensuing ; while the 
Hon. Treasurer, Dr. Denny, and the Hon. Secretary, 
Thomas Moore, Esq., F.L.S., wore re-elected, and 
the committee was reconstituted. The report of 
the committee was adopted, from which document 
wo loaiD that the Society is making steady progress, 
and that the Exhibition, which took place at South 
Kensington on July 8tli, was the best which has been 
held under the auspices of the Society. The deter¬ 
mination formed at the annual meeting in 1878 to 
award Certificates to Seedlings had also been fully 
justified by the result, as a large number of new 
dowers was staged, and certificates of the First Class 
had been awarded to the follo\i'ing varieties :— Show' 
Pelargoniums ; Joe and Charlotte, from Kev. A. 
Matthews ; Emperor 'William, Invincible, Sensation, 
The Baron, The Pope, Alice, Flag Captain, and Fire¬ 
ball, from E. B. Foster, Esq. Fancy Pelargoniums : 
Electric Light and Sarah Bernhardt, from Mr. C. 
Turner. Decorative Pelargoniums : Black Prince 
and Lady Isabel, from lilcssrs. J. and J. Hayes ; 
Princess of Wales, from W. Bull; Miss Amli’e, from 
Messrs. T. Jackson and Son ; and Arab, from Messrs. 
F. anti A. Smith. Zonal Pelargoniums ; Leandcr, 
Borneo, Allegro, Dudu, Horatius, and Commander- 
iu-Chief, from Dr. Denny; Lizzie Smith, Edgar 
Catliii, and Fanny Thorpe, from Mr. J. Catlin. 
Double-flotvered Zonal Pelargoniums : Dauntless and 
Pioneer, from Dr. Denny. The balance-sheet showed 
a surplus of LTO 15s. 8d., after all expenses and 
prizes had been paid. 
— ^he Woolhope Naturalists’ Field 
Club bold their last field meeting of the year 
at Here ford on October 2nd, for a foray among 
the funguses. The foray will be made in the woods, 
at Foxley, by the kind permission of the Eev. G. H. 
Davenport. The members and visitors ^Yill leave 
the Barton station with the 9.20 a.ra. train, and re¬ 
turn from the Moorham23ton station with the 2.37 
p.m. train, to reach the Museum-room of the Free 
Library a few minutes after 3 o’clock, where the 
funguses found wall be exhibited and discussed. A 
meeting of the members wall be held in the Wool- 
hope Club-room at 3.20 i).m. to elect the officers 
for the ensuing year, and for the transaction of such 
other business as may arise. The dinner will take 
jfiace at the Green Dragon Hotel, at T o’clock 
IJ.m., when some edible funguses will be served, 
cooked from the club rccqjos. A soiree will he held 
at the house of Thomas Cam, Esq., at 8 p.m., to 
which he invites all who may attend the meeting. 
— CTiie Bornean Burbidgea nitida is a 
novelty of considerable interest and beaut 3 L 
It is a new generic form of the Zingiberacese 
or Gingerworts, grows from 2 ft. to 10 ft. high, 
and flowers freely during the summer. The stems 
are somewhat slender, erect, scantily furnished wdth 
bright, glossy green leaves, whicli ai-e of leathery 
texture, and attain from lin. to (1 in. in length. 
The flow'ers are produced in terminal i)auicles, con¬ 
sisting of from 12 to 20 blossoms, from 1-j- in. to 2 in. 
across, the rich orange-scarlet segments of which are 
arranged in a triangular form. It was discovered 
by Mr. F. W. Biu'hidge, the recently appointed 
curator of the Dublin University Botanic Garden, 
in compliment to whom it has been named by Sir 
Joseph Hooker. The plant grow's in shady forests, 
at an elevation of from 1,000 ft. to 1,500 ft. in N.W. 
Borneo. 
— iiEMONs, writes Mr. W. Horne in the 
xilhanij Cultivator^ are of more importance to 
the rheumatic and dyspeptic than is generally 
understood. To buy when cheap is an object; to 
keep them for a length of time so as to be fit for 
use (and good medicinally), is also quite an import¬ 
ant ijoiut. 1 do not like the packing in barrels ; 
they often siioil without decaying in this form. I 
have tried many preservative.s, and find the simplest 
and best to be sour milk. Cover them in any kind 
of clean vessel, with clear sour milk, and lemons 
will keep fit for use all summer. The flavour is very 
slightly changed, but in every other requisite they 
are iicrfect, being wholesome and good. 
— SHriting of Betroleum Stoves, a 
correspondent of the Irislt Farmers' Gazette 
observes that there is a most unfair prejudice 
existing against the use of petroleum with jolants. 
The most delicate ferns in his sitting-rooms have 
not been injured by petroleum lamjjs, and for 
syringing iilants liable to attacks of aphis, a little 
mixed with soft water is an excellent remedy. He 
thus relates his experience :—“ My conservatory is 
20 ft. by 18 ft., and rather lofty, but as it lies 
between two sitting-rooms, it is not as much affected 
by cold as one only attached outwardly would be. 
The stove used was a Duplex, the dimensions as 
follows :—Diameter of base, 11| in.; ditto of boiler. 
Gain.; height to top of lid, 24in. One quart of 
petroleum burned twenty-four hours ; cost, 3d. The 
price of the stove was 25s. In very damj) weather, 
I had not the boiler tilled more than once in the 
twenty-four hours, as it caused too great moisture.” 
— ®HB attacks of the Rust Maggot upon 
Carrots have been troublesome during the 
past season or two. As a remedy, Miss E. 
Ormerod writes :—“I havm found great benefit from 
watering with a very dilute application of the fluid 
sold under the name of ‘ Soluble Phenyle,’ by Messrs. 
Morris and Little, of Doncaster. Towards the end 
of June the carrots in my garden at Isloworth were 
so severely attacked that, being past hope from any 
common remedy, I tried this fluid in various propor¬ 
tions, usually about a tablespoonful to a gallon of 
water, watering the ground frequently. The insect 
attack was very soon checked, and the plants 
started into healthy foliage, and the carrots that 
sprung on the infested ground, after the application, 
were straight and perfectly uninjured. The check 
to the rust larva) was complete. The main ingredient 
in this fluid is nearly allied to carbolic acid, and 
its use chiefly as a disinfectant and for destroying 
qiarasitic insect-attack in animals, but it appears to 
act as a stimulant to vegetation, whilst poisoning 
the insect-feeder.” 
— ®he new Strawberry Delices de Per- 
milleux, raised by M. Permilleux, horticulturist 
at Oullins (Rhone), and which appears to have 
been obtained from the Victoria, hybridised with 
Triomphe de Liege, is reported by the committeo 
who certificated it, as being hai’dy, with good foliage, 
the fruits earlier than those of the Triomphe de 
Liege, large, flattened, sometimes conical, the seeds 
ptrojecting, of a deej) red colour; the flesh rose- 
