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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[November, 
tree would be isolated. This remedy is one found 
to act practically, it is not expensive, and a couple 
of men would soon apply it to a very large number 
of trees. The tar should not touch the bark. 
— Ht the sale of the late Messrs. Osborn’s 
Nurseries, which took place at the Mart, 
Tokenhouse Yard, on Oct. 5, the freehold 
estate at Fulham was purchased for the sum of 
£10,000 by Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, of Chelsea, 
who we understand intend to still maintain it as a 
nursery, principally for the cultivation of fruit-trees. 
The Hampton Nursery was sold for £1,500 to Mr. 
W. Lockyer, formerly traveller to the late Mr. It. A. 
Osborn. The Sunbury Nursery was bought in for 
£5,600, the reserve price not being reached. 
— 5123 hat lias been called the Zulu Nut, 
is the tuber of Cyperus esculentus, an instance, 
as one of our contemporaries observes, of the 
inconvenience of new, and especially of popular 
names, for who would be likely to recognise this 
Cyperus under the name Zulu Nut, seeing that it is 
not distinctively of Zulu origin, and certainly is not 
a nut ? Cyperus esculentus and its properties have 
been known almost as long as anything botanical has 
been known, and under the name of Amande de terre 
the small roundish tubers are used as food in the 
South of Europe. 
— 51 he Heaviest Gooseberries of the 
four colours, which have been brought forward 
at the gooseberry shows of the past summer, 
are the following :— Red: Bobby, 31 dwt. 17 gr.; 
Yellow: Leveller, 34 dwt. 2 gr.; Oreen: Stockwell, 
30 dwt. 17 gr.; White : Fascination, 31 dwt. 4 gr. 
— Hmong the novelties said to be in store 
for us, is a Red-berried Ivy, which M. Ed. 
Andre, who saw it growing in a nursery 
at Nice, describes as differing from the ivies ordi¬ 
narily cultivated in foliage, but more particularly in 
colour of the berries, which are as red as those of the 
Pyracantha. If so, it will be a very ornamental 
addition to our winter evergreens. 
— Che following account of Two Noble 
Silver Firs from the Journal of Forestry, 
occurs in the interesting account of the 
excursion of the Scottish Arboricultural Society to 
the woods of Loch Lomond and the Gareloch. In 
the policies of Roseneath House, one of the resi¬ 
dences of his Grace the Duke of Argyll, the great 
attractions from an arboricultural point of view are 
the two celebrated Silver Firs planted here over 200 
years ago. They stand about fifty yards apart, and 
have been wisely opened up and enclosed with a 
substantial fence. They have been called, in local 
tradition, Adam and Eve, and the genial parish 
minister suggests that this is because “ they stand 
in all their glory, naked and not ashamed.” Eve 
rises to a height of 124 feet, and the girth of stem is 
at one foot 28 feet, at three feet 22 feet 8 inches, and 
at five feet 21 feet 8 inches. Adam, as measured by 
the party, was found to be 130 feet high, at one foot 
28 feet 10 inches in girth, at three feet 23 feet 
4 inches, and at five feet 22 feet. The cubic con¬ 
tents of both trees were calculated at 2,500 feet of 
timber, as against a calculation of 1,300 cubic feet 
in 1833. 
— Che Chambre Syndicate des Hor- 
ticulteurs Belges, of Gand, has resolved 
as follows “ In order to give to the repre¬ 
sentatives of Horticultural Industry 7 of all countries, 
the occasion to extend mutually their commercial 
relations and discuss their common interests, an 
International meeting of Horticulturists will take 
place at Ghent in April, 1883. The programme 
will be published in due time. As this meeting 
will coincide with the Great Quinquennial Inter¬ 
national Flower Show, organised by the Royal 
Agricultural and Botanical Society, interesting 
entertainments will be offered to the Congress mem¬ 
bers .”—Extract of Deliberation Register, July, 1882. 
$it JSflrmoriam. 
— /Hr. Robert Sim, of the Sidcup Hill 
Nursery, Foot’s Cray, Kent, died from acci¬ 
dentally falling into a water tank a few weeks 
since, at the age of 54. He was only son of the late 
Mr. R. Sim, founder of the Foot’s Cray Nursery, 
an establishment long noted as one of the leading 
nurseries wherein the culture of Ferns was made a 
speciality. Mr. Sim’s collection both of exotic and 
British Ferns was, some few years since, probably 
the best in the country, both as to extent and cor¬ 
rectness of nomenclature; and the Fern Catalogues 
issued from Foot’s Cray were specially accurate. 
From his youth up the younger Sim may be said to 
have dwelt in a paradise of Ferns, and it is no wonder, 
therefore, that his love for them was so intense. His 
many friends and correspondents will hear with deep 
sorrow of his comparatively early and unfortunate 
death. 
- 0EORGE H. K. Thwaites, Ph.D., 
F.R.S., died at Kandy, on September 11, in 
his 72nd year. In early life Dr. Thwaites 
made for himself a name as a microscopist by his 
researches into the structure and life history of the 
lower Crypotogams, at a time when cryptogamic 
botany was little studied in this country, and the 
value of his discoveries was by no means generally 
appreciated. In 1849 he accepted the post _ < f 
Director of the Botanic Garden, Peradenyia, which 
he resigned a few years since, but while in thi< 
position he naturally took a prominent part in the 
introduction and successful culture of Cinchona in 
Ceylon, and thus contributed largely to the pros¬ 
perity of the island which for so many years ho 
made his home. 
— /Hr. Henry M'Millan, died September 
12, aged 74 years. He was manager to Mr. 
Cattell, of Westerham, for thirty years, and 
was also for several years manager at the Combe 
Wood nurseries of Messrs, \eitch & Sons, but for 
the last sixteen years he had been in business on his 
ow n account at Kingston-on-Thames. 
— /Hr. George Young died at Saffron 
Waldon, on September 25, aged 85 years. 
He was gardener for 48 years to the Right 
Hon. Lord Braybrooke, of Audley End, and was 
highly esteemed by his employers, who liberally 
pensioned him off about eight years ago. Mr. Young 
was a good practical gardener of the old school, and 
highly respected in the profession. He was some 
years since in pretty constant attendance as a judge 
of r ;ses at the Metropolitan Exhibitions. 
