September 11, 1886. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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CONTENTS. 
PAGE 
Carnations. 27 
Chrysanthemum, the. 21 
Crystal Palace . 19 
Crystal Palace Fruit and 
Dahlia Show. 30 
Dundee Flower Show. 29 
Earwigs and Chrysanthe¬ 
mums . 27 
Gardeners' Calendar . 27 
Glenstal Castle. 26 
Heat and the Crops, the .. 19 
Heckfield Place. 24 
Horticultural Societies .... 2S 
Judging, on . 20 
Kingswood Warren. 24 
Liliums, notes on. 21 
Mushroom Beds . 23 
PAGE 
Obituary. 30 
Orchid, potting cool . 2S 
Pea, Harrison’s Eclipse_ 27 
Pelargonium, the. 22 
Pentstemons. 27 
Peas, New Sweet. 20 
Plant a Tree . 19 
Potatos, New . 27 
Rhododendron halsaminas- • 
florum Rajah. 24 
Royal Horticultural Society 2S 
Rudheckia purpurea . 27 
Solanum Jasminoides. 27 
Sulphide of Potassium .... 27 
Vegetable Garden, the .... 23 
Violets, Marie Louise.27 
Woodthorpe Grange . 20 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Monday, Sept. 13th. —Sale of Dutch Bulbs at Protheroe 
& Morris’s Rooms. 
Tuesday, Sept. 14th.—Sale at Mr. B. Mailer’s, Lee, 
by Protheroe & Morris. 
Wednesday", Sept. 15th.—Sale at Mr. John Fraser’s, 
Lea Bridge, by Protheroe & Morris. 
Thursday, Sept. 16th.—Sale at Mr. John Mailer’s, 
Tottenham, by Protheroe and Morris.—Sale of 
Orchids in Flower and Imported Plants, at Stevens’ 
Rooms. 
Friday, Sept. 17th.—Sale at Messrs. Gregory and 
Evans, Sidcup, by Protheroe & Morris ; and Great 
Trade Sale of Orchids at 67 & 68, Cheapside. 
Saturday", Sept. 18th.—Sale at Mr. H. B. May’s, 
Dyson’s Lane, Edmonton. 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
. refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
“ Plant a Tree.” —Fads, even in horticul¬ 
ture, may sometimes develope into comparative 
forms of insanity, as is evidenced in a recent 
recommendation of that amiable and Yvell mean¬ 
ing nobleman, Lord Brabazon, that every Lon¬ 
don householder should plant a tree of some 
sort. It is not specifically stated in the recom¬ 
mendation Yvhether such plantings should he 
done in the accumulation of London soot and 
dust found on the house tops, or in those apolo¬ 
gies for gardens found in hack courts, which are 
of such liliputian dimensions. A tree planted 
in these Yvould in time, perhaps, convert London 
into a forest, but at Yvhat cost 1 The suggestion 
is based on the assumption that in such places 
trees would grow, but this is exceedingly doubtful. 
But whilst trees are beautiful ivhere they 
have ample light and air, they are indeed 
miserable scarecrow objects when growing, if 
the term may be fairly employed in such cases, 
in croYvded localities and amidst smoke, fog and 
filth. On the other hand, Londoners get so 
little of the lisrht of the sun and fresh air that 
O 
it would he but to duplicate these miseries in 
these respects ivere they to crowd out the light 
and air by trees. Again, trees may be taken in 
their early years and as such present pleasant 
playthings, but later, when strong in growth, 
they soon become Yvhite Elephants, fairly 
eating up their benefactors. Still farther, 
Yvhatsoe\"er tenants may do in this matter, house 
owners may have good reason to object to big 
trees springing up on their property, and 
possibly doing it great injur 3 r . Ei^en a Willow, 
if hut emanating from a carrot hunch tie, will 
in time become a big tree. The proposal is far 
more enthusiastic than sensible. 
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1886. 
The Heat and the Crops.— Comparatively 
small as has been the summer heat of the pass¬ 
ing season, yet it was found difficult to endure 
the unusual ivarmth which prevailed so generally 
up to the middle of last Yveek, and which must 
have been productive of wondrous good in 
maturing the corn and ripening it for the harvest. 
And yet in many directions the exceeding heat 
Yvas doing harm, especially amongst the gieen 
field and garden crops, and in checking the 
development of hardy fruits, whilst quantities 
affected by drought were falling; thus the 
change to moisture and a cooler temperature 
proved most acceptable, and quite a new face 
seems to have been put upon nature and her 
products. 
Somehoiv this year, although we have had 
occasional spells of drought, yet rain seems to 
have fallen in the nick of time; because of 
that we have had an ample hay harvest. There 
are more growing root crops than has been seen 
for several years, and all forms of hardy plant 
life is revived and invigorated, so that a new 
lease of life seems to have been taken. That we 
shall have enormous breadths of all the Brassica 
family this Yvinter is certain, and that there 
will he constantly glutted markets seems also 
certain. Turnips have a Y"ery promising appear¬ 
ance and will he a good crop. L T pon the fruit 
crop the effects of the change in the weather 
has been remarkable, and Yvhilst Apples and 
Pears will hang longer they will swell appreci¬ 
ably; previously complaints of the size of many 
market Pears ivere being made, which should 
now be removed. 
All hardy floYvering and foliage plants have 
experienced an almost magical revival, the 
foliage has rarely been in the autumn more 
vigorous and clean than now, hence ive may 
look for increased bloom and exceeding floral 
beauty from these next year. 
The Crystal Palace. —Judging by the com¬ 
paratively slack attendance at such a very 
attractive display as the Fruit and Dahlia Show 
presented at the Palace on Friday last, it Yvould 
seem as if that once famous place of entertain 
ment ivas now becoming hardly less famous for 
its solitudes ; whether due to the extraordinary 
competition in the matter of entertainment at 
South Kensington, Yvhich enjoys at once royal 
and popular favour ; or ivhether arising from 
satiety on the part of the public, it seems cer¬ 
tain that crowds do not flock to the Palace, and 
not one fourth the number of persons assembled 
to see such a grand show as the one held last 
week that Yvould have attended at such a display 
in any ordinary provincial town. 
London is far too big to interest in anything, 
and amidst this indifference even a Crystal 
Palace show may he overlooked. A finer place 
in which to hold a grand indoor show does not 
exist in the ivorld, hut it lies too much out of 
the way of the multitude; if the Palace could 
he bodily transplanted to the Thames embank¬ 
ment or into Hyde Park, no doubt it Yvould be 
a crowded place of resort, especially in the 
winter months, but those yvIio can visit such 
places at their OYvn doors, cannot spare the 
time, even if they could spare the cash which 
the railway journey, never a quick one by the 
bye, inY r olves the expenditure of. It is a matter 
for regret that the efforts of the Palace directors 
to cater for the million should be so poorly 
repaid. The flower and fruit shows are special 
features, which are worthy of high praise and 
merit ivide popularity, but they fail to draw. 
Perhaps on the Yvhole they attract as much as 
other forms of entertainment after all. 
--- 
Mr. John Cox, for many years gardener at Redleaf, 
Penshuvst, Kent, died last week in the Isle of Wight. 
We understand that Mr. George Thomson, has 
severed his connection with Mr. Anthony Waterer, of 
Knap Hill,, with whom he has been since he left the 
Ciystal Palace. 
The amount of land exclusively devoted to Gar¬ 
dening in Germany is stated to he 64,000,000 acres ; 
and to cereals and vegetables, 47,000,0 acres. 
The Turner Memorial Prize, a silver cup, offered 
for twelve show and six fancy Dahlias at the Crystal 
Palace show last week, was won by Mr. F. G. West, 
Cornwalls, Brentwood. 
The third annual Apple and Pear Show at Exeter 
will be held on October 21st and 22nd. 
Mr. Arthur Horsell, lately gardener at Wonersh 
Park, Guildford, Surrey, has been engaged as gardener 
to Lord Bateman, Shoddon Court, Hereford. 
We have received a copy of the fourth edition of Mr. 
John Wright’s Mushrooms for the Million, to 
which some supplementary chapters of an interesting 
character have been added. 
The Bury and West Suffolk Horticultural 
Society, of which Mr. Peter Grieve, late of Culford, is 
Honorary Secretary, will hold a Fruit and Chrysanthe¬ 
mum Show at Bury St. Edmunds, on November 11th 
and 12 th. 
The Sutton Pose Society has decided to hold a 
Chrysanthemum Show on November 12th and 13th. 
Mr. John Hannah, gardener, Whauphill, Ayrshire, 
exhibited a bunch of the Raisin de Calabre Grape, 
weighing 21J lbs., at the Crystal Palace Fruit Show 
last week. 
The plants figured in The Orchid Album for the 
current month are Odontoglossum aspersum, Cattleya 
Mossise, Ccelogyne Dayana, and Vanda Denisoniana 
hebraica. 
Mr. JohnThoepe states,on authoritative information, 
that not less than 25,000 dollars worth of plants have 
been used for filling boxes and vases in front of New 
York hotels iu a single year. 
At a Meeting of the Preston and Fulvood Horti¬ 
cultural Society held on Saturday last, the treasurer, 
Mr. J. B. Dixou, submitted the financial statement for 
the year 1885-6. It showed that the year opened with 
a balance in hand of £4 18s. lOJif. The receipts for 
admission to the exhibition amounted to £48 14s. Id ; 
subscriptions came to £96 10s. 6 cl., and sundries 
brought the total receipts to £160 3s. 0 \d. The dis¬ 
bursements, amounting to £151 15s. 3 d., included 
vocalists £17 17s., band £12 2s., prizes £64 12s. 9d. 
The balance in hand was £8 7s. 9 id. 
The annual exhibition of Asters, Zinnias, &c., 
organised by the Maidstone Gardeners’ Mutual Im¬ 
provement Society, was held in the meeting room of 
society at the “Rose and Crown Hotel,” High Street, 
on Thursday, September 2nd. The show was an ex¬ 
ceedingly good one, the exhibits being very fine and 
numerous. There was good competition in each of the 
classes, more especially for Asters, of which there was 
a splendid collection. 
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NATIONAL CHRYSANTHEMUM 
SOCIETY. 
A meeting of the General Committee of the National 
Chrysanthemum Society was held on Monday, the 
6th inst., at “ The Old Four Swans,” Bishopsgate, Mr. 
E. Sanderson in the chair. Final arrangements were 
made for the show of early-flowering Chrysanthemums 
and Dahlias at the Royal Aquarium, on Thursday and 
Friday, the 9th and 10th inst. Messrs. R. Dean, Geo. 
Gordon, and R. Swift were appointed judges for the 
Dahlia classes, and Messrs. E. Berry, C. Gibson, and 
C. Gilbey for the Chrysanthemums. Mr. Holmes, the 
hon. sec., reported that numerous applications had 
been received from affiliated societies for medals, and 
that there had already been a great demand for the 
new catalogue which has just been published by the 
Society. 
The first autumn show, held at the Royal Aquarium 
on Thursday and Friday (to which we can only to-day 
very briefly allude), was in every way a success, though 
the early-flowering Chrysanthemums, for which the 
show was specially arranged, were by no means iu full 
bloom. The display of Dahlias and Gladioli, however, 
helped to make up a very good show. The leading 
prize-winners with Chrysanthemums were Mr. N. 
Davis, Camberwell; Mr. "Wright, Middle Temple; 
Mr. G. Stevens, Putney; Mr. Sadler, Streatham ; 
Mr. Holmes, Hackney ; Mr. Piercey, Forest Hill; and 
Mr. G. Bolas, Wirksworth. 
The best collection of Gladioli came from Messrs. 
Burrel & Co., Cambridge, and the finest dozen from the 
Rev. H. H. D’Ombrain, Westwell Yicarage, Ashford. 
Messrs Keynes, Williams & Co. had the best forty- 
eight show Dahlias, and also the best twenty-four 
fancy varieties; and Mr. Turner staged the best 
twenty-four show varieties. Other successful exhi¬ 
bitors were Messrs. Cheat & Sons (first with Pompons 
and singles), Mr. Glasscock, Mr. West, Mr. T. W. 
Girdlestone, Messrs. Saltmarsk & Sons, &c. 
