November 27 , 1886. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
197 
A meeting of the general committee of the National 
Chrysanthemum Society will be held at the “Old Four 
Swans,” Bishopsgate Street, City, on Monday evening 
next, at seven o’clock. 
Messes. Lucombe, Pince & Co., of Exeter, have a 
fine private exhibition of Chrysanthemums, which, we 
understand, occupies one of their largest houses. 
Mr. J. A. Crowe, HerMajesty’s Commercial Attache, 
states that one of the causes which led to a bad Grape 
harvest in France is mildew, by which the provinces of 
Champagne, the Orleanais, Anjou, and the Nantais 
have more particularly suffered. Contemporary with 
the failure of the vintage as a whole is the failure of 
the Apple crop in Normandy and Brittany, where the 
fruit is neither abundant nor cheap. 
At the annual dinner of the Royal Jersey Agricul¬ 
tural and Horticultural Society, on the 18th inst., it 
was stated that the Potato export trade this year 
brought in £200,000. The total area in the island 
available for the crop is 20,000 acres. Gen. Ray, 
governor of the island, exhibited samples of Tobacco 
grown and cured by himself. 
The second edition of Mr. Lewis Castle’s treatise on 
Orchids being exhausted, a new edition will be pub¬ 
lished in a few days. 
Mr. D. McFarlane, florist, Olive Mount, Waver- 
tree, Liverpool, died suddenly in the stoke-hole adjoin¬ 
ing his dwelling-house on the 20th inst. He was 
formerly gardener for some years at Knowsley Cottage, 
and was highly respected by the local horticulturists. 
Mr. C. E. Broome, of Elmhurst, near Bath, the 
well-known authority on Fungi, died in London on the 
15th inst., aged seventy-four years. 
We regret to hear that Mr. Charles Green, 
formerly gardener to the late Mr. Wilson Saunders at 
Hillfield, Reigate, and to Sir George Macleayat Pendell 
Court, Bletehingly, died on the 10th inst. 
A Flower Show on Eel Pie Island.— The -well- 
known Eel Pie Island, an eyot in the River Thames, at 
Twickenham, was, on Friday and Saturday of la.st 
week, the scene of a capital little exhibition of Chrysan¬ 
themums, fruits, vegetables, &c., the first of its kind 
ever held on the Island, which we are glad to see is 
being altered and greatly improved by Mr. Clifford, 
the proprietor. The exhibition was held in the 
billiard-room, which was decorated with flags for the 
occasion. In the open classes Mr. G. Allen, gardener 
at the Island, took the first prizes for Chrysanthemums, 
fruit and cut flowers, and also won the Silver Cup for 
the best collection of vegetables. In the cottagers’ 
classes Mr. J. H. Gilbert took first for Potatos, Cabbages 
and four kinds of vegetables ; Mr. Phillips took first for 
Onions and Parsnips, and Mr. Mason for celery. Mr. W. 
Gordon, nurseryman, Twickenham, showed a pretty 
group of Chrysanthemums, Orchids, Palms, Ferns, &c. 
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PLANTING TREES AND SHRUBS. 
What to plant is as important a subject as when 
and how to plant. Which are the trees and shrubs 
that should be selected depends mainly on the size and 
purpose of the intended plantation ; and partly, too, 
on its soil and the climate. There is a great variety in 
the objects for which planting is undertaken, and the 
special scope of each should be kept in view when 
selecting the subjects regarded as most appropriate. It 
is not necessary that any allusion should be made to 
forest planting in this relation beyond this, that in 
order to do it well, the same minute care recommended 
in planting ornamental trees cannot be extended to 
forest planting, as in such an undertaking it would 
involve too heavy a cost. And then, in reference to 
park planting, to lay out and plant a park artistically 
is the highest effort of the landscape gardener’s art. 
Some men are born with a peculiar aptitude for seizing 
at a glance all the salient features and inherent 
capabilities which a given area presents for the exercise 
of their natural taste and development of natural 
beauties. No written directions can supply the place 
of a practical man, gifted with good taste, and possessed 
of experience. 
But in the matter of planting pleasure grounds and 
shiubberies, we may venture upon a few remarks. 
Much depends upon the size and area to be planted. 
The more spacious it is, the more of the larger kinds 
of trees will be required. In a long border of simple 
width, the background should be formed of the tallest 
conifer®, interspersed with deciduous trees of the 
greatest size. In front of these should come an ad¬ 
mixture of deciduous trees of the second size, mingled 
-with conifer® and evergreens of corresponding height ; 
whilst the foreground will consist of the smallest 
species of evergreen and flowering shrubs, tapering off 
with a border some 8 ft. or 10 ft. wide, to be devoted 
to herbaceous and other dwarf plants. Formality and 
stiffness should be avoided by irregularity of distances 
between the trees, so as to present nothing like the 
appearance of rows or straight lines. A few (not 
many) Lombardy Poplars thrown in at irregular in¬ 
tervals will contribute to break the lines. In these, 
and, indeed, in all plantations, those trees, which from 
their beauty or rarity, or other claims to preference, it 
is intended should be permanent, should be planted 
at such intervals as that, when they attain their full 
maturity, they shall not interfere with each other ; and 
the less valuable trcies that meanwhile fill the spaces 
between them, can be removed gradually as they be¬ 
come too crowded. The planter should not, therefore, 
place very choice trees or shrubs too near each other in 
any plantation, large or small. The above directions 
as to the mode of planting large spaces can be applied 
to smaller borders, and to clumps and shrubberies of all 
shapes. Specimen trees on lawns, &c., need to be planted 
with much discretion, and with due regard to the fitness 
of things. It is a mistake to unduly cut up grassy 
Clianthus Dampierii. 
expanses by dotting too many single specimens about 
them, or worse still, too many flower beds in small 
clumps over its surface. What single specimens are 
planted should be of the very best for the purpose, and 
be also rare in character. If conifers, the lowermost 
branches should feather to the ground ; if deciduous 
trees, they should be of such a character of growth, as 
that when the branches are allowed to ramify 5 ft. or 
6 ft. high on the trunk, they should dip to the ground, 
as in the case of the Tulip tree, the Catalpa, Horse 
Chestnut, and many others. Amongst these may also 
be interspersed a few pendulous trees, which, when not 
too numerous, add a peculiar grace to the scene. A tall 
tree, with a straight unbranched trunk, that rears its 
head aloft, and forms a head 50 ft. or 100 ft. above our 
reach, is, indeed, a noble object, but would be quite out 
of place in the centre of a lawn. 
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THE GLORY PEA. 
As in my experience so many gardeners fail to grow 
the very handsome Clianthus Dampierii successfully, 
may I hint that the most probable cause of failure is 
the too short season of growth allowed, owing to the 
wrong season of sowing which many adopt. I am very 
successful with the plant myself, and my practice is to 
sow the seeds singly in small pots at this season of the 
year, placing them on a shelf near the glass in a warm 
greenhouse, where germination takes place towards the 
beginning of the new year. When the plants are an 
inch or so in height, I shift them into large 60’s, and 
afterwards, when they are strong enough and only ju 3 t 
rooted through the soil, I give them their final shift 
into 10-in. pots, taking care in this, as at the former 
potting, not to break the ball. The compost I find 
them do best in is two parts turfy loam, one of peat, 
and the remainder of leaf soil and sand in equal pro¬ 
portions, the whole being broken and mixed by the 
hand and not choppel up. Until seen to be vigorously 
growing the plants require to be carefully and even 
sparingly watered, but afterwards plenty of rain water 
may be given them. It need hardly be said that once 
the plant is established it is, strictly speaking, a cold 
and rather dry house plant.— Austral. 
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CHRYSANTHEMUM MONO- 
G-RAPHICUM. 
The editor of the Gardening World, in calling my 
attention to a leading article bearing the above title 
which appeared in this journal on the 13th inst., has 
desired me, as one much interested in all concerning 
what is there very aptly described as a democratic 
flower, to give him such observations as might occur to 
me upon the subject. It is with no small degree of 
satisfaction that I accede to his wish, because it has 
frequently been a source of wonder to me that some 
such publication as is now suggested has not already 
become un fait accompli. 
With regard to the enormous popularity acquired by 
the Glorious Queen of Autumn, as our American 
cousins delight to call it, nothing need be said, as there 
are but few persons connected with the horticultural 
world who would venture to dispute the assertion that 
no other flower of modern times can claim to be a rival 
in the hold it has taken upon the million, and it is 
open to question whether even the inhabitants of the 
Flowery Land can vie with us in the enthusiastic admi¬ 
ration displayed in this country for their favourite 
flower. 
Chrysanthemum cultivators are now a large and im¬ 
portant section of the floricultural world, and, in their 
interest, a magazine, either weekly, monthly, or 
quarterly, well illustrated and produced in first-class 
style, w'ould undoubtedly be supported in a liberal 
manner. It would be the means of not only imparting 
much useful information on many points, but would 
settle queries regarding the origin, parentage, and 
dates of distribution of the multitude of flowers, both 
ancient and modern, and of which we know so little. 
The Chrysanthemum magazine might be made the 
medium of disseminating a better knowledge of some . f 
the older forms of flowers, long since departed from the 
collections of the growers of these latter days. Then, 
again, experienced hands might detail special points of 
culture regarding certain capricious varieties, of which 
there are some which never appear to thrive with any 
satisfaction to the average grower, and only bloom once 
in a lifetime. Hints, advice, precautions to be taken 
and a mine of useful knowledge, might be relegated to 
their proper columns in the new periodical, and a mass 
of matter only acceptable to thegenuine Chrysanthemum 
grower might find a place in this special journal, which 
matter may now very often not be considered suitable 
for the generality of the subscribers to the established 
organs of the horticultural press. 
We should, however, be compelled to insist upon a 
special column which could bear the appropriate 
heading of the “Literary bear garden,” in which those 
who desire to disport themselves in print could have 
their fill. All kinds of questions, stupid and other¬ 
wise, would be asked and answered by “Constant 
Readers,” “An Old Grower,” “Mr. Dunderhead,” 
“Mr. Know All,” “Mr. Gratte Papier,” et hoc genus 
omne. 
The National Chrysanthemum Society, it is true, 
might embark upon such a venture, but it is doubtful 
whether it could spare the necessary funds, for some 
years to come at least, to produce, as a matter of specu- 
1 ition, a magazine or review of the n iturenow suggested ; 
and the coloured illustrations, it ought also to be borne 
in mind, is so serious an item in the way of prime cost, 
that I am sure the first estimate for that part of the 
business, would be a subject for very grave con¬ 
sideration. 
I do not quite agree with the statement made by the 
leader writer, when he says “ that it is unfortunate that 
we have on paper scarcely any record of the develo p- 
ment of the Chrysanthemum pictorially.” There are 
many illustrations of this flower in the different works 
