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annually a very charming class, comprised of 
glass stands dressed with hardy foliage and 
berries; some of these are most beautiful, and 
the material is so enduring that they remain 
objects of beauty often for several weeks 
after. -—- 
Royal Horticultural Society.—We understand that 
at the meeting of the council held on the 8th inst., an 
informal offer from the Royal Commissioners of the 
1851 exhibition, to let the Gardens and Conservatory 
at South Kensington to the society at a guaranteed 
rent of £1,000 a year was discussed. The council felt 
that on financial grounds it was impossible for them to 
accept the offer, as the cost of maintenance, with rates 
and taxes, would amount to at least another £1,000, 
making an expenditure of £2,000 a year for South 
Kensington alone, without counting office charges or 
the cost of Chiswick Gardens. It was also decided 
that no advantage could accrue to the society from the 
continuance of negotiations of which the end could only 
be delay and disappointment. The council decided to 
issue forthwith an appeal on behalf of the society to 
the horticultural public of the kingdom. The terms 
and conditions of this appeal were discussed and settled 
generally. Subsequent to the meeting, Col. R. Trevor 
Clarke and Major R. Mason resigned their places on 
the Council, and Mr. William Haughton gave notice 
that he should resign at the end of the year ; these 
gentlemen having been in favour of continuing the 
connection of the society with South Kensington and 
the Royal Commissioners of the 1851 exhibition. The 
Council will not take any steps to fill these vacancies 
without consulting the Fellows. 
The Late Mr. George Johnston, of Glamis.—We 
much regret to hear that by the death of Mr. 
Johnston, his widow and a young family are left in 
rather straitened circumstances, so much so, in fact, 
that although Lord Strathmore has very kindly pro¬ 
vide! Mrs. Johnston with a home, and undertaken to 
make her a small monthly allowance, some of the 
friends of the family consider it necessary to raise a 
subscription on their behalf. Mr. T. H. Nieholl, Tay 
Beach Cottage, near Dundee, has kindly undertaken 
the duties of treasurer, and will be pleased to hear from 
any of the personal friends of the late Mr. Johnston 
who may feel disposed to assist in the good cause. 
Leek Show at Kelso.—Messrs. Stuart & Mein offered 
a few months ago the handsome prize of £5 for the best 
six specimens of the Lyon Leek, grown from seed 
supplied directly by them, and the competition came 
off on Friday, the 11th inst, in Wood Market, and 
being market day, and a large number of farmers in 
the town, the show was largely patronised. The com¬ 
petition was open to all, and samples were sent from 
various districts south of Perthshire as far as the Isle of 
Wight. Out of an exceedingly large number of entries 
thirty-four sent specimens for competition, almost the 
whole of which were remarkably fine and of great 
merit. Notwithstanding the wide area represented, 
however, the twelve or fourteen lots consigned from 
growers in the immediate locality were of the highest 
excellence in point of quality. Between four of these 
the competition was very close, and it was only by 
careful consideration of the various points that the 
judges were able to arrive at their decision. They 
awarded the prize to Mr. James Minto, Caledonian 
Brewery, Jedburgh, whose exhibits were 16 ins. in 
length by 6 ins. in circumference ; and their decision 
seemed to meet with the approval of all concerned. 
The gentlemen who officiated as judges were Mr. John 
Cairns, The Hirsel; Mr. Adam Renton, The Lees; and 
Mr. William Henry, Rowchester, the raiser of the 
Henry’s Prize Leek, a variety which was in much 
request for exhibition ten or twelve years ago. 
The Chrysanthemum at Bedford Park.—An in¬ 
teresting display of Chrysanthemums grown in the 
neighbourhood was made at a meeting of the Bedford 
Park Natural History and Gardening Society at the 
club on Saturday last. Mr. George Gordon, of the 
Gardeners’ Magazine, gave an address on the Chry¬ 
santhemum, which was peculiarly appropriate to the 
occasion. He dwelt largely on the dwarfing system as 
most suitable to the convenience and requirements of 
the amateur ; because by that method a greater number 
of plants could be accommodated in a small greenhouse, 
and by reason of the better foliage encouraged and the 
dwarf habit, a better effect would be ensured. A lively 
discussion followed about the dressing of flowers, the 
training of specimens, the respective beauty of single 
and double flowers, and the real nature of so-called 
double-flowered Chrysanthemums, 
Tipperary to the Front !—The “Mum” fever appears 
to have got well hold of some of our Irish friends, 
and if we may judge from some jubilant remarks in 
the Clonmel Chronicle, in Tipperary especially has the 
autumn queen found some enthusiastic admirers and 
growers. At Dublin, Cork, and Waterford, the 
Clonmel and other Tipperary cultivators carried off 
all the leading honours ; while their own local show, 
held on the loth inst., was perhaps the finest ever 
seen in Ireland. Mr. Frederick Clibborn, Anner 
House, Clonmel, who is described as being generally 
known as the champion grower of Ireland, again dis¬ 
tinguished himself by securing first honours, at Clonmel, 
for twenty-four incurved blooms, and for twenty-four 
Japanese ; the Marchioness of Headfort’s special prize, 
at Dublin, for thirty-six blooms ; and Mr. W. Baylor 
Hartland’s Silver Cup, at Cork, for a dozen Japanese. 
Mr. Clibborn would doubtless also have done well at 
Waterford, had not some miscreant stolen all his 
prize blooms out of the Dublin show. Mrs. Malcom- 
son, George Gough, Esq., Raymond de la Poer, Esq., 
and John P. Poe, Esq., have] also distinguished then, 
selves ; the latter showing, at Dublin, the new Pompon 
illustrated on p. 201, and which was one of the most 
attractive flowers in the exhibition. 
Royal Horticultural Society of Ireland. —At the 
annual meeting of this society, held on the 10th inst., 
the Duke of Leinster presiding, the secretary, Mr. 
Ambrose Balfe, reported that, viewed from a horti¬ 
cultural standpoint, the exhibitions held by the society 
this year had been highly interesting and successful, 
and in several features of exceptional merit. Owing to 
bad weather the receipts from the autumn show were 
extremely limited, yet the council had been able to 
pay all the prizes, and discharge every other liability, 
leaving a balance in hand of some £20. The report of 
the council also alluded to the indebtedness of the 
society to Mr. F. W. Moore, the able director of the 
Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, ‘ ‘ for the mag¬ 
nificent groups of new, rare, and interesting plants 
forwarded to the exhibitions, lending to each a feature 
of exceptional interest and attractiveness which no 
other source could supply.” On the motion of Mr. 
Lombard, a resolution was adopted to the effect that in 
future the annual meetings should be held in January 
instead of November; and among the gentlemen 
elected to serve on the council were Sir James Mackey, 
John T. Poe, Esq., Rev. F. Tymons, J. F. Lombard, 
Esq., Mr. F. W. Moore, Mr. Hogg, Mr. Drummond, 
and Dr. Percival Wright. 
The Democratic Tendencies of Gardening. —In a 
readable article on “ Old Garden Flowers,” contributed 
to the December number of Harper’s Magazine, Mr. 
F. W. Burbidge remarks :—“There is nothing in the 
world more democratic in its tendencies and teaching 
than is a garden. Everything that grows therein is 
real, not an imitation nor a painted sham. A white 
Lily, or a Rose, or a Pansy beside a cottage door may 
be as fine as the Lily, or the Rose, or the Pansies in the 
Queen’s garden. In other decorative arts this is rarely 
the ease. For the poor is the cheap edition in cloth ; 
for the rich the hand-made paper, the good printing, 
the broad margins, the real leather binding. So in 
pictures or statuary, the chromograph or the plaster 
cast for the artisan ; the painting or the original 
marble for his employer. But in the garden of the tiny 
cottage, things are as real and as sweet and as beautiful 
for Demos, the ironhanded, as for Crcesus with his 
gold.” 
Exhibition Morality.—Last week it was our un¬ 
pleasant duty to comment on a case of dishonest 
exhibiting at Bromley. This week we have received 
information of another attempt to deceive the judges, 
and thereby to gain a prize by dishonest means. This 
last case occurred at the Reading Chrysanthemum 
Show, where a gardener, in a competition for Roman 
Hyacinths, stuck more flowers in the pot than the bulbs 
carried—a clumsy and dishonest trick that was quickly 
exposed. 
Presentations to Gardeners. —Mr. William Pirie, 
on the occasion of his leaving Ratho Park to take 
charge of the gardens at Preston Hall, Dalkeith, was 
recently entertained by his friends at a complimentary 
supper, and presented with a handsome timepiece as a 
mark of their respect and esteem. Mr. Kemp, who has 
succeeded his brother at Coolhurst, Horsham, was also 
paid a similar compliment by his brother gardeners 
previous to leaving Keithock. 
Death of Mrs. Kingliorn. —We regret to record the 
death on the 22nd inst., at the Sheen Nursery, 
Richmond, of Mary Thomson, relict of the late Mr. 
Francis R. Kinghorn, in her seventy-second year. 
The Laurel-leaved Violet.—In this we have, indeed, 
a member of the Yiola family which has been named 
Yiola laurifolia, by Smith, in Rees’ Cyclopcedia ; but 
so like a Viola is it in general structure, and yet so 
different in appearance, that it has received various 
names at the hands of different authors from time to 
time. According to our standard authorities it is most 
correctly named Corynostylis Hybanthus, and is 
figured in the Botanical Magazine, t. 5960, under that 
name. Its other synonyms are Corynostylis Aubletii, 
Calyptrion Aubletii and Yiola Hybanthus, besides that 
above given, namely, Yiola laurifolia. The English 
name is a happy one and might, for the matter of that, 
be generally adopted, as the plant belongs to the Yiola 
family, and is besides deliciously scented. It is, more¬ 
over, a climbing shrub that was first introduced to 
cultivation by Mr. Linden, from Para, and extends over 
a tract of country extending from the Amazon to 
Venezuela, Columbia, Guatemala and St. Vincent ; 
and was first flowered in Britain in Mr. Bull's nursery, 
at Chelsea, in 1872. The leaves are large and leathery, 
shallowty-toothed or serrated at the margins, and 
resemble those of a Laurel to some extent, as the 
' English name implies. The general appearance of the 
axillary racemes of white flowers, with their stout, 
curiously twisted spurs, forcibly reminds one of some 
of the Indian Balsams, that is a species of Impatiens. 
The Racemose Passion Flower.—The subject to 
which this name is applied is more generally known 
in gardens as Passiflora princeps than as P. racemosa, 
the latter of which is more correct botanically, and 
equally applicable, if not more appropriate, than P. 
princeps. The reason of this will be obvious, when it 
is observed how exceptional the mode of flowering is in 
this as compared with that of other species generally, 
where the flowers are produced singly from stalks in 
the axils of the leaves. In P. racemosa the flowers are 
produced in racemes, that is, there is a considerable 
number of flowers on each axillary peduncle or flower 
stalk. The other specific name is applied, no doubt, 
from the princely appearance of the large scarlet and 
highly ornamental flowers. This name, however, 
would be equally applicable to a number of species, 
where the flowers are even larger, and in some cases 
more intensely coloured. Unfortunately, the individual 
flowers are not very durable, but a long succession is 
kept up. This species is nearly always in flower at 
Gunnersbury Park, Acton, on the roof of an inter¬ 
mediate house. 
Cut Flowers at the late Birmingham Show.— 
In the hurriedly-written report of the late Birmingham 
Show, which appeared in our last issue, one or two 
special features of the exhibition failed to get so much 
justice done to them as they deserved, and especially 
was this the case with regard to the Chinese Primulas, 
and some of the cut flowers. The former are dealt 
with by a correspondent in another column ; and with 
regard to the latter, we supply an omission here by 
recording the fact that a Certificate of Merit was 
awarded to Mrs. Thewles, the lady who keeps the 
flower stall at the New Street Station, for a charming 
display of made-up flowers, in the form of sprays for 
ladies, button-hole flowers for gentlemen, a floral muff, 
fans, a rustic cross, and a looking-glass framed with 
Parma Violets, white Rose buds and brown leaves—an 
arrangement which much delighted the ladies. 
Gardening Changes.— Mr. A. J. Temple, late 
manager of the Solihull Nurseries, near Birmingham, 
has succeeded Mr. W. J. Ireland, as gardener at 
Nostell Priory, Wakefield. Mr. Ireland, a very able 
man, seeks another engagement. Mr. John Lunt, 
general foreman to Mr. Dunn, at Dalkeith, has taken 
charge of the gardens at Bowhill, Selkirkshire. 
-- 
Veitch’s “Manual of Orchidaceous Plants.”* 
—The first part of this work, treating of the genus 
Odontoglossum, was reviewed by us, Yol. III., p. 392. 
The second part, now before us, is devoted to the 
description, history, and cultural treatment of Cattleya 
and Lselia, two of the most popular and important 
genera of Orchids. Four allied genera—namely, 
Ladiopsis, Tetramicra, Scliomburgkia, and Sophronitis— 
are also included ; but they necessarily occupy little 
space, owing to the small number of species they 
contain, and the still smaller number of species in 
* “ A Manual of Orchidaceous Plants, Cultivated under Glass 
in Great Britain.” Part II.— Cattleya and Lalia, L.eliopsis, 
Tetkamicra, Schombukgkia, axd Sopheoxiiis. By James 
Veitch & Sons, King’s Road, Chelsea. 
