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THE GARDENING WORLD. 
October 21, 1893. 
moderate, produced a countercheck, and 
things have been equalised. Still, we do 
look for a season of remarkably fine flowers. 
That result seems to be inevitable, and if 
the blooms are not exceptionally early, at 
least they should be exceptionally good. 
If that result follows, growers to whom 
the long spell of heat and drought 
caused great anxiety and heavy labour, will 
find ample reward. In but a week or two 
more we shall be into the thick of the 
shows Then the real products of the 
season will stand fully revealed. Plants 
are generally in good condition, the earlier 
flowers are excellent and we ma}' well 
expect to find the general crop wonderfully 
fine. 
Mutumn Tints. — Whilst around the 
Metropolis trees have lost their foliage 
unduly earl3q more out into the country, 
where leafage has been enduring and per¬ 
fected, the autumn tints just now are of so 
striking and beautiful a kind as to command 
the warmest admiration. It is doubtful 
whether at any time we can find so much 
to admire all about the countr}', and 
especially in the woodland districts, as m 
the autumn. It is true the early defoliation 
of trees found in districts where the drought 
told with special effect, naturally led to the 
inferance that autumn leafage would be 
poor and fleeting. 
So far from that being the case, however, 
the long drought in so thoroughly maturing 
wood and leafage has led to contrary re¬ 
sults, and now we see colouration in ex¬ 
ceeding variet}' and beauty. Chestnuts, 
Elms, Poplars, Tulip trees, &c., are all 
aglow with gold ; Oaks, Beeches, Planes, 
with rich, russety-bronze ; Acers, Turkey 
and American Oaks are brilliant with red 
and crimson hues, whilst the Firs still give 
forth their heavy greens as foils to the 
brighter tints. Shrubs and climbers in all 
directions respond to this same colour 
force. 
That such colouration is of necessity 
fleeting we all know. It is, after all, but 
Nature’s mourning garb, for the season of 
death to leafage is at hand, and whilst 
that goes to decay becomes literally earth 
to earth, dust to dust ; the trees which 
bore it have gone to rest for the time that 
Nature compels, to again in good time be 
re-dressed in living green, the new clothing 
which shall for another season make our 
woodlands so beautiful and so joyous. If 
we have to pay for all these spring and 
autumn charms, for the long summer of 
umbrageous wealth of foliage, with even a 
long naked winter, at least the summer 
brings great reward. 
T^aspberries. —Whilst we have been 
hearing of numerous cases in which 
strawberry plants, ordinarity so verj^ staid 
and regular in their movements, have been 
departing from usual courses, and fruiting 
freely in the open ground. Raspberries too 
have been to some extent induced to depart 
from custom also, and the young canes 
have produced a second crop. It may 
have been, however, that some of these 
products have been from true autumn 
fruiting varieties that are treated as sum¬ 
mer bearers, with the result that, whilst 
the summer crop from the old canes is a 
poor one, that from the new canes in the 
autumn is an abundant one. 
We saw but a few days since a dish of 
verj" fine fruit gathered from one of these 
autumn bearers that very naturally excited 
wonder and interest amongst persons un¬ 
familiar with the section. It is rather a 
pity that these are not more generally 
grown, but it cannot be too well understood 
in relation to their culture that canes are 
to be treated as of annual growth, then cut 
down, leaving none to fruit the following 
}’ear. If that course be pursued, the annual 
growth is all the stronger, and the autumn 
fruit crop much the heavier. Some good 
varieties are Autumn Black, Belle de Fon- 
tenay, fine red colour; October Red and 
October Yellow; the latter is, however, 
seldom grown, whilst October Red is, per¬ 
haps, the best of all. 
Whilst the autumn-produced fruit seldom 
equals that of the summer in flavour and 
sweetness, it is none the less very delicious 
for tarts, and this autumn it has been 
better than usual. Our summer varieties 
are of the first quality, and, when allied to 
the best autumn fruiters, give to us for a 
long season one of the most acceptable of 
soft hardy fruits. 
I^EAN Hole on Fruit Culture.— When 
the estimable Dean of Rochester talks 
about Roses we are delighted to hear him. 
But it is a very doubtful honour when a 
man gets a high reputation for after-dinner 
speeches because, for the mere sake of 
amusing a possibly elevated audience, he 
may be induced to talk nonsense. This 
Dean Hole did the other evening at the Man¬ 
sion House, when in proposing the health of 
the Lord Mayor, he being invited to bless 
fruit culture, reversing the action of Balaam 
of old, remained to curse. Whatever may 
have been the influence operating, and very 
large allowances have to be made for post¬ 
prandial utterances, especially at the 
Mansion House, we are utterly unable to 
understand how it was that so genial an 
optimist should on such an occasion have 
developed into so despondent a pessimist. 
We can but attribute the Dean’s reflec¬ 
tions on what he seemed to regard as the 
backwardation of fruit culture as pure 
cussedness, arising from a want of know¬ 
ledge. A man may be great on Roses and 
very small indeed on Apples. It may be 
amusing enough to a dinner assemblage 
to hear absurdities spoken, but the 
speaker should at least think of the great 
sober-minded audience outside. It was most 
odd, yet most instructive, that in the very 
same morning papers that gave us these 
deplorable utterances of Dean Hole were 
paragraphs, evidently of the most authori¬ 
tative kind, showing that fruit culture has 
in this country made marked advances, 
facts substantiated by those who know, 
and that is what, apparently, the Dean of 
Rochester does not. 
In every direction, on every hand, we see 
abundant evidence that fruit culture is 
making great strides. Our shows and our 
markets testify it. Such being the case, it 
is to be deplored that even scholarly Deans 
should at City banquets forget the old 
axiom, Ne sntor ultra crepidam. 
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Death of Mr. H. E. C. Beale. —We regret to learn 
of the death at Stoneydeep House, Teddington, on 
the i2th inst., of Mr. Herbert Edward Child Beale, 
eldest son of Mr. E. J. Beale, of the firm of Messrs. 
James Carter & Co., High Holborn, aged 27 years. 
Mr. JamesTroup, for the last four years foreman at 
Lanrick Castle, Perthshire, has been engaged as 
gardener to Mrs. Jardine Patterson, of Balgray, 
Dumfrieshire. 
Royal Horticultural Society.—At the afternoon 
meeting of this Society on Tuesday next, Mr. A. 
Dean will read a paper on " The Cultivation of the 
Onion.’’ 
Public Chrysanthemum Shows. —The annual dis¬ 
plays provided by the London County Council in 
the Battersea, Finsbury, and Waterlow Parks, and 
by the Benchers of the Temple in the Inner Temple 
Gardens are now open to the public. 
Manchester Chrysanthemum Show. —This exhibi¬ 
tion we are informed by Mr. Bruce Findlay will take 
place in the Town Hall on the 14th and 15th of 
November, instead of the 21st and 22nd as previously 
announced. Schedules are now ready and can be 
obtained on application to Mr. Findlay, at the 
Botanical Gardens, Old Trafford. 
Gardening Preferments.—We learn with much 
pleasure that Mr. W. Coleman, for many years 
gardener at Eastnor Castle, Ledbury, and a most 
successful e.xhibitor of fruits for some years, has 
been appointed estate agent and is succeeded in the 
management of the garden by Mr. Frank Harris. 
Another very successful exhibitor of fruit, Mr. J. 
Bennett, gardener, Rhug, Corwen, N. Wales, has 
also lately been promoted by his employer, the Hon. 
C. H. Wynn, to the position of steward and bailiff on 
the Rhug estate. 
German Horticulture. —Our learned contemporary. 
Dr. L. Wittmack, says the Illustration Horticols, has 
been charged to furnish for the exposition at 
Chicago statistical instructions upon horticulture in 
the German Empire. His highly remarkable work 
comprehends all branches of horticulture. We note 
amongst other things that Germany contained in 
1892, 17,699 horticultural establishments and nur¬ 
series, employing about 45,000 employes. 
Gardeners Seeking Situations.—We learn from 
Glasgow that a gentlemen of that city who adver¬ 
tised last week for a gardener, received about 200 
applications. The fact is not a cheering one for our 
friends over the border. 
Lectures on Horticulture. —The Technical Instruc¬ 
tion Committee of the Lowestoft Town Council is 
prepared to receive applications from persons who 
are willing to give a course of twelve lessons on 
horticulture, with special reference to cottage gar¬ 
dening. Applications, to be endorsed “Horticulture," 
should be sent to the Town Clerk, Lowestoft, on or 
before the 23rd inst. 
National Chrysanthemum Society.—We are reques¬ 
ted by the Hon. Secretary to state that on the occa¬ 
sion of the great exhibition at the Royal Aquarium, 
on November 7th, 8th, and gth, the flowers com¬ 
peting in Class 27 of the amateur division will be 
considered when the special medals are awarded. This 
class was unfortunately omitted from those men¬ 
tioned on page 64 of the schedule of prizes. Also 
that the awards in Class 48, being special prizes by 
Mr. E. C. Jukes, will be the Silver-gilt, Silver and 
Bronze Medals of the Society. The Floral Com¬ 
mittee will meet on the second day of the Show, 
Wednesday, November 8th, at two o'clock, and not 
on the first day as heretofore. / 
Mr. P. C. M. Veitch.—T/;r Devon and Exeter Daily 
referring to the portrait and biographical notice 
of Mr. Veitch, which was published in our last issue, 
remarks:—“Our contemporary frequently gives 
notices of men who have gained distinction in the 
gardening world, but none have ever been more 
worthy than Mr. ’Veitch of the kindly things which 
are said concerning him." 
Orchid Sale at Edinburgh. —We understand that at 
the sale of Mr. McKelvie’s Orchids in Edinburgh 
last week very poor prices were the rule, good speci¬ 
men plants in some case realising only about the 
first cost of the pots. 
Mr. Andrew Bell, forty-seven years gardener at 
Keith-Marischall, died at Pathhead, Midlothian, on 
the nth inst., aged 75 years. 
A New Scotch Chrysanthemum. —At a recent meet¬ 
ing of the Scottish Horticultural Association held in 
5, St. Andrew’s Square, a new Chrysanthemum 
named The Duchess of York was awarded a First, 
class Certificate. It belongs to the Japanese section, 
colour, a clear primrose yellow, broad- twisted florets, 
silvery-white on the reverse side. The build is 
ideally perfect for a show flower of the first rank, 
and is certain to become popular with Scotch 
growers. The exhibitor was Mr. James Carruthers, 
Hillwood, Corstorphine, who is well-known as one of 
the pioneers of the modern method of growing 
Chrysanthemums for show purposes, and has done 
much to popularise this flower in the neighbourhood 
of Edinburgh.— K. 
The Rajah of Sarawak, has, according to the Lon¬ 
don correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, decided 
to put a stop to the depredations of Orchid hunters 
and other collectors by prohibiting the collection of 
natural history specimens within his territory. 
Many species of the fauna and flora of the country 
were in danger of becoming extinct owing to the 
ruthless manner in which they were being destroyed. 
