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THE GARDENING WORLD. 
November 25 , 1898, 
Virginian Creeper and the Japan Ivy cling 
to brickwork so closely that they furnish 
their own grip. That saves a lot of trouble. 
They break into leafage early, and give tco 
us a wealth of foliage all the summer. 
Then when the autumn comes we get 
lovely colouring. 
In this respect, perhaps, the best results 
are found on climbers that have gone up; 
into trees where the summer growths can 
hang down in long, and graceful profusion,, 
and there are no walls to cause early 
defoliation. The Japan Ivy, Vitis tricus- 
pidata, better known, perhaps, as V. 
Veitchii, has the merit of retaining its 
leaves longer ihan the Virginian creeper, 
and gives to us the closest and firmest of 
wall growth, and in the autumn such very 
beautiful colour effects. We wonder how 
many have noticed that whilst the entire 
leaved form gives the richest crimson tints, 
the lobe-leaved one is always the latest to 
shed its leaves, and gives a dull, somewhat 
sombre tint. Each species of Vitis (Ampe- 
lopsis) has its merits, and both should be, 
so far as possible, grown, but the Virginian 
Creeper is the best suited to cover old trees. 
Few things seem so quickly to change the 
appearance of houses, and to convert what 
at first was offensive newness and garish¬ 
ness into that which is pleasing and 
picturesque. 
As to climbers generally, we can purchase 
them very cheaply, always in pots, and 
from these they may be transplanted into 
their permanent places at any time of the 
year. Apart from house covering we do 
not employ climbers so readily as we should. 
There is a great wealth of them—even in 
Clematises alone we have almost legion; 
but when all are remembered, the abundance 
almost astonishes. A “ Climbery,” to coin 
a word, does not seem yet to have become 
a garden feature. Possibly if some who are 
sick of the Pinetum, would hard lop back 
their conifers, and would grub up the soil 
about them, then plant climbers to cover 
these, they would create in place of that 
which was before monotonous, a garden of 
exceeding beauty. 
^^ONEY IN THE Garden.— Are we not in 
^ danger of becoming far too rapidly en¬ 
grossed in the pursuit of gain in connection 
with gardening, and too rapidly converting 
a vocation which, sentimentally, is asso¬ 
ciated with all that is pure, and lovely, and 
pleasurable, with the mere object of making 
it a means to live ? If Orchids are grown 
now they are grown chiefly that they may 
prove to be a good business investment. 
If we grow Chrysanthemums, it is that they 
may win prizes at shows : if Apples, Pears, 
Grapes, fruit indeed of any description, our 
thoughts are all centred on the probable 
money returns, and it is but still the same 
if our products be but Asparagus, Seakale, 
Cucumbers, or Tomatos, Cabbages, or 
Potatos. To a very, very dead level indeed 
is all our gardening tending. For one 
who gardens for pure love, regardless of 
pecuniary consideration, and with whom 
horticulture is a glory, a joy, a source of 
the most exceeding pleasure, ninety-nine 
regard it as a mere money-getting business 
in some shape or other. The dear, delight¬ 
ful old amateur element in gardening seems 
either to have died out altogether or is fast 
becoming contaminated with the prevailing 
avariciousness. It would seem as if we 
started this sort of greed in our large private 
gardens, where from first merely disposing 
of surplusage it is now all surplusage, and 
under the guise of being private gardens, 
maintained for the pleasure of the owner, 
and rated accordingly, these places are just 
as much market growing establishments as 
are those of the Messrs. Rochford, Ka)^ 
Ladds, or of anyone else. 
These market traders are legitimate 
horticulturists, for they are what the}^ pro¬ 
fess to be, market growers or traders. 
There is no hypocrisy about these people. 
They make no profession of puritan 
motives, -which are but a blind’ for getting 
either the biggest haul of prizes or the 
highest prices in the market for their pro¬ 
duce.* Our flowers are no longer sacred 
from the savour of the almighty dollar, and 
they too are rushed into the market, even 
if the selling gives no real profit. Would 
that we could see more of gardening for 
pure love. It used to be so, but sentiment 
in gardening, and we say it with sorrow, 
is a fast decaying force. The money 
changers have got possession of Flora and 
Pomona’s sacred temples. 
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Mr. A. McMillan, foreman to Mr. Lunt, at Keir, has 
been engaged as gardener to Claude Hamilton, 
Esq., of Dunmore Park, Stirlingshire. 
Death of an Edinburgh Nurseryman. —We regret to 
hear of the death, at the age o-f 71 years, of Mr. 
Robert Fraser, senior partner in the firm of Messrs. 
Cunningham, Fraser & Co., Comely Bank, Edin¬ 
burgh. 
Chrysanthemums at the Drill Hall.—In our report 
last week of the meeting of the Royal Horticultural 
Society, we inadvertently gav’e credit to Mr. W. 
Wells, of the Earlswood Nurseries, for showing six 
splendid blooms of the Thunberg Chrysanthemum, 
which it appears really belonged to Mr. W. Slogrove, 
gardener to Mrs. Crawford, Gatton Cottage, Redhill, 
and hasten to make the needful correction. 
Allotment Gardens in Bushy Park. —At a recent 
meeting of the Hampton Wick Local Board, a letter 
was read stating that the Chief Commissioner of 
Works was willing, subject to the sanction of the 
Treasury, to grant the Board fourteen acres of land 
in Bushy Park for allotment gardens at a rental of 
703. per acre per annum. 
The Orchid Growers’ Manual. —We learn from 
Messrs. B. S. Williams & Son, that they have in the 
press a new edition of their popular “ Orchid 
Growers Manual," which will be ready for publica¬ 
tion early in the new year. The new edition, which is 
the seventh, will be much enlarged, and will contain 
numerous additional illustrations. 
The National Amateur Gardeners’Association. —The 
annual dinner of this Association has been fixed to 
take place on Thursday, December 14th, in the 
Queen’s Salon, Holborn Restaurant, at 7 o’clock 
p.m. precisely. The medals, prizes and certificates 
won during the year will be presented on this 
occasion ; and the honorary secretary, Mr. D. B. 
Crane, 4, Woodview Terrace, Archway Road, 
Highgate, will be glad to hear from anyone desirous 
of being present. 
American Gardening. —A useful bi-monthly pub¬ 
lication, hitherto issued by the Rural Publishing 
Company of New York, has changed hands, the new 
proprietors being the A. T. De La Mare Printing and 
Publishing Co. of New York, who are the owners 
and publishers of that popular trade paper The 
Florist's Exchange. The first issue by the new pro¬ 
prietors takes a new form, and presents a radical 
change in the character of its contents, and both 
innovations it must be admitted are decided improve¬ 
ments. 
A Covent Garden Grape Case. —His Honour Judge 
Lumley Smith, Q.C., recently, in the Westminster 
County Court, delivered judgment in a case of much 
public interest, especially to dealers in the articles 
sold in Covent Garden Market. A Mr. James sued 
Messrs. W. N. White (Limited) for odd, the 
value of eight boxes of Grapes bought of the 
defendants, fruit salesmen of Covent Garden, which 
turned out for the most part to be unfit for food, 
and were condemned by the sanitary authorities. 
Plaintiff sought to show that he bought the goods 
from a thoroughly good sample, and paid 9s. a box 
for them. It was true that the bulk was in 
defendants’ cellar in the market, but no chance 
was given to see the contents of the other boxes. 
When the sale was on he was informed that the rest 
could be seen, but it was impossible to do so, because 
before he could have got back the whole lot would have 
been disposed of. Sometimes as many as a thousand 
persons were round the rostrum. Defendants con¬ 
tended that the sale was not by sample, that the 
opportunity was given to see the bulk, and that the 
conditions of sale stipulated that they were not 
liable for errors in description, quality, or quantity. 
His Honour said he must give judgment for Messrs. 
White. Defendants did not ask for costs. 
Edinburgh Botanical Society.—A meeting of this 
Society was held on the’gth inst.. Dr. Christison, 
president, in the chair. The president paid a fitting 
tribute to the memory of the late Mr. Jenner, and it 
was arranged that Mr. R. Lindsay, of the Botanic 
Gardens, should submit an obituary notice of the late 
Mr. Jenner at the next meeting. Professor Bayley 
Balfour intimated that Mr. George William Trail 
had presented his valuable collection of British 
Algae, and a series of microscopic sections of the 
same to the Society. Also, that Dr. Watt had given 
the Society a herbarium of Indian plants, both 
donors stipulating that the collections be kept intact 
during their life time. The Rev. Mr. Paul gave a 
report of the Scottish Alpine Botanical Club’s 
excursion to Clova, and Mr. Lindsay gave in his re¬ 
port on the weather for October. Professor Bower 
was elected president of the Society for the current 
year. Mr. Dunn. Dalkeith Gardens, showed a large 
number of blooms of various things in evidence of 
the open season. 
North of Scotland Horticultural and Aboricultural 
Association. —The members of this Association held 
their monthly meeting in the Christian Institute, 
Aberdeen, on Wednesday, 15th inst. There was a 
good attendance, and Mr. John Munro, Polmuir 
Nurseries, occupied the chair. The feature of the 
evening was an exhibition of what was described as 
" Novelties of the Year.” It consisted of the best 
specimens of flowers, fruit, and vegetables grown by 
the exhibitors. A few facts concerning the treat¬ 
ment given to each of the specimens were given by 
the various exhibitors, among whom were Mr. Grigor, 
Mr. Harper, Duthie Public Park ; Mr. William Reid, 
and several others. The proceedings proved very 
instructive and enjoyable. Mr. J. Crighton, Bal- 
nagarth, afterwards read a paper on the rearing of 
that most charming of all autumn-flowering plants 
the Chrysanthemum. A collection of beautiful 
Chrysanthemums was on exhibition, and was much 
admired. Cultural Certificates were awarded to 
Mr. J. Crighton and Mr. Ross, Cranford, for Chry¬ 
santhemums and Orchids. After an interesting dis¬ 
cussion, the proceedings were brought to a close with 
the usual votes of thanks. 
National Chrysanthemum Society.—At a meeting 
of the general committee held on Monday evening, 
Mr. R. Ballantine in the chair, it was announced 
that the recent show at the Aquarium had proved 
an unqualified success. The arbitration committee 
recommended that the following awards be made to 
exhibitors of miscellaneous subjects; — Silver-gilt 
Medals to Mr. Robert Owen, Maidenhead, for a 
beautiful collection of cut blooms of new Chry¬ 
santhemums; to Mr. H. J. Jones, Lewisham, for a 
very fine table of cut blooms; to Messrs. W. 
Cutbush & Son, Highgate, for an attractive 
collection of plants and fruits; and to Messrs. 
B. S Williams & Son, Holloway, for a beautiful 
table of Orchids and other plants. Silver Medals 
to Messrs. E. D. Shuttleworth & Co., for a table of 
decorative plants; to Mr. H. Berwick, for a collec¬ 
tion of fruit; to Mr. W. J. Godfrey, for a collection 
of Chrysanthemum blooms; to Messrs. H. Canned 
& Sons, for a collection of cut flowers; to Messrs. 
John Laing & Sons, for a collection of fruit and cut 
flowers ; and to Mr. Norman Davis, for a collection 
of cut Chrysanthemums. Bronze Medals to Messrs. 
H. Canned & Sons, for a collection of vegetables; 
and to Mr. W. E. Boyce, for a collection of cut 
Chrysanthemum blooms. Twenty-two new members 
and two fellows were added to the roll of member¬ 
ship, and at the conclusion of the ordinary business 
it was anticipated that Mr. C. E. Shea would have 
been present to read a promised paper on " Judging 
Chrysanthemums,” but being prevented by indis¬ 
position from doing so, it was resolved, though he 
had sent the paper to the honorary secretary, to 
defer the matter until such time as Mr. Shea could 
be present. 
