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THE GARDENING WORLD 
March 10, 1894.’ 
cohesion. Did such a desire exist, one 
strong national body for promoting the 
cultivation of the interesting Auriculas, 
Polyanthuses, Carnations, Pinks, Pansies, 
Tulips, Dahlias, and Chrysanthemums, 
might be possible and advantageous. So 
long, however, as the Auricula and Carna¬ 
tion fancier, not being a grower of Pinks or 
Pansies, cares nothing for these flowers, 
the idea of forming a National Floricul- 
tural Society for this purpose seems to be 
out of the question, much as we believe 
that such a society, conducted with energy 
and on popular lines, would be of the 
greatest benefit both to florists, and their 
favourites. 
However, we are very much more con¬ 
cerned just now to find the old and beauti¬ 
ful flowers we have named are thought to 
be still so meritorious that the formation of 
special societies and of holding special 
exhibitions with a view to wider culture 
and development is held worthy of support. 
Although the R.H.S. does rot show any 
great favour to specialists generally, at 
least it is always ready to welcome special 
exhibits at the Drill Hall, and these pro¬ 
moters may always for their little shows 
find a home. That means a considerable 
saving in the item of working expenses, 
and for this reason we think the proposed 
Pink show should be found practicable. 
^OTTLED Grapes. —This is a term we 
could not apply to any other fruit 
without its being at once assumed that it 
referred to bottling or preserving. Grapes 
are so very easily preserved by being 
bottled, but outside of them the practice of 
bottling is common enough. It is therefore 
of interest to learn from a most capable 
and extensive grower for market that he 
has found for good clusters so preserved 
the price is now nearly double what was 
obtainable before Christmas. He tells us 
that although he bottled i,ooo bunches, 
he must double the area of his Grape room 
before next winter, and it is so evident 
that good clusters of Alicante and Lady 
Downes seedling, but the former especially, 
pay well to thus cut and store. 
It is satisfactory to learn that the 
tendency on the part of so.Tie varieties of 
Grapes when they have reached the maxi¬ 
mum of colour and ripeness to go back in 
colour when left hanging may be arrested 
by at once cutting and bottling. This is 
specially so in the case of Black Hamburgh 
that have been ripened early, yet when cut 
and bottled in this way keep as good a 
colour as ever they were for some time. 
Very often this decadence in colour has led 
to the bunches being cut and disposed of 
hurriedly and at low prices. M owever, the 
great fact that late Grapes grown for sale 
obtain much higher prices is one of 
material importance, but still they must be 
really good. Inferior samples never can 
obtain a satisfactory return. The best 
way in such cases is to give the Vines 
superior cultivation. 
It has often been said that it will not 
pay in this country to store good keeping 
Apples because of the large importation 
from America. Yet we now see good home¬ 
grown Apples a long way superior to the 
best Americans, which are this season 
very scarce and indifferent. Grapes if 
really good, and -Apples if the same, are 
fruits that will always pay to hold over 
until the season of scarcity comes. 
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The Stirling Horticultural Society’s Annual 
Exhibition will be held on August 30th and 31st. 
The Hampshire County Council has made a grant of 
five guineas to the Basingstoke Horticultural Society, 
to be devoted exclusively as prizes in classes for 
mechanics and cottagers. 
Cut Flowers from the Riviera. —These are now com¬ 
ing to hand in large quantities, consisting mainly of 
Violets, Roses, Daffodils, Anemones, and Acacia 
dealbata, commonly called Mimosa, and are packed 
in light baskets. The bulk comes from the 
neighbourhood of Nice, and are placed in the 
markets in London within forty-eight hours of the 
time the flowers leave the gardens of the producers. 
There is a tendency to further develop the trade by 
sending direct to the Midlands. 
Highgate and District Chrysanthemum Society.— 
The Annual General meeting of this Society was 
held on the 28th, ulto., R. Gaskell , Esq., the 
President, presiding. The report and balance sheet 
were read and adopted, and votes of thanks passed 
to the,retiring President, and other officers. The 
election of officers was then proceeded with, P. Hart 
Esq., being elected President, Mr. McKerchar, 
Treasurer, and Mr. W. E. Boyce, Archway Road, 
Highgate, Secretary, in the place of Mr. Vince, who 
received a most cordial vole of thanks for his past 
services. 
Remarkable Beech Trees. —With reference to the 
note in our last issue concerning the ancient Beech 
in the Province of Luxemburg, Mr. F. Exell writes 
from Miserden Park Gardens, Cirencester :—On the 
lawn here there is a Beech tree which measures 
14 ft. 3 ins. in circumference at 4 ft. from the ground 
and 80 feet in height; also a Wych Elm which is 
12 ft. in circumference, and has 500 ft. of timber 
in it without measuring any of its enormous branches. 
Although these two noble trees are perhaps the 
most prized by their owner, there are many more 
grand Beeches on the estate, and I may add that 
the Beech does far etter than any other tree on the 
Cotswold Hills. 
To Whom do WaysideTrees Belong? —Considerable 
discussion is now going on with regard to the ques¬ 
tion whether waste land on the side of a road 
belongs to the parish or to the owner of the adjacant 
land. The Solicitor-General says the land belongs 
to the parish. If this is so, it is certain that the 
trees on such land belong also to the parish, and yet, 
without let or hindrance, adjoining owners have for 
centuries claimed the rights and cut down and 
disposed of these trees. We understand that a case 
is shortly to be made out in Cornwall as a test in 
this respect. The issue will be important to the 
whole of England. 
TheTrentham Flower Show. —The Trentham and 
Handford Horticultural Society, whose annual 
exhibition in the Duke of Sutherland’s noble demesne 
near Stoke-on-Trent, is now regarded as one of the 
leading events in the horticultural exhibitors’ 
calendar, has, we regret to learn, suffered a serious 
loss by the recent resignation of its honorary secre¬ 
tary, Mr. John Taylor, who during the past five 
years has rendered the Society very valuable services. 
The announcement of Mr. Taylor’s resignation will 
be received with regret, we are sure, by all the 
regular exhibitors, by whom he was much respected 
for his unfailing courtesy, and the thorough-going 
business-like manner in which he discharged the 
duties of his office. At the last Trentham Show, 
;^4i5 3s. was taken at the gates on the show day. and 
the Society has a balance in hand amounting to 
/456 i8s. 2i., a fact which speaks volumes for the 
management of so comparatively young a society. 
The Scottish Pansy Society will this year celebrate 
its jubilee, and the committee being anxious to make 
the jubilee exhibition an especially attractive one, 
appeals to lovers of the Pansy for special prizes or 
donations. “ Since the formation of the Scottish 
Pansy Society, fifty years ago, they have always 
endeavoured to make it a national one, in order that 
every grower or lover of the Pansy might be induced 
to support it. The committee trust that their afforts 
have not been in vain, and that all admirers of this 
beautiful and favourite flower will make a liberal 
response, and so enable them to’ make this their 
jubilee show a large and attractive one. The 
Scottish Pansy Society, being thoroughly national, 
rely upon the co-operation of the members of com¬ 
mittee in the various localities to support them on 
this great occasion.” The secretary, Mr. William 
MacKinnon, 144, Princes Street, Edinburgh, will 
be glad to hear at once from intending subscribers. 
Mr. Leo H. Grindon, of Manchester, has been 
awarded a grant of £100 from the Royal Bounty- 
Fund as a recognition of his services to botanical 
science. 
National Chrysanthemum Society.—At a meeting of 
the general committee held at Anderton’s Hotel, 
Fleet Street, on Tuesday evening, Mr. R. Ballantine 
presiding, it was announced that the president. Sir 
Edwin Saunders, had intimated that it was his 
intention to give a piece of plate as the president’s 
prize for competition at the November show. It 
was also unanimously resolved that in consideration 
of the valuable services rendered to the Society by 
Mr. E. C. Jukes during the period he held the office 
of vice-chairman of the committee, he be invited to 
attend the meetings of the committee with power to 
vote. The committee also decided that the meeting 
of the floral committee, held in connection with the 
November show, shall be held on the second day at 
one o’clock. Twelve members of the Society were 
nominated to fill the six vacancies on the floral 
committee, and the ballot taken resulted in the re- 
election of Mr. E. Becket, Mr. T. Bevan, Mr. R. 
Owen, and Mr. G. Stevens, with the addition of Mr. 
W. H. Lees, Trent Park Gardens, and Mr. J. H. 
Witty, Nunhead Cemetery, as new members; and 
Mr. Mease, Downside Gardens, Leatherhead, was 
elected to fill the vacancy created by the resignation 
of Mr. Shoesmith. Mr. W. Herbert Fowler, J.P., 
Taunton, was unanimously re-elected chairman. 
The retiring members of the Catalogue Revision 
committee were cordially thanked for their past 
services, and unanimously re-elected with the 
addition of Mr. H. J. Jones in the place of Mr. 
Shoesmith. Three new members were elected, and 
the Tooting and Merton Abbey Horticultural Society 
admitted into affiliation. 
Weeds and Insects.—A word or two may not be out of 
place in reference to this somewhat stale subject just 
now, as in many places the ordinary bedding plants are 
potted up in old potting soil, and a good deal of the soil 
brought into pits and frames for the growth of early 
vegetables is often very plentifully sown with weed 
seeds which are now with the increased sunshine 
germinating very quickly. Now a little extra 
vigilance exercised in dealing with these when in the 
seed leaf, not only lessens the labour of keeping the 
pots and crops free from weeds, but as it will 
generally be found these are to a certainty breeding 
grounds for red spider, thrip, and green fly. Their 
presence under glass should not be tolerated. The 
insects thrive well on these young tender seedling 
weeds, and from them soon spread to the legitimate 
occupants of the houses. I believe that in some 
cases with the exception of the aphis, pits and 
frames which become infested with insects would be 
comparatively exempt from them if only they had 
been kept clear of weeds.— W.B.G. 
Synonymous Roses.—At a meeting of the com¬ 
mittee of the National Rose Society, held February 
13th last, the regulation relating to synonymous 
Roses, and binding on all affiliated societies, was 
altered to read as follows : — 
Regulation 6. — The following Roses which are 
bracketed together are considered synonymous, and 
must not be shown in the same stand. For instance 
Grand Mogul must not be shown in the same stand 
as Jean Soupert : — 
Hybrid Perpetnah and Hybrid Teas. 
(Alfred Colomb 
Marshall P. Wilder 
j Wilhelm Koelle 
] Avocat Duvivier 
(Marechal Vaillant 
Baron de Bonstetten 
Monsieur Boncenne 
/ Charles Lefebvre 
- Marguerite Brassac 
i Paul Jamain 
Comtesse de Choiseul 
Marie Rady 
Due de Rohan 
Mrs. Jowitt 
f Duchesse de Caylus 
I Penelope Mayo 
f Duke of W^ellington 
1 Rosieriste Jacobs 
Eugenie Verdier 
Marie Finger 
Exposition de Brie 
Ferdinand de Lesseps 
Maurice Bernardin 
Sir Garnet Wolseley 
Grand Mogul 
Jean Soupert 
La Rosiere 
Prince C. de Rohan 
Lady Mary Fitzwilliam 
Lady Alice 
Mme. A. Lavallee 
Marie Baumann 
Teas and Noisettes. 
(Adam 
1 President 
, Alba Rosea 
I Josephine Malton 
j Mme. Bravy 
(.Mme. de Sertot 
I Chro.-natella 
1 Cloth of Gold 
J Souvenir de S. A. Prince 
I The Queen 
The climbing variety of any Rose cannot be shown 
in the same stand with it. For instance. Climbing 
Devoniens’s cannot be shown in the same stand 
with Devoniensis. In bracketing varieties together, 
foliage and habit of growth are not taken into con¬ 
sideration. 
