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THE GARDENING WORLD. 
June 23, 1894. 
not be encouraged to grow too strongly, as 
anything beyond medium health and 
strength does not suit the rose-bud so well. 
Tying material varies very much, some 
using Kaffia grass, and others a kind of 
stout cotton or worsted. The former is 
generally considered the most preferable as 
it rots about the time the buds want more 
liberty, whereas the worsted wants taking 
off or else severing to allow for natural 
swelling as the stock grows. A firm tie 
which will last for about three weeks is all 
that is required, as after this period the tie 
is apt to constrict too much. Finally we 
would say, do not be in too great a hurry, 
but choose your time between this and the 
end of August, when both stocks and buds 
are in the best possible condition; and if 
dull weather prevails for two or three days, 
so much the better for the comfort of the 
budder, and also for the buds. 
HE Rose as a Decorative Flower.— 
Although the Queen of Flowers in the 
garden, and also in the hcuse, the Rose in 
a cut state is not often arranged to the best 
advantage, and we have even heard it 
advanced that Roses are unsuitable for 
home decoration. But if we treat them 
boldly, cut them with a fair length of 
stem and with handsome foliage, group the 
colours together, and avoid overcrowding 
the blossoms, there is no flower more 
admired, none more quickly arranged, or 
that can surpass them in artistic effect. 
An important point is not to crowd a 
superb specimen among inferior blooms. 
This is often done with the object of 
emphasising the superiority of one or more 
blooms ; but it is much better to place such 
blooms in a single specimen glass. A 
mass—not over crowded — of inferior 
blooms has a better effect than an indis¬ 
criminate arrangement of good, bad, and 
indifferent together. A loose arrangement, 
plenty of foliage, and a seeming careless¬ 
ness about the whole should be the leading 
feature. 
There are not m.any subjects that lend 
themselves to an appropriate association 
with Roses so well as the shoots of Ber- 
berris japonica and Prunus cerasifera 
Pissardii. In the former we have deep 
green leafage that goes admirably with the 
majority of our Bourbons and Hybrid 
Perpetuals, while in the deep purple foliage 
of the Prunus we can match the purple shades 
of healthy Teas and Noisettes. But even 
these should not be used where good Rose 
foliage is sufficiently abundant. The 
shoots of buds and foliage from De la 
Grefferaie Stocks, the old rambling varieties 
of many almost forgotten favourites, and 
also of our wild Briers, are admirable where 
additional foliage is required. Simplicity, 
apparent carelessness, with a little con¬ 
sideration to surrounding colours, and the 
avoidance of short stems and overcrowding, 
will have considerable influence in creating 
good effects. Another point that should 
be observed is not to cut the blooms too 
young. They cannot be too fresh, of 
course, but a full blown Rose may be as 
fresh as one only half expanded, and 
certainly better lends itself to domestic 
decoration. 
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Mr. Edward Shuttleworth.—We understand that 
this well-known Orchidist, until lately a member of 
the firm of Messrs. Charlesworth, Shuttleworth & 
Co., has been engaged by Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., 
of Clapton, as their Continental traveller. 
Mr. M. Hanagan, for some years gardener at 
Hooton Hall, Cheshire, and a well-known fruit 
grower and exhibitor, died on the ist inst., after a 
long illness, aged 48 years. 
Mr. Joseph Ainger for over 40 years gardener at 
Coopersale, Epping, died on the 3rd inst., aged 74 
years. 
The Society of Arts Silver Medal has been awarded 
to Mr. G. J. Symons, F.R.S., for his paper on 
“ Rainfall Records in the British Isles. 
Bagshot Park. — The Bagshot and Windlesham 
Annual Horticultural and Musical Fete, with the 
permission of the Duke of Connaught, will be held in 
Bagshot Park on July 3 rd, when the Duchess 
of Connaught has consented to distribute the 
prizes. 
Strawberry Growers oh the banks of the Tamar, 
Devonshire, are complaining loudly of the unseason¬ 
able weather. The frost about the middle of May 
seriously injured some of the crops, and now the rain 
' is doing further damage. 
The Newcastle-on-Tyne Summer Show. —We under¬ 
stand that the Newcastle-on-Tyne Summer Flower 
Show, to be held on the i 8 th, 19 th, and 20 th of July,will 
again take place in the Recreation Ground, the scene 
of last year's show, which was such a phenomenal 
success. This year, too, the Council will provide 
additional amusements, such as horse-leaping and 
driving competitions, &c., which prove so attractive 
in the North. 
Flowering of the Century Plant. —After a lapse of 
some thirty-five years, we are to have the so-called 
American Aloe or Century plant. Agave Americana,in 
flower this season in the Royal Botanic Gardens, 
Regent’s Park. Two large plants are showing their 
flower spikes, a result due,.it is not unreasonable to 
assume, to the hot dry summer of last year. The 
last time this species flowered in the garden was in 
1859 , when the plant was said to be over eighty years 
old, and it died after continuing in bloom for several 
months. 
Complimentary Dinner to Mr. L. Barron. —On 
Friday evening of last week, a party of metropolitan 
horticulturists, some thirty in number, entertained 
Mr. Leonard Barron, only son of Mr. A. F. Barron, 
of Chiswick, at a Farewell Dinner at Simpson’s, on 
his going abroad. Mr. A. W. G. Weeks presided in 
his usual genial manner, and all present joined most 
heartily in congratulating the departing guest on 
his recent appointment to a responsible position on 
a foreign horticultural journal, and in wishing him 
God-speed. The toast of- “Chiswick and its 
Superintendent’’was also accorded an enthusiastic 
reception. s 
Clapham, Battersea, and Wandsworth Amateur 
Chrysanthemum and Horticultural Society.— At a 
meeting of this Society, held on Wednesday the 13 th 
inst., Mr. G. Wythes read a paper on Apricot 
culture. There was a good attendance of members, 
Mr. F. J. Coppin presiding. On the conclusion of 
the paper a hearty vote of thanks was accorded to 
Mr. Wythes. The annual exhibition of the Society 
will take place on Friday and Saturday, November 
2 nd and 3 rd, at the new Town Hall, Lavender Hill, 
and several open classes have been provided for in 
the schedule, a copy of which may be obtained on 
application to Mr. J. O. Languish, Hon. Sec., 167 , 
Elsley Road, Lavender Hill, S.W. 
Lilium candidum Diseased.—To the meeting of the 
Scientific Committee, held on the 12 th inst., speci¬ 
mens were sent by Mr. G. Tebbutt, of Mogden 
House, Isleworth, with the following observations : 
.—“ The plants were attacked last year, but not to 
such an extent as now. This year the bulbs were 
transplanted to a fresh place, but the disease has 
become worse. It will be noticed that the bulbs 
themselves are strong and healthy, with very little 
sign of fungoid growth, while the stems and leaves 
are badly attacked. In the same patch of ground 
are L. chalcedonicum, L. tigrinum, and L. Martagon, 
but not one of these show signs of the disease. 
Tulips which now occupy the ground planted with 
L. candidum last year have also been attacked." 
Dr. Masters suggested spraying with Bordeaux 
mixture early in the season, so as to reach the bulbs 
and young leaves. Such a method would be pro¬ 
tective, but not necessarily curative. The disease 
itself is fully described by Prof. M. Ward in 
“ Annals of Botany,” ii., p. 319 . 
Horse Chestnuts Cankered.—At the same meeting 
specimens and photos of a badly diseased tree were 
received from the Superintendent of the Royal 
Victoria Park, Bath, with the following remarks :— 
" The tree was planted (one of six) about sixty years 
ago; three of the six have died from the same 
disease, and the others are affected more or less in 
the same way. It will be observed from the photo 
that the diseased growth is gradually spreading all 
round the trunk of the tree, and will eventually 
choke it (as has been the case with the others) by 
preventing the natural flow of the sap. I may say 
that the subsoil here is in some parts gravel, and in 
others blue lias clay. The trees were planted over 
both, and were all grafted just above the ground. 
Six years ago it was thought that if we had trees on 
their own roots they might not be subject to the 
disease, accordingly some good nuts were gathered 
from the best of the trees, and a number of seed¬ 
lings were raised. Most of them have flowered this 
season. Of the flowers some are inferior, others 
equal, and others superior to those of the parent. 
The ordinary white-flowered Horse Chestnut is 
quite free from any disease, as are also the Pavias." 
The specimens were forwarded to Prof. H. Marshall 
Ward for examination and report. 
The Coggeshill Seed Growers.—An action at law, in 
which Mr. John K. King, of Coggeshall, sought to 
restrain the firm of E. W. King & Co., of the same 
place, from representing themselves as the plaintiff’s 
firm or the successors in business of the late John K. 
King, and from circulating catalogues, &c., alleged 
to be copied or colourable imitations of the plaintiffs’, 
came before Mr. Justice Chitty, on the 8th inst, on a 
motion for an interim injunction until the trial of the 
action. Mr. E. Widdrington Byrne, Q.C., M.P., 
and Dr. C. Herbert Smith, represented the plaintiff, 
and Mr. A. R. Ingpen the defendants. On the case 
being mentioned to the Court by Mr. Byrne, Mr. 
Ingpen informed the court that his clients were 
willing to give an undertaking substantially in the 
terms of the notice of motion, but with certain slight 
modifications, which he would discuss with the 
other side, and he asked that the matter might be 
mentioned again. The parties afterwards agreed 
upon the form in which the undertaking should be 
given, and it was thereupon, by consent, ordered 
that upon the undertaking given the motion should 
stand until judgment was pronounced in the 
action. 
The Diamond-back Moth, which did so much 
damage to the leafage of Turnips along the Eastern 
Coasts in 1892, has again been reported as preva¬ 
lent in the neighbourhood of King’s Lynn and 
Huddersfield. Miss Ormerod, the late entomologist 
of the Royal Agricultural Society, writing with 
regard to remedies, states that at the former visita¬ 
tion amongst stimulant dressings nitrate of soda 
apparently answered about the best; nitrate of soda 
and soot, in proportion of 8 cwt. of the first to 
10 cwt. of the second, and i cwt. of sulphate of 
ammonia, mixed, and dusted by hand on the leafage 
when the dew was on, also did good. A mixture of 
three-quarters soot and one-quarter lime sown on 
the plants was very trustworthily recommended. 
Where strawsonisers are at hand, soft soap and 
mineral oil dressings (properly mixed and the 
paraffin not too strong) would very probably do 
much good. The diamond-back moths when old 
and rubbed look very much like common clothes 
moths ; when fresh, the white diamond pattern down 
the middle of the back (from which they are named) 
is very distinguishable on its brownish ground. The 
caterpillars are about half-an-inch long, usually of 
a delicate green, but when young often of a yellow 
or greyish colour with black heads. 
The Columbian Mammoth White Asparagus is a 
variety which originated as a sport from Connover’s 
Colossal some years ago on Long Island, but only 
put into commerce two years ago. It grows even 
larger than Connover’s, but its value consists in its 
remaining a creamy white until it is two or more feet 
high. This gives the grower a white asparagus 
without the trouble of ridging up, as is usually the 
practice in order to have white asparagus, which 
the canner requires to meet the demands of trade. 
Our opinion of Asparagus, cut from six to eight 
inches under ground for the sake of having it white, 
is that the colour is at the expense of the quality, 
and that Asparagus is far more tender and of a 
better flavour when grown above ground. This 
variety will give a white Asparagus grown in the 
natural way, which is a great saving of labour to 
the producer, besides a great improvement in 
quality. For this variety the canners are paying a 
much higher price than for the other sorts, and all 
new plantings are being made of this sort. Another 
point in its favour is that a cutting can be made 
from it one year earlier than from Connover’s— 
Florists’ Exchange. 
