December 15,1894. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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Orchid was also very conspicuous in the group. 
The hybrid Cypripedium Swinburnei magnificum 
was exhibited by T. W. Swinburne, Esq , J.P , 
Corndean Hall, Winchcombe. Gloucestershire. A 
small group of Orchids was also staged by Messrs. 
J. Veitch & Sons, Chelsea. All were hybrids and 
included the beautiful C. Niobe, C. Sirius, C. Zeno and 
Epidendrum Wallisio-ciliare. The type of E. Wallisii 
alongside of it showed the vast difference between 
it and the hybrid. Bulbophyllum mandibulare is a 
singular looking species of large size, and together 
with Vanda Bensoniae anchorifera was exhibited by 
C. J. Lucas, Esq. (gardener, Mr. Duncan), Warnham 
Court, Horsham. Laelia Tresederiana pallida, a 
hybrid, was shown by Messrs. Heath & Son, Chel¬ 
tenham. Cattleya labiata was shown by the Duke 
of Westminster (gardener, Mr. W. F. Barnes), 
Eaton Hall, Chester. A magnificent spike of 
Cymbidium Traceyanum, about 3 ft. long and 
bearing twenty-one of its huge flowers, was exhibited 
by Baron Schroder (gardener, Mr. H. Ballantine),The 
Dell, Egham. Some Orchids, including Platyclinis 
uncata and Masdevallia Peristeria, were sent over 
from the Royal Botanic Gardene, Glasnevin. The 
Rt. Hon. Lord Rothschild (gardener, Mr. E. Hill), 
Tring Park, Tring, exhibited some flowers of 
Cattleya guttata Prinzii Viscount de Figueirado. 
Thos. Statter, Esq., (gardener, Mr. R. Johnson), 
Stand Hall, Manchester, showed Laelia Tressi- 
deriana, L. Euterpe, Cypripedium Leeanum albens, 
and others. Cypripedium Swinburnei magnificum was 
also shown by E. Ashworth, Esq. (gardener, Mr. E. 
Holbrook), Wilmslow, Cheshire. Walter C. Walker, 
Esq. (gardener, Mr. G. Cragg), Percy Lodge, Winch- 
more Hill, showed a tall plant of Eulophia megisto- 
phylla. A small oroup of Orchids was shown by S. 
G. Lutwyche, Esq. (gardener, Mr. Paterson), Eden 
Park, Beckenham, including Dendrobium Phalae- 
nopsis Schroderianum, D. endocharis, Cypripedium 
Curtissii, and others. A hybrid Cypripedium and 
Amblostoma tridactylon were shown by A. H. Smee, 
Esq. (gardener, Mr. G. W. Cummins), The Grange, 
Wallington. A very showy hybrid Cypripedium 
named C. William Lloyd was exhibited by Mr. P. 
Weathers, Silverhall Nursery, Isleworth. He also 
had a flower of a beautiful light-coloured variety 
named Cypripedium Gravesiae. 
Messrs. John Laing & Sons, Forest Hill, S.E., 
staged a nice collection of stove foliage and green¬ 
house flowering plants in exceedingly good condition. 
Crotons Neumanni, Mr. Bause, and Thompsoni, 
were well represented by some finely coloured 
specimens. Several fine flower heads of Euphorbia 
pulcherrima, together with a good example of 
Authurium Laingii with its distinct and pretty 
white spathes were also very conspicuous. Other 
plants of note were Dracaena australis aurea 
variegata, Carraquata cardinalis, Dracaena Sander- 
iana and Cocos Weddelliana, Saxifraga sarmentosa 
tricolor superba displayed its beautiful variegated 
foliage to considerable advantage in the front rank. 
Some finely flowered specimens of Bouvardias, 
Cyclamen and Ericas, as well as a few small Cypripe- 
diums materially contributed to the effective 
character of the group (Silver Flora Medal). Mr. 
Robert Owen, Maidenhead, exhibited a considerable 
quantity of cut blooms of new varieties of Chrysan¬ 
themums in very fine style. His examples of 
varieties like Madame Razain, Col. Bourne, Mrs. 
Annie Smith, Seedling, Mrs. W. H. Lees, Mrs. 
Jackson, Le Calosse Grenoblois, Julian Hillpert, 
Pearl of Maidenhead, Mrs. H. Perkins, Owen 
Thomas, Mrs. M. Bourne, Potter Palmer and M. 
Gindre were all in first-class condition, and 
considering the lateness of the season con¬ 
stituted a most meritorious display for 
which a Silver Flora Medal was awarded. 
An interesting display of cones in different stages 
of growth, of Araucaria imbricata, Cedrus deodora, 
Abies nobilis, Cupressus macrocarpa, and Sequoia 
gigantea was contributed by Lady Fortescue, Drop- 
nore, Maidenhead (gardener Mr. Herrin), to whom a 
Silver Banksian Medal was awarded in recognition. 
Messrs. George Bunyard & Co. received a Silver- 
Gilt Banksian Medal for an extensive collection of 
Apples that contained upwards of a hundred dishes 
of first-class fruit. The samples shown were of good 
size, excellent shape and were well coloured, particu¬ 
larly in the case of such varieties as Emperor 
Alexander, Bismarck, Stone’s Loddington, Newton 
Wonder, Peasgoods Nonsuch, Tylers Kernel, Golden 
Noble, Mere de Menage, & King of Tompkins 
County. Mr.J. Empson, gardener to Mrs.Wingfield, 
Ampthill, Beds, showed some good samples of Gros 
Colman and Golden Queen Grapes. Vegetables, 
however, were conspicuous by their entire absence 
from among the exhibits. 
LAW NOTES. 
The Law as to the Right of Cutting Over¬ 
hanging Trees. 
House of Lords, Nevembet 2jth. Present: The 
Lord Chancellor, Lord Macnaghten, and Lord 
Davey. Lemmon v. Webb. 
This appeal from a judgment of the Court of 
Appeal involved a question as to whether the owner 
of land is entitled to cut off the branches overhang¬ 
ing his land of trees growing upon the land of an 
adjoining owner. 
Mr. Warmington., Q C, and Mr. R. F. Norton 
appeared for the appellant ; and Mr. T. Crackan- 
thorpe, Q.C., and Mr. T. Ribton foi'the respondent. 
The appellant, Thomas Warne Lemmon, is the 
owner of an estate called Ewhurst Place, near 
Guildford, which is bounded on the south by an 
estate called Malquoits, belonging to the respondent, 
Walter Webb. On the southern boundary of the 
appellant's estate there were many trees, some of 
considerable age, which overhung a lane or roadway 
on the respondent's estate, and forming a means of 
access for carts and waggons to a farmyard. The 
respondent, without notice to the appellant, cut off 
and trimmed some of the overhanging branches, 
which he said interfered with the user and enjoyment 
of his property. Thereupon the appellant com¬ 
menced an action for a declaration that the respon¬ 
dent was not entitled to do this, for an injunction, 
and also for damages for trespass. Mr. Justice 
Kekewich held in effect that the branches which 
overhung the respondent’s land and interfered with 
his property constituted a “nuisance of omission," 
it being negligence on the part of the appellant to 
allow the branches to overhang the land, and that 
the person suffering the nuisance was entitled to 
abate it, but only on giving notice. As no notice 
had been given, his Lordship held that the cutting 
was wrongful, and gave judgment for the appellant 
for £5 damages and costs. The Court of Appeal, 
however, reversed this decision, and gave judgment 
for the respondent, but having regard to the 
obscurity of the law as to notice made no order as 
to costs. Hence the present appeal. The conten¬ 
tion on the part of the appellant was that the 
branches could not be cut off without his authority, 
and that the judgment of Mr. Justice Kekewich was, 
in fact, correct, because the respondent gave no 
notice before cutting off the branches. 
Their Lordships, without calling upon the counsel 
for the respondent, upheld the judgment of the 
Court of Appeal, and dismissed the appeal. They 
were of opinion that notice was not a necessary step 
before proceeding to abate the nuisance. 
Appeal dismissed accordingly, with costs. 
QU65CI0DS MD SnSOJGRS. 
Lilies at Heatherbank : Erratum. —In Mr. 
G. F. Wilson’s letter on this subject, at p. 232, for 
“ Lilium tigrinum splendens ” read “ L. tigrinum 
jucundum.’’ 
Corn Cobs.— L. H. : There is usually no difficulty 
in getting the plants to fruit in this country, and the 
cobs ripen well in a good season, though they do not 
attain a very large size. Our summer is scarcely 
long enough nor sufficiently warm to bring the plants 
to the same perfection as in America; but if your 
object is only to get the young cobs for immediate 
use or trial, you can manage to do that in almost any 
season. Sow the seeds in boxes sometime in March, 
and transfer them to pots as they require it; repot 
before the plants become root bound, harden off and 
plant them out in the open ground about the end of 
May or the beginning of June, according to the 
weather, so that they may receive no check. If you 
can get early fruiting varieties so much the better. 
Conifer from Holy Land. — Omicron : The speci¬ 
men you sent us is too young to be in character ; but 
it is to all appearances Juniperus excelsa. When it 
gets larger and alters somewhat in character, we 
should be pleased to see it again. It may possibly 
be an introduction and not a native, so that fruit 
would be desirable when it can be obtained. 
Gaillardias and Pyrethrum. — Omicron : These 
could have been transplanted in October to great 
advantage, and we should now be inclined to leave 
them undisturbed till the middle of March, or soon 
after, according to the state of the weather. If the 
plants of Pyrethrum are large, you could transplant 
them now if desirable ; but on the whole it would be 
advisable to leave both kinds until growth again 
begins to become active. 
Auriculas in Bloom. —S. C. : Yes, it is so; you 
can hardly expect the plants to flower so strongly in 
spring as they would have done had the first and 
strongest flower scapes not been so unseasonably 
produced. They will, however, flower more or less 
strongly when April comes round again. All you 
can do is to pull out the flower stalks as soon as you 
can lay hold of them. Do not cut off the top merely 
or the remaining portion may cause damping at this 
season of the year. Keep the plants on the dry side, 
pull off the withered leaves, and ventilate the frames 
freely on every favourable occasion, in fact, the 
sashes may be removed entirely during mild weather 
when not raining. 
The Green Chrysanthemum.— G. Bevan : There 
is nothing unreasonable in the idea of a green Chry¬ 
santhemum, any more than a green Rose or a green 
Dahlia. On the contrary, it is surprising that they 
have not been more common, seeing that so many 
seedlings have been raised all over the country, as 
well as abroad during the last few years. The 
particular variety you mention originated as a sport 
curiously enough, and may not yet be properly fixed, 
or in other words, it may not yet have shown 
the character it would assume if treated as others are 
for exhibition purposes. Possibly, the flowers might 
show more or less colour of some kind ; in fact, some 
of the blooms have this year exhibited traces of pink 
and white or something approaching it, Time will 
prove what it is capable of doing. 
Crust-like shells on fence.— Alex. Hardy : They 
are the pupae of the White Cabbage Butterflies, and 
you may remember that you were troubled with 
caterpillars in the autumn or your neighbour was. 
The curious, hump-backed cases are merely the 
pupa stage of the insects which rest in that condition 
till the weather becomes sufficiently warm in spring 
or early summer to hatch them. By destroying them 
you will save yourself much trouble next summer, 
provided both sides of the fence and walls in the 
neighbourhood are well searched for the chrysallids 
before the winter is over. 
Cymbidium to Name.— T . H .: The flower you 
sent was not Cymbidium Lowianum, but C. gigan- 
teum. It is a good variety in its way for the species 
it represents on account of the intensity of its 
colouration. In the typical form the sepals and 
petals are light greenish-yellow, striped longitudin¬ 
ally with reddish-brown, as well as the side lobes of 
the lip. The stripes were so broad in your flower 
as to almost completely obscure the yellow ; and the 
stripes on the side lobes of the lip were even more 
intense. We therefore consider it a good variety of 
C. giganteum. 
Names of Plants.— Capt. Twiss . A light variety 
of Odontoglossum odoratum which gardeners would 
call O. gloriosum. 
Communications Received. —G. F. W.—E. B.— 
R. A. B.-G. R.—W. B. H.—A. W. G. W.—R. L.— 
E. W. & S—S. & S.—G. J. I.—A. J. B.—A. M.— 
W. B. H —J. C.—J. G. P. 
TRADE CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 
James Carter &Co., High Holborn, W.C.—Seed 
Catalogue for 1895. 
Barr & Son, 12, King Street, Covent Garden, 
W.C.—Spring Flowering Bulbs. 
W. Baylor Hartland, Patrick Street, Cork.— 
" Little Book" of Seeds and Plants, &c. 
-- 
LONDON SEED TRADE. 
December nth, 1894. 
Messrs. Hurst & Son, 152, Houndsditch, and 39, 
Seed Market, Mark Lane, report little enquiry for 
Clover seeds. Some few parcels of yearling English 
Cowgrass have changed hands at full prices. The 
quality of new crop English Red Clover is poor. 
Alsike and Trefoil steady. White Clover dull. Rye¬ 
grasses unchanged. 
COVENT GARDEN MARKET. 
December 12th, 1894. 
Fruit.—Average Wholesale Prices. 
s. d s. d. 
Apples.per bushel 30 90 
Nova Scotia Apples 
per barrel 12 0 15 o 
Cherries, per hit. sieve 0 000 
Cob Nuts and Fil¬ 
berts, per 100 lbs.21 o 23 o 
Grapes, per lb. 06 16 
s. d. 
Melons .each o 0 
Peaches & Nectarines, 
per doz. 0 0 
Pine apples. 
—St. Michael's, each 2 6 
Plums .half Sieve o 0 
Strawberries, per lb. 0 0 
Vegetables.—Average Retail Prices. 
1. d. 
ArtichokesGlobedoz. 3 0 
Beans, French, perlb. 0 6 
Beet.per dozen 2 0 
Cabbages ... per doz. 1 6 
Carrots ... per bunch 0 6 
Cauliflowers, Eng.dz. 3 0 
Celery.per bundle 1 6 
Cucumbers .ea ;h 0 6 
Endive, French, djz. 2 6 
Herbs .per bunch 0 2 
Horse Radish, bundle 2 0 
, d. 
6 0 
1 0 
3 0 
2 6 
5 0 
2 0 
1 o 
3 0 
o 6 
4 0 
t. d. 
Lettuces ...per dozen 2 0 
Mushrooms, p. basket 1 0 
Onions.per bunch 0 4 
Parsley ... per bunch 0 6 
Radishes... per dozen 1 6 
Seakale...per basket 2 o 
Smallsalading,punnet 0 4 
Spinach per bushel 3 0 
Tomatos. perlb. o 6 
Turnips.per bun. 0 6 
Plants in Pots.—Average Wholesale Prices 
1. d. s. d. 
1. d. 
s. d. 
o o 
0 o 
6 0 
0 0 
0 o 
1. d. 
0 0 
1 6 
0 6 
2 6 
I 0 
1. d. 
Aspidistra, per doz 18 o 42 0 
—specimenplants.eachs 0 15 0 
Cyperus .per doz. 4 0 12 0 
Chrysanthemums, 
per doz. 60 80 
Cyclamen, per doz.... 9 0 18 o 
Dracaena term., doz. 18 0 36 0 
Dracaena virldis,doz. 9 0 18 0 
Erica hyemalis, per 
doz. 12 o 18 0 
„ gracilis per doz. 10 0 12 0 | 
Evergreens,invar.doz 6 0 24 o 
Ferns, invar.,per doz. 30 80 
Ferns, small, per 100 30 60 
Foliage Plants, doz. 12 0 60 0 
Marguerites, perdoz. 8 0 12 o 
Mignonette, per doz 60 00 
Palms in variety,each 2 6 10 0 
Palms, Specimen ... 15 0 63 o 
Primulas,perdoz. ... 40 60 
Solanums, 
per doz. pots 8 0 12 0 
