January 26, 1895. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
341 
Brighton and Sussex New Horticultural and Mutual 
Improvement Society. —The annual meeting of this 
flourishing young Society was held on the 17th inst., 
the president, Mr. J. M. Kidd, being in the chair. 
From the statement of accounts submitted by the 
treasurer, Mr. Billing, it appeared that the subscrip¬ 
tions in 1894 amounted to £138 2s., and the mem¬ 
bers’ fees to £75 5s., while the cash taken at the 
doors on the two days of the Spring Show amounted 
to £103 9s., on the two days of the Summer Show to 
/300 13s., and on the two days of the Chrysan¬ 
themum Show to /303 73., tickets to the amount of 
£64 17s., being sold previously to the last-named 
show. The most considerable item of expenditure 
was of course the prize money; a balance of 
£162 os. iod. being left in hand. In moving the 
adoption of the report, the president expressed the 
opinion that the very handsome balance was due in 
a great measure to the shows. F'riends of his had 
remarked to him that the shows held last year had 
been the best which had been seen in the town, and 
if only the Society would keep up the prestige of the 
exhibitions, and would offer such prizes as would 
induce important horticulturists at a 
distance to compete, he felt quite sure 
that the towns-people would support 
the Society. Mr. Kidd was re-elected 
president; Mr. Balchin, Junr., chair¬ 
man of committee, Mr. Cheal, vice- 
chairman, Mr. Billing, treasurer; and 
Mr. Johnson and Mr. Rupert Miller 
were unanimously elected hon. secre¬ 
tary and assistant secretary respec¬ 
tively. The following gentlemen were 
added to the committee : Messrs. Long- 
hurst, Wickham, Thwaites, Meachen, 
Howse, and Coleman. 
tected against heavy rain and shaded when 
necessary, ought to be afforded them till fresh roots 
are formed. April, or early in May is the best time 
to make new plantations. Those who have to 
procure a supply from the nurseries should secure 
plants well established in pots. Having the ground 
deeply dug or trenched and well manured, mark out 
the places for them at twenty to twenty-four inches 
apart; see that the balls of the plants are quite 
moist, and if at all hard loosen them. This gives the 
plants a chance of taking hold of the fresh soil 
quicker than they otherwise would. Frequent 
stirring of the soil, and watering when required is all 
the attention necessary during the first season. They 
will flourish in the same spot for several years if a 
mulching of short manure is put on to protect them 
from over dryness during hot weather and then 
lightly forked in during the autumn or winter ; but 
to maintain them in the highest development, fresh 
plantations should be made every three or four 
years. 
They are readily raised from seed and those who 
like to have varieties of their own raising, can do so 
FLORIST PYRETHRUMS. 
The value of these hardy herbaceous 
plants can hardly be over estimated 
either for flower border decoration or 
for use as cut flowers. Where these are 
required in quantity, special provision 
should be made for these plants, which 
will do well in any light soil, and where 
soils are heavy and retentive the little 
extra outlay incurred in rendering them 
suitable for the growth of these elegant 
plants will be well repaid. Being 
thoroughly hardy they need no protection, 
and from the end of May till late in 
the summer, they give a supply of 
flowers beautiful, and well adapted for 
vase and table decoration, resembling 
Asters and having a wide range of 
colours among them, from the purest 
white through various shades of pink,rose, 
crimson, scarlet and purplish crimson; 
there are also shades of yellow. As 
cut flowers, there is one great point in 
their favour, we mean their durability, 
few summer flowers equal them in this 
respect, and no others give a larger supply consider¬ 
ing the space they occupy. Their average height is 
from twenty to thirty inches; we have seen some 
exceed this under very high cultivation, but two 
feet is the general limit. A good plant standing out 
by itself, with its elegant fern-like foliage in full 
flower is a beautiful object, and as they do well 
grown in pots, and come in handy at times for 
indoor decoration, either in rooms or conservatories, 
we would commend this course to those having soils 
of unsuitable character in which to grow them in the 
open. Plants in any size pot from four inches up to 
twelve will succeed, and any ordinary potting soil 
which is free and open, will answer their require¬ 
ments. Plunge these up to the rim in a bed of 
ashes, give weak manure water when in active 
growth and stake out the flower stems neatly. By 
this means a supply of plants in flower of no mean 
merit will be available for use at any moment which 
have entailed a minimum of labour as compared 
with many certainly not more beautiful. 
They are propagated by division of old stools 
just as growth is recommencing in the spring. They 
can be either reduced to single growths or moderate 
sized pieces according to the stock required. The 
small pieces will do well in large thumb's and others 
in sizes in proportion, Till these get established, 
the shelter of a cold frame, where they can be pro¬ 
TENEFLOS. 
This name, compounded of two Latin words, 
practically means flower-holder, and as will be seen 
from the accompanying illustration, the article 
which has been so named, is simply a device for 
the easy and quick arrangement of cut flowers that 
are to be kept in water. The device was designed 
by Mrs. Felix Jones, of Llanfylling, North Wales, 
and holds the flowers in position without the cum¬ 
brous agency of sand or moss, one or other of which 
has been used by some people, possibly for genera¬ 
tions past. Teneflos is practically a semi-globular 
wire cage, with a flat disc in the interior, consisting 
of square meshes of wire, whereas the meshes of the 
convex dome are lozenge-shaped. The structure is 
intended to be put in a bowl, vase, or other vessel 
containing water, with the flat face down and the 
convex surface uppermost to receive the flowers. 
The convexity enables the flowers to be inserted at 
all angles which may be desired : and by pushing the 
stalks through the meshes of the flat disc, they are 
kept from shifting. The whole arrangement of 
flowers may be lifted out intact, while 
fresh water is being supplied. The wire 
structure may be entirely hidden by 
flowers, and the accompanying illustra¬ 
tion, for which we are indebted to 
Messrs.Wm. Hutchinson & Co..Trafalgar 
Buildings, Charing Cross, W.C., is 
merely intended to show the principle 
on which the flowers may be arranged. 
Teneflos is made of two sizes, and the 
wire is painted green, to prevent it 
from corroding in the water. The whole 
is very simple, and very effective. 
Teneflos : a New Flower Holder. 
by procuring seeds. These sown in pans in the 
spring and potted off singly, may be planted out 
during the early summer or kept in pots till the 
spring of the following year; but as the named 
varieties are so moderate in prices and there is sj 
much uncertainty about the quality of seedlings, the 
purchase of plants is generally the most satisfactory 
plan. We give names of some of the very best of 
both single and double for the guidance of those 
unacquainted with them. 
Doubles. 
Herman Stenger, rosy-lilac, centre petals finely 
quilled. 
King Oscar, crimson-scarlet, fine formed flower 
Aphrodite, pure white, extra good. 
Captain Nares, deep purplish, crimson, distinct. 
Iturbide, bright purplish carmine, white and rose 
centre. 
Leonard Kehvay, rose. 
Marquis of Bute, deep rose pink. 
Wega, yellowish pink extra. 
Singles. 
Princess Irene, pure white. 
Beatrice Ivelway, cherry rose. 
Hamlet, rich pink, fine form. 
Tasso, bright vermilion, extra. 
Duke of Connaught carmine. 
Octavia, rosy pink. 
Sherlock, vivid crimson scarlet, grand.— IV. B. G. 
VEGETABLES FOR 
WINTER. 
It goes without saying that it takes 
a thoroughly good exponent of the art 
of vegetable growing to keep up a con¬ 
tinual supply of vegetables the year 
round. Of course, with this delight¬ 
fully changeable climate of ours occa¬ 
sional failures are not always the entire 
fault of the cultivator, and a certain 
proportion of what some people call 
" luck ” enters largely into the question 
of failure or success in vegetable 
culture. Wire worms will attack 
Carrots; the dreaded Peronospera 
infestans will prey upon Potatos and 
Tomatos ; and the frost will play havoc 
with green stuff let the gardener take 
what precautions he may. 
During the winter and early spring 
months, therefore, it often becomes a 
matter of considerable difficulty to keep 
the kitchen pot boiling. The kitchen 
authorities are apt to lose sight of 
the fact that it is winter, and 
clamour for variety in vegetables. The care¬ 
ful gardener will have thought about this, and will 
therefore, have made his preparations as com¬ 
plete as circumstances have permitted to render the 
supply as efficient as possible. A good stock of 
various roots must always be a principal feature in 
any preparations for the supply of winter esculents. 
These when stacked neatly in the storehouse are 
always get-at-able, and are, of course, not subject to the 
vagaries of the weather. But after a few weeks of 
this fare, a little discontent with its sameness and a 
consequent desire for something fresh is the natural 
result. 
It is a favourite theme with some old experienced 
gardeners, that given a good size patch of Brussels 
Sprouts and another big stretch of Seakale, there 
will be no lack of vegetables in plenty during winter. 
There can be no doubt whatever about the impor¬ 
tant part that these two subjects play in the winter's 
vegetable supply, as from their splendidly hardy 
constitution, wintry weather seems to exercise but 
little effect upon them. After a hard winter, however, 
the period of the greatest scarcity of available 
esculents usually comes in the earlier months of 
The National Chrysanthemum Society's Year Book 
for 1895.— Edited by Mr. Harman Payne, F.R.H.S. Price, is.; 
post free, is. i§d., from the Publisher of the Gardening 
World, i, Clement's Inn, Strand, W.C. 
