July 13, 1895. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
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collection of cut blooms of Liliums, L. auratum, L. 
excelsum, L. Parryi, L. longiflorum giganteum, and 
L. canadense flavum were of the best. A consider¬ 
able number of kinds of the pretty Calochortuses, 
and a stand of well-defined varieties of Iris Kaemp- 
feri also came from the same firm (Silver Flora 
Medal). 
Mr. J. Forbes. Hawick, contributed some large 
and well-grown spikes of varieties of Delphiniums. 
The long journey, however, had had a marked effect 
upon their freshness. Messrs. Daniels Bros., 
Norwich, had fine examples of their new Godetia 
Marchioness of Salisbury. 
Roses formed one of the principal features of the 
show, and a special schedule had been drawn up for 
the occasion by the Society. In the classes for 
hybrid perpetuals for amateurs only, Mr. E. B. Lind- 
sell, Bearton, Hitchin, had the best twenty-four 
blooms, distinct, showing amongst others fine 
examples of E. Y. Teas, Ulrich Brunner, and Mrs. 
John Laing. Second came F. B. Haywood, Esq., 
Woodhatch Lodge, Reigate (gardener, Mr. C. J. 
Salter). Mr. Jno. Batemann, Rosevale, Archway 
Road, N., had the best twelve blooms, distinct, and 
Rivers H. Langton, Esq., Raymead, Hendon, the 
finest six. For six single trusses of one variety, T. 
B. Haywood, Esq., took premier position with A. 
K. Williams. In the open classes for hybrid per¬ 
petuals a first prize went to Mr. Frank Cant, Col¬ 
chester, who had Marie Baumann, Alfred Colomb, 
Horace, and Duchess of Bedford in excellent con¬ 
dition. The second award fell to Mr. Benjamin 
R. Cant, who had a scarcely inferior collection. The 
last-named gentleman was also successful in obtain¬ 
ing first awards for the finest three blooms each of 
twelve distinct varieties, and for twelve single 
trusses of any one variety. Singularly enough Mr. 
George Mount, Canterbury, took the second place 
in both these classes, running the first prize-winner 
very close indeed for chief honours. 
Blooms of the Tea and Noisette sections did not 
afford so fine a display as the hyprid perpetuals but 
nevertheless some good material was forthcoming. 
In the amateurs' classes the premier award for 
twenty-four blooms comprising twelve varieties, not 
more than three trusses of any one variety being 
allowable, fell to the lot of O. G. Orpen, Esq., Hill¬ 
side, West Bergholt, Colchester. The Honourable 
Edith Gifford, Souvenir D’Elise Vardon, Miss Ethel 
Brownlow, Madame De Watteville, Comtesse D# 
Nadaillac and Marie Van Houtte were especially 
noticeable here. Rivers H. Langton, Esq., was again 
successful in distancing other competitors for six 
single trusses of not less than four varieties and for 
six trusses of any one sort. In the open classes Mr. 
Frank Cant came out first for twenty-four blooms 
distinct, also for three trusses of twelve different 
sorts thirty-four blooms in all. In both these classes 
Mr. Benjamin R. Cant made a very good second. 
Mr. Frank Cant completed his list of successes by 
taking chief honours for twelve single trusses of any 
one variety, showing The Bride, Mr. B. R. Cant 
once more being second. 
Vegetables and fruit made a more than usually 
imposing display. A Silver Banksian Medal was 
awarded to Mr. Wingfield, Ampthill House, Beds, 
(gardener, Mr. J. Empson), for a very meritorious 
collection of fruit and vegetables, the latter being 
especially praiseworthy. A magnificent collection 
of vegetables that came from Mr. E. Beckett, Alden- 
ham House Gardens, Elstree, deservedly obtained 
the high award of a Silver-gilt Knightian Medal. 
Cauliflowers Walcheren and Veitch’s Early Forcing, 
Tomatos Cutbush’s Polegate and Sutton’s Perfection, 
Onions, Peas, Beans, Carrots, Beetroots, &c., were 
of the very best, and constituted by far the best 
exhibit of vegetables we have seen this season. Up¬ 
wards of thirty dishes of different varieties of Peas 
were contributed by Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons in fine 
style, a Silver Banksian Medal being given. From 
the same firm came a fine collection of hardy fruit, 
amongst which thirty dishes of sweet Cherries 
occupied a prominent position. All the leading 
varieties were represented. Raspberry Superlative, 
ten dishes of Gooseberries, and four of red and white 
Currants comprising ten varieties, together with 
sprays of the latter to illustrate the heavy 
fruiting qualities of the bushes, were like¬ 
wise shown. A Silver-gilt Knightian Medal 
was given for this exceptionally fine exhibit. 
Silver Knightian Medal was awarded to the 
Messrs, de Rothschild, Gunnersbury House, Acton 
(gardener, Mr. Jas. Hudson), for some good 
examples of sweet Cherries, which, despite the fact 
that they had been borne by aged trees were large 
and well coloured. New seedling Melons were sent by 
Mr. S. Mortimer, Swiss Nursery, Farnham. The 
one named Nugget was of medium size and extra 
fine flavour. Epicure was of somewhat larger size, 
and was also of exquisite flavour. A number of 
dishes of red and white Currants comprising 
upwards of twenty varieties came from the Society’s 
gardens at Chiswick. 
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It is with sincere regret that we record the death, 
on the 2nd inst., of Mr. Alexander Cruickshank, 
the late, much and widely respected gardener to James 
Badenoch Nicholson, Esq., Glenbervie House, For- 
doun, Kincardineshire. Mr. Cruickshank had been 
ailing for some time past,but about a fortnight previous 
to his death he contracted inflammation of the lungs, 
from which he never recovered, but, gradually sink¬ 
ing, passed peacefully away on the above-mentioned 
date. He was in the sixty-fifth year of his age, and 
was consummating the twenty-eighth year of his 
residence at Glenbervie, during the whole of which 
time he has been gardener there. In the course of 
his duties outside the garden, he has planned and 
executed new steadings or dwelling houses on every 
farm on the estate, being engaged at the time of his 
death on repairs of the only homestead remaining in 
need of restoration. As there are upwards of two 
dozen farms on the estate, the performance of such 
an amount of work, besides faithful attention to 
garden and forest duties, bespeaks his untiring 
energy. He was an elder of the Church of Scot¬ 
land, and Kirk Treasurer for the Parish of Glenber¬ 
vie. He had also been the mainstay of the local 
horticultural show for many years, and latterly of 
the Glenbervie Hortus Club, which was, in fact, a 
horticultural body for organising and carrying on a 
cottagers’ show, limited to competitors residing in 
the parish, and which was a great success, the 
annual fete being held in the beautiful grounds of 
the estate. He was also connected with various 
other societies. In his younger days Mr. Cruick¬ 
shank was an enthusiastic and successful exhibitor 
at Aberdeen and various other towns in that county. 
He was gardener at Pitmedden House previous to 
his translation to Glenbervie, and is now mourned 
by a wide circle of friends, by whom he 
was much respected, both in The Mearns and 
in Aberdeenshire. He leaves a widow and a 
large family, all of whom are grown up, and mostly, 
if not all, pushing their fortune in some occupation 
or other, and who have to thank their father for 
timely and useful education, wise counsel, and an 
admirable example. Mr. Cruickshank has been a 
personal friend of ours for nearly twenty years. 
We sincerely regret to hear of the death of Mr. 
Benjamin Soddv, of 243, Walworth Road, who for 
some years carried on a large seed and bulb business 
in addition to his flour trade. Mr. Soddy was only 
thirty-eight years of age, but has had a lengthened 
illness. The funeral took place at Nunhead Ceme¬ 
tery as we were going to press on Wednesday after¬ 
noon. 
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Questions add Ansuiens 
Will our friends who send us newspapers he so good 
as to mark the paragraphs or articles they wish us to see 
We shall be greatly obliged by their so doing. 
Plant in box to name.— Hampshire : The fine 
specimen you sent was Saxifraga Cotyledon pyra- 
midalis, and is perfectly hardy but gives most satis¬ 
faction when grown as single crowns in pots. It is 
very largely grown for market purposes as well as in 
private establishments. Select crowns of fair 
average size and pot them singly in 60-sized pots, 
using a compost of good fibrous loam, a little leaf 
mould, and a similar quantity of well decayed cow 
manure, and sufficient sand to keep the whole porous 
and open. Pot moderately firmly and stand the 
pots in a cold frame, simply watering them as they 
require it. When the leaves have about covered the 
pots, re-pot the plants into 48 or 32-sized pots accord¬ 
ing to the vigour of the specimens. After making a 
good growth in this size during summer they may De 
taken into a greenhouse in winter and they will throw 
up fine spikes in spring. They submit to gentle 
forcing, and can be brought into bloom a couple of 
months at least before they flower in the open. 
Mignonette. —Market Gardener : To obtain plants 
for blooming during April and May seed may be 
sown some time during August for a first batch, and 
a month later for 'succession. The seed may be 
sown in the pots in which the plants are intended to 
flower, placed in a cold frame, and the seedlings, 
when large enough, thinned out, leaving three to a 
pot. They will keep well through the winter if frost 
is excluded. 
Hydrangeas.— Market Gardener : To obtain good 
bushy plants of these to produce several corymbs of 
flowers duiing April and May, it is necessary to 
take cuttings in spring. These should consist of 
growths that are not carrying flowers, which, if 
carefully treated, will form nice plants of the kind 
required by the next spring. To flower them 
successfully it is necessary that the growths should 
be well ripened, and to this end they should be freely 
exposed to air and sunshine during autumn. As the 
leaves begin to fall water must be gradually with¬ 
held until it is time to start them into growth again. 
For compost use three parts of good loam, one of 
leaf soil, and one of well dried cow manure or horse 
droppings, with a fair sprinkling of river sand. 
SheepBarkingTrf.es.— A Subscriber: Possibly 
some of the same receipts as are used to keep hares 
and rabbits at bay would answer in the case of 
sheep. One of these is to take equal parts of soft 
soap, sifted ashes and flour, and knead them into 
a paste, Apply the latter over the stems to a thick¬ 
ness of J in. to J in. Another receipt is to rub the 
trees with grease and blood at intervals of two 
months or thereby. Sometimes the trees are 
painted with coal tar, but we should reckon that 
injurious unless the stems were covered with old 
and thick bark. A better plan would be to tie some 
Gorse, or Black or White Thorn branches round 
the stems with a few bands of wire. A more durable 
protection and neater than either of the above would 
be to tie some galvanised wire netting round the 
stems as far up as the sheep can reach. The 
meshes should be pretty close to prevent the sheep 
from gnawing the bark through the openings. 
Springtails and Orchids.— A.L.: The speci¬ 
mens you sent are best known under the name 
of Poduras. Another name is Thysanuran The 
springtails constitute an order of creatures closely 
allied to insects, but are wingless and manage to get 
about nimbly, leaping by the aid of a long forked 
filament or tail from the end of the abdomen, and 
bent under the latter. Your experience with them 
is rather singular. We and others have frequently 
met with them amongst plants, but never attributed 
any harm to them, either to seedlings or anything 
else. We should suspect that small slugs were at 
the bottom of the mischief in eatiDg your seedliDg 
Orchids; or it might have been small snails 
with a slaty grey, coiled and flattened shell, and by 
Orchid growers termed the garlic snail, from the 
smell emitied when bruised. In such a case we advise 
you to go round at night with a lantern and search 
for the marauders at their work of destruction. If 
the pots are stood on a bench covered with ashes, 
gravel or sand we should advise you to give the same 
a good sprinkling with common salt. This will do 
much to drive away slugs and snails. With regard 
to dipping, we may say that you might use water at 
a temperature of 120° to 130°, but you must not keep 
the pots or baskets longer than one minute in the 
water and that only in the case of plants of relatively 
small value, for fear that you might injure the 
younger and more tender roots. 
Yellow foliage plants.— Soton : In the London 
parks yellow foliage plants for carpeting the beds 
under taller plants are not confined to any one thing. 
For instance, Lysimachia Nummularia, Golden 
Feather, Mesembryanthemum cordifolium variega- 
tum, several of the yellow-leaved Alternantheras, 
some of the yellow-leaved Fuchsias, Stellaria 
graminea aurea and Spergula pilifera aurea are all of 
them utilised, besides others. The last two named 
belong to the Carnation family and Spergula has 
very small leaves. All of the above are perfectly 
hardy with exception of Mesembryanthemum, Alter- 
nanthera and Fuchsia. They are easily propagated 
by cuttings and some of them by division. Mentha 
Pulegium gibraltaricum does best when kept in a 
frame during winter and may be propagated in both 
ways mentioned. 
Names of Plants — J.T.G. : Lilium pardalinum. 
— J.R.: 1, Philadelphus coronarius flore pleno ; 2, 
Spiraea discolor ariaefolia; 3, Tilia vulgaris; 4, 
Genista aetnensis.— W.C.: 1, Asplenium Adiantum- 
nigrum ; 2, Pteris longifolia ; 3, Aspidium aculea- 
tum ; 4, Lonicera semperflorens minor; 5, Hibiscus 
sinensis var.; 6, Swainsonia galegifolia.— A.H.: 1, 
Rosa lutea ; 2, Rosa multiflora var.; 3, Rose Gloria 
Mundi, not York and Lancaster; 2, Aristolochia 
Sipho ; 5, Campanula latifolia.— Peach Blossoms: 1, 
Cymbidium pendulum; 2, Stapelia normalis; 3, we 
shall see to next week ; 4, Odontoglossum crispum.— 
Stuart ; 1, Campanula carpatica turbinata pelvifor- 
mis; 2, Campanula carpatica; 3, Campanula 
Waldsteinii; 4, Chrysanthemum maximum; 5, 
Delphinium La belle alliance, probably; 6, Del- 
Insects on Plants and Fruit Trees cheaply cleared by 
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The best preparation. Highly recommended by users, rand 
2 lb. jars, is. and 2s. each ; 4 and 7 lb. tins, 3s. and 5s. each. 
At chemists, &c., or tins post free for value.—F. C. CAL¬ 
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