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THE GARDENING WORLD. 
November 5, 1892. 
well to say that a liberal amount of firing 
may assist the more rapid development of 
the blooms if desirable, but then so few 
growers care to help their blooms in that 
way if it can be avoided, as the flowers 
under such conditions lack that exact finish 
which is characteristic of natural products. 
If some of the later shows should, as a 
result of a deferred season, pick up some of 
the finest blooms they will have some 
cause to rejoice that reward is not always 
to the swift. During the holding of the 
shows many matters of interest to exhibi¬ 
tors will be well talked over and threshed 
out, and it is very possible that the pro¬ 
posal to increase the size of show boards 
will find more or less of general acceptance. 
55 " own Chrysanthemums. —Those of our 
readers who are enabled to grow their 
Chrysanthemums and to bloom them also 
in the pure air and the free light of the 
country have little knowledge of the troubles 
which beset town growers or those who 
reside in thickly populated suburban 
districts. Fogs, blacks, gusts of cold damp 
air, these are but a few of the difficulties 
which have to be surmounted, especially 
as these are troubles that are found in 
greatest force usually in October and 
November. When looking in, the other 
day, upon the very fine collection which 
Mr. H. J. Jones has now in abundant 
bloom at Hither Green, Lewisham, we 
found that to correct some of the evils 
which just now afflict the grower, a broad 
length of tiffany had been stretched the 
entire length of the iooft. span-roofed 
house, and over the tie bars which run 
across the rafters overhead. This tiffany 
was 12ft. in width, but so thin that it 
scarcely obstructed the light in any way. 
“ Now,” said Mr. Jones in response to 
our enquiry as to its object, “you see it 
sometimes in the early morning saturated 
with moisture, the drops standing upon its 
upper surface like great beads. All this 
presentlydriesandissaved from falling upon 
the flowers. Then you see we have almost 
always an ample top ventilation through 
which of necessity comes a current of cold 
air. The tiffany checks, warms, and 
distributes that current, and also catches 
falling blacks—a matter of great import¬ 
ance in a smoky district.” So much for 
the value of the tiffany. 
The top ventilation is governed by an 
almost automatic arrangement, and a boy 
can open or close 50ft- lengths in an instant. 
As to the grand show of some 2,500 plants 
in this very fine show house we advise our 
readers to see for themselves—for it is a 
grand collection of all the best old and 
new varieties. The show is free, but we 
noticed with satisfaction Gardeners’ Orphan 
Fund collecting boxes in the house, to 
which the attention of visitors is generally 
drawn. 
5 The Lord Mayor’s Show. —We trust our 
^ friends of the Fruiterers' Company will 
not be angry if we venture to express a 
belief that the proposed exhibition of a 
sort of triumphal fruit car or trophy with 
the usual paraphernalia of the municipal 
procession next Wednesday, in the streets 
of London, will prove much more effectual 
in helping to promote “ the objects of the 
Fruiterers’ Company, which include the 
more extended cultivation of Hardy bruits 
in the British Isles,” than will a score or a 
hundred of Mansion House Banquets. 
Now whilst we heartily agree with the 
suggestion that British and Irish or home 
hardy fruit culture should be brought home 
to the public as forcibly and effectively 
as possible, we recognise the danger 
there is of the proposed car or trophy 
failing to exhibit that importance, and hence 
becoming rather an object of laughter than 
of actual impressiveness. It is not enough 
to hope that in its composition everything 
that bids fair to create criticism will be 
avoided, but we wish to see the display 
made so good an one, so effectual as to 
leave on the minds of the public the 
impression that Fruit Culture is an eminent 
and to some extent prosperous form of 
industry. The proposal savours'in relation 
to horticulture so much of novelty that in¬ 
different judgment may mar its production, 
just as good sense may make it, in the 
estimation of onlookers. 
We should rather have liked to see a 
proposal of this kind conducted by the 
Market Trade, and probably had Covent 
Garden been approached the growers and 
salesmen there would have cheerfully 
responded. The car which it is purposed 
to exhibit is intended, so far as our inform¬ 
ation goes, rather to represent the Nursery 
Trade than either the Market Trade 
or even the Fruiterers’ Company, 
but the wider its basis as representing the 
whole home fruit growing industry the 
better shall we be pleased. 
Mutumn Tints.— We are getting no 
Indian summer this year, and as a 
consequence autumn tints are of the 
poorest. Cold weather, heavy rains, wind 
storms, and very sharp frosts have played 
havoc with leafage. There has been on 
its part very little response to the occa¬ 
sional and all too infrequent gleams of 
sunshine. The frosts, too, have caused the 
leaves on many trees that ordinarily give 
to us the most attractive hues, to fall 
unduly early, and what in warm 
autumns have curtained the trees in gold, 
red, brown, or other beautiful hues, already 
lie on the ground trampled beneath the feet 
of mortals with as little concern as if 
decayed Cabbage leaves. 
After all there seem to be few trees that 
give to us colours in the autumn so natur¬ 
ally as do the Acers, but even these have 
had this season very fugitive colour period. 
The beautiful forms of Ampelopsis only 
on gravelly or sandy soil, or in very 
favoured positions, have put on that 
rich blood-red coating the which so 
ordinarily marks the late autumn. Not 
a few gardeners are of such a matter 
of fact mind, that they think far more of 
getting all the leaves down, that the annual 
and final winter sweeping or cleaning of 
nature’s carpet may take place. If not 
this season, at least during ordinary seasons, 
every leaf that falls means some loss of 
colour and beauty. 
The lover of the beautiful in nature may 
not be a gardener and perhaps detests the tidi¬ 
ness incidental to garden methods. 1 o him a 
leaf is an object of admiration. To the 
gardener it is too often an object of annoy¬ 
ance, until it has been duly collected into 
the wheelbarrow, and has been taken to its 
bourne. We hope yet to combine in a 
large decree the enthusiasm and natural love 
of one and the utilitarian tidiness of the 
other in ardent appreciation of beautiful 
autumn tints another year. 
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Mr. George Manning, only son of Mr. T. Manning, 
of the Royal Exotic Nursery, Chelsea, died, we 
regret to hear, on Tuesday morning last. 
Mr. R. Smith, of Kenward, Yalding, an excellent 
Kentish gardener, has obtained the appointment as 
lecturer on horticulture to the Shropshire County 
Council. 
Mr. James Robert Macleay, son of the Hon. 
Alexander Macleay, F.R.S., for some years secretary 
of the Linnecan Society, and brother of the late Sir 
George Macleay, of Pendell Court, died on the 28th 
ult., aged 81 years. 
Preston and Fulwood Horticultural Society. —The 
usual monthly meeting of members of this society' 
will be held in the Council Chamber of the Town 
Hall, this (Saturday) evening, Nov. 5th, 1892, when 
Mr. James Hathaway, gardener to Lord Lathom, 
will read a paper on the Tomato and its cultivation. 
A number of prizes for various subjects will be 
subsequently awarded. 
A Horticulturjl School in Holland —We learn upon 
good authority that Mr. A. M. C. Jongkindt Coninck, 
late of the Nurseries, Dedemsvaart, Netherlands, is 
commencing a Technical School at Bussum, near 
Amsterdam, which was opened on November 1st, 
for the thorough training of young gentlemen in 
horticulture in all its branches. Air. Coninck is well 
adapted for such work, for which he has already 
achieved quite a considerable reputation. 
Mr. E. S. Dodwell is again, we regret to hear, very 
seriously indisposed, and his physician insists upon 
his complete repose. We are asked under the cir¬ 
cumstances to crave the forbearance of correspon¬ 
dents whose letters may not receive prompt acknow¬ 
ledgment. 
Gardening Engagements. —Mr. Robert Blackstock, 
for the past two years steward and gardener tc 
Tollemache Scott, Esq., Bosworth Park, Market 
Bosworth, Leicestershire, as gardener to Sir Emilius 
Laurie, Bart., Maxwellton House, Dumfries-shire. 
Mr. Richard Davies, formerly gardener to Lord 
Charles Scott, Boujedward, Jedburgh, N.B., as gar¬ 
dener and overseer to J. Martin White, Esq., of 
Balruddery, near Dundee. 
Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh. —Lord Shand, 
the arbitrator between the Corporation of Edinburgh 
and the North British Railway Company, has 
awarded £23,500 to the Corporation, £1,000 to the 
Bank of Scotland, and £2,000 to the Crown for 
their respective interests in the portions of the 
Princes Street Gardens required by the railway 
company. 
Chrysanthemum Viviand Morel. —Perhaps the one 
new variety of Chrysanthemum on which there was 
the greatest run last season was the immense, rosy- 
pink, reflexed “Jap.,” Viviand Morel. It is a grand 
exhibition, variety, and a white sport has already 
been seen in public. We have now to announce that 
there is also a yellow one, and a very fine one too, 
which has originated this season with Mr. Norman 
Davis. It will be tested for constancy before being 
shown, and should it maintain its early promise 
will be named Charles Davies. 
American Seed Trade Weights and Measures.—A 
committee of the American Seed Trade Association 
appointed in the summer to consider the cental 
system, unanimously recommend all seedsmen in the 
United States and Canada, on and after the 1st of 
January next, to quote the following seeds at per 100 
lbs. instead of per bushel :—Clover, Timothy, Blue 
Grass, Orchard Grass, Red Top, Lawn Grass, Millet, 
Hungarian, and all kinds of grass seeds ; also Buck¬ 
wheat, Cane, Broomcorn, Sunflower, Osage, Hemp, 
Castor Beans and Pumpkin Seed. 
The Glasgow Eotanic Garden.— A correspondent of 
the Glasgow Herald writes :—“ As horticulturist, 
arboriculturist, and landscape gardener, our superin¬ 
tendent of parks has had about 40 years’ experience 
and management, and is in every respect competent 
to undertake the superintendence of our Botanic Gar¬ 
dens, in the growth and health of the plants, which 
as a park is perfectly of a piece with those already 
under his able government. And under the scientific 
presidency of a Professor of Botany of the Univer¬ 
sity just appointed, our Botanic Gardens should be 
included under one control. As to the ratepayers’ 
interests and responsibilities there should be one 
account for all.” 
The Conifer Conference.— The long anticipated 
report of the Conifer Conference held at Chiswick 
in October, 1891, has been published during the 
present week, and can now be obtained by the 
Fellows of the Royal Horticultural Society. It 
forms Vol 14 of the Society's Journal, and is a bulky 
volume to boot, consisting of nearly 600 pages. It 
contains all the papers read at the Conference, in¬ 
cluding those of Dr. Masters, F.R.S., and Professor 
Carl Hansen, of Copenhagen, which have since been 
considerably extended. 
The Clover and Grass Seed Harvest.—In their 
annual report on the seed harvest for 1S92, Messrs. 
James Carter & Co. remark that it is a memorable 
one in many points. Last year an unfavourable 
