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THE GARDENING WORLD. 
August 19, 1898. 
aS'bedding plants. We could hardly look 
upon the collection without feeling some 
of the spirit of the old war horse raging 
within us, and longed to be able to grow 
specimens as in the days that are passed. 
Would that hundreds of gardeners would 
try to do this again. 
A remarkably fine selection, beginning 
with doubles, would include Duchess of 
Edinburgh, grand white corolla, and a 
noble flower ; Mathias Duval,violet corolla ; 
Archimede, dark purple corolla ; Beauty 
of Cleveland, giant double white; Monu¬ 
ment, striped rose and purple corolla ; 
Molesworth, very free and fine white; 
Papin, dark violet; and T. Desbois, blue 
corolla. Of singles, Le Verrier, plum 
corolla; M. Joule, navy blue; Display, 
wonderfully, free deep red ; Delight, white 
corolla ; General Roberts, crimson and 
plum, a fine variety for pillars; Improved 
Rose of Castille, first rate ; Lye's Perfec¬ 
tion, carmine corolla, very beautiful ; and 
Mrs. F. Glass, white, pink corolla. That 
is a selection of sixteen sorts very hard to 
beat, and well worthy the attention of any 
grower who may wish to improve upon his 
existing stock of Fuchsias. 
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A New Knight.—The Queen has been pleased to 
confer the honour of Knighthood upon Dr. J. H, 
Gilbert, F.R.S., who has been associated for more 
than fifty years with Sir J. B. Lawes in the 
agricultural experiments conducted at Rothamsted. 
Judges at Chicago —The Horticultural Judges 
appointed by the British Royal Commission for duty 
at the Chicago Exhibition were Mr. George 
Nicholson of the Royal Gardens, Kew, and Mr. C. 
F. Sander, St. Albans. 
Mr. Richard Staward, Langlee Gardens, Galashiels, 
has been engaged as gardener to John Cockburn, 
Esq., Glencorse House, Milton Bridge, N.B. 
A Remedy for Wasp Stings. —A correspondent of 
a daily paper recommends the following simple 
remedy for wasp stings : Cut an onion in half and 
apply the cut part to the wound. This will be found 
to give instant relief, and has been tried with 
success also for bee stings. Another correspondent 
recommends that the wound be immediately wet and 
have a piece of common soda applied to it. 
Mr. J. A. Cox, for over nine years foreman at 
Aldenham House, Elstree, has been engaged as 
gardener to the Hon. A. Holland Hibberh Munden 
Park, Watford. 
Mr. J. Golding, for seven years gardener at Shar- 
combe, Wells, has become gardener to Mrs. Roe, at 
Kendall Hall, Elstree. 
Beech Mast Oil.—The crop of Beech-masts in the 
State forests of France are valued this year at 
£170,000. In the British Isles and the United States 
this nut goes to waste. In France it is carefully 
gathered in the last week of September and the first 
of October and taken to oil presses. The oil 
extracted from the Beech-mast is the most delicate 
in flavour, and the least liable to clog or turn rancid. 
When the number of Beech trees in a State forest is 
not great in any particular district the Beech-masts 
are given away to the poor people of the place. 
Beech-mast oil is dearer than the oil of the Provence 
olive, and French cooks and mechanics prize it 
highly. 
An Oddfellows’ Flower Show and Fete. —For the 
tenth year in succession the August Bank Holiday 
was set apart in Frome, Somersetshire, for the 
Floral and Horticultural Exhibition and Fete, held 
under the auspices of the “ Loyal True Briton ” 
Lodge of Oddfellows, and in many respects the show 
was the most successful of the whole series. The 
weather was all that could be desired ; the exhibition 
was decidedly the best, in point of entries, quality of 
the exhibits and tasteful arrangement; and the 
number who passed the turnstiles and the total 
receipts were nearly equal to last year, the amount 
received being £126 4s. 2d. The exhibitions have 
been the means of adding over £100 to the Lodge 
Benevolent Fund, and the committee have a sub¬ 
stantial sum in hand to meet such contingencies as a 
wet day. 
Horse Racing at Flower Shows.—A South Durham 
paper offers a timely protest against what it regards 
as an attempt to organise something like a “ leather¬ 
flapping ” race meeting in the limited space of an 
exaggerated circus ring in conjunction with flower 
shows. It appears that during a race of this 
character at the Middlesbrough Flower Show, one 
of the riders, owing doubtless to the acuteneks of 
the turns, was thrown from his horse and sustained 
injuries of so serious a character that he had to be 
removed in a cab to the North Riding Infirmary. 
Notwithstanding this warning, the promoters of the 
North Ormsby Show subsequently risked the 
hazardous experiment, with the result that one of 
the riders was thrown, and required the attentions of 
two doctors. 
New Plants Cerificated in Ghent.—At the last meet¬ 
ing of the Syndical Chamber of Belgian Horticul¬ 
turists, held in Ghent, Certificates of Merit were 
awarded to Mr. L. Desmet for Carludovica palmte- 
folia and Poinsettia pulcherrima variegata ; to Mr. 
A. Van. Imschoot for Anguloa eburnea, Laelia 
elegans Turneri, Cattleya Eldorado var. Wallisi, 
Cattleya Shepherdiana var., and Phajas Humboldti; 
to Mme. Henri de Warvin de Rouselle for Vanda 
coerulea var. ; to Mr. Szewczik for Begonia fulgens; 
to Mr. Francois Debois for Adiantum cuneatum var. 
and Philesia buxifolia ; to Mr. Jules Hye for Cypri- 
pedium Youngi and Odontoglossum Schroderae; and 
to Mr. J. Moens for Cypripedium Haynaldianum 
var. Malle. Clothilde Moens. 
Agricultural Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs.—The 
House of Commons Grand Committee on Trade 
have concluded their revision of the Fertilisers and 
Feeding Stuffs Bill, introduced by the Minister for 
Agriculture (Mr. H. Gardner). Sir J. Gorst presided. 
It was agreed that County Councils should be em¬ 
powered to appoint officers to take, on behalf of 
buyers, samples for analysis of the products dealt 
with by the measure. It was resolved that any 
person fraudulently tampering with such samples 
should be liable to six months’ imprisonment, and 
that the Board of Agriculture itself, as well as other 
parties mentioned in the measure, might prosecute 
under it. The Bill as amended was ordered to be 
reported. 
The Hampton Court Vine.—The Standard having 
recently stated: ‘‘We believe it is tolerably well 
settled that ‘ the great grape vine' of Hampton 
Court was planted in 1763 by Lancelot Brown.” A 
West Hampstead correspondent replies as follows :— 
“ I only know that I have always heard my late 
father say that the great vine at Hampton Court 
was planted by an ancestor of his, whose name was 
Robinson, and who most certainly was at Hampton 
Court, and that George III. presented him on the 
occasion with a snuff-box, which said box my father 
always treasured, and which I have, and value. It 
is tortoiseshell, inlaid with silver, and very pretty. 
Oddly enough, it is only about three weeks since I 
was speaking to a cousin about the great vine, and I 
said, ‘ Well, you know an ancestor of ours, a Mr. 
Robinson, planted that vine, and I have the snuff-box 
that George III., gave him when he planted it.’ The 
reply was, ■ Yes, I have always understood from my 
father (he was own cousin to my father, and one of 
his names was Robinson) that such was the case,' 
and the remark was made that I ought to have the 
fact engraved on the box. I have a mourning ring 
which my father always wore, and which I now 
wear, in memory of Thomas Robinson, Esq., died 
18th April, 1810, aged eighty-four. I imagine that 
must have been the man.” 
Grand Yorkshire Gala.—A general meeting of the 
guarantors and life members of the above was held at 
Harker’s Hotel, York, on the nth inst., Alderman Sir 
Joseph Terry in the chair. The recommendation of 
the council that the sum of £251 be handed over to 
the York charities was approved. The sum of £175 
was added to the reserve fund, bringing it up to 
£2,000, and the remaining balance carried forward 
to next year’s account. Mr. Alderman Milward, who 
seconded the motion of adoption, congratulated the 
committee on the sum which had been devoted this 
year to charitable purposes, pointing out that the 
reserve fund of £2,000 being now completed, the 
profits of future years would be handed over direct 
to charity. The Chairman moved a vote of thanks 
to the Lord Mayor for accepting the office of presi¬ 
dent of the council, and for his donation of special 
prizes, the resolution being cordially carried. Votes 
of thanks were also given to Sir Joseph Terry, 
chairman of the council, Mr. E. Rooke, J.P., vice- 
chairman, and Mr Jos. Wilkinson, hon. treasurer. 
Colonel Tomkinson (commanding 1st Royal 
Dragoons), and Col. Conyngham (1st Royal Scots) 
having been thanked for the services of the bands of 
their respective regiments at the gala, Mr. J. 
Welburn's courtesy in the provision of clerical and 
general assistance was suitably acknowledged, and 
thanks were further accorded to Messrs. Backhouse, 
Sutton, and other donors of prizes, and also to Mr. 
C. W. Simmons (secretary). The dates of the gala 
were fixed for next year as June 13th, 14th, and 
15th. 
Apple Trees Flowering.—It is somewhat extra¬ 
ordinary and worthy of record that at Gunnislake, 
in the West of England, there are numerous apple 
trees in blossom for the second time this year. In 
one garden there is a tree from which the fruit from 
the first blossoming has not yet been picked, and it 
is now in blossom the second time ; and in another 
instance a cherry tree is in blossom. Truly the 
seasons are changing or Nature is. 
The connection between fishing and gardening is 
not recognised as a rule, nor does it appear at the 
first glance that a combination of the two industries 
could be brought about with any practical result. 
Yet the attempt is now being made. The executive 
of the Cornwall Fisheries Exhibition now in progress 
at Truro have this week held a show of fruit and 
vegetables, as an auxiliary movement whereby fruit 
and vegetable culture may be fostered, thus adding 
to the somewhat precarious earnings of the Cornish 
fisher-folk. To this end the mild climate of the 
Cornish coast lends unrivalled advantages, and 
there is no reason why the idea should not be largely 
adopted. The flower and vegetable show was a great 
success. 
"Mazzard” Fail’s are peculiar, we believe, to 
Cornwall, and equally as peculiar is it that the 
common Mazzard (or Black Cherry) has proved 
scarcer at these fairs during the present than for 
many previous years, although Apples, Pears, Plums, 
and the like fruits have scarely ever been equalled 
in abundance or lowness of price. One writer of 
note has it that these Mazzard fairs recall an old 
celebrity who at one time had the monopoly of the 
Mazzard market, who, long before the days of 
railways, used annually to go to the Mazzard market 
on the borders of Cornwall and Devon and arrange 
with the growers for the supply to the various 
market towns of the west. She was the middleman 
(or woman), and everything depended on her will, so 
much so that on occasions when some of the sellers 
in various towns offended her, she punished them by 
not allowing them to have any Mazzards to sell, to 
the great discomfort of Mazzard-loving residents, 
who were obliged to forego their favourite fruit or 
to send to neighbouring towns to purchase. The 
middlewoman aforesaid was one who once seen would 
not soon be forgotten. She wore a gown and blue 
apron, and a man’s rough jacket, hat, and thick boots, 
carried a cart whip, drove her horses in carts, and 
had a strong bass voice. A woman of character and 
determination, her life was a practical comment on 
■■ Women’s rights ” ; genial to her friends, she was 
the terror of those who in any way opposed her. 
Peter Lawson & Son, Limited.—In the report of the 
directors of this company the net profits on the past 
year’s trading are shown to be £5,380 16s. 3d., to 
which £2,974 12s. gd. is added, this amount having 
been carried forward from the previous year. A 
dividend of 10 per cent, per annum, free of Income 
Tax, was declared, this leaving £3.105 9 s - 2d. t0 be 
carried forward to this year’s account. 
Ealing Gardeners’ Society.—The members of this 
Society and their friends, to the number of sixty-one, 
held their fifth annual outing on Tuesday last. 
Leaving Ealing in the morning they took train to 
Taplow, and walked to the Thames banks at 
Maidenhead, from whence they went up the river by 
steam launch to Henley, and after luncheon there, 
visited the splendid gardens of Mrs. Noble, Park 
Place, Henley-on-Thames, under the able manage¬ 
ment of Mr. Stanton. They then returned to the 
steam launch, on board of which they partook of tea 
while the home journey was being effected, and 
catching the last train at Taplow for London, reached 
home after a very enjoyable day. 
