568 
May 6, 1893. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
WHAT TO DO IN THE GARDEN, 
Coleus.—Keep the plants growing on in a warm and 
moist atmosphere, particularly those that are 
intended for exhibition purposes. Where the speci¬ 
mens are to be trained down flat, the shoots must be 
got into position before they get too hard to bend, 
and pinching may be resorted to where branches are 
growing away too rampantly for their fellows or to 
furnish bare parts of the specimen. Pyramidal 
plants must also be kept in form. Cuttings rooted 
even yet will make useful plants for conservatory 
decoration late in the season. 
Basket Ferns —The present is a good time to 
make up baskets of the various Ferns that are 
;su\table for this purpose, including Adiantums, 
Davallias, Aspleniums, Polypodium plesiosorum 
appendiculatum, P. subauriculatum, and others. 
Sphagnum or some other kind of moss should be 
placed round the sides of the basket to retain the 
soil. 
Liliums. —Late batches of Lilium longiflorum 
Harrisii, as well as batches of L. auratum, L. specio- 
sum and its varieties may occasionally be watered 
with weak liquid manure when they are growing 
freely, as most of them will be by this time, with the 
exception of the late batches. Look after them for 
greenfly, which settles in the buds and completely 
destroys the flower buds if not checked. 
Bouvardias. —Young plants especially should be 
kept growing for some time yet in a warm and moist 
atmosphere to get some good growth into them be¬ 
fore placing them in the open air. During the con¬ 
tinuance of the present dry weather and east winds 
they are better under glass. 
Indian Azaleas. —We have had so much sun¬ 
shine this year that everything in the way of hardy 
shrubs, and also indoor hard-wooded subjects are 
very forward. Azaleas can only be kept back by 
those having a cool, north aspect house, where they 
should be kept to retard them as long as possible. 
Those that have finished flowering should have their 
seed vessels picked off and the plants placed in a 
house with a moist and growing atmosphere to urge 
them into growth. Plants in flower should be 
shaded and kept out of the draught of cold east 
winds. 
Begonias. —The earliest batch of old plants, 
where in flower or approaching that stage, should 
be kept as near the glass as possible, but judiciously 
shaded during bright sunshine. Ventilate as freely 
as the east winds will permit, and supply them with 
plenty of water. 
Chinese Primulas. —As soon as the seedlings are 
well up they should be transplanted into pans or 
boxes before they in any way get crowded or become 
liable to damping. Then, as the young leaves meet 
in the pans, the seedlings must be potted off singly 
in small pots and kept in the same temperature till 
established, or immediately transferred to heated 
frames where artificial heat may be given if the 
weather is cold till established, after which they 
must be kept cool. 
Vines. —Grapes that are now ripe in the earliest 
house should be kept cool and dry, cooler in fact 
than they were kept during the period of colouring. 
Those that are still in the process of colouring 
should be kept warm, and if the day is bright, damp 
down early in the day so that the moisture may all 
be dried up by midday. Keep a little air on all 
night and increase it early in the day as the tempera¬ 
ture rises. It should be reduced again early in the 
afternoon. Before thinning the Muscats wait till it 
is seen which berries are best set by taking the lead. 
Peaches and Apricots on walls. —Constant 
attention must be given the trees during their period 
of leafing to guard against insects, particularly green¬ 
fly, which soon plays havoc with the unfolding 
leaves. Let the garden engine or hose play upon 
them in the early part of the day, so that they may 
be dry before night in case of frost. 
Kidney Beans and Scarlet Runners— The 
main crops of these may now be planted. Where a 
number of rows of the latter are grown together and 
staked, they should have a distance of 6 ft. between 
each. Without staking, the lines may be 3 ft. apart, 
as they do not grow so vigorously under that treat¬ 
ment. The taller kinds of Kidney Beans will also 
require 3 ft. ; but as the dwarfer sorts are usually 
the more popular, greater breadths of them may be 
planted. From 15 m. to 18 in. will be sufficient be¬ 
tween the lines. 
LAW NOTES. 
Exhibitors and their Prize Winnings — A case 
of considerable interest and importance to exhibitors 
at agricultural [and horticultural] shows came be¬ 
fore the Ilkeston County Court the other day. 
' Messrs. Isaac Attenborough and William Fletcher, 
of Ilkeston, were sued by Mr. Philip Walker to re¬ 
cover the sum of £8 15s., due to plantiff for prize 
awards. The plaintiff, who is a farmer at Shipley, 
was a member of an association called the Ilkeston 
Agricultural and Fanciers’ Association. At the 
annual exhibition of horses and other animals, and 
farming produce, held by the association on Septem¬ 
ber 17th, 1891, the plaintiff exhibited in several of 
the classes at the show and was duly awarded eight 
prizes, the money value of which amounted to £8 15s. 
The plaintiff had paid his entrance fees, and had in all 
respects conformed to the rules of the association, 
so as to be entitled to receive the prizes which he had 
fairly won. The money available to pay the plaintiff 
the amount of his prizes was not forthcoming, 
though it was admitted for the purpose of this case 
that there were assets belonging to the association 
not at present realised, which would be enough, if 
sold, to pay the plaintiff the amount due to him, 
though not enough to pay other exhibitors who are 
in a similar position. Under these circumstances the 
plaintiff brought an action against the defendants— 
the chairman and one of the vice-chairmen of the 
committee of the association—to recover the amount 
due to him in respect of the unpaid prize money. 
His Honour, Judge Kenelm Digby, in giving judg¬ 
ment, held that the association was not incorporated, 
and could not be sued in its collective capacity. 
There was besides no evidence that the defendants 
and the other members of the association had 
entered into any contract with the plaintiff giving 
rise to a legal liability. The mere facts that their 
names appeared as chairman and one of the vice- 
chairmen of the committee was clearly insufficient 
to fix them with such personal responsibility, and no 
other evidence was given from which any personal 
responsibility could be inferred. The fact was that 
in most cases it was extremely difficult to remedy by- 
recourse to legal proceedings a grievance such as the 
plaintiff had sustained in consequence of an unin¬ 
corporated society, which was not a partnership, be¬ 
ing unable to fulfil its obligations. In the present 
case it appeared to him that he had no alternative 
but to give judgment for the defendants, with costs. 
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Questions sod snsuieRS- 
Greenfly on Calceolarias.— D.M. : You do 
not tell us in what stage your plants are. If they 
are not yet in flower you should fumigate them lightly 
on two successive evenings and syringe them in the 
morning to dislodge the dead insects. At night, 
however, when you are about to fumigate them 
with tobacco paper or rag, they should be as dry as 
possible. If the plants are in flower you cannot 
well fumigate nor syringe them ; they are practically 
ruined if badly infested with fly when in bloom. It 
will be a lesson for you, however, another year to 
watch for the first trace of greenfly, especially just 
when the plants are about to bloom, and fumigate 
immediately. 
Names of Plants. — E. K. : Arthropodium cirra- 
tum. J. W. M.: Saxifraga (Megasea) ligulata of 
Wallich. H-B .: 1, Sedum Lydium ; 2, Saxifraga 
muscoides atropurpurea ; 3, Taxus baccata adpressa ; 
4, Crataegus Oxyacantha punicea ; 5, Pyrus (Cydonia) 
Maulei; 6, Pyrus Malus floribunda. 
Propagating P.-eonia Moutan.— L. G. : Old 
plants are propagated to some extent by division 
when that can be effected, and to some extent by 
layering; but the readiest and most convenient 
method of procedure is to graft it upon the stout and 
fleshy roots of the herbaceous species P. officinalis 
and P. albiflora. Select small side shoots without 
flower buds in the month of August and graft them 
by the whip or tongue method. After securing them, 
pot them up singly covering the graft with soil, and 
plunge the pots in ashes in a cold frame when they 
should be left till the following spring. 
Aquatics in open air-tank.— A. T. M.: A 
simple and inexpensive method of growing such 
thing as Saggittaria sagittifolia, Aponogeton dis- 
tachyum, Butomus umbellatus and other favourites 
of that class, would be to get a water butt, a large 
beer barrel, or something of that kind and cut them 
in half, by which you would have two tubs ready 
made. These may be stood on the ground or sunk 
to the rim if so desired to hide them and then filled 
with water. Put your plants into large or small pots 
according to the size of the pieces or in pans and 
sink them till the top is a little below the surface of 
the water. All_ that then remains to do is to keep the 
tanks clear of water weeds and replenish them with 
water from time to time as it evaporates. 
Clematis for Herbaceous Border.—!?. Co'e\ 
We understand you require species that may be 
grown amongst the ordinary occupants of the 
herbaceous border, and to be treated in the same 
way. There are several that would answer this pur¬ 
pose admirably, namely, C. integrifolia, blue, C. 
ochroleuca, creamy yellow, both 2 ft. high ; also C. 
recta, white, 2 ft. to 3 ft, high, C. tubulosa and C. 
Davidiana of similar height with blue flowers. The 
last two are natives of China, but have proved hardy 
in the southern counties. 
Peas in Sandy Soil.— J. R. : The dry weather 
experienced at present imy not affect your plants by 
the time they are well above the soil, but it is well 
to be prepared, more particularly as your soil is of a 
light and sandy nature. Mark off the lines intended 
for the Peas, and then take out a trench about a 
spade deep. Put a quantity of well rotted cow dung 
into this and dig it over, well mixing it with the soil. 
The trench should then be sufficiently filled up and 
the Peas sown. Cover them up and you will find 
that the dung in the trench will keep them growing 
vigorously even in droughty weather. When it rains 
or when water is given, it will run into the trench 
instead of running off by the surface. 
Communications Received. —J. S.—C. B.- -B. & 
S.—N. S.—C. E. O.—J. D.-J. H. L.—Quator—A. 
H.—P. B. W. 
TRADE CATALOGUE RECEIVED. 
J. Cheal & Sons, Lowfield Nurseries, Crawley. 
—Spring Catalogue of Dahlias. 
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LONDON SEED TRADE. 
May 1st , 1893. 
Messrs. Hurst & Son, 152, Houndsditch, and 39, 
Seed Market, Mark Lane, report no change in values 
of Agricultural Seeds. Demand is not large owing 
to dry weather. 
COVENT GARDEN MARKET. 
May 3rd, 1893. 
Fruit.—Average Wholesale Prices. 
5. d s. d. 
Tasmanian Apples 
per case . 5 
Grapes, per lb. 2 
Kent Cobs...100lb. 
Peaches ... per dozen 
s. d. 
Melons.each 2 o 
o Strawberries, per lb. 2 o 
3 6 Pine apples. 
—St. Michael’s, each 2 6 
Apples...per £ sieve 1 0 
j Plums...per i sieve 
Vegetables.—Average Retail Prices. 
s. d. s. d. s. d. 
Asparagus per buudle 16 5 o? Horse Radish, bundle 2 0 
60 Lettuces ...per dozen 1 6 
2 
AruchokesGlobe doz. 
Beans, French, perlb. 
Beet.per dozen 20 30 
Cabbages ... per doz. 1626 
Carrots ... per bunch 0 6 
Cauliflowers, Eng.dz. 30 50 
Celery.per bundle 2 6 
Cucumbers .each 04 08 
Endive, French, doz. 26 30 
Herbs per bunch 02 06 
Mushrooms, p. basket 1 3 
Onions.per bunch 0 4 
Parsley ... per bunch o 6 
Radishes... per dozen 1 6 
Seakale .per bkt 1 6 
Smallsalading,punnet o 4 
Spinach ... per strike 1 6 
Tomatos. per lb. 1 6 
Turnips.per bun. 0 6 
s. b 
3 6 
4 0 
6 o 
3 6 
s. d. 
4 o 
2 0 
2 0 
0 6 
2 o 
2 0 
Cut Flowers.—Average Wholesale Prices. 
s.d. s d 
Anemones, doz. bnch 10 3 0 | 
Azalea, doz sprays.o 409 
Arum Lilies, i2blms. 20 40 
Bouvardias, per bun. 06 10 
Carnations. 12 blooms 10 30 
Camellias doz blooms 1 020 
Daffodils, var. dz. bch. 1 690 
Eucharis ...per doz. 30 60 
Euphorbia Jackminafo- 
lia, doz. sprays 10 40 
Gardenias 12 blooms 10 26 
Heliotropes,12 sprays 06 09 
Lilac, White, French, 
per bunch... 40 50 
Lilium Harrisii, 
doz. blooms 20 30 
LilyoftheValleydz.sps.o 616 
Lily of Valley.dz. bhs. 3 060 
MaidenhairFern,i2bs. 4 060 
Margueiites, 12bun. 20 40 
s. d. s. d 
Mignonette... 12 bun. 20 40 
Narcisse, various, doz. 
bnchs . 20 40 
Pelargoniums, 12 sps. 09 10 
— scarlet.12 bchs. 40 6 c 
Primula, double, bun. 06 10 
Primroses doz. bchs 60 10 
Orchid Bloom in var. 
per bloom, from 03 10 
Roses, yellow, dozen 20 40 
— French, per bnch 10 40 
— Red.doz. blms. 16 40 
— Saffrano...per doz. 16 20 
— Tea.per dozen 06 20 
Tuberoses, per doz 06 10 
Tulips. 06 09 
—Mixed, doz. bnchs 30 60 
Violets,Parma, French 
per bunch .. 30 40 
Small ,, doz. bun. 10 16 
Plants in Pots.—Average Wholesale Prices. 
s. d. s. d. 
Azaleas... per doz 24 0 42 0 
Cyclamen per doz ... 9 0 18 0 
Cyperus .per doz. 40120 
Cineraria ...per doz. 60 90 
Dracaena term., doz. 24 0 36 0 
Dracaena viridis,doz. 90180 
Deutzia.per doz. 60 90 
Dielytra.per doz. 60 90 
Erica, various, doz. 12 o 18 0 
Evergreens,invar.doz 6 0 24 o 
Ferns, invar.,per doz. 4 o 18 0 
Ferns, small, per 100 6 o 10 o | 
s. d. s d 
Foliage Plants, doz. 12 o 60 0 
Genesta.per doz. 9 0 15 o 
Lily of theValley doz. 
pots 9 0 18 0 
Marguerites, perdoz. 6 o 12 o 
Palms in variety,each 2 6 10 0 
Palms, Specimen ... 15 0 63 0 
Primula Sinensis 
per doz. 40 60 
Pelargoniums ... doz.12 o 18 o 
— scarlet per doz.12 o 18 o 
Auriculas, new. 
Bedding, summer .560 
Birmingham Daffodil Show566 
Buddlea globosa.566 
Bulbophyllum Lobbi Sia- 
mesne.567 
Celery Culture, a new .563 
Celery, white plume _ 563 
Cytissus Adami .567 
Cytissus scoparius.566 
Dulwich Park .562 
Floriculture .564 
Fruit Crops .561 
Gardening and Forestry 
Exhibition .566 
Gardeners' Calendar.568 
Gardeners’ Half-holidays...561 
Gardeners, young .561 
Ganetheria procumbens ...566 
Horse Chestnut, the .560 
page 
Laslia Latona .567 
Law notes.568 
Masdevallia Arminii.567 
Metropolitan Parks . 560 
National Auricula Society 564 
Orchid Notes .567 
Pansies and Violas.566 
Peas, early.563 
Plants, new, Certificated ...562 
Royal Gardener’s Orphan 
Fund .565 
Sanderson, the late Mr. E.561 
Science Gleanings.563 
Sewage in the Garden.563 
Stanhopea Amesiana .5 67 
Tulip, a tragrant.566 
Vegetables and the Frost...561 
Vegetable Garden, the... .. 563 
Weather Forecasts .563 
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