December 4, 1897. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
211 
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NEXT WEEK'S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Tuesday, December 7th.—National Chrysanthemum Society's 
Mid-winter Show at the Royal Aquarium (3 days,. 
Meeting of the Floral Committee at 1 p.m. 
Friday, December iotb.—Sale of imported and established 
Orchids by Messrs. Protheroe & Morris. 
f iR William Harcourt as a Gardener. 
On the occasion of the Dundee Chrys¬ 
anthemum Society’s show, on the 25th 
ult., and the two succeeding days, the ser¬ 
vices of Sir William Vernon Harcourt were 
secured to perform the opening ceremony. 
Sir William was three quarters cf an hour 
late on account of his arduous duties that 
day; but the large audience which had 
come to hear him, was entertained in the 
interim by the Anglo-Swiss Ladies’ Cyclist 
Band, which is a string orchestra of seven¬ 
teen instrumentalists, and proved a novelty 
in its way at Dundee. He left the City 
Chambers in company with Lord Provost 
M’Grady, who took the chair, being 
supported by Sir Henry Campbell Banner- 1 
man, Bart., Sir John Leng, M P., Sir T. 
D. Gibson Carmichael, Bart., Sir Thomas 
Thornton, LL.D. and other distinguished 
citizens. Sir William had that morning 
been presented with the freedom of the city 
and enrolled as its youngest burgess. Lord 
Provost M’Grady said he had pleasure in 
introducing Sir William Vernon Harcourt 
whose transcendent abilities in various 
walks of life had induced the Corporation 
to offer him the freedom of the city; and 
they had the honour of addressing him as 
the youngest burgess. They had already 
heard him speak that morning in two 
rooms, and he had to attend another meet¬ 
ing after leaving the Drill Hall, so that it 
was no easy task ro deliver four addresses 
in one day, the task cut out for him the 
first daj^ he became a Dundonian. 
Sir William Harcourt, who was received 
with cheers, said that though he was a very 
young burgess, he was a very old gardener, 
and an old gardener knew that the very 
worst thing that could be done was to 
exhaust the soil by growing too many crops 
one after the other. Since he entered 
Dundee he had been speaking continuously, 
and had been telling them in the Council 
Chamber that morning that he preferred 
the language of flowers to the figures of 
rhetoric. In that unimportant section of 
the United Kingdom, called England, it 
was known that Scottish gardeners had the 
preference, and that they were the best 
gardeners in the world. He had sometimes 
heard it discussed why that happened to be 
the case. Some ill-natured people had 
said it was because they had to overcome 
the difficulties of climate ; but he never 
accepted that conclusion, because he had 
observed that there was nothing upon 
which people were more sensitive than that 
of their climate. He had come to the con¬ 
clusion that it was a hereditary virtue 
belonging to them by long descent, and 
that, probably, the country of their birth was 
the site of the first garden. So far as his 
own gardening was concerned, he had for 
some time past been trying to acclimatise 
in the south of England some of the flowers 
of Scotland. The most beautiful flower he 
had seen, and which is particularly abun¬ 
dant in the west of Scotland, was Tropae- 
olum speciosum the Flame Nasturtium. It 
was seldom seen in England, though a 
common cottage garden flower in the west 
of Scotland. He had tried it for years, and 
was happy to state that he had at last 
succeeded in growing it. This he con¬ 
sidered as his great achievement in garden¬ 
ing. He could tell the secret to his English 
friends that they coddled it, put it in the 
sun, manured it, and did everything that 
was bad for it. Put it in the sun, he con¬ 
tinued, put it in wet ground, let it grow 
over the Rhododendrons, and it could be 
grown in England as well as in Scotland. 
He offered that as a wrinkle to his horti¬ 
cultural friends. 
Chrysanthemums were the subjects before 
them on that particular occasion, and to 
him they had always seemed interesting 
flowers. They took a position between the 
flowers of summer and the absence of them 
in winter. We were indebted to the 
Japanese for Chrysanthemums in their 
present form, and that race of people used 
them largely in the language of flowers and 
otherwise. As he came up the hall, the 
Chrysanthemums appeared to be largely 
cultivated about Dundee, and cultivated 
with great success. In his opinion there 
were few greater enjoyments than that 
obtainable from gardening. He would not 
attempt to dwell upon the praises of garden¬ 
ing, but would refer his audience to the 
description of the garden of Eden by Milton, 
or to the gorgeous lyric of Cowley, 
addressed to John Evelyn, in which the 
poet describes the grandeur and beauty of 
Solomon’s palace, when the Queen of 
Sheba visited it. In some respects gar¬ 
dening might be compared to politics. 
Gardening was subjected to sudden and 
unexpected frosts, which were inimical to 
favourite flowers; but gardeners had 
perfect confidence in the return of spring 
and the revival of flowers ; so in politics. 
For himself he preferred the occupation of 
gardening, and as a humble gardener he 
had been allowed the privilege of attending 
the show that afternoon. 
-«*»-.- 
Forfarshire men at the Edinburgh Show. -In face 
of the fact that so many of the leading prizes at the 
Scottish capital are taken by men from the southern 
side of the Cheviots and Tweed, it may be as well to 
mention the fact that Forfarshire men came out 
strongly. Mr. Haggart himself served his appren¬ 
ticeship at Panmure House Mr. Martin, for some 
years foreman at Fotheringham, was, however, born 
in Fife. Mr. David Nicoll, of Rossie, gained much 
of his experience at Usan House, Montrose, and, 
like the rest, may be considered a Forfarshire man. 
Mr. Beisant, of Castle Huntly, just across the 
border in Perthshire, was the strongest supporter of 
Scottish Chrysanthemum culture, but, strange to say, 
he is of English nationality. 
