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THE GARDENING WORLD 
November 26, 1898. 
THE PRESIDENT’S RECEPTION. 
On the afternoon of the second day of the show, Mr. 
M. Todd, the President of the Scottish Horticultural 
Association, issued invitations to judges, officials, 
visitors, and others, to meet him at the Royal Hotel. 
AmoDgst those present were Messrs. E. Molyneux, 
H. J. Jones, Mrs. Jones, Messrs. Alexander 
Mackenzie, D. P. Laird, David W. Thomson, Mid- 
dlebrooke, R. W. E. Murray, Mrs. Murray and other 
ladies; also Bandmaster A. Williams, of H.M. 
Grenadier Guards, Messrs. James Grieve, A. E. 
Stubbs, H. Douglas Eleming, Gossip, of Inverness, 
W. M. Welsh, of Dicksons & Co., Arthur, of Little 
& Ballantyne, R. Grossart, D. Chapman, Alex. 
Milne, J. Fraser, and others. 
Songs were rendered by Messrs. H. J. Jones, A. E. 
Stubbs, R. W. E. Murray, and H. D Fleming, to the 
accompaniment of the piano. Mr. Alexander 
Mackenzie, the treasurer, proposed the toast of 
•• The Strangers," and spoke at some length on the 
assistance which had been rendered the Scottish 
Horticultural Association by strangers from south of 
the Tweed and elsewhere, and said that no small 
measure of the success of the association was due to 
such service from strangers. He coupled with the 
toast the name of Mr. E. Molyneux. 
The latter, on rising, said that the treasurer had 
made him too much the lion of the exhibition. The 
cordial reception he had received had been too much 
for him. In coming to Scotland, he felt like coming 
home, he knew not why, except that he met with so 
many with whom he was now familiar. The Scottish 
Horticultural Association had made great progress 
since first he came amongst them. Their exhibition 
then being held was the best Chrysanthemum show 
in his experience this year. He had seen larger 
shows, but not better quality. The vases of Chrys¬ 
anthemums were of the first importance. In the 
case of the groups, he thought that considerable 
improvement might be effected. He would have the 
schedule altered, so as to enforce the exhibitors to 
name the varieties in their groups. Several of the 
visitors in his hearing had made remarks on this 
deficiency, and the impossibility of ascertaining the 
names of those varieties they wished to grow. The 
vases of twelve blooms were excellent, except for the 
circumstance that they were too crowded to show 
the blooms to the best advantage. The vases were 
too small to accomplish what was expected of them, 
and too low to be effective. This style of exhibiting, 
moreover, was more effective than the old show 
boards, and in time would oust them from exhibitions 
altogether. The vases were better for the judges, 
inasmuch as they showed the blooms in all their 
natural excellencies and deficiencies. If the associa¬ 
tion went on making progress in the future, as in the 
past four or five years hence they would require two 
Waverley Markets to hold the show. 
The president proposed Bandmaster A. Williams, 
of H. M. Grenadier Guards, and assured him of the 
universal satisfaction the band had again given to 
the visitors and all connected with the show. 
Bandmaster A. Williams replied, and promised that 
a portion of the band would attend at the Royal 
Hotel at ten p.m. after the close of the show. The 
reception was accordingly resumed at that hour, 
when there was a far larger attendance to hear the 
music. Several of the visitors rendered songs at 
intervals between the selections by the band. Great 
satisfaction was expressed with the latter, and the 
reception concluded at a late hour. 
At the termination of the show on Saturday last, 
the president, officials, and several guests supped at 
the Royal British Hotel. 
ouescions add sqsqjgrs. 
*,* 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 bv their so doing. 
Lectures on Technical Education. — S. Dean : 
Very frequently the lectures that are delivered at 
various centres of a county under the auspices of 
the County Councils are not even written out, but 
simply delivered as lectures. Other lecturers write 
papers and read them to their audiences. These 
papers are seldom printed in book or pamphlet 
form, except on the initiative of the lecturers them¬ 
selves, either at their own expense, or by finding a 
publisher to do it for them. As far as we have been 
able to ascertain no arrangements have been made 
. to have the lectures printed which are now being 
delivered at Broughty Ferry. Ten different lecturers 
have been engaged to deliver these lectures, some of 
which will be illustrated by limelight views. Under 
the circumstances, we think it not at all likely 
that the technical education committee at Broughty 
Ferry will have the lectures printed in book or 
or pamphlet form. 
Cauliflowers going Blind —It is more than likely 
that the dry season is the cause of so many of the 
Autumn Giant Cauliflowers going blind. We have 
had one or two complaints in the south of plants that 
were planted on loose ground behaving in this way, 
but where the plants have been put out on hard 
ground they have done well, the harder soils having 
conduced to firmer growth and rendered the plants 
better able to stand the check of drought. On the 
looser soil the plants would grow freely enough at the 
start, and the tissues would be correspondingly soft. 
When subjected to drought such plants would either 
11 button ” prematurely or go blind altogether. If 
you have had a droughty season we should suggest 
this as being probably the reason. 
Names of Plants. — G. W. D. : i, Primula flori- 
bunda ; 2, Asparagus medeoloides, generally known 
in gardens as Smilax; 3, Viburnum Tinus ; 4, Myr- 
tus communis ; 5, Asparagus Sprengeri.— R. M. ; 1, 
Dracaena Lindeni (the garden name); 2, Mandevilla 
suaveolens ; 3, Swainsonia galegifolia; Garrya ellip¬ 
tical 5, Lonicera japonica aureo-reticulata; 6, 
Ophiopogon Jaburan variegatus.— F. Andrews: i, 
Nephrolepis Duffii; 2, Nephrolepis acuta; 3, 
Selaginella kraussiana Brownii— A.C. : 1, Cattleya 
bowringiana; 2, Oncidium praetextum. 
Communications Received.—J. Mayne —A. O.— 
H. C. Prinsep.—R. Dean.—John Mackinnie.—H J. 
Hobby.—A. E. Stubbs.—Garvan.—T. E. L.—S. C. 
—Scholastic.—Mearns.—J, Davies.—C. Tillen.—A. 
R. Crafton.—M. Temple. 
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