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THE GARDENING WORLD 
June 10, 1899. 
Lincolnshire is becoming quite a bulb-growing 
county. So many as 2,820 bunches of Daffodils 
were sent off in one day by one large grower. 
Besides this he also sent a large quantity loose in 
2s. 6d. and 5s. boxes. 
High-level Plants. —Mr. W. B. Hemsley, F.R.S., 
F.L.S., keeper of the Herbarium, Royal Gardens, 
Kew, exhibited some high-level plants at the meeting 
of the Linnean Society on the 1st inst., from the 
collections made by Sir W. Martin Conway and Mr. 
Edward Whymper, in the Andes, and Dr. Sven 
Hedin, in North Thibet. 
The Carnation Craze. — Take up any paper you 
choose, which has come from across the Atlantic, 
you will almost certainly find a note on Carnations. 
We all like Carnations but we do not go so crazy over 
them as do the Americans. In a note to hand we 
read that the first consignment of that new pink 
Carnation, Mrs. Lawson, which realised such high 
sums lately in America,has reached our shores. They 
only bring £1 a dozen, however, so that the fever is 
not dangerous with us. 
Mynthurst, Reigate.—The estate of Mynthurst, 
situated about five miles from Reigate, Surrey, has 
recently been purchased by H. Bell, Esq. The 
estate is close upon 1,200 acres in extent, including 
a garden, hothouses, and a home farm of about 600 
acres. He still retains Maresfield, Hampstead, but 
his gardener there, Mr. J. Watt, is to take charge of 
the garden at Mynthurst, as well as the woodlands 
on the estate. The hothouses are to be pulled down 
and rebuilt. The present garden is rather small, 
but is to be retained for the cultivation of fruit, 
while a new kitchen garden is to be made. The 
soil consists of weald clay, which is difficult to deal 
with, requiring a deal of labour, but Mr. Watt has 
the courage and energy to tackle it. The mansion is 
to be fitted up with the electric light. Water from 
the Caterham main is being laid on the estate, 
and we have great hope that this neglected establish¬ 
ment will be entirely renovated. 
Some good Apples. — Warner's King is one of the 
largest and finest culinary Apples we have, says the 
Farmers' Gazette. It crops well, is hardy and the ripe 
fruits are beautifully coloured. They are in use 
from November till March, and good fruits always 
command a ready sale. Loddington or Stone's 
Apple is in season during September and October. 
The cropping properties of this variety are great 
and the fruits are full-sized, of a yellow and crimson 
colour, and altogether an Apple to be recommended 
Blenheim Orange is agrand Apple with characteristics 
of the highest order. It came from a “ pip ” sown 
by one Kimpster, a labourer living at Woodstock, 
near the Duke of Marlborough’s Blenheim estate. 
We need not describe it. It lasts from November 
till March, and good samples are always sought for. 
The Wellington Apple, or more correctly Dumelow s 
Seedling,is another of our standard varieties possess¬ 
ing a juicy, crisp and pleasant flavour. It is good 
for kitchen use, and may be had from November 
until March. 
The Microbe and the Apple Tart.— Mr. G. Clarke 
Nuttall, B.Sc., in the June number of Knowledge, 
selects for his theme the change of colour from white 
to reddish, and then a dirty brown, which cut Apples 
undergo as they lie piled up in slices in the dish 
waiting for their covering of paste— a change of 
colour forming a Gordian knot which many have 
attempted in vain to untie, and which even yet is 
not altogether free. “ The latest and most thorough 
explanation is one lately put forward by a chemist 
named Lindet. . . . Within the cells of the 
tissues which make up the fleshy part of the Apple— 
the part that is eaten—there is produced in their 
jelly-like contents a certain product to which the 
name malase or laccase has been variously given ; 
and this product belongs to a curious class of sub 
stances known as enzymes. . . . Now, an 
enzyme is a production of the activity of the cell 
which has the unique power of influencing other 
substances in its neighbourhood, and yet remaining 
unaltered in any way itself. It can exert influence 
without, apparently, being affected by doing so. Its 
own constitution is stable, but it possesses power to 
act, even at a distance, on certain of its surroundings, 
and produce great effects on the constitution of other 
matter, in some way not yet thoroughly compre¬ 
hended. 
Rayless Daisy.—At a meeting of the Linnean 
Society on the 4th ult., Mr. I. H. Burkill exhibited 
specimens of a Daisy (Beilis perennis), found at 
Kew, in which the ray of the outer florets was so 
nearly absent that these consisted of scarcely more 
than ovary, naked style and stigma. Remarks were 
made by Messrs. T. R. Stebbing and A. W. Bennett. 
Laying Poisoned Food About. —This is an unlawful 
practice. A farmer at Oundle has for some seasons 
back been troubled with the pesterings of rooks, of 
which hundreds are colonised around his lands. He 
scattered grain which had been saturated with that 
very deadly liquid, strychnine, over his fields, and 
since then large numbers of dead rooks have been 
found lying everywhere about. On the plea that he 
might have caused much harm to poor people, who, 
finding these rooks, might cook and eat them he 
was summonsed and fined in all £ 10. 
Record in Fruit Washing. —Mr. Isaac Reader, of 
Pearson's Green Farm, Paddock Wood, has recently 
acquired one of Messrs. Merryweather’s " Valiant ” 
portable steam pumping engines for washing blight 
from fruit trees. One day last week the plant had 
a very satisfactory test. Twelve acres of large 
Apple trees were most thoroughly washed in the 
small space of seven hours, six men being sufficient 
to work the engine and to operate the plant. The 
engine is very portable, two men being well able to 
wheel it about by 'means of a light iron carriage 
which is provided, and the pumps will draw 
chemical and water from separate tanks in the exact 
proportion required, and deliver the mixture through 
long lengths of piping or hose to supply as many as 
twenty-four powerful jets. Many other owners of 
fruit and hop plantations are being provided with 
this admirable engine, which is not expensive in 
first cost, and is efficient and economical in working. 
Scientific Committee of the R.H.S- —At the meeting 
of this body on the 16th ult., the following subjects 
were brought up for discussion :—Diseased Hemero- 
callis, &c. — A leaf was received bearing decayed spots, 
apparently due to fungoid growth. This, together 
with a Peach diseased by a form of mildew, and 
Apple twigs with knots, were forwarded to Dr. W. 
G. Smith for examination. Podisoma on Savin.— 
Dr. Masters exhibited specimens of this fungus,which 
gives rise to Roestelia cancellata on Pear trees. 
Aecidium Grossulariae. — He also brought specimens 
of the “ Gooseberry cluster cups.” It occurs on 
leaves and fruit of the Gooseberry and Currant. In 
some seasons it is of frequent occurrence. Morel.— 
Dr Masters also showed a small Morel, found—as 
is somewhat rarely the case—growing singly. He 
recorded the fact that after two Poplars had been 
blown down in Mr. Masters' garden at Canterbury 
in 1837, Morels grew every other year round the 
stumps. Mr. Im. Thurn observed that the Morel 
was a common fungus on the Wiltshire moors among 
Beeches. 
Cricket: Hurst & Son v. St. Stephens (Walthamstow). 
—This match was played at Wadham Lodge, on 
May 27th, 1899, and left drawn in favour of Hurst 
& Son C.C. 
Hurst & Son. 
Portch, b Payne . 10 
Squire, c Payne, b Foxon . 23 
Carter, c Bridge, b Foxon . o 
Sampson, b W. Smith ... 41 
Delacourt, c & b Smeed . . 11 
Stockman, b Payne . 16 
A. Cox, b Payne . 5 
Guthrie, b Payne . o 
Jerry, c Sharpe, b Smith . 2 
Duggleby, c Payne, b Smith .. 2 
Foster, not out . 1 
Extras . 2 
Total . 113 
St. Stephens. 
W. Smith, c & b Portch . 10 
Cecil, not out . 13 
Payne, run out . o 
Montifiore, c Stockman, b Portch . o 
Smeed, c Delacourt, b Portch . o 
Langford, not out . 6 
Sharpe \ 
Bridge 
Foxon - did not bat. 
Allen 
Bright 
Extras . t 
Total for 4 wickets. ........... 30 
Careless use of a Watering Pot.—We have heard 
of the case where a family were in a measure injured 
from having drunk Elderberry wine which had been 
placed for a time in a can previously used for water¬ 
ing with the “Climax Weed Killer.” Always set 
aside a can for weed killer solutions and use it for 
nothing else. 
MELON SUTTON’S SCARLET. 
While discussing the subject of early Melons in our 
issue for May 27th, p. 615, Mr. J. Mayne referred to 
a favourite variety under the name of Sutton’s 
Scarlet. At the same time he sent a specimen for 
our opinion. The fruit was oval or roundly-oval, 
that is, short in proportion to its thickness, and 
heavy. The surface was bright yellow, strongly and 
closely netted with gray ridges, giving the surface a 
handsome appearance. The variety would be 
described as a scarlet-fleshed Melon, and judging 
from the specimen sent, the flesh was moderately 
dark in colour, intensifying from the rind inwards, 
but of remarkable depth, actually measuring ij in. 
to if iD. in thickness so that the central seed cavity 
was relatively small for the size of the fruit. When 
the latter was fully matured the rind was thin, and 
the flesh juicy, melting, sweet and very richly 
flavoured. Either the variety is a very fine one or 
the cultural treatment was of a high standard, seeing 
that flavour left nothing to be desired. Probably 
both these theories hold good ; and for an early 
Melon the result is highly creditable. 
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STRAWBERRY LADY SUFFIELD. 
A group of plants in pots of this new Strawberry 
was exhibited at the Temple Show by Mr. W. Allan, 
gardener to Lord Suffield, Gunton Park, Norwich. 
The fruits are of a good useful size for table, conical f 
elongated, and in the case of the larger ones more or 
less compressed, and of a rich bright red or scarlet. 
The achenes, or as they are termed by gardeners, 
seeds, are yellow and very slightly sunk in the pulp, 
so that they appear rather prominently all over the 
surface. The pulp itself is dark red, the colour 
extending some depth below the surface, while the 
centre is solid and darker there than the tissue 
immediately surrounding it. Considering that the 
plants had been forced or grown under glass, the 
flavour of the fruits was remarkably rich and 
aromatic, without acidity, of course, but belonging 
to the class or type that may be described as sugary 
and aromatic. Many who tasted the fruits of this 
fine variety were agreed about their richness and fine 
aroma. This flavour must be greatly increased when 
the fruits ripen under natural conditions in the open 
air. The foliage is leathery and ample, yet the 
leaves have short, stout stalks so that they are not 
likely to unduly hide the fruits nor shade them from 
sunshine. It is a cross-bred variety between Lady 
Suffield and Empress of India, combining the earli¬ 
ness and the flavour of the latter, with the rich 
colour of Lord Suffield. Those who know Empress 
of India will recollect that it possesses a good deal of 
the flavour of British Queen. Mr. Allan has raised 
several very fine and useful Strawberries, and his 
latest accomplishment is decidedly an acquisition. 
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NEW IVY-LEAVED PELARGONIUM. 
I enclose a truss of a seedling Ivy-leaved Pelar¬ 
gonium. It was from seed out of Charles Turner 
crossed with Henry Jacoby, and is sent out by Mr. 
H. J. Jones, Ryecroft Nursery, under the name of 
Mrs. John G Day. You will see that it has a very 
large pip and well formed, with a deep rose-crimson 
shade. In measuring a pip I find it to be 2^ in. in 
diameter. A crown piece cannot cover it. It is 
robust, sturdy, and very free flowering. It first 
showed flower when 7 in. high. It can either be 
flowered in 5 in. pots or grown in large ones, and 
staked or trained more as a climber. It keeps fresh 
for a long time in a cut state without dropping its 
petals, and is very useful for sprays or buttonhole 
bouquets. This is a variety that if once seen grown 
the lovers of “ Ivies " would pronounce it the cream 
By giving it fairly good treatment it can be kept 
flowering from now on to Christmas time .—John C. 
Dick, Champfleurie Gardens, Linlithgow. 
[The truss sent us would seem to indicate that 
this new variety is all that Mr. Dick would claim 
for it. Both the truss and the individual pips were of 
bold and telling proportions. The flowers are 
double, and the petals very numerous, the inner 
