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THE GARDENING WORLD 
June 17, 1899. 
collection, very representative and of grand quality. 
Dell's Crimson Beet, Sutton’s Magnum Bonum 
Cauliflower, Carter’s Trailing White Marrow, 
Tomatos, Mushrooms, Scarlet Perfection Carrots, 
Grosse Paresseuse Lettuce, besides Globe Arti¬ 
chokes, Potatos, Beans, Cucumbers, Cabbages, 
Asparagus, &c., &c. 
Mr. S. Mortimer, Rowledge, Farnham, had some 
first-class Melons before the fruit committee. 
(Silver Banksian.) Lord Foley (gardener, Mr. 
Miller), Ruxley Lodge, Esher, also sent Melons in 
good form. (Bronze Banksian Medal.) 
Questions add xnstneRS 
• t * Will our friends who send us newspapers be so good 
as to mark the paragraphs or articles they wish us to see. 
We shall be greatly obliged bv their so doing. 
[i Correspondents, please note that we cannot undertake to 
name florists' flowers such as Carnations, Pelargoniumt , 
Chrysanthemums, Roses, nor such as are mere garden 
varieties, differing only in the colour of the flower. 
Florists' flowers, as a rule, can only be named by those who 
grow collections of them.] 
Kerosene Emulsion — F. G. B. : Kerosene oil is 
distilled from wood, otherwise it is closely related to 
rock oil or petroleum (best known in this country as 
paraffin), which is derived or obtained from natural 
springs from the earth or by boring till the seams 
containing it is tapped. In the e vent of your not 
being able to obtain kerosene you could use the best 
refined paraffin, that is, rock oil, for the purpose. 
There are various recipes for the preparation of the 
emulsion. One is to take half a gallon of kerosene 
oil and J gallon of milk (fresh or sour); mix the two 
and stir them violently with a syringe, churning 
them, so to speak, till they form a white cream. 
Dilute one pint of this mixture with ii gallons of 
water, and after it is cool syringe such plants as 
Dracaenas, Crotons, Stephanotis, Camellias, Palms, 
Aralias, and similarly leathery leaved plants with it. 
Another recipe is to take kerosene oil, one pint; 
ordinary bar soap, £ oz.; and rain water, $ pint. 
Boil the soap in the water till thoroughly dissolved, 
then pour the boiling soapsuds into another vessel 
containing the kerosene or paraffin, and churn them 
thoroughly with the syringe till the emulsion is com¬ 
plete. This will take five minutes or more. To one 
pint of the emulsion add nine pints of warm water, 
and thoroughly stir before using. After it is made, 
the emulsion can be stored in bottles for future use, 
warm water at the above rate being added shortly 
before .using the emulsion. To make sure that the 
emulsion is not too strong try it upon some worthless 
plants before risking more valuable ones. Avoid 
using it on tender young foliage also till you have 
tested its strength. If too strong add more water. 
After using it a time or two you will get more 
familiar with its capabilities. It is useful for the 
destruction of scale, mealy bug, green fly, red spider, 
and other pests. 
Bedding Plants not Growing.— E. B.: Your 
experience is not different from that of other people. 
The reason for it is the dry or even arid and 
relatively cold weather, particularly at night. Even 
on warm days when the sun is hot the atmosphere is 
too dry and uncongenial for any growth to be made. 
All you can do is to water the beds occasionally, so 
that the plants can be making roots, and when the 
nights become milder and the air more moist growth 
of foliage, stem, and flowers will proceed rapidly. 
Potatos Frosted. — A.M.: There is no necessity 
for digging up the Potatos whose tops have been 
severely cut down by frost, as the stems will shoot 
up again from points below the injured tops. The 
crop may be a little later than it otherwise would 
have been, but all the same, it may be of average 
weight or even good if the next two months are 
favourable to growth and the development of the 
tubers. 
Carnation Mrs. Lawson.— W. Holland, Esq. : The 
Carnations we spoke of last week were merely cut 
flowers sent here to try their value on the market, 
seeing that high prices were obtained for a time at 
least in America. Cuttings of the plant have also 
arrived in this country, but they were sent by J. P. 
Morgan, Esq., to his garden in this country at 
Dover House, Roehampton. We expect, however, 
that plants of the variety will soon reach our shores, 
but hitherto we have not heard of the arrival of 
any. 
Work in America. — Constant Reader : America, 
particularly in the neighbourhood of New York is 
pretty much the same as here with regard to the 
obtaining of employment. It is not like a country 
that is only half settled, where emigrants are required 
by the thousand Competition is pretty keen, 
though openings for good young gardeners are 
perhaps not so difficult to obtain as here. All the 
same you would be obliged to take up whatever 
might come along so as to keep you employed. 
You would be more likely to get employment, 
we imagine, amongst the florists at first, as they 
are more numerous than private employers. Over 
there a florist is very much on a par with market 
growers here. They grow flowers and other saleable 
stuff for market and for those florists whose business 
is to sell plants and flowers in their shops. Naturally 
the spring and early summer would be the best time 
to get employment, as work is more plentiful than in 
winter. Openings are always obtainable by good 
men with plenty of grit; but your best plan would 
be to write to some friend over there who could 
speak for you and get some occupation or intro¬ 
ductions for you before starting. Failing that you 
could write to some of the nurserymen or advertise 
in some of the gardening papers there. 
Scented Orchid.— Weekly Reader ; The specimen 
you send is Habenaria chlorantha, otherwise known 
as Habenaria bifolia chlorantha, and by other names. 
It would never become a commercial or market plant 
because so few people succeed in growing it. Other¬ 
wise, however, it is a most interesting plant in many 
ways,-pretty, and deliciously scented, as you say. 
You might succeed in growing the plant if you lifted 
it with a good ball of soil, using a spade for the pur¬ 
pose, say, about the time the two leaves first make 
their appearance above the soil. This would give 
the plant a chance of getting re-established during 
the summer in its new quarters. Be careful not to 
injure the tubers nor the roots, as far as possible. 
To be successful you must also plant this Orchid in 
heavy, substantial loam inclined to be wet, so that it 
may never get dry during spring and summer. If 
you have no damp spot in the garden you must 
choose one that is slightly shaded. If the soil is 
light and dry you must take out a bed 18 in. deep, 
and fill it with substantial loam. After planting top- 
dress with cocoanut fibre or leaf mould, and give the 
bed a good watering now and again during the grow¬ 
ing season. 
Names of plants.— G. Curie : x, Buddleia globosa; 
2, Berberis stenophylla; 3, Viburnum plicatum ; 4, 
Vinca major.— W. R. : 1, Pyrethrum roseum variety; 
2, Lamium maculatum aureum ; 3, Doronicum 
plantagineum; 3, Phlox stoloniferum; 4, Phlox 
subulata variety.; 5, Saxitraga Aizoon ; 6, Saxifraga 
Sibthorpii.— A. G. : 1, Lonicera-japonica aureo- 
reticulata; 2, Hemerocallis flavum; 3, Lonicera 
sempervirens; 4, Saxifraga hirta; 5. Clematis 
montana.— T.B.\ 1, Acer platanoides Schwedleri; 
2, Eleagnus pungens Simoni variegatus ; 3, Santolina 
Chamaecyparissus ; 4, Aquilegia vulgaris; 5, Ver- 
bascum phoeniceum.— A. J. C. : 1, Odontoglossum 
luteo-purpureum sceptrum ; 2, Oncidium pulvinatum; 
3, Oncidium sphacelatum ; 4, Cypripedium callosum. 
— E. C. H. D. : 1, Lunaria biennis (included in 
British floras, but often a garden escape) ; 2, Geran¬ 
ium striatum (occasionally found as a garden escape, 
but not British) ; 3, Spergularia marina ; 4, Dactylis 
glomerata; 5, Carex extensa; 6, Veronica serpylli- 
folia .—General Reader, Cornwall : r, Red-flowered 
Horse Chestnut (Aesculus glabra, and often known 
as Ae. rubicunda); 2, Common Mouse Ear Chick- 
weed (Cerastium vulgatum) ; 3, Common Sorrel 
(Rumex acetosa) 
Communications Received.—W. W. (next week). 
— G. J. Ingram.—Horticultural College, Swanley.— 
A. D. W —D. Chisholm.—W. Carmichael.—John 
Bradbury.—Geo. Ross (see next week ) — F. — The 
Country Gentlemen's Association, Ltd.—Cassell & 
Company.—T. B. Browne, Ltd. 
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TRADE CATALOGUE RECEIVED. 
I W. Mauger & Sox, Bulb Growers, Guernsey.— 
I Wholesale Catalogue of Bulbs and Tuberous-rooted 
Plants. 
FIXTURES FOR 1899. 
June. 
20. —Cheltenham Show ; Royal Oxfordshire Horti¬ 
cultural Society’s Show at Oxford. 
21. —Shanklin (Isle of Wight) Rose Show; R.B.S. 
Floral Fete at Regent's Park. 
23. —R.B.S. (Lecture) 
24. —R.B.S ; Windsor Rose Show. 
27 — R.H.S. (Special Prizes lor Roses.) Meeting at 
Drill Hall; Westminster Rose Show; 
Southampton Show (2 days). 
28—Richmond, Bath, Maidstone, Reading, Ryde, 
and Croydon Shows. Annual Dinner of 
the Royal Gardeners’ Benevolent Institu¬ 
tion. 
2 g._R.H.S , of Ireland, Summer Exhibition ; Sutton 
and Cranbrook Rose Shows ; Canterbury, 
Eltham, and Norwich Shows ; Opening of 
Rose Garden at Swanley Horticultural 
College. 
30.—R.B.S. (Lecture.) 
July. 
i.—National Rose Society’s Exhibition at Crystal 
Palace. 
4. —Scottish Horticultural Association Meeting; 
Gloucester and Harrow Shows. 
5. —Hanley (Staffordshire) Fete in Hanley Park (2 
days) ; Lee. Blackheath, and Lewisham 
Show (2 days); Ealing Show ; Brockbam, 
Hitcbio, Bexley Heatb, Ridhill, and Tun¬ 
bridge Wells Rose Shows, 
fi.—Colchester Rose Show ; Aylesbury Show; Farn- 
mgham Rose Show. 
7.—Hereford Show. 
8.—R.B.S. Meeting; National Amateur Gardeners’ 
Exhibition at Regent’s Park ; Rose Show 
at Manchester Botanical Gardens. 
11. —R.H.S. Conference (on “ Hybrids ”) andExhibi- 
tion at Chiswick ; Wolverhampton Floral 
Fete (3 days); Reading and Hereford Rose 
Shows. 
12. —R.H.S. Conference on ■* Hybrids ” continued at 
117, Victoria Street, Westminster; Dinner 
of the Society at Hotel Metropole. 
13. —Norwich, Woodbridge, Bedale, Brentwood, and. 
Helensburgh Shows. 
14. —Ulverston Rose Show. 
15. —New Brighton Rose Show. 
1 3 . —Annual Dinner of the Royal Gardener s Orphan 
Fund. 
19. —National Carnation and Picotee Society's Ex¬ 
hibition at Crystal Palace (provisional); 
Cardiff and County Horticultural Society’s 
Show (2 days); Newcastle-on-Tyne Summer 
Show (3 days). 
20. —Salterhebble and Sidcup Rose Shows. 
22.-R.B.S.; Peasenhall, Newton Mearns, and Sib- 
ton Shows. 
25. —R.H.S. Meeting at Drill Hall; Tibshelf Rose 
Show. 
26. —Beckenham Show. 
27. —Kenilworth Show ; St. Ives (Hunts.) Show. 
August. 
1. —Bridgwater Show. 
2. —Midland Carnation and Picotee Show at Edg- 
baston Botanical Gardens, Birmingham (2 
days) ; Salisbury Show. 
7. —Northampton Horticultural Show (2 days). 
8. —Abbey Park, Leicester Show (2 days); Weston- 
super-Mare Show. 
9. —Bishop’s Stortford Horticultural Society’s Show; 
York Florists' Exhibition of Carnations, &c.; 
Newport Pagnell Show. 
10.—R.B.S. Anniversary Meeting; Taunton Dene 
Show. 
12.—Coniston Horticultural Society's Show. 
14. —Old Windsor Show. 
15. —R.H.S. Meeting at Drill Hall. 
16. —Burton-on-Trent Show. 
17. —R.H.S. of Aberdeen Show in Duchie Park (3 
days). 
18. —Devon and Exeter Horticultural Society’s Ex¬ 
hibition. 
19. —Co-operative Show at Crystal Palace. 
20. —Sidcup and District Show. 
22. —Brighton Show (2 days). 
23. —Shropshire Horticultural Society’s Show at 
Shrewsbury (2 days) ; Hastings Horticul¬ 
tural Show; Harpenden Horticultural 
Society’s Show. 
24. —The Ellesmere Horticultural Society’s Show ; 
Royal Oxfordshire Horticultural Society’s 
Show at Oxford ; Swansea Show. 
25. —R.H.S., of Ireland, Show. 
25. —Falkirk Plant, Fruit and Flower Show. 
29. -R.H.S. at Drill Hall. 
30. —Dover Flower Show. 
31. —Thame and Maidenhead Flower Shows. 
September. 
—National Dahlia Exhibition at Crystal Palace 
(2 days). 
2._Worsley and District Agricultural and Horti¬ 
cultural Society’s Exhibition. 
6. _York Florists’ Exhibition of Dahlias, &c.; 
Derbyshire Agricultural and Horticultural 
Society’s Show at Derby (probable) (2 
days); Glasgow Show (2 days). 
7. —Dundee Horticultural Society’s Exhibition (3 
days). 
12.—R.H.S. Meeting at Drill Hall. 
x 3 ._Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society’s Show 
in Waverley Market, Edinburgh (2 days). 
26. —R.H.S. (Vegetable Competition for “ Sher¬ 
wood ” Cup.) 
28 — R.H.S. Fruit Show at Crystal Palace (3 days). 
October. 
3 —Loughborough Gardeners' Fruit Exhibition. 
10’.—R.H.S. at Drill Hall; National Chrysanthemum 
Society’s Exhibition (3 days). 
24.—R.H.S. at Drill Hall. 
3 x._Wolverhampton Chrysanthemum Society Ex¬ 
hibition (3 days) ; Torquay Gardeners’ 
Association Chrysanthemum Exhibition (2 
days) ; Taunton Chrysanthemum and Fruit 
Show (2 days); Southampton Show (2 
days); Teignmouth Show. 
November. 
1,—National Chrysanthemum Floral Committee 
Exmouth Chrysanthemum Show (2 days); 
Kent County Chrysanthemum Show (2 
days) ; Briston (2 days); Highbridge (2 
days); Horsham (2 days); Portsmouth (3 
days) : Steyning (2 days); Leyton (2 days) ; 
Penarih. 
2 —Devon and Exmouth Horticultural Society s 
Chrysanthemum Exhibition (2 days) ; 
Highgate Cbrysanihemum Society’s Show 
(2 days); Beaminsier Chrysanthemum 
Show. Sevenoaks Chrysanthemum Show 
(2 days); Woolwich and Plumstead (3 
days). 
3.—Battersea (2 days); Evesham, Higham Hill (* 
days); Swindon (2 days); The Lizard. 
