■ June 12, 1897. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
645 
The Duke of Devonshire has sold the whole of his 
landed and other property in the village of Lothers- 
dale, near Skipton. The tenants, with one exception, 
became the owners of their holdings. 
At the recent Temple Show we omitted to state that 
the Ichthemic Guano Co., Ipswich, staged a neat 
little group of plants grown with Ichthemic Guano. 
Azaleas, particularly, were well flowered. 
Lune rousse is the name given by gardeners to the 
moon which, beginning in April, becomes full at the 
end of that month or during the first fortnight in 
May. In some quarters the cold weather ex¬ 
perienced at the beginning of May was attributed to 
the malign influence of this moon. 
Shakespeare’s Oak—On the tercentenary of the 
birth of the poet, April 23rd, 1864, Mr. Samuel 
Phelps planted a tree on Primrose Hill, which 
has ever since been known as Shakespeare's Oak. 
Mrs. Linnaeus Banks took part in the planting of the 
tree, and her death recently has been the means of 
bringing the tree into notice. Mrs. Banks baptised 
the tree with water taken from the river Avon, 
which flows past Shakespeare’s native town. The tree 
is still in a flourishing condition, and protected by an 
iron fence, but until recently without label or in¬ 
scription of any sort. Mr, Truelove, another gentle¬ 
man who took part in the planting of the tree, 
recently notified the Office of Works of this fact, and 
at his suggestion, it has been arranged that a tablet 
appropriately made at Stratford-on-Avon is to be 
placed at the foot of the tree. Mr. Truelove is now 
in his 88th year. 
Devon and Exeter Gardeners’ Association —The 
previous summer outings of this society have been 
attended by such marked success, and have been so 
thoroughly enjoyed by those members who partici¬ 
pated in them, that the custom is evidently not 
intended to fall into abeyance. An outing has been 
arranged for Wednesday, July 14th, the destination 
being Mount Edgecumbe. Mr. Richards, the 
gardener at that fine estate is well known as a good 
exponent of the way in which grounds and gardens 
should be maintained, and with him as guide the 
visitors will not be likely to be other than deeply 
interested and greatly entertained. On the return 
journey it is proposed to pay a visit to the Royal 
Dockyard at Devonport. Tea will be subsequently 
provided at Mr. John Wills’, Battery Hotel, Stone- 
house. A special arrangement with the Great 
Western Railway Company has been made by which 
the journey and the return can be made on the pay¬ 
ment of single fare; moreover, saloon accommoda¬ 
tion will be granted to those who take their tickets a 
week beforehand, so that gardeners may make the 
trip in grand style. The fare, there and back is five 
shillings. A light luncheon and knife and fork tea 
will be provided for 2s. 6d. inclusive. We wish the 
society a fu'l measure of success. 
Fruit Culture in Cornwall.—On the afternoon of 
Tuesday, the 1st inst., Mr. Ilott of the Cornwall 
County Council visited Devoran House, the residence 
of J. F. Tyacke, Esq., where he gave an interesting 
demonstration on the summer management of fruit 
trees. The lecturer said summer pruning was 
very greatly neglected, the season’s growth, as a rule, 
being left until winter, and then cut back. This 
was conducive to the formation of wood, but not to 
the development of fruit spurs. The trees should be 
gone over and the strongest shoots cut back to 
within about 2 in. of the base, the weaker shoots 
being dealt with a week or so after. The blister of 
leaves in Peaches he attributed to the cold winds, 
for he had recently seen at Trelissick which had one 
of the finest walls of Peaches to be seen in England, 
numbers of trees which were blistered badly. For 
canker he recommended the following mixture 
12 lbs. superphosphate, 10 lbs. nitrate of soda, 4 lbs. 
salt, 2 lbs. sulphate of magnesia, 11 lbs. sulphate of 
iron, and 8 lbs. sulphate of lime. These ingredients 
should be well mixed together, and applied at the 
rate of 4 lbs. per square yard for young trees, and 8 
lbs. per square yard for old ones. This was not an 
absolute cure but was a strong stimulant and thus 
checked the ravages of the canker to a great extent. 
The Wilderness, a tract of wooded land near Green¬ 
wich Park, formerly fenced as a deer run, has been 
thrown open to the public. 
Mr. T. Carrington Smith has been elected chairman 
of the Dairy Produce Committee of the Central and 
Associated Chambers of Agriculture. 
Blasting the Root of a Tree.—George Cherriman, 
a labourer of Coombs, near Steyning, Sussex, put a 
large quantity of gunpowder under the root of a tree, 
in order to blast it. He then lighted a brownpaper 
fuse, and stood near to watch the effect. He leaves 
a widow and seven children. 
The Live Oak of the southern states of America 
bears acorns which sprout before they fall. The root 
pushes out for a distance of several inches before it 
penetrates the soil, so that the young tree is often six 
inches from the acorn. The germiaation of this tree 
is considerel to be the most remarkable of any 
American tree. 
Work at the New York Botanic Gardeh is proceeding 
apace. It may be remembered that the Bronx Park 
is being transformed to serve the purpose of a botanic 
garden for the city of New York. Five or six 
hundred species of herbaceous plants have already 
found a home in the grounds. Seedlings of some 
3,000 species of plants have been raised from seeds 
obtained from Kew, Berlin, Geneva, and other 
European botanic gardens. 
A go-ahead Corporation is that of Liverpool. In 
addition to discharging ordinary public duties this 
body evidently believes the decoration of private 
houses to be within its legitimate sphere of influence. 
The Parks and Gardens Committee have distributed 
broadcast among the poorer inhabitants of the great 
seaport who signified their willingness to look after 
them, window boxes, ready filled with various suit¬ 
able plants. This is a laudable and practical attempt 
to grapple with and obviate thedulness and monotony 
cf the poorer streets but we are waiting expectantly 
for the view which will be taken of this devotion of 
public funds by the general body of rate-payers, If 
the good citizens of Liverpool do not object we may 
see the example of the municipal authorities of that 
city followed by others. 
Cricket. — Hurst & Son v Gloster & Son.—This 
match was played at Woking on Whit-Monday, 
June 7th, and the following is a list of the scoring:— 
Hurst & Son. 
1st Innings. 2nd Innings. 
Sampson, c D. Gloster, 
b Shears .. 
Swinfen, c F. Duffet, b 
29 
b C. Laker . 
c Cobbet, b G. 
28 
Laker . 
Squire, c D. Gloster, b 
8 
Gloster. 
2 
C. Laker . 
53 
b G. Gloster .... 
3 
Cochrane, b C. Laker.. 
Maio, c Duffet, b C. 
4 
b G. Gloster .... 
c G. Gloster, b G. 
3 
Laker . 
25 
Gloster.. 
7 
Delacourt, b G. Gloster 
Blyth, c D. Gloster, b 
3 
c and b G. Gloster 
6 
Laker . 
0 
c and b G. Gloster 
14 
Jerry, c Knob-, bGlo.ter 
I 
cLaker.b G Gloster 
17 
Laker, notout. 
4 
b G. Gloster .... 
O 
Thake.c Cobbet.bGloster 
0 
not out. 
O 
Turner, b Laker. 
0 
b C. Laker.. 
O 
Extras. 
2 
Extras.... 
3 
129 83 
Gloster & Sons. 
1st Innings. 2nd Innings. 
Duffet, c Sampson, b 
Swinfen . 1 not out. 7 
Aylott, c Swinfen, b 
Sampson. 3 runout. o 
C. Laker, b Main . 27 
Shears, b Swinfen. 11 b Swinfen. 3 
G. Gloster, b Main _ 5 not out. 33 
Knobbs, c Cochrane b 
Main. 7 
Bearman, b Swinfen.... 2 b Swinfen. 3 
Butt, run out . 2 
Cobbett, not out. 2 
Goodyear, lbw, b Swinfen 2 
D. Gloster, c Squire b 
Main . o 
Extras. 13 
75 46 
Other good matches were (1) Hurst & Son, 130 for 5 ; 
and Spottiswoode 41, played at Nunhead, on the 29th 
May ; (2) Hurst & Son, 132 for 5 ; Mizen Bros. 14, 
played at Walthamstow, on the 5th inst. 
ENTRY OF MR. M. H. F. SUTTON INTO 
THE FIRM OF SUTTON & SONS 
READING. 
The enthusiastic gathering of the members and rela¬ 
tives of the firm of Messrs. Sutton & Sons, Reading, 
and their employees, in one of the large rooms of the 
establishment on the evening of the rst. inst., to which 
we briefly referred on p. 628, we now deal with a 
little more fully. The object of the gathering was to 
welcome the entry of Mr. Marlin Hubert Foquett 
Sutton into the partnership of the firm. The wives 
of the employees were also present, and the party 
numbered about 500. 
The chair was taken by Mr. Martin John Sutton, 
supported on his right by his father, Mr. Martin 
Hope Sutton—the founder of the firm—and on his 
left by his son, Mr. M. H. F. Sutton. AmoUgst 
others present were :—Mrs. M. J. Sutton, Mr. Arthur 
W. Sutton and Mrs. A. W. Sutton, Mr. Leonard G. 
Sutton, Miss Emma Sutton, and the Misses Alice. 
Eveline, Jessie, and Kathleen SuttOD, Master Phil. 
Sutton, the Rev. and Mrs. Claude Sutton, the Rev. 
Edwin Sutton, Mr. Reginald Sutton, and the Rev. S. 
H. Soole. 
Mr. Martin John Sutton, in proposing the tcast of 
the Queen, said that Her Majesty had been proposed 
for at least 60,000 times during the past 60 years in the 
United Kingdom, and it had also been proposed every 
night in other portions of the Empire. It had been 
proposed without cessation since she came to the 
throne. His father came to those premises some 6e 
years ago, so that it was their Diamond Jubilee year 
also. In connection with the Queen’s Diamond 
Jubilee, they proposed as a firm to give their 
employees their wages oa Jubilee Day, and next 
morning to present them with a week’s wages extra. 
The toast was received with great enthusiasm. 
Mr. Martin John Sutton next proposed the " Prince 
and Princess of Wales and the rest of the Royal 
F'amily.” The Prince had honoured the firm by 
taking the chair at a Masonic banquet in that room 
some years ago The Princess of Wales was a great 
lover of horticulture, and she honoured their stand at 
the recent Temple Show, and remarked that she had 
never seen such Gloxinias and Begonias in her life. 
At her express wish some plants of Gloxinias were 
taken to Marlborough House and left there for her. 
They now had the honour of naming one the Princess 
of Wales. His (ihe speaker’s) father, his son, and 
himself bad been photographed in a group at the 
express wish of his father on his 82nd birthday, and 
every one of the male hands would receive a cabinet 
photograph that night. His father, Mr. Martin 
Hope Sutton, had associated with his gift, on the 
occasion of the Diamond Jubilee, a Testament which 
would be handed to every one at the same time as 
the photograph. God bless the Prince of Wales was 
then sung with much gusto. 
After some further speaking Mr. Martin Hope 
Sutton, the founder of the firm, rose to propose the 
principal toast of the evening, that of Mr. M. H. F. 
Sutton, his grandson. They would remember the 
meeting held in the Abbey Hall some time since to 
bid farewell to his grandson who was going to foreign 
parts. They rejoiced that night that Mr. Hubert 
had joined the business. They would, he was sure, 
honour him and love to see him possess the excep¬ 
tional capabilities in the business which he had 
inherited from his father; and they must have seen 
how thoroughly at one the members of the firm were, 
and with those who worked with them at home and 
abroad. Mr. Livings also spoke in support. 
Mr. M. H. F. Sutton replied, saying that his 
breath was almost taken away by the reception given 
him. He thanked his revered and honoured grand¬ 
father and Mr. Livings for the way they had pro¬ 
posed the toast. It was not many firms that could 
be represented by three generations, as their’s was. 
Concerning the business he desired to help carry it 
on under the old traditions under which it had 
always been carried on. It was also his earnest desire 
to become acquainted with all the employees indi¬ 
vidually. From the older employees who had borne 
the burden and the heat of the day, perhaps he might 
look for counsel in order to carry on the great busi¬ 
ness, and to the younger he should look for enthu¬ 
siasm in the work to carry it on as heretofore. He 
thanked them and hoped to prove himself worthy of 
their trust. 
