February 2, 1901. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
357 
Loyalty at Kew. — On the day after the evening 
of the late Queen’s death the flag was hoisted on the 
notable flagstaff in the pleasure grounds, Kew. This 
flagstaff consists of a single tree of Pseudotsuga 
Douglassii of splendid and graceful altitude. The 
museums were also closed in token of grief at the 
death of our late beloved Queen. 
Mr. S. Heaton, late technical instructor in horti¬ 
culture to the Isle of Wight County Council, has 
been appointed to a similar position by the Oxford 
C.C. The members of the Isle of Wight Horti¬ 
cultural Improvement Association, th which Mr. 
Heaton has been intimately connected, being indeed 
the founder, and for seven years the secretary, 
presented him with the complete edition of twenty- 
five volumes of "The Encyclopaedia Britannica,” 
together with an illuminated address with the name s 
of the subscribers. 
Beckenham Horticultural Society. — At the 
meeting held on the 25th January, a paper was read 
by Mr. H. J. Chapman,-Orchid grower to R. I. 
Measures, Esq., on Cypripediums. Mr. Chapman 
gave tbe history of the Cypripedium and Seleni- 
pedium, assisted by a splendid collection of paintings 
of the various species and varieties of the above. 
He explained to the members those varieties which 
required warm, intermediate, or cool temperatures, 
the soil best for potting ; keeping plants free from 
insect pests, &c. He further showed that Cypriped¬ 
iums could be most successfully employed by market 
gardeners for the cut flower trade. A good discus¬ 
sion followed and a hearty vote of thanks was 
accorded to the lecturer for his most interesting 
paper, and the information he gave to the members. 
Mr. Day, gardener to H. F. Simonds, Esq., exhibited 
a fine collection of Orchid blooms. 
Ware’s Seed Catalogue for 1901 . — Messrs. 
Thomas S. Ware, Ltd., Hale Farm Nurseries, 
Feltham, Middlesex, have issued their Seed Cata¬ 
logue for 1901, and this also includes full descriptive 
notes on Ware’s unequalled strain of Tuberous 
Begonias ; also Chrysanthemums, Gladioli, <%c. In 
the vegetable seed section will be found the 
“ Feltham " collections in quantities to suit the needs 
of all purchasers. The catalogue is liberally and 
well illustrated, so that the enquirer will have some 
idea of the novelties and good types of older plants 
to form his conclusions by. The hybrid Gi'andiflcra 
Cinerarias are here, and the finest of the large 
flowered Cyclamens, Calceolarias, Liliums, and 
cr.her hardy border or greenhouse plants find a place 
amongst the subjects that are figured. The doub’e 
Tuberous Begonias have attained a well-deserved 
fame, and on p. 27 will be found a list of mixed seed 
collections offered by the firm. The catalogue runs 
to 105 pages, and will be found useful to all who take 
an interest in gardening. 
Liverpool Horticultural Association. — The 
annual meeting of this authority was held at the 
office of the society on the 22nd ult., Mr, T. Foster 
in the chair. The report for the past year is one of 
a satisfactory nature, in which the quality and num¬ 
ber of exhibits had been fjlly sustained. The num¬ 
ber of visitors to the two shows exceeded 8,000. The 
statement of accounts gives the prize money as 
£218 13s. 6d. for the two exhibitions, whilst the 
amount paid for admission was £152 19s. 3d. The 
general statement includes £92 2s. id. as balance 
from the previous year, £348 5s. 8d. subscriptions, 
and £15 3s 2d. advertising and interest, making a 
total of £455 10s. id. The payments include loss on 
spring show, £123 7s. 3d.; autumn show, £97 5s. gd. ; 
general expenses. £84 9s. nd., leaving to the credit 
of the society £150 8s. od., or a gain on the year’s 
working of £58 35. nd., although the subscriptions 
show a decrease of £23 15s. id. It was resolved 
that the usual donation of three and two pounds be 
given to the Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent Institution 
and the Royal Gardeners’ Orphan Fund. A cordial 
votehf thanks, on the motion of Mr. J. Stoney, was 
tendered to the working officials for the past year. 
The following officers were elected for the ensuing 
year:—President, the Rt. Hon. A. Crosthwaite, Esq., 
Lord Mayor of Liverpool; Hon. Treasurer, W. F. 
Rogers, Esq. (re-elected); Sub. Treasurer, Mr. G. 
Blackmore (re-elected); Secretary, Mr. H. Sadler, 7, 
Victoria Street, Liverpool (re-elected) ; Mr. R. G. 
Waterman, Auditor (re-elected). In referring to the 
death of her Majesty the chairman announced that 
the meeting arranged for February 2nd would be 
postponed. 
The Scottish Mushroom Company, Ltd., has 
been registered with a capital of £2,500 in £1 
shares, to carry on the"[[cultivation®of Mushrooms. 
Registered Office, Scotland Street Station, Edin¬ 
burgh. 
The- Parks of Liverpool.—In the excellent retro¬ 
spect of horticulture made by Mr. R. W. Ker at the 
Liverpool Horticultural Society's dinner, reported in 
last week's issue, the following'statistics were'given : 
—Parks, gardens, and open'spaces' number ' 45 ; 
window boxes furnished and fixed to the windows in 
the poorer districts of the city, if placed end to end, 
would measure one and a quarter’miles ;’the number 
of boxes containing bushes, &c.,’’placed [ injopen 
spaces, 500. The staff under] Mr.” H. Herbert, 
superintendent, numbers 170. The]'whole ’ of this 
work is under the control of the Parks and Gardens 
Committee, with Alderman Jos. [Ball as chairman, 
who are appointed by the City Council of members 
of that authority. 
South African Seed Imports..—Answering a 
correspondent who inquired as to the" extent of the 
seed imports into South'” Africa, the British and 
South African Export Gazette states: "The total 
imports into South Africa in 1899 of seeds, bulbs, 
and plants amounted approximately to £40,000. 
Exact details of the proportions of the various items 
are not given, but in the case of the Cape Colony 
a recent Government return of the imports for the 
first nine months of the past year furnishes the 
following figures : Seed Oats, £11,900 ; seed Potatos, 
£3 800; seed Barley, £300; and seed Wheat, £100. 
No information is given as to the proportionate 
imports of bulbs and plants.” 
A Barley Competition at Ipswich. — The agri¬ 
culturists of England, Scotland, and Ireland ought 
not to be behind any of their foreign rivals in the 
production of good Barley or such other crops, for 
they, at least, have a fair amount of incentive to 
cultivate well, in the form of many prizes offered by 
various interested business houses. We observe 
that the schedule for the fourth series of Barley 
competitions, organised by Messrs. William Colches¬ 
ter & Co., the well-known agricultural manure 
manufacturers of Ipswich, has been issued. In 
addition to the main prizes there are other prizes 
allocated to each separate county, so that even the 
most northernly and southernly areas will have some 
reward, though they may not be able to beat the 
counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. The Messrs. Col¬ 
chester have also sent out their catalogue of special 
fertilisers. Such competitions as the above are 
what the Ulster farmers have been suggesting to 
their County Councils in place of having lecturers 
perambulating about. 
Reading Gardeners’ Mutual.—The fortnightly 
meeting of the Reading and District Gardeners’ 
Mutual Improvement Association was held in the 
Club Room, Old Abbey Restaurant, on Monday 
evening last, and was well attended. Mr. Leonard 
G. Sutton, the president, occupied the chair, and in 
opening the meeting voiced the feelings of each of 
the members present by referring to the great loss 
the country had sustained by the death of our 
beloved Queen. The subject which had been 
arranged for the evening was " Garden Roses,” by 
Mr. G. Gordon, V.M.H , but owing to the sad 
bereavement Mr. Gordon had sustained this lecture 
was postponed and the evening devoted to im¬ 
promptu speaking on the following Tomatos, Mr. 
C. P. Cretchley, The Honeys, Gardens, Twyford ; 
Melons, Mr. W. Barnes, Bearwood Gardens; Rasp¬ 
berries, Mr. Moodv, Reading^ Potatos for early use, 
Mr H. Wilson, The Gardens, Lower Redlands, 
Reading ; Zinnias, Mr. E. Fry, The Gardens, Green- 
lands, Reading ; Freesias, Mr. R. Chamberlain, 
Cressingham Gardens. A great many questions 
were asked and an interesting discussion followed 
each subject, in which the following took part:— 
Messrs. Wicks, Exler, Ager, W. Smiib, Neve, Pigg, 
Tufnail, E. J. Dore, Townsend, Lever, Farey, 
Butcher, HintoD, G. Smith, Turner and D. Dore. 
Exhibits were staged by Mr. W. Townsend, Sand¬ 
hurst Lodge, consisting of Spiraea Louis Van 
Houtte, Deutzia Lemoinei, Staphyiea Colchica, 
Libonia floribunda, aDd twenty-six varieties of 
Helleborus ; whilst Mr. E. S. Pigg, of Samoa Gar¬ 
dens, Kendrick Road, staged a small but well- 
flowered plant of Begonia Gloire de Lorraine struck 
from a leaf; the flowers and foliage being larger than 
those struck from cuttings. A vote of thanks was 
accorded to each of the exhibitors. Two new mem¬ 
bers were elected. 
Trade Note.—Messrs. J. S. Rogers & Sons, Ltd., 
have been registered with £20,000 capital in £10 
shares and will carry on the business of artificial 
manure merchants formerly carried on by Mr. J. S. 
Rogers, Rossmill, Strathmartine, near Dundee. 
Portrait of Rev. H. H. D’Ombrain.—The mem¬ 
bers of the Horti ultural Club resolved to ask Rev. 
H. Honywood D’Ombrain, the founder, and for 
twenty-six years the secretary of the National Ro e 
Society, to have his portrait painted so that it might 
be hung in the room of the Horticultural C b at 
the Hotel Windsor. Mr. D’Ombrain has consented, 
and Miss Rivers, of Sawbridgeworth, who painted 
the portrait of the late Dr. Robert Hogg, has under¬ 
taken the commission. Th rever nd gentleman is 
over eighty years of age. 
Print Trimming.—Possibly some of our readers 
who are photographers may be interested in having 
their attention drawn to an article on u Print 
Trimming” in The Photogram, for February, 1901. 
The trimming of a photographic print, and the 
selection of a pretty piece of view are precisely 
similar operations. The object of "trimming” is 
usually to concentrate the attention on a subject, by 
removing surrounding features which compete with 
the main interest. It is the principle of the vista, or 
glimpse, as compared with the wide sweeping view. 
The principle is put into practice in landscape gar¬ 
dening, especially in smaller estates and in 
the truly gardenesque system of practice, 
where the detailed features are made to open 
out little by little in place of any broad 
general view, which at once would satisfy the mind, 
thereby detracting from further interest in the 
composition. By only' having a one phase view, 
the full value of it can be readily appreciated, the 
mind being whetted and curious to unveil all the 
other details of the general plan. The writer of the 
article on " Print trimming ” in The Photogram 
recognises these effects in Nature, and in the land¬ 
scape gardeners’ and architects' provinces, and has 
applied them to the art of illustrating by photo¬ 
graphy. We cannot say more on the subject here, 
but would recommend any interested reader to 
apply to his newsagent for a copy of the above 
paper. 
Kelway’s Manual.—More compendious land as 
attractive and full of useful information on how to 
garden well, and what plants are most worthy to be 
choseD) than any of its predecessors, Kelway’s 
Manual for 1901, from Messrs. Kelway & Son, 
Langport, Somerset, is being distributed to those 
interested in the art of gardening. A " manual ” on 
any subject, though not intended to exhaustively de¬ 
tail all phases, yet seeks to provide the user of it 
with most of the essential information bearing on the 
subject. And to all who have gardens and who 
require a good guide to direct them in their general 
operations in the culture of the more[popular flower¬ 
ing plants and vegetables, Kelway’s Manual can 
certainly be recommended. " The Garden Calen¬ 
dar,” to be found on the opening pages, condenses 
the monthly operations in an approvable manner, 
and certainly less, containing more meaning, could 
not have been printed. The manual contains three 
coloured plates, which will in very many cases be 
framed, and they are worth a good frame too. 
There are four sections in this publication relating 
(t) to plants, (2) seeds, (3) bulbs, (4) cut flowers and 
miscellaneous matters. Hardy plants, trees, shrubs, 
fruits, greenhouse and other perennials of course are 
dealt with fully under the section " Plants.” By 
referring to the indexes at the end of the manual, 
all that it contains can be sought out at pleasure. 
To specialise any of the features of the long lists 
herein contained seems rather more than we ought 
to attempt. Many of the best plants or cut flowers 
of them are beautifully illustrated on stout, smooth 
paper, and these give a faithful reproduction of the 
chosen representatives. The Paeonies, Gaillardias, 
Delphiniums, Gladioli, Phloxes, Narcissi, and 
Lilies, together with Calceolarias, Dahlias, Cacti, 
Passifloras, Ivies, Pyrethrums, and some of tbe gems 
of the rock garden are portrayed by illustrations, 
and are fully described in letterpress. The novelties 
in fruits and vegetables also find a place. The 
"Manual” runs to 316 pages, and is exceedingly 
well prepared in every respect. This first Langport 
manual of the new century is issued in stout 
crimson covers, the title being.impressed in gold 
letters. 
