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THE GARDENING WORLD 
March 2, 1901. 
CEDARS. 
The Cedar of Lebanon is a highly ornamenlal 
tree and is very suitable for beautifying pleasure 
grounds. It must have been rather profusely 
planted some hundreds of years ago, for on almost 
every nobleman’s estate less or more of very old 
ones are to be found. There are several very large 
ones on Hopetoun estate, the seat of the Earl of 
Hopetoun, and also on one of Earl of Elgin's estates, 
" Culross Abbey," on the north side of the Firth of 
Forth. The largest one there is said to have the 
greatest expanse of branches of any in Scotland, and 
is certainly a very beautiful tree, especially when 
one goes underneath it to view its many points of 
beauty. The branches droop down in umbrella 
form, touching the ground at the points all round ; 
and many of the limbs are naturally grafted through 
each other, giving them a very uncommon and 
interesting appearance. I took the exact measure¬ 
ment of it some years ago and herewith give them, 
hoping that some of our English friends may give 
us the size of the largest in the south. Measure¬ 
ments : height, 52 ft. ; spread, 833 sq. yds. ; circum¬ 
ference of trunk 6 in. above ground, 16 ft. 10 in. ; 
10 ft. from ground, 17 ft. 6 in. I may say that the 
above tree is growing in several feet of fine dark 
loam on the top of a pale blue fireclay.— J. C Dick, 
Champflsurie, Linlithgow. 
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HEDYCHIUM. 
This beautiful genus of Zingiberaceae is a native ot 
the East Indies, and is well worth growing. Many 
of its species pr oduce showy fragrant flowers. If it 
is desired to increase the stock the present time is 
most suitable, as the plants are now sending forth 
new growth. The pots should be very carefully 
drained, as the plants when growing require water¬ 
ing very freely. The compost should consist of two 
parts of peat, cne of loam, and some silver sand 
added. They love plenty of pot room. Two 
varieties well worth growing are H. coronarium and 
H. angustifolium. The former produces close 
compact heads of white fragrant flowers, and the 
latter large terminal heads of bright scarlet flowers 
in the summer months. When the leaves decay very 
little water is necessary, but do not withhold water 
altogether. If this is done the tubers get dry rot 
and fall away to powder.— T. W. Dollery, The 
Gardens, Whitburn, Sunderland. 
ARDENING HISCELLANY. 
KENNEDYA AUDOMARIENSIS. 
The Revue de l'Horticulture Beige for February, con¬ 
tains a coloured figure of the above-named Ken- 
nedya. The coloured plate, however, does not in 
this instance give a very clear impression of the 
form of the flowers. Kennedya is a genus of legu¬ 
minous plants, very nearly related to Hardenbergia 
of the same natural order. The Revue fully described 
the difference between these genera in an article 
published in 1896. The species of Kennedya under 
note is particularly interesting in the fact that amid 
all the New Holland plants enumerated by Bentham 
in his work describing these ( Flora Australiensis), he 
does not include this beautiful subject. In vain, too, 
have the writers in the Revue consulted all works of 
repute for a reference to it. By writing to a corres- 
sponder t at St. Omer, however, the following par¬ 
ticulars were received :— “ Kennedya audomariensis 
was obtained by M. Delache, Senr., horticulteur of 
St. Omer. It was obtained as the result of a cross 
between K. bimaculata and K. Marryattae, the latter 
having red flowers.” K. bimaculata, or Glycine 
bimaculata is nothing else than Hardenbergia mono- 
phylla (Bentham), and K. Marryattae is a larger 
flowered and much finer thing than K. prostrata of 
Robert Brown. The cross has produced a plant 
haviog similar growth to H. monophylla, but 
possessing the red flowers of K. Marrayattae. It 
flowers in March and April, the long, slender shocts 
requiring no support. The colour of the blooms is 
soft rose maculated wiih yellow. This hybrid 
resembles Hardenbergia monophylla rosea, except 
that it is more elegant, refined, and graceful. Seeds 
or cuttings can be used for its propagation, the latter 
being under bell-glasses and given moderate bottom- 
heat. The winter-watering of the plants should be 
piudently performed. The plant is of very great 
merit to all who wish to have gay conservatories 
early in the year. 
THE LATE MR. GEORGE GOODALL. 
It is with great pleasure, Mr. Editor, I enclose you 
a photograph (here reproduced) and general notes of 
the life and labour of one of Scotland’s greatest 
florists and general nursery manager, Mr. George 
Mr. George Goodall. 
Goodall. He was born in the Royal Burgh of 
Musselburgh in the year 1823, and was apprenticed 
to the late Mr. Thomas Handayside, The Glen 
Nurseries, Joppa, at that time one of the foremost of 
Scottish nurseries for all novelties either in the more 
choice vegetables, trees, shrubs, and especially 
florists flowers, including a selection of herbaceous 
and alpine plants, scarce bulbs, &c. 
Much of the success of the nursery was owing to 
its genial climate, being only a few hundred yards 
from the sea beach, the free and kindly nature of the 
soil, and in its being in the immediate vicinity of 
Edinburgh. 
In those days transit of plants, seeds, &c., was only 
by the carrier’s cart, stage coach, canal, and per 
ship from Musselburgh, Leith, &c., to all parts of 
the kingdom. Ribes sanguineum album, and Iris 
reticulata, were first propagated in quantities and sent 
out to the world by this noted firm. Seedling 
Dahlias were raised annually by the thousand, and 
after careful comparison with the noted English and 
Continental varieties, were sent out to cultivators. 
Hollyhocks, Phloxes, Pentstemons, Pansies, hybrid 
Calceolarias,- and choice vegetable seeds, were 
harvested with the best results, such as the celebra¬ 
ted Musselburgh Leek, Beetroot, Broccoli, Cabbage, 
&c. Early seed Potatos were also grown in quantity 
for early forcing. The market gardeners of Mussel¬ 
burgh were famed for their supplies of early 
vegetables and fruit to the Waverley Market. (By 
the way, Musselburgh was a station of the Romans, 
and many of the choice fruits and vegetables were 
introduced by them. Not a few of the remains of 
those early invaders of Britain are still to be found.) 
Gardening was one of the special crafts, and by the 
law of this ancient royal burgh, Rule I. was : " There 
shall no man of this society break the Sabbath day, 
or be found drunk, or breaking and abusing any of 
the Lord's most holy laws, under the penalty of 
twenty pounds, Scot's money.” 
Mr. Goodall left the Joppa Nurseries to take up 
the cultivation and management of the nurseries of 
Messrs. Downie and Laird, at West Coates and 
Pinkhill, in 1854 ; and during all those intervening 
years and changes of these enterprising pioneers of 
Scottish floriculture, Mr. Goodall has been always 
pushing forward whatever he found most useful for 
the firm's welfare, and the best interests of their 
ever increasing arm of customers all over this 
country as well as in the colonies. The many 
thousands of Hollyhocks, Dahlias, Pansies, and all 
other florists'flowers, as well as the more choice 
florists' flower seeds, were under our friend's careful 
eye. 
Fruit trees, and the scarcer varieties of Roses, 
shrubs and other gems loved by the florists of 
bygone days fcund a happy home under his care. 
The deep interest in the welfare of his masters, on 
the part of the servant or friend, was his lifelong 
study, and the feeling I am glad to record was not 
mis-spent; for to see the happy greetings on a show 
day between him and the younger members of the 
Messrs. Laird was most enjoyable. When the firm 
was changed, or rather the partnership dissolved, our 
friend chose to remain with Mr. John Downie and 
founded the Beechhill Nurseries, where is to be 
found an immense stock of all plants, &c., of use to 
the general run of gardening establishments in the 
kingdom. 
It is now upwards of forty years since I became 
acquainted with Mr. Goodall, and during those 
years we have acted as judges at all the principal 
flower shows in the country ; and a better judge and 
more kindly friend it has not been my lot to firid. 
Till his decease it was my hope and trust that he 
might be spared to carry on the many improvements 
he had inaugurated, during his well-spent lifetime. 
There are many gardeners spread over the globe who 
can attest the good advice from and early training 
given them by our friend. Mr. Goodall has scarcely 
ever been absent from a flower show in Edinburgh 
for upwards of half a century. He was one of the 
pioneers of the Scottish Pansy Society and the 
Scottish Horticultural Association. We shall all 
miss such a good, honest Scotsman. His remains 
were borne to th^ grave in Corstorphine Churchyard. 
You must have met him at our Edinburgh shows.— 
J. Grieve. 
[We had known Mr. Goodall for some years past, 
having met and been introduced to him in the 
Beechhill Nurseries. We also mentioned the fact in 
our pages that we met this homely, and humble, 
faithful and leal-hearted servant; and we had ample 
evidence that he was trusted and respected by 
Messrs. R. B. Laird & Sons, by Mr. John Downie, 
and all their employees, in whose service he had 
practically spent a lifetime. We had the pleasure of 
a chat with him as recently as September last, and 
found him still faithfully attending to his duties, and 
hippy in the performance of the same. The more 
arduous duties had been taken up by a younger 
generation, who respected him none the less for that. 
Our mutual friend passed away at the ripe old age of 
seventy-eight, on the 15th ult. as mentioned in our 
last issue, and was laid to rest in Corstorphine 
Churchyard a few days afterwards.— Ed.] 
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TALES FOR THE YOUNG. 
I have been often amused by observing the ten¬ 
dency writers have to deprecate brawn as opposed 
to brain, and to select for the man that is to "save 
the ship ” a large-browed youth, with dreamy gaze 
—what the irreverent might term a moony calf with 
the big head. Two stories I read lately are no ex¬ 
ception to this rule. They are both horticultural. 
The first finds the hero an unwelcome guest on his 
uncle’s mortgaged farm, where all work save this 
studious youth. At last he requests a small piece of 
land to ” grow something on,” and selects a patch 
which had been planted with Asparagus by a former 
owner, and let run to weeds as useless by the pres¬ 
ent incumbent. Manuring it and weeding it took 
the starch out of the hero pretty well, and he hired 
the ploughing done. When he began to market his 
produce in little bundles he was rallied pretty much 
by his bucolic relatives, and his uncle contemplated 
letting him off somewhat on the price for ploughing. 
Finally the curtain rises on them all lamenting the 
coming foreclosing of aforesaid mortgage, and con¬ 
sequent loss of farm, Enter to them Mr. Boy with a 
roll of notes. “ Here, uncle, is your interest." 
Grand tableau, during which they weep all over Mr. 
Boy, who smiles serenely, and informs them he has 
the local market cornered on Asparagus, and there¬ 
fore is rich. 
Number two is less spectacular, but similar. In 
both casis they are stung by hearing derogatory re¬ 
marks, and therefore are stirred to action, which 
shall silence their detractors. This time it is a 
heroine who takes the centre of the stage. She is a 
deceased florist's daughter, and everything is goiDg 
to rack and ruin when she wakes up. The old fore¬ 
man is refusiog orders for table decoration, and for 
bouquets and wreaths, when our young friend sails 
in, and with only " natural artistic faculty ”—I 
think that was the word—eclipses all records No 
experience required. Isn’t that lovely ? Only 
ambition and previous idleness as a preparation for 
action, and success crowns their efforts every time, 
—C. Macquarie, Chicago. 
