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THE OARDENINQ WORLD 
March ", 1903. 
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News of the Week — (continued). 
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Shrubs for Sydenham Hitj,, London. —For providing ami 
planting shrubs, etc., at Sydenham Hill Road School for the 
London School Board, G, Footer’s tender for £9 19s. was 
accepted. 
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Mr. G. Reuthe, formerly of Messrs. Tt S. Ware, Ltd., lias com¬ 
menced the business of nurseryman: on his own account at 
Keston. Kent, under the style and title of the Fox Hill Hardy 
Plant Nursery (Mr. G. Reuthe), Keston, Kent. 
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Rose Jam and Jerry. —Roses are grown by the acre in Bulgaria 
for the purpose alike of making Rose jam. Rose dessert jelly, 
and the famous perfume attar of Roses. No fewer than 6,000 
acres of Bulgarian soil are covered with the “queen of flowers.’’ 
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Royal Appointment to Aberdeen Merchants. —Messrs. 
George Pegler and Co. have just received from the Comptroller 
of the Household the gratifying information that the Prince of 
Wales has been pleased to grant the firm a warrant of appoint¬ 
ment to His Royal Highness’s Household. This firm has held 
the position of fruiterers to the Royal House for a very long 
time. As long ago as 1847 they were appointed fruiterers to 
her late Majesty Queen Victoria, and a new warrant was granted 
conferring a similar appointment to His Majesty in 1901. The 
original warrant as fruiterers to the Prince of Wales was granted 
just forty years ago—in 1863—and, as stated, the appointment 
has just been renewed. 
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Railway Companies and Fruit Cartage. —The Great Eastern 
Railway Company have just announced through their agent at 
Upwell, Norfolk, that they have made an arrangement with the 
Midland and Great Northern Railway Companies that no fruit 
during the coming season will be conveyed to the tram station 
here by the company, but that the growers must make arrange¬ 
ments for the conveyance of their fruit to the depot themselves. 
This announcement has caused wide-spread dissatisfaction 
amongst the fruit-growing people, and especially among the small 
growers, who possess neither horses nor carts. This arrange¬ 
ment will cause an additional expense of from 3s. to 4s. per ton 
for cartage, hitherto borne by the rival companies. At present 
nothing is definitely settled by the growers in the matter, who 
may yet either petition the companies for abatement in the 
ordinary freight or resort to some other means rather than sub¬ 
mit to present conditions. 
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The Boer Delegates at Wagga. —The Boer delegates had a 
royal time at the Wagga Experimental Farm in the second week 
of January, especially among the fruit. Every branch of the 
industry was in full swing, and the visitors were enabled to in¬ 
spect the operations of canning and jam-making. They spent 
nearly the whole afternoon in the orchards, and when it came 
to sampling the products they found no less than 60 varieties 
of fruit on the table for their delectation. They opened their 
eyes wide at the prospect. It was a feast for kings, and spoke 
eloquently as to the extent of the fruit-cultivating operations 
carried on at the farm. They were loud in their praises of the 
farm, and more than satisfied Mr. M'Keown (the manager) and 
Mr. Allen (the Government fruit expert) for the trouble they 
took in showing the visitors round, by telling them that the 
visit had proved among the most enjoyable features of their 
round-the-world tour. 
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Lecture in Barrymurn. —A lecture on horticulture was de¬ 
livered in the school at Ballymurn on the 23rd ult. by Mr. W. 
Orr, Loughgall, co. Armagh. The lecture was very well 
attended, the spacious schoolroom being crowded in every part. 
The Rev. John Walsh, P.P., on introducing Air. Orr to the 
audience, said they were about to hear an interesting, instruc¬ 
tive, and useful lecture by Mr. Orr, a fellow countryman from 
the North of Ireland. He said Ireland was the most backward 
country in the world, and would always remain so if they did 
not adopt up-to-date methods. He hoped they would be very 
attentive, and derive great benefit from the lecture. Mr. On- 
then delivered a very interesting and instructive lecture. He 
just showed the great advantages of skilled labour, and then 
went on to prove from his own experience that from £30 to £60 
an acre can be made by the cultivation of different kinds of' 
fruit, including Apples, Strawberries, Black Currants, and 
Raspberries. 
A Vireage for Sale. —A village is for sale in the Cleveland 
district of Yorkshire, namely, Hutton Lowcross ; and it com¬ 
prises a cluster of houses erected by Sir Joseph W. Pease, Bart., 
for his tenantry. Hutton Hall is to be included in the sale, which 
is to be by auction. 
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Names of People and their Occupations. —In bygone time? 
many people have taken their names from their occupations, at 
first applied as a nickname, and later on displacing the original. 
Singularly appropriate is the following : Peach Bros, and Cherry. 
the mammoth fruit salesmen, 15-23, Orchard Square, Plumtree. 
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The Wayside Flora Disappearing. —Lovers of the rural 
are complaining in far off Derbyshire, Devonshire, and Dorset¬ 
shire of the wholesale spoliation of hedgerows of Ferns and 
flowers, which are ruthlessly plucked up by itinerant gatherers 
for the Covent Garden and Midland markets. 
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Flowers for Soldiers.— The wards of the Herbert Hospital, 
which at festive seasons are wont to be decorated after 
“ Tommy’s ” own heart, and by his own skilful fingers, were on 
the occasion of the Royal visit, after strenuous polishing, beau¬ 
tified simply by plants and flowers. This undoubtedly arose 
from a, feeling, prevalent among the sick soldiers, that Queen 
Alexandra wanted to see just how the wards in which her soldiers 
were nursed looked every day ; and nothing could have been 
prettier than the bright colours and graceful grouping of the 
early Daffodils, Primulas, and Daisies, relieved by the broad 
fan-like Palms in huge pots. It is not perhaps sufficiently re¬ 
membered by the public, which is lavish in, gifts of flowers to 
the civil hospitals, that-the wards of the great military hospitals 
need brightening just, as much. The soldier who has been on 
the march or in the battlefield feels soothed and cheered in 
sickness by the sight of the familiar flowers of Old England, and 
we are sure that gifts of plants and flowers would be gratefully 
welcomed by the matron of the Herbert Hospital for use in the 
wards. 
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Last of the Newhaven Willow Tree. —Some years ago a 
correspondent mentioned in the “ Scotsman ’’ that in the suburbs 
of Edinburgh there Were three old and interesting trees. One of 
these, an ancient Willow, in the grounds of Willowbank House, 
Trinity, was brought to the ground by the recent gale. It was 
computed to be over two hundred years of age, and in its prime 
was very large, measuring in girth about 17ft., and in height 
overtopping all other trees in its neighbourhood, and serving as 
a mark- to the fishers on the Forth returning to Newhaven pier. 
In 1847 a gentleman, supposed to be a resident in the house now 
called by the name of the tree, ■ and in whose grounds it was 
enclosed, wrote some verses upon it. Some thirty years ago, by 
a curious coincidence, during a severe storm, a very large branch 
fell, the weight of which uprooted and destroyed a Chestnut tree 
growing beside it, and so bearing out the spaewife’s prophecy. 
It appears that for many years past only the stump of the tree 
has been standing, and it fell on the night of Sunday, 8th ult.— 
or rather collapsed—as a result of the action of the rain. The 
remains of the tree have been carted away to Granton. 
Gardener’s Sudden Death. —The death occurred on the 
24th ult., with tragic suddenness, of Arthur Chandler, aged 
forty-four, residing at 7, Chestnut Cottages, Wey bridge 
Common, and head gardener to Air. AV. Mortimer, of Wilmhurst, 
Egerton Road. It seems that the deceased left work at.5o0, 
apparently in his usual health, and on his way home called at 
the Jolly Farmer beerhouse, where he stayed from 6 to 7.30. He 
had a pint of beer there, and took another pint with him in a 
bottle on leaving. After walking as far as the Village Hall, a 
distance of 80 yards, he started to cross the road, and while 
doing so was seen by two women to fall down, without, however, 
calling out or making any sound. The women went to him, and 
found that life was apparently extinct, an impression which va- 
confirmed by P.C. Stevens and Dr. J. J. Powell, both of whom 
were quickly on the spot-. In falling, the deceased struck nis 
head on the kerb, cutting his nose severely. Death was attri¬ 
buted to a weak heart. He had been attended at different times 
by Dr. Powell, and leaves a widow, but no children. After 
being temporarily placed in the Village Hall the body 'J as 
removed to the mortuary. The post-mortem showed that t-ne 
deceased did not suffer from heart disease, but by' the rupture o 
an aneurism of the aorta, causing instantaneous death, 
