May 30, 1903. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
X 
Ouc Tree in Victoria Park, Bath.— On the wedding-day of 
the Kin* and Queen, 40 years ago, an Oak tree was planted in 
VictoriaPark, Bath. Now at 4ft. from the ground it has a girth 
Gardening for Schoolboys. —The head master of St. John s 
School, Woking, has had a portion of his garden laid out in 
twelve’good-sized plots,, and intends giving a dozen boys from 
the school instruction in gardening. This will not interfere 
with the school routine, and the Surrey County Council will, 
besides defraying the cost, award prizes for the best cultivated 
Fruit from Guernsey.— The season for forced fruit from 
Guernsey has opened, and one of the chief features of its in¬ 
auguration was the fact that one forced Melon realised at Covent 
Garden the extraordinary price of 20s. This has caused no small 
surprise among the Melon-growers of the Channel Lslands, 
who market thousands of them in the season, and are well satis¬ 
fied with 2s. or 3s. per Melon. 
* * * 
The Long Walk at Windsor. —The gigantic Elms of the 
famous Long Walk, which forms, the chief approach to Windsor 
Castle, are rapidly decaying, and during the past month Crown 
workmen removed a score of these splendid old trees. They 
were planted by Charles II. in 1680, and at one time numbered 
1.652, but almost half of them have succumbed to age and severe 
weather. The King is naturally much concerned about the 
decay of the trees/ From the Castle to the double gates the 
old trees are being replaced by young Elms, but from that point 
to the statue of George III. oaks are being substituted, as the 
soil has proved unsuitable to Elms. 
* * * 
Primroses as Medicine.. —The Primrose was formerly sup¬ 
posed to possess many medicinal properties, and, amongst others, 
those of an anodyne or a sedative. It retained its place m 
English dispensaries down to the year 1837. In an old medical 
work it is recorded that a certain practitioner in London, “ who 
was famous for curing the phrensie,” used, after the cure was 
effected, to diet his patients in the spring on the flowers and 
leaves of the Primrose, boiled with Rose and Betony waters. 
There is also a belief, said to be common in Lincolnshire, that 
a decoction of Primrose leaves cures a failing memory. 
* * * 
Jamaica, a Health Resort and a Fruit Garden.— On the 
21st ult., at the London Institution, Finsbury Circus, under 
the auspices of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries, Captain 
W. J. P. Benson, F.R.G.S., delivered a lecture on “.Jamaica.” 
Jamaica, he said, was one of the healthiest and finest fruit-pro¬ 
ducing countries in the world, and the idea that it was volcanic 
had long since been exploded. Surely it was time that England 
paid attention to this long-neglected colony. The whole of the 
produce of Jamaica went practically to the United States, per 
the United Fruit Company, only a small portion finding its 
way to the United Kingdom by means of the Elder Dempster 
Company. He suggested that we in this country should go in 
for the Grape fruit grown in Jamaica, which he described as 
not only the most delicious, but the healthiest fruit extant. 
Where else in the world, he asked, would you find bread, cus¬ 
tards, milk, and oysters growing on trees but in Jamaica? 
Captain Benson concluded : “ Do you want to escape an English 
winter ? Do you suffer from any lung trouble ? Do you desire 
to take waters equal to those of any German spa, and to expe¬ 
rience a winter which is like an ideal English summer? If so, 
then go to the land of perpetual summer, where the balmy air 
is laden with the scent of fruit and flowers, where the fireflies 
light up the night; in a word, Jamaica.” 
FIXTURES FQR 1903. 
26th.—Temple Show of 
R.H.S. (three days). 
MAY. 
the 30th.—Manchester Whitsuntide 
Exhibition (five days). 
JUNE. 
6th.—French Horticultural So¬ 
ciety of London meet. 
9th.—R.H.S. Committees. 
23rd.—Royal Agricultural So¬ 
ciety’s Show (five days). 
Royal Oxfordshire Show. 
24th.—Grand Yorkshire Gala 
(three days). 
26th.—R.H.S. Show at Holland 
House (two days). Isle of 
Wight Rose Show (or follow¬ 
ing day). Jersey Rose Show. 
27th.—Windsor Rose Show. 
JULY. 
1st.—King’s Lynn Rose Show. 
Hanley Park Horticultural 
Fete (two days). Hereford¬ 
shire and West of England 
Rose Show. Richmond 
Flower Show. Natiohal Rose 
Society’s M. Exhibition in 
Temple Gardens. 
2nd.—Colchester Rose Show. 
Norfolk (Norwich) Rose 
Show. Canterbury Rose 
Show. Reading Rose Show. 
3rd.—'Maidstone Rose Show. 
4th.—French Horticultural So¬ 
ciety of London meet. Sutton 
Rose Show. Walton-on- 
Thames Rose Show. 
7th.—R.H.S. Committees. Wol¬ 
verhampton Floral Fete 
(three days). Gloucester 
Rose Show. Harrow Flower 
Show. 
8th.—Croydon Horticultural So¬ 
ciety’s Summer Show. South¬ 
ampton Rose Show (two 
days). Lee, Blackheath, 
Lewisham, and West Kent 
Summer Show (two days). 
9th.—Bath Rose Show. Wood- 
bridge Rose Show. 
10th.—Ulverston Rose Exhibi¬ 
tion. 
11th.—Manchester Rose Exhibi¬ 
tion. 
15th.—National Rose Society’s N. 
Show at Glasgow. Ancient 
Society of York Florists. Ips¬ 
wich and East of England 
Summer Exhibition. National 
Sweet Pea Society’s Grand 
Exhibition (two days). Form- 
by Rose Show. Thornton 
Heath Rose Show. 
16th. — Weybridge Gardeners’ 
Summer Exhibition. 
21st. — R. H. S. Committees. 
National Carnation and Pico- 
tee Exhibition. Tibshelf Rose 
Show. 
22nd.—Northumberland, Durham, 
and Newcastle Botanic and 
H.S. Exhibition (three days). 
Cardiff Rose Show (two days). 
Newcastle Summer Show 
(three days). 
23rd.—St. Ives, Hunts, H.S. 
Show. Selby (Bradford) 
Flower Show. Gwenap (Ply¬ 
mouth) Flower Show. Salter- 
hebble Rose Show. 
28th.—Warsop Flower Show. 
29th.—Copdock and Washbrook 
Flower Show. Midland Car¬ 
nation Show (two days sub¬ 
ject to alteration). Chester¬ 
field Floral Horticultural 
Show. 
CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE. 
PAGE 
Bothies in his Majesty’s 
garden . 478 
Dendrobium nobile. 469 
Fruits, hardy. 461 
Kew, the best flowering 
plants at. 462 
Kitchen garden, the. 460 
News of the week. , 480 
Orchids, among the. 460 
Prize plan for suburban 
garden . 459 
Questions and Answers . 477 
Societies:— 
Royal Caledonian Horti¬ 
cultural . 459 
Royal Horticultural . 463 
Society and association 
notes, etc. 479 
PAGE 
Sprayer, Vermorel’s . 477 
Stove apd greenhouse, the . 461 
Temple Show, the . l.. 463 
Trees and shrubs, hardy ... 461 
ILLUSTRATIONS. 
Begonia Hon. Lady Weeld 466 
Bothies in his Majesty’s 
garden .'. 473 
Hedera arborea amurensis... 467 
Laburnum Vossii. 466 
Rhododendron Lord Roberts 477 
Rosa rugosa repens alba. 464 
Rose Blush Rambler . 463 
Rose Dorothy Perkins. 471 
Sprayer, Vermorel’s knap- 471 
sack. 477 
Tomato Best of All. 465 
CONTENTS OF 
PAGE 
Aid for the show . 446 
Alocasias, a collection of ... 448 
Alpine plants from seed. 442 
Asperula suberosa . 443 
Begonias, tuberous-rooted ... 441 
Begonias, tuberous, v. Gera¬ 
niums . 441 
Begonia Gloire de Lorraine 446 
Brugmansias, decorative. 442 
Clianthus Dampieri. 414 
Country and the garden, the 447 
Critic, my . 446 
Currant, the golden-flowered 450 
Cytisus praecox. 450 
Flowers in the Rome, cut. 445 
Fruit growing and orchard 
planting . 445 
Fruit under glass. 438 
Herbaceous border, the . 449 
Herbaceous plants, hardy ... 438 
Illustrations, notes on the ... 443 
Insectivorous plants. 450 
Kew, the best flowering 
plants at. 440 
Kitchen garden, the. 439 
News of the week. 456 
Onosma albo-roseum . 443 
Orchards, among the . 439 
Pandanus graminifolius_ 444 
LAST WEEK. 
PAGE 
Peas, Alderman v. the Glad¬ 
stone.... 445 
Plants for conservatory de¬ 
coration . 446 
Questions and answers . 457 
Ribes sanguineum . 444 
Societies :— 
Cambridge Horticultural . 437 
National Rose . 437 
Royal Caledonian Horti¬ 
cultural . 452 
Royal Horticultural. 451 
Royal Horticultural of 
Ireland. 437 
Society and association news 455 
Stove and greenhouse . 440 
Tulip Keizerkroon and 
fungus. 437 
Tulipa micheliana. 443 
ILLUSTRATIONS. 
Alocasias, a group of—see 
Supplement. 
Asperula suberosa . 443 
Onosiha albo-roseum . 445 
Pandanus graminifolius. 446 
Saxifraga Grisebachii—see 
Supplement. 
Tulipa micheliana. 449 
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