June 27, 1903. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
547 
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EDITORIAL NOTES. 
' Wednesday, July 1st,—King’s Lynn Rose 
iow. Hanley Park Horticultural Fete (two 
ys). Herefordshire! and West of England 
ise Show. Richmond Flower Show. Na- 
3nal Rose Society’s M. Exhibition in 
; ample Gardens. 
’Thursday, July 2nd.—Colchester Rose 
low. Norfolk (Norwich) Rose Show. Can- 
rbury Rose Show. Reading Rose Show. 
Friday, July 3rd.—Maidstone Rose Show. 
Saturday, July 4th.—French Horticultural 
iciety of London meet. Sutton Rose; Show. 
alton-on-Thames Rose Show. 
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evon and Exeter Gardeners’ Outing. 
Every year the members of the Devon and 
. xeter Gardeners’ Association have an outing 
> some place of interest, thus combining 
pleasure with an endeavour to improve their 
knowledge of horticulture. On this occasion 
the outing will take place on Wednesday, 
July 8th, and the objective of the party will 
be Watarmouth Castle, Ilfracombe', the beau¬ 
tiful estate of C. H. Bassett, Esq., who has 
given them permission to pay the visit. Tbe 
party will also- have; time to 1 visit' the various 
places' of interest in the town, and after the' 
grounds and gardens of Watennouth Castle 
have been inspected the party will explore 
the Water Caves. The. quaint church of St, 
Peter at Berrynarbor will then, be visited, in 
order to see the' different styles of architec¬ 
ture the building possesses, as it was built, at 
different periods and by different builders. 
From this point the drive will be continued 
to Combmartin. After a, short stay, the re¬ 
turn journey will be made to Ilfracombe, 
where tea will be provided at the Montebello 
Boarding House before proceeding by special 
train, to Exeter. Tickets should be obtained 
from Mr. Andrew Hopei, 38, Prospect Park, 
Exeter, by Wednesday, July 1st. 
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41 Flora and Sylva.” 
The second or May number of this new 
publication commences with azure and blue 
flowers in the wild garden. Dealing with 
the subject, the writer includes several of 
the Grape Hyacinths, the blue species of 
Anemone, the Hepatica, Forget-me-nots, 
wood Hyacinths or Scillas, Glory of the 
Snow, Omphalodes verna, sometimes known 
as Blue-eyed Mary, etc. The Pasque flower, 
Anemone Pulsatilla, is introduced on ac¬ 
count of its value for planting on chalky 
soils, but it can hardly be reckoned a blue 
flower. One of the plates in this issue re¬ 
presents Geranium grandiflorum, with large 
rich blue flowers, slightly flushed with purple 
in the centre. It was raised from seed 
gathered on the Sikkim Himalayas. It at, 
first sight closely resembles our native G. 
pratense, but the flowers are of a richer blue, 
and the leaves, as represented in the plate, 
are not so finely divided. In this latter 
respect they would seem to be intermediate 
between G. pratense and G. sylvaticum. The 
article on this subject is by the Rev. C. 
Wolley Dod. The 'black and white picture 
representing the white Poplar shows the 
characteristics of that tree very well as seen 
in winter. An article deals with the Camellia 
as a. hardy shrub, and a coloured plate is de¬ 
voted to a red and white single variety of 
Camellia. Stuartia virginica has a whole 
page plate devoted to it in black and white. 
It had been flowered in Sussex, but we have 
seen a number of them flowered in Surrey. 
The Eucryphias are also discussed, and these 
might be more extensively planted in this 
country, but, particularly E, pinnat.ifolia, 
the hardiest and most handsome of ah 
Repton’s plea for the Ivy on trees is interest¬ 
ing and well worthy of perusal. 
Ducks in the Garden. 
Ever since we can remember we had a 
most decided aversion to the barn-door fowl 
in the garden. It did not occur to us to 
substitute ducks for them, however, and the 
latter never went there of their own accord. 
Several gardeners of the present-day find 
them useful, but more particularly duck¬ 
lings which are yet young and of light 
weight. Broods of these introduced to the 
garden employ themselves in catching flies, 
grubs, and various insects, as well as slugs, 
worms, and other creeping and crawling 
creatures. After the immense amount of 
rain which has fallen during this month we 
expect, to hear a great deal about, the ravages 
of slugs and other creatures, so that gar¬ 
deners might very well try the plan of in¬ 
troducing broods of ducklings to certain 
parts of the garden where they would be 
likely to be useful in keeping down creeping 
and crawling enemies of the garden. We 
should warn them against introducing peli¬ 
cans to the garden, however, as we remem¬ 
ber the effect, of their big feet, in Ivew 
Gardens. It is not their weight so much as 
the area occupied by their feet and the 
number of plants which they tread down. 
For this reason also the old ducks should be 
excluded where slender or fragile plants are 
grown. 
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Self-Help Emigration Society. 
From the report of this society for 1902 
we note that it sends out emigrants to 
Canada principally during the spring. A 
responsible representative of the society ac¬ 
companies each large party. The society 
has seventy-three correspondents in various 
parts of Canada, and these correspondents 
inform the committee in London what class 
of emigrants they can receive. The sociefy 
also lias thirty-seven correspondents in 
Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tas¬ 
mania, New Zealand, and Florida. The ad¬ 
vantages of Canada for emigrants are laid 
down by Lord Strathcona, the High Com¬ 
missioner for the Dominion, and whose per¬ 
sonal experience in that country enables him 
to speak with authority. The first, of these 
conditions mentioned is a free grant of 160 
acres on condition of three years’ residence 
and simple improvements on the land. He 
also mentions the advantages and successes 
in grain raising, the healthy climate, 
educational institutions, railways, good 
markets, good prices for produce, easy and 
remunerative farming, civil and religious 
liberty, and the fact that emigrants who 
settle in the Dominion in no way alter their 
allegiance, but remain British subjects. The 
secretary is Mr. E. Wilson Gates, 39, 
Memorial Hall Buildings, Farrino-don 
Street, London, E.C, 
