June 27, 1903. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
V 
NOVEMBER. 
3rd.—Croydon Chrysanthemum 
Show (two days). Plymouth 
Chrysanthemum Show. 
Barnsley Chrysanthemum 
Show. Southampton Chry¬ 
santhemum Show. Brighton 
and Sussex Chrysanthemum 
Show (two days). 
4th.—Hereford Fruit and Chry¬ 
santhemum Exhibition (two 
days). Highgate Chrysanthe¬ 
mum Show (three days). Car¬ 
diff Chrysanthemum Show 
(two days). 
5th.—Brixton, Streatham, and 
Clapham Show (two days) 
(Chrysanthemum). Wey- 
bridge Autumn Exhibition 
Devon and Exeter Chrysan¬ 
themum Show (two days). 
Colchester Chrysanthemum 
Show. 
7th.—French Horticultural So¬ 
ciety of London meet. 
10th.—Ipswich and East of Eng¬ 
land Chrysanthemum Exhibi¬ 
tion (two days). R.H.S. 
Committees. National Chry¬ 
santhemum Society’s Exhibi¬ 
tion (three days). Birming¬ 
ham Chrysanthemum Exhi¬ 
bition (three days). Oxford 
Chrysanthemum Show. 
11th.—Rugby Chrysanthemum 
Society’s Show (two days). 
Chester Paxton Fruit and 
Chrysanthemum Show (two 
days). Buxton Chrysanthe¬ 
mum Show. Winchester 
Chrysanthemum Show. Liver¬ 
pool Chrysanthemum Show 
(two days). Chesterfield 
Chrysanthemum Show (two 
days) (probably). 
12th.—King’s Lynn Chrysanthe¬ 
mum Show (two days). Put¬ 
ney and Wandsworth Chry¬ 
santhemum Show (two days). 
Parkstone Chrysanthemum 
Show (two days). Jersey 
Chrysanthemum Show. ° 
13th.—Blackburn Chrysanthe¬ 
mum Show (two days). Brad¬ 
ford Chrysanthemum Show 
(two days). Eccles, etc., 
Chrysanthemum Show (two 
days). Leicester Fruit and 
Chrysanthemum Exhibition 
(two days). Stockport Chry¬ 
santhemum Show (two days). 
Sheffield Chrysanthemum 
Show (two days). Bradford 
and District Chrysanthemum 
Show (two days). 
14th.—Burton-on-Trent and Shob- 
nall Chrysanthemum Show. 
17th.—Belfast Chrysanthemum 
Show (two days). West 
Hartlepool Chrysanthemum 
Show. 
18th.—Ancient Society of York 
Florists’ Chrysanthemum 
Show (three days). Hull 
Chrysanthemum Show (two 
days). 
19th.—Barnsley Chrysanthemum 
Show (two days). Edinburgh 
Chrysanthemum Show (three 
days). Manchester Chrysan¬ 
themum Show (three days). 
Norwich Chrysanthemum 
Show (three days). 
20th.—Bolton Chrysanthemum 
Show. Aberdeen Chrysanthe¬ 
mum Show (two days). 
24th.—R.H.S. Committees. 
25th.—South Shields Chrysanthe¬ 
mum Show (two days). 
DECEMBER. 
2nd.—National Chrysanthemum 
Society’s Exhibition (two 
days).' 
5th.—French Horticultural So¬ 
ciety of London meet. 
10th.—National Rose Society's 
Annual General Meeting and 
Dinner. 
14th.—National Chrysanthemum 
Society Committees meet. 
15th.—R.H.S. Committees. 
With a cold spring last year my Spinach was immense, but 
the Turnips were destroyed by fleas. This season Spinach 
bolted before attaining half size, and all I come in contact with 
have the same complaint. 
* * * 
Turnips, however, have been free from flea; yet when roots 
were 1-inch across, up they went. My tale is the tale of mariv 
round East Kent. 
* * * 
Shall we be able to defy disease by aseptic treatment? We 
recently heard of a Russian professor inoculating plants and 
trees._ Now, we have a home chemist offering to deal with 
fungoid disease by adding chemicals to the soil. His experi¬ 
ments on ’Mums have been remarkably successful. 
* * * 
Another item is a new cure .for the leaf-mining maggot. We 
all know the beast that tunnels the foliage of our ’Mums, Carna¬ 
tions, Marguerites, etc., but a man has come forth with a 
guaranteed method of destroying maggot with(out?) injury to 
the foliage. Truly we are in for a good time. 
* * * 
As I have before remarked, pliant® have queer ways and 
habits. Up Yarmouth way there is a Gooseberry bush growing 
out of a decayed limb of a tree. The bush is about one yard 
from the ground, yet is in a thriving state, being of good pro¬ 
portions and bearing well. 
It is queer how the newspapers catch hold of horticultural 
items. We have been told about the great damage by frosts, 
but recently they were stating that Devonshire Apple-growers 
were in. despair owing to an outbreak of American blight. As 
if the blight. would affect the fruit prospects at once. Poor 
simpletons! 
* w * 
The St. Louis Exhibition is not going to be behind with horti¬ 
culture, providing the floods which are raging as I write do not 
sweep the place away. A-n enormous clock is being constructed 
on the soil, the face of which will be covered with plants. 
* -x * 
The latter will be selected and placed in position so that as 
the hands travel round, the flowers will open about the hour 
indicated. A great idea sure-ly. 
* •* 
Some persons are for ever saving, and do not hesitate to go 
farther to do so. One learns of a mam Who* wanted some climb¬ 
ing RoseS, and visited a local nurseryman, who informed him 
that the price was Is. 3d., as they were large plants. The 
economical one turned away, stating that be could send away 
and get them for one-third less. He sent, and he got them, 
through the post, in a little box. 
* 7r * 
I not that another new Lobelia is seeking popularity—a blue 
and white variety named Mrs. Clibran. 
* * * 
The fact recalls a sad catastrophe that occurred to me some 
years ago. Among a batch of seedlings from own raised seed, 
one plant appeared which bore pure white flowers with a 
picotee blue edge. 
* * * 
The blooms were one-third larger than Barnard’s Perpetual, 
of which it was a seedling. Like many other poor fools, I saved 
seed only to lose it. 
* * * 
Thinking to be, clever, I sowed early in ai propagator, and it 
germinated well, but one day the lamp went away, and the new 
Lobelia was no more. 
* * * 
There is, or was, a pot Lobelia named Picotee, but it was 
useless for outdoors, and when I told a nurseryman of my break 
he was greatly excited. So was I, but oh that beastly pro¬ 
pagator, for with the death of those seedlings vanished all hopes 
of bringing out what might have been the most remarkable 
bedding Lobelia of the day. 
* * * 
T fear I was always an unlucky beggar, for back in ’98 I 
secured a beautifully striped Cupid Sweet Pea. 
* * * 
A terrific four hours storm washed the plants out of the 
ground, however, and away went that striped Cupid. The 
Rev. Routzahn, of California, next secured it in ’99, and he 
valued it at 1.500 dollars. He did not get it, however, but 
still he had mere than I did. 
* * * 
Have any readers come across the pipless Orange ? During 
the past few weeks I have had several which were devoid of 
seeds, and I have wondered whether the Californians were 
already trying them on the British market. The fruits were 
beautifully sweet, hut the wrappers were unnlamed, whereas 
Spanish consignments are usually labelled if from a high-class 
grower. 
* * * 
Were the Government to take the matter in hand by expending 
a bit of monev, the superfluous water of one district might he con¬ 
veyed to another 
* * * 
I can just imagine what California would do in such instances. 
However, it is pleasant to) turn from such follies to learn that a 
Bill is being introduced for the purpose of eradicating insects 
and diseases in fruit plamtationls. 
* * 
The new Sweet Pea Dorothy Echford is attracting the market 
man, a certain sign that he lias discovered a good thing. 
French Flower Culture.— It is stated that 90 per cent, of 
the perfume. used in the world comes from the strip of moun¬ 
tainous country which lies along the' Mediterranean east of 
Marseilles. The annual harvest of flowers is about 6,000,0001b. 
of Roses, 5,000,0001b. of Orange blossoms, 3,000,0001b. of Carna¬ 
tions, 1,000,0001b. of Violets, 9,0001b.-of Lilies, 600,0001b. of 
Tuberoses, and other flowers in proportion. These flowers are 
mostly raised by peasants who own small farms and do their 
own work. 
