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THE GARDENING WORLD 
August 8, 1903. 
Holmes Chapel, Cheshire, exhibited their fuel economisers. 
An iron plate goes over the top of the boiler in one instance, 
and utilises the heat that would otherwise be wasted on brick¬ 
work. They also make chimneys surrounded with a layer of 
water, and thereby utilise the heat that would otherwise escape 
from the chimney. 
Fruit Committee. 
Mr. Will Taylor, Hampton, Middlesex, exhibited a dish of 
the Peach named Libra raised by Mr. Blackmore from the 
Alexander Peach. Its most important feature seems to be its 
fruitfulness, but the fruits are also of good quality. 
Dr. Bonavia, Westwood, Richmond Road, Worthing, ex¬ 
hibited a basket of the Sultana Grape under the name of 
■Sultanieh, which we take it means the name under which it 
is grown by those who dry the fruits and form the well-known 
Sultana Rasin. It is evidently a Muscat variety of Grape, and 
is remarkable for being entirely seedless. 
NEWS OF THE WEEK. 
Death from Shelling Peas. —A most remarkable case of 
death from blood-poisoning was investigated recently by the 
Lewisham coroner. An inquest was held on the body of Mrs. 
Maria Mash, a cook, 53 years of age, who one day was shelling 
Peas. She complained of a severe pain in her thumb, which 
gradually swelled, and she went to the infirmary, where she 
died on Wednesday. Dr. Toogood said that death was due to 
blood-poisoning, and it was quite likely that the roughness of 
the pods of the Peas might have caused an abrasion on her 
thumb, but it was probable that the germs of the disease were 
present in her body. 
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Fruit Growers and Insect Pests. —A deputation from the 
National Fruit Growers’ Federation and the Herefordshire 
Fruit Growers’ Association has waited on Lord Onslow, at the 
Board of Agriculture, for the purpose of calling his attention 
to the serious loss to which the industry was exposed from the 
ravages of blight and insect pests. The deputation was intro¬ 
duced by Colonel C. W. Long, M.P., President of the National 
Fruit Growers’ Federation. The other speakers were delegates 
from Kent, Cambridgeshire, Gloucestershire, and Hereford¬ 
shire. It was urged that some concerted action should be taken 
to eradicate orchard pests, and the speakers were all in favour 
of a public inquiry into the whole subject. In his reply, Lord 
Onslow fully recognised the importance of the objects of the 
deputation, and promised that a Departmental Committee 
should be appointed in the autumn. 
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Telegraph Poles in Fruit. —Over 1,000 miles of telegraph 
poles in full fruit are to be seen in Uganda. The wires are 
strung from a species of Fig tree, which has extraordinary powers 
of vitality even when detached from its own roots. 
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A field of oats belonging to Mrs. Dingle, of St. Stephen’s-by- 
Saltash, was cut on the 23rd ult. This is unusually early 
for the commencement of harvesting operations in East Corn¬ 
wall. 
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Man-traps and Spring Guns. —The “ Humanitarian ” for 
August makes the following pertinent remarks on an antiquated, 
custom :—“ It is curious how the spirit of brutality lingers on, 
even where the power to do injury has been removed. A game 
preserver who holds shooting rights over the Devil’s Den Woods, 
near Purley, has actually put up a notice that 1 man-traps ’ are 
set on his estate. A protest having been made by the Coulsdon 
Parish Council against the inhumanity of such a proceeding, 
a reply was received to the effect that there was no inhumanity 
because there were no traps, the notices having been placed 
there merely to scare trespassers. We hope the Parish Council 
will not allow the matter to rest until the notice-boards have 
been removed. The present Game Laws are brutal enough in 
all truth, without any such impudent attempt to make capital 
out of the still worse brutalities of the past. The notices in 
question are none the less an outrage on decency and a dis¬ 
grace to the district in which they are displayed, because they 
happen also to be a lie.” We may state that a notice-board has 
been conspicuously displayed on the borders of Walton Heath 
for the last 20 years bearing the words, " Man-traps and spring 
guns. Trespassers beware.” We have heard of another that 
was meant to scare beggars from entering by the front garden 
to the house, and bore the words, “Anemones and Ranunculuses 
beware.” 
A Wonderland of Trees. —Nowhere else in the world is there 
such a forest of trees as that which spreads itself on the Rocky 
Mountains. Thousands of miles one may wander, and never 
escape the inclosing silences of this wood. Across British pos¬ 
sessions, through endless reaches of snow-capped mountains, 
and onward to Alaska, nothing but trees and trees—Cedar, Fir, 
Hemlock, Pine, Spruce. Turn to the south. For a thousand 
miles of Sierra, through the heart of California, where grows 
the Sequoia, the monarch among trees, to the very deserts of 
the Mexican border, and still one finds this forest covering 
all the hills, thick, silent, and all but undisturbed. 
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Failure of Fruit. —In West Middlesex the fruit crop has 
been ruined by insects and other pests. The failure is said to 
be the most entire within the last 50 years. 
* * * 
Mexican Oranges and Bananas. —The crop of Oranges, 
Bananas, and Limes in the State of Mexico is expected to be 
very large this year. 
* * * 
The Largest Elm in Cornwall is probably that at Levathan, 
in Bodmin, its diameter being over 8 ft. The other week, 
during torrents of rain, one of its limbs snapped, and fell with 
a heavy crash. 
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Gray’s Inn Gardens. —The Benchers of Gray’s Inn have re¬ 
solved that, from August 1st until September 30th inclusive, 
children (boys over 10 years of age excepted) be admitted to 
the gardens of the Inn on fine days between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. 
No cards of admission are required under this order, which is 
intended to benefit children of the very poorest class. 
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R.H. S. Cricket Match. —The cricket match arranged to be 
held at Holland House, Kensington, to-day (Saturday), between 
teams of the Vegetable and Floral Committees of the Royal Hor¬ 
ticultural Society, has had to be abandoned on account of the 
impossibility of getting together the necessary number to form 
a team. Some of the members are away from home, and others 
have important engagements which prevent their being present. 
The most serious falling off seems to have been in the Floral 
Committee, whose hands are always very full. We make this 
announcement to warn those not present at the Drill Hall on 
the occasion of the ordinary meeting on Tuesday last. 
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. 
The Editor invites enquiries for reply in this column. These 
enquiries may cover any branch of gardening. Questions should be 
put as briefly as possible, and written on one side of the paper only ; 
a separate slieet of paper should be used for each question. 
Readers are also invited to give their fellow gardeners the benefit 
of their experience by sending supplementary replies. 
Replies cannot be sent by post, even if a stamped , addressed 
envelope is enclosed , and thh return of specimens cannot be undertaken. 
Anonymous communications are treated in the usual editorial manner, 
Address letters: The Editor, “The Gardening World,” 37 and 
38, Shoe Lane, London, E.C. 
Roses for Pots. (Omega.) 
Some of the best hybrid perpetual Roses for pot work are 
General Jacqueminot, Alfred Colomb, Mme. Gabriel Luizet, 
Marie Baumann, Ulrich Brunner, Camille Bernardin, Countess 
of Oxford, Duke of Edinburgh, Etienne Levet, Fisher Holmes, 
Gustave Piganeau, and Merveille de Lyon; the last named 
might be replaced by Frau Karl Druschki, if you wish the best 
and purest white H.P. For Tea scented Roses you might grow 
Catherine Mermet, Mme. Lambard, Niphetos, Sunset, Souvenir 
d’un Ami, President, Marie Van Houte, Kaiserin Augusta 
Victoria, Bridesmaid, Anna Olivier, Mme. de Watteville. For 
hybrid Teas you might grow Caroline Testout, La France, Grace 
Darling, Capt. Christy, President Carnot, Viscountess Folke¬ 
stone, Lady Battersea, and Liberty. The last named is rather 
expensive, being yet new, but it is a very handsome Rose. If 
you desire any Polyantlia Roses, you might try Perle d’Or, 
Gloire des Polyantlia, and Crimson Rambler. The latter should 
not be forced at all, however, but allowed to come along gradu¬ 
ally. 
Plants that Bear Cutting in Lawn Grass. (J. R.) 
There are several plants that associate well with grass and 
bear cutting. Several of them even retain a brighter colour 
than the grass during periods of drought. The Clovers, in¬ 
cluding Trifolium repens and T. minus, maintain their hold 
upon the ground well, even under weekly close cutting. The 
