September 5, 1903. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
763 
NEWS OF THE WEEK. 
Second Harvest or Strawberries.—S everal pounds of fine 
fruit were gathered by Mr. Ben Lewman in his garden at Weston, 
Portland, the other week. 
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Second Fruit Blossom.—A second blossom is appearing on a 
lot of trees on fruit farms in Essex. The first blossom came to 
naught, owing to the wet weather. 
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Big Cabbage.—A gardener at Martham, near Yarmouth, 
claims to have established another record by growing a cabbage 
which weighed 24glbs. It was sold for Is. 
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A Big Mushroom.—A pink-tinted Mushroom over 1 ft. in dia¬ 
meter, and weighing 2 lbs. 1 oz., was picked by Mr. Death, 
Snails Hall Farm, Billericay, on the 25th ult. 
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Hardy Fruit in Cornwall.—I n the markets the scarcity of 
English fruit is plainly seen, but few Apples and Pears being 
offered, and then at a high price, some Apples making 4d. per lb. 
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Bananas at Nottingham.—A t the present time there are only 
about 1,000 heads of Bananas coming into Nottingham per week, 
a very much shorter supply than was being imported a short 
time back. 
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Good English Tomatos were being sold in Dartford market 
at 2^d. per lb. the other week. In the Crays, where they are 
grown in very considerable quantities, they were being retailed 
at 5gd. and 6d. 
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Mr. Joserh Benbow, gardener to Lord Ilchester, at. Abbots- 
bury Castle Gardens, has been appointed gardener to Sir 
Thomas Hanbury, of La Mortola, Ventimiglia, Italy. Mr. 
Benbow is an old Kewite. 
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Hawthorn Blossom in August.—L ast week two bunches of 
Hawthorn blossom were observed growing on a bush near 
Fairnilee, on which the haws were commencing to ripen. Such 
a sight in August is rare. 
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Success of a Local Gardener.—M r. J. Grant, gardener to the 
Rev. G. Milligan, Caputh Manse, was successful in securing 
thirty-two prizes out of thirty-four entries at the Dunkeld and 
Birnam Horticultural Show. 
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Third Flowering of Apple Tree.—A t Richmond, Yorks, in 
a garden occupied by Mr. Wm. Kinchin, near the Castle Walk, 
there is an Apple tree blossoming for the third time—a proof 
of a most exceptional season. 
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Craig’s Favourite Pear.—F ruit merchants in Newburgh, 
Fifeshire, have begun to pull Craig’s Favourite Pears. The crop 
is a good one, but quality would 1 be improved by a little longer 
time to mature. The Plum crop is generally poor. 
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American Aloe in Bloom.—A n Aloe, 22 ft. in height, is in 
bloom in the front garden of Highwood House, North Finchley. 
There are twenty-six blooms altogether, and these are expected 
shortly to flower. It is said that the Aloe does not bloom in 
English gardens till it is 100 years old, but that is a fallacy. 
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Carse of Gowrie Apples.—T he Carse of Gowrie annual sale 
of orchards took place on the 21st ult. at Errol Arms Hotel. 
Flatfield Orchard was sold to Mr. George Stewart for £36. The 
limit in Mr. Thomas Morton's garden was also sold to Mr. Stewart 
for £2 5s. 
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Potatos at Twenty-eight Shillings a Pound.—A sensation 
was caused in agricultural districts last year by the quotation of 
Potatos—Findlay’s Northern Star—at £1 Is. a pound. The 
lecord has been dwarfed by Mr. George Massey, of Spalding, who 
this week realised £20 for a stone of new seedling Potato, also 
introduced by Mr. Findlay. 
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Gardening at 100.-—Mrs. Honour Coleman, of Cleve-in- 
a 1 ,° j’ . om€rse L is 102 years old. Till two years ago she 
worked in her garden, but owing to increasing infirmities she 
is now confined to her room. She has always lived in Somerset, 
as neyer been photographed, nor has she been in a railway 
Wholesale Garden Robbers.— Some garden pilferers have 
gone off with nearly a whole bed of Beet in the Coundon district. 
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A Big Potato. —A Potato weighing 2 lbs. 2g ozS. was dug on 
the 27th ult. by Mr. Jas Stevens, of Kingsteignton, in his allot 
ment. 
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Primroses Already in Bloom. —The wet summer has been 
very favourable to the second or late growth of Primroses, with 
the result that they have already commenced to bloom, as we 
noted, at the residence of A. Lane, Esq., 68, Faversham Road, 
Catford, S.E., where they are now in full bloom. 
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Fruit Merchant Retires to Canada. —Many members of the 
Liverpool Fruiterers’ Association, on the 25th ult., bade good-bye 
to Mr. and Mrs. Anakin, who sailed for Canada on the s.s. 
“Mount Temple.” For many years Mr. Anakin has been con¬ 
nected with the fruit trade in Liverpool, and now that he has 
retired he has decided to make his home in Canada. 
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Garden City Association. —We understand that this up-to- 
date association is arranging a lecture tour for Mr. Ebenezer 
Howard in the north-western parts of England for the early 
period of next winter. Mr. Howard is the originator of the 
scheme, and author of the book, “Garden Cities of To-morrow.” 
His illustrated lecture on “ Our First Garden City ” should 
prove extremely interesting to all lovers of the orderly and 
beautiful. 
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The Fruit Failure.— Covent Garden has cause to bewail the 
failure of the fruit crops more and more every day. The entire 
absence of English produce is having a serious effect all round, 
to the great gain of the Californian exporters, who are making 
fortunes. Peaches, Plums, Greengages, Grapes, and Pears from 
the Western Paradise are being imported in great quantities to 
fill up the gap, though dealers here are obtaining double the 
prices of normal seasons for English fruit. One and sixpence a 
pound is being paid for English Greengages. 
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Assistance for an Addlestone Gardener. —Mr. A. J. Brown, 
The Gardens, School of Handycraft, Chertsey, Surrey, would be 
1 glad to receive the support and interest of anyone who has in¬ 
fluence with the governor of the Royal Hospital for Incurables, 
Putney, on behalf of Mr. Janies Richard Grant, married, aged 
47 years, residing at Addlestone, Surrey, candidate for the 
pension at the above hospital. Mr. Grant has been totally 
paralysed for the past nine years, and is quip incapable of 
following his occupation as a gardener. 
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The Dean of Rochester (Dr. Hole), writing to congratulate a 
friend on the starting of a new horticultural society at Heywood, 
and giving some advice as to procedure, says : “ Having found 
in gardens and gardeners a chief happiness of my life and many 
of my dearest friends, and knowing the good influence which hor¬ 
ticulture has upon all sorts and conditions of men, I rejoice 
to hear of your movement.If you can induce a 
working man to take some pains with his vegetables, and teach 
his wife how to cook them, you will do more to keep him sober 
than all the blue ribbons and pledges worn or signed.” 
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A Bermuda Home.— A trip to Bermuda is a novel and pleasant 
experience, well worth the shaking up before and after taking 
to sojourn beneath the Banana and the Palm. Words cannot 
tell the pure blueness of the sea, the whiteness of the roads and 
roofs, the greenness of the gardens and fields, the darkness of 
the darkies and the rakey-kaki brownness of Tommy Atkins. 
If you took the roof off the Washington park conservatories at 
Chicago and dumped the contents together right side up inside 
a weather-beaten coral wall and at the far end, crowning all, 
set a one-story, rambling house with green blinds and white¬ 
washed walls and roof, chock full of negligent comfort, you 
would get an idea of a Bermuda home. —Pam, in the “American 
Florist.” 
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New Rose, TJrania.— This new Rose has been raised by the 
noted American grower and raiser of Roses, Mr. M. H. Walsh, 
of Woods Holl, Mass., U.S.A. The bloom is globular, very 
double, and of a bright or glowing rose colour. It was derived 
from American Beauty x Mdlle. Suzanne Marie Rodocanachi, 
and possesses most of the features of the first named or seed 
parent except the powerful fragrance characteristic of that 
variety; it is also paler and brighter. The proper name of 
American Beauty is Mme. Ferdinand Jamain, and is a hybrid 
