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TUB OARDBKING WORLD 
June 25, 1904. 
Mr. John Unite, 291 and' 293, Edgware Road, London, W., 
exhibited a great- variety of tents, hammocks, and other material 
for garden, camping, etc. Garden chairs, tables, and awnings 
were also conspicuous in the exhibit. 
Messrs. Strawsons, 71a, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C., 
at Stand No. 153, had automatic and portable sprayers for 
Potatos and for the destruction of Charlock. Large -and small 
tree sprayers, pumps, spraying powder, “ Strawsonite,” copper 
sulphate, and other things of that nature were amply illustrated 
by means of samples and machines. 
' The Agricultural and Horticultural Association, Ltd., 92, 
Long Acre, London, had an exhibit of their various specialities. 
An exhibit of cider was put up by Messrs. V illiam Gaymer 
and Son, Attleborough, Norfolk. , 
Messrs. Headly and Edwards, Ltd., 13, Corn Exchange Street, 
Cambridge, exhibited garden seats, chairs, arches, etc. 
Messrs, Merryweather and Sons, Ltd., Greenwich Road, 
Hatfield pump, also a portable steam hop washing plant and 
Hatfield pump, also a portable steam Hop washing plant and 
fruit spraying apparatus of different sizes. They also 1 had wind¬ 
mill pumps and various garden appliances. 
Trade Notice. 
Messrs. W. Mauger and Sons’ Catalogue. 
Although it would seem to us that the summer has only fairly 
commenced, we are already confronted with the fact that ceitain 
growers are already preparing for the next. We have been 
favoured with the catalogue of Messrs. W. Mauger and Sons, • 
wholesale bulb growers, Guernsey. We understand, however, 
that this is the first retail catalogue which has been prepared 
by the firm. In looking through its pages, we note that Narcissi 
are very abundantly represented by the best and most useful 
Daffodils already in general commerce. These Daffodils also 
include the Polyanthus section, which one is accustomed to think 
can only be grown by Dutchmen. The climate of the Channel 
Islands is more equable than that of the latitude of London, 
so that our fellow subjects are able to grow all representatives 
of the genus. Early Tulips, Parrot- Tulips, and May Flowering 
and Darwin Tulips, as well as species, are very extensively repre¬ 
sented. Indeed, we are surprised that so many of them should 
be grown wholesale in this country. The mild climate also 
enables Ixias, Sparaxis, Gladioli, Richardias, and similar things 
to be grown. Besides bulbs, we note that Messrs. Mauger grow 
such things as Iris Kaempferi, I. germanica, Pyreihrums, -herba¬ 
ceous Paeonies, and other things. 
Obituary. 
Rev. C. Wolley Dod M.A , V.M.H. 
Lovers of hardy flowers (how immensely popular they are, and 
deservedly so, becoming!) will learn with sincere regret of the 
decease, on 14th inst., in his seventh-eighth year, of this univer¬ 
sally known and respected horticulturist-, and whose beautiful 
garden at Edge Hall, Malpas, Cheshire, was a practical reflex 
of the courteous owner’s love and sustained devotion to the 
gentle art and science of gardening. The Royal Horticultural 
Society, the national exponent of practical horticulture in this 
country, showed its appreciation of his eminent services to 
horticulture by electing him, in 1897, as one of the first sixty 
“ Victoria Medallists,” a conspicuous honour conferred on pro¬ 
minent horticulturists ; indeed, he rendered practical service 
to this famous old society by his admirable address (to mention 
only one instance) on “ The Michaelmas Daisy as a Garden 
Plant” at the conference on Asters and Perennial Sunflowers at 
Chiswick in 1891, a class of flowers-of which he grew a good col¬ 
lection. This was the year, it may be remembered, in which a 
fine collection of these flowers was grown at Chiswick. Without 
intending the slightest disparagement to botanical science, in 
that address he expressed surprise at some of the specific names 
assigned by the committee to certain garden forms, venturing 
the conviction that botanists -and gardeners alike were doubtful 
as to the history and parentage of some of the most ornamental 
forms. It was the esteemed privilege -of the writer of this brief 
and feeble tribute to the reverend gentleman’s beautiful memory 
to come into contact with him at the R.H.S. meetings. He was 
one of Nature’s noblemen! In addition to his universally re¬ 
cognised eminent position in the 1 horticultural world he was- a. 
Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, and was Assistant Master 
at Eton for twenty-eight years. J. B. 
The deceased gentleman was the representative of an old 
Cheshire family, extending back to the time of Henry II. His 
father, the Rev. J. T. Hurt, of Allen Hill, Derbyshire, married 
Miss Mary Wolley, and assumed the surname and arms of 
Wolley by Royal sign-manual. His son, the deceased, assumed 
the double name by Royal licence- in 1868. He was born in 1826. 
Since 1880 he had lived on his estates, and being an enthusiastic 
lover of plants he devoted himself largely to gardening. Hardy 
plants were essentially his- favourites, -and besides those men¬ 
tioned above he gave much attention to other hardy border 
plants, such as Lilies, Daffodils, etc. The latter he brought into 
great prominence long before -any Narcissus Committee was 
thought of by the Royal Horticultural Society. He believed 
that double Daffodils- often arose from single ones in his garden, 
and some attributed this to his soil. In any case, there can b: 
little doubt that he helped largely to arouse interest in the 
Daffodil amongst the British public, and thus hastened the 
coming popularity of that flower, if, indeed, he did not initiate 
it. Dononicums, Rudbeckias and similar things grew with sub 
tropical vigour in his garden. 
Society & Association Notes. 
Royal Horticultural Society.— At the general meeting oi 
Fellows, held during the afternoon of the 14th insU Prof. 
Henslow delivered a lecture on “Floral Metamorphoses.” Twc 
hundred and fifty-seven candidates were elected Fellows of the 
Society. These included : The Dowager Duchess of Argyll, the 
Earl of Desart, K.C.B., the Earl of Lindsay, the Earl of Tanker 
ville, the Earl of Essex, the Countess of Lathom, the Countess 
d-e Grey, the Baroness Campbell, Lord Dormer, Lord Saltoun. 
Viscount Cross, Lord and Lady St-. Oswald, Lady de Ros, Lady 
Campbell-Orde, Sir Homewood Crawford, Sir W. Lee Warner, 
Sir G. J. Armytage, Bart,, Lady Battle Wrightson, Sir C. 
Gibbons, Bart., Sir G. A. Pilkington, Sir R. G. Hervey, Bart.. 
Lady M. Estcourt, General Sir R, Harrison, Sir E. Lees, Hon. 
Lady Ingilby, Hon. Mr. Justice Kennedy, Lady Renshaw, Sii 
Lindsey Wood, and Sir E. G. Jenkinson. The next show oi 
this society will take place on Tuesday, June 28th, and will he 
the last t-o be held in the Drill Ball, as the Holland House Sho\\ 
will follow on July 12th and 13th, and -after that the society's 
New Exhibition, Hall will be ready for occupation. When one 
looks back over the shows that have been held at the Drill Hall 
for the last seventeen years, and sees the progress made both by 
horticulture itself and by its representative society, hov 
celebrating its centenary, one takes heart for the possibilities oi 
still greater expansion in the near future. 
* * * 
British Gardeners’ Association. —The lion, secretary of the 
above association informs us that the “ Forms of Application 
for Membership,” decided upon by the committee of selection, 
are now ready, and can be obtained on application to Mr. V • 
Watson, hon. secretary (pro tern.), Kew Road, Kew, Surrey. 
Those who become members will have the advantage of regis¬ 
tration, inasmuch as his qualifications and experience will be 
recorded. Employers will then be in a position to obtain 
gardeners whose competence and character have been endorsed 
by t-lie British Gardeners’ Association, and the benefits accru¬ 
ing from the mutual co-operation of members. Applicants foi 
membership must not- be less than 20 years of age, and if less 
than 23 years of age they must have had at least five years train¬ 
ing in good private, public, or domestic establishments. II 
over that age they must have had at least seven years’ profes¬ 
sional experience. They' must be able to produce satisfactory 
testimony' as to general character. Candidates must obtain 
from the secretary a form of application, which, when filled up, 
should be returned to him, and if the -committee of selection 
are satisfied that the candidate is qualified for membership, they 
will instruct the secretary to forward him a certificate. The 
-charge for registration and certificate will be 2s. 6d. and the, 
annual subscription 2s. 6d. These two sums should be for¬ 
warded to the secretary with the form of application. The cer ¬ 
tificate will be renewed annually on receipt of subscription, 
l’roof of membership will be the possession of the association si 
certificate for the current year. Contributions towards the re-1 
quired £250, necessary to the cost of founding the association, 
will be welcomed. 
