November 5, 1904. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
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EDITORIAL NOTES. 
Crawley and District Gardeners’ Mutual 
Improvement Association. 
Tlie syllabus of meetings of the above 
society for the autumn and winter session 
is now before us, and we note that a paper 
was read by ;Mr. H. Hemsley on October 
26th, on “ Alpine Plants at Home and in 
Switzerland, Formation of Rockwork.” On 
November 9th Mr. E. Neal, of Crawley, will 
deal with “ Hardy Fruits.” Appropriately 
for the month of November, Mr. M. Mills, 
of Cooinbe Warren, Croydon, will read a 
paper on “ Japanese Chrysanthemums for 
Exhibition.” On December 7th Mr. W. 
Shepherd, of Goffs Hill, Crawley, will deal 
with “ Insect Pests Injurious to the Garden.” 
Mr. Joseph Cheal, Lowfield Nurseries', draw- 
ley, will take up “ Horticulture in the East,” 
illustrating his remarks by means of lantern 
slides', (bn January lltli. M-r. J. Martin, 
Buclian Hill, Crawley, will tackle “ Mal- 
rnaison Carnations,” on January 25th. Mr. 
H. Goldsmith, of Fircroft Gardens, Brigh¬ 
ton, will deal with “ Plants for Conservatory 
Decoration all the Year Round.” “ Grapes 
for Home Consumption ” will be the sub¬ 
ject dealt with by Mr. H. Brooker, of Ifield, 
on March 18th. On March 22nd Mr. J. 
Coomber, The Gardens, Nymans, Handoross, 
Crawley, will take up the subject of “ Water 
Lilies.” A silver medal will be' offered for 
the best essay on vegetable culture, and 
another for fruit culture, under gardeners 
only being eligible. 
free hand with (the gardens and fine old 
grounds, which he brought to a state of great 
perfection. Hei had grand-material to work 
with, for the park contained mapy-patriar¬ 
chal specimens of Oaks and Beeches. Trees, 
woodland, and beautiful expanses of green 
turf are features of the- park to'-dfy. Mr. 
Dingwall also had a. fine -winter -garden con¬ 
structed on the-south-front-of the--castle. 
Vineries, stoves and other- glasshouses were 
also utilised to. full advantage, and the con¬ 
tents grown to’ great perfection. Being land 
steward lie wasi also brought constantly in 
contact with the tenantry, who held him in 
the highest esteem. 
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Retirement of Mr. Gaorge Dingwall. 
For the past eighteen years Mr. George 
Dingwall has been gardener to Sir Henry 
Campbell-Bannerman, at Belmont Castle, 
Meiigle', Perthshire, and has recently resigned 
this responsible position at tlie age of 
seventy, so that he may spend the remainder 
of his days in comfort and enjoy the rest 
be has so well earned. With this object in 
view, he has purchased a house at Newtyle. 
He was born, in Eastern Ross-shire, and was 
apprenticed to> the profession in the garden 
of the Earl of Cromartie, when Mr. James 
Laing (wasi gardener there. In gardening 
circles be took a. prominent position, being 
well-known and much, beliked by those who 
travelled from far and near to sec the' well- 
kept gardens and special culture® carried 
on at Belmont Castle. As a journeyman, 
lie took up a position in West, Lothian, where 
he soon began to show the grit, of which he 
was made. We next find him as foreman in 
East, Bank Gardens,, Renfrew, and after a 
few years was appointed to take charge of 
the gardens, at Dargavel House, not far off. 
From thence lie' went to Braco Castle Gar¬ 
dens, Perthshire, in 1863. Six years later 
he went to Ardoch, another garden in the 
same district, and which he brought up, to> 
modern style and requirements. In 1886 
be was appointed by Sir Henry Campbell- 
Bannerman to take charge of his gardens at 
Belmont Castle, then but recently acquired. 
The ancient title of this place was Kirkhill, 
for it was at onei time the palatial home, of 
the bishops of Dunkeld, the head-quarters 
of the Church of Scotland since its removal 
from Iona. Mr. Dingwall was allowed a 
London Trees 
A writer has recently been lamenting the 
disappearance of London tree®', referring to 
the City of London, which was said to pos¬ 
sess trees in almost every street. The 
lonely tree in Cheapside was; a Plane the 
last time we saw it, not 1 an,. Elm, a,s now 
stated. Though.the grand old tree® in, the 
principal London parks consist chiefly of 
English Elms, this was, not the solei species 
planted, for we read of an avenue of five 
rows of Walnut trees that existed in 1731, 
and ran parallel with the eastern wall of 
Hyde Park. Nevertheless 1 , a plan, dated 
1736 only shows four rows', two on, each 
side of the gravel path running from Tyburn 
(now the, Marble Arch) to Hyde Park Corner. 
The avenue was finally cut down in 1811 and 
the Walnut wood converted into musket 
stocks for soldiers. The Rotten Row was 
then the King’s Old Road, though originally 
Route du Roi, from which the modem name 
is derived by a, degradation of language. 
The Willow. 
Some time ago the “ Scotsman ” had an 
appreciative article' on the Scotch Fir as a 
native, and last week dwelt at some length 
upon the Willows, and although the former 
may he regarded as dying out- as a native 
plant, our contemporary saysi that we 
live in, the native zone of the Wil¬ 
lows, judging from the fact that a 
good percentage of the known specie® still 
maintain their existence in Britain. There 
is evidence that Salix polaris once lived at 
Gayfield, Corstorphine 1 , and Cromer, for its 
remains have been found ah those widely 
remote places buried under glacial deposits. 
Of the half dozen peculiarly alpine species 
of Willow native to Britain five are confined 
to the Scotch mountains, while S. herbacea is 
also found on the top® of Welsh and North 
of England mountains, though more plentiful 
in, Scotland. Notwithstanding the great 
beauty of a large number of the specie®, they 
are a, much neglect,ed class, and no form of 
vegetation is more thoroughly abused by 
those who undertake their cultivation, or by 
those who pretend to take special care of 
the wild ones coming within their jurisdic¬ 
tion, self-assumed or otherwise. 
