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THE GARDENING WORLD 
November 3.9, 3.904. 
Beckenham Horticultural Society. — Mr. Shrivell, 
F.R.H.S., on Friday evening, the 11th inst., gave an interesting 
address on “ Further Experiments in Horticulture,” illustrated 
with lantern slides. Mr. Shrivell has been several times at 
Beckenham, and his remarks upon experimental farming are 
always interesting. Mr. Collier exhibited a group of seedling 
Chrysanthemums. 
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United Horticultural Benefit and Provident Society.— 
The monthly committee meeting of tliis society was held at the 
Caledonian Hotel, Adelphi, W.C., on Monday evening last, Mr. 
Chas. H. Curtis in the chair. Sixteen, new members were elected. 
The death of Mr. James Tivendale, N. 370, was reported, and 
death certificate produced, and the secretary was instructed to 
p>ay the amount standing to the late member’s credit to his 
nominee. Six members were reported on the sick fund. 
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The Edinburgh Seed Trade Assistants’ Dinner. —The tenth 
annual dinner of the seed trade assistants of Edinburgh will be 
held, under the presidency of Mr. P. M. Greig, at Ferguson 
and Forrester’s, 129, Princes Street, on Friday, December 2. 
Chair to be taken at 7.30 p.m. prompt. Gentlemen who intend 
being present are respectfully requested to secure their tickets, 
which may be had from any of the members of the committee, 
before Monday, November 28—4s. each. 
Premature Broccoli. —The mild weather has accelerated 
the growth of that late winter vegetable, the Broccoli, and it 
can now be seen on sale beside its summer and autumn brother, 
the Cauliflower. 
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Second Crop of Potatos. —In Brittany the experiment is 
being made of growing a second crop of Potatos, to ripen during 
the months of November and December, thus forestalling 
Canary and Algerian produce. 
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Dusseldorf Exhibition. —Mr. Peter Lambert, Rose grower, 
Trier, Germany, has, for the long-continued exhibition of Roses, 
secured the highest award (the Diploma of Honour of His Royal 
Highness His Grace the Duke Ernst Eduard of Ooburg-Gotha) 
for the magnificent exhibit of planted-out Roses. 
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Appeal for Bulbs and Roots. —The grounds about the new 
church of St. Peter’s, at Spring Hill, Birmingham, have been 
Well laid out, and beds made for the cultivation of flowers. For 
the past two years the gates have been left open, ancl not once 
has the place suffered injury. Donations of bulbs and roots 
will be thankfully acknowledged by the vicar, Rev. W. H. 
Parker, Clergy House, George Street West, Birmingham. 
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Indiscriminate Deal in Potatos.— A Dutch firm of Potato 
merchants, Faber and Yander Schalk, of Hamburg, brought an 
action in the Birmingham County Court on the 9th inst. to re¬ 
cover from Messrs. Randall Bros, and Crowshaw, Potato mer¬ 
chants, £34, the value of goods sold. The defendants pleaded 
that the Potatos ordered were the Merkes variety, but Im- 
perators were sent, and the plaintiffs sought to show that though 
there was a difference between them, it was the custom of sellers 
to send either indiscriminately. The jury returned a verdict for 
defendants. 
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A Complimentary Concert.— Mr. James H. Parker, the popu¬ 
lar and energetic secretary of the Edinburgh Seed Trade 
Assistants, was the guest of the evening at a complimentary 
smoking concert, held in Edinburgh last week, on the occasion of 
Iris leaving Edinburgh to take up an important appointment 
in Glasgow with the well-known firm of Messrs. Alexander Cross 
and Sons, Limited. Mr. Parker was the recipient of a very 
handsome present, and while his numerous friends in Edinburgh 
and district regret the parting we are confident we voice the 
feeling when we say that he leaves them to take up his new 
duties in Glasgow with the best and sincerest good wishes of all. 
Mr. Parker has been for many years with Messrs. R. B. Laird 
and Sons, South Frederick Street, Edinburgh, 
British Success at . the St. Louis Exhibition. —Messrs. 
William Cutbush and Son, of Highgate and Barnet Nurseries, 
have just been awarded a Grand Prize at the World’s Fair, St, • 
Louis, for their exhibit of fifty baskets of Ivies in fifty distinct 
varieties, and a group of “ Cutbush’s Cut Bushes,” Yew and 
Box trees clipped into various quaint forms. Messrs. Cutbush’s 
exhibit was the only one of its character that secured this award. 
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Gatton Park Gardens. —A large number of visitors availed 
themselves on the 5th inst. of the opportunity afforded by 
Jeremiah Colman, Esq., J.P., D.L., of inspecting the Orchids, 
etc., at Gatton Park. The display of bloom was really remark¬ 
able, and one could but wonder at the high state of perfection 
at which the head gardener, Mr. W. P. Bound, has brought his 
charges. All the houses were thrown open, and for two and a 
half hours a constant stream of visitors was passing through. 
Besides the Orchids, there were some berutifully-grown Chrysan¬ 
themums and Pelargoniums, etc., whilst the cattle and sheep 
pens and the stables proved a great attraction. At the show 
of the Royal Horticultural Society at Westminster on the 1st 
inst. Mr. Colman was awarded a Gold Medal for a group of 
Orchids arranged from the collection which was on view last 
week. The flowers were arranged with Maidenhair and other 
Ferns, and included examples of the yellow Cyperorchis affine, 
the little yellow Masdevallia Davisii, Calanthe vestita, bearing 
long stalks of white flowers with red in the throat, some hand¬ 
some plants of the greenish-yellow Cymbidium tracyonum, the 
pale lemon Epidendrum ciliolare, with string-like petals and 
small fringed lip, and a plentiful supply of Cypripediums. 
Laelias, Laeliocattleyas, and Cattleyas. Of the last-named the 
variety named Master J. Colman was especially fine in colour—■ 
a rich purple with a deeper purple on the lip.—and form. 
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 sheet 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 
ehve’ope is enclosed, and the 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, 
Gas Lime per Acre. 
Please inform me through the medium of The Gardening 
World how much gas lime to put on an acre of garden ground, 
and how to apply it. (W. G.) 
The quantity of gas lime to be put on an acre of land is not 
any fixed quantity, but largely a matter for tlie discretion of 
the cultivator. You might put as much as 200 bushels per 
acre on the land, or only 50 bushels. The best plan is to use 
it according to the necessities of the case. For instance, if you 
are trenching the land that has been planted with any of the 
Cabbage tribe, and is infected with club root, etc., your best 
plan would be to put the top spit into the bottom of the trench 
and then spread a dressing of gas lime over the top of this. 
The second spit, together with the crumbs upon it, may well 
be placed over the first and another dressing given just suffi¬ 
cient to whiten the soil. The crumbs in the bottom of the trench 
may then be thrown over the top. In this manner you should 
proceed with infested ground until the work is completed. It. 
is also largely a matter of judgment as to how heavy a dressing 
you should give the land, while trenching it in this manner. 
If the soil is rich in decaying vegetable matter, as all garden 
soil usually is, you may use the lime freely, but if it is of a poor, 
sandy nature, it would probably do more harm than good by 
giving a very heavy dressing, because it would eat up the vege¬ 
table matter in the soil and" make the latter poorer than it was 
before. The land should lie at least two months after it has 
been treated with gas lime before you plant or sow anything 
upon it. You do not tell us what is your object in using the 
lime. If you have no intention of destroying insect pests or 
fungi, then the ordinary slacked lime would answer the 
purpose. 
Pear Leaves Reduced to Skeletons. 
I send you some leaves of a Pear tree, a large number of them 
being reduced to mere skeletons. I first noticed this some time 
