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THE GARDENING WORLD, 
August 12, 1905. 
at various times, an extremely onerous and in¬ 
vidious one. The Highgate Horticultural 
Society has been in existence forty-six years, 
and is carrying on an invaluable work in the 
north of London. 
A. dehant, Sec. 
Prizes for Scholars. 
With a view to creating interest in horticul¬ 
ture amongst scholars attending the elemen¬ 
tary schools in the borough, Mr. W. Lilley, 
of Forest Moor, has intimated to Councillor 
Dimsdale, the hon. secretary of the Knares- 
borough and District Horticultural Society, 
that he will olfer special prizes for the best 
plant in pot, in or out of bloom, grown by 
any scholar in a public elementary school in 
the town, such plant to have been grown by 
tire said scholar in, and not removed from, 
the school premises for not less than six weeks 
from the date of judging, 
A Good Beginning. 
The newly - formed horticultural and 
mutual improvement society at Worthing is 
holding its first annual show in the Steyne 
Gardens, Worthing, on August 16th, and, 
given fine weather, it should prove a great 
success in this large horticultural district. 
A large and influential list of patrons has 
been secured. Amongst other neighbouring 
shows the pretty village of Broadwater has a 
most flourishing society, which holds its ex¬ 
hibition on the 9th, the Wednesday preced¬ 
ing the show at Worthing. On August 22nd 
and 23rd the large annual affair at West 
Tarring promises to eclipse all previous 
efforts. 
Douslas V. Er laji, Portland lodge, Worthing. 
Much in Little. 
The annual outing of the Brighton and Sussex 
Horticultural Society included a delightful 
drive and visit to the glasshouses, arboretum, 
and grounds of Warnliam Court, the fine 
estate of Mr. C. J. Lucas (Mr. G. Duncan, 
head gardener), and to the equally fine estate 
of Sir Henry Harben, Wamham Lodge (Mr. 
F. Edwards, head gardener), where tea was 
served.-On the invitation of the managing 
committee members of the Bristol and Dis¬ 
trict Gardeners’ Mutual Improvement 
Association last week paid a visit to' the 
National Fruit and Cider Institute a.t Long 
Ashton. Mr. Barker, resident chemist and 
directer, showed the company the up-to-date 
machinery for cider-making, and explained 
the experimental and research work carried 
on in the laboratory. Mr. J. Ettle then took 
the party round the new orchards, where 
about 260 trees have been planted, and the 
nursery with 13,000 stocks, where all forms of 
propagation are being practised for the pro¬ 
duction of cider Apples and perry Pears only. 
-Over 100 members and friends of the East 
Anglian Horticultural Club visited, on July 
20th, the charming gardens at Westwick 
House, near Norwich, by kind permission of 
Major Petre.-“ The Classification of Poly- 
petalae ” was the subject of a lecture delivered 
by Mr. D. Cleary at the last monthly meeting 
of the Shirley Gardeners’ Association. 
Failure of the Turnip Crop.— Owing to 
the drought the utter failure of the Turnip 
crop is reported in Teesdale. Seventy acres 
devoted to Turnip culture at Thorpe have 
failed. In another instance, at Stedwick 
Hall, there are not forty Turnips in forty 
acres which were sown with Turnip seed. 
Diary of Shows and Meetings. 
August. 
14th.—Hastings, St. Leonards and District 
Horticultural and Mutual Improve¬ 
ment Society (special quarterly 
show); Crambrook and Weald of 
Kent Gardeners’ and Cottagers’ 
Mutual Improvement Society 
(monthly meeting) ; Charing Horti¬ 
cultural Society (monthly meeting) ; 
Horsforth Gardeners’ Mutual Im¬ 
provement Society (weekly meeting) ; 
Cardiff Gardeners’ Association (an¬ 
nual .outing—visit to King’s Acre 
Nurseries, Hereford). 
15th.—Royal Horticultural Society (bi¬ 
monthly exhibition and meeting) ; 
Exmouth Horticultural 'Society 
(show, two days) ; Llanelly Horticul¬ 
tural Society (show) ; Grandpont 
and Oxford Horticultural Society 
(show)Launceston United Cottage 
Garden Society (show); Clay Cross 
Floral and Horticultural Society 
(show); Tunbridge Wells Chrysan¬ 
themum and Gardeners’ Mutual Im¬ 
provement Association (bi-weekly 
meeting and exhibition) ; 'Sevenoaks 
Gardeners’ and Amateurs’ Mutual 
Improvement (Society (bi-monthly 
meeting). 
16th.—Bishop 'Stortford Horticultural Society 
(show) ; Easingwold Floral and Hor¬ 
ticultural Society (show) ; Green- 
street and District Gardeners’ and 
Cottagers’ Society (show); Harpen- 
den Horticultural Society (show); 
Sevenoaks Horticultural and Floral 
(Society (show); Tynemouth Floral 
and Horticultural Society (show, two 
days) ; W ilts Horticultural Society 
(show); Caine Horticultural and 
Cottagers’ Improvement 'Society 
(show) ; Eton Wick Horticultural 
Society (show) ; Christchurch Hor¬ 
ticultural Society (show) ; Trow¬ 
bridge Horticultural and Floral 
Society (show) ; AVallasey Amateur 
Gardeners’ Association (monthly 
meeting and competition) ; Ide Hill 
Gardening Society (monthly meet¬ 
ing) ; Maidstone Gardeners’ Mutual 
Improvement Society (bi-monthly ex¬ 
hibition). 
17th.—Taunton Deane Horticultural and 
Floral Society (show); Caerphilly 
Flower Show ; Kenilworth and Dis¬ 
trict Horticultural Society (show) ; 
Abinger and District Gardeners’ 
Mutual Improvement Association 
(monthly meeting and exhibition) ; 
Lamberhurst Horticultural Society 
(monthly meeting); Wimbledon and 
District Horticultural 'Society 
(monthly meeting); Sherborne and 
District Gardeners’ Mutual Improve¬ 
ment Society (monthly meeting); 
Westerham Gardeners’, Amateurs’, 
and Cottagers’ Mutual Improvement 
Society (bi-monthly meeting). 
18th.—Darwen and District Floral and Hor¬ 
ticultural Society (show, two days) ; 
Kirkby Malzeard Horticultural and 
Agricultural Society (show). 
19th.—Sheffield Floral and Horticultural 
Society (show); Seascale and Lake 
District Horticultural Society (show) ; 
Patricroft and District' Floral 
and Horticultural Society (show) ; 
Eckington Floral, Horticultural, and 
Cottage Garden Society (show) ; 
Studley Horticultural Society 
(show) ; Addmgham Horticultural 
Society (Show) ; Ambergat-e Cottage 
Garden Society (show); Benton, 
Forrest Hall, Killmgworth and Dis¬ 
trict Horticultural Society (show) • 
Bristol and District Gardeners’ 
Mutual Improvement Association 
(visit to Coonibe Nurseries) ; Spark- 
lm and^ District Amateur Horticul¬ 
tural Society (Sweet Pea night) • 
Leeds Paxton Society (weekly meet¬ 
ing;. 
O PPORTUNI TIES 
• . . FOR THE DILIGENT. 
, a ucsuny mat 
shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we 
may 1 do not use the words of our immorta 1 
poet to prove that inability shall retain power 
ovei capability, or that fortune shall continue 
to shower favours on us, independent of effort 
on our part. 
Most men in the gardening line who have 
risen have had to fight their way; and well 
that it is so or they should not reign long. 
Only the diligent shall hold sway. Wisdom 
and courage, observation and discretion, are 
absolutely essential to every gardener. The 
art. ot practical diplomacy with superior and 
subordinate must grow into his nature, and 
thoroughly master conceit and passion I 
am writing especially for young readers, and 
pretend not to teach the older and superior 
members of our craft, who, I hope, will par- 
don the numerous inaccuracies herein. Let 
not the humblest boy in any garden imagine 
lie is lower than I was, for that would be im¬ 
possible. Never should a boy be too quick in 
deanng himself of the little faults of others ; 
sutler a little to save others, and they will 
iook up to you ever after, and those in charge 
will find it out, and admire you in silence for 
suttering m the cause of peace. 
Education, practical and scientific, is neces¬ 
sary to every gardener, but let him not 
imagine that any quantity of the essence of 
science will overcome those numerous diffi¬ 
culties which alone are conquered by the tac¬ 
tics of practice. Nevertheless, scientific edu¬ 
cation is a jewel every man should hide when 
®ugaged in manual labour. Let me explain 
Not long ago a gentleman in the wholesale 
s ® e ’J ine told me he knew how new varieties 
ot .Sweet. Peas were produced by taking male 
and female seeds, splitting each in exact 
halves, then joining the halves of different 
sex sowing, etc. “The result,” he said, 
‘ always produced new varieties.” I knew 
he was not “ in the know,” but said not a 
word to convince him of his error. Two even¬ 
ings after I asked him to accept the loan of 
two books which explained and gave pictorial 
plates of all the organs of the developed and 
young flowers, making the whole procedure 
of hybridisation simple enough for a child to 
Understand. Thus I instructed my social 
superior without the shadow of insult. This 
is the kind of tact young gardeners require 
to cultivate. 
Perhaps the greatest difficulty of all is find¬ 
ing room for one’s powers. A young gardener 
often gets a nice shop at a fair wage, and goes 
on improving until he is worth double, treble, 
and sometimes more ; but he is locked, in. 
spite of liberty, in his one job, while Johnny 
Raw is receiving similar pay without any 
mental effort. Long years may pass, and 
likely wall, before an opportunity arrives; 
but “knowledge is power,” and the man with 
