THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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sery Co. on Long Island, and some other nurserymen, will be 
preferred. 
A fungus, Sphaerostilbe coccophila, Tull., recently discov¬ 
ered by A. L. Quaintance of the Florida Agricultural Ex¬ 
periment Station, gives unusual promise of being an impor¬ 
tant factor in keeping this dreaded pest in check. Experi¬ 
ments recently conducted in Florida indicate that the disease 
is an effective and practical remedy for this scale in that state. 
The fungus is a native of Florida and was found to be quite 
generally distributed in the state. A forthcoming bulletin of 
the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station will give an 
extended account of this promising method of combating the 
San Jose scale. 
HEAVY GRAPE CROP. 
The June meeting of the Alton, Ill., Horticultural Society 
was held at the home of H. G. McPike who referred to vine¬ 
yards as follows: “ The present outlook for grapes is very fine. 
Mr. Riehl claims that we can’t afford to do so much pinching, 
and I admit that he is about right. The alternate system is 
the right one for the best quality of grapes. In my vineyard 
the Goethe is a perfect failure. The leaves are not equal to 
their work, while the Concord and its seedling and raiy new 
grape have great strong leaves. More depends on the health 
of the leaf than on anything else.” 
C. S. Curtice, Portland, N. Y., says the grape crop of Western 
and Central New York and of Northern Ohio will be very 
heavy. 
THE “TOM THUMB” OF THE TREES. 
The midget of the whole tree family is the Greenland birch. 
It is a perfect tree in every sense of that term and lives its 
alloted number of years (from seventy-five to one hundred and 
thirty) just as other species of the great birch family do, 
although its heighth under the most favorable conditions 
seldom exceeds ten inches Whole bluffs of the east and 
southeast coast of Greenland are covered with thickets of this 
diminuti^^e species of woody plant, and in many places where 
the soil is uncommonly poor and frozen from eight to ten 
months in the year, a “ forest ” of these trees will flourish for 
half a century without growing to a Light exceeding four 
inches .—Lutnber Trade Journal. 
VICTORIA MEDAL OF HONOR. 
In commemoration of the sixty years of the queen’s reign 
he council of the Royal Horticultural Society decided to 
strike a new medal, to be called “ The Victoria Medal of Honor 
in Horticulture,” to be awarded solely honoris causa in the 
domain of horticulture, says the Gardeners' Magazine. The 
council, in preparing the scheme, decided to award not more 
than sixty of these medals during the present year, and that 
whenever the full number of sixty has been reached a further 
award will only be made on the death of one of the existing 
holders, in order that the number of living Victorian medal¬ 
lists may never at any time exceed sixty. It was further decided 
to confine the award to subjects of Her Majesty in the United 
Kingdom or in the colonies. The council have now completed 
the list of horticulturists on whom they have conferred the 
medal for distinguished services rendered to horticulture. It 
will be seen from the list that the claims of all branches of 
horticulture have been fully considered, for the names include 
botanists, raisers, and hybridists, florists, collectors, and intro¬ 
ducers, market growers, journalists, and writers on horticultural 
and botanical subjects, orchidists, cultivators of plants, flowers, 
fruits, and vegetables, and general workers. The following 
are the names of the Victoria medallists: 
Baker, J. Gr., F. R. S., Keeper of Herbarium, Royal Gardens, Kew. 
Balfour, Professor Bayley, Director Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh. 
Barr, Peter, King Street, Covent Garden, W. C. 
Barron, A. F., Chiswick. 
Beale, E. J., 237 and 238, High Holborn, W. C. 
Boxall, William, Upper Clapton, N. 
Bull, William, King’s Road, Chelsea. 
Bunyard, George, Maidstone, Kent. 
Burbidge, F. W., Ciirator, Trinity College Garden, Dublin. 
Crump, William, Madresfield Court Garden, Malvern. 
Dean, Richard, Ranelagh Road, Ealing. 
Dickson, George, Nurseries, Chester. 
D’ombrain, Rev. H. H., Westwell Vicarage, Ashford, Kent. 
Druery, C. T. Shaa Road, Acton, Middlesex. 
Dunn. Malcolm, Palace Gardens, Dalkeith, N. B. 
Ellacombe, Canon, Britton Vicarage, Gloucestershire. 
Elwes, H. J., F. R. S., Colesborne, Andoversford. 
Foster, Professor Michael, F. R. S., Cambridge University. 
Fraser, John, Nurseries, Woodford, Essex. 
Gordon, George, Editor Gardeners' Magazine. 
Heal, John, Messrs. J. Veitch and Sons, Chelsea, S. W. 
Henslow, Professor George, Ealing. 
Herbst, H. “Stanmore,” Kew Road, Richmond. 
Hooker, Sir J. D., F. R. S., The Camp, Sunningdale, Berks. 
Horner, Rev. F. D., Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmoreland. 
Hudson, James, Gunnersbury House Gardens, Acton. 
Jekyll, Miss Gertrude, Munstead, Godaiming, Surrey. 
Kay, Peter, Claigmar Vineyard, Finchley. 
Laing, John, Nurseries, Forest Hill, S. E. 
Mclndoe, James, Hutton Hall Gardens, Guisboro’, Yorkshire. 
Maries, Charles, Gwalior, North India. 
Milner, H. E., Victoria Street. S. W. 
Molyneux, Edwin, Swanmore Park, Bishop’s Waltham, Hants. 
Monro, George, Covent Garden W. C. 
Moore, F. W., Curator, Glasnevin Botanic Gardens, Dublin. 
Morris, D., D. Sc., Assistant Director, Royal Gardens, Kew. 
Nicholson, G. Curator, Royal Gardens, Kew. 
O’Brien, James, Harrow-on-the-Hill. 
Paul, George, Nurseries, Cheshunt, Herts. 
Paul, William, Nurseries, Waltham Cross, Herts. 
Rivers, T. Francis. Nurseries, Sawbridgeworth, Herts. 
Rochester, The Very Rev. the Dean of, the Deanery, Rochester. 
Rothschild, Hon. Walter, Tring Park, Herts. 
Sander, F., Nurseries, St. Albans, Herts. 
Schroder, Sir Henry, Bart., The Dell, Englefield Green. 
Seden J., Messrs. J. Veitch and Sons, Langley. 
Sherwood, N. N., Houndsditch, E. C. 
Smith, J., Mentmore Gardens, Bucks. 
Smith, Martin R., Hayes, Kent. 
Speed, H. 
Sutton, Arthur W. Reading, Berks. 
Thomas, Owen, Royal Gardens, Windsor. 
Thomson, W., Ipswich. 
Thomson, David, Drvimlanrig, N. B. 
Turner, H., Nurseries, Slough. 
Willmott, Miss Ellen, Warley Place, Brentwood, Essex. 
Wilson, G. F., F. R. S., Heatherbank, Weybridge, Surrey. 
Wolley-Dod, Rev. C , Edge Hall, Malpas, Cheshire. 
Wright, J., Editor Journal of Horticulture. 
Wythes, George, Syon House Gardens, Brentford. 
