November 29 , 1913 . 
TKE GARDENERS’ MAGAZINE. 
897 
(he for a morning tour was 2s. 6d., and 
for the aftern-Don Is per person,^ the 
charges henceforth will be 6d. and 3d. re- 
spectively. This considerable reduction 
susgests that the services of the guide nave 
seldom been requisitioned. 
Silver Medal for Ghrysanthe. 
mum Daily Mail. —Messrs. Wells and 
Co., Merstliam, write: “In ^ur issue of 
November 22, on page 889, it is reported 
that the silver medal offered at Edinburgh 
for the best new chrysanthemum was 
awarded us for Mrs. Tresham Gilbey. It 
should have read, ‘ for Daily Mail.’ The 
name ticket became reversed, hence the mis. 
take.” 
Pathfinding: at Brentwood 
and Upminster. — The Upminster 
Parish Council is making every effort to 
locate and define the many pathways and 
rights of way in the Upminster and Brent- 
from IZoIbs. to 1901'bs. per hive fit>ni clover 
within tlie space of six weeks, while in 
another instiuice 2()01bs. was taken from a 
bar-frame hive of the newest type. After 
several more or less unprmluctive seasons 
the heather this year hiis yielded capital 
results. The beautiful weather prevailing 
in August and early Septeinl>er produce<l a 
fine flow of nectar. There were some dis¬ 
tricts where, through lack of moisture, the 
heather ripened and dritxl off quickly, but 
where the bees were strong the yields aver¬ 
aged from 70 to 80 sections per hive. The 
quality and flavour, too, have been ver\* 
superior, and some of the honey i.s almost 
as thick as candy. The largest yields from 
heather are over 2001bs. jrer hive. 
Prosecutions by the Board of 
Agriculture. —With the concurrence of 
the Lord Chancellor, the lk)ar<l of Agri¬ 
culture prcjmses t<j make rf^ulations pro- 
the otlierwise \’a< ant flower IhxIs, and then, 
ii8 he puts it, “you g<H; the illusion com¬ 
plete.” .lust so. We prefer to be with¬ 
out the illusion. 
PYRUS VEITCHL 
This is a new aiul distinct Chinese spe- 
cuis iiitriKliK'ed by Mr. E. H. Wilsoe w’ben 
eollt*cting on behalf of Messrs. Jxiin(« 
Voitch and Sons, Chelsea. Fruiting spe¬ 
cimens grown, from seeds wmt homo by 
.Mr. Wilson, in their Cooinbe Wood Nur¬ 
sery were exhibiUMl by the Mtv^rs. Voitch 
c.n (K*tolH»r 8, 1912, at a inetding of the 
Boyal Horticultural Society, whem the s|)e. 
cii^s rewuvixl an .\ward of Merit. 
Veitch’s pyrus promwa to l>e a useful 
addition to our gaixlens as a deckluous 8i>e- 
<‘imen tree of m<Kh*rate dimensions for the 
lawn and phxisure grounds. The simple 
PYEUS VEITCHI. 
A new species bearing an abundance of dark red fruits. 
wood district, and their efforts are being 
admirably seconded by Mr. J. F. Lescher, 
a large landowmer, and chairman of the 
Brentwood Justices. Old maps and plans 
are in great request at present, and no 
pains will be spared to secure these country 
pathways for the public use. 
Honey Ha.rvest in the North. 
■—The honey harvest this season, writes 
our Aberdeen correspondent, has been an 
exceedingly lucrative one, both from clover 
and heather. Clover was somewhat defi¬ 
cient in some districts, but there were 
uiany localities where capital crops of white 
clover obtained, and the bees gathered re¬ 
cord stores. Not a few beekeepers secured 
iroibs. to 1901bs. from individual 
^ves, and in the less-favoured districts, 
where the ordinary yield runs from SOlbs. 
tc 401bs., the average this season amount 
to between 501hs. and 601bs. It is in such 
a season as the past that good management 
and the exercise of great care tells. One 
well-known expert in the north obtained 
ing that in cases which appear to the 
ird to relate to agricultural or horticul- 
al produce, the prosecution f 
ler the Merchandise Marks Acts, 1887, 
l 11 be undertaken by the Board of Agn- 
ture These regulations will presenbe 
. conditions on which such prosecutions 
j to be so undertaken, and copies of the 
tft regulations may be obtaincM at the 
ard of Agriculture, 4, Whitehall Place, 
ndon. * 
artificially Coloured But- 
ler’s Broom is more or less familiar 
most people, but its i.so 
iterial in the garden has been left for 
Chas. -Moqnet to discover, ^"der the 
leof La Franonine (Fragon is the I rench 
lae for Butcher's Broom), M. 
^gests a new style of gardening for the 
’rpose of securing a 
B garden during winter when floral 
louring is absent. His meth^ is to dye 
of Butcher’s Broom the desiri^ 
low, and place these sprays thickly in 
leaves are owate, and finely-toothed, dull 
green in summer,tinted red in autumn. Tlie 
flowers are blush-pink, followed in autumn 
by comparatively small globular fruits, 
aWit half-aii-inch in diameter. These are 
dark red in colour; but a close examina¬ 
tion rev’eals the fact that they are speckled. 
The acconquanying illiLstration successfully 
depicts tlie free-fruiting character of the 
sprays. 
Seeds ripened in this country have l3een 
sown, and have germinated freely, so that 
a plentiful .stock of young trees should soon 
be available for sale. One of the original 
trees is already some sixteen feet high at 
Coombe Wood. 
When exhibited before the Royal Hor¬ 
ticultural Society’s Floral Committee the 
Award of Merit was given to this tree as 
Pyrus Yeitchiana, but the name has ap¬ 
parently been altered to P. Veitchi, as this 
is the title under which it is now being 
sold. A. Osborn. 
Kew. 
