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March  25,  1897. 
show  blooms.  When  the  buds  are  thinned  mulch  with  manure,  and 
feed  twice  a  week  with  good  liquid  manure,  for  Marigolds  are  gross 
feeders  and  will  take  the  most  generous  treatment. 
When  the  buds  show  colour  they  must  be  protected  by  a  box  of  some 
kind  having  a  glass  top,  which  brings  up  the  colour,  and  the  centre,  for 
to  be  a  perfect  bloom  the  centre  must  be  high  and  the  bloom  smooth  and 
circular.  When  the  flower  is  being  shaded  the  stem  must  be  secured 
to  a  separate  stake,  so  that  it  cannot  beat  against  the  shade,  the  flowers 
being  easily  bruised.  In  staging  African  Marigolds  for  show  white 
paper  collars  are  often  used,  but  that  is  optional.  The  usual  size  of 
board  is  5  inches  from  the  centre  of  each  hole,  bat  if  the  foregoing 
cultural  instructions  are  carried  out  they  may  be  exhibited  on  Dahlia 
boards,  for  this  is  the  way  the  writer  often  shows  them. 
The  stem  of  the  flower  being  large  and  hollow  it  is  difficult  to  get 
them  to  sit  well  in  the  water  tubes.  This  may  be  circumvented  by 
having  two  opposite  holes  just  under  the  rim  of  the  tube,  and  running  a 
pin  or  wire  through  the  stem  ;  this  fixes  them  safely.  There  are  only 
two  varieties  worth  growing,  Prince  of  Orange  and  Lemon  Queen  ;  the 
lemon-coloured  flowers  do  not  grow  to  so  large  a  size  as  the  orange. 
African  Marigolds  make  splendid  showy  border  plants  if  grown  as 
above,  without  thinning  and  shading. 
French  Marigolds  require  the  same  treatment  whilst  in  the  seed  beds, 
but  when  ready  to  plant  out  they  must  be  treated  exactly  opposite. 
Select  a  poor  piece  of  ground  on  a  bank  sloping  to  the  sun,  and  plant  a 
foot  apart,  and  when  in  flower  draw  out  those  with  single  flowers.  A 
perfect  French  Marigold  should  be  high  in  the  centre,  full,  and  double, 
the  petals  overlapping  each  other,  and  each  petal  be  half  yellow  and 
half  darkest  maroon.  They  are  usually  shown  on  green  stands  with 
white  paper  collars,  but  in  the  south  no  doubt  this  would  be  prohibited. 
The  holes  in  the  board  are  3  inches  apart  from  centre  to  centre. 
The  French  Marigold  is  perhaps  the  most  variable  plant  in  existence, 
sometimes  producing  the  most  enchanting  flowers  and  others  in  dull 
weather  running  all  to  seifs.  The  flowers  should  be  cut  when  dry,  as  if 
cut  in  the  wet  the  colours  will  often  run.  A  stand  of  forty-eight  perfect 
blooms  is  one  of  the  brightest  things  in  a  flower  show,'  and  always 
attracts  attention.  There  is  only  one  really  good  strain  in  existence, 
nearly  all  the  exhibition  flowers  being  drawn  from  it.  It  is  worse  than 
useless  to  plant  Marigolds  under  trees,  especially  the  French  ;  they  are 
always  a  failure. 
The  Scotch  Marigolds  or  Calendula  are  fine  for  beds  and  cut  flowers. 
They  are  so  durable  in  a  cut  state,  lasting  quite  fresh  for  a  fortnight,  as 
also  will  the  French  type. — S.  J. 
FUNERAL  OF  THE  LATE  DR.  HOGG. 
As  was  indicated  on  page  235  would  be  the  case,  the  remains  of  the 
“  dear  old  Doctor  ”  were  interred  in  the  London  Necropolis  Cemetery  at 
Brookwood  on  the  18th  inst. — the  date  of  the  last  issue  of  the  Journal  of 
Horticulture.  The  funeral  corthge  left  the  residence  of  the  deceased 
soon  after  11  a.m.,  the  funeral  train  being  announced  to  start  from 
Waterloo,  the  terminus  of  the  London  and  South-Western  Railway, 
at  11.45.  There  was,  however,  a  little  delay,  but  as  the  train  ran  direct 
to  Brookwood  without  a  stoppage  it  arrived  in  the  Cemetery  by  the 
appointed  time — one  o’clock.  The  distance  is  only  twenty-eight  miles, 
but  funeral  trains  do  not  travel  at  high  express  speed. 
The  funeral  was  essentially  private,  and  was  attended  by  few  persons 
beyond  the  members  of  the  family,  in  fact  few  could  have  known  of 
the  arrangements  before  they  were  being  carried  out.  It  may  be  said 
that  last  Thursday  was  a  peculiarly  quiet  day  at  Brookwood.  only  four 
funerals  from  London,  whereas  on  the  next  day — Friday — forty  were 
arranged  for. 
Apart  from  the  relatives  and  the  nephew  of  the  Doctor  (the  Rev. 
Alexander  Rodger  of  Pre6tonkirk,  who  officiated),  there  were  only  present 
on  the  mournful  occasion  Rey.  W.  Wilks  of  the  Royal  Horticultural 
Society  ;  Mr.  William  Paul  of  Waltham  Cross  (one  of  the  Doctor’s  oldest 
associates),  Mr.  A.  Rivers  of  Sawbridgeworth,  representing  his  father, 
Mr.  T.  Francis  Rivers  ;  Mr.  Herbert  J.  Yeitch,  Chelsea,  representing  his 
uncle,  Mr.  Harry  J.  Yeitch,  who  is  on  the  Continent,  both  personal 
friends  of  long  standing;  Mr.  Arthur  W.  Sutton,  Reading,  who  ascer¬ 
tained  the  necessary  particulars  by  telegram  just  in  time  to  reach  the 
cemetery  ;  Mr.  Owen  Thomas,  Royal  Gardens,  Windsor  ;  Mr.  J.  Wright, 
editor  of  the  11  Journal  of  Horticulture  Mr.  F.  Broomhead,  editor  of 
its  offshoot,  “  Poultry  Mr.  D.  Morgan,  and  Mr.  J.  Chambers,  heads  of 
the  advertising  and  printing  departments  respectively  at  171,  Fleet  Street. 
Expressions  of  regret  of  inability  to  attend  were  conveyed  by  Sir 
Trevor  Lawrence,  Bart.,  Philip  Crowley,  Esq.,  Rev.  H.  H.  D’Ombrain, 
Dr.  Masters,  Editor  of  the  “  Gardeners’  Chronicle,”  Mr.  George  Gordon, 
Editor  of  the  “  Gardeners’  Magazine,”  Mr.  H.  J.  Pearson,  and  the  veteran 
Mr.  Robert  Fenn. 
The  coffin  was  entirely  covered  with  beautiful  wreaths  contributed 
by  the  members  of  the  family  and  friends,  including  Dr.  Masters,  Mr. 
Yeitch,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  Paul,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Arthur  W.  Sutton,  Mr.  Owen 
Thomas,  the  editorial  staffs,  and  by  the  employes  of  the  Fleet  Street  office. 
After  a  violent  storm  in  the  morning  the  weather  was  fine  until  the 
procession  formed  in  the  cemetery,  when  another  storm  burst,  and  the 
chapel  proved  a  haven  of  refuge  indeed.  The  calm  came  quickly  during 
the  service  fcr  the  grave-side  proceedings  ;  the  coffin  was  lowered  deep 
down  into  its  sandy  bed,  strewn  with  flowers,  the  sand  in  due  time 
returned  to  its  position,  and  the  mound  encased  with  the  wreaths  sent 
as  tributes  of  love  and  esteem  by  relatives  and  friends. 
The  Doctor  rests  by  the  side  of  his  son  who  died  in  infancy,  and  on 
i 
the  other  side  lie  his  father  and  mother-in-law,  in  the  Milligan-Hogg  burial 
ground  in  a  pleasant  position  in  this  great  Surrey  cemetery.  The  railway 
passes  into  it  between  Laurel  hedges ;  Rhododendrons  and  Hollies 
luxuriate  in  the  sandy  peat  soil,  and  large  specimen  Wellingtonias  and 
other  Conifers  are  thinly  disposed  over  apparently  scores  if  not  hundreds 
of  acres  of  grass  land  and  Heather,  the  whole  resembling  a  gigantic 
pleasure  ground — a  beautiful  resting  place  of  the  dead.' 
The  late  Dr.  Hogg. 
By  the  death  of  Dr.  Hogg  the  horticultural  world  loses  one  of  ita- 
greatest,  most  distinguished,  and  most  honoured  representatives.  More 
than  fifty  years  ago  (I  think  in  1844)  I  first  met  Dr.  Hogg  in  my  father’s 
nurseries,  and  from  that  lime  onward  to  the  present  we  had  been  warm 
friends — a  long  and  uninterrupted  friendship  of  some  fifty-three  years, 
a  friendship  more  firmly  cemeDted  as  time  went  on.  Not  very  long  ago,, 
when  lamenting  the  death  of  a  mutual  friend,  he  remarked,  “  We  know 
it  is  a  condition  of  our  existence  here,  and  the  loss  of  one  friend  should 
make  us  value  more  highly  those  who  remain  ;  in  fact,  bind  us  closer 
together.” 
The  comprehensive  and  admirably  written  account  of  him  by  Mr. 
Wright  in  the  Journal  of  Horticulture  of  last  week  leaves  little  for  his 
other  friends  to  say.  Although  a  Fellow  of  the  LinDtean  Society, 
possessing  considerable  knowledge  of  the  natural  sciences,  it  is  on  his 
authority  as  a  pomologist  that  his  fame  principally  rests.  The  “  Fruit 
Manual”  (which  has  gene  through  several  editions)  is  a  work  of  rare 
merit,  both  from  its  completeness  and  general  accuracy,  and  must  have 
cost  the  author  a  considerable  amount  of  labour.  There  is  no  book  on 
the  subject  in  any  language  to  compare  with  it.  The  Journal  of 
Horticulture,  of  which  he  was  for  many  years  co-editor  with  the  late 
G.  W.  Johnson,  and  latterly  sole  proprietor,  iB  a  weekly  serial  on  horti¬ 
culture  known  and  highly  valued  wherever  the  English  language  is 
spoken  or  read.  Of  his  other  works  : — 
For  a  few  years  I  was  co-partner  with  him  and  another  valued  friend, 
the  late  Mr.  Thos.  Moore,  in  the  “  Florist  and  Pomologist,”  founded  by 
the  late  Edward  Beck  in  1848,  which  as  an  illustrated  shilling  monthly 
ran  a  useful  and  prosperous  career  of  thirty-seven  years.  During  our 
many  meetings  the  Ductor’s  abiding  thought  was  how  to  make  the  work 
aB  useful  as  possible.  Suggestions  for  increasing  the  circulation  or 
piling  up  advertisements  were  looked  coldly  on  unless  they  tended  to 
this  end.  The  “  Vegetable  Kingdom  ”  is  also  a  work  of  great  labour, 
and  full  of  useful  information.  An  essay  on  the  “Dahlia”  is  also 
valuable,  and  was  the  book  on  the  subject  in  its  day.  “  The  Gardener’s 
Year  Book,”  appearing  annually,  and  the  “Apple”  and  “British 
Pomology,”  the  two  latter  being  forerunners  of  his  great  work  “  The 
Fruit  Manual,”  were  valuable  works  of  reference.  These  works  I  know 
and  value,  and  there  may  be  others  which  have  not  come  under  my 
observation. 
Of  his  active  work  in  life,  I  think  Dr.  Hogg  did  more  than  his  share, 
and  he  did  it  well.  There  has  been  scarcely  any  important  horticultural* 
movement  during  the  past  forty  years  in  which  he  has  not  been  a 
conspicuous  figure,  and  not  a  figure  only,  but  a  steady,  thoughtful,  and 
successful  worker.  la  1854  Mr.  Tbos.  Rivers,  of  Sawbridgeworth,  in  a 
letter  to  the  “Florist”  (page  108)  of  that  date,  suggested,  in  conjunction 
with  Mr.  Spencer,  of  Bowood,  the  establishment  of  a  Pomological  Society.. 
The  idea  was  at  once  adopted,  Sii  Joseph  Paxton  becoming  President, 
and  Mr.  Ingram,  of  Frogmore,  bemg  one  of  the  Vice-Presidents,  the 
Society  being  called  “  The  British  Pomological  Society.”  This  Society 
drew  to  it  most  of  the  first  fruit  growers  of  the  time,  and  did  useful 
and  important  work  till  1860,  when  it  virtually  became  the  Fruit 
Committee  of  the  Royal  Horticultural  Society.  During  its  entire 
existence  Dr.  Hogg  was  really  the  head  and  heart  of  it,  although  he 
never  put  forth  any  claim  to  all  the  credit  he  was  entitled  to.  He  was 
for  a  time  its  Secretary,  and  wrote  many  of  the  reportBof  its  meetings  and 
notices  of  the  exhibits,  and  was  eventually  one  of  the  Vice-Presidents. 
Dr.  Hogg  was  for  many  years  one  of  the  most  active  members  of  the 
Royal  Horticultural  Society,  first  as  Secretary  and  afterwards  as  Chair¬ 
man  of  the  Fruit  Committee.  His  wide  knowledge  of  fruits  and  genial 
manners  made  those  meetings  both  profitable  to  the  community  and 
pleasurable  to  those  who  became  associated  with  him.  In  1866  the- 
International  Horticultural  Exhibition  and  Botanical  Congress  was  held 
in  London,  the  Secretaries  appointed  being  Dr.  Hogg,  Dr.  Masters,  and' 
Mr.  Thos.  Moore.  Three  more  efficient  men  could  not  have  been  found, 
and  the  grand  success  of  that  movement  has  always  appeared  to  me  to 
be  largely  due  to  the  judgment,  energy,  and  zeal  of  its  three  Secretaries. 
In  the  succeeding  foreign  international  exhibitions  which  took  place  at 
St.  Petersburg,  Amsterdam,  and  Brussels  Dr.  Hogg  was  again  a  distin- 
tinguished  official. 
But  his  interest  in  nature  and  society  was  not  confined  to  horticul¬ 
ture  and  botany  ;  he  had  read  much  in  every  branch  of  natural  history, 
and  numbered  among  his  friends  and  acquaintances  some  of  the  highest 
and  most  cultivated  members  of  society.  The  most  prominent  features 
in  his  nature  always  appeared  to  me  to  be  an  earnestness  of  purpose 
and  an  innate  love  of  truth.  Finesse  and  intrigue  he  was  an  utter 
stranger  to,  and  instinctively  shrank  from  those  who  practised  or 
favoured  them.  His  wide  knowledge  on  horticultural  matters  he  was 
always  ready  to  impart  without  any  assumed  superiority  or  prospect  of 
self-interest.  I  recollect  on  one  occasion,  when  rising  from  a  committee¬ 
meeting,  an  over-zealous  friend  remarked  that  he  had  voted  against  his 
own  interests.  He  replied,  “Never  mind;  it  was  right.”  To  young 
gardeners  trying  to  fight  their  way  up  in  life,  and  to  gardeners 
generally,  he  was  always  ready  with  counsel  and  help  given  in  such  a 
way  as  not  to  raise  a  blush  on  the  cheek  of  the  most  sensitive. 
