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JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER. 
R.H.S.  Fruit  Show  at  Chiswick. 
Exhibitors  are  requested  to  notice  that  class  52  is  an  open 
class,  and  not  confined  to  amateurs.  The  schedule  can  be 
obtained  by  sending  a  postage  stamp  to  the  R.H.S.  Office,  117, 
Victoria  Street,  S.W. 
The  Late  Mr.  J.  D.  Pawle. 
This  devoted  rosarian  died  at  his  residence  in  Reigate  not 
many  days  since,  at  the  age  of  eighty-one  years.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Floral  Committee  (R.H.S.),  a  vice-president  of 
the  National  Rose  Society,  and  the  founder  of  various  local 
societies. 
The  Weather  at  Hamiiton, 
A  heat  wave  has  evidently  arrived  from  the  New  World. 
Saturday  and  Sunday  were,  to  say  the  least,  hot — something 
new  for  the  last  nine  months.  Forest  trees  are  fast  expanding 
their  foliage,  which,  by  the  way,  is  fully  three  weeks  in  arrears. 
The  landrail,  or  corncraik,  has  been  with  us  for  three  w'eeks  now, 
notwithstanding  the  very  backward  state  of  grass  and  Wheat, 
his  chief  haunts.  Moths  and  butterflies  are  still  very  rare. 
Daily  Forecasts  of  Weather  during  Harvest,  1903. 
During  the  harvest  season  the  Meteorological  Council  will, 
as  before,  supply  forecasts  of  w'eather  by  telegraph  to  persons 
desirous  of  receiving  them,  upon  payment  of  the  cost  of  the 
telegrams.  The  forecasts  will  be  so  worded  that  the  cost  of 
each  message  will  be  6d.  for  any  one  district,  including  an 
address  of  three  words.  If  the  address  to  which  the  forecasts 
are  to  be  sent  exceeds  three  words,  an  addition  of  a  halfpenny 
for  each  additionail  word  must  be  made  to  the  cost  of  the  daily 
telegram.  The  special  harvest  foreca.sts  are  prepared  at  3.30 
p.m.  daily  from  June  1  to  September  30  (except  Sundays),  and 
are  applicable  to  the  twenty-four  hours  from  midnight  following 
the  time  of  issue. — W.  N.  Shaw,  Secretary,  63,  Victoria  Street, 
S.W.,  April,  1903. 
Journal  of  the  Royal  Horticultural  Society. 
The  latest  quarterly  Journal  of  the  Royal  Horticultural 
Society  contains  a  continuation  of  the  series  of  articles  “  On 
Fungoid  Pests  of  the  Garden,”  illustrated  by  coloured  and  other 
diagrams,  by  Dr.  M.  C.  Cooke,  M.A.,  V.M.H.  Besides  these 
emineintly  practical  and  serviceable  essays,  this  volume  also 
includes  the  papers  on  “  Japanese  Trees  and  Shrubs,”  by  Mr. 
James  H.  Veitch,  and  wliioh  furnishes  a  great  deal  of  entirely 
new  matter  and  knowledge  of  novelties.  It  is  illustrated. 
Summer  and  autumn  flowering  bulbs,  by  Mr.  P.  R.  Barr,  will 
satisfy  the  bulb  growers,  and  Mr.  Irwin  Lynch’s  biography  of  Sir 
William  Jackson  Hooker,  the  great  botanist,  and  father  of  the 
still  surviving  Sir  Joseph,  is  of  superlative  interest. 
Amongst  others  of  the  many  papers,  communications,  and 
features  of  the  R.H.S.  Journal,  we  would  name  Mr.  Owen 
Thomas’s  “Wasted  Opportunities  of  Finiit  Growing,”  Mr.  Cecil 
H.  Hooper’s  “  Spraying  and  Packing  in  Canada  ”  (illustrated). 
Dr.  Bernard  Dyer’s  “  Manuring  Market  Garden  Crops  ”  (illus¬ 
trated),  The  American  Hybrid  Conference  (report  on),  and  Mr. 
H.  E.  Molyneux’s  “Rose  Growing  Near  Towns.” 
The  editor’s  reviews  of  books,  together  with  his  and  the 
garden  superintendent’s  “  Commonplace  Notes,”  and  the  now 
invaluable  department  entitled  “Notes  on  Recent  Research,  and 
Abstracts,”  being  gleanings  and  references  by  a  large  body  of 
experts  on  the  es.says,  articlas,  or  letters  on  subjects  of  prime 
interest  to  botanists  and  horticulturists  (the  latter  word  in  its 
wddest  application),  that  have  recently  appeared  in  craft  or 
botanical  literature — ^all  deserve  one  expression :  they  are  good, 
utilitarian,  interesting. 
Rev.  W.  Wilks,  secretaiy  to  the  Society,  is  the  editor.  We 
always  take  this  opportunity  to  point  out  that  Fellows  receive 
these  volumes  on  up-to-date  gardening  free.  Non-Fellows  pay 
10s.  each  for  tliem.  The  annual  Fellows’  subscription  is  only 
21s.,  and  the  offices  of  the  Society  are  at  117,  Victoria  Street, 
London,  S.W. 
Appointment. 
Mr.  R.  S.  Raisbeck,  a.s  head  gardener  to  J.  Wakefield,  E.sq., 
Sedgwick  House,  near  Kendal,  Wesrinoreland,  in  succession  to 
Mr.  J.  Ireland. 
Royal  National  Tulip  Society. 
The  next  exhibition  of  the  above  society  will  be  held  at  the 
Free  Library^  Middleton,  Manchester,  on  Saturday,  June  6, 
1903.  The  hon.  secretary  is  James  W.  Bentley,  Esq.,  Stakehill, 
Castleton,  near  Manchester. 
Mr.  Robert  Fenn,  V.M  H 
None  can  feel  greater  .satisfaction  than  do  those  who  have 
been  connected  with  The  Journal  to  learn  of  our  veteran  corre¬ 
spondent  having  received  his  greatest  decoration,  the  Victoria 
Medal  of  Honour  in  horticulture,  awarded  by  the  Council  of  the 
Royal  Horticultural  Society.  Every  one  of  our  readers  will 
rejoice  as  we  do. 
Mr.  William  Falconer  of  Nymphaea  Fame. 
Mr.  William  Falconer,  formerly  of  Dosoris,  and  latterly  at 
Schenley  Park,  Pittsburgh,  U.S.A.,  is  now  superintendent  of 
Allegheny  Cemetery,  having  entered  upon  his  duties  on  the  1st 
inst.  The  Department  of  Public  Works  is  now  trying  to  tempt 
him  back  to  Schenley  Park  with  an  offer  of  4,000  dollars  annually 
as  salary,  a  figure  at  which  he  is  at  present  engaged. 
“The  Indian  Agriculturist.” 
The  “  Indian  Agriculturist,”  a  renowned  journal,  was  estab¬ 
lished  in  1870,  and  is  published  every  month  at  Calcutta,  and 
was  originally  issued  as  the  Agricultural  Gazette  of  India,  a 
journal  under  the  control  of  the  Government.  It  is  the  only 
publication  of  its  kind,  and  as  such  necessarily  occupies  a 
unique  position  for  all  matters  connected  with  agricultui'e  in 
that  country. 
The  New  President  of  the  Board  of  Agriculture. 
W  illiam  Hillier  Onslow,  4th  Earl  of  Onslow,  has  been 
appointed  the  successor  in  office  to  the  late  Mr.  W.  Hanbuiy. 
He  is  in  his  fifty-first  year.  During  1887  and  1888  he  was 
under-secretary  for  the  Colonies,  which  post  he  again  has  held 
since  1900,  liaving  been  under-secret ary^  for  India  in  the  years 
1895-1900,  and  was  Governor  and  Commander-in-Chief  of  New 
Zealand  from  the  end  of  1888  to  1892.  The  Earl  owns  about 
13,500  acres  of  land,  his  country  seat  being  at  Clandon  Park, 
Guildford,  Surrey. 
Devon  Daffodil  and  Spring  Show  Society. 
At  a  meeting  recently  held  at  Chaddlewood,  Devon,  at  the 
invitation  of  Mr.  Soltau  Symions,  it  was  resolved  that  a  .society- 
should  be  formed,  to  be  called  the  Devon  Daffodil  and  Spring 
Show  Society.  A  committee  was  formed,  of  which  Mr.  Soltau 
Symons  was  elected  chairman.  Captain  Hall  Parlby  (Manadon, 
Plymouth)  and  Mr.  Charles  Wilson  (4,  North  Hill,  Plymouth) 
have  kindly  consented  to  act  as  honorary  secretaries,  and  Mr. 
Erne.st  Hawker  (Beaconville,  Ivybridge)  has  accepted  the  office 
of  treasurer.  These  gentlemen  will  be  glad  to  hear  from  anyone 
wishing  to  join  the  society,  and  will  give  any  information  as  to 
its  objects  and  constitution. 
Honouring  an  Eminent  Horticulturist. 
Mr.  Thoma:s  Lunt,  who  recently  completed  fifty  years’  service 
as  head  gardener  to  Sir  M.  R.  Shaw  Stewart,  Bart.,  Ard- 
gowan,  Renfrewshire,  was  met  last  tveek  by  a  number  of  friends  in 
the  Royal  British  Hotel,  Edinburgh,  and  presented  with  a 
handsome  purse  of  sovereigns.  The  chair  was  taken  by  Mr. 
David  Mitchell  in  the  absence  of  Mr.  Mackray,  Kelly,  and 
the  presentation  made  by  Mr.  J.  Fraser  Smith,  head  gardener 
to  the  Countess  of  Seafield,  at  Cullen  House,  Banffshire,  one  of 
Mr.  Lunt’s  oldest  assistants.  In  the  course  of  his  remarks  Mr. 
Smith  took  occasion  to  refer  to  the  large  number  of  young 
gardeners  that  Mr.  Lunt  had  passed  through  his  hands  during 
the  past  half  century,  and  the  benefits  which  he  had  conferred 
on  horticulture  at  large,  both  by  precept  and  example.  Many 
.of  the  young  men  who  received  their  first  ti'aining  at  Ardgowan 
now  occupy  prominent  positions  in  the  horticultural  world, 
,  among  whom  might  be  mentioned  his  two  .sons,  one  of  whom 
is  a  well-known  Grape  and  Chrysanthemum  grower  at  Keir,  near 
Stirling,  and  the  other  head  gardener  to  the  Duke  of  Buccleuch, 
at  Bowhill, 
