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JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER, 
May  19,  1901 
OTICES 
Rhododendrons  at  Reg-ent’s  Park, 
The  Kliododeudrons  for  the  exliibitioii  annually  held  in  June  in 
the  Royal  Botanic  Society’s  Gardens,  Regent’s  Park,  have  been 
lemoved  from  the  nurseries  at  Bagshot  and  planted  in  the 
gardi'us.  Tne  excessive  rainfall  of  last  season,  so  far  from 
injuring,  appears  to  have  stimulated  the  growth.  Bloom-buds 
are  more  than  usually  numerous,  and  the  exhibition  is  expected 
to  be  the  best  wliich  has  taken  place  in  recent  years. 
Congress  of  Rosarians. 
A  confermice  of  k’rench  Rose  growei’s  wall  be  held  at  Nancy 
towards  the  end  of  August  next.  The  following  are  the  sulijects 
lor  discussion  ;—(l)  Cla.ssification  of  Roses;  (2)  Synonymous 
Roses;  (3)  Hyl)ridisation ;  (4)  The  best  varieties  for  the  East  of 
France;  (o)  Retarded  Roses  for  winter  flowering;  (G)  The 
influence  of  gi'afting;  (7)  The  best  remedies  for  insect  pests  ;  (8) 
The  best  means  of  protecting  new  varieties  for  a  definite  period ; 
(h)  Bengal  Roses;  (10)  The  best  varieties  of  Bourbon  Roses;  (11) 
The  best  Polyantha  Roses  ;  (12)  The  best  Rorses  distributed  in 
t898  and  two  following  years;  (13)  the  best  Tea-scented  varieties 
for  cut  uses. 
Journal  of  the  Board  of  Agriculture. 
The  issue  for  May  has  readied  us.  This  publication  only 
costs  Id.  monthly  (or  Gd.  by  po.st),  from  Laughton  and  Co.,  Ltd., 
1,  Essex  Street,  Strand,  W.C.,  and  is  well  worth  the  money  to 
agriculturists  and  commeicial  horticulturists.  The  contents  of 
the  present  number  are: — Railway  rates  for  agricultural  pro¬ 
duce  :  co-operative  poultry  .societies  in  Ireland  ;  co.st  of  ti  an.sport 
trom  Denmark  to  Gieat  Britain  ;  farm  labour  in  the  United 
States:  German  bounties  on  agricultural  products;  manuring  of 
leguminou.s  crops ;  use  of  Rye-grass  in  seed  mixtures;  flour 
beetle  (Tribolium  confusum,  L.) ;  “Navel-ill,”  “Joint-ill,”  or 
“  Big-joint  ”  in  liincoln.shire  :  weekly  returns  of  market  prices; 
Agricultural  Organisation  Society  ;  prices  of  agricultural  pro- 
ilr.ce  :  and  diseases  of  animals. 
“Papadisi  in  Sole.” 
M  essrs.  Methuen  and  Co.,  London,  have  sent  ns  a  copy  of 
John  Parkinson’s  “  Paradisi  in  Sole,  Paradisus  Terrestris,”  which 
they  have  faithfully  reprinted  from  the  edition  of  1G29.  It  may 
he  remembered  that  we  reprinted  part  of  the  prospectus  for  this 
undertaking,  in  vhich  the  publishers  stated  that  they  believed 
there  was  a  demand  for  a  true  reproduction  of  this  famous  old 
florists'  manual  and  herbal ;  and  their  execution  of  the  task  is  an 
achievement  which  they  and  the  printing  world  may  well  be 
proud  of..  The  peculiar  orthography,  the  expre.s.sive  diction, 
the  ample  pages  of  unglazed,  real  paper,  and  the  handsome  pica 
type  in  which  it  is  printed,  all  follow'  the  st,yle  of  the  fir,st 
edition.  Only  a  limited  number  of  copies  will  be  offei’ed,  and 
the  price  ol  the  one  now  before  us  is  two  guineas  net.  We  shall 
refer  more  fully  to  this  work  again. 
Flora  and  Sylva, 
The  May  number  contains  articles  and  notes  as  follows: 
Labours  in  vain  (an  able  and  important  article  by  the  editor, 
jiointing  out  the  futility  of  coddling  mere  remnants  of  rare 
trees  and  slirubs,  whose  leal  beauty  and  character  can  never 
be  developed  in  our  climate,  no  matter  wliat  care  is  given); 
wall  gardens,*  the  Mexican  Orange-flower*  ;  new  forms  of  Juno 
Iii.ses  (coloured  piate) ;  the  greater  trees  of  the  northern 
torest'  ;  Italian  gardens*  ;  Japanese  gardens  and  flower  arrange¬ 
ments;  a  beautiful  evergreen  covert  plant;  azures  and  their 
effect  in  the  garden  (whicli  tries  to  point  out  that  there  are 
nuiuy  shades  ol  blue,  and  each  can  be  used  for  some  siiecial 
effect);  the  night-blooming  AVater  Lilies*;  the  Torch  Lilies*; 
a  yellow  h.vbrid  Rhododendron  (R.  Smithi  aurea.  w  hich  we  have 
'ecu  iu  Clibian  s  nursery,  and  here  represented  in  a  coloured 
pate),  -lagnolias  in  North  America;  lainlscape  and  woodland 
pictures  by  the  great  ma.sters*  ;  and  the  London  parks:  their 
design  and  planting.  The  articles  with  an  asterisk  (*)  are  illu.s- 
"ootl  engravings.  The  price  fs  Is.  net  from  17, 
l•urmv•al  .Street,  London.  F.C. 
Appointment. 
Mr.  G.  Giles,  for  one  year  and  eight  months  frnit  foreman 
at  Alentmore,  and  previously  for  four  and  a  half  years  general 
foreman  at  Impney  Hall.  Droitwdeh,  as  gardener  to  E.  Nettle¬ 
fold,  Esq.,  Harborne  Hall,  Birmingham. 
Mr.  Joseph  Cheal. 
Mr.  J  oseph  Cheal,  head  of  the  Crawley  firm  of  nurserymen 
and  landscape  gardeners,  was  in  the  Drill  Hall  on  Tue.sday  last 
looking  bronzed  and  well  after  a  visit  to  Syria,  Egypt,  and  the 
Nile  A'alle.v,  where  he  has  been  for  five  or  six  weeks.  His  firm 
have  undertaken  .some  garden  construction  in  Egypt. 
The  Royal  Hontieultupal  Hall. 
At  our  visit  to  the  liall  on  Tue.sday,  it  was  seen  to  be  well 
advanced.  The  gla.ss  roof  of  the  exhibition  area  is  completed, 
and  only  the  fini.shing  details  are  now  to  be  undertaken.  The 
elevation  plan  as  presented  to  the  Fellows  in  December,  1902, 
appears  to  have  been  somew  hat  modified,  and  an  entrance  porch 
seems  to  have  been  added.  The  electrical  installation  and 
heating  of  the  offices  is  finfshed. 
Diploma  in  Ag-picultupe :  Success  of  an  Old  Kewite. 
At  the  recent  examination  of  the  National  Agricultural 
Examination  Board,  appointed  by  the  Royal  Agricultural  Society 
of  Scotland  and  the  Highland  Agricultural  Society  of  Scotland, 
Air.  R.  C.  Gant,  undergraduate  A'ictoria  Universitj',  and  for¬ 
merly  a  gardener  student  at  Kew,  has  been  successful  in  gaining 
the  national  diploma  in  the  .science  and  practice  of  agriculture. 
Royal  Botanic  Society. 
AA'e  are  informed  that  in  connection  with  the  Grand  Horti¬ 
cultural  exhibition  of  the  above,  the  committee  of  the  horti- 
tultural  section  have  arranged  a  conference  on  forestry  to  be 
held  on  AVedne.sday,  June  8,  under  the  iiresidenc.v  of  Lord 
Redesdale.  Profe.ssor  Schlich  will  give  an  addre.ss  on  the  sub¬ 
ject.  On  Thursday,  June  9,  Mr.  A.  Somers  Rivers  will  read  a 
paper  on  “Emit  Culture.” 
Trees  Recommended  fop  Street  Planting. 
In  a  lecent  bulletin  Issued  by  the  New  England  Association 
of  Park  Superintendents,  Mr.  J.  A.  Pettigrew  recommends  the 
following  trees  for  street  planting: — Silver  Poplar  (P.  alba), 
AA’hite  AA’illow  (Salix  alba  carulea),  American  Elm,  Horse  Chest¬ 
nut,  European  Linden  (Tilia  vulgaris),  Ginkgo  (Ginkgo  biloba  or 
Salisbnria  adiantifolia),  Norway  Alapie  (Acer  platanoides).  Red 
Oak  (Quercus  rubra),  Scarlet  and  Pin  Oaks,  Cottonwood  (Popu- 
lus  monilifera),  and  Soft  Maple  (Acer  saccharinum). 
Newport  (Mon.)  Gardeners’  Society. 
The  usual  meeting  of  the  above  society  was  held  on  Alay  11, 
when  the  subject  for  consideration  was  to  decide  upon  a  place  for 
the  annual  outing.  After  various  places  had  been  proposed, 
iniclnding  a  very  kind  invitation  from  Alessrs.  Clibran  and  Son 
to  visit  their  nurseries,  it  was  at  last  unaniniously'decided  to 
pay  a  visit  to  the  popular  .seaside  town  of  Bournemouth  during 
the  month  of  August.  Mr.  J.  AA’iggins,  wlio  read  a  paper  at  the 
previous  meeting  on  the  Herbaceous  Calceolaria,  staged  four 
beautifully  grown  and  flowered  plants  of  this  species,  for  whic! 
he  was  awarded  the  society’s  certificate  of  merit.  Mr.  J.  Duff 
presided  over  a  good  attendance.  — J.  P. 
Market  Gardeners’  Compensation  Bill. 
'  A  Bill  to  remove  certain  doubts  as  to  the  meaning  of  the 
Market  Gardeners’  Ccanpensation  Act,  1895,  lias  been  intro¬ 
duced  into  the  House  of  Commons  by  Colonel  Long,  supported 
b,v  Mr.  A\  .  Raymond  Greene,  Sir  Tliomas  Esmonde,  and  Air. 
Channing.  A  memorandum  attached  to  the  Bill  states: — The 
Alarket  Gardeners’  Act  of  1895  w  as  founded  on  the  same  prin¬ 
ciple  as  the  Agricultural  Holdings  Act  of  1883,  viz.,  that  where 
land  has  been  let  for  a  recognised  purpo.se,  and  the  tenant  has 
invested  capital  in  the  ordinary  recogni.sed  ways  of  carrying  out 
that  purpose— on  the  outgoing  of  the  tenant  any  portion  of 
such  capital  left  unexhausted  should  be  repaid  to  liim,  and  it  was 
intended  that,  following  the  lines  of  Clause  2  of  the  Agricul¬ 
tural  Holdings  Act,  1883,  there  should  be  retrospective  effect  in 
the  case  of  a  holding  w  hich  had  been  recognised  as  a  market 
garden  before  the  pa.ssing  of  the  Act.  This  meaning  of  the  Act 
was  accepted  in  vaiious  case.s,  and  for  some  time,  but  on  a  trial 
in  1901,  befoie  the  Court  ol  I'inal  Appeal,  the  Act  was  decided 
not  to  coi  ei  all  that  was  intended  wdien  the  Act  was  pa.ssed. 
