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JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  ASB  COTTAGE  GARDENER, 
July  16,  1903. 
Richmond  Show— Correction. 
Messrs.  B.  R.  Cant  and  Sons,  of  the  Old  Rose  Gardens, 
Colcihest-er,  draw  attention  to  the  fact  that  they  were  the 
winners  of  the  twenty-five  guinea  cup  for  Roses  at  Richmond 
Show,  which  honour  our  contributor  recorded  in  favour  of 
another  firm. 
Appointment. 
Mr.  Joseph  Mottram,  for  the  past  fourteen  years  head  gardener 
to  Mrs.  Boden,  Beach  Mount,  Bowdon,  Cheshire,  has  been 
appointed  head  gardener  to  Abel  Buckley,  Esq.,  Ryecroft  Hall, 
Audenshaw,  near  Manchester.  Mr.  Mottram  takes  charge  of 
Ryecroft  Hall  Gardens  on  Saturday,  July  25. 
Royal  Horticultural  Society. 
The  next  meeting  of  the  Royal  Horticultural!  Society  will  be 
held  at  the  Drill  Hall,  Buckingham  Gate,  Westminster,  on 
Tuesday,  July  21,  from  1  to  6  p.m.  In  connection  with  this 
.meeting  the  National  Carnation  and  Picotee  Society  will  hold 
its  annual  show.  Instead  of  the  subject  previously  announced, 
the  lecture  will  be  on  “  Horticulture  in  and  the  Flora  of  New 
Zealand,”  by  G.  Hunt,  Esq. 
A  Notable  Achievement. 
In  perusing  the  numerous  show  reports,  it  may  have  escaped 
the  notice  of  our  readers  that  there  is  one  firm  which  this  season 
has  won  three  gold  medals  within  a  month.  That  firm  is 
Messrs.  Dicksons,  of  Chester,  to  whom  was  awarded  a  gold  medal 
at  each  of  the  following  shows,  viz.  :  the  York  Gala,  the  Hanley 
Fete  on  the  1st  and  2nd  inst.,  and  the  Wolverhampton  Fete  upon 
the  7th,  8th,  and  9th  of  this  month. 
liincolnshire  Eulbs  for  Holland. 
Dutch  bulb  buyers  have  been  making  extensive  purchases 
of  bulbs  in  the  Spalding  district,  and  these  will  shortly  be 
consigned  to  Holland  by  water,  being  loaded  up  on  the  river 
Welland  at  Spalding.  Dutch  bulbs  have  suffered  severely 
through  the  frost,  and  hencs  the  purchase  of  Lincolnshire  bulbs 
to  take  their  place.  It  is  a  curious  fact  that  the  particular 
district  where  the  bulbs  have  been  i^urchased  is  known  as 
Holland  Division  of  Lincolnshire. 
Arrangement  of  Rhododendrons. 
The  picture  on  page  G1  illustrates  an  effective  arrangement 
of  Azaleas  and  Rhododendrons,  for  Azaleas  will  always  be  re¬ 
garded  by  gardeners  as  distinct  from  Rhododendrons.  Both 
Azaleas  and  Rhododendrons  are  wonderfully  accommodating  in 
soils  other  than  calcareous  ones,  and  they  succeed  in  all  modei- 
rately  open  positions.  They  are  seen  to  advantage  in  large 
masses  and  groups  near  each  other  or  in  continuous  borders. 
Sloping  dells  and  banks  show  them  off  to  advantage,  and  Lilies, 
Foxgloves,  and  Mulleins  sometimes  form  a  good  complement 
with  the  shrubs.  For  the  sake  of  their  beautiful  autumn  foliage 
the  Azaleas  should  be  liberally  planted. 
City  Horticulture  at  Edinburgh. 
Mr.  J.  W.  M'Hattie,  City  Gardener,  delivered  an  address  on 
“The  Cultivation  of  Window  Plants”  on  July  10  at  the  loan 
exhibition  of  flowers  which  is  being  held  at  90,  Fountainbridgd, 
Edinburgh,  to  a  large  audience.  Mr.  M'Hattie  pointed  out  that 
only  those  who  had  a  love  of  flowers  in  their  hearts  could  be 
expected  to  give  them  all  those  little  attentions,  tender  and 
constant,  that  went  so  far  to  make  up  the  sum  of  success  in  plant 
culture.  To  carefully  tend  a  plant  for  the  space  of  two.  or  three 
months  for  the  sake  of  winning  a  prize  was  a  low  and  sordid 
motive.  That  exhibition  was  intended  to  waken  and  keep  alive 
within  the  people  of  that  district  a  true,  gentle,  and  lasting  love 
for  flowers  that  would  lead  them  to  take  the  flowers  to  their 
hearts.  Mr.  J.  M.  Hogge,  in  moving  a  vote  of  thanks  to  Mr. 
M'Hattie,  suggested  that  Corporation  should,  as  was  done  in 
Glasgow,  supply  window  boxes  to  the  people  in  the  poorer  parts 
cf  the  city. 
Manchester  Botanic  Gardens 
We  learn  that  the  Stretford  Urban  Council  have  acciuired, 
or  will  acquire,  these  gardens,  in  order  to  preserve  them  to  the 
Manchester  public. 
Croydon  Gardeners’  Society. 
An  excellent  syllabus  of  meetings  up  to  December  15  has 
been  arranged,  and  copies  are  in  the  hands  of  Mr.  Harry 
Boshier,  62,  High  Street,  Croydon,  who  is  secretary. 
The  Codlin  Moth. 
We  are  informed  that  Mr.  W.  Horne,  of  the  firm  of  Horne  and 
Sons,  Cliffe,  has  found  a  remedy  for  stopping  the  ravages  of  the 
codlin  moth,  and  propo.ses  making  it  known  to  the  public  by 
reading  a  paper  on  the  subject  at  the  September  meeting  of  the 
National  Fruit  Growers’  Federation. 
£25  for  the  Gardeners’  Orphan  Fund. 
Mr.  Abraham  Follett  Osier,  F.R.S.,  of  South  Bank,  Edgbas- 
ton,  who  lately  died,  left  £25  to  the  Royal  Gardeners’  Orphan 
Fund,  and  £25  to  the  Birmingham  Gardeners’  Mutual  Improve¬ 
ment  Society.  Mr.  Osier  also  some  few  years  ago  presented  the 
Birmingham  Gardeners’  Mutual  Improvement  Society  with 
twelve  new  volumes  of  “  Sowerby’s  British  Botany.” 
United  Horticultural  Benefit  and  Provident  Society. 
The  usual  monthly  committee  meeting  of  this  society  was  held 
at  the  Caledonian  Hotel,  Adelplii  Terrace,  Strand,  on  Monday 
evening  last,  Mr.  Thomas  Winter  in  the  chair.  Four  new  mem-' 
bers  were  elected,  making  sixty-one  this  year,  the  total  member¬ 
ship  now  being  1,026.  Five  members  were  reported  on  the  sick 
fund.  The  sick  list  has  been  unusually  heavy  during  the  last 
half  year. 
American  Friends  in  England. 
A  large  number  of  American  visitors  are  at  present  in 
London,  and  among  them  not  a  few  who  are  well  known  to 
botany  and  horticulture.  We  have  seen  Professor  Sargant, 
Professor  Waugh,  and  Mr.  R.  Vincent,  jun.,  the  latter  being 
the  largest  vegetable  and  plant  grower  in  the  United  States. 
He  is,  moreover,  a  Rugby  (Eng.)  man.  In  such  an  extensive 
country  as  the  U.S.  there  are  always  failures  of  certain  crops 
somewhere,  and  it  is  the  purpose  of  Messrs.  Vincent  and  Sons 
to  be  able  to  supply  vegetable  stocks  whenever  called  upon. 
Edinburgh  Seed  Trade. 
On  the  evening  of  Wednesday,  the  8th  inst.,  a  most  interesting 
ceremony  took  place  in  the  Royal  British  Hotel,  when  a  repre¬ 
sentative  gathering  of  gentlemen  connected  with  the  seed,  flower, 
and  market  garden  trades  was  held  in  honour  of  Mr.  Alexander 
Sclater,  the  well-known  seed  manager  to  Messrs.  Thomas  Methven 
and  Sons,  on  the  occasion  of  his  silver  wedding.  The  gathering 
was  presided  over  by  the  gentle  and  genial  Mr.  Henry  Erskine  in 
a  manner  so  pleasant  that  everybody  felt  the  meeting  a  most 
enjoyable  one.  The  members  of  the  Edinburgh  seed  trade  are 
the  keenest  of  keen  business  men,  but  when  they  lay  aside 
the  tomahawk  and  fraternise,  they  are  full  of  brotherly  affection — 
the  sharpest  opponents  being  'the  first  to  recognise  the  good 
qualities  of  a  brother  in  trade.  As  mouthpiece  of  the  meeting, 
Mr.  William  Newton,  fruit  salesman,  presented  Mr.  Sclater,  in 
the  name  of  many  friends  present  and  absent,  with  a  solid  silver 
tea  and  coffee  service,  and  in  felicitou.s  terms  eulogised  Mr. 
Sclater’s  many  outstanding  virtues — his  energy  in  business,  his 
urbanity,  his  probity,  and  above  all  his  w'illingness  at  all  times 
to  assist  younger  and  less  experienced  brethren  from  his  great 
store  of  knowledge.  No  one  was  better  known  in  Edinburgh 
markets  than  Mr.  Sclater,  and  it  was  universally  felt  that  the 
longer  and  better  he  was  known  the  more  he  w’as  esteemed.  Mr. 
Sclater  replied  in  a  terse  and  interesting  speech,  thanking  his 
friends  for  their  great  and  unlooked-for  kindness,  and  giving  many 
interesting  reminiscences  of  the  Edinburgh  seed  trade  during  the 
more  than  thirty  years  he  had  been  connected  with  it.  To  mix 
among  the  market  gardeners  and  gardeners  of  the  East  of  Scot¬ 
land  for  that  long  period,  and  to  find  that  he  had  not  only  no 
enemies,  but  troops  of  friends,  was  a  matter  of  which  he  was  very 
proud,  and  in  his  own  name,  and  that  of  his  partner  in  life,  he  was 
deeply  grateful  for  the  very  bounteous  expression  of  their  good¬ 
will  and  good  wishes.  A  very  pleasant  evening  of  song  and 
sentiment  was  spent. 
