October  8,  1903. 
JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER, 
335 
Paolo  Radaelli,  J.  R.  Upton,  and  Princess  Beatrice.  The  best 
decorative  varieties  were  Horace  Martin,  Goaclier’s  Crimson,  and 
Market  White. 
A  tine  decorative  exhibit  of  Dahlias  was  staged  by  Messrs. 
T.  S.  Ware,  Limited,  1902,  Feltham,  the  whole  being  nicely 
arranged  with  Ferns,  bamboo,  and  other  greenery.  The  best 
Dahlias  were  F.  H.  Chapman,  Mrs.  H.  J.  Jones,  Gabriel,  Alpha, 
Aldus,  Kriemhilda,  Mrs.  Fd.  Mawley,  Ringdove,  and  Sandpiper. 
Messrs.  Ware’s  single  and  double  Begonias,  too,  from  the  open 
air,  were  quite  a  revelation  to  everybody. 
Mr.  Eric  F.  Such,  Maidenhead,  contributed  a  beautiful  table 
of  Chi-ysanthemums  of  the  earlj'  type,  with  large  vases  of  Pampas 
Gra.ss  and  Asters,  nicely  arranged.  The  vases  of  Physalis 
Fi'anchetti  and  Montbretias  contributing  to  the  displajn  The 
educational  value  of  the  exhibit  was  entirely  lost  through  lack 
of  naming  the  subjects. 
Mr.  H.  J.  Jones,  Ryecroft  Nursery,  Lewisham,  contributed 
one  of  the  best  displays  in  the  show,  in  the  form  of  early  flower¬ 
ing  Chrysanthemums  and  Asters.  In  the  former  were  noted  as 
being  especiall.v  good  Goacher’s  Crimson,  Horace  Martin,  Hilda 
Blick,  Mrs.  W.  A.  Hobbs,  Mrs.  A.  Willis,  Miss  B.  Miitrr, 
Mytchett  Beauty,  and  a.  promising  set  of  seedlings.  The  Asters 
Avere  beautifully  displayed  in  large  bunches,  a  few  of  thC'  best 
forms  being  A.  amellus,  Stella,  Framfieldi,  Onward,  A.  cordi- 
folius  magnificus,  A.  C.  Diana,  A.  NoA'se-Angliae,  rosea.,  and  Rye¬ 
croft  Pink,  also  Mrs.  Raynor,  this  portion  of  the  exhibit  being 
nicely  arranged  Avith  Asparagus  Sprengeri. 
Messrs.  Cheal  and  Sons,  from  CraAA'ley,  AA’ere  the  exhibitors  of 
a  magnificent  bank  of  Dahlias,  and  a  choice  selection  of  Apples ; 
and  from  Hugh  Loav  and  Co.  there  Avas  also  a,  display  of  Apples, 
numbering  150  dishes. 
Medal  AAnrards. 
Crystal  Pal.ace  Company’s  Gold  Medals  to  Norman  DaAus 
and  W.  J.  Godfrey. 
Gold  Medals  to  Messrs.  Cannell  and  Sons,  J.  Pe^d  and  Sons, 
“  Hobbies,”  Limited,  H.  J.  Jones,  Cheal  and  Sons,  T.  S.  Ware, 
Limited,  and  Spooner  and  Sons. 
SiLA^ER  Gilt  Medals  to  Messrs.  Hugh  Loav  and  Co,,  and 
Silver  Medal  to  Eric  F.  Such. 
- ■  ■ - 
Sir  William  Jackson  Hooker. 
{Continued  from  page  304.) 
“  In  1813,  OAving  to  the  illness  of  his  only  brother,  my  father 
spent  five  months  Avith  him  in  Devonshire  and  CoriiAA-all,  which 
counties  he  diligently  explored  for  Musci,  Hepaticae,  and  Lichens 
especially.  The  Trinity  House  yacht  having  been  placed  at  his 
disposal,  he  visited  the  Scilly  Islands,  Avhence  he  Avrites  to  Mr. 
Turner:  ‘The  first  thing  that  caught  my  attention  Avas  the 
situation  of  the  little  toAA’ii  of  St.  Mary’s  Avhich  so  much  resembled 
that  of  Reikevik  that  I  could  hardly  help  fancying  for  some  time 
that  I  Avas  in  Iceland.  .  .  .’  Early  in  1814  my  father  accom¬ 
panied  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Turner  and  family  on  a  Ausit  to  Paris,  then  in 
the  occupation  of  the  Allies.  There,  at  the  Institute,  he  made 
the  acquaintance  of  the  principal  botanists  resident  in  or  on  visits 
to  the  city — Antoine-Laurent  de  Jussieu,  Desfontaines,  Lamarck, 
Mirbel,  Bory  de  St.  Vincent,  Thouin,  and  others.  Leaving  the 
party  in  Paris,  he  spent  the  remainder  of  the  year  botanising  and 
seeing  botanists,  sketching  and  sight-seeing  in  the  south  of 
France,  spending  some  days  Avith  De  Candolle  at  Montpellier  and 
in  Piedmont,  SAvitzerland,  and  Lombardy. 
“  Returning  to  Paris  early  in  1815,  he  AA’as  introduced  to  Hum¬ 
boldt,  Avho  engaged  him  to  publish  a  cryptogamic  volume  of  his 
Plantse  Equinoctiales.'’  This  intention  had  to  be  abandoned 
owing  to  the  publisher’s  refusal  to  continue  that  AAork.  After 
much  subsequent  correspondence  AA'ith  Humboldt,  that  led  to 
nothing,  my  father  commenced  the  publication  on  his  oAvn  account, 
and  produced  in  1816,  the  first  part  of  a  Avork  entitled  ‘  Plantse 
Cryptogamicse,  quse  in  plaga  orbis  novi  .L^quinoctialis  colligerunt 
Alex  von  Humboldt  et  Aimat  Bonpland.’  It  is  a  very  thin 
quarto,  AAith  four  plates  of  species  draAvn  by  the  author,  and 
exquisitely  etched  by  EdAvards.  The  expense  AA’as  great  and  the 
return  nil ;  the  Avork  was  therefore  abandoned,  and  of  the  remain¬ 
ing  Musci  and  HeDaticie  many  Avere  included  in  the  author’s  less 
expensive  ‘  Musci  Exotici.’ 
“On  June  12,  1815,  my  father  married  Maria  Sarah,  eJdest 
daughter  of  DaAvson  Turner,  and  immediately  started  on  a  long 
Avedding  tour  to  the  Lake  District  and  to  Ireland,  AA'hich  latter 
country  the  pair  traversed  in  almost  every  direction,  making 
sketches  of  scenery  and  ancient  buildings:  thence  they  went  to 
Scotland  on  a  Ausit  to  Mr.  Lj'ell  at  Kinnordy  in  Forfarshire,  with 
A\  hom  a  close  intimacy  and  correspondence  on  Hepatiese  had  long 
existed.  Returning  they  passed  through  Manches-ter  for  the  pur¬ 
pose  of  seeing  Mr.  Hobson,  a  packer  in  a  warehouse,  aa’Iio  Avith 
only  the  works  of  Withering,  Hudson,  and  the  ‘Muscologia 
Hibernica,’  had  acquired  a  critical  knoAA’ledge  of  British  Mosses 
that  surprised  his  visitor,  Avho  says  of  him  :  ‘I  ueA'er  saAV  a  man 
po.ssos.sed  of  more  enthusiasm  than  this  poor  felloAv.’ 
“As  alluded  to  b.v  M.  De  Candolle  [in  a  letter  here  omitted], 
Lindley,  then  a  youth  of  eighteen,  Avas  at  the  same  time  as  him¬ 
self  a  guest  of  my  father.  He  A\as  the  son  of  a  AvcJl-knoAA’ii 
nurserAuiian  of  Catton,  near  Noi’Avich,  and  had  shoAvn  such  zeal 
and  ability  as  a  local  botanist  that  Avith  a  view  of  encouraging 
him  in  its  pursuit  he  aau.s  invited  to  HalesAvorth,  and  to  occupy 
himself  there  AA'ith  translating  Richard’s  ‘  Analy.se  dc.s  Fruits.’ 
This  he  did.  introducing  the  author’s  latest  corrections,  and 
illustrating  his  translation  AA’ith  plates  and  original  observations. 
In  the  folloAvng  year  my  father  took  Lindley  to  Sir  Joseph  Banks, 
who  offered  him  temporary  employment  in  his  herbarium,  and 
introduced  him  to  Mr.  Cattley,  a  AA’ealthy  merchant  deA'oted  to 
horticulture,  aa’Iio  Avas  desirous  of  having  his  rare  plants  hand¬ 
somely  illu.strated  ;  and  this  again  led  eventually  to  the  assistant 
secretaryship  of  tlie  Horticultural  Societj'  of  London,  Avhich 
Lindley  occupied  till  1858.  .  .  . 
“The  ‘British  Jungennanniie,’  the  most  beautiful  of  all  my 
father’s  Avorks,  in  point  of  the  draAA’ing,  analyses,  and  engraving 
of  the  plates,  AA’a.s  concluded  in  1816.  It  had  occupied  him  for 
about  ten  years,  and  Avas  the  first  Avork  of  any  magnitude  AA’hich 
he  projected.  It  appeared  in  iDarts,  in  both  a  quarto  and  a  folio 
form,  AA'ith  eighty-eight  plates  engraved  by  EdAvards,  illustrating 
197  species.  .  .  . 
“  1817  is  one  of  the  A’ery  feAA’  years  of  his  life  in  Avhich  he  pub¬ 
lished  scarcely  an.ything.  The  exception  Avas  an  account  of  the 
ver.y  remarkable  European  Moss  named  after  his  friend,  Tayloria 
spachnoides,  in  ‘Brand’s  Journal  of  Science  and  Art,’  No.  Ill, 
p.  144,  and  ‘Musci  Exotici,’  tab.  173.  Of  a  visit  to  London  in 
Augmst  of  this  year  he  Avrites  :  ‘  I  met  at  Spring  GroA’e  (Sir  Joseph 
Banks’s)  Abel,  BroAvn,  Leach,  and  a  Mr.  Manning  of  Diss,  who 
passed  many  years  among  the  Chinese  endeavouring  to  get  access 
to  the  interior,  though  he  failed  ;  though  he  tells  me  he  srav  much 
of  Thibet.’  Mr.  Manning  is,  to  this  day,  the  only  Englishman 
Avho  ever  entered  the  sacred  city  of  Lhassa.  What  is  more  re¬ 
markable  is  that  his  journal  AA’as  lost  to  geographers  till  Sir 
Clements  Markham  happily  found  it  in  the  iiossession  of  a  cousin 
of  his  OAA'ii  in  Norfolk.  See  ‘  Narratives  of  the  Mi.ssion  of  G.  Bogle 
to  Thibet  and  of  the  Journey  of  T.  Manning  to  Lhas.sa,’  ed.  2, 
1879,  by  Sir  C.  Markham,  a  book  full  of  curious  information. 
“My  father’s  HalesAvorth  life  Avas  noAv  draAA'ing  to  a  close. 
The  breAver.y  business,  as  might  have  been  expected  under  the 
management  of  an  enthusia.stic  naturalist  and  author,  had  proved 
unsatisfactory,  and  some  of  his  investments  AA’ere  disappointing. 
Personally  his  mhtaije  Avas  entirely  inexpensive  and  simple,  and 
this  Avas  so  throughout  his  life  ;  but  his  lavish  expenditure  on  his 
OAA’n  unremunerative  publications,  and  on  the  purchase  and  beau¬ 
tiful  binding  of  expensiAm  entomological,  ornithological,  and 
especially  botanical  and  even  arehieological  and  artistic  Avorks, 
had  crippled  his  resources,  and  he  had  noAV  a  Avife  and  family  of 
four  to  provide  for. 
“  Under  these  circumstances  he  Avrote  to  his  friend  Sir  Joseph 
Banks  requesting  that  he  might  be  informed  should  he  hear  of 
any  opportunity  of  applying  his  botanical  knoAvledge  to  the 
improvement  of  his  income.  Sir  Joseph  promptly  ansAA’ered  that 
the  Professorship  of  Botany  Avas  A’acant  in  the  University  of 
GlasgoAV,  and  that  he  AAas  ready  to  use  his  influence  to  obtain  it 
for  him  should  he  desire  to  become  a  candidate.  My  father 
answered  favourably,  and  at  once  left  for  Spring  Grove,  Avhere 
he  Avas  hospitably  receiA’ed  by  Sir  Joseph,  avIio  told  him  that  the 
emoluments  of  the  chair,  though  small,  AAOuld  certainly  increase; 
that  it  Avas  freed  from  all  medical  duties;  that  a  really  noble 
botanical  garden  had  been  formed  at  GlasgOAv,  to  aaIucIi  the 
University  had  given  £2,000  and  the  C'ity  £3,000,  and  toAvards 
the  development  of  AA’hich  he  could  assure  him  that  KeAV  Avould 
place  all  its  resources.” — [A  Biographical  Abstract  compiled  by 
IrAA’in  Lynch  from  a  Life-Sketch  sent  to  the  “  Annals  of  Botany  ” 
by  his  Son,  Sir  Joseph  Dalton  Hooker,  F.R.S.,  V.M.H.,  G.C.S.I., 
C.B.,  &c. — Journal  of  Royal  Horticultural  Society.] 
(To  be  continued.) 
Large  Yield  oe  Potatoes. — A  phenomenal  yield  of  Potatoes 
of  the  “  Sir  John  LIcAvelyn  ”  variety  Avas  d!ug  recently  by  Mr. 
J.  Taylor,  blacksmith,  of  Clun,  Herefordshire.  IMr.  Taylor 
planted  lib  of  this  sort  in  the  spring,  and  the  Aveight  Avhich 
they  yielded  Avas  over  301b. 
Tomatoes  in  a  Bar. — At  the  present  time,  aao  are  informed, 
one  may  Avitne.ss  Tomatoes  groAA’ing  on  a  plant  in  the  saloon  bar 
of  a  large  hotel  in  Central  London.  A  feAv  months  ago  a  young 
plant  AAas  introduced,  the  branches  climbing  up  cane  sticks, 
AA’hich,  AA’ith  a  perpendicular  upright,  resembled  a  large  kite. 
The  temperature  of  the  place  is  about  65deg  Fahr.,  and  noAV  the 
plant  is  full  of  fruit  almost  fully  matured. 
The  Storms  and  the  Trees. — At  Le  Tou(|U(>t,  AA-heri'  tlie  quaint 
old  chateau  is  surrounded  by  about  tAvo  thousand  acres  of  beau¬ 
tiful  AA'oods,  the  foliage  AAas  quite  green  on  the  day  of  a  recent 
storm,  but  on  the  folloAving  day  it  Avas  changed  to  a  muddy 
broAA'u.  This  Avas  not  only  on  the  side  exposed  to  tlie  Aiind,  Init 
Avas  general,  trees  in  sheltered  places  suffering  in  common  Avith 
thos^  AA'hich’  caught  the  full  fury  of  the  gale.  It  aaouIcI  be  in¬ 
teresting  to  haA’e  this  phenomenon  explained. 
