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December  24,  1903.  JOURi\'AL  CF  IIOBFIGULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER. 
Messrs.  Veitclfs  nursery,  .said  to  be  a. sport  from  iMadame  ’  R. 
Cadlniry,  was  a  very  large,  finely  finished  flower  of  a  deep  golde;<i 
colour,  the  petals  very  broad  and  thick,  thus  partaking  of  the 
character  of  its  parent.  It  has  the  further  advantage  of  not 
damping  off.  The  vai'iety  is  not  yet  named.  A  beautiful  whit  ' 
variegated  Borecole  named  “  The  Albino  ”  was  also  shown. 
every  po.ss’ible  way.  Mr.  J.  Vv^.  Henderson  propo.'-d 
“  Our  Guests.”  to  which  Mr.  W  alter  Keatinge,  secretary 
of  the  Royal  Horticultural  Society  of  Ireland,  replied.  Other 
toasts  followed,  the  proceedings  concluding  with  tlie  singing  of 
”  Auld  Rang  Syne.”  The  hon.  sec.  ol  thi.s  .\ssoci;ii  ion  i.s  .Mr. 
Jas.  McDonough,  of  Sir  Jas.  ^lackey’s. 
Cardiff:  Bees. 
Newport  (Mon.) :  Six  Good  Vegetables. 
Caediff  Gardeners’  Association.— .\t  a  meeting  held  at  the 
Grand  Hotel  on  Tuesday,  December  15  (Mr.  H.  K.  Farmer  in 
the  chair),  Mr.  W.  Richards  delivered  a  lecture  entitled  ‘‘  Bees 
as  Fertilisers,  Florists,  and  Fruit  Producers,”  illustrated  by  a 
■series  of  slides.  The  lecture  was  thoroughly  a  botanical  and 
educational  one,  for  flowers  and  fruits  rvere  repre.sented  in  their 
various  stages  before  and  after  fertilisation,  showing  the  result 
of  the  work  of  bees.  The  best  thanks  of  the  meeting  were 
accorded  Mr.  Richards  for  his  much  appreciated  lecture.— 
J.  Julian. 
I  Dublin  Seed  and  Nurserymen’s  Employes’  Association, 
Newport  (iMoN.)  Gardeners’  Associatio.n.— The  members  of 
thi.s  association  held  their  usual  meeting  on  Wednesday,  Decem¬ 
ber  y,  when  i\Ir.  J.  Lee,  member  of  the  Bristol  Gardeners’ 
As.sociation,  read  a  very  able  paper  on  “Six  Good  Vegetable.s.” 
Mr.  Lee  had  been  ordered  by  his  association  not  to  includ:; 
in  his  paper  such  vegetables  as  Onions,'  Cauliflowers,  Peas, 
Beans,  Celery,  Ac.,  so  the  si.x  he  had  .selected  were  Potatoes, 
Cabbages,  Vegetable  Marrows,  Turnips,  out  of  doors  Tomatoes, 
and  Rhubarb.  Earh'  supplies  of  Potatoes  are  much  appre¬ 
ciated,  ,so  Mr.  Lee  gave  instructions  how  to  grow  these,  moro 
especially  growing  them  in  lOin  pots  on  shelves  in  a  greeu- 
hou.se,  also  in  pit  sand  frames  on  hotbeds.  The  variety  he, 
found  to  do  be.st  for  thi.s  work  was  Sharpe’.s  Victor. 
Cabbages  were  next  dealt  with,  and  the  sort  he  recom¬ 
mended  for  tlie  earliest  was  Kllam’s  Early,  being  much  ajipre- 
ciated  in  early  .spring.  Directions  were  '  given  for  growiiig 
The  Black  Poplar.  (See  page  588.) 
On  Saturday,  December  12,  at  the  Gresham  Hotel,  Dublin, 
the  above  newly-formed  Association  held  an  inaugural  dinner. 
There  was  a  large  attendance,  and  the  chair  was  occuihed  hy 
Mr.  A.  J.  Sinclair,  who  was  supported  by 
F.  W.  Burbidge,  M.A.,  V.M.H.,  Ac.,  on 
the  right,  and  Mr.  D.  McLeod,  ofWlessrs. 
W.  Drummond  and  Sons,  lAd.,  on  the  left. 
]\Ir.  Burbidge  proposed  the  toast  of  the 
and  Nunsery  Employes’  Asso- 
Dublin  Seed 
elation.  He  was  glad,  he  said,  to  see  the 
junior  members  were  so  strongly  in  evidence, 
and  thought  the  Association  was  bound  to 
succeed!  Mr.  Hall,  in  response,  said  if  there 
was  anyone  in  Dublin  who  should  recognise 
the  value  of  that  society  it  was  the '  em¬ 
ployers.  In  the  seed  trade  they  had  much 
to  iearn,  as  nothing  could  be  left  to  chance. 
He  thanked  them  for  responding  so  heartily 
to  the  toa.st. 
Mr.  Joseph  Alexander  Rochfort,  in  pro¬ 
posing  the  toast  of  “  The  Seed  and  Nursery 
Trades,”  said  he  was  very  sorry  that  they 
coidd  not  use  the  word  profession  instead 
of  trades  when  referring  to  these 
bu.sinesses.  He  was  of  opinion,  owing 
to  its  difficult  and  detailed  nature  and  the 
amount  of  study  one  had  to  go  through 
to  be  proficient,  that  it  ought  to  rank  as  a 
profession  (applau.se),  or  at  least  be  brought 
up  to  a  standard  similar  to  the  Pharma¬ 
ceutical  Society,  which  had  an  Act  of  Par¬ 
liament  to  protect  it.  The  seed  and 
nur.sery  trades  were  to  his  mind  the  closest 
allies  the  Department  of  Agriculture  could 
have  in  working  out  their  schemes  for  the 
improvement  of  agriculture  in  Ireland,  to 
say  nothing  of  reafforesting. 
Mr.  D.  !MacLeod,  in  reply,  .said  he  re¬ 
gretted  the  absence  of  their  venerable 
pre.sident  (!Mr.  David  Drummond,  J.P.), 
owing  to  the  weight  of  years.  Being  on 
the  verge  of  ninety,  they  could  liardly  ex¬ 
pect  him  to  be  with  them.  He  impressed 
on  the  young  men  the  importance  of  fitting 
themselves  for  a  higher  sphere  of  labour, 
by  doing  more  than  the  mere  mechanical 
work  at  which  they  were  employed.  If  they 
did  this,  they  would  qualify  themselves  for 
better  and  higher  positions  in  the  future. 
He  hoped  that  before  long  that  Association 
would  have  a  domicile  of  its  own,  and  in 
that  domicile  he  hoped  to  see  established  as 
an  aid  to  improvement,  a  library  of  books 
of  reference  on  botany,  and  other  kindred 
subjects  that  wilt  ((ualify  the  young  men  to 
take  a  noble  part  in  the  u.seful  sphere  in 
which  they  are  jilaced  in  this  country,  or 
in  any  country.  He  should  also'  like  to  see 
there  specimens  of  various  plants,  including 
weeds,  so  that  tho.se  wlio  studied  would 
know  where  they  grew,  and  all  about  them. 
As  to  the  heads  of  the  .seed  and  nursery 
trade  in  Dublin  aiding  the  Association,'  he 
wim  sure  that  he  miglA  safely  say  that  they 
woidd  not  be  backward  in  coming  forward. 
The  firm  with  which  he  had  the  honour 
to  be  intimately  identified,  would,  he  was 
sui'e,  gladly  give  whatever  support  they 
could,  and  encourage  the  As.sociation  in 
