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HORTICULTURE 



785 



The Great Temple Show at London^ England, 



SOME NOTABLE PLANT EX- 

 HIBITS. 

 Herewith I post you full report R. 

 H. S. grand show at the Temple. It 

 was crowded first day, and on the 

 second three thousand people passed 

 the turnstile, so altogether it was a 

 record show, as doubtless today, the 

 third day, at one shilling entrance. 

 the masses have attended in thou- 

 sands. The first day it was so dull 

 and overcast in the afternoon that 

 the prize cards could not be easily 

 read, and the names, unless boldly 

 typewritten, could not be deciphered. 

 Scarcely any of the exhibitors got all 

 the space they applied for, and many 

 who had brought extras to fill up were 

 obliged to leave them unpacked or to 

 stand them behind the marquees, 

 while even the outside groups, always 

 a grand feature of this show, were 

 too crowded. T. Cripps & Son showed 

 Japanese maples, including all the 

 finest of the palmatum and the sep- 

 temlobum kinds. The uniformity of 

 grouping was relieved by large plants 

 of vitis and clematis. Color was 

 given by some fine rhododendrons and 

 Azalea Altaclarenae. A finish to the 

 grass was formed by Cornus Moseri- 

 ana tricolor, ivy Silver Queen, and 

 Euryalatifolla variegata. .Joining this 

 was the noble bank arranged by John 

 Waterer & Son, chiefly rhododen- 

 drons and Kalmia latifolia. the mass 

 being broken up by the insertion of 

 finely bloomed trees of Viburnum 

 plicatum. Pink Pearl was again, both 

 as regards color and size, much to the 

 fore. L. R. Russell's group was 

 broken up by tall plants of Osman- 

 thus aquifolia purpurea — as standards, 

 Eleagnus picta aurea and the noble E. 

 macrophylla. while a glorious plant of 

 the new golden variegated Dimor- 

 phanthus Manduricus flanked the 

 group on either side and a background 

 was built up of specimen hollies and 

 ivies. This firm had also well flowered 

 pyramids of Ceanothus Veitchi and 

 Photinia serrulata. 



Paul & Son, Fromow & Sons. Low 

 & Co., J. Cutbush & Sons, Pulham & 

 Son, David Russell & Sons, R. Smith 

 & Co.. and Veitch & Son were among 

 the other outside exhibitors, all mak- 

 ing large and striking groups of their 

 several specialties. Entering the ex- 

 hibition hall the first exhibits were 

 those of Carter and Sutton, then the 

 fruit display from the garden of Lord 

 Aldenham, then began the banks of 

 flowers, a center of attraction being 

 ■cut boughs of the copper Austrian 

 "briar rose by George Mount. Baron A. 

 de Rothschild put up a rich treat in 

 fine fruits: George Bunyard showed 

 about 100 dishes of apples and pears, 

 fruit trees in pots and a glorious show 

 of herbaceous perennials. 



Scientific readers will like to know 

 that Messrs. Storrie showed prim- 

 roses, and their gradual evolution into 

 polyanthus cowslips and the changes 

 were accentuated by red cotton ra- 

 diating from a center: they also had a 

 white Polyanthus most singularly fas- 

 ciated, and a Polyanthus primrose 

 named Alchemist thought to be a 

 veritable hybrid. 



Jno. Laiug & Sons had a bank of 

 line double begonias, but the grand- 



est as yet shown, were those of Biack- 

 more, Box, and A. Guillim, the last 

 especially grand in new double forms 

 — one, Trancendent was at least six 

 inches over! H. B. May was an easy 

 first with ferns — the "shot silk" Poly- 

 podium Mayi." Nephrolepis Whit- 

 manii. Davallias effusa and repens, 

 Osmunda palustris, Mayi and Nephrol- 

 epis todaeoides and exaltata superba 

 being extra fine. 



Thomas Rochford &Son also had 

 a lovely bank of Nephrolepis todae- 

 oides superba. Of roses, George Mount 

 had the finest lot both tor quality and 

 variety, and the weather being cold 

 and dull, they kept well even to the 

 last da.v. He had few novelties. 

 These were in Frank Cant's show. D. 

 Harum, J. B. Clarke, Dean Hole, Poly. 

 Btoile d'or. Mildred Grant. Florence 

 Pemberton, Lady Roberts and rambler 

 Grus an Zobern, with Mons. I. Hill 

 being most notable, while W. Paul's 

 Snowstorm, so very aptly named, has 

 come to stay, and Sinica Anemone is 

 a chaste single white. Ben Cant had 

 "Tea rambler", atropurpurea and 

 others. MM. Van Waveren put up 

 large plants of new astilbes, both 

 pink. Peach blow and Queen Alexan- 

 dra, novel but no gain in this fiower. 



I. A. Bruce brought from Manchester 

 a good collection of Darlingtonias and 

 sarracenias. which attracted much 

 notice, but in contrast with a noble 

 bank of caladiums, by Laing & Son, 

 and Peeds — where were they? Laing's 

 best were Rose Laing, Mons. Delias, 

 Souvenir de la Barronne. Madm. Box, 

 Ignatu and Madame A. de Rothschild. 

 Then came H. Cannell's glorious can- 

 nas — Crozy's and Ptitzer's best splen- 

 didly flowered, Wm. Pfltzer and Gerard 

 Low. the finest. Phyllocactus German 

 Empress, a lovely soft rose sort, will 

 doubtless make a grand window plant. 

 Tree and Malmaison carnations were 

 well shown, by C. F. Waters, among 

 them being some unnamed but very 

 promising seedlings. Burnet says the 

 best yellow yet is Ceres. A crimson 

 seedling shown by C. Englemann is 

 highly clove scented and will take the 

 place of even such great favorites as 

 Pike and Harlowarden, 



Orchids, which must have suffered 

 in the cold of Tuesday night, were 

 plentiful, but the daily press may be 

 left to appraise them for cash value, 

 seemingly their only standard 

 of appreciation. J. Linden (Brus- 

 sells) sent Odontoglossum crispum 

 "Reine d'Angleterre" and Cochleoda 

 Noetlana, both of unique form, color 

 and price. Just a line or two regard- 

 ing Jackman's Gladiolus Cardinalis 

 vars., Spanish iris and pyrethrums — ■ 

 they were lovely, but too crowded, and 

 their finest white clematis. Mrs. Geo. 

 Jackman and Ville de Lyon, and many 

 fine herbaceous plants of recent intro- 

 duction Peed's gloxinias — mostly 

 erect-flowered — were splendid. 



Other tiotable exhibitors were J. 

 Backhouse & Son. alpine plants; King 

 & Co., sweet peas. Hobbies, Limited, 

 roses; W. Cutbush, herbaceous flowers 

 and lilies; Cheals, Peter Barr & Sons, 

 John McKercher, C. Turner, R. C. 

 Notcutt. Misses Hopkins and others, 

 besides a ntimber of the Agricultural 

 Colleges, all of which we should like 

 to describe in detail if space would 

 permit. THOMAS BUNYARD. 



NEW AND RARE PLANTS AT THE 

 TEMPLE SHOW. 



The great annual Spring Flower 

 Show of the Royal Horticultural So- 

 ciety of England opened in London 

 yesterday (May 28th) and continues 

 today and tomorrow. I suppose that 

 nowhere else in the world is there 

 ever gathered together such a galaxy 

 of flower riches as at the Temple 

 Show, the orchid displays especially 

 being unrivalled. 



The Veitchian Cup, the highest 

 honor that the show can bestow, this 

 .year was awarded to a magnificent 

 group of orchids exhibited by Major 

 Holford. The arrangement of the 

 group was excellent, each plant being 

 placed clear of its neighbor so that 

 all were seen to advantage. Messrs. 

 Sander & Sons and Mr. Jeremiah Cole- 

 man were awarded gold medals for 

 their orchid displays. 



The Roses. 



Among the roses the ramblers were 

 first favorites. Nothing attracted 

 more attention than Hiawatha. Its 

 profusion of crimson flowers, rendered 

 additionally attractive, first by the 

 bunch of yellow stamens and, when 

 these fade, by the white eye that then 

 becomes conspicuous, gained many 

 friends. This year, as last, it was un- 

 doubtedly the rose of the show. A 

 charming new rambling rose called 

 Kathleen has made a very favorable 

 impression. It produces loose bunches 

 of pink apple-blossom-like flowers at 

 the ends of the side roots. It is a 

 multiflora variety of the same style of 

 growth as Crimson Rambler and not 

 of the 'Vi'^ichuraiana class like Hiawatha 

 and Lady Gay. I noticed a remark- 

 able new shrubbery rose in the group 

 from Messrs. Benjamin Cant, named 

 Nance Christy. The leaves are un- 

 usually strong and look as though they 

 might remain on the plants through- 

 out the winter. The flowers are semi- 

 double salmon pink. The only rose 

 to obtain an award of merit was Dr. 

 William Gordon, a handsome H. P. 

 shown by William Paul. The blooms 

 are bright pink, large and full and in 

 their early stages the petals are ex- 

 quisitely turned in the same way as 

 those of La France. Two new Poly- 

 antha roses were exhibited. One, 

 Maman Levavasseur, exhibited by 

 MM. Levavasseur et fils of Orleans, 

 was described as "a perpetual Baby 

 Dorothy," which I take it is intended 

 to refer to Dorothy Perkins. The 

 flowers, however, are not nearly so 

 double as those of Dorothy Perkins, 

 although they are more brightly col- 

 ored and are very freely produced. 

 The other variety is called Phyllis 

 and was shown by Messrs. Merry- 

 weather, an English firm. The blooms 

 are bright clear rose and the plants 

 are said to blossom until the autumn. 

 Some Notable Plants. 

 Cheal's pink variety of Lupinus 

 polyphyllus is a charming plant. Car- 

 ter's Petunia Queen of Roses is very 

 showy and in the mass would make 

 a grand display. The color is bright 

 rose and the bloom has a greenish 

 white throat. Tuberous begonias were 

 exceptionally fine and several new va- 

 rieties obtained an award of merit. 

 Mrs. Marshall, a striking double va- 

 riety bright red w'ith crinkled petal 



