July 10, 1908 



HORTICULTURE 



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ROYAL HORTICULTURAL 



SOCIETY, LONDON. 

 The Novelties at the Exhibition on 

 June 22. 

 R. H. Bath, Wisbeck, was one of 

 the largest exhibitors of peonies, and 

 the ehcicer of the varieties he showed 

 were the following: Triumphans Gan- 

 davensis, a Hower about 9 inches in 

 diameter, and the anthers quite hidden 

 by the close doubling of the petals, 

 which are of a blush tint; Charlotte 

 d'Areniberg. a very large purplish 

 crimson flower; iMoria Boucharlet, 8 

 inches in diameter, of a light rosy 

 crimson color, and very full: Lemou- 

 lier, 9 inches in diameter, full, pink 

 with a purple suffusion; Fiancee, a 

 beautiful double white flower; Nymph, 

 having white guard petals, and central 

 mass of lemon-colored ones. 



Frank Cant & Co. showed several 

 roses not as yet common in our 

 gardens, viz.: Mme. Melanie Soupert, 

 a whitish fawn-colored Tea. of the 

 Niphetos form before the petals un- 

 fold; General Galljene, a Tea, deep 

 rose-pink, and white at the base of the 

 petals; Queen Mab, apricot color, shad- 

 ed orange and pink, a pretty flower 

 belonging to the Chinese section; 

 Irene Watts, white, tinted salmon red, 

 another beautiful variety of the same 

 section; and Anna Chartron, Tea, 

 blush tinted, with a pointed bud, an 

 exquisite coat flower. 



Paul & Son were exhibitors of the 

 rich purplish red-flowered Purple East, 

 a strong growing rambler, which bears 

 very large bunches of blooms. The 

 variety belongs to the Polyantha sec- 

 tion and was raised by the exhibitors. 

 Simone Beaumez, a Hybrid Tea, is a 

 fine, large blush-colored variety, a 

 really good thing. 



J. Veitch & Sons showed Rosa 

 Moyslii, a very distinct species from 

 China. The blooms are single, 3 inches 

 in diameter, blood red in color, and 

 borne on short spurs, and are of great 

 substance. The plant will grow, under 

 favorable conditions, to a height of 6 

 feet. 



The last-named firm were the ex- 

 hibitors of Linaria "The Pearl," an an- 

 nual growing in pots to a height of 

 1 1-2 ft. The plant produces numerous 

 slender stems topped with spikes of 

 pure white flowers, 3 inches long, the 

 individual blooms being about 1-2 in. 

 long, and the hood is tipped with bright 

 yellow— a pretty decorative plant for 

 the greenhouse, window box, or for 

 planting in beds for early flowering. 

 It has linear leaves. Alonzoa, Wars- 

 cewiczii compacta is a plant of a 

 slender habit of growth of about 1 1-2 

 ft. in height, the stems surmounted 

 with short inflorescences, consisting of 

 flowers 1-2 in. in diameter, and of a 

 bright scarlet color. Neniesia Blue 

 Gem is a pretty, dense-flowering an- 

 nual. 



Some new Heucheras, viz., Pluie de 

 Feu, scarlet, and H. purpurea marmo- 

 rata, crimson-brown, were shown by 

 G. Bunyard & Co. As showing what 

 may be done with the hylirid Cape 

 Pelargonium Clorinda, some standard 

 trained plants were shown by Ed. 

 Becket. The plants had a height of 5 

 to 6 feet, and were furnished with fine 

 tiusses consisting of 6 to 8 flowers of 

 rosy-pink color. 



Several new sweet peas were shown, 

 those from Mr. W. J. Unwin, viz., 

 Histon Favorite, orange-scarlet and of 



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 tint of orange-scarlet and Pink Pearl 

 light pink, being acquisitions of much 

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H. Burnett came out strongly in per- 

 petual flowering carnations. He show- 

 ed the novelties Fortuna. a yellow self, 

 with fringed margin, and Snowball, a 

 large and lieautiful white variety, with 

 petals that are nearly smooth. It is 

 not a true tree carnation, being a cross 

 between a border and a tree variety. 

 Mr. Burnett showed the new variety. 

 Rose Doree, cherry-red with orange 

 tinge. The flower is very full, and the 

 calyx is perfect. The variety was 

 raised by Mr. Lancashire, Guernsey. 



The following new Cannas were 

 shown by J. Veitch & Sons: Geheim- 

 Rath Borsig — a big truss and flowers— 

 the color old rose; C. Rosea Gigantea, 

 a dull rose-red variety; Duke Ernest, 

 glowing crimson — a large truss and 

 bloom; and R. Wallace, having flowers 

 of a rich yellow color and great size. 



A JUBILEE FLOWER SHOW FOR 

 HAARLEM. 



The following paragraph from a re- 

 cent letter received from Polman-Mooy 

 may be of interest to the readers of 

 HORTICULTURE: 



■•In April, 1910, there will be a jubilee 

 flower show in Haarlem, Holland, 

 which is to be held only half a mile 

 beyond our city nurseries and on the 

 same road. We expect to have a most 

 interesting exhibit of over 100,000 hy- 

 brid seedlings of hyacinths, tulips and 

 narcissus, all raised in this same oldest 

 nursery in Haarlem, now entirely 

 built in and on the same spot where 

 the great tulip speculation and finan- 

 cial disaster was experienced in Feb- 

 ruary, 1037. A large collection of the 

 same tulips as handled in the years 

 1633-163(; will also be on exhibition in 

 this original tulip nursery where our 

 firm was established just one hundred 

 years ago in ISIO. These are also the 

 same tulips on which a lecture was 

 held two years ago in New York by 

 Mr. Peter Barr of London. As tha 

 flowering season of these bulbs will 

 last from the first week in April un- 

 til the end of May of 1910, a visit to 

 these nurseries will no doubt Pyove 

 interesting at any time of the spring." 



Detroit. — Andrew Ferguson is very 

 slowly recovering from a very serious 

 illness which has continued ever since 

 la-^t fall— Chas. Warnke is going to 

 California and the Yukon Exposition 

 with the local lodge of Elks. 



Kentias, Arecas, Latanias, 

 Cocos, Phoenix, Araucarias, 

 Rubbers, Crotons, Pandanuses, 

 Asparagus, Ferns for Dishes. 



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