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IRISH GARDENING 



Mrs. Greer, of C'urragli Grange, was awarded the fii>l 

 prize for tlie following pans of Aubrietia delloidea 

 cilicica and A. Dr. Mules, Primula malacoides, I'. 

 Forresti and P. froiidosa, Saxifraga bathoniensis, 

 S. Wallace!, Morisia liypog.i-a, Krinus alpinus, Genliana 

 acaulis, Iberis Little (iem and Viola gracilis |a good 

 pan). It would have been a keen liglit for the fiist prize 

 if Mrs. Mitchell, of Blackrock, had not been disquali- 

 fied owing to the over size of I he pans. The schedule 

 reads — "Pans not lo exceed 12 inches or be under S 

 inches (outside nieasmement I." Pans and pols are not 

 usually measured by outside measurement, but the 

 inside, so this means a competitor ordering an ordinary 

 12-inch pan gets one 13 inches oulside measurement, and 

 would be disqualified. This is just a warning to future 

 competitors, and happened in the case of Mrs. Mitchell 

 In this exhibit was the finest pan of the twenty-four, a 

 lovely piece of .Androsace Chumbyi. 



Captain Riall secured an easy first in the class lor 24 

 kinds of hardy flowers ; his e.xhibit included the follow- 

 ing: — Lonicera tatarica, Cytisus pra;cox. Auricula 

 Ale.xandra, Orobus vernus. Muscari Heavenly Blue, 

 Amygdalus nanus, Coronilla glauca, X'eronica Lavau- 

 diana. Erica arborea. Crown Imperial, Dendromecon 

 rigidum, Dielytra spectabilis, Waterer's Cherry, Fritil- 

 laria Meleagris, Iris bucharica. Pulmonaria virginica, 

 Exochorda .\lberti macrantha. The last was almost 

 the only vase which was not well shown, for this Exo- 

 chorda is one of the best, if not the most beautiful, of 

 April flowering shrubs, and to do it justice it should 

 be cut on branches jS inches or more in length. 



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Mr. Bewley well deserved his success with the Koses. 

 His Fran Karl Druschki. Mrs. E. Mawley, &c., were 

 magnificent, while in Class 49 a perfect flower of Hugh 

 Dickson sent a certain rose enthusiast into an ecstacy 

 of delight. Mr. Bewley is to be congratulated upon his 

 Koses and also upon a table of Amaryllis seedlings of 

 his own raising, but not upon his table of plants, where 

 I artistic effect is supposed to be the chief consideration. 

 The judge must have had an " Orchid eye " and must 

 have been caught by the Dendrobium Dalhousianum in 

 the centre of the table ; but if one stood back a short dis- 

 tance to see the effect, the group looked thin and skimpy 

 and the beauty of the flowers was marred, for the bare 

 native ugliness of the pots dominated the whole group. 

 In this respect the second and third prizes were a 

 beautiful contrast, having a well-clothed, restful and 

 furnished appearance. 



In the dinner-table decoration Colonel Claude Cane, 

 of Celbridge, had a most artistic and beautiful arrange- 

 ment of Gerberas. Gypsophila and Carex leaves, show- 

 ing what can be done with the Transvaal Daisy and its 

 hybrids. But the prevailing idea seemed to be that 

 the second prize table ought not to have been at 

 all placed in the winning list. 



Messrs. Ellis, of Rathgar (city florists), had a display 

 of Ferns, Heaths, &.c. , which were certainly arranged in 

 a most attractive manner, although many of the plants 

 had a very Covent Garden appearance. This group 

 received a gold medal. On the opposite side was a 

 well-arranged group of mostly hardy flowering shrubs 

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