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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



[November 10, 188S-, 



liquid manure were supplied occasionally as required, 

 and the older branches cut away from time to time, 

 and young ones laid in. I have on many occasions 

 allowed one plant to fill this same house, and am 

 generally able to cut the best fiuit for exhibition 

 from plants grown on this method of extension. I 

 prefer plants struck from cuttings for fruiting in 

 summer, but seedlings for winter, as they have more 

 vigour than cuttings, and in my opinion are more 

 hardy. T. Lockie, Oakley Court, Windsor. 



TUSSILAGO FRAGRANS — In an able and prac- 

 ticable article on the formation of new herbaceous 

 borders (p. 510), Mr. Horsefield gives a list of plants 

 which he truly says will form " a fairly good and 

 interesting collection;" there are, however, two 

 species in that list that I would warn intending 

 planters against introducing into their border; T. 

 i'ragrans is one of these ; it is a weedy looking plant, 

 with dingy pale lilac flowers, very sweet, and pro- 

 duced in mid-winter. In a newly formed border the 

 creeping rootstock would quickly run riot aud 

 become a nuisance, monopolising the ground to the 

 detriment of the other plants ; in fact, it is utterly 

 unfit for a front-row plant, or any other part of the 

 border. The flowers are certainly very welcome in 

 the winter, and for these it could be planted in some 

 semi-wild place. T. farfara variegata is a very 

 pretty plant, but it has the same objectionable 

 characteristic root as the former plant, and in rich 

 soil there is always a danger of its reverting to the 

 green type, which is a most difficult plant to eradi- 

 cate. J. W. Odell. 



GAS-TAR. — The way to use the gas-tar referred 

 to in your last number, is to put a small piece of hay 

 or straw- rope round the stem of the bush close to the 

 ground, and it should be about 3 or 4 inches high ; 

 when the leaves are nearly fully expanded give the 

 r jpes a good coat of gas-tar : as it does not take much 

 time to do a lot of them, it may be repeated once or 

 twice during the summer, and if some fresh gas-lime 

 is sown under the bushes, it will be all the better, as 

 it will kill any grub that may be near the surface of 

 the earth, and I feel sure, that any of your readers 

 who may give it a trial, will be highly pleased with 

 the result. Bushes treated in this manner were not 

 attacked, and others left to chance, were completely 

 defoliated. J. M'Intosh. 



Violas as Bedding Plants.— I think that if 



the Council of the Royal Horticultural .Society could 

 be induced to invite collections of these at one of 

 their spring meetings, to be shown in bloom in pots 

 or pans, a very interesting exhibit might be ob- 

 tained. A large number of varieties is now being 

 cultivated, including some charming new varieties, 

 and it is necessary the public should have an oppor- 

 tunity of seeing them. If classes could be provided 

 for them at the Temple show, and sufficient induce- 

 ments offered to bring growers from a distance, a 

 delightful feature would be secured. When it is 

 remembered what a leading feature Tansies and 

 Violas in pots make at the great Whitsun show at 

 Manchester, and how much public notice they attract, 

 it seems desirable that opportunity should also be 

 afforded for such a display in London, if. D. 



Societies. 



NATIONAL CHRYSANTHEMUM. 



The great metropolitan show of the season, held 

 at the Royal Aquarium, "Westminster, on Wednesday 

 and Thursday last, brought together more than 500 

 entries, resulting in the largest show the Society hns 

 yet held. The quality was excellent as regards the 

 cut blooms, and less in plants in the groups. The 

 large number of entries caused severe competition in 

 most of the classes. 



Opek. 



Incurred.— Tor forty-eight blooms, not less than 

 twenty-four varieties, the place of honour was ac- 

 corded to Mr. P. Doughty, gr. to Mrs. M. Tomlin, 

 Angley Park, Cranbrook, for a stand of a truly 

 superb lot of blooms of large size, even, clean, 

 and solid, aud of very fine substance, out of 

 which the following varieties may be selected for 

 name: — Golden Empress, Empress of India, 

 Cherub, Norman Davis, Jardin des Plantes Violet 

 Tomlin, Charles Gibson, Emily Dale, Princess of 

 Wales, Alfred Salter, and Mrs. Halliburton. Mr. 

 J, Horsfield, lleytesbury, Wilts, was 2nd, following 



closely with a beautiful solid and clean lot of large 

 blooms, of which Empress of India, Jeanne dArc, 

 Bronze Queen, and Lord Alcester, were the finest, and 

 Prince Alfred, Jardin des Plantes, Baron Beust, Golden 

 Eagle, and Mrs. Rundle were also highly creditable, 

 the 3rd place being accorded to Mr. J" McKenzie, 

 gr. to T. S. Cornwallis, Esq., Linton Park, Maid- 

 stone, who also showed large blooms of very good 

 form Lord Alcester, Golden Empress, Barbara, Jar- 

 din des Plantes, Mrs. Heale, Cherub, Hero of Stuke 

 Newington, Lady Talford, and Princess of Wales 

 being the finest shown. 



Twenty-four, distinct. — In this smaller class Mr. 

 Sullivan, gr. to D. B. Chapman, Esq., Downshire 

 House, Roehampton, led with some capital flowers, 

 but the general quality here was behind that of the 

 forty-eight's — Barbara, Empress of India, Jardin des 

 Plantes, Nil Desparandum, Golden Empress, John 

 Salter, were the best — they were all rather inclined 

 to be rather flat but in other respects they were good. 

 2nd, Mr. J. Doughty, with large blooms, but weak in 

 the centre — Mrs. Hamilton, Mr. Bunn, Cherub, 

 Princess of Teck, White Venus, and Jardin des 

 Plantes, being the finest samples. Mr. A. Ives, gr. to 

 E. C. Jukes, Esq., Hope House, Winchmore Hill, was 

 3rd, with blooms of good form and colour, but smaller 

 than the foregoing — Lord Alcester and Golden 

 Empress being good exceptions, however ; and Mr. 

 Bunn, Lord Wolseley, and Le Grand were the best 

 of the others. 



Twelve incurved. — Mr. T. Skinner, gr. to J. Aird, 

 Esq., East Sutton Park, Staplehurst, was 1st in this 

 class, from which those competing in the twenty- 

 four were excluded ; he had blooms of good average 

 size and quality and of even form — Lady Hardinge, 

 Empress of India, Princess of Wales, Queen of 

 England, Emily Dale, and Jardin des Plantes being 

 shown well. 



Six blooms of any one variety. — Here there were 

 eleven entries, and the competition was very close, 

 Mr. J. Doughty leading with enormous heavy Golden 

 Empress ; while Mr. E, J. Thorne, gr. to J. T. 

 Mackenzie, Esq., Sunningdale Park, Sunningdale, 

 followed with Empress of India, but a shade smaller ; 

 and with the same variety Mr. J. Hewitt, gr to 

 H. B. Mackeson, Esq., Hill Side, Hythe, Kent, 

 was 3rd. 



Japanese, forty-eight blooms. — This was the lead- 

 ing class of the section, not less than twenty-four 

 varieties were to be shown. Here Mr. J. McKenzie 

 was a decided 1st, with a most wonderful lot of 

 blooms, all large, vigorous, and brightly coloured, 

 some being exceptionally large. E. Molyneux was 

 a conspicuous bloom, and, indeed, showed up well 

 all through the exhibition ; others were Madame J. 

 Laing, Criterion, Val d'Andorre, Soleil Levant, 

 Madame de Sevin, Madame C. Andiguier, Comtesse 

 de Beauregard, Elaine, LAdorable, Mons. Brunet, 

 and Baronne de Frailly. 2nd, Mr. W. Pack- 

 man, gr. to C. E. Shea, Eiq., The Elms, Foots Cray, 

 Kent, with a very fine lot of uniformly good size and 

 bright colour— Jeanne Delaux, E. Molyneux, Crite- 

 rion, Soleil Levant, C. Orchard, Mons. Freeman, 

 Elaine, Martha Harding, La Tiomphante, and Comte 

 de Germiny, being the most noticeable samples. The 

 3rd was Mr. Munro, gr. to E. J. C. Paul, Esq., 

 Twickenham, who followed closely on the 2nd lot 

 with Boule d'Or, F. A. Davis, Magnum Bonum, Val 

 dAndorre, Duchess of Albany, M. Marrouch, E. 

 Molyneux, and Madame C. Audiguier, as the best. 

 These prizes were awarded in a keen race of four- 

 teen competitors. 



Twenty-four, distinct.— The best were from Mr. 

 C. Cox, gr. to J. Trotter, Esq., Brickenden Grange, 

 Hertford, who led with an even stand of blooms of 

 fine size and very bright colours, of which the best 

 were E. Molyneux, Carew Underwood, Peter the 

 Great, Criterion, Madame C. Audiguier, Ralph 

 Brocklebank, Soleil Levant, Mons. Tarin, and Le 

 Triomphante. 2nd, Mr. J. Brown, gr. to Mrs. 

 Waterlow, Great Doods, lleigate, with a fair even 

 lot, with L'Or de Japon, Margot, Madame de Sevin, 

 Dr. Macary, Carew Underwood, C. Orchard, Madame 

 Baco, and Duchess of Albany, being the best repre- 

 sented. Mr. J. C. Waite, Glen hurst Gardens, Esher, 

 was 3rd, with finely-coloured blooms of even average 

 size, of which Duchess of Albany, Criterion, and Mrs. 

 II. Cannell, were good. 



Twelve distinct. — There was a capital show and 

 an excellent competition in this class, from which 

 exhibitors in the foregoing class were debarred. 

 Sixteen lots were staged, and the leading prize was 

 taken by Mr. S. Skinner, for a stand of very hand- 

 some blooms, slightly above the average for size, 

 E. Molyneux, Golden Dragon, C. Underwood, F. A. 

 Davis, Madame de Pigny, and Madame C, Audiguier 



being fiue examples. A close 2nd was made by Mr. 

 C. Edwards, gr, to W. Owen, Esq., The Elms, 

 Castle Bar, Ealing, with smaller blooms, but very 

 good, especially in Madame C. Audiguier, Boule d'Or, 

 Val d'Andorre, Madame J. Laing, Criterion, and 

 Soleil Levant. Following very closely indeed upon 

 this lot was a stand from Mr. S. Simpson, St. John's 

 Nursery, Chelmsford, whose blooms of Japonais, 

 Madame Audiguier, Val d'Andorre, and Maiden's 

 Blush were the best. 



Six blooms (one white variety). — As many as seven- 

 teen exhibitors staged in this class, and the result 

 was one of the features of the occasion. Competition 

 ran close indeed, and a place of well-deseived 

 honour was taken by Mr. J. McKenzie. with Meg 

 Merrilies, very pure for that variety ; Mr. W. Ju;>p° 

 gr. to G. Boulton, Esq., Eastbourne, with Avalanche, 

 was a near 2nd ; and 3rd, Mr. VV. Russell, gr. to 

 Dr. C. H. Lewis, with fine samples of Mdlle. 

 Lacroix. 



Six Japanese, any colour, one variety. — The four- 

 teen entries produced a number of most beautiful 

 and handsome blooms, Mr. J. McKenzie leading well 

 with superb examples of E. Molyneux, very larn-e, 

 and gloriously coloured ; 2nd, Mr. J. Doughtv, with 

 large, and highly coloured Belle Paule ; 3rd) Mr. J. 

 Ilewett, Maiden's Blush being the variety ; other 

 exhibits here were also very creditable. 



Twelve refiexed, large-flowered. — These were 

 shown to the number of six lots, the 1st prize falliu" 

 to Mr. C. Cox, gr. to J. Trotter, Esq., Hereford ; the 

 best blooms were Dr. Sharpe, Cloth of Gold, White 

 Christine, King of Crimsons, and Chevalier Domage. 

 2nd, Mr. Howe, gr. to H. Tait, Esq., Park Hal, 

 Streatham Common — Chevalier Domage, Cloth of 

 Gold, and Dr. Sharpe being his best blooms. Mr. 

 Hill, gr., Buckborough Park, Hythe, was 3rd, for a 

 very good dozen, the varieties chiefly those already 

 noted. 



Twelve Japanese reflexed.— In a good competition 

 the 1st place was taken by Mr. J. Hewett, with 

 large and full fine flowers of good substance — indeed, 

 the blooms were all good in this class ; Criterion, 

 Maiden's Blush, Amy Furze, Jeanne Delaux, and 

 Val d'Andorre were the best. 2nd, Mr. J. Kipling, 

 gr. to Lord Lytton, Knebworth, with excellent even 

 blooms of not over-large size ; we noticed two very 

 good flowers of Jeanne Delaux. Mr. D. Hill, gi . to 

 F. D. Brockman, Esq., Beachborough Park, Hythe, 

 followed closely, with Amy Furze, Maiden's Blush, 

 F. A. Davis, and Val d Audorre, a good form, and 

 bright. 



Twelve Anemone, large flowered.— In this class 

 the entries numbered five, and the blooms generally 

 were of excellent quality without any great dis- 

 parity between the various lots. 1st, Mr. M. Sul- 

 livan, gr. to D. B. Chapman, Esq., Downshire House, 

 Roehampton, with well furnished blooms of Nouvelle 

 Alvede, Lady Margaret, Acquisition, and Thorpe 

 Junior, a flower much like Gliick, but having an 

 orange-yellow centre instead of being all of one 

 shade of yellow. 2nd, Mr. Ives, gr. to E. C. Jukes, 

 Esq., Hope House, Wimbledon, smaller blooms, and 

 perhaps they were less dressed ; 3rd, Mr. M. Russell, 

 gr. to C. H. Lewis, Esq., Henfield, with nice flowers, 

 but too small. 



Twelve Japanese Anemones.— The best stand of 

 these was that put up by Mr. Ives, Hope House, 

 whose Madame Cabrol, Jeanne Marty, La Deuil, 

 very fine crimson ; Sceur Dorothy Souelle, and 

 Madame Bertha Pigny were line large flowers. 



There were three nice stands of the pretty Ane- 

 mone pompons, so useful as cut blooms and when 

 grown as small plants. 1st, Mr. R. Whihley, King 

 Edward's School, Southwark; 2nd, Mr. Hillier, 3, 

 Priory Road, Wandsworth. 



Pompons as cut flowers were sparsely shown, Mr. 

 Russell, of Henfield, taking 1st ; and Mr. Duncan 

 gr., Warnham Court, Sussex. 2nd. 

 ^M. Delaux's Prhes.—M. Simon Delaux, Toulouse, 

 France, ottered prizes for the best and largest 

 varieties sent out by him in the years 18S7 aud 1888, 

 and Messrs. Davis & Jones, Lilford Nurseries, Cam- 

 berwell, contributed a collection of about fifty 

 varieties in small examples ; M. Bergman, a reflexed 

 Japanese, very bright yellow, the petals curled— very 

 pretty; Mdlle. Louise Leroy, white, fluted and 

 pointed, Japanese reflexed ; Madame Meyard, Mr. 

 Drake, and Othello may be selected as the best. 

 Mr. W. Holmes, Frampton Park Nurseries, Hack- 

 ney, was a good 2nd in this division, with smallish 

 bright flowers of Mrs. J. J. Hillier, Lincoln's Inn, 

 Leader, and Mdlle. Louise Lacroix. 3rd, Mr. Owen, 

 Maidenhead, with Lucien Baltet and Malibran| 

 among others. These were the only exhibitors. 



Amateurs who do not employ raid Assistants. — 



