June 1, 1912.] 



THE GARDENERS 



CHRONICLE. 



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done themselves more credit than at the Inter- 

 national. From whatever aspect the group was 

 considered, even the most captious critic could 

 find no fault. Three varieties received Awards 

 of Merit from the special committee of Sweet 

 Pea experts representing the Royal Horticultural 

 Society. These were Brunette (a quite distinct 

 mahogany red), Melba (the exquisite soft salmon), 

 and Mrs!' Cuthbertson (a superb bicolor, which 

 has a marked characteristic of throwing five 



the blooms, but the varieties were admirably 

 chosen and disposed to create a pleasing effect. 

 Annabel Lee is a splendid variety, both in respect 

 of size and form ; the colour is a peculiar shade of 

 rose-mauve with some lilac in the wings. Minnie 

 Furnell, Moneymaker, George Stark Improved, 

 Stirling Stent, Melba, and Bobby Stewart were 

 also finely shown. 



Messrs. E. W, King & Co., Coggeshall, Ef 

 were represented by a small but highly -meritori- 



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blooms on a stem. Other varieties of excel- 

 lence were Lavender George Herbert, Thomas 

 Stevenson, True Lavender, Lady Miller, Decora- 

 tor, . Inspector, May Campbell, Mark's Tey, 

 Elfrida Pearson and Dobbie'e Scarlet. 



Mr. W. E. Alsen, Wateiiooville, Hants., ar- 

 ranged a group at some distance from the other 

 exhibits in this section. There was evidence of 

 great strength in the stems, and in some few in- 

 stances this was ACfWrnnATTiPfl h\r wi/fo rkl»r»incr nf 



ous group. Varieties were numerous, but 

 Anglian Blue and Anglian Pink were so con- 

 spicuously superior to all their fellows that we 

 will not eet rivals against them by naming others. 

 The flowers proved sound culture and the arrange- 

 ment was good. 



Messrs. G. Stark & Son, Great Ryburgh, Nor- 

 folk, had an ambitious exhibit, for they had 

 limited the varieties to those of their own raising 

 and introduction. George Stark Improved, Her- 



cules, Florence Wright Spencer, Margaret Coot 

 and Helen Williams were especially attractive^, 

 but there was not a weak vase in the whole col- 

 lection. 



Messrs. R. Sydenham Limited, Tenby Street, 

 Birmingham, had a stand in which quality of 

 bloom was combined with good variety and ex- 

 cellence of arrangement. The varieties Mrs. 

 T. W. Warren, Charles Foster, Lady Evelyn Eyre 

 and Iris were particularly fine. 



Mr. C. W. Breadmore, Winchester, staged a- 

 fine collection, and also had many varieties in 

 tubs. In the cut-flower exhibit varieties were 

 numerous, some of the finest being Elsie Herbert, 

 Lord Curzon, Aggie Elder, Princess Mary, Helen 

 Lewis, Mrs. C. W. Breadmore, Clara Curtis, 

 Freda, Counters Spencer, and Maud Holmes. 



Messrs. R. H. Bath, Ltd., Floral Farms, Wis- 

 bech, had a beautiful group of excellent varie- 

 ties. Thomas Stevenson, Charles Foster, Mauve 

 Queen, Isabel, Dorothy and Scarlet Emperor were 

 especially noticeable as being shown in perfect 



condition. 



Mr. J. Agate, Sea View Nurseries, Hayant, 

 arranged a group, in which the best varieties 

 were Felice Lyne, Captain Travers, Mr. Herbert 

 Lees, Stirling Stent, and Barbara. 



The blooms staged by Mr. Stevenson, Wim- 

 borne, were on the small side in both spikes and 

 blooms, but the goup was up-to-date so far a* 

 varieties are concerned. Doris Usher, Scarlet 

 Emperor, May Campbell, and Mrs. Cuthbertson 



W6I*£ 3*11 200Q. 



Messrs. S. Bide & Sons, Farnham, had a collec- 

 tion comprising all the leading standard varieties- 

 and novelties in capital form. 



ALPINES. 





The Craven Nursery Co., Ingieborough, 



Yorkshire, won the special cup offered by Lady 

 Trevor Lawrence for Alpines in Class 246. \m 

 this class the plants were required to be shdftft 

 in pots, pans, or boxes, without the ustf of 

 *rock. Consequently the eftective massing t*> 



of certain species growing naturally 



was more difficult than 



For example, a', fine 



gether of certain 

 similar 



in similar places 

 in the ordinary rockery, 

 mass of Primula ferinosa was in this exhibit inter- 

 spersed with elegant blooms of Saxifraga lingir- 

 lata. Other Saxifimas shown in fine condition 

 were S. lantoscana, S. cochlearis, S. csesia, b. 

 squarrosa,' and S. valdensis. A grafted specimen 

 of the rare Daphne rupestris, 8 by 6 metes 

 in extent, is probably the finest in existence. 

 The deep-blue bells of Wahlenbergia serpylli- 

 folia from the Pyrenees were in splendid profu- 

 sion. Among other noteworthy plants ob- 

 served were Dianthus frigidus and D. alpinus, 

 Anemone svlvestris var. major, Campanula 

 eenisia, Aquilegia glandulosa, Campanula alpm* 

 (a much rarer species than the common C. bar- 

 bata, which it somewhat resembles, but hardly 

 so beautiful), and Ranunculus crenatus (which 

 takes the place in the Eastern Alps of R. alpcs- 

 tris). Pleasing groups of Primula Cockburniana, 

 P. pedemontana, P. carniolica, and the pale- 

 yellow P. sikkimensis were tastefully arranged 

 among the Saxifragas. A fine bank of small 

 dwarf Pinus montana and P. Cembra, relieved 

 here and there with Globe flowers and Cypn- 

 pedium spectabile, formed a suitable background 

 to this interesting exhibit. 



CARTER'S JAPANESE GARDEN. 



Messrs. Carter & Co., of Raynes Park, had 

 thoroughly transformed the large space allotted 

 to them for laying out their Japanese garden. 

 It was difficult to realise that only a few weeks 

 ago we saw this same piece of ground given up 

 to the children for playing games. There was 

 a. garden capable of accommodating several hun- 

 dred visitors at the same time, with three 

 separate entrances. The one nearest to the 

 Gaideners' Chronicle bureau, in the thatched 

 archway, with a pair of fine old bronze Japa- 

 nese lanterns, admitted us to the splendid 

 garden. On the left there stood a bronze 

 sacred Hoho bird, of splendid workmanship, 

 with its seven long tails and fierce ruffled hackle. 

 This fine piece of Japanese art will adorn Sir 

 Frank Crisp's well-known garden at Friar Park, 

 Henley-on-Thames. On the right we saw an old 

 Japanese well, its square wooden bucket hang- 

 ing ready for use, with the rope passed over a 

 large wooden pulley. Immediately in front the 

 eye was attracted by a large mound planted with 

 many specimen Umbrella Pines (Sciadopitym 



