June 8, 1912.] 



THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 



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Messrs. C. H. Glover & Co., The Hatcham 

 Horticultural Box Works, Old Kent Road, 

 London, made a good display with a great variety 

 of light and strongly-made boxes suitable for 

 despatching garden produce by rail or parcels 



of boxes will prevent friction and damage to the 

 Cucumbers. There were fruit-trays (see fig. 39), 

 for gathering and storing Apples, of good de- 

 sign, and an excellent box (see fig. 40) for 

 despatching bouquets in perfect safety. 



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Fig. 37.— old Italian well-head with pulley, exhibited by 



messrs, g. trollope and co. 



post. The boxes are available in various sizes. 

 A punt-shaped gathering tray of light, clean- 

 looking wood for Strawberries seems to be just 

 what has been wanted, and a specially-designed 

 box for the transmission of Cucumbers is well 



Messrs. Vipan & Headley, Leicester, had 

 arden seats and other furniture in various 

 esigns in untreated teak wood, also painted and 

 varnished examples. Some of the semi-circular 

 seats for the termini of garden walks, or formal 



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worth the attention of growers ; the arrangement gardens, were well designed 



The Castles Shipbreaking Co., Ltd., Baltic 

 Wharf, Millbank, Westminster, S.W., exhibited 

 garden furniture in teak — a long range of design, 

 rigidity of make, and lasting qualities charac- 

 terised the exhibits. The Quartette table and 

 chairs is a very attractive arrangement ; the 

 chairs when not in use form corners apparently 

 of the table's structure. 



Messrs. T. Crowther & Son, 282, North End 

 Road, Fulham, had a very attractive stand of 

 old garden ornaments, temples of stone, wrought 

 figures, old garden seats, statuary, vases, dials, 

 plant stands, well-heads, balustrading, and other 

 examples of garden architecture and ornament. 



Messrs. W. Walters & Co., Amberley Works, 

 Croydon, Surrey, filled a stand with garden 

 treillage, garden seats, arches, and tubs in light 

 and elegant designs. 



Messrs. Abbott Bros., Southall, displayed 

 elegant folding tables, trays, and 

 stands for use in the garden. 



The Dryad Cane Works, 42, St. Nicholas 

 Street, Leicester, had a stand of garden furniture 

 in cane. ^ Wind-screened chairs, deck chairs, 

 garden chairs and lounges, invalid chairs, and 

 magazine rests were all included. 



The Leyton Timber Co., New Cross, London, 

 S.E., exhibited a series of rustic arches, fencing, 

 rest-houses, summer-houses, stands for growing 

 plants, pillars of rustic design, and gateways 

 chiefly in peeled and varnished oak. 



The Potters' Arts Guild, Compton, Guild- 

 ford, made an attractive exhibit of garden 

 pottery in grey ware. Urns, vases, dials, and 

 other earthenware ornaments were exhibited. A 

 novel birds' feeding table consisted of plinth and 

 column supporting Zl ware " trays and a tripod, 

 from which depended bird's food. The statuary 

 — about one-third life size — was excellent. 



The Coldrum Pottery, 10a, College Street, 

 Chelsea, erected a large bungalow, and filled it 

 with examples of pottery in various colours and 

 an infinity of design. All were hand made. 

 Many of the exhibits were of value for use in 

 terrace and pillar decoration. 



Garden Implements. : 



^ Messrs. E. A. White, Ltd., Paddock Wood, 

 Kent, showed " Abol " syringes of all sizes, 

 knapsack sprayers, and the noted Abol insecti- 

 cides. 



Messrs. Corry & Co., Ltd., London, displayed 

 garden cutlery and other appliances, bulb 

 bowls in many artistic designs, sprayers and 

 powder diffusers ; glass flower vases and tubes, 

 and a big collection of florists' sundries. Hedg- 

 ing and gardening gloves, a preparation named 

 Tenax, for use as a styptic, Elliott's improved 

 Summer Cloud shading, Corry's Quassia Ex- 

 tract, and the Lethorian Vapour Cone (a simple 

 means of fumigating greenhouses, large and 

 small), and Niquas, a non-poisonous fluid insecti- 

 cide were also on view. 



Mr. J. Haws, Clapton, showed his well- 

 known patent watering pots. He had also a 

 email sprayer, for use by exhibitors and others, 

 in the form of a blower, to be applied to the lips, 

 and a device for straining impure and manure 

 water to prevent the clogging of the spray rose 

 by the impurities. Soot-water fertilisers and 

 other matter of suspension is retained by this 

 screen in the body of the pot. 



The Halliford French Garden, Shepper- 

 ton, Middlesex, showed cloches, Cucumber tubes, 

 metal-mounted dibbers, and other appliances of 

 use in intensive vegetable culture; also Bussell's 

 paints, recommended for general garden use. 



Dr. A. C. Harris, Howard Road, Leicester, 

 exhibited the Grippee garden tool, a walking 

 stick device for lifting weeds, cutting flowers 

 and foliage, and returning the cut portion. The 

 tool is elegantly finished, and is effective for use 

 as a "casual" weeder and pruner. 



Messrs. Barr & Sons, 11-13, King Street, 

 Covent Garden, W.C., exhibit a large collection 

 of gardening tools of all descriptions, secateurs, 

 flower-gathering scissors, knives, and other 

 pruning tools, labels of the several materials, 

 Barr's bulb planter and bulb dibber (see fig. 38), 

 effective in boring holes in the hardest soil effec- 

 tively and cleanly, a very handy hoe for use in 

 flower borders, &c. (see fig. 38), a complete set of 

 ladies' gardening tools, and various gardening 

 requisites were included in this exhibit. 



The French Cloche Co., Caxton House, 

 Westminster, exhibited novel tools used in in- 

 tensive cultivation, in addition to glass and 





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