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Decemper 14, 1895.) 
THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
709 
shown u some B ipa by ruta Weber a 
English specialists. 
new variety, Tangarika, im bord by t the President of 
the German Dendrological Society, H 
Saint- Paul-Iilaire, directly from theImperial Cardone ns 
at Tokio. This giant variety measured 22 centimetres 
(about 84 inches) in diameter, is pure white, and of 
very fine habit. Hofmarschall von Saint-Paul wrote 
peculiar to the rhizomata of Iris florentina, This 
may, perhaps, be the parent of quite a new race, 
welcome to all those who do not like the scent of 
other Chrysanthemums. 
Of high interest " the same meeting was some 
forced Lilac Marly, exhibited by Mr. Harms, of 
Hamburgh. Mr. Harms remarked, that this variety is 
best for early forcing. It does not need much pre- 
uud horticultural exhibitions plants which were 
bought by the exhibitor ah 
of i: Роя. 
great exhibition іп 
jurors, the director of a famous Netherlands botanic 
garden, exclaimed, surprised,“ How comes this plant 
here? There exists of this species but one speci- 
men, and that is in my garden.” The exhibitor, 
questioned about the xnl declared that the head 
gardener had borrowed it for the exhibition, Сег- 
tainly the exhibitor has no other claim to merit 
than that of having t the rare plant to the 
exhibition. Toa him a prize would be absurd, 
but he earns large id c for the rích collections 
he has brought to the exhibition, which cannot be 
proved to be grown by himself. Certainly, at an 
exhibition, the labour of the cultivator should win 
purse to enable h 
from different nurseries. 
exbibitor does not declare that the exhibited plants 
are not cultivated by himself, The jurors cannot 
sid fot) 
Fre, 117.—LILIPUT NASTURTIUM. 
paration daring the preceding summer, as doe 
Charles X, The only preparation тате is i that 
Workmen should divide the bushes in the 
garden during the summer months, From one qd 
mètre Mr. Harms raised from 60 to 90 fower-stalks. 
At the same time, he forces three times during one 
sason, so that the yield is good, especially as e 
. Marly Lilac is still imported from Paris 
Dammer, 
riedenau, near Berlin, 
A Question RELATING TO INTERNATIONAL 
Honk riot ru SAL COMPETITIONS. 
Ia the — of и will be held, on the occasion 
of the ве e Berlin Horti- 
caltarat е». an inte i 
exhi ‘ 
is proposition considerable opposition was arouse 
Y mi the united committees of the society did not 
their approval to it. Now the general body 
bel the Fellows bas, at its next meeting, to decide 
it may be discussed is paper, Certainly it 
Would be a very important step if an international 
arrangement cou e. for the 
was, that there have been shown at recent 
know, without such a declaration, who is the grower 
ome exhibitors 
exhibited plants were cultivated b 
Against such no laws can avail, but I think that a 
great many would be afraid to do this if there 
were an 5 agreement that all those gor 
bitors who are of having misled j 
by false declarations concerning the origin of N 
plants shall ret any prize they may have won, 
shall be dede. from all exhibitions, . whether 
they be local or international ones, and their 
names a be published in the и horticul- 
tural pa of the countries. If this 
lution were ө ай inte: 
a short time would be се were— 
a true show of plants which different ende have 
ultivated. 
" It was said that the regulation that the planta 
must have been under cultivation for а certain 
period by the exhibitor, would give occasion for 
untruth. I say, that this can be met by the resolu- 
tion, that he who says that plants which the exhi- 
bitor declares to have been cultivated for the neces- 
y himself have not been cultivated for 
shall be confronted with 
i en who is 
reso- 
rnational one, p 9 in 
the exhibitor. Then 
right. And if this were done se 
untruths would be checked, 
There is no doubt that a great many cultivators 
will exhibit their plants, if they know that they 
have only to compete with other growers, and not 
With those who have selected the finest specimens 
from the best specialists. It is clear that ee gum 
the latter no cultivator can c e gar- 
dener’s endeavour is to improve bis n" te. He 
works to sell his plants, Now, there is, as regards 
the advancement of horticulture a great difference 
мони to whom a grower sells his plants—to 
а gardener who buys them for exhibition, or to the 
public, or to amateurs, Ia th t case, all who 
do not know the origin of the plants, will think that 
ts is the grower, Cer- 
buy | the best will go to the 
from the grower. It is doubtful if he can get together 
such a Collection a second time. all events, the 
grower’s name remains unknown, and he does not 
get the prices for his plants which he would get if he 
undertook the business himself; so it is to the inte- 
reat of the growers that they should exhibit their 
plants under their own names. is very short- 
sighted to say it is dre e same thing if the plants are 
sold to another 
han at the former; for an 
international exhibition is visited by far more persons 
than is a local one, and so competition is greater 
If the larger horticultural societies in England and 
on the Continent would unite to work in this direc- 
tion, local societies would certainly follow, and then 
this spurious competition would soon disappear from 
horticultural exhibitions. 
It is a queation of secondary interest to determine 
how long a plant must be cultivated by the exhibitor 
before it can be admitted to an exhibition. The 
exhibition committee at first proposed that the planta 
ust exhibitor from seeds or 
ulbs, &c., himself, 
his intereat. 
must be made for imported plants, as 
novelties ; but in both cases it is necessa 
exhibitor declare tbat the plants hare been fen 
ported, and how long ago they were imported, an 
also how long he has had the 3 in cultivaion 
and, if not self-grown, that he is not the grower. 
At all events, horticulture would be much advanced 
if these proposals should find acceptance by 
horticultural societies, 
exhibitions right has pr 
that they can compete fairly w 
their own special branches of caltivation. I should 
be glad to hear the opinion of English gardeners on 
this subject, Dr, Dammer, Curator of the Royal 
Botanic Garden, Berlin 
„ß — = ыз каке 
florist and п man of Erfurt, has introduced a 
new variety of Tropa epa oe nai dwarf in 
го ry respect smaller well- 
little flowers in great 
above the small * ere it - of the prettiest 
of annuals, The flowers are of dive 
of these being ой» 
varieties, This eta, and the fact that the seeds 
much smaller those, are evidences of an 
entirely new sehe: in the Tropeolum Lobbianum 
sec мх Deu has not as yet been able to 
fix the йш ; but, as he says, the mixture is 
highly effective i in groups and borders, 
