JOURNAL OP HOKTICTTLTURE Alrt) COTTAGE GABDENEK. 



[ June 27, 1883. 



Cottage, York, for twenty-four distinct varieties, in trusses 

 of three with foliage and buds, there were three competitors, 

 and the first place was again easily obtained to Mr. Keynes. 

 Amongst these were some splendid blooms of Comtesse 

 Ouvaroff; Gloire de Vitry, Madame Knorr, Madame Charles 

 "Wood, Comtesse de Cliabrillttnt, Souvenu- d'un Ami, Victor 

 Verdier, and John Hopper. The only decidedly bad blooms 

 were La Fontaine, all three of which were loose and open. 



"We have not much space to accord to the amateur classes. 

 There were many competitors for sixes and twelves ; Mr. 

 Evans's twelve being very good. In eighteens, the com- 

 petition was not so close. Mr. Perry was first with good 

 blooms of Charles Lefebvre, Paul Eicaut, Jean Goujon, John 

 Hopper, Madame Boll, and Senateur Vaisse. -As a general 

 rule we may remark, that the Roses in the amateur classes 

 were not shown sufficiently fully expanded; for though 

 many Eoses ai-e prettiest when half opened, yet in an exhi- 

 bition of Koses we are of opinon that those which keep their 

 form and shape when fully opened will always bear off the 

 palm against mere buds, and it ought to be the object of 

 Eoae growers to select those which are best when fuUy ex- 

 panded, and which are more likely to prove of general 

 service in our flower gardens. 



There were four classes for Eoses in pots, but none that 

 were very worthy of remark, as the hot weather had been 

 too forcincf, and the colour of the Eoses was not good ; a 

 plant of Charles Lawson was the best. 



"We have not space at present to particularise the other 

 features of the Show, but we cannot pass over the splendid 

 collection of Pelai-goniums shown by Mr. May, of Bedale, 

 who easily distanced all competitors. Amongst the Fancies 

 were splendid plants of Exquisite, Madame S. Dolby, and 

 Countess of "Waldegrave. His twelve English Pelargoniums 

 were — Ariel, Lord Clyde, "Viola, Eose Celestial, Gem of 

 Eoses, Saracen, Desdemona. Admirable, The Bride, Leander, 

 The Belle, and Sir Colin Campbell, which were all equally 

 good. Mr. Steward also showed six first-rate plants in the 

 amateur class — Leviathan, a very large flower ; Desdemona, 

 Eose Celestial, Lucifer, Majestic, and Viola. The Hon. Payan 

 Dawney also showed some fine plants of Fancies, among 

 which -were Celestial, verv good. Sweet Lucy, Cassandra, 

 Cloth of Gold, &c. 



"We noticed an error in judgment in the class for sis 

 Fuchsias. Those which obtained the second prize were not 

 named, and in them were two plants of Souvenir de Chiswick, 

 and two of Venus de Medici. In first-class shows we should 

 be inclined to disqualify all plants which were not named, as 

 it is very easy in a large collection for two plants of the same 

 sort to be shown, and yet pass the judge's eye. In the tame 

 tent were collections of twelve Geraniums for bedding pur- 

 poses, eight of which were to be vai-iegated. These were 

 not shown at all up to the mark ; and wo should be inclined 

 to limit the size of the pots, as some were shown in small 

 pots and others in very large, in some cases the plants not 

 being nearly largo enough to cover the pots. There were 

 also prizes offered for coUections of twenty bedding plants, 

 excluding Geraniums. The first prize was awarded to the 

 largest plants, but there wore some inferior plants, amongst 

 them a white seedling Petunia, and a pot of variegated Sage, 

 being each equally poor; the collection which was placed 

 second was more compact and more like bedding plants. 

 There was nothing vei-y novel in any of the collections 

 unless we except Iresine Herbstii, or Achyranthes Vor- 

 BChaffelti, which promises to be an acquisition. "Wo must 

 not pasB over in this tent some blooms of Pansies exhibited 

 by Hi. Dean, of Bradford Nursery, near Shipley, amongst 

 which were Mrs. K. Dean, raised, we belie\e, by Downie, 

 Laird, & Co., which is a great acquisition. Amongst the 

 Fancies, were PrincesB of Wales, very good ; Prince of Wales, 

 a Tcry handsome bronze and yellow with dense blotch ; Amy 

 Hogg; and Princess Alice, which still keeps its position 

 amongst the Belgian Pansies. 



"We cannot conclude without a few remarks on the splendid 

 collections of stove and greenhouse plants shown by Mr. 

 Micholls, gardener to Mr. Bainps, of SummcrCcld House, 

 Bowden, Cheshire. He was placed first both for twelve stove 

 and grcenhouao plants in bloom, and for omamental-foliaged 

 plants, amongst which there were some good specimens of 

 Ana;ctochilu8, .Sarraccnia flava and purpurea ; and two very 

 handsome Crotons, especially the Croton varicgata longi- 



folia. Amongst Ms collections of plants in bloom were two 

 very fine Azaleas, Gledstanesi and another ; three Ixoras, . 

 coocinea, javanica, and aurantiaca, all in splendid bloom. 

 We also noticed Phajnocoma prolifeva, and Acrophyllum 

 venosum. A very fine collection of six stove and greenhouse 

 plants was exhibited by Mr. Davidson, gardener to G. J. 

 Tarborough, Esq., of Heslington; they were Ehyncosper- 

 mum jasminioides, well bloomed ; AUamanda Sehottii, Erica 

 ventricosa, Polygala Dalmaisiana, Stephanotis floribunda, 

 and Medinilla magnifica. A very fine plant of Cleroden- 

 dron ThomsonoB was shown by J. E. Pease, Esq., Haslewood 

 House, Hull, the contrast of its scarlet flowers and white 

 calyx producing a very pleasing effect. 



"We may congratulate the Society on the excellence of the 

 Show and the general arrangements of the tents. The 

 weather, too, was all that could be desired. "We shall hope 

 another year to see a better competition for bedding Gera- 

 niums and bedding plants, ;is these classes were introduced 

 into the schedule for the first time this year; and we should 

 be inclined not to limit the numbers to eight or more varie- 

 gated, but to leave it to the option of the exhibitors to send 

 what proportion of bedding Geraniums, whether plain-leaved 

 or variegated, they thought fit. 



VISITS TO GARDENS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE. 



J. P. Lombaed's, Esq., Southside, Eathgae, 

 Dublin. 



Theke are some words and places which bring with them 

 so many associations, that no matter how interesting may 

 be the objects which at present surround them, they are lost 

 in the far dccpi r interest of the past; and so, although I 

 stood in a garden where there was much to greatly please 

 me, yet I could hardly for a moment forget the scenes which. 

 its situation on the banks of the Dodder called up to my 

 memory. How little do we appreciate the dream character 

 of our life ! nor until years begin to tell on one to see how 

 vain are all its pursuits, how unstable the friendships we 

 form, how changing the character of our own thoughts and 

 feelings, how much the " I " of forty-five differs from the 

 " I " of twenty. How well if that difference be all in the 

 right direction, and we be given to be more anxious for the 

 "home beyond !" 



"Well, I must not sermonise, but write a few, lines about 

 Mr. Lombard's garden. Mr. Lombai'd is known to many in 

 England as one of the most successful growers that Ireland 

 possesses of the Gladiolus and the Eose ; and as these two 

 flowers are favourites of mine, I was anxious to see how they 

 were grown, and whether their appearance justified auguries 

 of success again. 



The situation of Mr. Lombard's garden reminds me not 

 a little of that of Mr. Eadclyffe's at Eushton — on a bank 

 facing the south-west, although the advantage as far as 

 soil, climate, and shelter, is decidedly on the side of Mr. 

 Lombard's. This similarity has led Mr. Lombard, perhaps, 

 to derive so much profit from Mr. Eadclyffe's disquisitions 

 on the Eose. At the bottom of his garden there is a fine 

 stream of water, so that, as the Yankees say, he has great 

 water-privileges. The garden itself is an old-fashioned one, 

 laid out in great part in those small, square. Box-enclosed 

 beds which were once so popular, and which at one time 

 doubtless contained many of those fine, much-loved, herb- 

 aceous plants, so long neglected, but for which there is 

 now a revived taste. At present these arc filled with dwarf 

 Eoses ; and the number of plants of the queen of flowers 

 dispersed throughout the garden is upwards of two thou- 

 sand. Mr. Lombard grows each variety as standards and 

 half-standards on the briar, budded dwarf on the Manotti, 

 and on its own roots. He has thus an opporUinity of testing 

 it in every way, and to decide as to how to grow it for a 

 permanently. He is, like most rosarians, a gi-eat lover of 

 the Manotti. It would be useless to enumerate the kinds 

 which ho considered the best, for they are the same which 

 we esteem on this pide of the Channel. 



In Gladioli Mr. Lombard's garden is very strong. His 

 choice beds contain about four hundred roots, and in these 

 ho hofl not had above seven misses, showing that the notion 

 that there is a difficulty in growing and saving the bulbs of 

 this fine flower is a nightmare. 1 may mention, too, that 



