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Xorwich, who is leaving the district for the 

 fruit-growing country of Ivelowna, British 

 Columbia. 



The exhibits, /both non -competitive and 

 competitive, were a feature of the meeting; 

 in the former section special mention is 

 due to Mr. F. J, Endersby, gardener to J. H, 

 Guruey, Esq., Keswick, for the best dis- 

 play of cyclamen ever seen at the meetings; 

 to Mr. Frank Neave, Lingwjood, for his 

 array of large, brilliant-floAvcred polyan- 

 thuses ; to Mr. W. Laws for carnations, 

 which included a sport from Mairmion, which 

 has deeper coloured flowers; and to Messrs. 

 Daniels Bros., Lim., for forced flowering 

 shrubs. 



Bournemouth Spring; Show. 



Tlie fifth exhibition of spring flowers was 

 held in the capacious pavilion of the Winter 

 Gardens on March 26 and 27. This show was 

 an improvement on all previous ones, and the 

 arrangement of the exhibits was all that 

 could be desired. Tlie entries were numer- 

 ous, and the produce staged of very high 

 merit indeed. The groups of misoellaneous 

 plants, azaleaSj pot plants of narcissi, tulips, 

 hyacinths, and cyclamen, and the floral 

 displays were very good, the table decora- 

 tions being a charming feature. 



In the class for a group of miscellaneous 

 plants, Mr. T. K. Ingram scored with a very 

 effective arrangement. With a palm in the 

 centre, lilacs, crotons, staphyleas, liliums, 

 narcissi, carnations, azaleas, and a neat edg- 

 ing of ferns, the arrangement and harmony 

 of colour were especially good. The Park 

 Nurseries (Mr, Welch, manager) were placed 

 second, and this group was also a beautiful 

 one. Lilacs, coleuses, carnations, lily of the 

 valley, heliotrope, hydrangeas, and a neat 

 edging of fibrous begonias, lightly arranged, 

 made a -beautiful arrangement. Messrs, 

 Watts and Sons, Lim,, were a good third. 



Mr. Ingram won in the classes for Azalea 

 mollis and A. indica. He also scored in the 

 class for twelve pots of narci&si. Mme. 

 Plemp, Emperor, and M. J. Berkeley were 

 notable varieties staged. Mr. Pearce, gar- 

 dener to Mr. Ormond, came second. Mr. 

 Ingram had the best six pots ol polyanthus 

 narcissi and also the best twelve pots of 

 hyacinths. Mr. George Garner eecond. 

 Mr. Pearce scored with twelve pots or pans 

 of tulips, Messrs. Ingram and F. G. Bealing 

 being second and third respectively. The 



last-named had the best six pots of lily of the 

 valley. 



Mr. Usher, gardener to Sir Randolf 

 Baker, Bart., staged a beautiful collection 

 of cut blooms of narcissi in eighteen distinct 

 varieties. Vanilla, Lucifer, Beauty, White 

 Lady, and Mme. de Graaff being especially 

 noteworthy. Mr. Ingram was a close second. 

 Mr. Usher won in the class for five blooms, 

 Magni-Coronati, one variety, staging Glory 

 of Leiden. He also had the best five blooms 

 Parvi-Coronati, showing Cassandra. Mr. 

 tJ^her scored with violas and winter- 

 flowering carnations. Messrs. Ingram, 

 ^ent, and Garner were first, second, and 



third respectivelv in the class for shower 

 boquets. 



Mr. Nippard, gardener to J. J. Norton, 

 ^^•^ had the best six pots of cyclamen; Mr. 

 ^^^S^, gardener to Rev. C. H. Burrows, 

 a close second. Mr. Nippard had a 

 beautiful group of miscellaneous plants ar- 

 ranged in a epaee of 9ft. by 6ft., second 

 nonours going to Mr. Pearce^ and third to 

 ^ Crallen. 



, In the class for three specimen Azalea 

 indica, Mr. Nippard staged the best in the 

 enow. darner scored in the class for 



^ hyacinths, six pots of tulips, and three 

 P<>ts of polyanthus narcissi; second honours 

 going to Mr. Pearce. Tlie last-named ex- 

 hibitor had the best four pots of lily of the 

 alley. Primulas, schizanthuses, deutzias, 

 stellate cineraria, and spiraeas were well 



cT^An Taylor, gardener to Walter 



j;^'^^, Clarke, Esq., had a grand specimen of 

 imantophyllum in the class for any flower- 



It P^^^* not named in the schedule. 



^on^competitive exhibits made a very fine 



display indeed, and the following awards 

 were given by the council : 



Gold Medals. — Messrs. Sutton and Sons, 

 cinerarias, cyclamen; Mr. Maurice Prichard, 

 alpine and rock plants ; Messrs. D. Stewart 

 and Sons, miscellaneous plant/^ ; Messrs. 

 Charlesworth and Co., orchids ; Messrs. 

 Cart Wright and Goodwin, narcissi. 



Silver-gilt. — Messrs. J. Cypher and Son, 

 orchids ; Mr. Chamberlain, ^ floral designs ; 

 Messrs. Stuart and Co., tree carnations; Mr. 

 E. Prichard, alpine and rock plants. 



Silver.— The Burton Hardv Plant Com- 



4- 



pany, Messrs. Young and Co., tree carna- 

 tions; Mr. Vincent Slade, zonal pelargo- 

 niums; Messrs. Watts and Sons, Lim.; R. 



and Mr. J. Stevenson, 



Sydenham, 

 Wimborne. 



Lim. ; 



Royal Horticultural Society. 



SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEK. 



MAECH 19. 



PEESENT.— Mr. E. A. Bowles, M.A., 



F. L.S. (in the chair); Canon Fowler, Eev. 



G. Engleheart, Messrs. J. O'Brien, W. Hales, 

 C. T. Druery, J. T. Bennett-Poe, C. E. Shea, 

 E. M. Holmes, R. Hooper Pearson, F. J. C. 

 Chittenden (hon. .secretary), and Rev. J. 

 Jacob (visitor). 



HYBRIDS 

 THINUS.- 



WITH NARCISSUS CALA- 

 Eev. G. Engleheart made some 

 remarks regarding the apparently very re- 

 stricted distribution of this beautiful form 

 of Narcissus triandrus. It is uot apparently 

 found outside a small area on an island in 

 S. Europe, about 1^ degrees out of the lati- 

 tude in which the type occurs on the main- 

 land of Spain and Portugal. He also showed 

 a beautiful and vigorous white hybrid be- 

 tween this and a variety of N. Leedsi, which 

 might be likened to a hardy eucharis. 

 Several of these white and vigorous seedlings 

 had now been raised. The committee unani- 

 mously recommended a Certificate of Appre- 

 ciation to Mr. EnDi-leheart for his work with 

 these hybrids. 



OSYRIS ALBA.- 



—Mr, E. M. Holmes 

 showed roots of vines with the suckers of 

 the parasite Osyris alba, a plant belonging 

 to the Santalaceae, attached to them. This 

 parasite attaches itself to the roots of a large 

 number of plants, over 60 hosts being known, 

 but up to now it has not been recorded at- 

 tacking the vine. Tlie specimen came from 

 Montpellier. 



CAMELLIA TUCKIANA.— Mr. Bennett- 

 Poe showed flowers of a seedling camellia, 

 which he had raised from seed ripened in 

 S. France, now flowering for the first time 

 in a cold greenhouse. The flowers were 

 single, about three inches in diameter, of 

 a delicate pink, with numerous yellow sta- 

 mens. It had been identified as Camellia 

 Tuckiana. 



BEETLES IN BEANS.—Canon Fowler 

 showed French beans attacked by the beetle 

 Bruchus lentis. This and other species of 

 Bruclius are well-known pests of various 

 species of bean and pea, boring holes into 

 the cotyledons, but tliej appear rarely to 

 interfere with germination. 



ATHYEIUM WITH BULBIFEROUS 

 SOEI. — Mr. C. T. Druery showed portions of 

 the fronds of Athyrium filix-foemina ])lumo- 

 sum with large numbers of small ])lants 

 arising from the sori, each sorus producing 

 several bulbils. 



SNOWDROPS.— Mr. E. A. Bowles showed 

 specimens and drawings of a double green 

 snowdrop, in which both stamens and ovary 

 were aborted and replaced by rather narrow, 

 foliose segments. He also exhibited the 

 double yellow form of Galanthus nivalis, and 

 drawings of the white form of G. Elwesi re- 

 cently shown bv him to show that there were 

 a few small green lines on the inner per anth 

 pieces of that flower. 



MALFORMED ORCHIDS.— Mrs. Tay.or, 

 of Bowerdens, Henley-on-Tliames, sent two 

 abnormal flowers from a newly-imported 

 plant of Dendrobium Ward'anum giganteuni. 

 In one of them two stamens of the other 

 whorl had developed and become petaloid 

 and bore pollen sacs on their inner edges 



near the base. In the other, the column 

 bore at its apex three stamens, the usual one 

 fully, the other two partially developed, and 

 three lips, one inside the other (but the two 

 inner and progressively smaller ones arising 

 slightly to the right and left respectively of 

 the normal one). Mr. J. Gurney Fowler sent 

 an odontoglossum witli four svmnietrically 

 disposed outer perianth pieces, six inner peri- 

 anth pieces, including two lips, and two nor- 

 mal columns, side by s'de. The ovary also 

 was double, but fused into one. 



National Hardy Plant Society. 



A council meeting of the aUove society wiin 

 lield on Thur.^day, March 21, at the Hotel 

 Windsor, the members pret^ent including 

 Mej^Nrs. T. W. Sanders, W. Irving, J. 

 CoUingridge, E. H. Jenkins, R. Morton, J. 

 Dickson, H. Hemeley, R. Pinches, F. 

 Bourtkell, and A. J. Macself. The principal 

 business before the meeting was to report 

 the progress in tJie arrangements for the 

 society's first exhibition, to be held in the 

 Royal Horticultural Hall, on June 19. 



A preliminary scliedule of classes ha^ 

 been diKti'ibuted among mem1)erpj and hardy 

 plantsmen generally, and, as promises of 

 exhibits in these classes have been received 

 from many of the leading trade growers and 

 amateurs, it wii^ decided to finally adopt this 

 classification, and to off'er medal awards in 

 all classes rather than money prizes. 



The Pii 1)1 iciit ions < "<nnm ittce was in- 

 structed t!o pri'pait' t ho schedule for ])ress. 



A discussion arose a#^ to the advisability 

 of the t^oeietv publishing a quarterly jour- 

 nal for free distribution among members, 

 the matter Ix^ing referred to the Publica- 

 tions Committee for consideration, to l>e re- 

 ported upon at next council meeting. 



Plantis of Anemone pulsatilla rosea Mrs. 

 Van der Elst were submitted to the council, 

 the exhibitor l>eing Mr. Van der l^lst. T<it- 

 tcnham Xurcseries, Dedemsvart, Holland. An 

 Award of Merit was unanimously accorded 

 this very pretty and decidedly distinct bicak 

 in the popular Anemone pulsatilla. 



The council w<M'e <^iatili-t>d tliat a goodly 

 numlxT ol' new hu'hi bcis liavc 1m<mi enrolled 

 of late, and trust there will a consider- 

 able increase prior to the date of the show, 

 to which members will receive free admis- 

 sion. 



North 

 tu 



As 



of Scotland Horticul- 

 I and Arboricultural 

 iation. 



The fifth and jx^nultimate meeting of this 

 association for session 1911-12 w^as held in the 

 Botany Clacssroom. Al>erdeen University, on 

 Wednesday evening, the 2<H:h inst. lliere was 

 a very large attendance, and Mr. John 

 McKinnon, head gardener to the Earl of 

 Aberdeen, at Haddo House, president of the 

 association, occupied the chair. The first 

 item on the agenda was a paper on "Tlie 

 Carnation," by Mr. W, B. Clark, head gar- 

 dener, Balgownie L6dge, Aberdeen. 



In his opening remarks, Mr. Clark re- 

 ferred to the border variety of the carna- 

 tion as being the one most generally grown, 

 and requiring considerable attention. He 

 dealt with the cultural treatment of carna- 

 tions, liis remarks being of an eminently 

 practical character. The ])ro]3agation of 

 carnati(»ns by mean^^ oi cuttings and layer- 

 ing next engaged attention. August, he 

 stated, was the best month for layering, and 

 he recommended early layering and plant- 

 ing. Carnations, he maintained, were hardy 

 plants, and resisted coddling. In the North 

 of Scotland, however, they had everything 

 to gain and nothing to lose by deferring 

 planting until the spring. 



Haphazard treatment of the carnation he 

 deprecated, for they must have attention. 

 Carnations cannot have too much sunshine, 

 and they grow and flower best in garden 

 soil, where he had alwaye- olitained the best 

 results. Nothing better suited to the suc- 

 cessful cultivation of the carnation could lie 

 found than a change of ground— in fact, 

 ground that had grown carnations for some- 



