April 6, 1912. 



THE GARDENERS' MAGAZINE. 



273 



ROYAL HORTICULTURAL 



SOCIETY. 



a full hall again at Westmin- 



There 



ster on April 2, and there was a grand dis- 

 play of glorious daffodils, a fair display of 

 orchids, flowering shrubs, roses, and carna- 



Tlie attendance was also good, but 



tione. , , . T J 



the people seemed to be in a holiday mood. 



FLOEAL COMMITTEE. 

 Messrs. J. Veitch and Sons, Chelsea, ex- 

 hibited some new shrubs, the chief of which 

 were the white-flowered Viburnum Davidi 

 (\ M,), Camellia cuspidata (A.M.), with 

 white flowers, Pseonia Delvayi with elegant 

 foliage and red flowers, Dipe'lta ventricosa, 

 with tubular pink, w^hite, and yellow flowers, 

 a'nd the green-flowered Decaisnea Fargesi. 

 The camellia and the viburnum promise to 

 be good garden plants, and have stood seve- 

 ral winters at Coombe Wood ; the viburnum 



of Pri- 



Gill and Sons, Falmouth, had a group of 

 lovely varieties of Himalayan rhododendrons ; 

 Duke of Cornwall, Gill'^ Triumph, Beauty 

 of Tremough, Shil«oni, and forms of R. ar- 

 borea, with R. argenteum, and E. Thomp- 

 soni formed a fine exhibit. 



Mr. C. Fielder, V.M.H., gardener to Miss 

 Willmott, V.M.H., Warley Place, Essex, 

 staged a very interesting collection 

 mula viscosa hybrids, the colours ranging 

 from white to deepest rose-red and purple. 

 P. Warleyensis (A.M.) is a little low-grow- 

 ing kind, with bluish lilac flowers about as 

 big over as a shilling, and freely borne on 

 the tiny plants. Mr. Jas. Douglas, Edenside, 

 Great "^Bookham, presented a collection of 

 auriculae, the colouring being most varied, 

 and the plants finely grown. He also exhi- 

 bited i^everal new forms of much merit of 

 Primula intermedia, of which the finest wae* 

 Mrs. J. Douglas (A.M.), the flowers large 

 and the colour rich purplish blue. 



Messrs. Whitelegg and Page, Chislehurst, 



montana— the latter a lovely little buttercup 

 —on rockwork. The Guildford Hardy Plant 

 Company had also a collection of hardy and 

 alpine flowers Messrs. Thompson and Char- 

 man, Buishey, were other contributors of 



rock gardening. 



Messrs. T. S. Ware, Lim., Feltham, had 

 colonies of Trillium californicum, Saxifraga 

 Bathonensis, Lithospermum Heavenly Blue, 

 Primula frondosa, P. cortusoides, aubrie- 

 tias, and the large white saxifraga Ark- 

 wrighti. Messrs. G. Jackman and Son, 

 Woking, presented colonies of Iris excelsa, 

 I. cyanea, I. pumila Coelestis, Muscari 

 botryoides alba, Tulipa Greigi, and Erica 

 mediterranea, and its white form. Primulas 

 of the cashmiriana group, Aubrietia 

 Prichard's Al, Daphne cneorum, the noble 

 Caltha palustris fl. pi., and C. polypetala, 

 with several good saxifragas, made up a 

 pretty rock garden display from Mr. Maurice 

 Prichard. 



Messrs. H. B. May and Son, Edmonton, 



VIBURNUM DAYIDU 



An evergreen Chinese species 



1 ■j.—n I A/1 T? TT < Anril 2 Messrs. J. Vcitch and Sons, 



with white flowers. A.M., K.M.b., April ^. Ji^t^^^i^- 



is evergreen, and ha^s deep green leafage. 

 Messrs. J. Cheal and Sons, Crawley, exhibited 

 some flowering shrubs, and choice things 

 among them were Hydrangea macrocepha- 



Spiraea arguta, double peaches, and 

 standard cytisuses. Mr. E. Eeuthe, Keston, 

 had a large and interet^ting exhibit wherein 

 camellias, magnolias, Himalayan rhododen- 

 «irons, skimmias, hardy heaths, pieris, etc., 

 J^re associated with 'hardy primulas, daf- 

 loails, etc. Set amid bamboos and Japanese 

 ^aples, Messrs. J. Piper and Sons, Bishop^.^ 

 f^oad, Bayswater, displayed Daphne Fion- 

 ^na. Primula malacoides, Caltha polype- 

 aia, the gay Azalea amoena Hinodigeri, and 

 ^tner choice hardy flowers. 



A beautiful Rroup of double-flowered 

 peaches, Pyrus 



pcheideckeri, 



wa^^^' grandly smothered in bloesom. 

 ^s arranged by Messrs. Wni. Paul and 



\\ altham Cross. Clematises and hardy 

 Uri variety were exhibited largely by 



^. R. Russell, RiL'hmond. Messrs. E. 



group 



mains atrosanguineus, P. 

 and P. angustifolius fl. pi., all 



exhibited a prettv rock garden in one of the 

 annexes, and on it displayed splendid masses 

 of the dainty Saxifraga Bakeri, a particu- 

 larly attractive subject for the rockery, as 

 also another very fine variety named S. H . 1 . 

 Stokes the brilliant S. Red Admiral which 

 is certainly unsurpassed for vivid colouring 

 of its lara-e well-formed flowers; and the 

 fine S. Clibrani, which has beauty of form 

 and foliage, as well as handsome flowers; 

 they also staged their very fine new Geum 

 Mrs. J. Bradshaw, a first-rate garden plant. 

 Messi-s. R. Wallace and Co., Colchester, were 

 represented by Iris bucharica, aubrietias 

 PrimiUa viseo^a Mrs. J. H. \\il6on, and 

 other beautiful little plants. . 



Messrs. W. Fells and Co., Kitchen, and 

 Messrs. J. Peed and Sons, Norwood, were ex- 

 hibitors of hardy flowers, chiefly alpiues. Mr. 

 Jas Box, Lindfield, contributed a pretty col- 

 lection of anemones, primulas, and saxi- 

 fragas. Messrs. Bakers', Wolverhampton, 

 grouped Primula vera, P. frondosa, Ph ox 

 fubulata, Viola gracilis, and Ranunculus 



groum^d gardenias with Rose Tausendschoy, 

 plumose nephrolepsis, clematises, and poly- 

 antha roses. Messrs. Mount and S«ns,J.an- 

 terbury, displayed grand flowers of Liberty, 

 Mrs. C. Reed (A.M.), a new cream-pink H.i 

 rose; Mrs. E. Alford (A.M.), a lovely rich 

 pink H.T. variety of great beauty ; and the 

 yellow Lady Hillingdon. Among the ro^s 

 displaved by Mr. George Prince, Oxford, the 

 long "^flowering growths of \\m. Allen 

 Richardson and Marechal Niel were as at^- 

 tractive as the big blooms of Juliet and 

 Mdme. Jules Gravereaux. Messrs. Frank 

 Cant and Co., Colchester, set up some lovely 

 rose blooms under the clock, their Lyon 

 Rose Molly Sharman Crawford, Lady Alice 

 Stanley, and Mrs. Walter Ea^lea being very 



"riie graceful Laclienalia Nelsoni was splen- 

 didly shown by Messrs. R. and G. Cutlibert 

 ^ thlate. and a display like this was wall 

 nnuh to popularise a d.-srrva,of plant 

 Hrin also contributed coiiut -ro'ip^ 



Ghent azaleas, wistanas. 



do 

 the 

 lilacs. 



magnol 'as 



