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THE GARDENERS' MAGAZINE. 



A± feiL (j, 1912. 



and laburnums. Messrs. Felton and Sons, 

 Hanover Square, exhibit-ed a lovely fragrant 

 lot of lilac sprays, arranged in very artistic 

 cane-plaited receptacles. 



Cinerarias and Primula obconica formed 

 the bulk of the contribution from Messrs. 

 Jae. Veitch and Sons, Chelsea. Of the former 

 their Feltham Beauty, in dark blue, carmine, 

 white, pink, and light blue varieties were 

 very attractive, while the striped Pompadour 

 was very quaint and distinct, and the bril- 

 liant Matador attracted everyone. A table 

 of cut zonal pelargoniums' from Mr. H. J. 

 Jones, Lewisham, provided a rare blaze of 

 colour. A number of the varieties were Rye- 

 croft seedlings, and these show exceptional 

 vigour, and bear big bloome on huge 

 trusses; Fred Gulliver, Mrs. Bunting, Mrs. 

 Tom White, Harry Jamee, and Nellie Hem«- 

 ley appealed strongly to our taste. 



Various greenhoase-flowering plants from 

 Messrs. S. Low and Co., EnHeld, included 

 acacias and new hydrangeas, and perpetual 

 carnations in great variety and beauty. Mr. 

 Phillip Ladds, Swanley Junction, again ex- 

 hibited the fine Salmon Paul Cramfel zonal 

 pelargonium, and a very attractive rich pink 

 variety, named Ambrosia (A.M.). 



Mr. H. Burnett, Guernsey, once more de- 

 lighted everyone with his splendid perpetual 

 carnations, especially hiw Mrs. C. Raphael, 

 White Wonder, and Marmion. Messrs. All- 

 wood Brothers, Haywards Heath, and 

 Messrs. W. Wells and Co., Merstham, both 

 staged good collections of perpetual carna- 

 tions, 



Messrs. Young and Co., Hatherley, Chel- 

 tenham, put up a fine exhibit of perpetual 

 carnation*>, and set up their flowers in excel- 

 lent style. AVe wei>e particularly struck by 

 the fine vases of Marmion, the new A. S. 

 Montgomery, Irene, a bright cerise; Chcl- 

 touian, Duchees of Devonshire, White Per- 

 fictiou. Mikado, and Havard. Messrs. W^ 

 Cutbush and Son, Highgate, presented good 

 vases of Win-sor, Enchantress, Mikado, Mrs. 

 Fortescue, and Lord Rothschild carnations. 



ORCHID COMMITTEE. 



Mr. Chapman, gardener to Mrs. Norman 

 Cooksou, Oakwood, Wylam-on-Tyne, sent up 

 several handsome forms of Odontogloesum 

 crispum and O. percultum. Tlie white- 

 petalled Cattleya Luddemanniana Stanley!, 

 .shown by Mr. E. V. Low, Haywards Heath, 

 was greatly admired. F. M. Ogilvie, Esq., 

 The Shrubbery, Oxford, showed L^eliocatt- 

 leya Myra finely, and also Brahvso-cattleya 

 Cliftoni. 



Cymbidium Pauwelsi Dell variety (F.C.C.), 

 carrying a grand arching spike of twenty 

 large creamy buff, brow^n-marked flowers, was 

 exhibited by Mr. Shill, gaMener to Baron 

 Bruno Schroder, The Dell, Egham. Odonto- 

 glossum His Majesty, of perfect shape, was 

 staged by Mr. Alexander, grower to Lieut.- 

 Colonel Sir George Holford, Westonbirt, 

 Gloucester. A fine plant of tlie green and 

 black-flowered Coelogyne i^andurata, carry- 

 ing a spike of ten flowers, came from Messrs. 

 Armstrong and Brown, Tunbridge Wells. 



Messrs. J. Veitch and Sons, Chelsea, 

 showed Lselio-cattleya Oroma (A.M.), a large, 

 rich purple flower with crims^)n-purple lip; 

 and Lselio-cattleva Frederick Boyle Veitch's 

 var (A.M.), very beautiful. Francis Welles- 

 ley, Esq., Woking, put up the splendid Cat- 

 tleya Trianae F. McBean ; and Walter Cobb, 

 Esq., Normanhurst, Horsham, brought 

 Odontioda Goodsoniae Cobbs var. (A.M.), 



with scarlet and rose coloured flowers and a 



Lawrence's 



white-tipped lip 



Sir 



Trevor 



Lselio-cattleya Trimyra, a broad flower of 

 lovely orange-vellow hue, worthily gained a 

 F.C.C.; Mr. White also brought a number 

 of yeilow seedling dendrobiums and some 

 fineiy.flowered masdevallias from the Bur- 

 ford Lodge collection. 



Odontiodas were charmingly shown by 

 Mr. Black, gardener to R. G. Thwaites, Esq., 

 Chessington, Streatham ; the^e were forms 

 of O. Charlesworthi, O. Cnoksoniae, O. Ches- 

 singtonense, and O. Bradshawise. Messrs. 



Hassall and Co., Southgate, were represented 

 by the showy Cattleya trianae Backhousiana, 

 Cymbidium Lowianum concolor, and a fine 

 Odontoglossum percultum. Messrs. J. and 

 A. McBean, Cooks bridge, showed some capi- 

 tal odontoglossums, good forms of Cattleya 

 Trianae, and Odontioda Cooksoniae. 



Messrs. Sander and Sons, St. Albans, had 

 a quite large exhibit of orchids, the whole 

 of the centre being occupied by lovely forms 

 of Cattleya Scliroderae; flanking these were 

 Renanthera Imschootiana, Brasso-cattleya 

 Mdme, Chas. Maron, Miltonia St. Andre, 

 Cypripedivim Roger Sander (A.M.), a cross 

 between C. glaiicophyllum and C. Godefroyae, 

 and many good odontoglossums. 



Messrs. Stuart Low and Co., Enfield, 

 showed oncidiums extensively, with Cattleya 

 Schroderae, L.-c. Dominiana, Lycaste Balliae, 

 and dendrobiums. 



The odontoglossums and odointiodas ex- 

 hibited by Messrs. Charlesworth and Co., 

 Haywards Heath, were very graceful, and 

 among the latter were noted 0. Bradshawiae, 

 O. Vuylstekiae, O. Felicia, and O. Lambeaui- 

 anum; Laelio-cattleya Bella alba, L.-c. Fero- 

 nia, and the buff-pink L.-c. Calabria were 

 other good things. 



DAFFODIL COMMITTEE. 



A large collection of daffodils, well set uj) 

 by Messrs. Barr and Sons, Covent Garden, 

 W^.C, contained a very large number of new 

 varieties; we have only space to mention a 

 few, such as Ruby, orange cup; Lolah, a 

 white trumpet; Clothilda, yellow flat crown; 

 Hippolyta, a big incomparabilis ; Bride of 

 Lammermuir, cream trumpet ; Aurelius, 

 deep golden-yellow; Golden Jubilee, a fine 

 rich incompara-bilis ; Ruby, a deep red 

 crown; Cleopatra, Herod, Cassandra, etc. 



In the group of daffodils from Mr. F. H. 

 Chapman, Rotherside Gardens, Rye, there 

 were a number of very dainty seedlings that 

 included Rotherside, a white - petalled 

 Barri form ; Searchlight, with lovely 

 deep orange cup ; Sentry, an improved 

 Beacon ; and a number of large-flowered un- 

 named triondrus hybrids of great beauty. 

 Besides these Mr. Chapman had a number of 

 the newer daffodils already in commerce. 



Messrs. Cartwright and Goodwin, Kidder- 

 minster, had an effective exhibit of daffo- 

 dils, chiefly new sorts; Circlet, Creole, Harry 

 J ames. Chough, Southern Star, Dorothy 

 Pearson, Incognita, and Mohican formed a 

 good set of flat-crowned viarieties ; Giant 

 Leedsi forms were also well shown. 



Messrs. J. Carter and Co., Raynes Park, 

 contributed another very pretty spring 

 flower garden. There was a background of 

 conifers, with a low rockery in front, this 

 latter filled with aubrietias, muscaris, 

 squills, and daffodils. The foreground was 

 a lovely green lawn, with two beds of King 

 Alfred "daffodils and a central square pool 

 of water, with high fountain and a sur- 

 rounding margin of anemones, polyantliuses, 

 scillas, and daffodils. 



Messrs. J. R. Pearson and Sons, Lowd- 

 ham, Notts, presented a very cheerful lot of 

 daffodils, all very bright and fresh. The 

 giant Leedsi forms were very much in evi- 

 dence, while of special importance were La 

 Lune, a primrose trumpet with white peri- 

 anth ; Tamerlane, Macebearer, Hon. Mrs. 

 I-'rauklin, Patrician, Orange King, a broad 

 rich golden trumpet variety named King 

 George, Gold Cup, Argent, and Margaret. 



Tlie Darwin tulips grown in bowls of fibre 

 and shown by Messrs. R. H. Bath, Lim., 

 W^isbech, were very fine, especially such 

 varieties as Pride of Haarlem, King Harold, 

 Bartigon, Isis, Clara Butt, and W^m. Cope- 

 land. Among the daffodils staged by this 

 firm Lowdham Beauty was exceptionally 

 large and good; Firebrand, Fireflame, Pearl 

 of Kent, Homespun, Diana, Lord Kitchener, 

 and Rivalis, the latter a white trumpet 

 varietv of great beauty, 



Messrs. R. and G. Cuthbert, Southgate, 

 arranged a big group of tulips in pots, across 

 the end of the hall, staging each variety in 

 some quantity. 'Messrs. J. Veitch and Sons, 

 Chelsea, had a bright exhibit of daffodils; 

 the varieties were staged in rather large 

 bunches. King Alfred, Van Waveren's 



conspicuous 



Giant, Glory of Leiden, Silver Snur 

 rise, and Blackwell were °" 

 varieties. 



A fine bank of tulips from Messrs W Cut 

 bush and Son, Highgate, provided a fine disl 

 play of colour. The flowers were good and 

 the varieties numerous. A collection Z 

 this sort has a distinct educational valup 

 Couleur Cardinal, Pres Taft, Keizerkroon 

 Prince of Austria, Golden Lion Ros^ 

 d'Amour, White Joost van Vondel Gris 

 Lm, Wouverman, and Ophir d'Or 'make ud 

 a good selection of varieties. ^ 



Miss F. W. Currey, Lissadel, Ireland had 

 a pretty and well-arranged group of daffo. 

 dils that seemed to have enjoyed their iour 

 ney from the Sister Isle. The blooms were 

 large and fresh, and they included such 

 capital varieties as Croesus, Atalanta, and 

 Lady of the Snows, two white trumpeters- 

 Whitewell, Gloria Mundi; Rosetta, Bernar- 

 dino, Lord Kitchener, Lyric, the handsome 

 Great Warley, and the vivid cupped Ori- 

 flamme. 



The Rev. G. H. Engleheart, Dinton, Salis- 

 bury, showed a marvellous lot of s-eedling 

 daffodils, round which daffodil loversi 

 crowded all day long. There were eome 

 dainty flowers, but the huge trumpet varie- 

 ties, giantrs, or white, gold, yellow, and 

 cream, were the feature of a wonderful set. 

 Such a group as this compelled people to 

 wonder what the end of daffodil-raising ia 

 to be. 



Mr. A. M. Wilson, Shovel, Bridgwater, 

 presented a lovely lot of seedling daffodils, 

 many of them not yet named, while the new 

 named sortsi included such lovely flat-crowned 

 sorts as Gold Coin, Hypatia, Gaybird, Cos- 

 sack, Ivorine, Tunic, Radiant, and Tara 

 Ranee, the latter of exquisite beauty. 

 Buttercup, Psyche, Florizel, the double 

 Inglescombe, and Victory were other charm- 

 ing, chaste, and lovely varieties. 



Mr. Christopher Bourne, Simpson, Bletch- 

 ley, was represented by a bright exhibit, 

 wherein Southern Star, Duke of Bedford, 

 Buttercup, China Ware, the fine Victory, and 

 the neat trumpeter named Lord Muncariter, 

 were conspicuous. 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE COMMITTEE. 



Tempting spring cabbages, from ?ioj^x's. 

 Sutton and Sons, appeared to be the only 

 exhibit before this committee. The vanities 

 so admirably shoAvn were Sutton'6 ^Vprii, 

 Flower of Spring, and Harbinger. 



CERTIFICATES AND AWARDS. 



First-class Certificate.— To Narciesiis Crov 

 sus, from Mr. A. M. Wilson, Bridg^vater ; to 

 Cymbidium Pauwelsi, Dell variety, rom 

 Baron Bruno Schroder (grower, Mr. 

 The Dell, Egham; to Lselio-cattleya irumia, 

 from Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart. (g^''^''\: 

 Mr. W. H. White), Burford Lodge, l^oik- 

 ing; and to Lselio-cattleya McBeaniana, tu>m 

 Messrs. J. and A. McBean, Cooksbririge. 



Award of Merit.— To Narcissus F<xit>^' 

 and Narcissus Killiecrankie, from Mr. a • ■ 

 Wilson. Bridgwater; to Camelia c-u^px^^^^' 



from Me-srs. 



to PnniuKi 



JtdTser from^MrBakerVOxford Botanic Oai- 



Bridgwater ; 

 and Viburnum Davidi 

 Veitch and Sons, Chelsea ; 



J. 



dens; to Primula Mrs. Jas. Douglas i 

 Mr. J. Douglas, Great Bookliam.^^i- ; 

 roses, Mrs. E. Alford and ^Ii'^-^'^^'^^^ . to 



Messrs. Low and Sliawyer, V;-,i„,,,tt 

 Primula Warleyensis, from Miss ^Mli"' 

 V.M.H. (gard^^ner, Mr. C. Fielder, 



Great Warley; to Pelargonium 



Ambrosia- 



_ ^ ^ ^ « 



from Mr. Philip Ladds, Swanley -^""^'[/"^v; 

 to Odontioda Cooksoniae, Cobb s var., ^'^^^^ 



Cobb, Esq. (gardener, Mr. C ^\ [r^- 



Horsliam; WJ^^ 



Normanliurst, Rusper, "—'^ «nifl*' 

 dium Roger Sander, from "ttleva 

 and Sons, St. Albans; v^itch's 

 Orama, and L.-c. Frederick i^^y'*' diel- 

 var., from Messrs. J. Veitcli Son^.^ 

 eea; and to Odontoglossiim His . .^^^^^^^^^ 

 from Lieut .-Colonel Sir G. HoKord g^^o 

 Mr. H. Alexander), Westonbirt, ,v<> 

 [Owing to the pressure o« -^^^of tli« 

 are compelled to defer the publication o 

 medal awards until our next if«ue.j 



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