April 20, 1912. 



THE GARDENERS' MAGAZINE. 



325^ 



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EXHIBITIONS AND 



MEETINGS. 



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Royal Horticultural Society. 



There were more exhibits than usual at 

 the Royal Horticultural Hall on the occa- 

 sion of the fortnightly meeting held on 

 April 16 and 17. It is curiously true that, 

 wJienever there is a two-day show the appli- 

 cations for space are always larger and more 

 numerous than for an ordinary meeting. On 

 this date the first competitive daffodil show 

 was held, and, though not so extensive or 

 tine as would have been the case in an ordi- 

 nary season, the promoters were satisfied 

 with the result of this fir^t attempt, remem- 

 bering ,that daffodils are fully a fortnight 



earlier than usual. 



Orchids were fewer than usual, but daffo- 

 dils, forced flowering shrubs, auriculas, the 

 inevitable carnations, and a host of rock gar- 

 den exhibits, combined to fill all the avail- 

 able space. A big crowd thronged the hall 

 all through the day until about 5,30; appa- 

 rently few remembered that tlie show re- 

 mained open until 8 p.m., for beyond atten- 

 dants, few people were present at 7 o'clock. 



FLORAL COMMITTEE. 



A magnificent group of forced shrubs from 

 Messrs. VVm. Cutbush and Son, Highgate, 

 N., was very beautiful. Lilacs, mollis aza- 

 leas, laburnums, graceful wistarias, Prunus 

 triloba. Azalea Yodogama, A. Hinodigiri, 

 the splendid Rhododendron Pink Pearl, 

 cytisuses, hydrangeas, were all most taste- 

 fully arranged right opposite the entrance, 

 and constituted the largest and one of the 

 most attractive of the many fine contribu- 

 tions in the hall. Besides their big group of 

 forced shrubs Messrs. W. Cutbush and Son 

 contributed an exhibit of greenhouse plants, 

 and a handsome lot of perpetual carnations, 

 these latter including fine flowers of Mj:s. 

 W. Ward, Countess of Onslow, Lady Meyer, 

 the buff and scarlet Mrs. Waldorf Astor, Lord 

 Rothschild, and Mikado. 



Rhododendron Kewensis, R. arboreum, R. 

 grande, R. campanulatum, R. Aucklandi 

 rubrum, and many other splendid species, 

 varieties and hybrids, with other rare hardy 

 flowers, were all shown well by Mr. G. 

 Reuthe, Keston, Kent. The rhododendrons 

 displayed by Messrs. R. Gill and Sons, Fal- 

 mouth, excited admiration, especially the 

 giant trusses of R. Falconeri, R. Brough.- 

 toni aurea, R. Aucklandi, and the brilliant 

 R. Shilsoni- 



Pillar roses in pots were delightfully 

 shown by Messrs. Wm. Paul and Son, 

 Waltliam Cross ; Tausendschon, Sylvia, 

 Fairy, and the White Tausendschon were all 

 very fine. Messrs. G. Mount and Sons, Can- 

 terbury, delighted the ladies with their beau- 

 tiful long-stemmed blooms of such roses as 

 Liberty, Mrs. G. Shawyer, Mdme. Abel 

 Chatenay, A. R. Goodwin, Lady Hillingdon, 

 Molly Sharman Crawford, and Richmond. 



The roses from Mr. G. Prince, Longworth, 

 were very handsome, especially the blooms 

 of Rayon d'Or, Mrs. E. Mawley. Mrs. A. 

 Cocker, White Killarney, and Mrs. A. R. 

 Waddell. Messrs. B. R. Cant and Sons, Col- 

 chester, exhibited roses finely, and had lovelv 

 flowers of Mrs. E. Mawley," Rose du Barri, 

 T^dy Reay, Anna Oliver, and the new pale 

 pink H.T. variety named St. Helena. 



Gorgeous hippeastrums from Messrs. Jas, 

 yeitch and Sons, Chelsea, were splendid in 

 ^ize, form, and colour; Paradox, Endera, 

 Jadera, the crimson Brilliant, and Hermia 

 ^vere all grand. The same firm submitted 

 the dark blue form of Cineraria Feltham 

 Heauty, the w^hite, blue-tipped Cineraria 

 hybrida (A.M.), obtained by crossing Cine- 

 raria cruenta with Senecio tussilagensis. 

 <^erbera hybrids and the graceful Crowea 

 a^igustifolia came from the same firm. Very 

 graceful and beautiful were the plumose 



Nipholepis Neuberti, Adiantum cardioch- 

 laena, davallias, and Pteris Childsi, shown by 

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



Mr. James Douglas, Great Bookham, pro- 

 vided a treat for auricula lovers by exhibit- 

 ing a grand collection of well-grown plants. 

 The variety of colouring was excellent, and 

 especially good were Mrs. Gardiner, Canary, 

 Roxburgh, purple (A.M.) ; Janet, Prince 

 Charming, Elaine, lavender-mauve with 

 white centre; Regalia, and Narcissus, palest 

 sulphur. Mr. Douglas showed three tubs of 

 the giant forget-me-not Mj'sotidium nobile. 

 Very beautiful were the sheaves of Gerbera 

 hybrids, finely exhibited by Mr. H. Ellison, 

 West Bromw^ich. Spanish irises were set up 

 in large, bold bunches by Mr. R. D'E. Day, 

 Sutton Scotney, and very showy they were. 



Messrs. Stuart Low and Co., Enfield, were 

 represented by a bank of perpetual carna- 

 tions, in which Lady Alington, the new, 

 flaked, Samuel Gratrix, R. F. Felton, Empire 

 Day, My Favourite, and the quaintly- 

 coloured Cinnabar were conspicuous. Green- 

 house plants from the same firm included 

 large bushes of Metrosideros floribunda, 

 carrying numbers of its red bottle-brush in- 

 florescences. Superb flowers of such fine per- 

 petual carnations as Carola, Mrs. C. F. 

 Raphael, White Chief, White Wonder, 

 Orpheus, and Beacon, were staged in fine 

 large sheaves by Mr. H. Burnett, Guernsey. 

 Messrs. W. Wells and Co., Merstham. o-ained 

 an A.M. for carnation Wodenethe, a new- 

 white, sweetly scented, perpetual variety, 

 raised in America, and one that hids fair to 

 have a great future. 



Messrs. AUwood Brothers, Havwards 

 Heath, had fine flowers of Empire Day, Fair- 

 mount — a glorified Mikado, Marmion, the 

 showy Fireglow, and other fine carnations. 

 Mr. C. Engelmann's carnations were good, as 

 usual, and included the famous Carola, the 

 yellow Sunstar, and the brilliant red-flaked 



Harlequin. 



Echium fa^tuosum, carrying seventeen 

 spikes of bluish flowers, was shown by Mrs. 

 Henderson, Sedgwick Park, Horsham. The 

 rosy-flowered and free Azalea Maxwell! 

 (hardy), was well shown by Messrs. R. and 

 G. Cuthbert, Southgate. Mr. J. Phillips, 

 gardener to the Hon. H. B. Portman, Bux- 

 ted Park, Sussex, contributed a group of 

 large and well-grown schizanthuses, showing 

 the usefulness of these flowers for conserva- 

 tory decoration in spring. 



Messrs. Whitelegg and Page, Chislehurst, 

 again showed fine groups of Saxifraga Red 

 Admiral, S. Pencilled Beauty, S. Lady Dean, 

 and S. Rhei superba. Messrs. G. and A. 

 Clark, Dover, filled a rock garden with popu- 

 lar subjects, and also showed Spiraea arguta, 

 the bright Geum Mrs. Bradshaw, anemones, 

 polyanthuses, and glaucous-leaved junipers. 

 Messrs. J. Cheal and Sons, Crawley, made 

 good use of small flowering shrubs, cytisuses, 

 rhododendrons, azaleas, Japanese maples, 

 etc., in their rock garden exhibit, and used 

 popular subjects in the foreground. Tree 

 pseonies were a feature of the exhibit 

 from Mr. James Box, Lindfield, but the scar- 

 let Anemone Rouge Ponceau was not less at- 

 tractive. . -v-i. 



Messrs. G. Jackman and Son s exhibit 

 of hardy flowers included trolliuses, iberis. 

 Primula Sieboldi in variety, and the pretty, 

 dwarf forms of Iris pumila. Mr. Maurice 

 Prichard, Christehurch, had a rock garden, 

 and here Saxifraga R. W. Hosier was very 

 fine, and so were Primula Cashmeriana, 

 Fairy Queen, Phlox canadense, Violet Queen, 

 Saxifraga Bathonemsis, and Cytisus Ardoinei. 

 Mr Clarence Elliott, Stevenage, had lovely 

 colonies of Viola gracilis, Oxalis enneaphylla, 

 Androsace Giumbyi, Saxifraga Bathonensis, 

 and Gentiana acaulis, on a low rock garden. 

 Mr. Prichard, Wimborne; Mr. L. Greening, 

 Richmond ; and the Misses Hopkins, Shepper- 

 ton, all staged rock garden exhibits. Messrs. 

 Jas. Peed and Sons, Norwood, had a quite 

 good exhibit of alpine flowers, arranged on 

 rockwork; aubrietias and iberis were very 

 good. 



Messrs. J. Piper and Son, Bayswater, had a 

 large rock garden exhibit, raised well above 

 the level of the floor, and thus easy to in- 

 spect. Azaleas, acers, and bamboos formed 



a baekground for beautiful groupings of 

 Primula malacoides, Allysum saxatUe citri- 

 num. Primula Veitchi, Lithospernum 

 Heavenly Blue, Aubrietia Lavender, and 

 other charming subjects. Another rock gar- 

 den and a very pretty one, becau&e it was not 

 overdone, was arranged by Messrs. T. S, 

 Ware, Lim., Feltham. Libertia pulchellum, 

 Saxifraga Bathoneusis, Trillum grandi- 

 florum. Daphne Cneorum, Orchis papiliona- 

 cea. Phlox amoena, and Alyssum montanum 

 were interesting in this display. 



The brilliant pelargoniums from Messrs, 

 H. Cannell and Sons, Swanley, were a great 

 attraction, especially the bunches of Arabic, 

 Uranus, New York, Vesta, King Victor, Hall 

 Caine, and Paul Crampel. Exceptionally fine 

 were the splendid bunches of cut pelargo- 

 niums staged by Mr. H. J. Jones, Ryecroft, 

 Lewisham. In the variety Mrs. F. Huggett 

 the individual blooms were 3|in. across, while 

 Tom White, Arabic, Mrs. Henry Wood, 

 Hibernian, Fred Gulliver, and Fred Tozer 

 were all of wonderful size and colour. Mr. 

 Vincent Slade was also an exhibitor of pelar- 

 goniums, bringing bright blooms from Taun- 

 ton. 



ORCHID COMMITTEE, 

 llie deep purple Pleione juunanense was 

 well shown by Mr. F. W. Godman, Esq., 

 South Lodge, Horsham, who also submitted 

 Odontoglossum Godmanx with long drooping 

 spikes of purple and white flowers. A giant 

 spike of Odontoglossum Souv. de Victor Hye 

 de Crom carrying twenty-one flowers and 

 buds was shown by Mr. Stables, gardener to 

 De Barri Crawshay, Esq., Rosetield, Seven- 

 oaks. Mr. H. T. Pitt, Rosslyn, Stamford 

 Hill, showed a little group containing Cypri- 

 pedium Chapmani, Odontoglossum Souv. de 

 Victor Hye de Crom, and Laelio-cattleya Ros- 

 slyn. 



A pretty little group of orchids from 

 Messrs. J. and A. McBean, Coofcsbridge, con- 

 tained lovely spikes of fine forms of Odonto- 

 glossum crispum, Cattleya Mossise, C. Men- 

 deli, and other good things. Odontoglossums 

 from Mr. H. J. Chapman, gardener to Mrs. 

 Norman Cookson, Oakwood, Wylam-on-Tyne, 

 included O. crispum TxM>nard Perfect 

 (grand), 0. c. Chapmani, O. c. dive. O. c. 

 Angela, O. c. Pittae. O. Titania, O. ardentis- 

 simum, O, splendidissimum, O. percultum, 

 O. Solon, and Odontioda Cooksoniae. The 

 brilliant Laelio-cattleya G. S. Ball was finely 

 shown by Messrs. Hassall and Co., Southgate, 

 and with these were Brasso-cattleya Alexan- 

 dria, Miltonia Bleuana, Odontoglossum 

 mium, a fine form of O. percultum and Re- 

 nanthera Imschootiana shown in fine condi- 

 tion. 



Mr. Hopkins, gardener to Francis Welles- 

 ley, Esq., showed Laelio-cattleya Bertram, a 

 splendid cross between L.-c. Hopkinsi and 

 L.-c. Cappei (A.M.), with orange sepals and 

 petals, and an intense crimson purple lip. 

 Mr. Shill, grower to Baron Bruno Schro- 

 der, The 'Dell, Egham, exhibited Cattleya 

 Schroderae Empress with eleven beautiful 

 blooms. From the Liverpool Orchid Nursery 

 Companv, Gateacre, came a beautiful set of 

 Laelio-cattleya G. S. Ball and a few other 

 orchids. 



Odontioda Bradshawiae, with two fine 

 spikes, Miltonia Bleuana rosea, with six 

 spikes, a good Odontoglossum ardentissimum, 

 the red-spotted O. Aira, and the grand 

 Brasso-cattleya Queen Alexandra were ex- 

 hibited by Messrs. Charlesworth and Co., 

 Hay ward's Heath . M. Claes, Brussels, 

 Messrs. Peelers and Co., Brussels, and M, 

 Lambeau, each sent a few orchids, chiefly 

 cattleyas and miltonias. Messrs. Cypher and 

 Sons, Cheltenham, made a capital display of 

 orchids, and exhibited Laelia Latona, Cattleya 

 Skinneri, Odontioda Cooksonise, the old Mil- 

 tonia stellata, Odontoglossum Edwardi, On- 

 cidium concolor, and the bright Renanthera 

 Imschootiana and the fine Brasso-cattleya 

 Leeana, among manv other good things. 



Messrs Sander and Sons, St. Albans, made 

 a good displav with the pretty Dendrobium 

 Devonianum/ Cattleya Schrodera^, Brasso- 

 cattleya Langleyensis and Cattleya Fernand 

 Denis' In Messrs. Stuart Low and Co.'s 

 group from Enfield, Cattleya Schroderae. 

 Odontoglossum Edwardi, Cattleya Mendeli, 



