May 4, 1912. 



THE GARDENERS' MAGAZINE. 



367 



ROYAL INTERNATIONAL 

 HORTICULTURAL 



EXHIBITION. 



privilegre to Official Gardeners' 



Societies. 



Tlie directors liave decided to grant a spe- 

 cial privilege to members of bona fide gar- 

 deners' miitnal improvement and similar 

 societies. Tlie secretaries of such societies 

 purcha-sing not fewer than 20 admission 

 tickets for the exhibition will be accorded a 

 discount of 20 per cent, upon Is. tickets, and 

 10 per cent, upon all higher-priced tickets. 

 A parcel of 20 tickets and upwards need not 

 be comprised of tickets all of the isame value; 

 in fact, it may be made up in any way con- 

 venient to the society, so long as not fewer 

 than 20 are purchased at the same time. So- 

 cieties wishing to avail ^themselves of these 

 facilities must apply for their tickets on or 

 before May 13, as no discounts- can be 

 allowed after that date. 



Exhibition Cups. 



Never before has there been anything like 

 such an array of valuable cups for presenta- 

 tion at an exhibition of this nature. Not 

 only are the directors offering a large num- 

 ber themselves, but his Majesty the King, 

 the President (the Duke of Portland), Sir 

 Jeremiah Colman (treasurer). Lady Colman, 

 J. Gurney Fowler^ Esq. (chairman). Sir 

 George Holford, C.I.E., K.C.V.O., Baron 

 Bruno Schroder, Monsieur Lambeau (Brus- 

 sels), and others are all offering cups for 

 various purposes. The Worshipful Company 

 of Gardeners and most of the other horticul- 

 tural societies, the Veitch Memorial Trus- 

 tees, and the Horticultural Club offer either 

 cups or gold medals; and most of the larger 

 firms of nurserymen and seedsmen in 

 Britain, as well as several on the Continent, 

 and even in Japan, and the proprietors of 

 the "Gardeners' Chronicle'' are contributing 

 cups, and another series of such prizes will 

 be forthcoming from many of the counties. 

 The county cups are likely to have an aver- 

 age value of about ^25. 



It is felt that the public should have an 

 opportunity of inspecting these numerous 

 cups and plate, and it has therefore been 

 arranged to exhibit them at a meeting of 

 the Royal Horticultural Society, on Mav 14, 

 in the Society's Hall, Vincent Square, West- 

 nunster. They will be on view at the exhi- 

 Intion on May 22, 23, and 24, the first three 

 <'ays of the show. 



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Exhibition. 



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From the entries received all types of carna- 

 tions will be represented in abundance. The 

 perpetual-flowering section^ the Souvenir de 

 ia Malmaison type, the border varieties— all 

 ^vill vie with each other an presenting a bril- 

 liant show of colour. There are, for instance, 



groups of carna- 

 tions m flower, arranged on spaces of 200 

 square feet each. The tuberous-rooted be- 

 gonias, so resplendent at most of the summer 

 snows, will contribute -some of the most bril- 

 liant co;louring ever seen. There are three 

 entries an a class in which each exhibit can 

 «iaim an area of 200 square feet. 



treptocarpuses-^a race of greenhouse 

 plants which has come into special notice 

 aunug the past ten years— have attracted 



9rw7 ^"^^i^s in a class for exhibits occupving 

 ^^^y square feet each. . 



r^i" division, however, is there more 

 tason tor satisfaction than in that for alpine 

 ants and rockeries. Nine entries appear in 

 snL^ f alpine -plants arranged in 



il T +t ^^1^^^''^ s^^^^n entries 



another competition for exhibits occupy- 



luL ^'•''^''^ "^^^^^ ^^^ili 14 or 



&:irL^^^^ rockeries constructed in the open 



lannv"'/^^^'^ ^ ^^^^s f<>^ rockeries of 600 

 tioTA seven in a competi- 



^lon .vhere the space is limited to 400 square 



fiJuV^^ flower section, sweet peas will 

 5 ^e largely^ although most of the flowers 



will have been grown under glass, in order 

 to be ready for the early date, lliere are 

 14 entries in a competition for the " Sher- 

 wood Cnfp for groups of sweet peas in 

 spaces of 12 feet by 3 feet, and eight com- 

 petitors for Messrs. Dobbies cup, in spaces 

 of 6 feet by 3 feet. Four exhibitors will com- 

 pete in a class for new sweet peas introduced 

 to commerce since September, 1910. 



Boy Scouts and Veteran 



Soldiers. 



Arrangements will be made for employing 

 Boy Scouts as messengers, especially on the 

 hrst day of the exhibition. May 22, when the 

 finding of the 75 sections of the jury will be 

 communicated to the commissariat imme- 

 diately each class is adjudicated tipon. All 

 members of the jury are asked to be present 

 at the exhibition at 7.30 in the morning, and 

 it is expected that most of the judging will 

 be completed before 1% o'clock a.m. Veteran 

 soldiers in uniform, from the Chelsea Hos- 

 pital, will be employed as attendants, and 

 ambulance corps will be furnished by the St. 

 John's Ambulance Society. Indeed, all will 

 be done that is possible not only to provide 

 against accidents, but to secure the greatest 

 comfort of the visitors to this great exhibi- 

 tion . 



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NOTES OF OBSERVATION. 



Acalypha Sanderiana.— The re- 

 quired number of plants of this beautiful 

 species may be worked up either by cuttings 

 of the strong yotmg shoots, or by cutting 

 the old stem into lengths of two or three 

 inches, with a plump eye at their apex. In- 

 sert singly in thumb pots filled with light, 

 sandy soil, and plunge in a hotbed. When 

 nicely rooted inure to more light and air, 

 and transfer to larger pots. Pot firmly to 

 ensure short-jointed growth and robust leaf- 

 age. Use a compost consisting of two parts 

 loam, one of flaky leaf-soil, with a good 

 sprinkling of dried cow or sheep manure, 

 sand, and bone-meal. Red spider is very par- 

 tial to acalyphas, and immediately it puts 

 in an appearance, take prompt action to 

 eradioate it by frequent spongings. Tlie best 

 specimens I have seen had the points pinched 

 out when about nine inches in height, and 

 when ncAV growths were produced three o; 

 the strongest were retained. — H. T. Martin. 



Impatiens Holsti.— This was intro- 

 duced about ten years ago from German East 

 Africa, by way of the Berlin Botanic Gar- 

 den, and it quickly became popular. Since 

 then we have liad many forms put into com- 

 merce, but as an all-round plant the typical 

 Impatiens Holsti remains, I think, unsur- 

 passed. It is of good free growth^ and 

 branches so freely as to soon form a well- 

 furnished specimen, while it flowers through- 

 out the greater part of the year. For bed- 

 ding out during the summer it has proved to 

 be about the best of all these balsams. The 

 colour of the flower is bright vermilion. In 

 Impatiens Herzogi the flowers are larger and 

 with more of a salmon suffusion, but the sea- 

 son of blooming does not seem to extend over 

 as lengthened a period. Not only these two 

 but other tropical kinds have proved them- 

 selves decided acquisitions to our indoor 

 flowering plants. Tliey strik^^ readily from 

 cuttings, and seeds are often obtainable —W. 



Heracleum giganteum.— This is 



a noble plant of gigantic pro]K)rtions, most 

 suitable for grouping beside water, yet suc- 

 ceeding equally well in the bolder parts of 

 the wild garden. So far as the flower lieads 

 and individual flowers are concerned, it is 

 surpassed by the Siberian species, H. Mante- 

 gazzianum ;* both succeed in a deep soil that 

 is inclined to heaviness, which should be well 

 broken up before planting, as, once estab- 

 lished thev call for no further attention. 

 This genus belongs to the natural order Um- 

 belliferae-, and the inflorescence of both spe- 

 cies are most suggestive of cart wheels, hence 

 the common name of cart-wheel flower; in 

 like manner, the leaves and roots give rl^ - 

 1o the other popular appellative of guMit 

 cow parsnip.— T. S. 



OYAL BOTANICAL AND HORTI- 



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of 



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GRAND ROSE SHOW. 



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SUMMER SHOW, 

 On JULY 19th and 20th 



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WHITE CITY and ItOYAL BOTANICAL GARDENS, 



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 lings and Sixpence. Oflfice*, 148 and 149. Aldersgat^ 

 Street, London, E.O, 



EXHIBITIONS AND 



MEETINGS. 



Midland Daffodil Society. 



The ciunxial exhibition of thij> important 

 iiiid flourishing society was opened at the 

 Botanical Gardens, Edgbaston, Birmingham, 

 on Thursday, April 25, and continued on 

 Friday. It had been apparent for some little 

 time past that, in consequence of the earli- 

 ness of the season the show would be too late 

 for such a large display of daffodils as have 

 generally been seen at Birmingham, and it 

 therefore occa^sioued no surprise among visi- 

 tors when thev found there was a consider- 

 able falling off in the number of entries, and 

 that only the latest typee were staged in 

 anything like good form. One cause for 

 general satisfaction, however, was that 

 glorious weather prevailed, wherea^i in pre- 

 vious years it hiis often been of a stormy 

 and unpleasant character. Notwithstanding 

 the absence of some few of the leading lights 

 in the daffodil world, there wa> a good 

 gathering of experts, among w^honi we met 

 the Rev. G. H. Engleheart, Eev. J. Jacob, 

 Mr. G. H. Van AVaveren, Mr. P. R. Barr, 

 Mr. T. Batson, Profet5sor West, Mr. W. T. 

 Ware, Mr. J. D. Peai'son, Mr. C. Bourne, 

 and many others whose names figure promi- 

 nently wherever daffodil growers foregather. 

 Mr. Robert Sydenham was as active and 

 jovial as ever, and Mr. Herbert Smith, the 

 secretary, was, it goes without saying, cour- 

 tesy and energy personified. 



COMPETITIVE CLASSES. 



Tlie biggest class was for a collection of 

 fifty varieties representative of the different 

 divisions, three stems of each variety. Of 

 the three entries staged the best collection 

 was adjudged to be that shown by Rev. J, 

 Jacob, Whitchurch. It was a very credit- 

 able exhibit, and included a number of good 

 varieties, among which the pheasant-eyes 

 Horace and Ca^ssandra, and a giant gold 

 trumpet variety named The Doctor, stood out 

 boldly. E. Strauss, a big bicolor, and a 

 pretty pure white, small cupped variety 

 named Hoar Frost, were also interesting. 

 The winner was closely followed by Messrs. 

 Cartwright and Goodwin, Kidderminster, 

 who had nice flowers of Hildegarde, Genial 

 Star, Matthew Arnold, Coventry Patmore 

 among the flat vups, together with Marshall 

 Hall, Princess Ena. Cornelia, and Mrs. H. J. 

 Veitch in trumpetis. The third prize was 

 awarded Mr. J. Pope, King's Norton, for 

 good flowers. Only two entries were forth- 

 coming in the class for twelve distinct varie- 

 ties of trumpets, a class that generally brings 

 out a keen contest. Mr. W. A. Milner, Shef- 

 field, scored, showing Agincourt. Copen- 

 hagen, Toski, Poitiers, Trafalgar. Grandee, 

 Falkirk, Monarch. Hastings, Waterloo, Om- 

 durraan, and Tel-ei-Kebir. The second prize 

 was taken by Mr. J. H. Mallendcj . Hawtry, 

 on whose stand were flowers of Clieru'n. Mark 

 Twain, Sir Bedivore, and otiier-. Mr. Mal- 

 lender had matters all his own \Nay in the 



