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THK GARDENERS' MAGAZINE. 



May 25, 1912. 



while at either end were grouped beautiful 

 odontoglossums, odontiodas, Miltonias, 

 Vanda teres, the wonderful Cypripedium 

 Edithae, Anguloa uniflora, and neaps, of 

 other lovely orchids. 



Mr. J. Macartney, Hey House, Bolton; 

 Mr. W. A. Manda, New Jersey, U.S.A. ; Mr. 

 F. Wellesley, Woking, also showed orchids. 

 Mr, H. A. Tracy, Twickenham, put up a 

 good bank of odontoglo&sums and odontiodas, 

 and Mr. Davis, gardener to J. Gurney 

 Fowler, Esq., Glebelands, South Woodford, 

 staged some fine odontoglossums among spe- 

 cimen selaginellas. The best plant was 

 Odontoglossum illustre Europa, dark purple, 

 and very showy. 



EOSES. 



By way of a moss-covered path under a 

 pergola leading up to a bower in the centre, 

 one entered the veritable garden of roses ex- 

 hibited by Messrs. Hobbies, of Dereham. 

 The pillars of the pergola on either side 

 were clothed with beautiful roses of the 

 Dorothy Perkins family, and the weeping 

 standards of this section were a charm in 

 themselves. From another side of this group 



down to meet the 'beautiful blooms on the 

 pot bush roses that formed a groundwork 

 beneath; and amongst the colours, pinks and 

 whites and crimsons stood out conspicuously. 

 The front view of the group was delightfully 

 effective, and nothing took our fancy more 

 than a mixture on the same weeping stan- 

 dard of Excelsa, White Dorothy, Lady 

 Godiva, and Dorothy Perkins. 



Leaving the above group one turned 

 round and faced a remarkably fine col- 

 lection of roses ^t up by Messrs. W. 

 Paul and Son, of Waltham Cross. Weep- 

 ing standards were not so numerous here, 

 but they were very beautiful, especially 

 Paradise and Tausendschon. Hiawatha fur- 

 nished two pillars of the great tent, and 

 underneath the tall weeping standajds were 

 roses of many shades of colour, all fresh, 

 mostly sweet, and the plants were as healthy 

 as plants could be. It was a fine effort, 

 and the longer you looked at it the better 



you liked it. 



In its own particular way, there was not a 

 group of roses in the whole show more effec- 

 tive than that exhibited by Messrs. Wm. Cut- 



accordance with the schedule, there were no 

 weeping varieties. Messrs. Paul and Son 

 was the exhibitor here. The bare ground in 

 this ftpace looked rather unsightly, except 

 just one corner that was furnished with a 

 collection of 100 polyantha dwarf roses, 

 shown by the last-named firm ; Mrs. Cut- 

 bush, Maman Levavasseur, and Jeanne D'Arc 

 were the most predominating varieties here, 



Five exhibits appeared in the class for a 

 group of pot roses and cut flowers, and each 

 one was distinctively good in its own way. 

 Messrs. Frank Cant and Co.^ of Colchestei, 

 made the most of their space with beauti- 

 ful ramblers at the back, and equally beau- 

 tiful cut flowers of numerous varieties in 

 the fronts amongst which Lady Eoberts was 

 a predominating feature. There was no need 

 to ask who the next group belonged to, for 

 there was George Mount, of Canterbury, 

 written all over it in the glory of the Frau 

 Karl Druschki, Mrs. John Laing, and ririch 

 Brunner. We cannot praise this collection 

 in higher terms than this. 



Quite of a different type, but very beauti- 

 ful nevertheless, were the roses staged hy 



A MAGNIFICENT COLLECTION OF ORCHIDS. 



Exhibited by Lieut. -Col. Sir G, Holford, Westonbirt (Mr. H. G. Alexander, grower). 



finest exhibit in the show. 



Tliis was awarded the King's Cup for 



the 



one looked through another pergola which 

 ran at right angles to the first-named, and 

 a neat little green fence which enclosed the 

 whole group gave it a neat and finished ap- 

 pearance. 



A blaze of beautiful rose colour best de- 

 scribes the superb group set up by Mr. 

 George Mount, of Canterbury. There were 

 great masses of Dorothy Perkins, Lady Gay, 

 Excelsa, and White Dorothy towering up m 

 rank profusion, and in between you saw huge 

 bunches of perfect flowers of Mrs. Sharman 

 Crawford, Frau Karl Druschki, and many 

 another. ITiere was Mrs, John Laing with 

 stems a yard long, and TJlrich Brunner 

 simply beautiful. Rarely indeed has the 

 British public been given an opportunity of 

 looking upon such a feast of the queen of 

 flowers. 



Standing a few yards away from the group 

 of roses exhibited by Mesers. Paul and Son, 

 of Cheshunt, we almost lost ourselves in ad- 

 miration, for the beautiful weeping roses 

 which formed the feature of the group. Long 

 drooping clusters of flower nearly reached 



bush and Sons, Highgate. The ground of 

 the triangle on which the roses stood was a 

 carpet of such gems as White Pet, Mrs, W. H. 

 Cutbush, Baby Tausendschon (a sweet little 

 pink rose), Jessie, and others. Standing 

 above the groundwork were great bushes of 

 Mrs. W. W. Flight, Hiawatha, American 

 Pillar, and Dorothy Perkins, 



A circular group of roses with a big palm 

 towering above the centre was set up by 

 Mr. Charles Tiirner, of Slough, but it struck 

 us as being rather too crowded. Weeping 

 standards were also the feature here, but 

 had they been used a little less freely in a 

 group of this kind tliey would have shown 

 themselves off to better advantage. 



At one point there was a group of roses 

 apparently made up by a number of exhibi- 

 tors. On a collection of nine pot roses we 

 saw the name of Messrs. Paul and 

 Son, Cheshunt, Herts. This firm sent 

 nine weeping standards, the best of which 

 was Lady Gay, and these seiMiied to be some- 

 thing out of the common in seeing the group 

 of thirty-six standard roses, in which, in 



Messrs. Hugh Dickson, Belfast. Here_ 

 feasted our eyes on pillars of Blush Ram Die^- 

 Ladv Gav, aiad others in weeping torm, ^ 

 *cut ^flowers of Lady Hillingdon and ot^ei>. 

 Mr. G. Prince, Oxford, had a thick ba^^^ 

 ground of rambling roses with cut biou 

 in between, but we thought the exhibit » ^ 

 rather overcrowded. Messrs. W -^^^i^ 

 Brown, of Peterborough, had masses oi 

 flowers built up in bamboo stands. , 

 A hundred polvantha roses i^^termi- _ 

 with maidenhairs, Vhich did not seem to 

 quite the- most suitable material 

 purpose, were shown by Mr. J. ^^SS^^^ 

 ton, and near at hand were a few ^^^"^ ^ 

 ends of roses, evidently put there to rn 

 vacant space that would have been very m , 

 better on the outside of an I^iternatioi^ 

 tent. Some good specimens of ramD»^5 

 roses made a suitable background toJ\ -g 

 lection of mixed plants put up by 31^=' 

 Dickson, Lim. Chester. -jj. 



There was a good deal of the c^^^^^^j. of 

 lage flower show aspect about a ^^^^V.^,. 



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competitive classes of roses that were 



