Mat 25, 1912. 



THE GARDENERS' MAGAZINE, 



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attractive feature was a new bold fern called 

 Polypodium Mandaianum. A very compact 

 group of ferns was exhibited by Messrs. J. 

 Hill and Son, Lower Edmonton, and in it 

 was a large number of interesting forms, 

 amongst which we boticed Cibotium Scheidei, 

 Gleichenia dic^rpa longipinata, Platycerium 

 Veitchi, Lygodium scandens, Blechnum 

 brasiliense, Polypodium linqua coiymbi- 

 formus, and a number of others. 

 • The competitive fern classes were nicely set 

 out, and amongst the prize-winners was Mr. 

 W. B. Cranfield, of EnfieJd Cha^e, who had 

 the best twelve hardy ferns, and the same 

 exhibitor also won with twelve British ferns 

 and twelve British scolopendrium^. He was 

 again to the front with twenty-four British 

 ferns, showing fine specimens in this class. 

 Magnificent, indeed, were the twelve stove 

 and greenhouse ferns that won a silver cup 

 for Messrs. J, Hill and Sons, Edmonton, and 

 Mr W. A. Manda showed some very fine 

 specimens in this class. By no means lew 

 were the favourable comments passed on the 



Tey (a nice purple and bronze), Mrs. Cuth- 

 bertson, Melba in glorious colour, and May 

 Campbell were all splendidly shown, while 

 the plants represented Inspector, Elfrida 

 Pearson, Lavender George Herbert, Lady 

 Miller, ITios. Stevenson, Bobbie's Lavender, 

 Bobbie's Scarlet, and Bobbie's Cream — all 

 splendidly clean and abundantly bircmed. 

 Mrs. Cuthbertson had plenty of fives." 



Mr. Stevenson, Poole, was an extensive 

 exhibitor of sweet peas, and put up a dis- 

 play of rather small flowers of up-to-date 

 varieties, such as Flora Norton Spencer, 

 Clara Curtis, Punch, Anglian Blue, America 

 Spencer, Etta Byke, and a number of pro- 

 mising seedlings. Mr. Robert Syderliam, 

 Birmingham, contributed a pretty c</llec- 

 tion of sweet peas, and disposed the flrwers 

 pleasingly; chief among tlie varieties were 

 Barbara, Lilian, Chas. Foster, Scarlet Em- 

 peror, Thos. Stevenson, Iris (in glorious 

 colour), Maud Holmes, and the striking 

 finely-waved Helen Pierce Spencer. 



Messrs. E. W. King and Co., Coggeshall, 



Melba, and Dazzler. Mr. W. E. Alsen, 

 Waterlooville, came second, and Messrs. W. 

 Lumley and Co., Hayling Island, were third. 

 Sir Randolph Baker, Bart., Ranston, and 

 Mr. L. H. Hatting, Hornchiirch, w£T€ also 

 prize-winners in sweet pea classes. 



CARNATIONS. 



It is not suflicient to say that carnations were 

 well shown, and that all the best varieties 

 were represented, for it behoves us to put on 

 record that there were staged the finest lot 

 of these flowers we have ever seen, embracing 

 American and British perpetuals, malmai- 

 sons, and borders, despite the early date for 

 the last-named section. Scarcely a name 

 that is known among the specialists was 

 absent from the list of exhibitors, and, as 

 might be expected, everybody had brought 

 of their very best. 



Mr. R. F". Felton, Hanover Square, Lon- 

 don, had a very imposing group, arranged in 

 bold but tasteful style. Massive vases and 

 lartre baskets were filled with such varieties 



A BEAUTIFUL GROUP OF RAMBLING AND OTHER H(>>K> 



Exhibited bv Messrs. W. Paul and Son, Waltham Cross. 



groiip of stove and greenhouse ferns in the 

 amateur section with which Mr. W. Howe, 

 ^treatham Common, won a silver cup. 'Jliey 

 ^ere a good lot, and nicely arranged. On a 

 space occupying 200 sq. ft., Messrs. Artindale 

 and Sons, Sheffield, showed a nice lot cf 



+^ ^^^^ ^^^^ tastefully arranged. 



the amateurs' class for a group of 

 siove and greenhouse ferns Miss C. M. Mcln- 

 ^sh, Oi Havering Park, put up a nice collec- 

 tion, which deservedly won first prize. 



SWEET PEAS. 

 A glorious lot of sweet peas from Messrs. 

 in^ Edinburgh, provided a strik. 



vear;^*!*^ !?*^ progress made in late 



iowlr^'^^^ elegant, and 1< vely 



e-roiiti;) . . Edinburgh firm had a back- 

 carrvin,.''^ single^temmed plants, 9ft. high, 

 In^lf^ ^ glorious lot of flowers; Brunette, 



T^>.v^^^V"'^ Stevenson, Lady 



iJobbies Lavender, Decorator. Marks 



displayed sweet peas elegantly, xiid put up 

 Anglian Pink, Anglian Blue, and many other 

 fine varieties in capital style. Messrs. G. 

 Stark and Son, Great Ryburgh, showed some 

 fine sweet peas, staging their George Stark, 

 Florence Wright, Hercules, and other speci- 

 alities in good form. 



Mr. C. W^ Breadmore, Winchester, had 



sweet ]>eas on view, as might have been ex- 

 pected, and in his stand he set up lovely 

 bunches of Aggie Elder, Princess Mary, King 

 Alfred, an improved Helen Lewis, Lord Cur- 

 zon, Helen Lewis, a fine strain < f Countess 

 Spencer, Elsie, Clara Curtis, Flossie Jeffery, 

 Maud Holmes, and Mrs. C. W\ Breadmore 

 all the flowers being of lovely substance and 

 colour. 



The Sherwood Cup for sweet peas was trely 

 won by Mr. C. W. Breadmore, whose exhibit 

 contained grand bunches of Countess Spen- 

 cer, Nettie Jenkins, Aggie Elder, Lavender 

 George Herbert, Helen Lewis, May Campbell, 



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Northcliffe, the colours of the flowers being 

 well set off by a groundwork of ferns and 

 foliage plants. Mr. Grubb, gardener to C. 

 F. Raphael, Esq., Porter's Park, showed very 

 effectively. He had plants of the good 

 old blush malmaison, and also Lady Coven- 

 try, Duchess of Westminster, and other of 

 the' most popular perpetuals. 



Another good exhibit was that from Mr. 

 A. E. Usher, gardener to Sir Randolph 

 Baker, Randstone, Blandford, who had well- 

 grown plants of the leading perpetuals, ar- 

 ranc^ed in effective mounds over a carpet of 

 small ferns. In the extensive group P"t up 

 by Messrs. Stuart Low and Co.. Bush Hill 

 Park there were Baroness de Bnenen, Lady 

 Alington, Cinnabar, and a number of other 



things. Mr. Chas. Turner, Slough, 

 showed borders, among which Queen Mary, 

 Rubv Ladv Desborough, and The Pearl may 



