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THE GARDENERS' MAGAZINE 



Mat 25, 1912. 



absorbing interest. Surely in no feature of 

 the exhibition was there so sharp a con- 

 trast between the 1912 exhibition and that 

 of 1866. llie vast strides that have been 

 made in raising all manner of hardy flowers 

 of pleasing form, colour, and habit were de- 

 monstrated in no uncertain manner, and the 

 heart of the hardy plant enthusiast rejoiced 

 am:d the glorious banks of herbaceous and 

 the less imposing .but equally fascinating 

 aipines. Would that we could convey to 

 those of our readers who had not the privilege 

 to see for themselves a fair idea of what 

 these exhibits were really like, but, as we 

 hastily pen our notes, we realise that it is 

 impossible in cold print to do full justice to 

 the grand display or to any individual 

 exhibit. 



Competition was keen in the class for her- 

 baceous-plants, excluding paeonies, for which 

 Sir Trevor Lawrence's cup was offered. This 

 award went to Messrs. G. and A. Clark, 

 Lim., Dover, who showed clean, well-grown 

 plants in big masses tastefully arranged as to 

 colour and natural style. Lathyrus pubes- 

 cens was one of the uncommon plants in- 

 cluded in the exhibit, which was remarkably 

 good throughout. 'Messrs. Jackman and Sons 

 staged Avell in this class, but unfortunately 

 disqualified themselves by including paeonies. 

 Second prize went to Messrs. W. Artindale 

 and Son, Sheffield, who also had some good 

 things, among which Geum Heldreichi raag- 

 niticum and some of the newer verbascums 

 figured largely. Another great bank of the 

 best perennials of the season came from 

 Messrs. Bunyard and Co., Lim., Maidstone; 

 and Messrs. Kelway and Son, Langport, 

 brought choice pyrethrums, paeonies, and 

 gaillardias, which, needless to say, were all 

 of the highest possible quality. 



In one of Messrs. Bees, Lim. s several ex- 

 hibits were staged some of the new primulas 

 which the firm have introduced from China. 

 P. Beesiana, P. Bulleyana, and P. malvacea 

 were accompanied by the dainty white form 

 of P. malacoides. Oriental poppies of uncom- 

 mon colours were the strong point in Mr. W. 

 J. Godfrey's exhibit, some of the terra-cotta 

 and fawn shades being verv charming. 



Messrs. John Forbes (Hawick), Lim., put 

 up a collection of pentstemons and phloxes, 

 together with a few delphiniums, violas, and 

 antirrhinums. Of the pentstemons Mrs. 

 Michie, King George V., and Er. E. Behring 

 a pure white, were grand. From the Lissa- 

 dell Nurseries, SHgo, came a big batch of 

 their very attractive hybrid primula named 

 the Lissadell hybrid. It is a good-habited, 

 pretty coloured, and very showy variety that 

 has a more vigorous constitution than P. x 

 Unique, to which it is somewhat similar in 

 form and colour. 



Messrs. Wallace and Co. s group of liliums 

 was extremely choice. There were such old 

 favourites as L. testaceum excelsum, L. 

 Browni, L. Krameri and umbellatum, and 

 also the let>s familiar L. tenuifolia Golden 

 Gleam, L. rubellum, and others. The out- 

 standing feature of Messrs. Cocker and Sons* 

 exhibit was Anemone alpina sulphurea, 

 which was put up in big baskets, the plants 

 carrying great numbers of their pleasing 

 flowers. Trollius and gentians were also good 

 on this stand. 



Dr. Macwatt, Morelands, Duns, N.B., 

 brought an exhibit of hardy primulas that 

 was surely as choice and varied a collection 

 as has ever been exhibited in Britain. To 

 name the novelties and rarities in this group 

 would be to compile a catalogue of the be^it 

 jirimulas in cultivation, but we must mention 

 P. Listeri, P. Watti, P. Winteri, and P. 

 geranifolia, which has never, to our know- 

 ledge, been staged before, 



A plant of more than ordinary interest 

 was Calceolaria Veitchi, exhibited by Messrs. 

 R. Veitch and Son, Exeter. It is a very ele- 

 gant plant, with loose heads of creamy tinted 

 flowers, and it has proved hardy in the 

 Southern Counties. Bronze Age is a fine 

 variety with richly-t;oloured flowers. 



It was a splendid group of primulas that 

 wa« exhibited by the Right Hon. Lord North- 

 cliffe, Sutton Place, Guildford. P. japonica 

 yarieti^ j^nd pulverulenta hvbrids were beau- 



tifully flowered, and the nodding yellow 

 flowers of P. sikkimensis were very sweet. 

 Hybrid gerberas from Mest>rs. S. Low and 

 Co., and also from Mr. H. N. EUieon, West 

 Bromwich, came in for a good deal of admi- 

 ration. Messrs. Seagrave and Co., Sheffield, 

 and Mr. Chae. Turner, Slough, were exhibi- 

 tors of twenty-four varieties of violas in pans, 

 baskets, and boxes. Their exhibits were 

 very creditable, and another capital exhibit 

 of violas in pans came from Messrs. White- 

 legg and Page, ChLsleliiirst, their varieties 

 being of the latest and best. 



Mr. Amos Perry's exhibit was of a varied 

 and very interesting character, the bulk of it 



being in the form of batches of plants suit- 

 able either for cultivation on rockeries or 

 on the margins of ponds or streams. Vero- 

 nicas, violas, and irises were strong, and 

 the lovelv Ixiolirion tartaricum was also well 

 shown. A good length of staging was filled 

 with liliums, and splashes of vivid colour 

 were provided by Oriental poppies, among 

 which a new fringed variety was very attrac- 

 tive. A magnificent collection of rock plants 

 and flowering shrubs was arrangred by Mr. 

 J. Grandfield, gardener to Sir Everard Ham- 



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MESSRS. SUTTON AND SONS' CUP. 



Offered for the most meritorious collection of 



Yegetableis. 



bro, Hayes Place, Kent. There were repre- 

 sented the choicest of encrusted saxifrages, 

 the brightest of dianthus, and the moet ele- 

 gant heucheras. Among a great many rari- 

 ties Janke^ Heldreichi maeedonia was a 

 centre of attraction to all the specialists. 



A class for alpine plants on a table of fifty 

 superficial feet brought some very good en- 

 tries. Messrs. Thompson and Charman, Tlie 

 Nurseries, Buehey, had some good plants of 

 Ramondia pyrenaica alba, Dianthus sub- 

 acaulis, and, in fact, a host of choice gems. 

 On Messrs. Bees' stand a little group of 

 Roscoea-cautilioides, a novelty from China, 

 w^as quite distinct from anything else — a 

 plant with a future l>efore it. Messrs. Artin- 

 dale and Son, Sheffield, made a feature of 

 hardy cypripediums, and they also had a 

 choice assortment of primulas, saxifrages, 

 etc. Mr. Andrew Campbell, Ardross, Pan- 

 nal, Yorks, had a tastefully arranged group 

 that showed a good deal of merit in arrange- 

 ment, the plants being of a quiet but pleas- 

 incr charaeter. 



Tree pjeonies from Messrs. Artindale and 

 Son were really magnificent. Queen Elizabeth 

 Ijeing of particularly attractive colour and 

 large size. Messrs. Fred Smith and Co., 

 Woodbridge, made a bold display of bright 

 flowers such as heucheras, Rehmanniaa, 

 geums. and aquilegias. The same firm also 

 showed annuals and biennials in pots, the 

 tlarkias and schizanthus being very beau- 

 tiful. 



HARDY CUT FLOWERS. 



pied about G(X) 



filling this great space with batehes of dis- 

 tinct classes of hardy flowers, among which 

 the German iri&es, the lupins, and anchusaa 

 were as effective as anything, although the 

 eremuri were very noble in aspect. Worthy 

 of note were some excellent polyanthus and 

 auriculas, which Messrs. Storrie and Storrie 

 Gle near set, Perthshire, staged among their 

 fruit trees and bushes. They .also showed 

 their pretty hybrid poppies in a delightful 

 range of colours. Messrs. G. and A. Clark, 

 Lim., Dover, had an effective group of 

 irises, pyrethrums. Oriental poppies, and 

 other bright subjects, arranged in mounds 

 finished off with good spikes of eremuri. 

 Mrs. Lloyd Edwards, Bryn Perog, near L'an- 

 gollen, showed her set of heucheras, and the 

 rich-coloured Aubrietia Lloyd Edwards'. 



Mr. G. W. Miller, Wisbech, put up a big 

 mass of his now well-known and popular 

 pyrethrum Queen Mary, and also several 

 other attractive varieties, both single and 

 double. Violas in bold masses constituted 

 the chief feature of one of Messrs. Dobbie 

 and Co.*s stands, and aquilegias of rich de- 

 cided colours w^ere also staged in great quan- 

 tity by this firm. Messrs. Gunn and Sons, 

 Olton, Warwick, brought some good phloxes 

 and a mass of their viola Cornuta purpurea. 



Messrs. Dickson's, Lim., Chester, had a 

 striking mass of Delphinium Persimmon, also 

 Astilbe Arendsi Vesta, and a great variety of 

 aipines in full flower that made an attrac- 

 tive show. 



Violas were shown in quantity, the class 

 for twenty-four varieties bringing three 

 strong entries, among which the winner was 

 Mr. F. J. Bell, Crescent Nursery, Whitley 

 Bay. Second went to Messrs. Seagrave and 

 Co., Sheffield; and third to Messrs. Bastock 

 and Sons, Birmingham. Each stand made a 

 great point with Moseley Perfection, and 

 other good varieties were Lady Grant, Coun- 

 tess of Eglinton, A. J. Bastock, Mother 

 Bastock, and Agnes Kay. 



Messrs. J. Darkness and Sons, Bedale, took 

 the lead for a collection of cut lie baceouB, 

 covering 200 square feet. Its most 

 telling subiects were Verbascum Miss Will- 

 mott, Trollius Triumph, some fine pink 

 lupins, and gorgeous Oriental poppies. 

 Messrs. E. H. Bath, Lim., Wisbech, were 

 large exhibitors of tulips, the flowers bein^ 

 very large and fresh. The varieties embraced 

 many of the best in cultivation. Tlie same 

 may be .said of the excellent group put up by 

 Messrs. Barr and So»«, Covent Garden, W.C. 



Mr. W. T. Ware, Bath, showed the clear, 

 bright-yellow tulip named Inglescombe Tel- 

 low, a capital variety that appeals to every- 

 one, so rich is its colour. 



A grand lot of Darwins were shown by 

 Messrs. Alex. Dickson and Sons. Lim., B"o- 

 lin. Don Pedro, a very distinct ^^^^^'^ 

 coloured variety was attractive. An unnamea 

 seedling of a darker, mahoganv shade was 

 promising, and Orange Gl<Vbe, Moralis, and 

 Klondvke were all good. Messrs. Hosrg and 

 Robertson. Lim., Mary Street, Dublin, 

 showed Darwin tulips in quantity, and a vase 

 of the flaked cottage tulip Scotia was very 

 attractive. The same firm put up ^ariv 

 gladioli, ixias, and bulbous irises, all or 



which were good. a a 



Messrs. W^ and J. Brown, Stamford, iia<i a 



miscellaneous exhibit, amono- Avhich 

 dcr flowers predominated. Gaillardia l^aoy 

 Bollest^n and a number of fine seedlm^^^ 

 from that variety were conspicuous. 

 Brigid anemones, from Messrs. Eeamsbottoni 

 and Co., Geashill, Ireland, were a 

 great attraction: and the ever-popular ce 

 taureas, from Messrs. Jarman ^^5\ V^'g 

 Cliard, made another fine display, aif^. 

 thev were by Viola cornuta. aqnil^g^^- 

 clarkias, and other seasonable ^i'"'^; 

 Messrs. Bees. Lim., ^^howed a miscellaneo^^; 

 group of border flowers of the usu^il 

 summer subjects, their Inpinf^ mid ^'^"^^ 

 pyrethrums being fairly good. 



CANADA AND AUSTRALIA. 

 Tlie elegance of the Canadian display ^y" 

 the talk of the show. In a ^^"tiniiir* 

 niched tent the Government staged n 

 glass urns, containing splendid sam]^^ 



square feet across the cud of the big tent, apples, pears, peaches, and grapes 



