June 22, 1912. 



I'HE GARDENERS' MAGAZINE. 



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Lassberg being conspicuously good ; Viola 

 cornuta purpurea weLs also beautifully shown 

 by the Messrs. Gunn. Mr. L. Greening, Rich- 

 mond, stacked- a plea^ingf littie alpine and 

 water garden. • Graceful ferns in great 

 variety were brwiglit up by Me^rs. H. B. 

 May and Sons, Edmonton ; Nephrolepis 

 Roosevelti, Adiantum Farleyense gloriosum, 

 and Nephrolepis Marshall! conipacta were 

 particularly good. 



Mr. Amos Ferry, Enfield, banked tip del- 

 phiniums at either end of a fern-margined 

 lily pond, wherein lovely Howers of iVym- 

 ph*as Ja.s. Brydon, Marliacea carnea, M. 

 rnbra, and M, alba were very beautiful. Ere- 

 n:urus Warei, Ostrowfekia magnifica, Liliiim 

 Krameri, and the fine dianthus Mrs. Perry, 

 also formed part of the display. 



Messrs H. Cannell and Sons, Swanley, put 

 up an interesting lot of begonias, the droop- 

 ing pink B. Fleur de Chrysantheme being 

 particularly graceful, and suitable for bas- 

 kets. Some good fuchsias were alt^o in- 

 cluded. A bright bank of Salvia splendens 



Gravereaux, Mdme. Ravarv, Ladv "White, 

 Una, Prince de Bulgarie, Corallina, Mdme. 

 Melanie Soupert^ Juliet, Irish Glory, Lady 

 Waterlow, Lady Hillingdon, Mrs. Alfred 

 Tate, Comtesse du Cayla, Peace, and Irish 

 Elegance. 



Messrs. Paul and Son, Cheshunt, were re- 

 presented by a large bank of handsome her- 

 baceous paeonies, spiraeas, irises, and a col- 

 lection of roses, the latter including Butter- 

 fly, Sweet Lavender, Will Scarlett, Eccentric, 

 and other free-flowering varieties. They had 

 also a vase of sprays of Philadelphus Vio 

 Lactee (A.M.). 



Messrs. William Paul and Sons, Waltham 

 Cross, presented roses in baskets, and also 

 set up pillar specimens in pots. Juliet, 

 Ophelia, Warrior, Mdme. Segond- Welder, and 

 the new Bianca were varieties e.sj^ecially 

 well shown, and proved highly attractive. 



Messrs. B^ Cant and Sons, Colchester, filled 

 one length of tabling with beautiful ro?es. 

 Rambling roses made a background to the 

 stands of Mdme. Melanie Soupert, Mdm 



forms of Cattleya Mossiae, and the beautiful 

 C. Mrs. Myra Peters. Mr. Black, gardener 

 to R. Thwaites, Esq., Streatham, contributed 



a large selection of i„Klontiodas, mostly small 

 plants, repi^esenting a large number of 

 crosses. Conspicuous in this group were nine 

 plants of Cattleya Mossiae Wagneri. 



The Ijiverpool Orclud Nursery Company, 

 Liverpool, contributed a small gioup of 

 hybrids, chiefly Laplic-cattleya Cowani and 

 L.-c. Canhamiana. Cypripedium bellatulum 

 was also included. Mr. E. H. Davidson, Bor- 

 la^es, Twyfoixi, put u^-) a very pretty set of 

 orchids, showing Cattleya gigas, C. Mendeli, 

 C. Mossia*, L.-c, Aphrodite, a fine form of 

 Odontoglossum hibernicum, O. eximium, and 

 O. Airworth. Mr. G. Day, gardener to H. S. 

 (Woodson, Esq.. Fairlawn, Putney, exhibited 

 Odonto^lossum percultum Clarksoni, O.cris- 

 pum-Wiganianum, and the quaint, striped 

 Cattleya Mossiae Mrs. GtM)dson. 



Messrs. Charlesworth and Co., Hay wards 

 Heath, ])resented a few interesting orchids, 

 n<tably Cattleya Mo->sia' Wagneri, Dendro- 



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MESSRS. SUTTON AND SONS' GOLD MEDAL DISPLAY OF SWEET PEAS. 



At the Royal Horticultural Society's meeting, June 18. 



Pride of Zurich contrasted with the bank of 

 the new Marguerite Mrs. Sander, from Mr. 

 L. R. Russell, Richmond. 



Messrs. Jas. Veitch and Sons, Chelsea, 

 made a brave show of perpetual and Mal- 

 ^aison carnations growing m pots, and gor- 

 geous cannas, all arrang^ under fine weep- 

 ing standard fuchsias. The same firm put 

 lip a charming lot of Spanish iriises, the 

 varieties Cajanus, Ix>uise, Solfaterre, and 

 Lemon Queen being especially good. Tliey 

 also had a very fine group of such yellow or 

 yellowish eremuri as E. Bungei magnificus, 

 E. Warei, and E. Bungei superbus ; they 

 were grand spikes s-et over Thalictrum japo- 

 nicum, with an edging of funkias. Phila- 

 delphus Via Lactee (A.M.), and P. Bouquet 

 Blanc (A.M.\ the latter with semi-double 

 white flowei's closely set on the branches, 

 were also exhibited bv the Messrs. Veitch. 

 ^,,™^rs. Frank Cant and Co., Colchester, 

 niled a length of tabling with splendidly de- 

 veloped roses tastefully arranged in stands, 

 vases, and boxes. A particularly wide range 

 of varieties was presented, and among the 

 ^any we made special note of Mdme. Jules 



Segond- Weber, Irish Glory, Mdme. Ravary, 

 Mrs. Alfred Tate, Le Progres, Sunburst. 

 Betty, Lady Ashtown, Peter Blair, and other 

 lovely varieties. 



Some excellent blooms of roses from Mess}*s. 

 Stuart Low and Co., Enfield, represented 

 the varieties Betty, La France, Chateau de 

 Clos Vougeot, Duchess of Wellington, Rayon 

 d'Or, Mildred Grant, Lyon, and Juliet. The 

 Messrs. Low in another group, presented a 

 selection of perpetual carnations and flower- 

 ing plants of Maggie Nettlefield, Sir E. Wood. 

 Maggie Hodgson, and dher Malmaisoii varie- 

 ties. Some fir>'t-rate perpetual carnations 

 from Mr. H. Burnett, Guernsey, included 

 fine bunches of Marmion. R. F. Felton. Bon- 

 fire, Mikado, Orpheus. AVhite Periectiou. aud 

 Mrs. Tatton. 



ORCHID COMMITTEE. 



Messrs. Sander and Sons, St. Albans, dis- 

 played a bank of orchitis set in ferns. Cuti- 

 ieya gigas Sanderiana was ;Trandly sliown, 

 a?idso \vere Miltonia vexillaria Lambeauiana, 

 Dendrobium superbiens, Anguloa Ruckeri, 

 Coelogyne asj^erata alba, very pretty; Den- 

 drobium Sanderae, L.-c. Fascinator, white 



bium ^anderae. D. Dearei. Trirluipilia^ tor- 

 tilis, Odontoglossum citrosniuni iitscuni. and 

 Cleisostoma crassifolia. Odontioda Cook- 

 soniae Fowler's var. (F.C.C), shown by 

 Messrs. Charlesworth and Co., was superb. 

 It had ten splendid flowers two and a-half 

 inches across, rich deep crimson-scarlet, with 

 rosy tips to the sepals and petals, and a 

 white hp, with yellow crest and a large 

 crimi-ion-scarlet area over the centre. We 

 believe this plant has passed into Mr. Gurney 

 Fowler's collection. 



Oncidiums and Renanthera Imschootiana 

 formed a ])1 casing >iackground to a group 

 of orclii;i> staijcd liv Mesrs. Stuart Low and 

 Co.. Kiifield. Here was a beautiful plant of 

 Liclin-cattleya Haroldeaua carrying five 

 handsome rosy-carmine flowers; Odontoglos- 

 sun grande, Dendrobium formosum gigan- 

 teuui and Miltonias were also displayed. Mr. 

 E. A'. Low. Vale Bridge, Hay wards Heath, 

 showed t lu' curious Brasso-cattleya Corona, 

 a good plant of Coelogyne Hurfordicuse (th-a 

 hybrid between C. pandurata and C. aspcrata), 

 and the lovely Cattleya Harrisonae alba. 



Mr. D. Shill, gardener to Baron Bruno 



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