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THE GARDENERS' MAGAZINE. 



AtTGUST 24, 1912. 



omitted to label his flowers. Mr. A. Myers, 

 Shrewsbury, r^ueceeded in the clasH tor a 

 dczeu trustees of zon.il pelargoniums, with a 

 very bright contribution ot excellent varie- 

 ties. 



For a display of l>order carnations ana 

 picotees the chief award fell to Messrs. M. 

 Campbell and Son, High Blantyre, who had 

 a very pretty exhibit. In the amateurs' 

 (lass Mr. \V* II. Ranks, Kington, secured 

 tin' chief prize, in creditable fashion, for 

 l arnat inns. For a dozen vases of carnations 

 Mr ( . Wall was the leader. Mr. O. How- 

 n»'^^. * liasjrow, scored well for eighteen 

 buncht's of >u* 4 t peas, and had quite bright 

 clean tlowt-r.-^ , M r. J, Smellie, Busby, was 



«ecoud. 



VEGETABLES. 



We very much doubt whether there has 

 •ever l>een a finer display of high-class vege- 

 tables than that at Snrew*ibury on this occa- 

 fi i on . A n u m l>e r o f seed ti r m s off e r 

 «ub8tantial prizes, and these are eagerly com- 

 peted f o r . In the Mesviifi . Sutton s' c 1 ans 

 for nin<' kinds, Mr- David Gibson, gardener 

 to Captain IL Spender Clay, Lingfield, 

 Surrey, was a splendid first with beautifully 

 ^rown produce, and Mr. W. Oaiger, Elstree, 



was second. In Messrs. f'arti-r's clas« Mr. 

 E. FJeekett Nrl. with Mr. 1'. J. Ikirratt fol- 

 lowinf^. ^^r. J. Hudson, I.tut^trr. and Mr. 

 J. Ii. '^I'onli'y^ were first ami >rrond respec- 

 tivt'lv ill \Ffssrs. Webl/s das-, inr nine kinds 

 ami in Mf--i>. ('liluMn-^' tla.-^-. Mi-. ScarU\ 

 gaidrner t<> the Afarqiii-^ of Xorthampton. 

 Castle Aslihv. beat Mr. H. 'rurner, of Well- 

 ington. Mr. 1*. Sa ndei^on . ot Whittington, 

 and Mr. I".. V.. ArnnUl Wellington, were first 

 prize winners in i la.-s^w provided by Mr. E, 

 Murrell. Mr. Searh' and Mr. T. Jones, 

 Ilual>on, vvert^ tir^t and second respectively 

 in Messrs. I)iek>on and HobinsonV class for 

 nine kinds, and in the local ehi.-^ M 

 Tayh>r was t header. 



In the -nrii'tv'- ela-s lur tu^'lve kinds of 



venr.^table-;. Mr.' K. lleekett, V.M.I!.. Alden- 



liani I b >!]si', I ;i>f ree, h'd with sn|HM h leeks, 



wlery . > ai mt-, ;)in>iii|)-^. pea-^, ( iiciiinlH^rci, 

 tomatoes, on inn- ea ul ifhiweis, potatoes, 



heet. and rinuir?- in an^; iie o-ained 77 points. 

 Mr. .T. I[u<l>on , Lfieester. s^H'ond with 72^ 

 points: and Mr. J. Tooley third. Seven 

 competitor^^. In IN>l>ert Sydenham Limited's 

 cla«8 for nine kinds of vegetables, Mr. E. 



Deakin, Ilavmilks, Birmingham won 



r. 



W. 



MEDALS. 



Gold 



Messrs. E. Wehb and Sons, 



Acre Nur- 



Large 



Wordsley, Stourbridge; King's 

 series, Worc^ester; Royal Horticultural So- 

 ciety, Wifiley Gardens, Ripley; Messrs. Sut- 

 ton and Sons, Reading; Mr. Amos Perry, 

 Enfield; Messrs. T. Rivers and Sons Saw- 

 bndge.worth ; Messrs. Clibrans, Altrincham; 

 Mr. E. Beckett. V.M.H. gardener to the 



Gibbs, Aldenham House, 



May and Sons, Ed- 

 and Sons, Olton : 



Hon. Vicary 

 Elstree. 



Gold.— -Messrs. H. B 

 m on ton; Messrs. Gunn 



Messrs. Youngs and Co., Hatherley; Messrs. 

 A. Dickson and Sons, Newtownards; Messrs. 

 Dickson and Robinson, Manchet^ter; Messrs 

 Jarman and Co., Chard; Messrs. Bakers, Old 

 Hall Nurseries, Cod^all; Messrs. Isaac House 

 and Son, Bristol; Messrs. Dobbie and Co., 

 Edinburgh; Messrs. Hobbies, Lira., Dere- 

 ham ; Messrs. Jones and Sons, Shrewsbury 



Silyer-Gilt. — Messrs. J. Forbes, Lim., 

 Hawick; Messrs. R. Wallace and Co. Col- 

 chester; Messrs. PritcHard and Sons, Shrews- 

 hury; Mr. L. R. Russell, Richmond; Messrs 

 Ired Smith and Co., Woodbridge; Mr A 

 V\. Thorpe, Birmingham Road, Lichfield; 

 Messrs Barr and Sons, Covent Garden - Mr. 

 Robert Bolton, Carn forth : Mr. H. N. Elli- 

 son, West Bromwich ; Messrs. Dicksons, 



Lim., Chester; and Mr. E. Murrell, Shrews- 

 bury. 



Silver —Messrs. S. Bide and Son, Farn- 

 ham; Me^rs. Hewitt and Co., Solihull; 

 Lapworth Nurseries, Hockley Heath • Mr R 

 Hayes Grasmere: Messrs. Hogg and Robert 



X' ""^I'li C^onways, Halifax; 



Messrs. Webb and Brand, Saffron Walden - 



Messrs. Rich and Co., Bath; Messrs. A. R. 

 Brown and Co., King's Norton ; Messrs. 

 Aldersey and Marsden Jones, Malpas; Mr. 

 W, A. Manda, St. Albans; Messrs. G. Gib- 

 son and Co., Leeming Bar; Mr. A. Myers, 

 Shrewsbury ; Messrs. Caldwell and Sons, 

 Knutsford; Messrs. Felton and Son, Hanover 

 Square; F. Bibby, Esq., Hardwick Grange 

 (for shrubs and climbers); Mr. W. L. Pater- 

 son, Shrewsbury; Mr. G. Underwood, Ayle- 

 stone Park, I^icester. 



We are com{>elled, by the pressure on our 

 space, to leave over the non-competitive sec- 

 tion until our next issue. 



OBITUARY. 



MR. ALEXANDER DEAN, V.M.H. 



With deep regret we record the death of 

 Mr. Alexander Dean, V.M.H., which occurred 

 at hitj residence, 67, Richmond Road, King- 

 ston, Suri^y, on Tuesday, the 20th inst., in 

 his eighty-hnst year. 



suited in the Vegetable Conference and Exhi 

 b:tion held at Chiswick in 1903. In connec- 

 tion with this event Mr. Dean initiated a 

 gardeners' dinner, which ivas acknowledged 

 to be the most successful function of its 

 kind ever held in this country. This dinner 

 took place at the Holborn Restaurant on 

 Septeniiber 29, 1903, on the evening of the first 

 day of the fruit and vegetable show at Chis- 

 wick, which was th^3 last great gathering 

 held in the Royal Horticultural Society's 

 historic gardens. Mr. Dean acted as secr^ 

 tary of the dinner committee, and upwards 

 ot five hundred gardeners and garden lovers 

 were present. For many years he was a lec- 

 turer and instructor of horticulture under 

 the Surrey Council, and took a prominent 

 part in the advancement of horticultural edu- 

 cation, while as a judge of vegetables and 

 fruit he had few equals. Of fearless, inde- 

 pendent, and sturdy character^ Mr. Dean 

 was most emphatic in declaring his opinions 

 on matters horticultural in the horticultural 

 Press, to which he was a regular contribu- 



THE 



ALEXANDER DEAN, V.M.H. 



Mr. 



Alexander Dean, who was a striking 

 peTsonahty m the world of horticulture, and 

 enjoyed a high reputation as a writer, lec- 

 turer, and jud^, wae the younger of three 

 brothers, all of great ability, and all asso- 

 ^l^.^fy- "^^^^ horticultural pursuits. Mr 

 illiam and Mr. Richard Dean devoted their 

 attention chiefly to flowers, mainly those 

 beloved of the florist, but Mr. A. Dean gave 

 more attention to vegetables and fruits. Es- 

 peciaUy was he interested in vegetables, and in 

 the course of his long and active life he did an 

 immense amount of useful work by his advo- 

 cacy of an extension of the cultivation and 

 exhibition of these useful products. When 

 associated with his brother, the late Richard 

 Dean, in the management of their seed 

 grounds at Bedfont, he raised a considerable 

 number of potatoes of great excellence, and 

 probabljr the one that retained a positioi 

 trade hsts for the longest period was 

 large purple-skinned round known as 

 Dean. He was long a prominent and useful 

 meml)er of the Royal Horticultural Society^s 

 Iruit and Vegetable Committee, and he took 

 an active part in the movement which re- 



tor until advancing years rendered some re- 

 duction in his activities necessary. This free 



expression of his opinions led ' to ^^^7^ 

 fierce fight, from which he usually emerged 

 triumphant and never vanquished. Gar- 

 deners' associations and gardening charities 

 found in Mr. Dean an earnest advocate. Iii 

 1904 the Council of the Royal Horticultural 

 Society conferred the distinction of the Vic- 

 toria Medal of Honour in Horticulture upon 

 him, an honour that was well deserved. 

 ing his residence at Kingston-on-Thames Mr. 

 Dean's advocacy of window and flower gar- 

 den competitions led to a material improve- 

 ment in the apparance of those parts of nie 



the 



m 

 the 



in general, and vegetables in particular, untU 

 the last, and some three years since he tooK 

 a leading- part in the formation of t^e 

 National Veov^fiiKla fti^mVfv which 1*^^ 



Mr. Pean 



Vegetable Society, 

 already done much useful work, 

 was elected the first chairman of the co 

 mittee of the society a position he b^*^ 

 until a short time since, when his faih»8 



health induced him to resip-n. 



