October 26, 1912. 



THE GARDENERS- MAGAZINE. 



825 



I R M I N G H A M 



GREAT 



C H R T S A N T H EM U M SH O W . 



BIN G LET HALL. 



Tl'ESDAY, AVEDNESDAY, and THrRSDAT, 



oth. 6th, aiicl 7th Nove-mb^r. 



ALFRED NOAKEiS, S^^cretary 



HE 



BOURNEMOUTH 



TURAL SOCIETY. 



HORTICUL- 



The Twenty-sixth EXHIBITION of AUTTMN 

 FLOWEllS will hold at the WINTER GARDE>S 

 PAVILION, on TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY , 

 \ ( > V I ■ n 1 b t r 0 1 h a ml 6" t h , 1 J ) 1 2 . i 1 1 b-o o pe n ed o a 

 ITF^DVY at 12 noon by SIR ALBERT KAYE 

 liOLLIT, LL.D., D.C.L./Litt.D., F.R.H.S., President 

 of the National Ohi-v'santliemiim Society. 



Sir DANIEL MORRIS, K.CiM.G., F.U.H.S., 



C h ;i i r ni an of C on nc i 1 . 

 C. H. ROLLS, Esq., J.R., F.R,H.S., 



Vice-Chairman -of Council. 

 \\, SEATE, Secretary, The Cottage, Northlei^rh, 



Wimborne. 



R y S T A L 



PALACE . 



THE GREAT AX'TUMN SHOW 



of 



HRYSANTHEMUMS 



will be held by the 

 NATIONAL OHRTSANTHEMUM SOCIETY, 



at the 

 CRYSTAL RALACE. 



on 



OCTOBER 29, 30, 31, 1912. 

 No extra charsfc to A'iew this niag-niflcent show. 



Schedules and all particulars to be obtained Post 



Free from the Secretary, 



Mr. RICHARD A. WITTY, 



72, Savernake Road, Gospel Oak, _ 



London, N.W. 



H 



I 



LL AND EAST RIDING CHRYSAN 



THEMl^M SOOlETY'iS SHOW, 

 in the CITY HALL, HULL, 

 i^Oth and 21st November. 

 Kntrit's clo^re VMh November, 1912. 



0 h e (1 u le^s on a p ]3l i ca t i o n t o — 



JAMES DIXON, Hon. 

 County Buildingr^j, 



Secretary, 

 Hull. 



COTTISH HORTICULTURAL 



ASSOCIATION. 



CHUYSANTHEMUAl EXHIBITION. 



The Association will hold its nt^xt 

 G R E A T C H U YS A N T H W M E X H I HI TIO N 



in the 



WAVERLEY MARKET, EDINBURGH, 



on 



Novcniber 14th, loth, and 16th. 

 Copies of th.e Prize List, which contains all parti- 

 LMi'lars as to prizes, co^nditions of competition, etc., 

 may be obtained on a]>itlic;\tion to the Secretary, 



A. U. IMCHARDSON, 



1!), Wuverley :^Lirket, 



Edinburgh. 



Entries clofie on November 6:h. 

 Application for space for non-competitive exhibits 

 should be made without <]elay. 



HORTICULTURAL SHOW ADVERTISE- 

 MENTS are ineerted in thie column at Six- 

 ponc% per line the minimum ohargre being Two Snil- 

 "Oga and Sixpence. Offices, 148 and 149. Alderfi<gate 

 Street. London, E.G. 



EXHIBITIONS AND 



MEETINGS. 



Royal Horticultural Society. 



The exlii])ition held at Westminster on 

 Tuesday, October 22, was a Hue one, and 

 th« hall was well filled with exhibits. Large 

 numbers of novelties were brought forward, 

 thirty-three being adjudicated upon by the 

 Orchid Committee. Hardy shrubs, stove 

 plants, hardy flowers, orchids, chrysanthe- 

 *^^unis, and fruit-s provided the chief subjects 

 ^« view. During the afternoon there was a 

 ^^rge crowd of visitors. 



FLORAL COMMITTEJ]. 



A wonderful display of hardy 

 Shrubs was made by Mr, L. R. Rua^ell, Rich- 

 »iond. Tlie whole length of the hall right 

 opposite the entrance, and a width of about 



ten feet was filled and the table space next 

 to it w^as also filled with the overflow 25lants, 

 so that there was a Russell avenue. In 

 recent years the introduction of so many fine 

 deciduous flowering trees and shrubs has 

 made it just possible that the merits of 

 many well-known ornamental evergreens may 

 be overlooked. Such an exhibit as this acts 

 as a good reminder of those merits and the 

 interest taken in it proved its educational 

 value. Bamboos, tlirowing their graceful 

 spires of elegant leafage 15ft. high, formed 

 a iight background for a number of spe- 

 cimen hollies, green and variegated, gold and 

 silver, many of them freely berried, and 

 about lOft. high. Between the liolliers were 

 large Mandards of variously-coloured tree 

 ivies, while dotted along the foreground of 

 the group were pillar specimens of Hedera 

 dentata viriegata with its bold creamy- 

 variegated leaves. Berried aucubas, group- 

 lets of finely-fruited pernettyas, cotoneastei-s, 

 symphoricarpus,a)id skimmias gave colour and 

 irterest to the whole. Golden forms of Cup- 

 rL-s'sus obtusa, yews, Cedrus atlantica, Cup- 

 ressus macrocarpa,and Retinospora tetragona 

 were very effective, and the white flow'ers of 

 laurustinus were also cheery. 



Across the top end of the hall there was 

 another large a nd very fine exhibit from 

 Messrs, James Veitch and Sons^ Chelsea. 

 This consisted almost entirely of stove 

 plants and orchids. A fine background was 

 made up of Cocos plumosus, and in front of 

 this were staged grand specimen plants of 

 the huge-leaved Cocoloba pubescens, the 

 equally -bold Diefl'enbachia imperialis^ the 

 long-leaved Cyclanthus bipartitus, masses 

 of Dracaena Godsefiiana, and D. San- 

 deriana, Anthurium Yeitchi, and the grey- 

 green Alocasia argyrea. Tall and finely- 

 grown specimens of Croton Thorn soni, C. B. 

 Comte, C. candatus tortilis with spirally 

 twisted gold and brown leaves, and C. Re- 

 splendent rose above the smaller plants, Mar- 

 aiitas were capitally shown, and the little 

 groups of exquisitely beautiful silver and pur- 

 ple bertolonias w^ere very charming. Groups 

 ot Lilium speciosum were also very effective, 

 and the elevated specimens of Nepenthes 

 Chelsoni excellens. N. Tiveyi, N, Amesiana, 

 N. Sir W. Thiselton Dyer — very fine — and 

 N. mixta created a great deal of interest. 

 In the centre, backed by a beautiful Phoenix 

 Roebelini, were a few orchids, notably VanJa 

 ccerulea, the bright Epidendrum vitellinum 

 majus, Disa grandi flora, some cy|M-ipediums, 

 and Iselio-cattleya-. \Viiiter-ti()\vering bego- 

 nias were well shown by the Messrs. J. 

 Veitch and Sons in another group, and with 

 the-e were associated the bright Ltn>notus 

 Leonurus,and a ^:election of chrysanthemums, 

 the latter being cliiefiy represented by very 

 dwarf, beautifully grown, and freely-flowered 

 decorative plants in small pots. 



(Iirvsaiithcmums were boldly exhiluted by 

 Mr>si >. W. Wells and Co.. Mer^tham ; their 

 exhibit was a tine one, and included immen^t- 

 blooms of such Japanese varieties as Mrs. 

 Henshaw, Mrs. G. Lloyd-Wigg, Frank Payne. 

 Mrs. L. Thorn, and the iDeautiful AVhite 

 Queen. Miss M. Pope, Celia. Caterham 

 Bronze, and the big .AIi>s Margaret Walker 

 were very fine siugle> shown by tlie ^Messrs. 

 Wells. The Messrs. Price and Fyfe, Gnu'O 

 Park Nursery, Lee. S.E., exhibited chry>aiw 

 theumms in great variety, and associated 

 their flowers with sprays of ornamental 

 foliage. 



Messrs. Cragg, Harrison, and Cragg, Hes- 



xhibited some first-class 



fine 



some 



setting up 

 Pullinor, Charle 



»t5 



ton. Hounslow, 

 market chrvsanthemums, 

 bunches of Celia, R. C. 

 Kingsley, Edith Pagrnm. Meusa. W. Garner, 

 Florrie King, and Coiiie :\lason, all grand 

 single sorts. They also staged the pale yel- 

 low^ incurved variety J. W. Streeter. and 

 gained an A.M. for it. Mr. Norman Davis. 

 Framfield, Sussex, gained an A.M. for single 

 chrysanthemum Mrs. Loo Thomson, primrose- 

 yellow ; and for the golden single variety 

 Charles Kingsley. Mr. C. Beckett, Chilton 

 Gardens, Hune^erford. gained an A.M. for 

 the primrose-yellow Hon. Mrs. John Ward; 

 a fine Japane-e chrysanthemum. 



Scoiopeudrium vulgare crispum nobile, 

 Bolton s Broad form (r'.C.C), is a fine plant, 

 and a splendid specimen ot it was shown by 

 W. B, Cranfield^ Esq., East Lodge, Entieia 

 Chase. Clianthus Damjpieri, The Glory Pea, 

 was. prominent in the exhibit from Atessrs. 

 Stuart Low and Co. ; this firm contributed 

 excellent carnations, Gloriosa being very 

 fineiy shown, and a collection of crotons. 

 Mr. P. PurnelL Woodlands, Streatiiam, 

 grouped crotons, celosias, palms, ferns, ;uid 

 i^riinula obconica — it is always pleasing to 

 find amateurs bold enough to bring exhioits 

 to the hall. 



Begonia Bavaria, with drooping panicles 

 of pink flowers, a good winter bkmmer, was 

 shown freely by Messrs. S. Bide and Son, 

 Earnham ; the same firm exhibited Begonia 

 Saxony, with drooping clusters of very rich, 

 rosy -pi 11 k flo we rs . l*'rom Messrs. li . Ca n- 

 nell and Sons, Swanley, came succulents in 

 great variety, the graceful Lotus peliorhyn- 

 ciius, ajid a lew spikes of gorgeous cannas. 

 The popular Begonia Gloire de J^orraine was 

 shown by Mr. G. Gumbrell, gardener to Mrs. 

 Percy Westmacott, Rose Mount, Ascot, who 

 displayed about thirty freely-flowered speci- 

 mens. Among the carnations from Messrs. 

 A'lwood Batnurst, Hayw^ards Heath, we 

 made special note of Baroness de Brieneu, 

 the ricJi lieliotroi>e variety Fairmount, and 

 the yellow La Rayonuante. 



Nepiirolepis Miilsi, another elegant fern 

 with finely divided fronds, gained an A.M. 

 for Mr. W. A. Manda, St. Albans; Mr. 

 Manda again showed the fine Polypodium 

 Mandaianum and Nephrolepis Whitmanni. 

 Chrysantheiuunis in small pots, cyclamens, 

 and Primula obconica made up a bri-^hl ex- 

 hibit for Messrs. H, B. May and Soiis. Ed- 

 monton. 



Michaelmas daisies from Mr. H. J. Jones, 

 Ryecroft, Lewisham, proved interesting at 

 this late date. Moonstone and Climax stand- 

 ing out well. Mr. Jones also showed two 

 good new Jnpaiu'^e chrysantliemnms named 

 Bob Pulling (A.Ai.). golden yellow; and 

 Master Rex, rich amber. Mr. L. T. Green- 

 ing, Richmond, and Miss Dixon, Edenbridge, 

 each shoAved hardy flowers, and the latter 

 added a few melons. 



The very tine Michaelmas daisy named 

 Climax, with large bluish flowers, was very 

 largely shown by Messrs. Whitelegge and 

 Page, Chislchurst. Mr. A. IT. Cliapman, 

 gardener to L. F. Harri>><ni. Orchards, 

 East Grinstcad, sent up a new single chry- 

 santhemum named Miss M, Borrer (A.M.). 



L - 



a fine bright rose-pink variety. Mr. Thos. 

 Page. Hampton, brought up a good new 

 w hite chrysanthemum of market type, named 

 Mi-s. John Alali'.T (A.M.). 



Carnations Imni M.>-r>. Vt'inig and Co., 

 Hatherley, Cheltenham, included fine blooms 

 of Geisha". Mikado, May Day. Mrs. Greswold 

 ^^'illiams, and Christmas Cheer. Mr. G. 

 I'rince. Longwortli. put up a i|iiite pretty 

 lot of" ro.^es, his Hugh Dulooii. Hichmond, 

 Rayon d'Or. and Lady Hiiliiiii:dt>n being (^uite 

 fresh and fragrant from tnil <>1 dooi>. 



caniatioi]-. wfv*' ;'ii>ively 

 ^-l•>. W. ('utbu>li ami Smi!. High- 

 gate, associated with dwarf rosc.s and edged 

 w ith the graceful, drooping pink-flowered 

 HeiM'ia rosea, a somewhat neglected plant. 

 A varii'^ated 1 (U'ln liougainvillea glabra 

 was conspicuous in this exhil)it. Saxifrages, 

 sempervivums, shortias, soldanellas, sedunis, 

 V€»ronicas, and other dwarf alpine plants 

 were displayed by Messrs. T. S. AVare, 

 Feltham. 



ORCHID COMMITTEE. 



A few very fine orchids set up l>y Air. Shill, 

 gardener to Baron Bruno-Schroder, The 

 Deli. Ef^ham, included Brasso-cattleya Queen 

 Alexandra, The Dell var. (F.C.C.). an exqui- 

 sitf ly lovely large-lipped, frin<4e:l. white 

 flower; Cattleya labiata Opal (F.C.C.i. with 

 a ]nnk tint on the white lip; La^l io-t-at tieya 

 George Woodham-. \\ ith huge ])nr]tle fiow*M s, 

 and the green ami white Cy|)ripedinm Alma 

 Gevaert. Lfflio-cattleya Golden Oriole, Hol- 

 Un:\\ vai'.. a very bright flower, gained an 

 A.M. tor Mr. Alexander, grower to Sir 

 (k-or^e Hollord, Westonbirt, Tetbury. 



Peipetual 



shown by Mh 



