3i8 THE GARDENERS' MAGAZINE. 



1898. 



Forest Hill, and it occupied one of the central sloping banks. This was a Messrs. B. S. Williams and Son (for florists* a — " — 



gorgeous display of brilliant tuberous begonias, and very handsome gloxinias, gardener to Mrs. Abbott, Regent's Park. rran gements), and M r> ^ 



Graceful spikes of odontoglossums, and lovely cattleyas, intermixed with crotons, Bronze Medals to Mr. A. Young, Messrs T W " 



old caladiums, and elegant palms, chiefly cocoses ; the whole was bedded in Laing and Sons (for bouquets), Mr. Prewett r mj Vatere J"and Sons, Me<^ r 



bold caladiums, and elegant palms, chiefly cocoses ; the whole was bedded 

 fern and edged with isolepis, and was in every way effective and tasteful. In 

 addition, the Forest Hill firm staged some charming rose bouquets, baskets of 

 Spanish irises, richardias and lily of the valley. 



Messrs. W. Paul and Son, Waltham Cross, put up a fine bank of pot roses, 

 fronted with boxes of cut blooms ; among the specimens were tall pillars of 

 Caroline Testout, Duke of York, Violette Bouyer, Alphonse Soupert, Jeanne 

 Dickson, Victoi Verdier, and Enchantress, all freely flowered and very handsome ; 

 in front of the boxes of cut blooms containing flowers of the leading Waltham 

 Cross introductions, was a line of maidenhair ferns that added greatly to the 

 effectiveness of the exhibit. 



A most brilliant display of tulips came from Messrs. Barr and Son, Covent 

 Garden. The kinds most admired were the handsome Darwin, or breeder tulips, 

 Tulipa retroflexia, golden yellow, and the extravagant parrot tulips. Large 

 bunches of Cytisus prcecox and C. fiiipes flanked the group, but a background 

 was sadly needed. A charming exhibit came from Mr. H. B. May, Edmonton ; 

 this consisted of pretty plants of the Crimson Rambler rose, in 48-sized pots, 

 all freely flowered, and alternated with Spirsea astilboides crowned with snowy 

 plumes. ^ Acer JJegundo variegata formed an effective background, while pterises 

 and maiden-hair ferns made a fine groundwork. A few plants of Hydrangea 

 Thomas Hogg, with nice heads, were also shown, and every plant in the 

 group could be seen standing clear of its neighbour. A group of small plants of 

 Japanese maples was staged by Messrs. J. Waterer and Sons (Limited), Bagshot ; 

 the most effective varieties were A. japonicum aureum, A. palmatum septemlobum 

 elegans A. palmatum sanguineum, A. p. digitatum, A. p. atropurpureum, and 

 A. p. dissectum vanegatum. The Cardinal nectarine, one of Messrs. F. Rivers 

 and Son's recent introductions, was finely staged by the firm, and represented by 

 well-grown standard trees carrying a splendid lot of handsome fruits. This fine 

 nectarine ripens its fruits ten days earlier than Early Rivers. Sixteen trees were 

 staged, and two boxes of fruits. Mr. W. Rumsey, Joynings Nursery, Waltham 

 Cross, put up a large group of cut roses and flowering specimens in pots. A tail 

 pillar of C aire facquier, and the new H. P. Mrs. Rumsey, were greatly admired 

 for their plentiful blooms. The boxes of Niphetos roses contained a large number 

 oi Irtsn, clean blooms. 



hJfu ?t C ? nt I e ) rb 1 ur y» transferred his grand exhibit of roses from the 



Drill Hal to Regents Park, and some of the blooms were finer than on the 



^ fl ° Wer W t S fu ' ly Six inches across ' •* had 'eaves attached to 



»r~ ZZ T & n,n «« ncr * s length. About a gross of excellent blooms 

 El ?S L. J - r Ced and Sonssh °wed two boxes of bloom of gloxinias, 



\Z 2. P m * dvar £ ie 5. of great merit; also a box of excellent single begonia 



a 2 on, * ?K? US u ^ Highgate > P ut U P a fine lot of Malmlison 



JS^JJoSSK ' aZalCaS ' Ch [ dly g ° rgeOUS molHs forms ' boronias > 



e r ^ ( »Bf»s S A. th v p i g' srs? 



NATIONAL TULIP SOCIETY, May „ 



ve. date, and in rnn ,m.t: ... . _ " 



summer 



Botanic Soci 



don at Regent's Park. The display was made in th eco ridTandT^ 

 shaded from the flashes of brilliant sunshine that occum>H A • e u was not 

 exhibition was not extensive, but there was a verv fair o„a " g the dav - The 

 comDetition in the vaiious classes. Th»™ ' and sometimes v-rvlr*. 



1 Anere were some wondprfi.n,;* < een > 



and also some very poor ones, so on the whole it was ,„ ™ uuueriu »y nne flowers. 



The chief award for a dozen dissimilar ^1^,1° avera g e dls P^- ' 



flowers being Comte de Vergennes, Sir Tosenh Pavt™ tw ■ ' f econd > ™ fine* 

 and RichardVates ; the third 8 prize'was secured by Mr ' C W N^hT Mc f 

 Lanes ; and the fourth by Messrs. Barr and Sons Cov«t P. / ha Ko >' ton - 

 Bentley, Middleton, Lanes, secured the premie award for s£ ' J ' * 

 tulips with Lord Stanley, Annie McGrego'r, *££^£$™*£ ffi 

 Wilson, and Bessie; Mr. A. Chater second, with Dr HutchiJn Q ^ 

 (feathered), Modesty, Duchess of Sutherland, Masterpie J'S j' "ton"* 7 

 C. W. Needham was equal second, with nice flowers nf n, vt a r r * 

 Duchess of Sutherland, Aglaia, Modesty, and MasVerpSe ^" 



Mr. Bentley scored for three flamed tulips with bright hlnnm* nfT a c , 

 Mabel, and King of the Universe ; Mr. Nee^m, secfna.tth Mr 

 popular Mabel, and Samuel Barlow ; Mr. A. Chater, third. The Samuel £ « 

 prize for the best pair of rectified tulips, one feathered and one\mX~ 

 by Mr. J. W. Bentley, with good flowers of Duke of Devonshire and Sir Io^dE 

 Paxton ; Mr. Hall came second, with Sir J. Paxton and Comte de Vergennes £ 

 six dissimilar breeder tulips, two roses, two byblcemens, and two Err* t£ 



M^Ti W w Se Tf d > A - °- Ha "> who sh °w ed Glory rflSfi 

 Mabel, John Heap, Lloyd's 200 Annie McGregor, and Excelsior ; Messrs Ba r 



and Sons, second ; and Mr. J. W. Bentley, third. Mr. T. W. Bentley 



MahT t™! 5 J°'? Ke h T^ r tuli P S ' ° ne of each c ^ss, with neat bloLJrf 

 S in • m s r SeedhD g. and G1 «ry of Stakehill ; Mr. C. W. Needham, second, 

 with Annie McGregor, Adonis, and Richard Yates. 



r J?^ prC1 ? ,er bl L eed , er tuIi P in the show was a P ret ty bloom of the birarre 

 Uoldhnder, shown by Messrs. Barr and Sons. The best feathered bloom was 



industry, scarlet, over a creamy ground, shown by Messrs. Barr and Sons. Mr. 

 A. Chater had the best flamed bloom in the show in his splendid Samuel Bark* 

 shown in his first prize set of twelve tulips. 



flowers on a slnnina "t«„u»ir;"i " «— /-uuwenug aipines anu otner hardy C " W - Needham arranged an extensive collection of tulips, showing either 



e TlTu ms n S I fi '- S ° 35 t0 - gl 7 the a PP earan ce of a rockery ; feeder or rectified forms of twenty-five varieties ; Chancellor, Dr. Hardy, Mabel, 



estin ' The ml ! inn!,f and . aI y! su '^ P~yed t&l ^£&™»»?> M ^ Lloyd's Seedling, and Storer's Seeding were 



among the finest examples. Messrs. Barr and Son, Covent Garden, staged four 

 targe boxes of florists' tulips, some in rectified and some in breeder form. Friar 

 ruck, lalisman, Samuel Barlow, Colbert, Sir Joseph Paxton, Aglaia, Alice, I*. 

 ful an j Amazon » were all well represented. One box contained good blooms 

 ot the breeder forms : Mabel, rose; James Wild, bizarre; Miss Hardy, bybke- 

 men; Lroldhnder, bizarre; Lord Derby, rose; William Lee, bizarre; and 

 Modesty, rose. The Messrs. Barr were awarded a gold medal for this display, 

 while their group of Darwin and other May-flowering tulips, staged in large 

 bunches in the big tent, and forming part of their display in connection with the 



77.. ,* was awarded a first prize as the best collection of May- flowering decorative 

 tulips in the show. 



As there was no competition in the class for 100 blooms of English florists' 

 tulips, the silver cup offered as a first prize was not awarded, though Mr. Need- 

 ham s exhibit fulfilled the schedule requirements. 



estint' T k n,a- k m,, 7 1, 1 .' p rimu,as > ana aiyssums proved mter- 



2' - , , L K M r« ark , If was also shown, it is a semi- 



*Sx«^ Wycombe, sent five boxes 



tensive rf (Mt"*', I'.^'W Ampthai, Be<b, had an ex- 



Duke of \i t y t „nui INI \1 j'i .^^nas, Royal Sovereign strawberries, 

 I n ncl 1 LVn „ ' Holborn Model "^eks, Ailsa Craig onions, Early Forcing 



^ ' r 7::; a - ,W [ :,t;US and new and old Pottos were all v^ry goal 

 diniLri-^ PCa ' and a,SO free 'y^ited specimens of 



prised [ uih f oMong, rotd an^Se^ ^ °- f *l - e ™ P > and com " 

 and yellow, with oXT,:!AS^*^ .Y arieties ? wh «^. "d, scarlet, 



^s- he S i^rT' ha<1 a " '^-ting collectfororhard; SKttiS 



K mimcls "te^tXS hST Sieb °! di ' Dodeca " h - n splenldum, 

 I )arlingtnnia ^ali fornicf (i„ flon ^ r aC ^ a ' ,? anu , ncu,u s P ar «assifolius, Iris lupina, 



Kpimedmm a.pm ,m and P ^ ***** <>. mascula, O. 



Norwood, put up a noble «Z ^ ,. , P>' rena,ca - ^ Ies srs. J. Peed and Son, 

 all of gre : u ! | W .Z* John l%e7ltl tf^fe and hi g h, y C( >'o^ed caladiums 

 Rose Long. Louis van Uout e ^V ^A^iT™"' L Ins ° Hte ' Lord Moseley 

 The same fl m staged a ne^rown d - Che f vannes were notable specimens! 

 excellent sorts K« J , 7 fi ^ ° f drac * nas . this including such 

 Frederick, and Pwdula ^ ExcelIent » «oldiana, Alexandra Ling, 



Vp^L™*:^^? came from Messrs B. S. Williams and Son, 

 by •nthuriums y and^ SJhS ^ iLli, 86 central bank « choice orchids, flanked 

 Mend* Odontoglossum clpunf O S^*' ° n " dlUm , COnco,or ' Cattleya 

 purpureum were the most SnsSoS o^hiH^ k^H 1 * v c ' rrhosun1 ' and O. luteo 

 were very bright, and showed th^ ?J * SUaV,S - The clivias 



advanced. There we^e grand trusses > P ? 2 retarded as 



ic c ^^na trusses of Ambroise Verschafielt, atrosan C uinea 



.'L?"!^ h . eat hs l ,ilacs in P°. ts .. a few cannas, and 



ip a 

 and 



Undeni, and Surprise. F 

 number of excellent mollis azaleas 



tasteful decorarinn ;„ : o_ . . 



poet 



ccadilly branch. 



vessels. M< 

 ments from 



Brunner roses was es'p^dally Le" wh/?; ,l, Th f °I rrance and u, »ch 



as good ; a mirror frame of white ,?« 1 C ^ Sket ° f odon toglossums was almost 

 anthunum spathes, and one of r i ' a of scarlet Delarponium.: 



a l>ank of well-om^n «i r I 



caladiums 



crotons 



La I 



ro?e 



n g the best. 



Sih; 

 Messrs. 



Messrs. 



j. Uin^and W^rf awarded to Messrs 



/• Peed and cJ ^ M «*»- W. Paul and 



SCOTTISH HORTICULTURAL ASSOCIATION. 



This association recently held another very successful and crowded meeting in 

 tne society s rooms. Among the exhibits on the table were three beautiful blooms 

 ot the chrysanthemum W. H. Lincoln, sent from Mr. P. Hunt, Coltbridge Hall, 

 ana some very choice narcissus from Mr. J. Alexander, Revesby Abbey, Boston, 

 wno had promised a paper on bulb-growing in Lincolnshire. Among the nar- 

 cissus were fine examples of Sir Watkin, Golden Spur, Incomparabilis, Poetic©, 

 single and double ; a very pure paper-white semi-double form of N. onenuus, 

 Uicolor grandis, &c. Mr. Todd, the president, also exhibited a beautiful groop 

 ot narcissus and irises, arranged with smilax and other foliage. . 

 «n,' , absence of Mr. Alexander, Mr. R. L. Laird, the secretary oft* 

 society, read his excellent paper. With a few sentences on the enormous impor- 

 tations from the Scilly Islands, Guernsey, &c.-said at times to total up to w» 

 hundred tons of flowers in a day [?]-and the extreme usefulness and durability/-! 

 dattodils for decorative purposes, Mr. Alexander proceeded to give a brief o*W» 



&n p CU . 6 ° f two of °" r best English growers, Mr. T. Kime, MfW^ 

 Fen, Boston, and Messrs. White and Sons, near Spalding, some twenty miles 

 The S e Cond has the best, or at least the deepest soil, though that of Mr. 

 has been greatly improved by the addition of spent tan and other refu*. 

 Boston grower plants chiefly in rows from nine to fourteen inches apart ; UieoWj 

 n n 7 ds J°. ur feet wide-the bulbs from four to six inches apart each way, and ■£ 

 SlMn u° ne , dust 15 top dressings. Immense quantities are grown alike w 

 v 7 £ hard y cut nowers in the spring and for forcing, which begins «rJM 

 «ounH ^' a B ,° Ck SUCCeeds block until the latest crops come in floor theopj 

 S U , t 1 A f- n and Ma >- All the finest varieties are grown in quantity, «* 

 S k,n - Golden Spur and Princess, while Codlins and Cream and oto * 

 somTnf n0t f0r e° tten - It was gratifying to hear from Mr Alexand«J m 

 som e of the most successful growers were labourers and small holders, *** - 

 whom were said to have made as much as £20 of their bulbs. ^ 

 bv iS u T P ' easin S Matures of the meeting was the high tes Umog «^ 

 ?L!K Urgh ^ flower culture, sale or use, to the high qu^/ 



WKrto m/h^tV \t* ,x " CfS ana »on. 

 to Wingtield y ' MeSSrs - W - Cutb <9* ™* Sons, Mr 



" ^ aad M, T. S . Ware, M, G. Mount, 



ill y_/ l v*-» » w — 



n r t ko„i -"""-wucf Mackenzie, 01 tne mnww *yrr 



ot thanks to Mr. Alexander for his paper, which was carried unani 



Lwv 1 ? e J ected a life member of the association. Edahid* 

 Mr. D. P. Lai rd> one of ^ judges at the Great Quinquennial Exhi«oo- 



