THE 



GARDENERS 



MAGAZINE. 



SATURDAY, JUNE i8, 1898. 



s^vvaT FLOWER SHOW, RICHMOND (SURREY), June 29, 1898 



/^KfcAl ^ in PRIZES , 



vJ CHALLENGE CUP for ROSES. 



Schedules and MI ^^SS r °£ HAllCELL oR, Hon. Sec, t. King Street, Richmond, Surrey. 



our readers might not consider that we were unduly labouring these 

 points, but the necessity for keeping them prominently before those 



in various parts of the 



C~»ROVDON ROSE SHOW, WEDNESDAY, June 29TH. 

 OPEN CLASSES, 

 fhailenee Cup, value 25 Guineas. N.R.S. Silver Medals for Amateurs ; a T so N.R.S. Silver 

 Gdt Medals and Giod Prizes for Nurserymen. 



FE BLACKHEATH, LEWIS HAM, AND 



' HORTICULTURAL SO :iETV. 



FIRST ANNUAL FLORAL FETE and HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITION, 

 1 WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY, July 6 and 7. 



Full particulars of C. HelmiiR, Secretary, 5, Boone's Road, Lee. 



M EWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE GREAT SUMMER FLOWER SHOW, 



[N held tocether with the NORTHUMBERLAND AGRICULTURAL SHOW, on 

 Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, 13th, 14th, and 15th July. The Greatest Show in the 

 North. Visit of the Council of the Royal Horticultural Society. Applications for Space should 

 b; made at or ce. Entries close Wednesday, 6th July, to 



54, Westgate Road. J J. Gillesfie, Jun., Secretary. 



NORTHAMPTONSHIRE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY'S GREAT 

 SUMMER SHOW, Althorp Park, Northam ton. August 1st and 2nd. ,£250 in 

 prizes. For best 12 Plants, £15 ; £10 ; £5 ; £2 10s. Central Group for Conservatory Decoration, 

 /i2;^7;^3; £ 2 - Collection of Fruit, eight varieties, £5; £3; £1 10s. 24 Roses, £1; 

 £1 to 5 - ; Collection of Vegetables, t2 varieties, sele: ed, £3 ; £2 ; £1. Table Decoration, 

 £3 ; £2 i £'• Entries close July 22nd Schedules and fuli particulars from 



Northampton, June 2nd, 1898. W. B. Troup, Secretary. 



interested, has been abundantly justified 



country. When the Kingston Chrysanthemum Society was"founded, 

 the importance of a vigorous policy was fully recognized, and chief among 

 the features introduced was the competition for a valuable challenge vase ; 



a " d the annual contests created so much interest that visitors flocked to 



WEST KENT the plaCe ° f J hlh «™ in large numbers. As one vase was won, another 



was provided ; but, unfortunately, the importance of introducing new 

 features was overlooked, and each of the vases during the long period 

 over which the competition extended was offered for precisely the same 

 number and classes of blooms. It is, therefore, not surprising there 

 should have been a material decline in the interest evinced in the 



This decline was, it may be assumed, further accelerated by 

 holding the shows on the same dates as those of the National Chrysan- 

 themum Society, and it is difficult to understand why the Kingston 

 Committee should, year after year, have failed to recognise the risk ot 

 allowing their shows to clash with the gatherings of their formidable rival 

 in the metropolis. The Committee may have selected the dates the best 



exhibition. 



fixed 



SHREWSBURY GREAT FLORAL FETE, results have been the same, and we have further evidence ot the 



t . August 17 and 18, 1898. * 



The Prizes in the Schedule amount to ^950, with Gold and Silver Medals, &c. 

 Schedules post free on application to the Hon. Sees., 



Messr s Adnitt. and Naunton, The Square, Shrewsbury. 



WOOD GREEN AND DISTRICT HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 

 i 3 th ANNUAL EXHIBITION, 9 th July, 1808. 



rru c-, At a \ e S u P ? CI - AL NOTICE TO NURSERYMEN. 



? [ i e , ? V.f . 1 of the Society will be awarded to Exhibits of sufficient merit, also £1 is. to 

 each Trade Exhibitor towards the cost of Staging a Grouo. 



1 \.\ SPECIAL PRIZES. 



*. t> • r SP^ 1 Pnzes * in °e awardrd for 12 SPECIMEN PLANTS. 

 First Prize, £10 10s. ; Second Prize, £6 6s. ; Third Prize, £ 3 3 s. 



Applications for Space should be made to the Honorary Secretary, before the 2nd July next. 



K.J. Wickenden, F.R.H.S., Heckfield, Clarence Road. Wood Green. N. 



AlfOLVERHAMPTON 



HE TENTH ANNUAL FLORAL FETE will be held 



July 12, 13, and 14, 1898. 



RIZE MONEY GREATLY INCREASED. 



in the West Park, 



E 



UT FLOWERS, FRUIT, VEGETABLES, July 8th. 



ment of the fixtures of the National Chrysanthemum Society ; but the 

 results have been the same, and we have further evidence ot the 

 importance of neighbouring societies avoiding a clashing of dates. 

 There can be no doubt that the last-named body has proved a formidable 

 competitor to the Kingston Society, but it is probable that the com- 

 petition has been less injurious than that of the numerous small 

 associations that sprung up within a few miles of the borough shortly 

 after the society in question had made its mark. Some of these had a 

 short existence, but they must have had the effect of diverting a con- 

 siderable sum of money that annually flowed into the Kingston exchequer 

 into other channels. We do not pretend to an acquaintance with the 

 minor details of management, nor is it necessary we should do so, as our 

 object in referring to the position of the society is to show how the strongest 

 of horticultural associations may lose ground by a want of appreciation of 

 the importance of the three important points to which we have given 

 prominence. The restoration of the Kingston Society to a prosperous 

 state is a question that immediately concerns the borough, but having 

 regard to the great excellence of its work in the past, we hope the efforts 

 now being made on its behalf will meet with abundant success. 



p 



Secretary, 



William E. Barnett, Snowhill, Wolverhampton. 



UORTICULTURAL SHOW ADVERTISEM 



into^i Umn R at 9 DC Sh l 1 ! i J ng per line > the minimum charge 

 ment Office, 148 and 149, Aldersgate Street, London, E.C. 



THE MOCK ORANGES. 



The ivory white flowers of Philadelphus coronarius, which are so 

 aptly described by Mason as "yielding but in scent to the rich orange," 

 now festoon their slender branches and contribute their full share to 

 the attractions of the shrubbery, and once more remind us of the value 

 of that group of shrubs of which the species mentioned is one of the 

 best known. It would be hardly correct to describe the mock oranges, 

 as the species of philadelphus are popularly known as neglected in the 

 sense that they are not generally planted, but it would be quite correct 

 to apply that term to the method of cultivation. Like the common 

 magazine - now goes to press on Wednesday. No advertisement can lilac, the more vigorous of the species are well able to hold their own 

 e guaranteed insertion, or altered, unless received before Four p.m. in competition with other shrubs of a similar habit, and in consequence 

 rm ♦u-i ^ are ]e f t tQ the best they can in the struggle for existence, 



instead of receiving the attention they so well merit from the cultivator. 

 More attention to individual plants rather than an increase in numbers 

 is desirable in the case of the well-known species and varieties, for 

 unless they have sufficient room for their development they fail to 

 fully display their great beauty. Philadelphus coronarius is a native of 



NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. 



Owing to the continued increase in circulation, the « Gardeners 



on that day. 



Notes of the Week. 



A USEFUL OBJECT LESSON. 



TttTT A'CG • IUliy UlbLUdY wen r — - 



Soc t L U that n ° W beSet the ° nCe flourishin £ Chrysanthemum south Europe, and is widely distributed, as indicated by the great 



on Th itS headc l uarters in th e historic borough of Kingston- difference of opinion that existed between the earlier botanists as to the 



ocam*? ?' ° f SOmethin 2 more than local interest, for the society native place of the shrub. Linn^us states that he found it growing freely 



and e e 'a Considerable P«iod, a position of commanding importance in the vicinity of Verona. Ray records having seen it on Mount Salevi, 



chrv S X a an enormous infl uence for good upon the development of in Savoy, while other authors met with it in other parts of Southern 



stimul Um Culture 5n the United Kingdom, and at a time when a Europe. It was familiar to the Greeks, and it would be difficult to say 

 arrn^K J aS , n ? Uch . needcA The importance of the work that has been 



Europe. 



when it was introduced to English gardens. 



It is not mentioned in 



accomnlicV. a u 1 «« t «™*w.wv we worK inai nas Deen wiich u wna — — — ° o 



some f by the Kingston Society would fully justify our making Turner's " Libellus," published in 1538 ; but it is included in the first 

 claims f nce to its present unfortunate position; but it has other edition of Gerard's "Catalogue of Plants" (1596), and in his "Herball" 

 the com; C ° nsideration > and chief among these is the proof it affords of (1597) he states that it was then "growing in my garden in great plentie." 



e xpression Ctne !r ° f ^ ViCWS 4 ° which WC have S0 frec l uentl y S iven 

 association " ?!! Cussin S matter s relating to the welfare of horticultural 



m ultiplicati haVe 3gain and again P rotested against their excessive 



s_ . °" ; we have strongly advised committees to avoid the clash- 



Gerard had evidently no great liking for the odour of the flowers, for he 

 observes : " In my judgment they are too sweet, troubling and molesting 



the head in a very strange manner 



He further relates how, having laid 



some flowers in his bedroom window, they emitted so powerful an odour 



in £ of dat u onuugiy auvi&eu ^.uummtees to avoid me clasn- some nowers m nu> ucuiuum „ a« an UUUU i 



of \ ntrn A ^' wheney er practicable ; and we have urged the importance that " they awaked me from sleep so that I could not take any rest until 



'•uroaucine- ma,,, ... • . .... r . . ... . . t _v u„_ » ti . j 1.1. e ~l 



introduci , au^ »»e uav C urgeu me importance 



^neral pubr g T features with a view to su stain the interest of the 



I had cast them out of my chamber." There are two double forms of 

 this species, of which that known as P. coronarius Keteleri, fl. pi., is the 



