THE 



GARDENERS 



7 



MAGAZINE. 



SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1898. 



a rnTINTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



(JTo) S S "lowers. Entries close July 14th. 



Cardiff 



D FADING HORTICOLTU KALSOOTTV MBBJ p , SHOW, 



R JHURSD^ Road, Reading . 



u rAA , fVJlw OW, Tuesday and Wednesday, July 12 and 13. 



i^w SvZZ Schedules on ap^ication to ^ claremont Avenu6j Woking . 



m VFRHAMPTON FLORAL FETE. — . t _ 



VNXUAL HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITION will be held in the West Park, 



NEXT WEEK, July 12, 13, and 14, 1898. 

 Snow Hill, Wolverhampton. William E. Barnett, Secretary. 



trade growers, and we have no doubt the society would readily add 

 these trophies to their other awards were it in a position to do so ; but 

 H. Gillett, Secretary. the holding of three exhibitions in one season imposes too heavy a strain 



upon the funds to admit of large sums being expended in the purchase 

 of trophies. These roses are now so well shown under existing condi- 

 tions, and constitute so charming a feature that we may depend upon the 

 executive which is distinguished for its breadth of view, giving them the 

 fullest possible encouragement. With the whole of the two naves at 

 their command, the honorary secretaries, the Rev. H. H. D'Ombrain 

 and Mr. E. Mawley, arranged the exhibition with due regard to tasteful 

 THE TENTH GREAT effect and the convenience of visitors, and obtained as their reward much 



« m m m - « TIT T"> _ . m * 



praise. 



FLORAL VARIETY. 



TTORTICULTURAL SHOW ADVERTISEMENTS are inserted m mis 



H 2- at One filing per line, the minimum charge being Five Sh Wings. Advertise- 

 ■em Office, 148 and 149, Aldersgate Street, London, E.C. 



In going the round of one of the public floral displays, such as we 



Westminster, 



NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. 



collections as are brought together there at this the most redundant 

 season of the year, the observant mind can scarcely fail to be struck by 

 the manifold and multiform ways in which the simple life history of a 



Owing to continued increase in circulation, the « Gardeners Magazine ^ ^ ^ ^ . g ^ germination of 



Wednesday 



insertion, or altered, unless received before Four p.m. on that day. 



A COLOURED PLATE of 



CHINA ROSE, QUEEN MAB 



Is presented with this Number. 



a seed, the production of leaves and flowers, and finally the reproduction 

 of seed by fertilisation, and the subsequent ripening and dissemination 

 prior to beginning the same life cycle anew. This is the history not 

 merely of all flowering plants, but also of all ferns, and even mosses, 

 though in these the flowers are quite microscopic, forming, as compared, 

 say, with the gigantic blossom of the Rafilesia, extreme instances of 

 divergence in size. Some flowers are so constituted that the whole of 



r , ., , , . , . _7 t ur r> t j this Drocess is carried through by the individual without cross-fertilisation 



Subscribers should see that their Newsagents deliver the Coloured ™ 15 protesb is umeu uirougi uy Ull „ nnA 



Plate with each copy. 



Notes of the Week. 



Soc 



NATIONAL ROSE SOCIETY'S EXHIBITION. 



In few years has the metropolitan exhibition of the National Rose 



by pollen conveyed from the blossoms of another plant, and it is beyond 

 a doubt that were this the case throughout the vegetable kingdom, we 

 should either have no flower shows at all, or have to be contented with 

 an exceedingly poor display, since, wonderful to relate, just as the affec- 

 tions elevate mankind by emulation, so has the need of one flower for 

 the aid of another, and the resulting necessity of attracting the 

 messengers of love by conspicuous form and colour elevated our flowers 

 from the level of insignificant weeds to the sovereign dignities of rose 

 and tulip, and all their charming companions in Flora's fair domain. In 



held it the Crystal Palace on the 2nd inst., for not until the eve of the these later days, of course, man himself has stepped in as Cupid's envoy 

 •how was it possible to forecast with any degree of accuracy whether it in many cases, and thus brought about combinations and results which 

 would be successful or otherwise. Notwithstanding the easterly winds, bee or moth, or the.thousand and one other insects which do this duty 



For these the flower may fashion 



the late spring frosts, and the plague of aphis with which roses had to 

 contend previous to the season of flowering, they made a vigorous growth 



normally, could never have effected. 



and provision its nectary, paint itself with gorgeous tints, 



contrive 



and produced buds that gave the promise of large and otherwise well cunning traps and lines, and in so doing split genera into species, and 

 developed blooms. But owing to the low temperature, more especially at widen the range of normal beauty which existed long before man took 

 ght, that prevailed during the greater part of June, the larger propor- part in the operations ; but for our finest blooms, as a rule, much more 

 toon of the buds on reaching a somewhat advanced stage came to a must be done, and a very different plan of selection adopted than Nature 



«andst.ll and hardened, instead of unfolding their petals to delight the " ' " M ; * «^«t* of th* blooms we 



utivator with their beauty. The process of development was, indeed, 

 slow that a week in advance of the date of exhibition not even the most 

 Penenced rosarian could be induced to give a definite opinion as to 

 prospects. They were in full accord with the opinion to which we 



tinuar^fT 11 * ° UT l&St isSUe ' which was t0 the effect that > with a con - 

 th* sho* 1 ° 0ld weather experienced at the beginning of the week, 



* the fl W ° bC bd ° W thC avera £ e both in the numbers and the quality 



•ouldbe 0 ^ ' a and * at W ' th a few dayS of warm weather the display 



»* the better 



Happily, there was a few days previous a change 



>n the climatic conditions, and, in consequence, we have to being more 



record one f h wuuuiuna, aim, mi consequence, we na\ 



nshv n« beSt metro P°l'tan gatherings the society has held. It 



herself carries on. Hence an immense majority of the blooms we 

 behold on the occasions cited are the elaborated outcome of man's 

 peculiar tastes, and are, indeed, often unnatural, in the sense that the 

 original simple end and aim of the plant and flower, viz., reproduction 

 is arrived at with greater and greater difficulty as the flowers approach 

 man's ideal of perfection. The vigour which should produce the seed « 

 diverted into other channels, or it may be that the potenc.es of mixed 

 \1J become so completely intermixed that the plant is qu.te 

 ? U?n? re^oducing itLf, even when seed is yieided, the outcome 

 EST S52523f* P~ nCC a -ng the varied influences 

 tt ZTor less reversion to ancestral types, though now and again 



nak 



ver ygood. 

 those 



He 



Demg more- - b contriving some brilliant com- 



f VTn unex c*d line, Nevertheless, though, as we have said, 

 b,Datl aTority of ^fl -ers exhibited owe their beauty largely to man's 



aj ° r ZLu influences of Nature herself, working, typically 



intf the o„ j " , ° — — J w * j uu 8« ^"6»6"« the majum-jr «. 



* e awards, and the quality of the competing collections was selection, the occult influences 



collections were much superior to 



e more remarkable from the fact that fairest flowers 



10 advantage h ™ m ° St seasons S ,ve the Professionals so great 



* a,bcr of bloo Were T sufficientl y advanced to give any considerable 

 f °r the su mS i thC cutbacks had t0 be al most wholly depended 



^ a °ew hom f TW ° ° f thC threG im P° rtant challenge trophies 

 tofrr »u„ . 6 the next twelve months, and with reference to the 



selection, «"= - j haye fashioned SO me of the very 



2!^^^ Oar stateliest lilies, to wit, owe but little 



raise 



4* 



*arm 



**** nooi , hi 



ay 



constructed at so great 



tairest now- ~~ • ^ marveUous orchids have been 

 t0 Tand a bi;ndedtith g great success as regards the production of new 

 • ? % i to the lover of the orchids at home in their troptcal bowers, 

 Va ^r S: n tineas of he insect world which attend upon them there, that 

 t^SX^mm are due, as well as the immense diversity in 



character and colour. 



minured Plate. -The extremely beautiful rose, Queen Mab, so 



Uur woio louie d plate presented with this issue, is an important 



admirably depicted m h ol p ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ y 



addition to the China sect o M«»» W. 



com f haVC tW ° challen & e trophies provided for 

 Petition amongst amateurs and the other amongst 



of cut flowers. VJfJV Cwss , and, having regard to its freedom and continuity 



°'f SS -d the distinct colouring of the 



