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GARDENERS' MAGAZINE. 



!bord Napier nectarines, peaches, figs, white raspberries, and John Ruskin 

 strawberries, the last-named perfect in shape and grandly coloured. Mr. 

 Robins was first in both grape classes with the afore-named varieties, and first 

 for peaches with some grand fruits of Barrington ; Mr. H. Warren, second in the 

 classes for black grapes and peaches. Some large gooseberries were on view, 

 Mr. Earl, first, with a dozen scaling nine ounces ; Mr. H. Warren second, weight 

 one quarter ounce less. Some very fine nectarines, named Precose de Croncels, 

 were staged by Mr. E. T. Mackrill, and secured an award. Strawberries, cherries, 

 gooseberries, and the three forms of currants were presented in fair numbers, but 

 the red currants from Wootton House attracted much notice. 



Vegetables were good for the season, specially so the cauliflowers, carrots, 

 potatos, and peas. Colonel Drake led with a collection of twelve dishes, cauli- 

 flowers and winter onions ; Mr. Warren for tomatos, carrots, and turnips ; Mr. 

 T. Gurney, in the potato classes ; Mr. R. Hopkins, for cucumbers ; Mr. E. W. A. 

 Brooking, for peas ; and Mr. Tipler, for basket of salad. Mr. Warren secured Messrs. 

 Sutton and Sons' premier prize for six dishes, and Mr. J. Morton won Messrs. 

 E. Webb and Son's for a similar collection. In the amateur section Mr. H. W. G. 

 Morris secured firsts for strawberries, collection of hardy fruit, red currants, white 

 currants, and cos lettuce ; Mr. A. T. West led in the classes for a collection 

 of six dishes, kidney and round potatos, and carrots; Mr. L. N. Simons came 

 first for cucumbers, tomatos, and peas. About two dozen classes were provided for 

 cottagers, and the whole of the one hundred prizes awarded were keenly contested 

 and awarded for splendid allotment produce. 



WOOD GREEN, July 9. 



A large exhibition was held in the Town Hall Grounds, Wood Green, on 

 Saturday, the 9th inst. The display was somewhat crowded into a huge marquee, 

 and was very largely of purely local interest, the classes for cottagers and amateurs 

 being well filled with excellent exhibits throughout. 



The best twelve roses in not less than nine varieties were shown by Mr. C. H. 

 Martin, gardener to Mrs. Langton, Hendon, who showed fine flowers of Helen 

 Keller, Caroline Testout, Gustave Regis, Mrs. J. Laing, Victor Hugo, A. K. 

 Williams, La France, Duke of Fife, Captain I lay ward, and Marquise Litta ; Mr. 

 Cragg, gardener to W. C. Walker, Esq., Winchmore Hill, second ; Mr. Courteney 

 Page, Enfield, third. Mr. Martin was again first in a class for twelve blooms in 

 not less than six varieties, his best flowers being Helen Keller, Madame G. Luizet, 

 Mrs. J. Laing, Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, and La France ; Mr. Cragg, second ; 

 and Mr. J. Armstrong, third. Mr. J. Canham, gardener to C. H. Feiling, Esq., 

 Southgate House, Southgate, was first for a dozen bunches of flowers, his gloxinias, 

 begonias, roses, and sweet peas being good ; Mr. Thomson, gardener to Miss 

 Brown, Southgate, second. Mr. Cragg was first for six bunches, and Mr. Thomson 

 second ; both lots were very bright, but Mr. Cragg scored with orchids. Mr. G. 

 W. Cook, North Finchley, scored for a dozen roses, distinct in the amateurs' 

 section, showing Mrs. J. Laing, Francois Michelon, Caroline Testout, Captain 

 Hayward, La France, Madame (\. Luizet, Marie Baumann, Beauty of Waltham, 

 S. M. Rodocanachi, and Dupuy Jamain. Mr. Cook was also first for nine roses ; 

 Mr. Thompson, Bounds Greer, second. Mr. Thompson scored for six roses ; Mr. 

 Brewer, second. For half-a-dozen teas or noisettes, Mr. G. W. Cook led with 

 Innocente Pirola, Ernest Metz, Rubens, and Anna Olivier; Mr. Thompson, 

 second. The competition was fairly good throughout. In the amateurs' division 

 for a dozen bunches of cut flowers the first prize was won by Mr. F. Haynes, Ash 

 Cottage, Wood Green, with a good set of Plumbago capensis, Diplacus 

 glutinosus, lantanas, begonias, fuchsias, Torenia Fournieri, calceolarias, stocks, 

 balsams, roses, and zonal pelargoniums. 



The best half-dozen stove and greenhouse plants were shown by Mr. H. Til- 

 bury, gardener to C. Voung, Esq., Southgate ; they were large plants of Pandanus 

 utilis, a fuchsia, Latania borbonica, Dracaena Baptisti, Adiantum formosum, and 

 A. cuneatum ; Mr. C. Canham second. Mr. W. Smith, gardener to S. Roberts, 

 Esq. , Winchmore Hill, had the best tuberous begonias, and the same competitor 

 led the way for half-a-dozen gloxinias, showing splendidly grown and flowered 

 plants ; he also had the best six zonal pelargoniums, a creditable set. Mr. Cragg 

 was hrst for six table plants, a graceful lot ; Mr. Canham a very close second. 

 Mr. Lragg won the chief award for six orchids, showing fair examples of Cattleya 



HarnsonKx, Epidendrum vitellmum majus, Cypripedium Curtisi, Vanda aerulea, 

 Cattleya Mossue, and Odontoglossum cordata. For a small group of plants, 

 amateurs Mr. J. E. Smith, Canning Crescent, was easily first. Some pretty little 

 groups of ferns were staged by amateurs, and Mr. C. Le Ricbe, White Hart Lane, 

 put up the best, using Platycerium alcicorne as a centrepiece; Mrs. N. P. Hodgson, 



( '; e ^ ;.second. Mr. G. Cragg was easily first for a large group, his cattleyas, 

 jua sovoia Digbyana, cannas, odontoglossums, &c, being pleasingly associated 



™3 ♦ ' rt Sf and Qladium J Mr - F. Canham second, and Mr. Tilbury, 

 gardener to A. Young, Esq., Southgate, third. 



an,?™?! **** rtoraI display for a dinner table was a charming arrangement in white 

 ana yellow forms of Papaver nudicaule associated with fern fronds and gypsophilla ; 

 this was put up by M, s . Wheaton, Muswell Hill ; Miss Weston, Queen's Avenue, 



«h i \i b Se £° n , d ' Wlth P ink sweet P^ s - Mrs. Driscoll, of Palmers Green, 

 showed the best basket of flowers, pink and red roses. 



inm /" 7™ m P son sh °wed a splendid lot of salading— cucumbers, radishes, 

 nmatos, beet, mustard, cress, lettuce, and onions being admirably represented. 



showSa! ft I ? r Cd 1 r e Wayin the °P en class for ei 6 ht kinds of vegetables, 



SuhlWr ,f A C l °- ° f t0 * mat ° S ' broad ***** vegetable marrows, 



cauliflowers and turnips ; Mr. H. Tilbury, second. 



JhnS l h l}?? 5 ' Hemcrocallis aurantiaca major, English irises, 



calochorti in variety, Gladiolus Colvilleiin several forms, including the pretty Ruby 



md Co ^ * 

 \f ~ A v - " — " vt "-»» in a cut 



( ***** c %V IT 1 "* ^ ulvul « in several iorms, including tne pretty Kubv 



bSh't ?xhib ESS R - T aHaCe and Co " Colchester, and made up^ very 

 Bright exh.hu. Herbaceous flowers in a cut state were shown extensively by 



interesting exhibit «f *u 1 Southgate, sent a small but most 



popular and useful flo . wers ' pranging a fine assortment of 



popular and useful snhiwKi . . ^..-ugn^ * ,. uc aasurimcni 01 



Kiopsis scabra fife S ° Sfe IT 



phiniums, Genista tinctoria r£?°f2*'- fulva, garden roses, del- 



^ttwSe/i^ ? ™« 0 te iri ^' u Messrs ; R - and G ' Cuthbert ' New 



carnations filling laS N ?T ^ f^^use plants, liliums, cannas, and 

 his group includine several or£t 601,11(15 Green . contributed succulents, 



from Mr. T. S. Ware TottenhSL S"" flowers in abundance came 



brilliant Gladiolus Watson anus Wa f- a bright exhibit and contained the 



Lilium Grayi, Alstr...meria 1L; m " OCall « s . aurantiaca major, Ixia longiflora, 

 from Mr. F. G. Foster, BroKL? L ? num arboreum, Ac. Sweet peas 



«hibit ; the bunches were lar^ P 5? N L urs f ,es » made a charming and fragrant 



varieties noted were Scarlet InriLfn ». flowerS good - A few es P«cially fine 



1 inunaLle, Meteor, Countess of Powys, little Dorrit, 



July 23. 1S98. 



Lovely, Mrs. Eckford, Salopian, Cantain nf tu t>. 

 Victoria, and Emily Henderson. ptWn ° f lhe Blue *. Royal Rose, . 



A very handsome group of plants w»c nm+ l *t_ 

 Hugh Low and Co., Bush HU1 ^ffidf ^ of tent by 

 J Asparagus plum osus Rex b£L£ cT* f ere fi «ly 



s, dieffenbachtas, &c . This firm also p* ^ufa D fe - ' 



arranged by a s £»*f Jjjf a 



much n +x*A*— . .> yij 



and well grown, Asparagus plumosus, ^I^SKlSffi ZT^^ 



_ . isociated *\th .11 «? ssue l. C - Meadd 



:rnas, & c . Th 



orchids was ai 

 ls were very n 

 :>ssice; Mormo _ 

 major, Ccelogyne Dayana, Oncidium ^nceannm" w *or,^ F1 j Cnarum at *mtiaa 

 also staged well by this firm. Nil od ontoglossums 



Lrelia tenebrosa 



variety, dracrenas, aienenoacmas, & c . This firm also put 'up 

 Toses. A bright group of orchids was arrang * ' ' P 



C. Mendeli and C. Mossix ; MormX? SiSS^.SS^ 



ririoomo Havana. CinriAi t u »«-»ior, bpidend 



Ashton, Southgate ; cattleyas were very much 



of " * " 



also staged well by this tirm. Messrs. J. Hill and Son T ^ Weie 

 put up a fine group of ferns all well grown and artistically arranged We D lal d ~ O0t0O • 

 hanging baskets of davalhas, aspleniums in variety, white and A 7 ^ 

 grammes, adiantums in variety, including a splendid basket of lovefv t, 



of A. scutum roseum, and some handsome examples of A F«»wZ , P™ 4 



good 



finely-developed roses. 



NATIONAL AMATEUR GARDENERS' ASSOCIATION, July . 



^ Last year this flourishing society held its annual exhibition in the'gardens of 

 the Royal Botanic Society, and the experiment proved so successful that ir 

 repeated this season, and, we are pleased to state, with still greater success. 



On 



this occasion the competitive collections were arianged in the corridor lead^v 

 from the north entrance to the conservatory, instead of the tent, and the chac^ 

 was decidedly for the better, as the various products could be seen to eroto 

 advantage. The arrangements were, with but one exception, aptly plannwl ao 

 carried out by Mr. T. VV. Sanders, the president, and Mr. L. Brown, the scat- 

 tary ; and, favoured by delightful weather, the visitors, who numbered betwm 

 two and three thousand, appeared to thoroughly enjoy the excellent display of 

 plants, cut flowers, fruits, and vegetables provided for their entertainment. T- 

 exception, to which it is our duty to refer, was the admission of exhibitors aod 

 visitors to the exhibition during the time the awards were being made, which w 

 only delayed the work of judging, but greatly hampered those engaged in deter- 

 mining the relative merits of the competing collections. The practice of 

 allowing the visitors to crowd about the tables during the time the judging is in 

 progress appears to have become general in the metropolis, and should be checked. 



The principal features of this interesting and successful gathering were formed 

 by the roses, violas, and hardy flowers, while both fruits and vegetables weie 

 satisfactory. There was a keen contest for the first place in the class for t 

 collection of six distinct kinds of hardy flowers, and in the result, Mr. A. Lewis 

 Beckenham, and Mr. A. Taylor, Finchley, were first and second with only hiK 

 a point between them. Mr. Taylor staged in his collection a vase of superb 

 blooms of Margaret Dickson rose. In the collection of six kinds grown out of 

 doors, Mr. Needs, who was awarded the Dobbie Challenge Cup, had im> 

 delphiniums, roses, and sweet peas. Mr. Lance Gray, and Mrs. Marsh, CUj« 

 gate, exhibited remarkably well in the class for four bunches of hardy fl wers. 



In the class for twelve roses, in which a challenge cup, presented by Messrs. F. 

 Cant and Co., was offered as the first prize, Mr. G. W. Cook was first with i * 

 magnificent stacd, and Mr. J. Bateman followed closely for second place » . 

 finely-developed blooms. For nine roses in six varieties Mr. E. R. Smith mu 

 first, Mr. J. Bateman second, and Mr. A. Taylor third, each staging excellm 

 blooms. Mr. J. W. Jones, Woking, contributed a remarkably fine collecooa tj 

 the class for garden roses, and Mr. E. R. Smith, Muswell Hill, had a superb stt»* 

 of twelve teas. There were five or six entries in the class for a vase of roses, m 



which the premier prize was presented by Mr. George Gordon, and this award was 

 made in favour of Mrs. Morris, Thame, who had a vase of fi nely developed Wooa* 

 of Mrs. John Laing. Mr. G. W. Cook had a vase of fine blooms of La rrap«j 

 and Dr. Shackleton contributed a very tastefully arranged vase containing mi» 

 varieties. Mr. G. W. Cook staged eighteen blooms of Mrs. John ^aing, an * ™P 

 state of development, as an extra, and was awarded the silver medal. Mr y££ 

 was first of seven competitors in the class for six roses with supcro N°°"""Q 

 J. Laing, La France, Caroline Testout, Ulrich Brunner, Mrs. Sharn.an Ira* - ; 

 and Marie Baumann ; Mr. J. Thompson, Bond's Green, second. An a 

 class for a vase of roses and for a bowl of tea roses, Mr. G. W. Look was _ * 

 Violas were staged in large numbers and superb condition, and the ^ 

 is very keen for the Pye Championship, and in the result Mr. V. *JJJ 



was 



adjudged the champion, and Mr. Leonard Brown and Mr. Tt. ^-—^^ 

 second and third. Mr. Crane was first also for six bunches, with Mr. ^ 

 Mr. Leonard Brown had the award of the first prize made in his taw«»- 

 six sprays of violas, while for six sprays of rayless violas Mr. Uinctur fa g 



In the class for a collection of fruit Mrs. Morris was first, ana in 

 collection of vegetables Mr. F. M. Vokes occupied the first place, www 

 had the best strawberries. 



HANLEY FLORAL FETE. 



Although only in its second year the Hanley Floral Fete has ^ 

 a most famous provincial horticultural display, and the exn w » keen."* 1 

 on July 6 was an unqualified success. The competition A^ou \a m 

 and the attendance enormous. This success has been *<*"-^° th > ^ «* 

 ability and energy of the secretary, Mr. J. Kent, lne c (hre ^ ban*«* 



about twenty-five more than in 1897, and the entries rose 1 rf ^ 

 and fifty to over fifteen hundred, these representing about eignv u 

 competitors. . w. T a mes Cypk* 



There was a keen competition in the group closes, and - ; 1 ^ 

 secured the chief award wkh a cleverly executed design fi . ^ p g£, 



prize there was a handsome vase presented with the hrst p j M , 

 gardener to the Duke of Sutherland, second. l or r l j> K StoOC , S»*.«* 

 Stevens, gardener to W. Thompson, Esq. Walton for «l* 



first with fine specimens ; Mr. Cypher, second. Mr. p» and 

 specimen orchids, but scored first for a dozen s P e ^"r ^ xt 0 f pilB* 



Sir- 



following 



Cypher 



success, Mr.' Goodacre/ gardener to the Earl o f ""^"boodtfie 

 securing first prize for the best decorated dinner table. *" dozeo dishes of 

 first prizes for a pair of bunches of black grapes, tor naii 

 and for strawberries. . c na M ew townards, C °- ^7 



In the rose classes Messrs. A. Dickson ™ d .*°°>'' f or two dozen r««. 

 were almost invincible, taking firsts for forty-eight roi.es UtSgy 

 twelve blooms, for a new rose, and second for thirty " 



