THE 



GARDENERS' MAGAZINE. 



SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1898. 



■DRIGHTON AND SUSSEX HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.— C 



£)' CHRYSANTHEMUM SHOW, to be held in the Royal Pavilion, B 

 November 15 and 16. Schedules of 



GRAND 



Brighton, 



Secretary, i. Dyke Road Drive, Brighton. 



CCLES, PATRICROFT, PENDLETON, AND DISTRICT CHRY- 



_v SANTHEMUM SOCIETY.— The TWELFTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION will be 

 Jd in the Town Hall, Eccles, on FRIDAY and SATURDAY, November ii and 12. 

 ^es to the amount of £130 are offered. Entries close on Thursday, November 3. Schedules 

 )btainedfrcm H. Hu ** : 



reasons 



Secretary,, 



Hazeldene, Winton, Patricroft. 



of the members of the sub-committee will be given when the report is 

 presented on Monday night, and these we await with keen interest. 

 Arguments will, in all probability, be advanced with which we are 

 familiar ; and if none stronger are forthcoming, those responsible for the 

 management of the society will have but one duty, and that will be to 

 insist upon such proofs as will satisfy them that the change will be in the 



HUDDERSFIELD and DISTRICT CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY.— best interest of the snrietv h^ri l'jLZ^; "\ : V u" 



The SEVENTH EXHIBITION of the above Society will be held in the Town Hall, T " * ° Ciety ' bef ° re Consenting to SO important a change. 



Huddersfield, on FRIDAY and SATURDAY, November 11 and 12, 1898. Entries close on • ne P r °posea recommendation must of necessity be considered from a 



Friday, November 4. Entry Forms and Schedules may be obtained from — j • . . . . . . . J ' 



John Bell, Hon. Sec, Marsh, Huddersfie'd. 



T/ENT COUNTY CHRYSANTHEMUM AND HORTICULTURAL 



1\ SOCIETY. -ELEVENTH GRAND ANNUAL EXHIBITION of CHRYSAN- 

 THEMUMS and other Flowers, Fruits, and Vegetables, will be held in the Rink Hall, 

 Black heath (opposite S.E.R. Station), on Wednesday and Thursday, November 1 and 3, 

 1898. Schedules and all particulars of the Hon. Sec, 



F. Fox, The G ardens, The Cedars, Lee, S.E. 



Kingston and surbiton chrysanthemum society.— The 



IV ANNUAL SHOW will be held at the Drill Hall, K ingston-on Thames, on 

 TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY, November i and 2. Entries close October 28. Trade 

 exhibits invited. Schedules, &c, of 



Mr. W. D. Elsam, Secretary, Clarence Chambers, Kingston-on-Thames. 



R- OYAL BOTANICAL AND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF 

 MANCHESTER AND THE NORTHERN COUNTIES. 



Founded ad. 1827. 



GREAT CHRYSANTHEMUM SHOW, November 17, i3, and 19. 



In St. James' Hall, Manchester. 



;£t8o in Prizes. Open t:> all comers. 



THE " DERBY w CHALLENGE CUP, value £25, presented by the Right Hon. the 

 Earl of Derby, K.G., and £10 given by the Society for 48 Blooms (24 Japanese and 24 Incurved) 

 ■ttinct. Schedules post free on application to 



P. Weathers, Curator and Secretary, 

 , Royal Botanical Gardens, Manchester. 



-HE WOLVERHAMPTON CHRYSANTHEMUM SHOW will be held 



on WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY, November 2 and 3, 1898, in the Drill Hall, 

 ITOLVERHAMPTON. Schedules from the Secretary, 



J. H. Wheeler, Glen Bank, Tetter h^ll, Wolverhampton. 



WOOLWICH, PLUMSTEAD, and DISTRICT HORTICULTURAL 



l\, S 2 ' IETV FIFTH ANNUAL CHRYSANTHEMUM AND HORTICULTUAL 

 SH0\Y, November 3, 4, and 5, at the Drill Hall, Woolwich. For Schedules and 

 particulars apply to 



_ R J- Worthington, Hon. Secretary, 32, Acacia Parade, Plumstead Common. 



business standpoint, and in arriving at a decision it will be desirable for 

 the members to consider whether the National Chrysanthemum Society 

 would have grown from a small suburban organisation, not wholly free 

 from financial difficulties, to the foremost chrysanthemum society in the 

 world during its association with the Royal Aquarium had that association 

 been what the agitators and faddists would fain have us believe. They 

 should then consider whether it is to the interest of a large body of 

 members to have to make an additional railway journey when visiting 

 the exhibitions, and whether it will be an advantage or otherwise to an 

 important section of the exhibitors to have imposed upon them an 

 additional tax of time, strength, and money in the conveyance of their 

 products to the shows. We have no doubt upon these points, and we 

 shall be much surprised if the majority of the Executive Committee do 

 not evince by their action on Monday a general agreement with our 



views. 



CHILL OCTOBER. 



UORTICULTURAL SHOW ADVERTISEMENTS are inserted in this 



intftS. o at j Sh i I ! i i lg pcr H £ e » the ^nimum charge being Five Shillings. Advertise 

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



Once again the whirl of the seasons brings us to the threshold of 

 winter, which in this abnormal year of 1898 seems but a step from the 

 blazing summer, so much has the sunshine . prevailed to render the 

 autumn a brief one. Once again, strolling round our gardens, we find a 

 general shabbiness beginning to prelude the casting oft of the leafy 

 garments of the growing season, and although the heavy night dews, 

 coming after the long drought, here and there start the checked growth 

 into temporary activity, we know the winter sleep is close impending, 

 and that the flicker of energy is wasted. To many minds, the shortening 

 days, lengthening nights, advent of chilly breezes and frosty airs, and 

 the consequent change in the face of Nature, have a depressing and 

 saddening effect, though in point of fact this is as illogical as if the daily 

 dip of the sun were so regarded. We live upon a revolving and rolling 

 planet, which in its daily revolution alternately plunges us into sunshine 

 and shade, and in its annual swing round the sun alternately gives us an 

 excess and deficit of daylight over and under the happy medium of 

 the equinox. All organic liie has, through evolution, adapted itself to 

 _ _ these conditions, and just as we, needing rest, pass the darkness of the 



FUTURE OF THE NATIONAL CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. night in slumber, rising refreshed the following day, so plants and many 

 ^ Those of our readers who take an interest in associations that have animals profit by the cold and dark season of the year to take their rest, 

 tneir object the improvement and extension iof ithe culture of the and so prepare themselves for a fresh and vigorous growth when the 



NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. 



Owing to continued increase in circulation, the " Gardeners' Magazine 

 now goes to press on Wednesday. No advertisement can be guarantee 

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



Notes of the Week. 



rysanthemum will not need to be reminded of the controversy with 

 [ard to the affairs of the National Chrysanthemum Society, which 

 pnated soon after last year's November exhibition. They — 

 - ember that the discussion was carried on, chiefly by members of the 



advent of spring reawakens them. Viewed, therefore, as a preparation 



for this, the incoming of the drowsiness which is now pervading vegeta- 



will tion is seen to be but a prelude to a healthful invigorating sleep, and by 



no means the death which it mimics with bare branches and the 

 litter of dead leafage— the cast-off clothes of the season. Autumn, 



rnmg body, until the annual meeting, and that on this occasion the 



aroerj instructed the committee to report to them, at a meeting to be indeed, has many charms. Deciduous trees, shrubs, and plants of all 

 W m November next, on the question of the place of holding the shows descriptions, though they cast off, as we have said, their leafy garb of 

 *quent to this year. They have also been duly informed that in the season, have a thrifty knack of emptying all the pockets, as it were, 



before they do so. The leaves are not suddenly cast off with their little 

 cells full of livirfg sap, by which the woody tissues could profit ; ail this 



some fh thC resolutions P^sed at the adjourned annual meeting 



e or six members were aDDointed to obtain th*» information 



„ embers were appointed to obtain the information 



SSS it - hC P re P aration i° f th * report. This 

 Wn issi n lnqu,nes ' and 11 now remains to be said, that a notice has 

 Monday e C ° nVening a s P ecial meeting of the Executive Committee for 

 Ie Port L Ven 'i ng nCXt ' for lhe P ur P° se o f receiving and considering " a 

 P^es i n *t/? Investi g ati °n of Sites Sub-Committee in reference to 

 Btc <ssaril t0 h ° ld the exhibitions of the society in 1899." We are 



*Q canL UnaCqUainted w5th the contents of the report, and, we might 

 «f the pr Whether il has yet been drawn up. 

 th «num drci° Sed rCP0rt haS become generally known in chrysan- 

 * Ae evfcikv' and We are in a Position to state that the removal 



^mmend ff ° m the 



ff °m the^e h* Change that sh ould have the most careful consideration 

 '••tiroes iwZi! ° f the exe cut;ve in the first instance, and from the 



*eks hence s the finaI issue is P resented to them in a few 



i>o drastic a measure as the removal of the exhibitions 



Royal Aquarium to Sydenham will be 



sub-committee has is slowly withdrawn, and in the process the dark or light green pales and 



changes, and runs through a gamut of a score of tints before^those little 

 divorcing cells at the stalk's base decree the separation. Hence the 

 woodland landscape, hitherto diversified with varied verdancies only, is 

 now ablaze with all the hues of the rainbow save the blue, which heaven 

 supplies liberally to fill the gap. Every gust of wind brings its little aerial 

 maelstrom of fluttering leaves to the ground—yellow and pink and 

 • msftn an d dappled and brown, and here the busy worm acts the sexton 

 in conjunction with a very universe of insects and fungi, and speedily 



the shed materials to the ready roots for future assimilation. 

 Under the ground, if we curiously dig and delve, we shall find exceptions 

 to the prevailing sleepiness in the form of awakening bulbs already 

 hine out their slender white roots, after sleeping the summer through, 

 to establish themselves for an early start in spring. Herbaceous plants 



£ Up their CrOWIlS * n thft SAITlf* pnH anrl all t-Vi r\r\*n+A frinfrc 



But the purport 



T he «»tre of L 0nd nn t^TY* ^.^e exh.bmons are are quie tly burying their contained seeds among 



"•NUB a L L ° ndon to a suburb seven or eight miles distant, and that have the chance in ^ ^ ^ rf ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ 



^ 100 inpon y journev of between half an hour and forty minutes, is the debris ot tnis yc*., . 



ant to be accepted without very powerful reasons being given of plant life in the next. 



