best seed bearers and pollen parents are indicated, and full cultural 
details are given, from the time of sowing the seed till, after the 
lapse of from five to seven years, the sower is rewarded by a flower. 
In olden days men in humble spheres of .life took a deep and often 
a successful interest in this cult. John Horsfield, a Lancashire weaver, 
it must not be forgotten, raised Horsfieldii (and this is still one of our 
best bicolors) in the ’fifties of last century with but slender resources. 
What he accomplished then can be done to-day in the smallest of 
gardens, provided, of course, the necessary requisites of knowledge 
and patience are among the owner’s stock in trade. 
Joseph Jacob. 
“THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE,” May 6th, 1911. 
1 he greatest display was made by Class No. I, which was 
arranged for a collection of 50 varieties of Daffodils. Messrs. 
( artwright & Goodwin, Kidderminster, who have won the 1st Prize in 
this class for several years past, again secured the premier place with 
a grand lot of flowers that well represented the different sections. We 
cannot enumerate many of the flowers, but may mention the following 
varieties, which attracted our attention by reason of their first-class 
quality: — Longfellow, Libra, Incognita, Long Tom, and Cleopatra. 
“THE GARDEN,” March 25th, 1911. 
T write from memory, but I think for the third year running, 
Messrs. Cartwright & Goodwin have gained the highest award at this 
particular Show. There is no getting away from the fact that their 
original form of staging is very effective, and sets off the flowers to 
the best advantage. Instead of being built up on the usual straight 
lines, it is slightly curved, and as a lady who went round the Show with 
me remarked, it just took off the stiffness that so often seems unavoid- 
able in the usual type. 
It was a happy thought, too, to put a few large pots of Daffodils at 
either end, for they made an excellent finish, and also to introduce a 
few pots of blue Grape Hyacinths at the bottom of the staging as a 
foil to the yellows and whites of the blooms above. A little detail 
worth noticing is the useful and up-to-date-looking celluloid labels 
which I have never seen used before. They will wash, are said to be 
everlasting, and, what is good from the public’s point of view, they are 
very legible. Passing now from the general to the individual, one of the 
most striking flowers was Trojan Boy, a giant Leedsii, with a wide- 
mouthed pale citron-coloured cup 1} inches in diameter, and a starry 
white perianth just 4 inches across. Perianth and cup suited one 
another, and the result was a well-balanced flower, “even and not 
stiff.” 
Another fine thing was Matthew Arnold. It is one of the new round 
type of Poets, with wide, overlapping, short-looking segments, and a 
kind of ornatus eye. The three interior segments keep on the same 
plane as the eye, while the exterior reflex. There are a good many 
flowers of this build now on the market, such as Lullaby and Minerva, 
and they are a welcome change from existing varieties. 
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