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“THE GARDEN,” March 2Sth, 1911. 
I 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 wid“- 
rnouthed pale citron-coloured cup Ij 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. 
Mervyn, which behaved so curiously two years ago, was shown in 
excellent condition. It is a very good five-shilling trumpet, useful both 
for the garden and for showing. My experience is that it is going to 
do well now it has settled down in my garden, and I hope the scare we 
all had will soon be forgotten. 
Southern Star was again to the fore. All that I wrote about it 
last year (March 19th, 1910) I can endorse now. It is a very beautiful 
flower with its brilliant red-edged cup. Armorel in the top row was 
decidedly effective, and with Weardale Perfection might be bracketed 
as being exceptionally well shown. The pointed-petalled Scarlet Eye, 
the small, taking red-cupped Robert Browning, the old, but still good 
Crown Prince, the newer Castile, and the refined and graceful Long 
Tom were others to be noticed. This last variety has a slightly droop- 
ing habit, with a rather narrow and long cup, and a white, slightly- 
hooded perianth. With the mention of the rich-coloured and massive 
yellow trumpet Mrs. H. J. Veitch and two charming bunches of 
triandrus hybrids 1 must close. These Snowdrop-looking, drooping 
white flowers should be raised by everyone. They are everyone's 
favourites, and there is not much difficulty in producing them. 
Joseph Jacob. 
