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good quality. The principal class was that for twenty-four distinct 
varieties, half Japanese, and the remainder incurved. Mr. G-. Hawkins, 
gardener to B. Lapthorne, Esq., Gosport, was an easy winner, staging 
full heavy Japanese and fairly good incurved. Viviand Morel, W. H. 
Lincoln, Stanstead Surprise, and Caesare Costa were the most noteworthy 
among the Japanese. Jeanne d’Arc, Lord Wolseley, Nil Desperandum, 
and Mrs. Naish were conspicuous in the incurved section. Mr. B. Sims, 
39, Shaftesbury Road, Gosport, was second with smaller but neat blooms. 
Mr. Hawkins was also successful in the classes for eighteen Japanese, 
distinct, and eighteen incurved, staging excellent blooms of the leading 
varieties. Mr. Sims was second in the Japanese class, having smaller 
yet neat examples. For twelve reflexed, in not less than six varieties, 
Mr. J. Hillier, gardener to S. T. Blake, Esq., Gosport, was an easy first. 
King of Crimsons, Phidias, and Distinction were the best. Mr. T. W. 
Hatch, Seafield, won easily in the class for twelve Japanese with good 
examples of Mrs. F. Jameson, E. Molyneux, W. H. Lincoln, Sunflower, 
and Caesare Costa. Mr. J. Hillier was second. 
Pompons, three blooms to a bunch, were best staged by Mr. H. Lee, 
3, Toronto Place, Gosport, and comprised highly coloured blooms of 
Mdlle. Elise Dordan, Madame Martha, and Golden Circle. Mr. 
H. Dance, gardener to Mrs. Rowe, was second. The premier incurved 
bloom was Nil Desperandum, Mrs. F. Jameson occupying a similar 
honour in the Japanese section, both belonging to Mr. H. Lee. The 
N.C.S. certificate was awarded to Mr. G. Hawkins for excellence of 
culture. The best group of Chrysanthemums was staged by Mr. T. H. 
Watch, the plants being dwarf, with good foliage, and carrying fine 
flowers. Plants in other classes were creditably staged, as also were 
table plants and Primulas. 
Vegetables were numerous and well staged, Mr. G. Hawkins winning 
somewhat easily for nine varieties, all of excellent quality. Hardy 
fruit was extremely well shown, Messrs. Hawkins and W. & J. F. 
Legge being the principal prizewinners. Mr. H. J. Spence, as usual, 
had all the arrangements in a satisfactory condition. 
HAVANT.— October 28th. 
The ninth annual Show was held as usual in the Town Hall, and 
considering the early date and the late season was a success. The 
competition was not quite so strong as last year, but the quality of the 
exhibits was above the average. The arrangements, under the superin¬ 
tendence of Mr. Chignell, the Hon. Secretary, assisted by a hard-working 
Committee, were good,. 
Cut blooms were the most important feature of the Show. The principal 
class was that for forty-eight, half incurved varieties and the remainder 
Japanese. Mr. Penford, gardener to Sir F. Fitzwygram, Bart., M.P., Leigh 
Park, Havant, won the premier award with a bright stand of blooms, 
especially the Japanese. Sunflower, Bouquet de Dame, Viviand Morel, 
Avalanche, and Stanstead Surprise were the most noteworthy. A 
splendid bloom of Refulgens was staged in the incurved stand. Mr. 
J. Agate, gardener to W. Pawson, Esq., Havant, was second with good 
Japanese, Stanstead White being extra fine. 
For eighteen, nine incurved, and the same number of Japanese, Mr. 
Steptoe, gardener to — Gale, Esq., Horndean, won rather easily with fairly 
good blooms. Mr. Parrot, gardener to Mrs. Kincaid Smith, gained first 
prize for twelve Japanese with full blooms of good quality. Mr. Agate 
was second ; Mr. Penford securing a similar award for the same number 
of incurved blooms. Mr. Agate, as usual, staged the best single and 
Pompon blooms in bunches of three of one variety. Groups of Chrys¬ 
anthemums and miscellaneous plant groups were meritorious, making an 
effective display. 
BRIXTON.— November 1st and 2nd. 
The Show of the Brixton, Streatham, and Clapham Society was held 
in the Town Hall at Streatham this year and proved to be quite up to 
the average in quantity and quality, though the cut blooms, incurved 
especially, were rough. Many of them would have been all the better 
for a few more days’ development, and the same remark applies to the 
Japanese, many of which were not quite developed. 
The first prize for twenty-four incurved went to Mr. W. Howe, 
gardener to H. Tate, Esq., J.P., whose blooms had weight but not finish. 
Lord Wolseley, Violet Tomlin, Prince Alfred, and Prince of Wales were 
the best, the heavier blooms, such as Lord Alcester, John Lambert, 
Queen of England, and Empress of India being ill-furnished and coarse. 
Mr. Poulton, gardener to C. T. Cayley, Esq , was second with half- 
developed blooms. He was somewhat fortunate to get a prize at all, for 
the flowers ought to have been on the plants some time longer. Mr. 
Howe also won with twelve, his blooms being of very much the same 
character as the twenty-four—namely, weighty but lacking smoothness. 
Robert Cannell was about the best. Mr. Poulton was second, and Mr. 
Stevens, gardener to B. F. Smith, Esq., third. Mr. Wiggins and Mr. 
Stevens were first and second with six. Mr. Howe’s Japanese were 
better than his incurved, albeit one or two would have done very well 
with a little more time. Mrs. Falconer Jameson, Mrs. E. W. Clarke, 
Etoile de Lyon, Sunflower, Mrs. Beckett, and Stanstead White were 
excellent flowers. Mr. Mursell, gardener to Mrs. Burton, was a good 
second, but still losing nearly a point on every bloom against Mr. Howe, 
Mr. Ouseley, gardener to R. Lyell, Esq., was third. Mr. Howe won 
again with twelve, these being hardly equal to the others. Mr. Mursell 
was a close second, and Mr. T. Stevens third. Mr. Guyett was first with 
six. The first prize for large Anemone-flowered fell to Mr. Pearce, 
gardener to Mrs. Fletcher Bennett, for neat flowers of medium quality, 
and that for Pompons to Mr. Stevens, other prizes going to Mr. Fulbrook, 
gardener to B. B. Baker, Esq. Mr. Howe was first with reflexed. 
There were other classes for cut blooms, and the most successful 
exhibitors were Messrs. Guyett, who won Mr. Hibbert’s special prize ; 
Mr. Mursell, who secured the prize offered by Messrs. Reid & Borne- 
mann ; Mr. Howe won the first prize offered by Thomas Gabriel, Esq., 
with a good stand of twelve Japanese, also that offered by J. Margetson, 
Esq., for Japanese cut with long stems and foliage ; and Mr. A. Rofe, 
who was first in the maiden class. 
The specimens were not nearly ready, and many of them ought to 
have been left at home. Mr. Cherry, gardener to Mr3. Gabriel, won with 
six plants well trained and flowered, but the blooms were only partly 
developed. Mr. J. Martineau, gardener to Dr. Martineau, was second, 
but two of his plants were only in bud. Mr. Cherry was also first in 
another class for six, but one plant only bore a few expanded blooms, 
the rest being in the bud stage. Pompons were not nearly ready. Mr. 
Weston was first, and Mr. Cherry second. 
There was an excellent display of stove and greenhouse plants, 
Orchids, cut flowers, and fruit ; the whole making up an attractive 
exhibition. The arrangements were in the capable hands of Mr. 
W. Boupell. 
KENT COUNTY.— November 1st and 2nd. 
Traces of the lateness of the season were by no means absent from 
the Kent County Chrysanthemum Society’s Show this year, nevertheless 
the Exhibition was an excellent one. The incurved blooms were some¬ 
what weak, evidently requiring more time ; but there was material of the 
highest quality in the Japanese section, and the number of fine novelties 
on view lent added interest to the display. 
There were three stands of thirty-six blooms, eighteen incurved and 
eighteen Japanese, aDd the best of them was that staged by Mr. Whittle, 
gardener to C. H. Go:chen, Esq., Ballards, Addington, Croydon. There 
was a great difference between the two sections of his exhibit—the 
incurved being imperfectly developed, while the Japanese were large, 
well filled, and good. The former were John Lambert, Empress of 
India, Alfred Salter, Golden Empress, Mons. R. Bahuant, Queen of 
England, Mrs. Shipman, Nil Desperandum, Jeanne d’Arc, John Doughty, 
Lord Alcester, Violet Tomlin, Lady Hardinge, Ami Hoste, Princess of 
Wales, M. A. Haggas, Refulgens, and Madame Darner. The Japanese 
were Colonel Smith (splendid), Stanstead White, E. Molyneux, Etoile 
de Lyon, W. H. Lincoln, Viviand Morel, Avalanche, Jeanne Dhlaux, 
Irving Clarke, Stanstead Surprise, Gloire du Rocher, Marie Hoste, Mrs. 
Falconer Jameson, Edwin Beckett, W. Tricker (in fine colour), Sarah 
Owen, Puritan, and Sunflower. Col. Smith was undoubtedly the pick 
of the box ; it is a great acquisition. The second prize went to Mr. 
R. Leadbetter, gardener to A. G. Hubbuck, Esq., Elmstead Lodge, 
Chislehurst, whose incurved were perhaps a trifle better than Mr. 
Whittle’s, but lacking in weight, while the Japanese were hardly so 
well filled. Mrs. E. W. Clarke, Mdlle. Marie Hoste, and Coronet were 
the best of the latter ; and Lord Wolseley and Violet Tomlin the pick of 
the incurved. The third prize went to Mr. Rowbottom, gardener to 
H. R. Williams, Esq., The Priory, Hornsey, whose incurved, which ran 
somewhat small, were strengthened by a beautiful bloom of Madame 
Darrier, a charming light bronze flower tipped with gold, which was 
selected as the best in the Show. The Japanese were neat, but not 
heavy. Mr. Whittle was again first with twenty-four Japanese, show¬ 
ing medium sized, fresh, and well-coloured flowers. Colonel Smith and 
Marie Hoste were extremely beautiful, while Viviand Morel, Mrs. 
E. W. Clarke, and W. Tricker were conspicuously good. Mr. J. Mac¬ 
kenzie, gardener to F. S. W. Cornwallis, Esq., M.P., Linton Park, Maid¬ 
stone, was a very good second, albeit one or two of his flowers were 
rather thin. John Dyer, a mixture of yellow and bronze, was somewhat 
striking. Mr. Leadbetter was third. Mr. Mackenzie won with twelve— 
an excellent stand. Colonel Smith showed the most prominently in it ; 
this noble variety has already secured a high position as an exhibition 
Japanese. Mr. Leadbetter was second with rather flat flowers ; and Mr. 
Wheadon, gardener to R. J. Collier, Esq., third. 
The incurved classes were nothing like so strong as the Japanese. 
Mr. Whittle won with twelve, but they were far below his usual strength, 
and he will no doubt be better a few days hence. Mons. R. Bahuant, 
Empress of India, and Nil Desperandum were the best, Violet Tomlin 
and Queen of England being, though large, unfinished. Mr. Mackenzie 
was second with^Refulgens as his best example, and Mr. Lyne, gardener 
to H. F. Tiarks, Esq., Foxbury, Chislehurst, third. Mr. Leadbetter was 
the only exhibitor of reflexed, and was placed first for a good stand. Mr. 
Tickner, gardener to J. Watney, Esq., Shermanbury House, Reigate, 
was first with Pompons. Mr. Leadbetter had the best large Anemone 
flowered, Delaware being by far the finest bloom. Mr. Tomalin, 
gardener to S. White, Esq., was second, and Mr. Tickner third. Mr. 
J. Pearce, gardener to J. VVainewright, Esq., Belmont, Lee, was first 
with six white Japanese, Elaine representing him. A. J. Scrutton, Esq., 
Eagle House, Eltham, was second with Florence Percy. The corre¬ 
sponding class for coloured Japanese brought out three splendid stands, 
Mr. Rowbottom being placed first, second, and third with Sunflower, W. 
Tricker, and Puritan respectively, all of a first prize grade in the 
ordinary course of competition. He showed a lovely box of Mdme. 
Darrier'in the class for six incurved, small, but exquisitely moulded and 
finished. Mr. Whittle was second with Queen of England, and Mr. 
Scrutton third with Mrs. Rundle. 
In the local classes the competition was not very brisk, many 
exhibitors who were expected not putting in an appearance owing to the 
lateness of the season. Mr. Rhoden, gardener to J. Vavasseur, Esq., 
Rothbury, Blackheath Park, was the only exhibitor of twenty-four 
