388 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ October 25,1888. 
of the recent Japanese introduced to this country from Japan and via 
America. Concerning these there will be much to be said by-and-by, 
for the matter is an important one, and it is rather serious to find 
varieties obtained from several different sources under distinct names 
prove to be identical. Very beautiful is Florence Percy at the present 
time, its quilled and twisted pure white florets imparting quite a lace¬ 
like appearance to the blooms. Priscilla is one of last year’s Japanese 
with bronzy red or cinnamon blooms, of long irregularly cut and 
twisted florets with a yellow reverse. Edwin Molyneux, C. Orchard, 
and Belle Paule are showing well, as also are Edouard Audiguier and its 
beautiful golden counterpart, M. Garnar. A pretty variety of the Japanese 
reflex style, Dr. Dor, is worthy a note, the florets fluted, recurving, and 
bronzy buff, a very distinct shade of colour. Many others might be 
mentioned, but the above will suffice to show that the interest of the 
Camberwell collection is fully equal to that has possessed in past 
seasons. 
AT CHILWELL. 
Judging from the appearance of the plants in the well-known 
nurseries of Messrs. J. & R. Pearson & Sons, the display of Chrysanthe¬ 
mums there is likely to be one of the most extensive in the kingdom. The 
exhibition was fine last year, and admired by thousands of visitors from 
Nottingham and surrounding district, while not a few persons journeyed 
long distances to the great Midland show and went away satisfied. The 
plants are still finer this year, and more numerous. Six large houses 
are filled with them, but the chief display is represented in a light and 
lofty span-roofed structure 100 feet by 30 feet. The plants are arranged 
down the centre and along both sides. The varieties that produce the 
finest blooms are disbudded for producing them, and as they are strong, 
with handsome foliage and ripe wood, some superior examples may be 
expected. Edwin Molyneux is fine now, as are a few others, but the 
time has not arrived for particularising varieties. Those which are 
essentially free in flowering are grown in large bushes and not dis¬ 
budded, so that their character for decorative purposes is displayed, 
and their capacity for producing trusses for cutting represented. A few 
well-trained specimen plants are also included, as are small plants in 
5 and 6-inch pots for table and window decoration. The collection, 
which includes all the best varieties, old and new, is indeed a typical 
one, and such as Mr. Charles E. Pearson and his assistant may be proud 
of. Many persons travel far to see what is to be seen in the Chrysanthe- 
mum world, and if possible they should not omit Chilwell when the 
plants are about their best, in November. It is within a mile from 
Beeston station, which is reached from Nottingham in seven or eight 
minutes. 
AT MORDEN PARK. 
The Chrysanthemums at the residence of J. Wormald, Esq., Morden 
Park, Surrey, have for some years constituted an important specialty 
under Mr. C. Gibson’s charge, and many honours have been won in keen 
competition at the leading metropolitan and suburban sho_ws. This 
season over 400 plants are grown, and they look extremely well, indeed 
Mr. Gibson thinks he has never had the plants in better condition. 
Blooms also are coming freely, but possibly some of these are rather too 
early for the show season, though there will still be plenty left to win 
some prizes. It is rather strange, however, that when so many are com¬ 
plaining of the lateness of their blooms the Morden Park collection 
should be so forward, and it is a disadvantage, because it is found that 
blooms are not keeping well, the lower florets failing before the bloom 
in some cases is half developed. Probably the fogs and heavy mists 
have had some effect in this direction. The incurved varieties are very 
satisfactory, and fine examples are noted of Mrs. Shipman, Princess 
Beatrice, and the Queen type, the last named being uncommonly good. 
Of Japanese, Edwin Molyneux is grandly represented, also O. Orchard, 
Criterion, Phcebus, Peter the Great, Boule d’Or, Mrs. Cannell, Mr. 
Garnar, White Dragon, and Avalanche. One of the varieties in the 
Japanese with which Mr. Gibson excels is Grandiflorum, though this 
disappoints many growers, and it is thought the cause of this is to be 
found in taking the crown instead of the terminal bud. At any rate 
Mr. Gibson relies exclusively upon the terminal bud, and never fails in 
obtaining good blooms, and the earlier this bud can be “ taken ” the 
more chance there is of the blooms coming in for the shows. Lady 
Trevor Lawrence and Mrs. H. Cannell have been found to be identical 
here, though received from a reliable source, and as we hear the same 
complaint elsewhere it is evident there is some confusion, and exhibitors 
will do well to carefully ascertain that varieties under these names are 
really distinct before placing them in one stand, or they may run the 
risk of disqualification. It is not questioned that the varieties first 
•exhibited as Lady Trevor Lawrence and Mrs. Cannell were distinct, but 
it is quite clear that there has been some mistake since, and it is difficult 
to ascertain where the blame rests. Mr. Gibson has a good general col¬ 
lection of Japanese, Anemones, reflexed and all the other sections pro¬ 
vided for at shows, and we shall hope to see some of his productions at 
distant exhibitions before the season is over. 
AT WARREN HOUSE GARDENS. 
The genial Honorary Secretary of the Kingston Chrysanthemum 
Society, Mr. Woodgate, amidst the multifarious duties attendant on an 
extensive charge, manages to grow some 400 Chrysanthemums, and to 
produce blooms of high exhibition quality. This year his plants are in 
very satisfactory condition, slightly late, but the buds are expanding 
■“ kindly,” and a large proportion may be expected to reach full exhibi¬ 
tion size and quality, though perhaps somewhat late for the principal 
metropolitan shows. Taking the majority of the plants, there is quite a 
fortnight’s difference between the Morden Park and Warren House 
plants, though the gardens are situated only a few miles apart in the 
same county. The collection comprises, beside the standard old varie¬ 
ties, a good number of the recent introductions and novelties, but it is 
somewhat early to pronounce respecting their merits. One point is 
noticeable—namely, that Mr. Woodgate has not attempted to restrict 
the naturally tall-growing varieties, for some plants are 9 and 10 feet 
high, but after rather nervously climbing a ladder and inspecting their 
summits, we found what is very often found on these giants, very sub¬ 
stantial, fat, and promising buds of prize-winning capabilities. 
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
October 23rd. 
A small space in the Drill Hall at Westminster sufficed for the 
exhibits on Tuesday last, Chrysanthemum blooms and a few new plants 
being all that was shown of any consequence. 
Fruit Committee. —Present: H. J. Veitch, Esq., in the chair, and 
Messrs. P. Crowley, G. W. Cummins, R. D. Blackmore, J. Willard, 
J. Smith, W. Denning, J. Cheal, P. Barr, and W. Marshall. 
Mr. Crook, Farnborough Grange, exhibited fifteen dishes of Apples, 
Pears, and Plums, including some fine fruits of Blenheim Pippin and 
Alfriston Apples, Duchesse d’Angouleme, Doyenne! du Comice, and 
Pitmaston Duchess Pears. The Pears were from trees trained to walls, 
and all indicated good culture (vote of thanks). Messrs. J. Carter and 
Co., High Holborn, showed a basket of Stachys tuberifera tubers, and 
the Committee requested that specimens be sent for cooking to be tested 
at the next meeting. Mr. Smythe, The Gardens, Basing Park, Alton, 
sent two varieties of black Grapes, one of which the Committee desires 
to see again. Mr. Smith, Mentmore Gardens, Leighton Buzzard, showed 
specimens of Prune, Worcestershire, Shropshire, or Cheshire and 
Farleigh or Crittenden Damsons. Captain Ferry, The Shrublands, 
Hersham, Walton-on-Thames, exhibited a dish of Duchess’s Favourite 
Apples very highly coloured (vote of thanks). 
From the Royal Gardens, Kew, came fruits of the Tree Tomato 
(Cyphomandra betacea), like small Egg Fruits, of a deep red, and 
Trichosanthes anguina, (the Snake Gourd), with long narrow bright 
red fruits. Mr. A. Selby, Radcliff-on-Trent, Notts, exhibited fine tubers 
of Sutton’s Abundance, Reading Giant, and Satisfaction Potatoes (vote 
of thanks). Mr. W. Ellington, Mildenhall, Suffolk, sent tubers of a new 
Potato named Market Favourite, a seedling from Vicar of Laleham 
crossed with Schoolmaster, white, with a purple tinge and eyes. It is to 
be tried at Chiswick. 
Floral Committee. —Present: G. F. Wilson, Esq., F.R.S., in the 
chair, and Messrs. Shirley Hibberd, W. Goldring, H. Herbst, J. Bates, 
W. Holmes. R. Dean, C. Pilcher, J. Dominy, II. Ballantine, H. M. Pollett, 
J. O’Brien, W. Wilks, E. Hill, T. Baines, G. Duffield, and John Fraser. 
Mr. W. Holmes, Hackney, sent a stand of new Chrysanthemums 
comprising M. C. Sachet and Sunflower, certificated as Japanese, a 
distinct Japanese Anemone named Nelson of a deep purplish crimson 
colour, and broad recurving guard florets, and a yellow variety of the same 
type named Sabine. Mr. Holmes also had two baskets of October- 
flowering Chrysanthemums, Feu de Bengale being awarded a vote of 
thanks. Mr. G. Stevens, Putney, showed blooms of the pure white 
Japanese C. Wagstaff (vote of thanks). Messrs. J. R. Pearson & Son, 
Chilwell, were awarded a vote of thanks for several blooms of Chrys¬ 
anthemums, mostly Japanese, including Othello, C. Delmas, Charlotte 
de Montcabrier, Madame Louise Leroy, and Capucine, a new October- 
flowering variety with bright orange yellow blooms freely produced, 
which was commended as an early decorative variety. Mr. R. Owen, 
Maidenhead, exhibited a stand of eight new Japanese varieties, for two 
of which first-class certificates were awarded. The others were Comte 
Horace de Choiseul, white ; Miss Burgess, quilled, rosy mauve ; Thomas 
Stevens, blush, drooping ; Madame C. Souchet, straight purplish florets, 
tipped white; M. C. Souchet, reddish, recurving, reverse golden; and 
Bocacce, single, purple and white. Mr. H. Jackson, gardener to S. A. 
Ralli, Esq., Cleveland House, Thornton Road, Clapham Park, sent a 
branch of Lapageria alba bearing, on a length of about 9 inches, fifteen 
blush-tinted flowers (vote of thanks). 
Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, Chelsea, exhibited several novelties, com¬ 
prising AlocasiaChantrieri with metallic-like leaves and silver veins, Rho¬ 
dodendron Brunette, a cross from R. javanicum and Princess Frederica, 
with large buff flowers having six or seven segments (vote of thanks). 
G. F. Wilson, Esq., F.R.S., Weybridge, showed flowers of the double 
Colchicum which had stood the frost, and flowers of a white Primula 
capitata. J. A. Whittard, Esq , Rydal Mount, Streatham Hill (gardener 
Mr. H. Wright) sent a sporeling form somewhat of the Adiantum 
cuneatum style with small pinnules, strong but graceful (vote of 
thanks). G. H. Baxter, Esq., Hutton Park, Brentwood (gardener Mr. 
E. Crook) exhibited a plant of Odontoglossum Insleayi splendens of 
very rich colour (vote of thanks). Messrs. Seeger & Tropp, East 
Dulwich, showed a plant of Cypripedium Seegerianum, described as a 
hybrid between C. Spicerianum and C. Harrisianurn, the dorsal sepal 
white, tinged purple at the base (vote of thanks). 
CERTIFICATED PLANTS. 
Cattleya Harrisi (Baron Schroder).—A cross between C. Mendeli and 
C. Leopoldi, a most beautiful production and presenting an interesting 
combination of the characters distinguishing the two species named. 
The sepals and petals are of semi-transpareat texture faintly but 
