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THE GARDENING WORLD. 
June 12, 1886. 
Feathered Tulips, shown in threes, one of each class, 
made a charming display, and fourteen trebles were 
staged. Again was the Rev. F. D. Horner to the fore 
with—bizarre, Dr. Dalton ; rose, Modesty ; bybice- 
men, Mrs. Cooper. Second, Mr. D. Woolley, with— 
bizarre, Mrs. Miller ; rose, Mrs. Lea ; and bybloemen, 
seedling. Third, Mr. W. Dymock, Stockport, with—- 
bizarre, Lord Randolph, a new seedling of decided 
promise ; rose, Mabel ; and bybloemen, seedling. 
Fourth, name of winner not stated. Fifth, Mr. Thomas 
Wood. A class for three flamed Tulips brought eleven 
stands. Here Mr. Thurstan was first with—bizarre, 
Sir J. Paxton ; rose, Mabel ; and bybloemen, Adonis. 
Second, Mr. H. Housley, with—bizarre, Sir J. Paxton ; 
rose, Annie McGregor ; and bybloemen, Lord Denman. 
Third, Mr. John Wood, with—bizarre, Sir J. Paxton ; 
rose, bizarre, Aglaia ; bybloemen, Lord Denman. 
Fourth, Air. D. Woolley. 
Then followed a class for two Tulips, one feathered 
and one flamed, for maiden growers only, Mr. Barlow 
generously adding a collection of choice Tulips for all 
who entered. But two competitors appeared, and 
Mr. Thomas Wood, Roy ton, was first with—bizarre 
feathered, Maid of Orleans ; and flamed, Dr. Hardy. 
Second, Mr. T. Holden, with a feathered and a flamed 
rose, marked unknown. In the open class for the 
same number there were fifteen competitors, the Rev. 
F. D. Horner being placed first with—bizarre flamed, 
Orion; and bybloemen feathered,^Mrs. Cooper. Second, 
Mr. H. Housley, with—bizarre flamed, Sir J. Paxton ; 
bizarre feathered, Royal Sovereign. Third, Mr. Joseph 
Boyden, with—bizarre flamed, Sir J. Paxton ; and a 
feathered rose, unknown. Fourth, Mr. V/. Prescott. 
Fifth, Mr. Jas. Thurstan. 
A very large number of flowers were staged in the 
classes for single blooms, considerably over a thousand 
having to be overlooked by the judges. Bizarres, 
feathered, first, Mr. S. Barlow, with George Hayward, 
large in size and finely feathered ; second, Mr. W. 
Prescott, with Lord Lilford; third, Mr. James 
Knowles, with Charles X., (Royal Sovereign); Mr. S. 
Barlow, being fourth with Sir J. Paxton. Ten prizes 
were awarded in each class, and the flowers following in 
order of merit were Duke of Devonshire, Masterpiece, 
Hepworth’s Agamemnon, Royal Sovereign, General 
Grant, and William Wilson. Bizarre, flamed, first, 
Mr. J. Boydell, with Royal Sovereign ; second, Mr. 
Thurstan, with Dr. Hardy ; third, Mr. S. Barlow, with 
Excelsior; fourth, Mr. R. Wolfenden, with Mrs. Wilson; 
following in order of merit were Dr. Dalton, Sir J. 
Paxton, Duke of Devonshire, and Royal Sovereign. 
Roses, feathered, first, Mr. D. Woolley, with Heroine ; 
second, Mr. S. Barlow, with a striking flower of an un¬ 
known parentage, that appeared in one of his beds at 
Llandudno; third, Mr. Fearnley, with Industry : fourth, 
Rev. F. D. Horner, with Charmer; following in order 
of merit were Mabel, Heroine, Alice, and Industry. 
Roses, flamed, first, Mr. Housley,with Triomphe Royale; 
second, Mr. S. Barlow, with Mabel, and third with 
Lady C. Gordon ; fourth, Mr. Stanley, with Leah ; 
followed by Bertha, Aglaia, Madame St. Arnaud, Lady 
Crewe, Mrs. Lea, and Andromeda. Bybloemen, 
feathered, first, Mr. D. Woolley, with seedling; second, 
Mr. Knowles, with Adonis, and third with Bessie ; 
Mr. Prescott being fourth with Guido ; followed by 
Lady Denman, John Hart, Violet Amiable, Mrs. Roth- 
well, and Talisman. Bybloemen, flamed, first, Mr. S. 
Barlow, with Adonis ; second, Mr. D. Woolley, with 
Lord Denman ; third, Rev. F. D. Horner, with Talis¬ 
man ; fourth, Mr. W. Kitchen, with Adonis ; followed 
by Duchess of Sutherland, Chancellor, and Westpoint. 
The premier feathered flower was George Hayward, 
shown by Mr. S. Barlow, and the premier flamed flower 
Orion, shown by the Rev. F. D. Horner. 
A large number of breeder or unbroken Tulips were 
staged in the classes set apart for them, the Rev. F. D. 
Horner again coming first with—bizarres, Sir J. Paxton 
and Dr. Hardy ; roses, Thomas Parker and Miss B. 
Coutts ; byblcemens, Glory of Stakehill and Alice Grey. 
Second, Mr. J. Wood, with—bizarres, Excelsior and 
Sir J. Paxton ; roses, Industry and Mabel ; bybloemens, 
Surpasse Grande and Alice Grey. Third, Mr. S. 
Barlow. Fourth, Mr. Kitchen. Fifth, Mr, J. Thur¬ 
ston. The best three, one of each class, came from 
Mr. Barlow, who had—bizarre, Horatio ; rose, Annie 
McGregor; byblcemen, Glory of Stakehill. Second, 
Mr. J. Thurston, with—bizarre, Horatio ; rose, Annie 
McGregor ; and bybloemen, unuamed. Third, the Rev. 
F. D. Horner, with—bizarre, Sir J. Paxton ; rose, 
Thomas Parker ; and bybloemen, Alice Grey. Fourth, 
Mr. A. Fearnley. In the classes for single blooms of 
breeders the awards were as follows :—Bizarres, first, 
Mr. S. Barlow, with Sir J. Paxton, Mr. Kitchen being 
second with the same, and Mr. Thurstan third with a 
seedling. Then followed—sulphur, Ariosto, King, and 
Excelsior; rose breeders, first, Mr. Thurstan, with 
Olivia ; second, Mr. W. Afenden, with one unnamed ; 
third, Rev. F. D. Horner, with Hepworth Seedling ; 
followed by Lady Grosvenor, Miss B. Coutts, Mrs. 
Barlow, Mabel, and Annie McGregor ; bybloemen 
breeders, first, the Rev. F. D. Horner, with Beauty of 
Whitchurch, and second with Glory of Stakehill ; Mr. 
Barlow being third with the same ; then followed 
Talisman, Miss Hardy, and seedlings. 
The premier breeder Tulip was Sir Joseph Paxton, 
shown by Mr. S. Barlow. A Certificate of Merit was 
awarded to feathered bizarre Lord Randolph, a bold 
and striking flower, said to have originated from a 
cross between two byblcemens, Adonis and Maid of 
Orleans. 
ORCHID NO TeTaND GLEANINGS. 
Glazed Pots for Orchids. —Your correspondent 
“ M. T.,” mentions at p. 636, the robust health of the 
plants in Mr. Buchanan’s collection of Orchids, which 
are growing in glazed pots. I could not help noticing 
how well they were doing when I saw the collection a 
short time ago. Several instances have come under my 
notice, where this kind of pot has been used 'with very 
satisfactory results ; among others at Coltbridge Hall, 
near Edinburgh, where there is a small but well grown 
collection of Orchids. A dozen or two of Phaleenopsis 
were growing in glazed pots in a shady comer of one of 
the houses, looking the very picture of health. I did 
not think at the time to ask the gardener, Mr. Cockburn, 
how long they had been growing in them, but I thought 
at the time how opposite the conditions were to the 
epiphytal character of the plants. Still the fact re¬ 
mained that it was scarcely possible for them to be doing 
better. I have also seen Laelias, Cattleyas, Odonto- 
glossums, doing quite as well in these as in ordinary 
pots, and there is this advantage not to be overlooked, 
that they seldom or never need the scrubbing brush. 
On the score of economy alone, this may be urged in 
their favour.— J. S. Brown. 
Odontoglossum Vuylstekeanum. —Unfor¬ 
tunately too late to be brought under the notice of the 
Floral Committee, Messrs. Vervaet & Co., of Ghent, 
sent to the meeting on Tuesday the first flowering 
plant that has been seen in this country, of the new 
yellow-flowered Odontoglossum Vuylstekeanum, which 
first made its appearance in Mr. Ch. Vuylstek’s nursery 
at Loochristy, near Ghent. In a general way it may 
be described as a yellow 0. luteo-purpureum, the whole 
flower, excepting the lip, being of a sulphur-yellow 
colour, the lip being paler, almost white. 
Odontoglossum crispum.— A magnificent 
variety, the sepals, petals, and lip of which are heavily 
spotted with crimson, and the whole flower closely 
resembling the variety named apiatum, which was 
recently sold by auction for 165 guineas, made its 
appearance last week in Mr. Cobb’s collection at 
Sydenham, and on being put up for sale at Messrs. 
Protheroe & Morris’s rooms on June 3rd, realised the 
handsome price of 150 guineas. 
Orchid Portraits.— At South Kensington, on 
Tuesday, Orchid lovers had an opportunity of inspect¬ 
ing a fine series of water-colour portraits of about a 
dozen species of Orchids, which have been drawn, 
natural size, for A. H. Smee, Esq,, by Mr. A. Foord- 
Hughes, of Wallington, Surrey. The portraits are all 
of plants which have flowered in Mr. Smee’s collection, 
and though some of them could not be said to be the 
best varieties, that in no way detracted from the artistic 
merit of the sketches themselves, which was generally 
recognised to be of a high order. The best examples 
were those of Oncidium Jonesianum and Vanda San- 
deriana, the points of which have been very happily 
caught. At the same time and place, Messrs. Jones & 
Firmin, 120, Blackfriars Road, S.E., showed how the 
portraits of Orchids may effectively be brought into use 
for household decoration. Their system is to paint 
the portraits on the backs of mirrors before they are 
silvered, and so delineating them in a practically im¬ 
perishable form. The subject which had been thus 
treated was an Odontoglossum crispum, the habit of 
growth, arching spike, and the individual flowers being 
much more faithfully represented than we usually see 
in such work. 
Maxillaria Sanderiana.— This very striking 
new species is now in flower in the collection of C. 
Dorman, Esq., at Laurie Park, Sydenham, we believe 
for the second time only in this country. It was shown 
at South Kensington on Tuesday, and on account of 
its extraordinary size for a Maxillaria, and the heavy 
dull crimson colour of the lip and base of the sepals and 
petals attracted much notice. • It has not inaptly been 
said to resemble a gigantic form of M. grandiflora. 
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THE PLANT HOUSES. 
The stock of Fuchsias will now need looking to, for by 
this time they will require another shift, as if left pot- 
bound for any length of time before potting-on they 
never flower satisfactorily or as long as they should do. 
Should, however, any of the plants not make a free 
growth,it will bemuch better to harden them off and place 
them out of doors in the full sun to ripen, after which 
shake them out and re-pot as at the first, and by this 
means they may be restored to a satisfactory state, and 
also come in extremely useful after the main batch are 
cleared out; in fact, where the Fuchsias are started 
very early, it will be found of the greatest advantage to 
subject the plants to this mid-season rest. TUe are to¬ 
day giving our Impatiens Sultani a shift into 7-in. 
pots. They have been growing in a heated pit and 
kept near the glass, and are consequently good, sturdy 
stuff. As soon as they have taken to the soil they will 
be put into the intermediate-house, where they stand 
well, added to which the bright clear colouring of the 
flowers makes them very effective for staging purposes. 
The Browallias, if treated as advised, will now require 
a shift, and also to be removed to the cold pits, where 
they can be more freely ventilated. Should they show 
signs of flowering and are not required just now, pinch 
them back, and in this way they will bloom later on. 
A pinch of seed sown occasionally will give a stock all 
through the season, and they will last until December 
and be found most useful for cutting purposes in con¬ 
junction with Chrysanthemums. This reminds me, 
also, that the last-named will now require attention. 
By this time the pots should be well filled with roots, 
and be quite ready for the final shift. The soil for 
this purpose should be rather stronger than was pre¬ 
viously used, and if a good sprinkling of i-in. bones be 
added to the soil, the plants will be greatly benefitted 
thereby. After potting it will be advisable to half¬ 
plunge the pots in coal ashes in single rows, giving a 
good watering to settle the soil round the old ball, 
after which, for a few days, sprinklings overhead 
morning and evening will be all that is required. I 
will only add that after this no more stopping must be 
done. 
THE FRUIT HOUSES. 
The weather having now apparently broken up, it 
will be best to avoid firing as much as possible, and rely 
upon the sun to furnish sufficient heat; particularly do 
not let the fires be started in the morning, except just’ 
to clear themselves, and then bank down again. At 
the same time the Muscat and Lady Downe s houses 
will be benefitted if the pipes are warmed of an evening, 
so that when you pass through all feels comfortable ; 
Hamburghs are better if kept^cooler, being of a much 
stronger constitution. Be careful that the thinning of 
the late house is not neglected, even though other 
matters apparently as urgent remain in abeyance, or 
when Grapes are required next May, the stock may be 
found to be exhausted ; extra vigilance in attention to 
this house is, I am quite convinced, of the greatest im¬ 
portance where a lengthened supply is required. 
Muscats should now be kept easy, as they are stoning; 
treat the house as evenly as possible, admit air freely 
when sun prevails, on the contrary avoid draughts as 
much as possible, that is if north or easterly winds 
prevail, it will be better to open the doors between the 
different structures to admit of a free circulation of air, 
than to open the lights to too great an extent, and by this 
means rust will be avoided. See that the fruit in the 
early Peach house is gone over every morning before 
the sun takes eflect upon the house, as if the fruits are 
left on the trees until they fall off, they will not keep, 
