July 3, 1886. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
697 
HARDY TREES AND SHRUBS. 
Messrs. Barron & Son, Elvaston Nurseries, Borrowash, 
are tlie only exhibitors, of large specimen Conifers, 
Hollies, &c., which being grouped near the entrance to 
the large marquee, have a very imposing appearance. 
Messrs. James Dickson & Sons and Messrs. F. & A. 
Dickson & Sons, both have fine groups of young plants 
of Japanese Acers and other pictorial trees. 
FLORISTS’ FLOWERS. 
The florist’s flower classes brought out many excellent 
exhibits, of which we regret we can only note a few. 
A leading position must, however, be given to Messrs. 
John Laing & Co.’s tuberous Begonias, and the col¬ 
lections also from Mr. B. Hurst and W. H. Watts, 
Esq. ; to the zonal Pelargoniums of Mr. E. Bridge, 
Huyton ; the show and fancy varieties of Messrs. C. 
Rylance & Co. and Mr. Turner ; the double zonals of 
Mr. Cypher, Mr. Cragg, Mr. Alexander, Mr. Turner, 
&c.; and in the bouquet section, Mr. Cypher, Messrs. 
Perkins & Sons, Mr. Brown, of Richmond, and others 
show some admirable examples of artistic bouquet 
making. 
FRUITS. 
The fruit show is decidedly below the mark, and 
nothing like so good as on several former occasions, 
but perhaps much of this must be attributed to the 
backwardness of the season. The best classes are those 
for Pines, in which there are certainly as fine a lot of 
Queeps as one could expect to see anywhere. The 
seven single fruits are all good, among the leading 
exhibitors being Mr. Miles, Mr. Wildsmith, Heckfield, 
Mr. Muir, Margam Park, Mr. Parker, Impney, and 
Mr. Goodacre, of Elvaston ; and some of them compete 
also in the class for pairs. In the black Grape class, 
there are eight lots of Hamburghs, and good samples 
Buccleucli Grapes and Peaches. There is a fair display 
of Melons, a few Cherries, and Figs, &c. Messrs. 
Thomas Rivers & Sons, Sawbridgeworth, show a splendid 
group of orchard-house trees in pots, fine examples of 
various Apples, Pears, Plums, Cherries, Peaches, and 
Nectarines, perfect in shape and foliage, and all car¬ 
rying grand crops of fruits ; and Messrs. J. Cheal & 
Sons, Crawley, have a small but neat representation of 
their cordon fruit trees trained to wires. At a meeting 
of the Fruit Committee, Mr. T. Laxton received a First 
Class Certificate for his seedling Strawberry, “Noble.” 
VEGETABLES. 
The vegetables staged, though in numbers below 
what we have had before, lack nothing on the score of 
quality, which is all that can be desired. Those who 
inspected them yesterday, and who were present at the 
earlier shows of the series, must have been struck with 
the change in taste that has been brought about in 
Mr. T. Gowen ; the Ivy-leaved varieties of Messrs. 
Fleming & Sou ; and the Pansies and Violas of Mr. 
J. Forbes, of Hawick. 
CUT FLOWERS. 
In this department, there are good competitions all 
round. Roses are in strong force, fine stands being 
shown by The Cranston Nursery Co. ; Messrs. Paul & 
Son; Messrs. Cooling & Son, Bath ; Mr. Campbell, of 
Bath ; and Mr. G. Prince, of Oxford. The Pyrethrum 
Classes are well contested by northern growers ; among 
the leading competitors being Messrs. Cocker, of Aber¬ 
deen ; and Messrs. R. P. Laird & Sons, Edinburgh ; 
and a very fine array of Pansies and Violas, includes 
contributions from Messrs. Forbes, Hawick ; Suther¬ 
land, Lenzie ; Storrie, Lenzie ; Baird & Sons, Edin¬ 
burgh ; and Messrs. Dobbie & Co , Rothesay, who have 
a stand of 150 blooms, mostly of fine fancy varieties of 
their own raising. The cut blooms of Orchids and 
stove and greenhouse plants are very good, and the 
display of bouquets, quite extensive and fine, among 
the leading exhibitors in the former department being 
Clematis, Beauty of Worcester (see p. 693.) 
indeed are those staged by Mr. Louden, The Quinta, 
Chirk, Sir. Lambert, Brogynton Gardens, Owestry, 
and Mr. J. Austen, Rumshaw Hall, Euxton. There is 
also a fair white class, among them being some well- 
ripened Muscats, a capital lot of Foster’s Seedling, and 
Mr. Louden has the Golden Champion in fine form ; 
and the Duke of Buccleuch is well shown by Mr. 
Bennet, Rhug Gardens, Corwen. Peaches and Nec¬ 
tarines are a capital show, some twenty dishes of each 
being staged, among the former, well shown, being 
Violette Hative, Hales’ Early, Stirling Castle, 
Galande, Royal George, Early Albert, and Bellegarde. 
In Nectarines there is nothing finer than Lord Napier, 
Pine Apple, Violette Hative, Elruge, and Balgowan. 
The class for eight dishes of fruits, distinct, introduces 
us to a new exhibitor in Mr. R. Parker, gardener to J. 
Corbett, Esq., Impney Hall, Droitwich, who came to 
to the front with a fine lot of Grapes, Strawberries, 
Figs, Nectarines, Melons, Pine, &c. Mr. G. H. 
Richards comes next, with, among others, a fine Queen 
Pine, good Strawberries, Nectarines, Figs, &c. Mr. 
Jlannerman is third, his best dishes being of Duke of 
vegetable exhibiting, so completely have the old- 
fashioned large and coarse pot-boilers been banished. 
There is a capital competition in the class for eight 
dishes ; in which Mr. G. T. Miles, gardener to Lord 
Carrington, Wycombe Abbey, well holds his own with 
an admirable lot, including Daniels’ White Elephant 
Onion, a fine dish of Asparagus (for the time), good 
Cauliflowers, Sutton’s New Intermediate Carrot, Car¬ 
ters’ Pride of the Market Peas, Stamfordian Tomatos, 
Dean’s Chancellor Potatos, Canadian Wonder Beans, 
&c. Mr. G. H. Richards, gardener to the Earl of 
Normanton, Somerley, Ringwood, comes next with a 
most creditable lot, and next in order comes very evenly 
matched collections from Mr. Miller, of Rood Ashton, 
and Mr. Garraway, of Brook Street, Bath. Beans, 
Cucumbers, Asparagus, Peas, Turnips and Potatos 
are all well shown for the season. The competition in 
the Potato classes is fair only, but we note nice 
samples of the old Ashleaf, Snowdrop, Myatt's Pro¬ 
lific, Veitch’s Improved Ashleaf, Woodstock Kidney, 
&c. The Pea classes are very good, all the leading 
early sorts being represented, with Stratagem at the 
