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THE GARDENING WORLD 
August 28, 1886. 
large, aucl in some cases very keen. Cut flowers were 
also largely shown, but those from outdoors bore the 
effects of the late heavy rains. Altogether the show 
was a great success as regards exhibits, and the com¬ 
mittee. may confidently look forward to Bridgend 
becoming one of the leading horticultural societies in 
South Wales.— (Communicated.) 
St. Andrew’s (Eccles) Annual Flower 
Show. —The annual gala in connection with this 
young, enterprising, and vigorous church took place in 
the Monton Schools, and in a field adjoining, lent by. 
Mr. Speakman, on Saturday last, the 14th inst. It is 
proverbial that St. Andrew’s people always have fine 
weather for their gala days. Last week, however, 
many and ominous were the signs that the long lane 
would take a turn, and that bad weather would make 
a break in the record of the brilliant days associated 
with this annual event. Up to the last moment this 
seemed inevitable, but the great storm which passed 
over this neighbourhood on Friday evening seems to 
have changed the atmospheric influences, and on 
Saturday summer sun was glowing over land and sea ; 
and to this summer sun is attributed the decided suc¬ 
cess which attended this festival. 
In the flower show divison several gentlemen belong¬ 
ing to the congregation sent plants for exhibition, but 
not for competition. Mr. R. Spary, of Ellesmere Road, 
sent a number ol Fuclisias. These were a very good well- 
grown collection, six being identical plants with those 
supplied to the children by the committee, and respond¬ 
ing to greenhouse culture, were remarkably large for the 
small pots in which they had been grown. Mr. A. 
Burton, of Lyma Cottage, contributed a very attractive 
and miscellaneous collection, including several very 
fine Begonias of different species. This collection being 
intersected by the exhibition of canaries and small 
birds connected with the pet show, gave a pleasing 
effect to the room. Mr. W. Slater Beddington, of 
Monton House, staged a number of very good semi¬ 
double zonal Pelargoniums with other plants,, amongst 
which were some excellent specimens of Fuchsias and 
Gloxinias. Mr. Walter Newton, of Ellesmere Park, 
filled a stand in a very effective way with fine examples 
of Begonias, Gloxinias, Ferns, Fuchsias, and Palms, 
introduced with other choice plants. Mr. A. B. 
Limpery, of Victoria Crescent, occupied the place of 
vantage at the top corner of the room with a really 
splendid display of general greenhouse Ferns and flower - 
ing plants, amongst which were several very fine and 
large specimen Adiantums, good Blechnums and Palms, 
a particularly fine Ficus elastica, and a magnificent 
Lilium auratum. 
Mr. J. Cannon, of Liverpool Road, and Robert Street, 
Patricroft, the florist who supplied the plants for the 
children to grow at home for competition at this show, 
kindly added to the grandeur of the exhibition, by con¬ 
tributing a very large assortment of choice exotic and 
British Ferns, including many rare kinds. Mr. Cannon 
is making a speciality of greenhouse and hardy Ferns, 
and his collection was of a very pleasing and valuable 
character. 
The children of the St. Andrew’s, Barton Lane, and 
Monton Schools, contributed eighty-two plants for com¬ 
petition. Many of these were very well grown, and 
evinced great care on the part of many of the com¬ 
petitors. As might have been expected from the purer 
atmosphere, longer knowledge, and greater aptitude of 
the Monton people, their children’s plants, were, on the 
whole, the best grown, but many of the plants from the 
Barton Lane district, which is almost town-like in 
character, ran them very hard. Some of the Barton Lane 
plants had been so well attended to, as to reflect the 
greatest credit on the cultivator. 
The object of the flower show is stated in the pro¬ 
gramme^ “ to encourage the care, growth, and love of 
flowers,” and the school managers may fairly congratulate 
themselves upon the success of then’ excellent if modest 
effort. 
_ In connection with the foregoing there was an exhi¬ 
bition of pet birds and animals, being the first ever 
attempted in this district. The committee are to be 
highly congratulated upon the success which attended 
their efforts, but we think the St. Andrew’s people 
should not narrow this good work, viz., the encourage¬ 
ment of “kindness and care towards birds and animals,” 
to the confined area of their own little parish. We 
trust next year that a more magnaniomus spirit will 
reign over the counsel of the committee, and that this 
department of this excellent annual gala will be thrown 
open to the parishes of Eccles, Christ Church, Hope 
Swinton, Worsley, and Islam. As it was, over 100 
cages and pens were filled, the majority, however, with 
non-competing exhibits.— {Communicated .) 
The “Pioneer” Amateur Show, Ber¬ 
mondsey. —The ninth annual show of the above 
was held on Aug. 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th, at the 
Drill Hall, Neekinger Road, Bermondsey. Thanks to 
Mr. Lashbrook, the secretary, the arrangements were 
carried out in an able manner. Amongst the sup¬ 
porters, we may mention A. Lafone, Esq., M.P., 
Colonel Bevington, J.P., J. B. Bevington, Esq. J.p’ 
H. Foster, Esq., C. M. Major, Esq., Dr. Nichols, 
Messrs. Whitehead, Crisp & Co., Messrs. Courage & 
Co., and Messrs. Whitbread & Co. Messrs. Laing & 
Co. of Forest Hill, showed a fine group of Palms, 
Ferns, Dracrenas, &c., and a few fine cut blooms, at 
the end of the centre table ; Mr. French, of Camber¬ 
well, at the entrance end showing a similar group. 
Colonel Bevington contributed a very good assortment 
of Vegetables, ten varieties, and also plants, &e. all 
grown at his private residence at Bexley. The exhibits 
were very creditable to the neighbourhood of Ber¬ 
mondsey. The chief winners of prizes were Mr. 
W. Butler, Mr. West, Mr. Read, Mr. Castle, Mr. Hall, 
Mr. Braidenbach, and Mr. Hurley. Several prizes were 
awarded to non-members for window-grown plants, &c. 
On Wednesday, 18th, A. Lafone, Esq., M. P., distributed 
the prizes, Col. Bevington in the chair. We really must 
congratulate the committee upon the great success with 
which this show has been favoured, and wish them 
“ God speed.” Some of the members are now anxious 
to start a Chrysanthemum show, which in our opinion 
would be a very good move, as there are a few very good 
growers of that fashionable flower in this neighbour¬ 
hood. The amount of prizes given was £35.— J. 
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_ On the occasion of the recent meeting of the Carna¬ 
tion and Picotee Union at Oxford, on August 3rd, one 
of the judges was Mr. E. S. Dodwell’s old and attached 
friend—Mr. Robert Loud, of Todmorden. He was in 
apparently good health, and took great interest in the 
exhibition, was highly cheerful and genial as was his 
wont. On returning from Oxford to Todmorden, he 
contracted a chill, which brought on inflammation of 
the brain, and death, which occurred on Wednesday, 
the 18th inst, at the age of sixty-eight years. He was 
born at Todmorden on January 2nd, 1818, and it 
appears he spent the whole of his life there. 
For many years he was a teacher of singing, and for 
forty-five years he was the choir master at the Unitarian 
church, at Todmorden, and during that time he held a 
foremost position in the ranks of local musicians, having 
in his prime an excellent tenor voice. As a teacher 
of singing he was highly successful, and he is entitled 
to no small share of the honour of educating and im¬ 
proving the musical tastes of the locality, and of per¬ 
petuating the old English, or as it is sometimes called, 
the Lancashire system of Sol-fa in the district. For¬ 
mally years he was employed as a teacher of music in 
the factory schools of the Messrs. Fielden. He gave up 
his musical engagements about five years ago. 
_ But it is as a successful florist, and especially as a cul¬ 
tivator of Carnations and Picotees, that I wish to present 
my old floricultural friend to view before the readers of 
The Gardening World. The love for flowers must 
have been born in him, for at the age of fourteen he 
commenced to grow Carnations and Picotees, and he 
subsequently took in hand the Tulip, the show Auricula, 
Pink, Pansy, Dahlia, &c., but latterly he had contented 
himself with growing Carnations and Picotees and 
Auriculas only. 
About five years ago he commenced business as a 
grower for sale in conjunction with his son Tom, by 
whom the business will still be carried on. A very 
large number of plants are grown, and there is a large 
demand for the leading varieties. 
As a raiser, Mr. R. Lord was very successful, and about 
ten years ago he produced a batch of beautiful Picotees, 
that will be held in high estimation by growers for many 
years to come, viz., red edge : The Rev. F. D. Horner; 
purple edge: Alice Ann Lord, Minnie, Nymph, and 
Zerlina, the last named a very fine heavy-edged variety ; 
and rose edges : Miss Lee, Miss Horner, and Mrs. Lord. 
Also rose-flake Carnation, Mr. Dodwell. 
At the meeting of the National Carnation and Picotee 
Society, Northern Division, at Manchester on the 14th 
inst, he was highly successful as an exhibitor as your 
report shows, but was absent through the illness which 
resulted in death. 
His Carnation garden at Hole Bottom — “astrange mis¬ 
nomer for a site 600 ft. above the immediate valley ”— 
was formed out of an old disused quarry, and he made it 
to smile with lovely flowers, producing Carnations and 
Picotees of wonderful quality. As a keen and pains¬ 
taking judge, he was almost unrivalled. Those of us 
who met him at Oxford so recently little thought it 
was his last appearance among such a host of flori¬ 
cultural friends. May I not say of him :— - 
“ ■ ■ • ■ How well he fell asleep ! 
Like some great river winding to the sea, 
Calmly, and grandly, silently and deep ; 
Life joined Eternity.” — R B. 
--SCO- 
QUESTIONS AND ANSWEES. 
Insects in a Limestone Wall. — How can insects be got rid 
of in an old limestone wall ?— Galway. [Get out the garden 
engine, and wash the wall well with some good insecticide, not 
strong enough to injure any plants growing against it, and then 
wash with hot lime or cement, to till up the crevices. If this 
cannot well be done, have the wall fresh faced with cement 
There is no other way of doing the work thoroughly.] 
Wild Flowers.— G. R.: Sowerbyts ^British Wild Flowers, 
7^nj n rw S ’ ls ^ I ,es I I but perhaps Lady Wilkinson’s Weeds and 
Wild Mowers, 10s. 6 d., would meet your requirements Both 
are published by Van Voorst. 
Tomatos not setting.— S. M. C., Stamford : You do not sav if 
the plants have borne any flowers, and failed to set them but 
we suspect this is the cause of your haring scarcely any fruits 
on them. Many of the best sorts, including the two you name 
have so many stamens, that they fail to set except in strong 
heat, and even then the Starnfordian is shv. For out-door culti¬ 
vation, the nearer you keep to the type of the old red varietv, 
the greater are your chances of securing a crop. The watering' 
when young, with cold water, has nothing to do with it ; but If 
the plants get dry while in bloom, the flowers will not set. 
Communications Received.— W. S. (many thanks).—A. M — 
UGG’ J - —E - D -~ J - a ~ a J - W -— D - *■ U.—A. O.— M. 
1.—L. L. XJ, 
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TEADE CATALOGUES EECEIVED. 
James Veitch & Sons, King’s Road, Chelsea, S.W.— Catalogue 
of Hyacinths and other Bulbous Roots. 
Daaimann & Co., San Giovanni a Teduccio, Italy.—Choice 
Flower and Vegetable Seeds. 
B Gu-bert, Dyke, near Bourne,.Lincolnshire.—Price List of 
Bulbs and Plants, including double scarlet Anemones. 
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LONDON SEED TRADE. 
August 25th, 1886. 
Messrs. Hurst & Son, 39, Seed Market, and 152, 
Houndsditcli, London, report a steady trade doing in 
Trifolium at last week’s prices. Only a few samples of 
White Mustard are offering, which are keeping very 
high in price. Rye is very scarce and likely to be 
dearer. New Winter Tares are cheaper. Hemp and 
Canary firmer. Millet dear. Linseed firm. A few 
samples of new White Clover are on offer at high prices 
considering the poor colour. There are some fine 
samples of new English Trefoil offering. No change in 
new English Italian Rye Grass. 
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COVENT GARDEN MARKET. 
August 26th. 
Fruit.—Average Wholesale Prices 
. . , . s - (i - s -d- s.d. s.d. 
Apples, i sieve. 2 0 3 6 Pine-apples, St. 
Cherries, J sieve .... 1 0 16 Michaels, each .... 2 6 8 0 
Currants, £ sieve- 2 0 2 6 Pine-apples, Eng., lb. 2 0 3 0 
Grapes.per lb. 0 6 3 0 Plums, ^ sieve . 16 2 6 
Melons, .each 1 0 2 0 Strawberries .. per lb. 
Peaches, per doz. 2 0 10 0 1 
s.d. 
Artichokes, Globe,doz. 2 0 
s-d. s.d. 
3 0 Horse Radish, bundle 3 0 
! Lettuces ..per dozen 1 6 
Mushrooms, p. basket 1 0 
Onions, per bushel ..40 
Parsley, per bunch ..06 
Radishes, per dozen.. 1 6 
Small salading,punnet 0 4 
Spinach, per strike ..20 
Tomatos, per lb.0 6 
Turnips_ per bun. 0 6 
s.d. 
5 0 
Beans, French, per lb. 0 
Beet, per dozen. 2 
Cabbages_per doz. 2 
Carrots, per bunch .. 0 
Cauliflowers, English, 
per dozen . 3 
Celery, per bundle .. 1 
Cucumbers, each .... 0 
Endive, French, doz. 2 
Herbs, per bunch_ 0 _ „ _ 
Potatos.- Kent Regents, 80s. to 100s. per ton ; Kent Kidneys, 
80s. to 100s. per ton ; Champions, 70s. per ton. 
Cut Flowers.—Average Wholesale Prices. 
s.d. s.d. 
Asters, dozen bunches 2 0 4 0 
Arum Lilies, 12 blins. 4 0 6 0 
Bouvardias, per bun. 0 6 10 
Carnations, 12 blooms 10 3 0 
Carnations .. 12 bun. 3 0 6 0 
Cornflower . 12 bun. 16 3 0 
Delphinium . .12 bun. 
Daisies, common, 
12 bunches 2 0 4 0 
Eucharis, per dozen ..2 6 4 0 
Forget-me-not or Myo- 
sotis, 12 bunches ..2 0 4 0 
Gardenias, 12 blooms. 2 6 4 0 
Gladioli .. 12 sprays 10 2 0 
Heliotropes, 12 sprays 0 6 
Lapageria,red,12blins. 10 2 0 
Lavender, 12 bunches 3 0 5 0 
Lilium longiflorum, 
12 blooms 4 0 6 0 
Plants in Pots.—Avej 
s.d. s.d. 
Aralia Sieboldi, doz.. 6 0 18 0 
Balsams_per doz. 3 0 6 0 
Begonias, per dozen. .60120 
Cockscombs, per doz. 3 0 6 0 
Cyperus, per dozen .. 4 0 12 0 
Dracicna term., doz.. 30 0 60 0 
— viridis, per dozen 12 0 24 0 
Evergreens, in var., 
per dozen . 6 0 24 0 
Ferns, in var., doz. .. 4 0 IS 0 
Ficus elastica, each.. 16 7 0 
Foliage Plants, vari¬ 
ous, each. 0 10 2 0 
s.d. s.d. 
Liliums in variety, 
dozen bunchesl2 0 24 0 
Marguerites, 12 bun... 3 0 6 0 
Mignonette, 12 bun... 10 SO 
Pansies, 12 bunches.. 10 3 0 
Pelargoniums, per 12 
sprays. 09 10 
— scarlet, 12sprays.. 0 3 0 6 
Primula; double, bun. 0 6 10 
Pyrethrum, 12 bnchs. 2 0 4 0 
Roses ... .12 bunches 2 0 6 0 
Roses (coloured) .... 0 9 10 
Roses, Tea per dozen 0 9 2 0 
Stephanotis, 12 sprays 16 3 0 
Sweet Peas, doz. bch. 16 3 0 
Sweet Sultan, 12 bun. 3 0 4 0 
Tropieolums . 10 20 
Tuberoses, per dozen. 0 4 0 9 
White Jasmine, bun. 0 6 0 9 
.ge Wholesale Prices. 
s.d. s.d. 
Fuchsia, per doz. 3 0 6 0 
Gladioli, 12 pots .... 6 0 9 0 
Hydrangea ..per doz. 6 0 12 0 
Liliums- per doz.12 0 30 0 
Lobelia, per dozen ..3 0 4 0 
Marguerites, per doz. 6 0 9 0 
Mignonette, per doz. 4 0 6 0 
Palms in variety, each 2 6 21 0 
Pelargoniums, do 2 . 6 0 12 0 
Pelargoniums,scanet, 
per dozen . 30 GO 
Petunias, per doz. ... 2 0 6 0 
Rhodanthe, per dozen 6 0 9 0 
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