June 18, 1887. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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Orchid Exhibition. 
One of the most beautiful sights in London. 
O RCHIDS. — The Private View of Mr. 
"William Bull’s ORCHID EXHIBITION is open to 
Patrons of the Establishment every TUESDAY, THURSDAY, 
and SATURDAY, 10 to 6 o’clock, throughout JUNE and 
JULY. 
Establishment for New and Rare Plants, 536, King’s Road, 
Chelsea, London, S.W. 
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RCHIDS.—The Exhibition will be closed 
on TUESDAY, JUBILEE DAY. 
O RCHIDS.—The Public Exhibition of Mr. 
William Bull’s ORCHIDS is open to the Public every 
MONDAY, WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY, 10 to 6 o’clock, 
throughout JUNE and JULY. Admission each day, 2s. 6d. 
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RCHIDS.—A vision of loveliness unparal¬ 
leled in Europe. 
RCHIDS .—“ Must be seen to be realised.” 
YARCHIDS 
\_S Orchidic t 
aggeration.’ 
“ A scene of the 
beauty, baffling description and defying ex- 
greatest 
O RCHIDS. — Specimens in flower from 
Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, Madagascar, Assam, 
Peru, Costa Rica, Venezuela, West Indies, Burmah, Borneo, 
and various other parts of the Eastern Archipelago. 
O RCHIDS.—The Exhibition is worth going 
any distance to see at Mr. William Bull’s Establishment 
for New and Rare Plants, 536, King’s Road, Chelsea, London, 
S.W. 
WILLIAM BULL, f.l.s., 
Establishment for New and Rare Plants, 
536, KING’S ROAD, CHELSEA, S.W. 
AND 
Stove and Greenhouse Plants. 
The LIVERPOOL HORTICULTURAL CO. 
(JOHN COWAN), LIMITED, 
Have just purchased two of the largest and finest col¬ 
lections of 
ORCHIDS 
AND 
STOVE AND GREENHOUSE PLANTS 
in the neighbourhood of Liverpool ; these collections 
include many fine specimens and varieties of 
ORCHIDS, 
and many grand specimens of 
STOVE AND GREENHOUSE PLANTS, 
some of which are not excelled by any in the country. 
The Company have also recently purchased another 
very fine private collection of ORCHIDS. 
These collections will be on view at the Vineyard and 
Nurseries, from Thursday the 23rd inst. Catalogues 
are being prepared and will be sent post free to all 
applicants. The catalogue will also include the remain¬ 
ing portion of the “HARVEY” collection and other 
Orchids. Inspection is earnestly invited. 
THE VINEYARD & NURSERIES, 
GARSTON, Nr. LIVERPOOL. 
ROSES 
IN POTS; all the best New and Old English 
and Foreign sorts, from 18s. to 36s. per doz. 
Descriptive List free on application. 
RICHARD SMITH & Co., 
WORCESTER. 
RATING OF NURSERIES. 
A PUBLIC MEETING of Nurserymen will 
be held under the auspices of the Nursery and Seed 
Trade Association, Limited, on Tuesday, 28th June, 1SS7, at the 
Horticultural Club, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London 
(by kind permission of the Committee), to take into considera¬ 
tion the excessive rating of Nurseries, and to agree on a combined 
course of action with a view to the reduction of assessments. 
The chair will he taken by J. WOOD INGRAM, Esq., of the 
firm of Messrs. Wood & Ingram, The Nurseries, Huntingdon, 
at 6 p.m. Nurserymen will oblige by early intimating to the 
Secretary their intention to be present and also by forwarding 
to him, in strict confidence (if the amount of the assessment is 
in excess of the rent), either the amounts of their rents and 
assessments or the proportion which the difference between the 
rent and the assessment hears to the rent itself. 
Mb. F. G. GOODCHILD, Secretary, Nursery and Seed Trade 
Association, 25, Old Jewry, London, E.C. 
RATIONAL 
ROSE SOCIETY OF 
ENGLAND'S 
GRAND EXHIBITION will be held in the Waverley Market, 
EDINBURGH, on Wednesday, July 13th, 1S87, in connection 
with the Summer Show of the ROYAL CALEDONIAN HOR¬ 
TICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
For Schedules, &c., apply to Secretary, Royal Caledonian 
Horticultural Society, IS, Waverley Market, Edinburgh. 
YJRYSTAL PALACE.—GREAT ROSE 
Vj SHOW OF SEASON, Saturday, July 9th, postponed from 
July 2nd. For schedules and entry forms apply to Mr. W. 
G. Head, Garden Superintendent, Crystal Palace, S.E. 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Tuesday, June 21st.—Leeds Horticultural Society’s Show (four 
days). 
Thursday, June 23rd.—Bury St. Edmunds Horticultural 
Society’s Show (two days). Sale of Orchids at Stevens’ 
Rooms. 
Friday, June 24th.—Scottish Pansy Society’s Annual Exhi¬ 
bition. Sale of Imported Orchids at Stevens’ Rooms. 
CONTENTS. 
PAGE 
Amateurs’ Garden. 663 
Auriculas, Potting. 670 
Auriculas in cold frames .. 666 
Carnations and Picotees... 662 
Chrysanthemums . 661 
Crassula jasminea. 666 
Flowering trees and shrubs 660 
Flower Show elements.... 659 
Fruit prospects . 666 
Gardeners’ Calendar. 667 
Intermediate house, the .. 664 
Joldwynds . 665 
Lilacs, the. 660 
Market Gardeners’ Profits 666 
PAGE 
Obituary. 670 
Orchids at St. Albans. 662 
Plants, new, certificated... 661 
Poppies. 661 
Primula japonica . 664 
Rhododendrons, Hardy .. 662 
Scottish Notes . 663 
Societies . 669 
Strawberry Crop. 666 
Summer Flowers . 663 
Tulip Exhibition, the 
National . 668 
Watering . 663 
Yorkshire Gaia .667 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.’’— Bacon. 
SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1887. 
Flower Show Elements.— With the usual 
summer flower show season opening upon us, 
we may well take stock of our prospects in 
relation to the material from which these shows 
will be made ; for it is strikingly obvious to all 
who frequent these resorts for enjoyment that 
changes are gradually being worked—insensibly, 
perhaps, but still such as must in time appreci¬ 
ably wear out the old-stock exhibition, and 
replace it with one more in accord with the 
requirements of the age. The old show giants 
are fast disappearing, and, we believe, for two 
reasons—first, the public are tired of them*; 
and, second, because most of the growers or 
exhibitors are tired of them also. Large prizes— 
really the most valuable offered—served for a 
time to hold collections of Dig plants together ; 
but then it was only a question of ensuring 
enough prize money to repay the cost of culti¬ 
vation, and of carting the plants from place to 
place. 
Big plants of this kind, much as they may 
help to make a show, bring also their revenge 
in the promotion of a sentiment of disgust in 
the minds of flower show patrons; for repeated 
exhibitions of the same old plants year after 
year become intolerable and a nuisance. What 
though blanks he left in the tents—we can 
afford to let these giants die out; they occupy 
space, both at home and in the shows, which 
might be much better employed, and they have 
invariably absorbed far more of their fair pro¬ 
portion of the prize money. No one wishes to 
see stove and greenhouse plants put aside abso¬ 
lutely ; so far from that being the case, there is 
not to be found a more beautiful or highly 
decorative section when well done. We simply 
want moderate-sized plants, which shall show 
the best properties of each kind in convenient 
compass, and by having them smaller, shall 
enable contributors to display double the number 
and in much greater variety. A collection of 
eighteen stove and greenhouse plants in 9-in. 
pots is far away more meritorious and interesting 
if well grown than is one of nine of the biggest 
giants in the kingdom. Growers, committees, 
and spectators at exhibitions would be im¬ 
mensely the gainers. 
A grievous defect in many flower shows, 
which sadly needs correction, is found in the 
too liberal encouragement of foliage plants, and 
especially of Palms and Ferns. Palms and tree 
Ferns, if large and made to overhang fine banks 
of colour below, are exceedingly effective ; but 
when they do but shade masses, as it were, of 
other Palms and Ferns, the effect may he cool 
but far from attractive. To tell the truth, it is 
an element in flower shows which no one cares 
for or appreciates ; hence it seems like a waste 
of money to encourage the filling of a big tent 
with foliage classes. Most show frequenters 
are tired of Crotons, Dracaenas, Coleuses (varie¬ 
gated and green), Screw Pines, and similar 
elements. These things are grown even at 
home for the purpose of “padding” the houses. 
We prefer shows without padding, because the 
only attractive objects are those which really 
form the favoured children of horticultural care. 
We find, in the decorative groups, rather too 
much of “ padding ” as it is; but it is endured 
because it forms literally the shading in a pretty 
picture. 
It seems useless to urge that some new break 
in these popular exhibition objects should be 
introduced, as they are at present very like 
what we have seen for the past ten years. So 
far, constructive or artistic capacity seems to 
have reached the end of its tether, and the 
designer of something new and really novel as 
well as beautiful is, probably, not yet born. 
Yery likely we shall be told that there is no 
form of exhibition, let its objects be what they 
may, which does not, more or less, present a 
repetition of its predecessors, and that is quite 
true; but then in few cases have exhibitors 
such plastic material at their disposal as gar¬ 
deners have in plants and flowers. The more 
we get rid of big things, the greater freedom do 
committees find in schedule re-arrangements, 
whilst plant growers find their resources in¬ 
creased materially. Will any exhibitor of 
groups take a line from the costumiers, for 
instance, and give us arrangements solely in 
green and white, green and gold, green and grey, 
or blue, or even in green and scarlet 1 Groups 
dressed with flowers of one tone of colour, only 
leaving the selection of hue to the exhibitor, 
would be a capital idea, and we shall be pleased 
to learn of the committee which displays the 
needful courage in promoting them. 
We should like tall Fuchsias again reproduced 
at flower shows in plants worthy of this fine 
greenhouse flower It is often distressing to 
