July 2, 1887. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
691 
UNDER ROYAL PATRONAGE. 
Begonia Exhibition 
THE GRANDEST FLORAL DISPLAY 
IN LONDON. 
IVTATIONAL ROSE SOCIETY OF 
A.' . " ENGLAND'S 
GRANDSEXHIBITION will be held in the Waverley Market, 
EDINBURGH, on Wednesday, July 13th, 1887, in connection 
with the Summer Show nf the ROYAL CALEDONIAN HOR¬ 
TICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
For Schedules, &c., apply to Secretary, Royal Caledonian 
Horticultural Society, 18, Waverley Market, Edinburgh. 
Shropshire Horticultural Society. 
S UMMER SHOW (open to all) August 17th 
and 18th. Twenty Plants, £25, £20, £15. Collection of 
Fruit, £10, £6, £3. For Grapes, £44. Collection of Vegetables, 
eight sorts, £5, £3, £2, £1. Schedules and full particulars from 
MESSRS. ADN1TT & NAUNTON, Shrewsbury, Hon. Secs. 
R oyal jubilee exhibition, 
Manchester. 
Open to the Public every day (Sundays excepted) 
A GRAND ROSE SHOW will be held on FRIDAY, July 22. 
For Schedules, &e., apply to the undersigned, 
BRUCE FINDLAY', Royal Botanical Gardens, Manchester. 
from June to September, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily. 
Birmingham Botanical and Horticultural 
Society. 
ADMISSION FREE. 
Our Exhibitions of Begonias 
Have been celebrated for their varied beauty and 
extent for the past few years, but the COLLECTION 
now on view is superior to any of the kiud ever yet 
seen, both in single and double varieties, the shades 
of colour being quite indescribable, and must be seen 
to be appreciated. 
All lovers of flowers are cordially invited. 
A ROSE SHOW win be held in The 
Gardens Edgbaston, on Thursday and Friday, 14th and 
15th of July, 1887. 
Entries close July 10th. For Schedule of Prizes apply to 
W. B. LATHAM, Curator. 
North Lonsdale Rose Society (Affiliated). 
NHUAL SHOAY OF ROSES and 
PANSIES at Ulverston, Saturday, July 23rd (not 22ud 
as previously announced). Three classes open to Nurserymen. 
Value to £45 and four N. R. S.’s Medals. Entries close July 15th. 
For schedules apply to G. H. MACKESETH, Hon. Sec., 
Ulverston. 
pRYSTAL PALACE.—GREAT ROSE 
vV 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. 
R oyal horticultural society, 
SOUTH KENSINGTON, S.W. 
Nearest Bailway Stations are Catford Bridge, Mid Kent Line 
(S.E.E.), from Charing Cross, Waterloo, Cannon Street, and 
London Bridge; and Forest Hill (L.B. & S.C.R.), from Victoria, 
Kensington and West End, Croydon, £c. ; also from Liverpool 
Street. ___ 
GRAND ROSE EXHIBITION, by the NATIONAL ROSE 
SOCIETY, on Tuesday, July 5th, in the Conservatory. 
Admission free to Fellows and Members of the National Rose 
Society at 12 o'clock ; and to the Public at 1 o'clock, on payment 
of 2s. 6 d. 
N.B.—Entrances, N.E. Orchard House, Exhibition Road ; and 
Exhibitors’ Entrance, east side of Royal Albert Hall. 
JOHN LAINO & GO., 
Begonia Specialists and Nurserymen, 
FOREST HILL, LONDON, S.E. 
ROSES IN POTS 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Tuesday, July 5th.—National Rose Society’s Exhibition at 
South Kensington. Sale of Imported Orchids at Protheroe 
& Morris’s Booms. 
Wednesday, July 6tli.—Flower Show's at Wimbledon and 
Ealing. Rose Shows at Brighton, Sutton, Tunbridge YYells. 
Thursday, July 7th.—Royal Botanic Society’s Evening Fete. 
Rose Shows at Bath, Winchester, Ipswich, Farningham, 
Farnham, Reigate, and Malvern. Sale of Imported Orchids 
at Stevens’ Rooms. 
Friday, July Sth.—Rose Shows at Maidstone and Hitchin. 
Sale of Imported Orchids at Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms, 
Saturday, July 9th.—Crystal Palace Rose Show. 
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1 24/- to 36/- 
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CONTENTS. 
PAGE 
Achimenes . 696 
Amateur’s Garden, an .... 696 
Auricula Growers, small.. 696 
Caladium argyrites . 693 
Campanula, a monster .... 698 
Chrysanthemums . 694 
Earth-worms . 693 
Flower Show Judging .... 697 
Foxgloves. 699 
Fruit Prospects. 698 
Gardeners’ Calendar. 699 
Grapes at Clovenfords .... 695 
Horticultural Societies .. 700 
PAGE 
Label Rest, a new. 699 
Market Garden.Mr. Warren’s 697 
Pansies, Home-grown _ 699 
Parsley. 695 
Peeonies, Tree. 697 
Phalaenopsis, Mariae. 700 
Plants, hardy, in Flower .. 69S 
Plants, new. 694 
Pyrethrums, Single . 699 
Rating of Nurseries . 693 
Royal Horticultural Society 691 
Tulips. 692 
Victoria Regia. 69S 
Full particulars in new Catalogue of Roses in Pots, Clematis, 
Bedding Plants, c&c., post free. 
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KELWAYS’ PYRETHRUMS 
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KELWAYS’ DELPHINIUMS. 
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WORCESTER. 
“Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
Jp @ HrWttinglifm’fil. 
SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1887. 
The Eoyal Horticultural Society. —The 
special meeting of the Fellows of this Society, 
as will he seen by the report given in another 
column, has been held, and we cannot but 
sympathise with the Council in the result. It 
was evident, from the President’s speech, that 
the Council came to the meeting with abso¬ 
lutely open minds, but still anxious to get out 
of their difficulties in some honourable way, yet 
Yvith benefit to the Society. To that end they 
called the Fellows together, and an excellent 
response to the call was made, but when their 
counsel was asked the body of the Fellows 
had nothing to offer, and the statu quo remains. 
We may accept the plain outspoken remarks 
of Mr. Hibberd, Yvlro Yvent for the on hand¬ 
out removal of the Society to Chiswick uncom¬ 
promisingly ; hut Mr. Hibberd moved no 
resolution, and thus his well-meant effort failed 
for lack of being brought to a practical issue. 
The resolution moved in the first place was 
vague and purposeless. The Council had, it was 
clear, from Sir Trevor Lawrence’s admirable, 
lucid and thoroughly honest statement, been 
in the past, or at least in the recent past, 
doing all they could to find for the Society 
a habitation, and Mr. Yeitch’s resolution simply 
called upon the Council to go on doing the 
same thing. It might have been termed a 
\ r ote of confidence hi the Council, hut such 
a vote Yvas not needed. Ho one ventured or 
desired to challenge the Council’s case, as so 
clearly stated by the President, and nothing 
Yvas less Yvanted than a imte of confidence. 
Really, the Council came to the Felloivs asking 
for bread in the form of practical advice and 
guidance, and got a stone for its pains. We 
can hardly hope that under any circumstances 
the Council will again call the Fellows together 
for a similar purpose. Even the report of 
the committee appointed by the FelloYvs at the 
February meeting, shoYvs the vacuity of business 
capacity existing. The recommendation of 
that body to approach the Queen, as events 
showed, Yvas little less than insulting, because 
the Council, hi acting upon that suggestion, 
got only contemptuous advice for its pains. 
Then that body advised the provision of a 
permanent secretary, just as though the Society 
had not got one uoyv ; and evidently ignoring 
the fact that it is far easier to provide an office 
than to find the right man to fill it; still 
farther ignoring the fact that -with the prospect of 
a mill-stone being about the Society’s neck next 
Christmas in the form of a debt of £1,000, 
the payment of a secretary is not ivarranted. 
Thousands of pounds are not flea-bites, we beg 
to aver, ei'en when the balance is on the right 
side, ivhilst if on the wrong side they strangle 
even the strongest. 
The suggestion in favour of half-guinea 
Fellowships was plagiarised from these columns, 
and was the only practical recommendation 
the committee made. In the face of these 
facts, and of the entire absence of practical 
suggestions from the body of the Fellows on 
Tuesday last, Yve repeat that Yve are compelled 
to sympathise with the Council in their position 
of difficulty and doubt. A South Kensingtonian 
Yvanted to hold on a bit. The President 
thought they hacl held on long enough, and 
waiting for something to turn up was but 
heating the Yvine. Absolutely nothing but 
insult and degradation can turn up for the 
Society at South Kensington in the future. 
The President thought that it yvouIu be best to 
fall back upon ChisYvick at the close of the 
present year, and so do we. Sir Trevor, Yvith 
the main body of the Council, have reluctantly 
come to that conclusion, hut it is the only 
possible solution of the difficulty, the only 
course to take. 
City men, like Baron Schroder, wish to see 
the Society established in the city, amidst its 
noise, hurry, clamour and strife. A wretched 
locality indeed for a Horticultural Society. 
The Baron is a most estimable man, and a 
munificent patron of Orchids, hut none can 
admit that he is a representative horticulturist, 
or has particular sympathy with gardening as 
gardeners have. There is a sort of fellowship 
between Yvealth and Orchids, and, therefore, 
from that limited point of view it may be 
advisable to carry the Society into the city, 
but certainly the movement woidd utterly 
damn the prospects of the Society Yvith pro¬ 
vincial horticulturists, who have far more of 
horticultural reverence and esteem for the 
