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THE GARDENING WORLD 
April 28, 1888. 
beautiful floral displays the spring garden can 
produce. "We see in them such beautiful clear 
whites, sulphurs, yellows, reds, purples, crim¬ 
sons, and other hues and combinations of 
colour, which are good plants, produced in 
such fine heads, that even the poorest is 
welcome, whilst the better ones are singularly 
attractive. Tastes vary in connection with 
the hues, some preferring the clear seifs, and 
others the variegated or parti-coloured flowers. 
But with this class we find much that is 
amenable to moderate pot-culture, the best 
results being obtained when the plants are 
lifted and placed in pots just before the 
bloom opens. Still, under no conditions of 
pot-culture, except where large numbers of 
specially selected plants are seen, is there to 
be found that fine gay effect which a good 
body of plants growing in the open air pro¬ 
duces 
In relation to these whilst under the 
influence of no florists’ rules, the beauty of 
thrum eyes, clear yellow centres of good 
form, clear grounds and fine flat rounded 
pips are so self evident, that good flowers 
must have these features, and they can 
happily be found in fair abundance. The 
grower of a hundred seedlings will be amply 
rewarded if he finds in his collection but 
just a few of special excellence, and he may 
be assured that if those selected forms be 
worked from carefully, the strain will soon 
produce from twenty to twenty-five per cent, 
of superior flowers. Thus, in regard to the 
cultivation for exhibition of these fancy 
forms, there is every encouragement given to 
the raiser to go on from year to year, as no 
special points of perfection have yet been 
attained, whilst some always merit propaga¬ 
tion by division. The plants usually seed 
freely, and thus not only may good qualities 
be readily perpetuated, but excelled. The 
Fancy Polyanthus commands, as it merits, 
our warmest consideration. 
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3Ir. Thomas Cripps, founder of the nursery firm of 
Thomas Cripps & Son, Tunbridge Wells, died on the 
17th, aged seventy-nine years. 
The Hinckley and District Chrysanthemum Society 
•will hold its annual exhibition on November loth 
and 16th. 
The Wimbledon and District Horticultural Society 
has just issued its schedule of prizes for the sixteenth 
annual exhibition, which is to be held in the grounds 
of Wimbledon College on Wednesday, July 4th. 
The Temple Show.—The Royal Horticultural Society 
has just issued its schedule for a show of Orchids, Roses, 
Azaleas, and other flowers, to be held in the gardens 
of the Inner Temple on Thursday, May 17th. Twenty- 
four classes are enumerated, and the sum of £100 will 
be allotted by the judges to the various classes accord¬ 
ing to merit on the day of the show. Entries should 
be made to Mr. Barron not later than Saturday, 
May 12th. 
Mr. R. C. Fraser, formerly with Mr. Laing at 
Salisbury Green, Edinburgh, and for the last two years 
gardener to R. H. Measures, Esq., at The Woodlands, 
Streatham, whose very fine collection of the best species 
and varieties of Orchids has been most ably managed 
while under Mr. Fraser’s care, is seeking another 
engagement. The services of such a skilful cultivator 
should not long go begging in these Orchid-loving 
days. 
Kettering Horticultural Society. — The annual 
exhibition of this society is fixed for “Feast Monday,” 
July 2nd; and by “Feast Monday” is, no doubt, 
meant some local celebration, which includes a holiday, 
and opportunity is taken of this in order to hold the 
annual flower show. Substantial prizes are offered for 
cut Roses, groups of plants, vegetables, &c. ; and 
Kettering being a busy centre of industry, a good 
exhibition should follow. The annual show of Chry¬ 
santhemums will take place on Saturday, November 
17th. 
A Novel JuhUee Memorial.—One of the most in¬ 
teresting memorials of the Queen’s Jubilee, says the 
Morning Post, is the plantation of an entire mountain 
in North Wales with forest trees, so arranged that the 
words “Jubilee, 1887” appear distinctly amidst the 
surrounding trees, through the bulk of the plantation 
being of a different foliage. The mountain thus 
adorned is Moel Rhiwen, in the parish of Llan- 
deiniolen, on the estate of Mr. Assheton Smith. The 
word “Jubilee” is planted on the north-west side of 
the mountain in letters, each measuring 200 yds. long 
by 25 yds. wide. Plants of the Austrian Pine form 
the body of the letters, which are shaded on the right 
with a bordering of Larch. The intervening spaces 
are covered with a mixture of Scotch Fir, Pines, Oak, 
Birch, Sycamore, and Spruce Fir. The first tree of 
the letter “ J ” was planted last year at a Jubilee 
celebration, and the work was completed last week. 
Nearly 200 men of the district have found constant 
employment, and they have planted about 630,000 
trees. Till the plantation is in full leaf the letters 
will become scarcely traceable ; but each year they 
will become more distinct, and a generation hence the 
mountain will be one of the sights of Wales, as the 
word “Jubilee” will then be seen at a distance of 
many miles. 
March in the Pyrenees.—We (Pall Mall Gazette) 
hear from Mr. Peter Barr, of King Street, Covent 
Garden, that his Peninsular tour in search of Daffodils 
has been greatly interfered with by the weather. It is 
fifty years since the snow and frost have in the month 
of March persisted so long on the slopes of the Pyrenees, 
and although at the village of Sare he found the Nar¬ 
cissus pallidus praecox much as usual, when he climbed 
up 1,600 ft. to the spot where last year, at the same 
season, the Sulphur Hoop-petticoat was blooming in 
profusion, “alas! they were deep beneath the snow, 
and I could but look on the place where they would be 
found after this exceptional winter has passed away.” 
If, however, the traveller has been prevented from 
visiting the higher levels, he has something to remark 
on what he has seen near the coast. Here, for example, 
is something in regard to the present condition of the 
“ lie des Faisans ” :—-“ In Black's Guide, 1 West Half 
of the Pyrenees,’ 1885, the island is stated to be reduced 
to ‘ a narrow strip of earth covered with willows and 
tufted grass.’ Its present dimensions are 500 ft. long 
by 70 ft. broad, and the greater part of it is laid out as 
a garden, with walks and beds of Roses, and plantations 
of evergreens and deciduous trees. In the middle of it 
is erected a plain substantial tablet, bearing inscriptions 
which state—on the north side in French, on the 
south side in Spanish—that it was erected by Napoleon 
III. and Queen Isabella to commemorate the marriage 
of Louis XIV. with the Infanta of Spain after a long 
war. ” 
The Royal Horticultural Society and the Growers 
for Market.—A meeting of plant and flower growers 
for market, nurserymen, seedsmen, commission sales¬ 
men of Covent Garden, &e., was held in the rooms of 
the Covent Garden Club, at the Covent Garden Hotel, 
on Monday evening last, Mr. J. W. Bourne (the Duke 
of Bedford’s agent) in the chair, to consider in what 
way they could best assist in promoting the interests of 
the Royal Horticultural Society. Mr. Thistelton Dyer 
and Mr. David Morris, members of the council, were 
present, and by them the position of the society was 
ably and fairly stated. It was remarked that at least 
£3,000 per annum was required to carry on the ordinary 
work of the society, including the maintenance of the 
garden at Chiswick. This sum would put the society 
in a solvent position, but to make up the amount they 
wanted at least 500 or 600 more Fellows. Mr. Dyer 
specially alluded to what agriculturists had done some 
few years ago in founding Chambers of Agriculture, and 
remarked that as farmers, if to live at all, must go more 
into gardening than they had ever done before, horti¬ 
culturists themselves should see that they had some 
practical and official head and front to look after their 
interests, and it seemed to him that the Royal Horti¬ 
cultural Society afforded a focus to which all interests 
connected with horticulture should gravitate. After 
some discussion of a desultory character, it was moved 
by Mr. J. B. Thomas, seconded by Mr. Garcia, and 
carried unanimously:—That a committee of growers and 
others connected with Covent Garden be formed to 
consider in what way they can best assist the Royal 
Horticultural Society, and especially with regard to the 
proposed show in the Temple Gardens ; and that such 
committee consist of Messrs. Walker, Rochford, Pou- 
part, Dickson, Paulton, and Assbee, with power to add 
to their number. 
Funeral of the late Mr. Woodbridge.—The remains 
of our deceased friend, Mr. Woodbridge, were deposited 
in the pretty new cemetery at Isleworth, just outside 
Syon Park, on Thursday afternoon of last week. The 
funeral cortege left the garden residence shortly before 
two o’clock, and—followed by numerous members of 
the ducal household, garden and estate employes, local 
tradesmen, &e. —wended its way through the park to 
the Isleworth Lodge, and from thence to the cemetery, 
where about a dozen gardeners and others were waiting. 
The service was conducted by the Ticar of Isleworth, 
the grave being close to the Church of England chapel, 
and on its southern side. Mr. A. F. Barron attended 
as an old friend, and we learn that he was instructed to 
represent the council. Mr. Herbst, the executor, and 
Mr. Bates, of Twickenham, represented the floral com¬ 
mittee ; and Mr. Denning, of Hampton, and Mr. 
Roberts, of Gunnersbury, the fruit committee. There 
were also present Mr. Hudson, of Gunnersbury House ; 
Mr. Jefferies, Boston Park ; Messrs. Rowell, Linsay, 
and Brown, of Richmond ; Mr. A. Dean, Bedfont; Mr. 
A. Outram, Holloway, and Mr. TV. James, Famham 
Royal. Amongst those most desirous of attending, but 
at the last moment prevented by illness or other 
unavoidable causes, were Mr. G. Deal, Mr. B. Wynne, 
Mr. Wildsmith, Heckfield, who fully purposed coming 
so far to attend his old friend’s funeral; Mr. R. Dean, 
Ealing ; and Mr. J. James, of Farnham Royal, not 
only one of Mr. Woodbridge’s oldest friends but a fellow 
school boy 50 years ago. Amongst the mourners was 
Mr. Norbury, of Brentford, so well known as a constant 
visitor to the South Kensington shows. We are pleased 
to learn that the Duke of Northumberland has 
intimated to Mrs. Woodbridge his desire to perform for 
the only child left, a boy of some fourteen years of age, 
the part of patron, and will do for him all that his 
father purposed doing to start him in life ; an act 
which merits warm approval. 
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CALADIUMS AT FOREST HILL. 
Lovers of this class of plants could hardly fail to be 
delighted by paying a visit to the nurseries of Messrs. 
John Laing & Sons, Forest Hill, where their far-famed 
collection of Caladiums is now in perfection. Nowhere 
in this country, or, perhaps, in any other is there such 
a collection of these beautiful omamental-foliaged 
plants. It is impossible in the space at command to 
do more than briefly indicate the leading and prominent 
colours and features of a few of the best we noted the 
other day. The collection is extensive both as to 
number and variety, and many new ones will shortly 
be put into commerce. 
Red Grouxd Yaezeties. 
The distribution and particular shading is endless, so 
that lengthy description would only tend to confuse ; 
much also depends on the skill of the cultivator to 
bring out the colours in their best and most beautiful 
tints. Most of the undermentioned kinds have had 
their merits acknowledged by one, two, or three 
certificates, and most of the larger kinds are highly 
suitable for exhibition as well as ordinary decorative 
purposes. Mithridate, crimson-lake ; Triomphe de 
l’Exposition, a bold brilliant red, with deeper veins ; 
Leopold Robert, deep red, with broad carmine-red mid¬ 
ribs ; Souvenir de Madame Bernard, almost wholly 
red ; Madame Lemonier, rosy red, with carmine-red 
midribs, and a broad creamy yellow margin ; and 
Raymond Lemonier, which is several shades darker, 
are all strong and vigorous broad-leaved kinds. To 
these might be added Rubrum metallicum, which 
expresses its general appearance; Murillo, rosy red, 
with darker veins ; Madame Laforge, with huge peltate 
and concave leaves, rosy carmine in the centre, and 
green at the margin : Ferdinand de Lesseps, rosy 
carmine centre, with deep crimson veins ; and Chantini, 
almost entirely red. A beautiful and distinct variety 
is Princess Royal, with a red centre and broad golden 
yellow margin. For general decorative purposes, where 
space is a consideration, the small-leaved Ibis Rose and 
Minus erubescens furnish special recommendations in 
their decidedly dwarf habit. The former has lively 
rose leaves, with a very narrow green margin, while 
the latter has red leaves, with a green edge. 
Leaves Blotched. 
The striking feature in this group is that the ground 
colour is blotched with a different tint, which does not 
follow the course of the venation as in most other cases. 
Very distinct is Madame Imbert Kcechlin, a greenish 
yellow with red blotches, while Luddemannii has 
crimson ribs, and blotched with magenta and white on 
a green ground. Large white spots on a red ground 
single out Comte de Germiny as a magnificent variety. 
Bicolor Camarti has a red centre, and otherwise blotched 
with white on a green ground. A striking variety is 
L’Autonine. with transparent silvery blotches on a pale 
greenish yellow ground. An unnamed variety was 
