August 11, 1888. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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Fuchsias, Celosias, Coleus, Cockscombs, Lycopods, &c., 
were but fairly shown, for we have seen them better. 
Table Decorations and Cut Flowers. —A good 
neat arrangement from Mr. Lock secured for him the 
first prize for a table arranged for six persons ; and in 
the same competition, Miss Flight, Twyford, was 
second ; and Miss Stratton, third. A splendidly 
arranged epergne from Mr. Cypher was a very easy 
first in this class. The best ball bouquet came from 
Mr. Chard, Stoke Newington ; Messrs. Perkins &Sons, 
Coventry, coming in second. But for a bridal bouquet 
the last-named exhibitors secured the highest award, 
as they did also with six button-hole bouquets in a 
very strong competition. Cut stove and greenhouse 
flowers, twelve bunches : first, Mr. Evans, Melchet 
Court ; and for a like number of hardy herbaceous 
plants Mr. Molyneux was first. Picotees and Car¬ 
nations were shown in quantities, also Poses, but the 
latter showed that they had suffered from the heavy 
rains. For twenty-four blooms, Messrs. Keynes, 
Williams k Co., of Salisbury, were first; Messrs. 
Perkins k Sons coming in second. 
Fruit. —There was a noticeable falling off in the 
quality in this department, and which was especially 
noticeable in the Grapes For a collection of fruit (six 
dishes) Mr. Ward, gardener to the Earl of Radnor, 
Longford Castle, kept his usual position (first) with 
a very nice lot. Mr. Molyneux was first for Black 
Hamburghs and Muscats, and also in the class for a 
single bunch of any other black variety. Mr. Lock 
easily secured the first award for a Pine ; Mr. Evans 
had the best scarlet-fleshed Melon ; Mr. Ward had 
the best green-fleshed variety; Mr. Curtis, the finest 
Peaches, and Mr. Inglefield, the best Nectarines. 
Out-door fruit was but fairly shown, owing to the 
unpropitious season. 
Vegetables, &c.— Seldom, indeed, have we seen a 
finer lot than was staged on this occasion. Special prizes 
were offered by Messrs. Sutton & Sons, Messrs. Webb 
& Son, Mr. Laxton and Messrs. Toogood k Finlayson, 
in addition to those offered by the society, and the result 
was a strong and in all respects admirable competition. 
Mr. W. H. Rodgers showed a fine collection of Japanese 
and variegated foliage plants ; Messrs. Oakley & Watling, 
Begonias, Coleus, &c. ; Messrs. Cheal & Sons, cut 
Dahlias, double and single ; Messrs. Elcombe k Son, a 
seedling Pelargonium ; Messrs. Cannell & Sons, cut 
flowers of Begonias, and plants of the lovely double 
white Octavie ; Mr. King, of Lymington, seedling 
Begonias ; Messrs. Lucombe, Pince k Co., stands of 
various cut flowers. 
Warwick Amateur and Cottagers’ Hor¬ 
ticultural. —August lsf. 
This most useful society was favoured by fine weather, 
which is saying a great deal. It was almost the only 
flower show I had attended this season that had been 
so favoured. It was held in the fine grounds of 
Warwick Castle, the ancestral seat of the Earls of 
Warwick, and the tents were pitched on the lovely 
slope of a gentle glade running from the terrace garden 
in front of the great conservatory, down to the orna¬ 
mental water in the distance. This glade is planted on 
either side by giant Cedars, Oak, Beech, and other 
trees ; and owing to the porous character of the sub¬ 
soil, the rain soon passes away from it. The gardens 
and delightful grounds about the Castle were in the 
best condition, and reflected great credit on Mr. A. D. 
Christie, the gardener at the Castle. The beds on the 
terrace garden are all edged with Yews, kept closely 
clipped. Some beds of Harrison’s Musk were a charming 
feature. The Warwick society is very fortunate in 
having such an earnest worker as Mr. R. Greenfield, of 
the Priory Gardens, Warwick, He is most energetic, 
and in addition to collecting the sum of £19 to pay off 
a debt incurred last year, including a sum of £10 lost 
through the failure of Greenaway’s bank, he also got 
together the sum of £50 towards a subscription list. 
Such work is always unpleasant, and it deserves all the 
more praise in consequence. The hon. secretary, Mr. 
J. Lloyd Evans, Messrs. Christie, Wilson, West, 
Stevens, and others were all busy on the show day ; 
and the arrangements were very good, The tables were 
all covered with white paper, and had a very pleasing 
appearance. 
Gentlemen’s gardeners are excluded from exhibiting 
for prizes. Amateurs are those who grow their own 
things ; and all exhibitors must be residents in the 
borough. But the gentlemen’s gardeners help the show 
by sending collections of plants, which are found very 
useful in placing along the centres of the tables, &c. 
Foremost among them are Mr. A. D. Christie, Warwick 
Castle Gardens ; Mr. R. Greenfield, Priory Gardens ; 
Mr. Moorhouse, gardener to G. Nelson, Esq., Warwick; 
and Messrs. C. Wilson, T. West, and George Stevens, 
nurserymen of Warwick. The leading amateurs are 
Messrs. J. S. Boly, W. Wilmore, W. E. Threadkeld, 
J. Boswell, C. Heath, and A. H. Roberts, who showed 
plants; Messrs. G. J. Whitwell, T. Haynes, John 
Keyte, and H. Harris, cut flowers ; and Messrs. R. M. 
Ivens, S. Harwood, T. Kemp, G. H. Grubbs, and T. 
Payton, who grow vegetables and fruit; some of the 
foregoing exhibited vegetables also. The leading 
cottagers are C. Boswell, John Boswell, C. Bastock, 
W. Blakeman, W. Franks, J. Bumford, A. J. Cook, 
James Hancocks, J. Mottram, George Harris, T. Drage, 
T. Smith. John Taylor, J. Busby, and R. J. Woodfield. 
All these deserve a special mention as they make up a 
fine display of cottagers’ produce. A great deal of the 
produce is grown on allotment gardens, that are let at 
prices averaging £6 per acre, and prizes are offered for 
the best kept and cropped gardens, in two divisions, 
one set of prizes for gardens over 600 yards square, and 
those under ; but there are more under than over this 
size. 
The leading lady amateurs in the classes for vases, 
bouquets, &c., were Mrs. Lloyd Evans, who was first 
with a vase ; Miss Treherne, who had the best hand 
bouquet; Miss Haynes and Miss Nellie Haynes. 
I need scarcely state that amateurs’ and cottagers’ 
plants, cut flowers, fruit, and vegetables were all good 
throughout, and there were large numbers of entries in 
most of the leading classes. Among the special prizes 
was one by E. M. Nelson, Esq., J.P., for the best collection 
of vegetables, first prize going to Mr. R. J. Woodfield. 
One by S. W. Stanton, Esq., the mayor of Warwick, for 
the best collection of fruit and vegetables, the leading 
prize being won by Mr. J. Mottram ; by Mr. Alderman 
G. H. Nelson, for the best collection of flowers, fruit, 
and vegetables, the first prize being won by Mr. J. 
Bumford. In addition, special prizes were offered by 
Mr. F. W. Arkwright, for the best collection of herbs ; 
by Mrs. Thomas Lloyd, for the best window-box of 
plants ; also for honey ; and also prizes for nosegays 
and baskets of wild flowers. There is also an industrial 
department for needle-work and other things, which is 
always of a very interesting character.— D. 
Harrow Weald Horticultural. —August 6th. 
On Bank Holiday, in the pleasant grounds of Mrs. 
Sim, Harrow Weald Park, the first show of the above 
society was held, a very creditable display being got 
together, thanks to the energetic working of a practical 
committee. The prizes offered were in the interest of 
cottagers and small amateurs, and they called forth a 
fine lot of vegetables, fruits, and flowers of local 
interest ; but the splendid groups of plants, which 
occupied the whole length of the centre of the spacious 
tent, and which were staged by the gardeners of the 
neighbourhood not for competition, were deserving of 
a place at any show in the country. 
Mr. J. Dinsmore, gardener to T. F. Blackwell, Esq., 
The Cedars, Harrow Weald, had a superb group, with 
noble Palms in the centre, and including grandly- 
flowered specimen Allamandas, Bougainvilleas, Ixoras, 
Ericas, &e., with Caladiums, Dracienas, Crotons, 
Anthuriums, Achimenes, Ferns, and other foliage and 
flowering plants, the whole edged with Maidenhair 
Fern, Gloxinias, and Caladium argyrites—a fine group 
of well-grown plants, well set up. Mr. Dinsmore also 
arranged a table of first-rate fruit and rare cut flowers, 
including Orchids. The fruits were perfection and 
included three bunches of Foster’s Seedling Grapes, 
and three Black Hamburgh, six Melons, two Pines, and 
four dishes of very fine Peaches. Mr. Condie, gardener 
to S. J. Blackwell, Esq., Brookshill, Harrow Weald, 
also set up a very fine and extensive group, with Palms, 
Tree Ferns, flowering and foliage plants—the Coleus 
being especially bright and effective—the whole edged 
with Maidenhair Fern. Mr. Seabright, gardener to H. 
Grinling, Esq., Harrow Weald House, had a smaller but 
not less worthy group, in the centre of which was a 
noble Musa ensete. In this group were many uncommon 
plants, such as Nidularum fulgens; the Begonias, 
Dracsenas, and other foliage plants were finely coloured. 
Mr. Martin, gardener to Mrs. Sim, being at home, 
staged a splendid group, and showed much taste in the 
arrangement. Many fine Ferns and Palms were used, 
with bright Coleus, Begonias, Dracienas, Pandanus 
Veitchii, Pancratium, &c. A pretty feature in this 
group was made by the tall spikes of white and blue 
Campanula pyramidalis, the white and pink Francoa 
ramosa and F. appendiculata, and other slender flowers 
standing over the foliage massed below. 
To a plantsman, the mo3t interesting exhibit of all 
was a collection of over 150 species of cut hardy flowers, 
which that clever manipulator of them, Mr. John 
W. Odell, brought from the gardens of W. Barber, 
Esq., Q.C., at Barrow Point, Pinner. Some rare 
British species appeared among them, and specially 
interesting were the types from which our now numerous 
race of Delphiniums, Pentstemons and other florists’ 
flowers sprang. The collection included some good 
Alstroemerias, Liliums, Tigridias, and other bulbous 
and fleshy-rooted plants; also Adlumia cirrhosa, 
Lysimachia clethroides, numerous Poppies, Lobelias, 
Pentstemons, and, indeed, it seemed almost everything 
of interest that could be had. Above all, the specimens 
were correctly named—a fact which should not be 
passed without remark, as in it lies more than one-half 
of the purpose of exhibiting at these shows, which 
should be educational as well as pleasing to the eye. 
St. Neots Amateur and Cottage Horti¬ 
cultural Society. —August 6th. 
The exhibition of this society took place, as usual, on 
Bank Holiday, being held in a spacious field in the 
centre of the town, to which access was had through 
the pleasant rectory garden. It is a society cast upon 
much the same lines as that at Warwick, only that a 
larger show is made at St. Neots, and gentlemen’s 
gardeners being permitted to compete, greatly help the 
display ; certain prizes are open to all comers, and 
these always prove a great attraction. The society is 
well managed, but being in the midst of a country that 
is largely agricultural, it has to contend with some of 
the difficulties that beset the agricultural community. 
But it manages to pay its way, and I think this is in 
a great measure owing to the exertions of the acting 
secretary and collector, Mr. W. Ratchelous, the manager 
of Messrs. Wood and Ingram’s nursery at Huntingdon. 
The schedule of prizes not only comprehends plants, 
flowers, fruits, and vegetables, but also farm produce 
shown by farmers. There are classes for market 
gardeners, also for poultry, cage birds, and rabbits ; 
and so it embraces much that has a peculiar interest 
for country people. 
All-Comers’ Prizes. —These include twenty-four 
Roses, distinct varieties, Mr. E. B. Lindsell, of Hitchin, 
being placed first, with good fresh blooms of Duke of 
Edinburgh, A. K. Williams, Marie Baumann, Marquis 
de Castellane, Alfred Colomb, Marie Verdier, Charles 
Lefebvre, Etienne Levet, Louis van Houtte, Duchess of 
Bedford, Anne Wood, Dupuy Jamain, Comte de 
Raimbaud, Catherine Mermet, Avocat Duvivier, Mrs. 
J. Laing, Horace Vernet, Comtesse de Nadaillae, and 
Camille Bernardin. Second, Messrs. Burch Bros., of 
Peterborough, who had larger blooms, somewhat 
damaged on the outer petals, and a little inclined to 
coarseness, their leading flowers being Marie Rady, 
Marie Finger, Lady Sheffield, Due de Rohan, Ulrich 
Brunner, Elie Morel, Lady Marie Fitzwilliam, and 
Exposition de Brie. Mr. Redman, gardener to J. H. 
Goodgainer, Esq., Eynesbury, was first with twenty- 
four bunches of flowers, showing the ordinary stove 
and greenhouse subjects. He was also first with twelve 
bunches of hardy flowers, showing a very good 
collection. 
Plants. —Mr. Redman was the only exhibitor of six 
plants in bloom, staging good specimens of Dipladenia 
profusa, Stephanotis floribunda, Lapageria rosea, Cler- 
odendron Fallax, Statice profusa, and Ixora javanicum. 
He also had the best six Fuchsias, staging good plants; 
and the best group of plants arranged for effect, Mr. 
Smith, gardener to Messrs. Cheere, Papworth Hall, 
St. Ives, being second. Mr. Redman was also first 
with variegated and zonal Pelargoniums, stove and 
greenhouse aud hardy Ferns, Coleus, Begonias, &c.— 
indeed, but for Mr. Redman's contributions the show 
of plants would have been very thin. Mr. Redman 
also had the best specimen plant, showing a good piece 
of Anthurium Scherzerianum ; Mr. G. Warboys, gar¬ 
dener to—Medland, Esq., being second with Stephanotis 
floribunda. The. best specimen foliage plant was 
Croton Weismanni, from Mr. Redman. There were 
several other plant classes, but the foregoing were the 
principal ones. 
Cut Flowers. —In the subscribers’ division, Mr. E. 
B. Lindsell was first with good blooms, as in the 
open class. He had the best twelve Tea-scented, 
staging Comtesse de Nadaillae, Souvenir d’Elise Var- 
don, Jean Ducher, Devoniensis, Innocente Pirola, 
Francis Kruger, Rubens, Madame Lambard, Souvenir 
d’un Ami, and two others. Some capital Stocks were 
shown by Mr. Smith, and French and African Mari¬ 
golds were satisfactory for the season. 
