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THE GARDENING WORLD. 
August 18, 1888. 
FLORICULTURE. 
The Carnation and Picotee Union. 
The long-continued unseasonable weather, which 
brought about a poor show in the metropolis, and the 
postponement of both the Oxford and Manchester exhi¬ 
bitions, gave rise to much speculation among the floral 
brotherhood as to what measure of success would attend 
the annual gathering in Mr. Dodwell’s garden in the 
Stanley Road ; but we are happy to say that when the 
day came exhibitors and visitors alike were not left 
long in doubt. It was a grand exhibition for the 
season—the weather was ideal for a flower show, and 
not a note of discord was heard from morn till eve. 
The exhibitors included such doughty champions as 
Mr. Barlow, ofStakehill; Mr. Tom Lord, ofTodmorden; 
Mr. Martin Rowan, of Clapham; Mr. Sydenham, of 
Birmingham ; Mr. Hewitt, of Chesterfield, Mr. Joseph 
Lakin, of Temple Cowley, and others from widely 
separated districts, not forgetting Mr. Dodwell’s 
gardener, Mr. W. Read, who came out wellin the single 
bloom classes. The flowers all round were good, and 
the Picotees especially, but if there was one section 
more than another that shone pre-eminently it was the 
self-coloured flowers, which were the admired of all, and 
next to these as attracting the larger share of general 
interest we should place the yellow-ground Carnations, 
the novel and most pleasing colours of many of which 
were simply exquisite. 
Then in addition to the competitive flowers the 
visitors had an opportunity (largely taken advantage of) 
of inspecting Mr. Dodwell’s perfectly unique Carnation 
and Picotee garden, in which were some 3,000 pots of 
flowering plants, and a total not far short of 10,000 
blooms in all stages of development. Perhaps the 
house which created most interest was the one 'con¬ 
taining the Kilmurry seedlings, a very successful batch 
of yellow-ground Carnations raised by Mrs. Gyles, and 
which in due time will be distributed among the 
members of the Pinion. The markings and quality of 
many of them are singularly fine, but defy description 
in a brief note. 
In the afternoon a large party sat down to luncheon, 
in the school of Cowley St. John, near at hand, the 
Mayor of Oxford presiding. It was an extremely 
pleasant social gathering, in which a number of ladies 
took part, and Mr. Dodwell was warmly congratulated 
upon being in such good health and spirits, on having 
such a splendid show, and such beautiful weather to 
enjoy it. In the evening a business meeting was held 
in Mr. Dodwell’s house, when satisfactory progress was 
reported. We append a list of the awards. 
Carnations. 
Twelve blooms, dissimilar :— First, Mr. M. Rowan, 
Clapham, with Robert Lord, Sarah Payne, J. Whitham, 
Jessica, Master Fred, Fred, G. Melville, Rifleman, 
Thomas Tomes, W. Skirving, Admiral Curzon and Rob 
Roy; second, Mr. J. Lakin; third, Mr. R. Sydenham, 
Birmingham ; fourth, Mr. G. Chaundy, Oxford ; fifth, 
Mr. W. L. Walker, Reading ; sixth, Mr. A. R. Brown, 
Birmingham ; seventh, Mr. G. Geggie, Bury ; eighth, 
Mr. S. Beal, Leicester. Six blooms, dissimilar :— First, 
Mr. Tom Lord, Todmorden, with Master Fred, Robert 
Lord, Sybil, J. Douglas, J. D. Hextall, and W. Mellor; 
second, Mr. C. Phillips, Reading; third, Mr. John 
Whitham, Hebden Bridge ; fourth, Mr. W. Bacon, 
Derby ; fifth, Mr. C. Henwood, Reading; sixth, Mr. 
S. Barlow, Stakehill. Self Fancies or Yellow Grounds : 
—First, Mr. W. Read, with The Maestro, scarlet and 
maroon, Queen of the West, pink, Hervine, scarlet, 
and the remainder a fine lot of Mr. Dodwell’s seedlings 
shown under numbers ; second, Mr. M. Rowan ; third, 
Mr. G. Chaundy ; fourth, Mr. J. Lakin; fifth, Mr. W. 
L. Walker; sixth, Mr. Sydenham ; seventh, Mr. T. 
Anstiss, Brill; eighth, Mr. S. Beal. Six blooms 
First, Mr. C. Henwood, with Sarah Payne, J. Douglas, 
Governor, white, Ada, yellow ground, a scarlet and 
lake seedling, and Douglas’s Alisemond ; second, Mr. 
A. R. Brown ; third, Mr. C. Phillips ; fourth, Mr. W. 
Bacon ; fifth, Mr. Tom Lord ; sLxth, Mr. Hedderley, 
Bulcote, Notts ; seventh, Mr. W. Hovell, Headington 
Hill, Oxford ; eighth, Mr. Hewson Morris, Hayes, 
Kent. 
Single Classes. —Scarlet Bizarres :—Mr. Barlow 
took the whole of the prizes in this class with Robert 
Houlgrave, which for depth of colouring completely 
eclipsed all the other twenty-six blooms in the same 
section. Crimson Bizarres First, Mr. T. Lord, with 
Master Fred ; second, Mr. Hedderley, with the same 
variety ; third, Mr. C. Phillips, with John Harland ; 
fourth, Mr. Henwood with a seedling ; fifth, Mr. 
Rowan with Master Fred. Pink and purple Bizarres:— 
First, second and third, Mr. C. Phillips with Faust, 
Due d’Aumale, and William Skirving ; fourth, Mr. 
Rowan with the last-named variety ; and fifth, Mr. T. 
Anstiss. Purple Flakes :—First, Mr. Hill with 
J. Douglas ; second, Mr. T. Lord with Squire Trow ; 
third, Mr. J. Whitham with J. Douglas ; fourth, Mr. 
Storrer with Sarah Payne ; fifth, Mr. Henwood with 
the same variety. Scarlet Flakes : — First, Mr. 
Hedderley with Sportsman ; second, Mr. Phillips with 
Alisemond ; third, Mr. Lakin with Mrs. Carter ; 
fourth, Mr. Henwood with Alisemond. Rose Flakes : 
—First and second, Mr. Lakin with seedlings ; third, 
Mr. Rowan with Mrs. Bridgewater ; fourth, Mr. 
Henwood with Rob Roy ; fifth, Mr. Rowan with the 
same variety. Selfs :—First and second, Mr. Lakin 
with Emma Lakin, a seedling, and the finest white 
yet seen; third and fifth, Mr. A. R. Brown with 
Emily Francis, very fine rose ; fourth, Mr. R. Dean, 
Ealing, with Germania, yellow. Fancies :—First, Mr. 
Hedderley with Master Fred ; second, third and fourth, 
Mr. Read with The Maestro, and two of Mr. Dodwell’s 
seedlings ; fifth, Mr. Bridgewater with Dr. Guiness. 
Premier Flowers. — Bizarre or Flaked : — Mr. 
Barlow’s Robert Houlgrave, S. B., the first prize bloom 
in the single class. Selfs :—Mr. Lakin’s Emma 
Lakin, white, the first prize bloom in the self class. 
Fancy :—Mr. Read’s The Maestro (Dodwell). 
Picotees. 
Twelve blooms, dissimilar. —First, Mr. Rowan 
with Mrs. Payne, Clara Penson, Mrs. Dodwell, Nellie, 
Muriel, Edith Dombrain, Jessie, Mrs. Sharp, Thomas 
William, J. B. Bryant, Elsie Grace, and Alliance. 
Second, Mr. J. Lakin ; third, Mr. R. Sydenham, 
fourth ; Mr. G. Chaundy ; fifth, Mr. A. R. Brown ; 
sixth, Mr. W. L. Walker ; seventh, Mr. R. Yesey, 
Clapham ; eighth, Mr. S. Beal. Six dissimilar first, 
Mr. Tom Lord with Mrs. Sharpe, Mrs. Dodwell, Miss 
Flowdy, Mrs. Gorton, Amy Robsart, and Miss Horner. 
Second, Mr. J. Whitham ; third, Mr. Rowan ; fourth, 
Mr. A. W. Jones, Handsworth ; fifth, Mr. T. Bower, 
Horton Green, Bradford ; sixth, Mr. J. S. Hedderley ; 
seventh, Mr. W. Bacon ; eighth, Mr. W. Hovell. 
Single Classes, White Grounds. —Heavy red- 
edged:—First, Mr. J. Payne with Brunette; second, Mr. 
R. Sydenham with Dr. Epps'; third, Mr. J. Payne with 
J. Smith. Light red-edged :—First, Mr. Phillips with 
Elsie Grace ; second, Mr. Rowan with Mrs. Gorton ; 
third, Mr. Rowan ; fourth, Mr. Hedderley ; fifth, Mr. 
Phillips, with Thomas William. Heavy purple-edged: 
—First, Mr. W. Read with Amy Robsart ; second, 
Mr. R. Sydenham with Muriel; third, Mr. T. Anstiss 
with Polly Brizil : fourth and fifth, Mr. Rowan and 
Mr. Read with Muriel. Light purple-edged :— 
First, Mr. C. Phillips with Baroness Burdett-Coutts ; 
second and third, Mr. Hedderley with Ann Lord, and 
fourth with Baroness Burdett-Coutts ; fifth, Mr. 
Phillips with Mary. Rose or Salmon—heavy-edged: — 
First, Mr. Rowan with Mrs. Payne ; second and third, 
Mr. Sharp with Mrs. Sharp and Campanini ; fourth 
and fifth, Mr. Rowan with Mrs. Payne. Light-edged : 
—First and second, Mr. Anstiss with Favourite ; third, 
Mr. Sydenham with the same variety ; fourth and 
fifth, Mr. Rowan with Nellie. 
Yellow Grounds. —Mr. Read took all the prizes 
with Queen of Hearts, Alfred Grey, and two seedlings, 
a remarkably fine lot. 
Premier Picotee. —Mr. Rowan’s heavy red-edged 
Mrs. Payne. 
Certificated Flowers. 
From among the number of promising seedlings shown, 
the following were selected for first-class honours, viz., 
Emma Lakin, a white self, with broad, shell-like 
petals of great substance and purity, raised by Mr. 
Lakin, and regarded as the finest white yet seen. 
Lovely Mary, a very fine rose flake, raised from Lovely 
Ann by Mr. Hewitt, of Chesterfield. John Harrison, 
a beautiful C. B. raised by Mr. Hewitt, from E. S. 
Dodwell. Emily Francis, a large and beautiful rose- 
pink self, raised from Mrs. Brown, rose flake, by Mr. 
A. R. Brown, Birmingham. Royalty, a rich carmine 
self Carnation, raised by Mr. Hedderley ; and Polly 
Brizil, a fine heavy-purple edged Picotee, raised by Mr. 
T. Anstiss. 
Auriculas. 
I AM now pricking off seedlings from pots in which 
the seeds were sown in spring. I take 48-sized pots, 
fill them one-third full with drainage, and place over 
this some fibry material, then the pots are filled up 
with light sandy soil, and the seedlings pricked out 
about 1 in. apart. Here they stay until they flower ; 
the worthless ones are thrown away, and any of 
promising character retained. Seedlings pricked off in 
this way early in the year from seed pots sown last 
August, will flower in the autumn, and though the 
bloom may not in all cases be thoroughly reliable, one 
is able to weed out what is useless from want of quality. 
I am still re-potting as opportunity serves, and nearly 
the whole of the collection has been so treated. The 
soil being used of a moist character, no water is given 
for several days, but the plants are carefully shaded 
without withdrawing from them too much light. 
They soon bear full exposure. The plants require to 
be gone over occasionally, the decaying leaves removed, 
the surface soil stirred, and water given as required.— 
R. D. 
Red-laced Pink, Mrs. Dark. 
This Pink was sent to me by my old florist friend, the 
late Sam Brown, of Birmingham. I think it was 
raised by him from seed, but am not quite certain as to 
this. [Yes.] It came, however, along with his heavy 
red-laced seedling Pink, which I grow under the name of 
Brown’s Double Red. In addition to its delightful 
Clove scent, large flowers, correct lacing, and free- 
blooming propensities, it has the further very important 
merit of flowering profusely from old stock-roots, with 
blooms quite as large and as perfect in every respect as 
those from the struck pipings of the previous season. 
Old Pink growers will shake their heads at this, and 
say, “This can hardly be ” ; but I can assure them after 
careful observation that it is so. Some old stools of 
two and three seasons or more have given me thousands 
of blooms—a sea of faces, a fount of perfume—and among 
them the largest and best of my individual flowers, 
both for size and quality combined. If only one Pink 
can be grown, let it be Mrs. Dark.— S. Barlow, Stake- 
hill House, Castleton. 
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NEW PLANTS CERTIFICATED 
By the Floral Committee of the R. H. S. 
August lith. 
Papaver orientale, Blush Queen. 
In this we have a remarkable variety of the Oriental 
Poppy, in which the usual scarlet colour has given 
place to one of a less glaring and much more fashionable 
shade, namely, a blush-pink. Each of the five or six 
petals of the flower retain the black blotch at the base, 
and the green ovary is surmounted by numerous 
radiating velvety brown stigmas, and is surrounded by 
a mass of black stamens. It is sure to be liked by the 
public. Exhibited by Mr. T. S. Ware, Hale Farm 
Nurseries, Tottenham. 
Croton, Aigburth Gem. 
The leaves of this beautiful variety are interrupted 
above the middle much in the way of Interruptum or 
Picturatum, but they are narrower, being linear and 
channelled, of a deep metallic purple, irregularly 
blotched and marked with a brilliant red, while in the 
young state they are yellow and green. They also 
droop very gracefully, and are quite distinct in appear¬ 
ance. Exhibited by Messrs. R. P. Ker & Sons, 
Aigburth Nursery, Liverpool. 
Begonia, C. Showell. 
The flowers of this new variety are borne on erect 
peduncles from a dwarf and branching stem well 
furnished with moderate-sized hairy leaves. They are 
perfectly double and Camellia-formed, with all the 
petals arranged round a single centre, beautifully 
imbricated, undulated or crisped at the margin, and of 
a charming rose colour. Exhibited by Messrs. H. 
Cannell & Sons, Swanley, Kent. 
Carnation, R. H. Elliott. 
When they first expand, and for some time afterwards, 
the flowers of this new sort are heavily flaked with 
bright scarlet on a yellow ground. It is a strong 
grower, with stems about 2 ft. in height, and flowers 
freely. The blooms are, moreover, moderate in size, 
but may improve when the plant is propagated from 
layers and grown strongly. Exhibited by Messrs. 
Laing & Mather, The Nurseries, Kelso, Roxburgh, N.B. 
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SOPHROCATTLEYA BATEMAN- 
IANA. 
The beauty of this remarkable bi-generic hybrid was 
again demonstrated on Tuesday last at the Fruit and 
Floral Committee Meeting of the Royal Horticultural 
Society, when Mr. Ballantine, gardener to Baron 
Schroder, The Dell, Egham, brought up some flowers 
