June 6, 1891. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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it on behalf of the Lady Mayoress, expressed his 
pleasure in being able to see such a beautiful display 
in the City, and observed that Scotchmen were famous 
for everything. 
Cardiff Working Men’s Flower Show. — “ R. D.” 
writes :—This is one of those societies that in a quiet 
and unpretentious way is doing a remarkably good 
work at this South Wales sea-port. It was established 
twenty-three years ago for the purpose of encouraging 
the working classes — of which there are a large 
number—to take up the culture of window plants and 
flowers in their gardens, and seeing that the twenty- 
third annual show is fixed for Wednesday, the 17th of 
June, it must be admitted that the society deserves to 
be congratulated on a long sphere of activity. At the 
annual show, prizes are offered for plants, collections 
of cut flowers grown in cottage gardens, nosegays, and 
for collections of wild flowers shown in nosegays and 
baskets, and which the circular soliciting support very 
correctly describes as “ the wilder but hardly less 
beautiful varieties of the moor, the mountain, and the 
glen.” When I was at Cardiff in August last I was 
struck with the admirable condition of the plants 1 
saw in many of the windows of the smaller houses in the 
side streets, and when speaking to the toast of “The 
Judges ” after the awards were made at the summer 
show, I made allusion to this fact, and my words, 
which were duly reported in tho South Wales Daily 
News, have been printed upon a small handbill for 
circulation. I can honestly say that the show fixed 
for the 17th inst. would have a greater interest for me 
Maldon (Essex), Old Montrose (Forfarshire), Paignton 
(Devon), &c., &c. 
Hawick Horticultural Mutual Improvement Asso¬ 
ciation.—The members of this association met in 
goodly numbers on Friday of last week, Mr. J. Forbes, 
president, in the chair. The chief item was a paper on 
“The Carnation,” by Mr. J. Douglas, Great Gearies, 
Ilford. The name of the writer is a sufficient guarantee 
that the paper was a thoroughly practical one, and it 
was highly appreciated and very favourably commented 
on by most of the members present, and received the 
heartiest thanks of the association. Mr. Forbes, 
Buccleuch Nurseries, had on the table a collection of 
Auriculas, Polyanthus King Theodore, and a nice 
plant of Cypripedium barbatum. Mr. Johnson, gar¬ 
dener, Sillerbithal, had rather an unusual exhibit at 
this season of the year in the shape of Chrysanthemum 
Ailsa, 2^ ft. high in a 6-in. pot, with a fine bloom 
measuring 4J ins. across ; awarded a Cultural Certi¬ 
ficate ; Mr. Swanstone, gardener, Kilmeny, had a very 
fine pot of Strawberry Garibaldi; and Mr. W. 
Whellans (amateur), a fine collection of fancy Pansies. 
The usual votes of thanks closed a very enjoyable and 
instructive meeting. 
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THE FOG ANNIHILATOR. 
Of the numerous subjects exhibited in the department 
of Horticultural Sundries at the Temple Show nothing 
exceeded in interest the model Orchid house shown by 
Mr. Charles Toope, of Stepney Square, E., to illustrate 
his patented system for annihilating fog. We were 
well could be. The system is a very simple one, and 
can be fixed to most plant houses at no great expense, 
so that horticulture has much to gain from an ex¬ 
haustive trial of it. The purifying boxes are filled with 
prepared charcoal, which, Mr. Toope claims, jmrifies 
the fog in its passage through, and the exhaust caps 
quickly carry out of the house any fog that gets in 
through the laps of the glass. We shall look forward 
with interest to the Chiswick trial, believing that the 
system well warrants any trouble taken to prove its 
value. 
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NEW PLANTS CERTIFICATED 
AT THE TEMPLE SHOW. 
Orchids. 
Aeridf.s Savageanum. —The leaves of this species 
are rather broad, ligulate and deep green. The flowers 
are borne on axillary, arching racemes of moderate 
length. The sepals are oblong-obovate, pale purple 
and mottled with a darker hue, and having a blotch at 
the apex, and which in some individuals extends along 
the centre almost to the base. The petals are similar 
in colour, but much narrower. The three-lobed lip is 
incurved and deep purple, furnished with a long, curved, 
greenish spur, mottled with purple. It was awarded a 
First Class Certificate. 
Cattleya hybrida Prince of Wales. The 
pseudo-bulbs of this variety are fusiform and rather 
slender, bearing one or two lanceolate-oblong, shining 
green leaves. The oblong sepals are white, as are the 
elliptic and blunt, wavy petals. The tube of the lip is 
Design for a Span-roofed “Nurseryman’s” Plant House. See p. 637. 
than the magnificent Orchids at the Temple Gardens 
last week. 
Spring Cabbages.—The third annual Cabbage com¬ 
petition instituted by Messrs. Stuart & Mein, of Kelso, 
came off on the 13th ult., when the prize of £5 offered 
for the heaviest specimen of Mein’s No. 1 was won 
by Miss Hildegarde A. Somerville, of Drishane, 
Skibbereen, co. Cork. In previous competitions the 
Cabbages intended for competition had to be sent to 
Kelso to be judged, thus entailing much expense in the 
way of carriage on distant competitors ; but this year's 
competition was held on novel and ingenious lines, 
which completely did away with this obstacle to many 
coming forward. Seed of Mein’s No. 1 Cabbage was 
supplied last July to 8,568 competitors, who received a 
certificate bearing a registered number, and which had 
to be filled up. The certificate was as follows :—“ These 
are to certify that on Saturday', 16th May, 1891, a 
specimen of Mein’s No. 1 Cabbage grown by Mr- 
at-weighed—lb—oz.” This certificate had to be 
signed by the competitor, and two witnesses to the 
weighing. Notwithstanding the severe winter the 
weights of the Cabbages now to hand are, we think, 
extraordinary in the records of big spring cabbages. 
The prize Cabbage was certified by Colonel Somerville, 
J.P., D.L., of Drishane, and Egerton B. Coghill, Esq., 
of Castletownshend, to weigh nine pounds four ounces. 
This speaks much for the mildness of the climate of 
County Cork, as the Cabbage was grown in the open 
air. The next best weights were from Great Malvern 
(Worcestershire), Shankill (co. Dublin), St. Lawrence 
and Bifrons (Jersey), Dover (Kent), Lesbury (Northum¬ 
berland), Camborne Polkerris and St. Blazey (Cornwall), 
going to say “ for keeping fog out of plant houses, 
but that would hardly be true, because it is not wholly 
practical to do anything of the kind. Mr. Toope 
knew this when he turned his inventive mind to 
the subject; he knew that if he was to succeed in pre¬ 
serving his Orchids from the baneful effects of the soot 
and sulphur-laden “ London particular,” he must not 
merely filter it, as is done by causing it to pass through 
cotton-wool, paper-hangers canvas, or the other 
materials used for that purpose, but must absorb the 
injurious gases, and thus purify the fog before it gets 
into the house. This he claims that his system will 
do, and so strong is his belief in the matter that 
arrangements liavejbeen made to erect a house fitted 
with his system at Chiswick for experimental purposes 
during the next winter. 
So far as we can learn, Mr. Toope’s is the first really 
practical attempt that has been made to render fog 
innocuous to plant life under glass ; he has demon¬ 
strated the value of the system in his own houses 
during the past winter, one of the worst for fog we 
ever remember, and we sincerely trust the public trial 
at Chiswick will demonstrate the soundness of his 
theory and practice. Mr. Toope is a keen amateur 
cultivator of Orchids, and his little collection is located 
in one of the smokiest and most fog-inflicted districts in 
the metropolis ; consequently he knows what is wanted, 
and since he has fitted his house with purifying boxes 
fixed to the ventilators near the ground level, and 
exhaust caps on the apex, he informs us that he has 
been able to have air on through all the fogs, and he 
and his plants enjoyed a living atmosphere while the 
fog outside has been as noxious and disagreeable as it 
also white but faintly suffused with lilac ; the lamina is 
of moderate size, undulated and crisped at the margin, 
and delicately marbled all over with purple, while the 
throat is lined and suffused with orange and purple. 
It was awarded a First Class Certificate. 
Cattleya iiybrida Louryana. —The name here 
given is a provisional one. The stems are terete, 
bearing two oblong leaves, and, together with the form 
and colour of the flowers, recall those of C. intermedia 
and C. Loddigesii. The sepals are oblong and white, 
the lateral ones being falcate. The w T hite petals are 
lanceolate and slightly undulate. The lip has a 
strongly curved, white tube, large blunt, lateral lobes, 
and a small, rosy purple, crisped lamina. A First Class 
Certificate was awarded it. 
Cypripedium Juno. —This is a hybrid between 
C. Lawrenceanum and C. superbiens. The leaves and 
scapes recall those of the former. The upper sepal is 
sub-rotund and white, veined with green along the 
centre, and purple towards each side. The petals are 
decurved, greenish, with a rose tip, and blotched all 
over with small black spots. The lip is of a nearly 
uniform dull purple. An Award of Merit was granted it. 
Grammatophyllum Measuresianum. —The oblong 
bulb of this species is 6 ins. to 8 ins. long, slightly 
compressed, and bears at the apex three to five 
lanceolate, leathery leaves, 18 ins. to 24 ins. long. The 
plant shown had four scapes, carrying thirty-nine, 
thirty-nine, thirty-one, and twenty-four flowers res¬ 
pectively, and the scapes were about 4 ft. to 5 ft. long. 
The oblong sepals were primrose-yellow (the upper one 
folded over the column), and were spotted with crimson 
all over the surface ; the petals were oblanceolate, and 
