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THE GARDENING WORLD. 
July 6, 1889. 
On the recent occasion it was painfully 
obvious that of the thirty or forty persons 
present, the majority were those whose 
exhibits compelled them to remain, or were 
ladies who had no practical knowledge of the 
subject. The gardeners and others who make 
up the attendance at the committee meetings 
earlier in the day were marked by their 
absence, as it is not possible for them—their 
ordinary duties being over by one o’clock—to 
remain some two or three hours later for the 
purpose of assisting to make an audience. 
"Were the committees’ business to be taken at 
twelve o’clock, ample time would be afforded 
for members coming from a distance to do so 
easily, or in other cases to attend to some 
important duties at home first. Then, with 
lialf-an-hour for refreshment, the papers might 
be read at two o’clock, and be over in such 
good time as to enable the members of the 
committees to still return home at an early 
hour. 
The present arrangements seem to be peculiarly 
opposed to the convenience of those most 
concerned, with the unfortunate result that 
they are compelled to depart ere some 
most interesting features of the meeting come 
off. So far, in almost every case, the papers 
have been good and the discussions practical, 
but readers have some right to demand that 
an intelligent and fair audience shall be 
present to listen to their essays. 
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The Orchid Album.—Mr. B. S. Williams announces 
that after the completion of the eighth volume, this 
work will be issued as a bi-monthly publication, one 
volume being completed every two years. 
English Flowers at the Paris Exhibition.—We 
understand that the jury at the flower show held from 
June 21st to the 27th, in connection with the Paris 
exhibition, have awarded a premier prize to Messrs. 
Kelway & Son, of Langport, for a bank of herbaceous 
Paeonies, Delphiniums and Gaillardias. 
Alexandra Palace Rose Show.—A capital schedule 
has just been issued for this exhibition, which is to 
take place on Friday next, July 12th, and in con¬ 
junction with which the ceremony will be performed of 
crowning the Rose Queen by the Rev. Father Nugee. 
It is also proposed to have a bazaar for the sale of 
surplus specimen blooms of Roses, garden literature, 
&c., the proceeds of j which are to be given to the 
Gardeners’ Orphan Fund. 
The York Gala.—We are pleased to hear that the 
total receipts at the late annual exhibition held at York 
exceeded last year’s return by £220. the full amount 
being £1,430. In the report in our last number we 
hardly stated the awards correctly in the class for ten 
dishes of fruit, which were taken as follows :—First, 
Mr. Mclndoe, Hutton Hall; equal seconds, Mr. 
Edmonds, Bestwood, and Mr. Dawes, Temple 
Newsham ; third, Mr. Blair, Trentham. 
An Improvement in Trafalgar Square.—By way of 
experiment in beautifying the paved open spaces of 
London, the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association, 
with the sanction of the First Commissioner of Works, 
has just placed in the two upper corners of Trafalgar 
Square large banks of flowering and foliage plants, 
which will be removed from time to time as occasion 
may require, in order that they may always present a 
bright and attractive appearance. 
Honours to French Horticulturists.—We learn from 
the Bulletin d’Arboriculture that M. Alphand, author 
of The Paries, Promenades and Gardens of Paris, has 
received the Grand Order of the Legion of Honour, and 
one of his lieutenants, M. Laforcade, Superintendent of 
the Gardens of the City of Paris, after thirty-three 
years service, is named Chevalier of the same Order. 
The veteran M. Bergman, of Ferrieres, has received 
the decoration of Chevalier of Agricultural Merit. 
Origin of Chrysanthemum Mrs. Alpheus Hardy.— 
Some doubt having been expressed as to the origin of 
this new variety, a correspondent of The Garden says 
of its history:—“To begin with, a young Japanese 
named Neisima, wanting to become a Christian, went 
on board an American vessel. He was brought to the 
notice of Mr. Hardy, who sent him to Andover and 
Amhurst Academies, where he was educated. This Mr. 
Neisima returned in due course to Japan as a mis¬ 
sionary, and sent to Mrs. Hardy as a token of his 
gratitude a box containing the roots of the Chrysan¬ 
themum in question. At that time no one knew or 
surmised what character of flower it might be. Sirs. 
Hardy gave them to a Boston seedsman, who divided 
the roots with another florist; but no bloom had been 
described or seen up to this time, nor had anyone any 
idea what the outcome would be. When the plant 
flowered and showed such marked original character 
and beauty, it was exhibited in Boston, where it was 
at once awarded the Silver Medal as the most beauti¬ 
ful flower of recent introduction. There were many 
attempts made to purchase the stock by conspicuous 
business men, and it was only after the payment of 
£300 that it was secured by its present possessors—a 
price never before given for any soft-wooded plant in 
America. 
The R. A. S. at Windsor.—Her Majesty the Queen, 
accompanied by the Prince of Wales and other members 
of the Royal family, visited the show yard on 
Friday morning (June 28th), and during their drive 
round the show the Royal party stopped several 
minutes at Messrs. Sutton & Sons’ handsome range of 
offices, to inspect some of the features of this interest¬ 
ing exhibit. Mr. Martin J. Sutton, Mr. A. W. Sutton, 
and Mr. Leonard Sutton had the honour of receiving 
Her Majesty, who was graciously pleased to express 
satisfaction with what she had seen, and thanked Mr. 
Sutton for the beautiful floral decorations provided by 
his firm for the Royal pavilion. Mr. Sutton had the 
honour also of presenting Her Majesty with a mag¬ 
nificently bound copy of the Sutton album as a 
souvenir of the exhibition ; also a bouquet of splendid 
Gloxinias grown at their Reading seed grounds. 
Messrs. James Carter & Co. were also honoured by a 
visit from Her Majesty, who ordered a collection of their 
new cross-bred Wheats (eleven varieties), as H.R. H. 
the Prince of Wales had done on the previous day. 
Her Majesty also visited the stand of Messrs. Little & 
Ballantyne, of Carlisle, and expressed her desire that 
the handsome young specimen of Abies Albertiana, 
exhibited by this firm, should be planted in the 
Windsor Great Park, as a memorial of the Jubilee 
Exhibition. The honorary director of the R.A.S. 
(Sir Jacob Wilson), who on Saturday received the 
honour of knighthood, has made arrangements for 
this being carried out. 
Gardeners’ Orphan Fund.—At the usual monthly 
meeting of the committee, held on the 29th ult., 
Mr. Deal presiding, Mr. Barron made the gratifying 
announcement that the total receipts from all sources 
during the twelve months was over £1,900. Amongst 
other routine business Mr. F. Q. Lane, Berkhamstead, 
was elected to serve on the committee in the place of 
Mr. H. Williams, resigned, and Mr. George Gordon, 
Gunnersbury, in the place of Mr. Charles Howe, 
deceased. Arrangements were also made for the annual 
meeting, the election of candidates, and the second 
anniversary dinner, to be held at the Cannon Street 
Hotel on the 19th inst., which promises to be even 
more successful as a gathering of gardeners than was 
that of last year. We may again remind our readers 
that the object of the fund is to make allowances or 
grants of money to aid in the maintenance of the 
orphans of gardeners, foremen in public, private, and 
market gardens, and the managers or foremen in 
nursery and seed establishments. Although it has 
only been two years in existence, the necessity for such 
a fund has been amply demonstrated, eleven children 
having been elected to its benefits at the first annual 
meeting in July last year. At the second annual 
meeting on the 19th the committee find that the funds 
at their disposal will not justify the election of more 
than five out of fourteen pressing claims ; and under 
these circumstances earnestly appeal to the benevolent 
public generally, and to those interested in horticul¬ 
ture in particular, for funds to aid in the good work. 
Subscribers may rest assured that their money will be 
utilised to the best advantage, as the fund is ad¬ 
ministered with the strictest economy, no money being 
expended on buildings or an expensive staff. The 
children are placed in most cases with the mother, and 
under the supervision of the local secretaries. By this 
means almost the whole of the money subscribed is 
employed for the object intended—viz., the maintenance 
of the children. The president, Sir Julian Goldsmid, 
Bart., M. P., will preside at the annual dinner, and we 
shall be pleased to receive an annual subscription or 
donation, large or small in amount, from any of our 
readers to add to the president’s list. 
NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 
Cypeipedifji Stone r, Hackbeidge yaeiety, nov. var. 
The original or typical form of Cypripedium Stonei, 
figured in the Botanical Magazine, t. 5349, has the 
inner face of both the upper and lower sepal white, 
and entirely without stripes or other markings, whereas 
the external surface has a median band of purple. The 
upper sepal of the Hackbridge variety is unusually 
broad, almost rotund, with a short point. The outer 
face is deep purple with white edges, and so intense as 
to shine through, giving the inner face a pink tint. 
There are in addition five claret-purple and somewhat 
broken stripes on the inner surface ; the lateral and 
combined sepals have seven such bands along the 
principal veins. The petals are equally distinct from 
those of the original type, and measured, when 1 saw 
them, 5 ins. in length, and } in. in width ; but they 
were still young and growing. They were of a bright 
yellow marked longitudinally with brownish purple, 
oval blotches, and were brownish purple at the tips. 
The narrowness of the petals of the original type may 
also be noted by referring to The Gaedexing "World, 
vol. ii, p. 761. The specimen was obtained as a 
small unbloomed plant from the collection of the 
late Mr. John Day, of Tottenham, and has just 
flowered for the first time with A. H. Smee, Esq., The 
Grange, Hackbridge, Surrey. At present the plant has 
a two-flowered scape ; and the foliage is very vigorous, 
giving great promise of being even better than it is as 
yet.— J. Fraser. 
Acineta 'W’eightii. 
In describing an Orchid under this name as a new 
species at p. 673, I find I was in error, as a subsequent 
examination of the unnamed specimen in the Kew 
herbarium, which I alluded to as being labelled 
Acineta, but without a specific name, turns out on 
dissection of the flowers to be Lacaena bicolor of Lindley, 
and that is the correct name of the plant in question. 
It is figured in the Botanical Register, 1S44, t. 50. 
Lindley’s specimen was 18 ins. long and nine to ten- 
flowered, whereas the specimen at Devonhurst had 
forty-six flowers. I may add that I am not the only one 
who as been deceived by this plant, as Prof. Reichenbach 
has also described it as a species of Acineta (A. longi- 
scarpa) in a German publication. Lindley himself says 
of Lacaena bicolor, “in habit like some of the Peres- 
terias, with a pendulous raceme, that it would certainly 
be mistaken for them, and in structure it approaches 
them, no doubt, very closely. It is, however, es¬ 
sentially distinguished by the labellum and pollen 
apparatus.” The very short foot of the column is also 
exceedingly liable to be overlooked.— J. Fraser. 
Lycaste Deppei vieidis, nov . var . 
The typical form of this South Mexican Orchid has 
pale greenish sepals as a rule, heavily marked with 
brownish purple spots on the inner surface, white 
petals, and a golden yellow lip, more or less spotted 
with red or crimson, and striated longitudinally on the 
side lobes with the same colour. The small somewhat 
pointed crest is free in front and decurrent, forming a 
narrow median ridge to the base of the lip. The front 
of the column is covered with short, whitish, somewhat 
woolly hairs. The variety under notice differs in the 
sepals being pale green, and devoid of brownish purple 
markings, except at the base of the inner face. The 
lateral lobes of the lip are also closely striped with 
deep purple, except the anterior edges which are 
spotted with purple on a golden yellow ground. The 
column is creamy white, spotted with purple all over 
the face beneath the stigmatic disc. The plant flowered 
in the collection of A. H. Smee, Esq., The Grange, 
Wallington, Surrey, from whom I received the 
specimen.— J. Fraser. 
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HARDY SHRUBS IN FLOWER. 
Deutzia scabea.— Both this and D. gracilis are 
hardy Japanese shrubs, but although equally amenable 
for cultivation in pots, the former is more frequently 
grown out of doors, while the latter is even more 
generally cultivated in pots, and extensively used for 
forcing purposes. D. scabra is best known under the 
name of D. crenata, and grows from 3 ft. to 8 ft. in 
height, according to age and the treatment it receives. 
In the single or typical state it produces long erect 
racemes of pure white flowers all along the shoots of 
the previous year’s growth. The double white form 
(D. s. flore pleno) is the most popular, judging from 
the frequency with which we meet with it; but there 
is a pretty pink or rosy pink form (D. s. purpurea 
plena) that has been in cultivation for many years, yet 
