June 18, 1892, 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
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Bizarres, flamed: ist, Mr. Knowles, with Sir J. 
Paxton, and 4th with Dr. Hardy; 2nd, Mr. J. W. 
Bentley, with Sir J. Paxton ; 3rd, Mr. W. Dymock, 
with Typho ; 5th, Mr. S. Barlow, with Sulphur ; 6th, 
Mr. J. Hague, unnamed. Bybloemens, flamed : ist, 
Mr. J. W. Bentley, with Queen of May, 2nd with 
Adonis, and 5th with Seedling; 3rd, Mr. Knowles, 
with Beauty of Litchurch, 4th with Lord Denman, 
and 6th with Queen of May. Roses, flamed : ist, 
Mr. R. Chadwick, with Aglaea ; 2nd, Mr. W. Kit¬ 
chen, with Madame St. Arnaud ; 3rd, Mr. J. W. 
Bentley, with Alice Grey, and 6th with Mabel; 4th, 
Mr. Knowles, with Lady C. Gordon, and 5th with 
Mrs. Telford. 
The premier feathered Tulip wasbyblcemen Violet 
Amiable, shown by Mr. W. Kitchen, and the 
premier flamed, Sir J. Paxton, shown by Mr. 
J. W. Bentley. 
Of Breeder Tulips, the best pan of three came 
from Mr. J. W. Bentley, who had bizarre, Dr. 
Hardy; bybloemens, May Queen ; and rose, Rose 
Hill ; 2nd, Mr. Samuel Barlow, with bizarre, Dr. 
Hardy; bybloemen, Martin’s 117; and rose, Annie 
McGregor; 3rd, Mr. C. W. Needham. The prizes 
in the classes for breeders ran as follows :—Bizarres, 
ist, Mr. J. W. Bentley, with Dr. Hardy ; 2nd, with 
Sir J. Paxton ; 3rd, with Royal Standard ; 4th, Mr. 
Samuel Barlow, with Lord Delamere; and 5th, with 
Dr. Hardy. Byblcemens, ist, Mr. J. W. Bentley, 
with Seedling; 2nd, Mr. C. W. Needham, with 
Seedling; 3rd, Mr. J. Hague, with Alice Grey, and 
5th, with King of the Universe ; 4th, Mr. S. Barlow, 
with Miss Hardy. Roses, ist, Mr. J. W. Bentley, 
with Hepworth Seedling; 2nd, with Lord Derby; 
3rd, Mr. S. Barlow, with Thomas Parker ; 4th, with 
Miss B. Coutts ; and 5th, with Annie McGregor. 
At Butley prizes are offered for seifs. There can 
be but two classes only of these; in one case the 
ground colour of the bizarre has flooded the whole 
of the flower, and the ground of the rose or bybloe¬ 
men the other. Mr. S. Barlow was the only exhi¬ 
bitor, and was placed first with Buttercup in one 
class, and with Cygnet in the class for a white self. 
The former is very deep in colour and handsome in 
build. 
The usual dinner took place during the afternoon, 
Mr. Samuel Barlow presiding, when the Silver Cupi 
won by Mr. Bentley, was presented to him by the 
chairman accompanied by appropriate musical 
honours.— K. D. 
PANSY SHOWS. 
Midland Counties' Pansy Society. 
The second annual exhibition of this society was 
held in the Central Hall, Birmingham, on June 9th, 
the day being a very hot one, as the previous two or 
three days and nights had been also. The flowers 
suffered from this cause, and many of the midland 
growers knew to their sorrow what the great heat 
had done for them. Still there was an excellent dis¬ 
play, and a good competition throughout. In the 
classes for amateurs residing in the eight home 
counties, the awards were as follows: For 24 
fancies, dissimilar: ist, Mr. J. Egginton, Wolver¬ 
hampton ; 2nd, Mr. A. C. Christie, Shifnal; 3rd, 
Mr. Geo. East, Leicester; 4th, Mr. George Maun- 
drill, Rothwell Haigh, Leeds. For 18 fancies, dis¬ 
similar : ist, Mr. J. Egginton ; 2nd, Mr. Thos. Field, 
King's Norton ; 3rd, Mr. A. C. Christie; 4th, Mr. 
G. East. For 12 fancies, dissimilar: ist, Thomas 
Egginton, Wolverhampton; 2nd, Mr. Wm. 
Fletcher, Shifnal; 3rd, Mr. J. Hughes, Birmingham ; 
4th, Mr. Joseph Barratt, Dudley Port. For 6 
fancies: ist, Thomas Egginton; 2nd, Mr. Wm. 
Fletcher; 3rd, Mr. Henry Pattison, Shrewsbury ; 
4th, Mr. Joseph Barratt. For 6 blooms of any one 
variety : ist, Mr. J. Egginton ; 2nd, T. Egginton ; 
3rd, Mr. Thomas Field; 4th, Mr. A. C. Christie. 
Six new fancy Pansies, dissimilar: ist, Mr. T. Field ; 
2nd, Mr. A. C. Christie. 
In the classes for show Pansies, Mr. J. Egginton 
was ist for 12, and Mr. George Maundrill for 6 ; and 
for 12 varieties of Violas, 6 blooms of each, -Mr. 
Pattison won the Silver Medal. Four classes were 
set aside for maiden growers who have never won a 
prize, and brought out good competition from four 
to six entries in a class. Five classes were allotted 
to the trade growers in the eight midland counties. 
For 36 fancies, dissimilar, Mr. Wm. Sydenham was 
ist; Messrs. Pope& Sons, 2nd ; and Mr. Pemberton, 
3rd. For 24 blooms : ist, Messrs. Pope & Sons; 
2nd, Mr. Wm. Sydenham; 3rd, Mr. Pemberton ; 
4th, Messrs. Kimberley & Sons, Coventry. The 
same exhibitors were winners in the other classes. 
Mr. George McLeod, Chingford, Essex, gave good 
prizes for respectively 12 fancy Pansies and 12 sprays 
of Violas for growers south and east of Reading, but 
only one competitor entered, Mr. E. J. Pether, 
Walthamstow,Essex ; his Pansies weresmall,showing 
the effect of the great heat, but he had a good lot of 
Violas. The great interest, however, was centred in 
the classes open to all growers in the United King¬ 
dom, and besides the midland county growers, 
Messrs. Irvine, Campbell, Smellie and Bailey were 
in great force from the north. 
Open Classes. 
In the class for 48 fancies, dissimilar, the first prize 
was awarded to Mr. J. Smellie, Florist, Bushy, 
Glasgow; the second to Mr. M. Campbell, Florist, 
Blantyre; the third to Mr. Andrew Irvine, Florist, 
Tighnabruaich ; and the fourth to Mr. A. Bailey, 
Junr., Florist, Sunderland. For 24 fancies, dissimi¬ 
lar, Mr. Smellie was again first; Mr. Irvine, second ; 
Mr. Campbell, third; and Mr. Bailey, fourth. For24 
show varieties, dissimilar, some superb blooms were 
to be seen amongst those staged, and it was a great 
treat to the midland florists to see such blooms. Mr. 
Irvine was first; Mr. Smellie second ; Mr. Bailey 
third; and Mr. Campbell fourth. For six blooms of 
any one variety, Mr. Smellie came in first; Mr. 
Campbell, second; Mr. Bailey, third ; and Mr. 
Irvine, fourth. 
In a class for “24 new fancies sent out in the 
Autumn of 1890, and may include seedlings to be 
sent out in the Autumn of 1892 or Spring of 18931 
but must be named and owned by the Exhibitor,’ 
the handsome Gold Medal given as the first prize 
was won by Mr. Andrew Irvine ; second, Mr. Smellie 1 
third, Mr. Campbell. Mr. Smellie also won Mr. Wm’ 
Sydenham's Silver Medal for 6 new fancy Pansies ; 
and Mr. Andrew Irvine won Messrs. Dobbie & 
Co.’s Silver Medal for 12 new and distinct varieties 
of Violas, amongst them H. M. Stanley and Dorothy 
Tennant being both very fine. Several special prizes 
were offered by various friends, one a Silver Medal, 
for 3 blooms each of “James S. Irvine" and 
Dorothy Emily Irvine,” being won by Mr. Wm. 
Frater, Linlithgow, N.B. 
New Varieties. 
A few First-class Certificates were awarded to 
seedlings, viz. :—Fancy, John Knox, and show, 
Winnie Irvine, both from Mr. Andrew Irvine. Fancy, 
Andrew Frater, exhibited by Mr. Wm. h rater, 
Linlithgow'. Fancy, Mrs. B. Smellie, and fancy, 
Wm. Watson, and fancy, Mrs. D. Johnson, all from 
Mr. J. Smellie, Bushy, Glasgow. Show Pansy 
Winnie Irvine, is a beautiful Primrose self, faultless 
in every way. It is a model flower of great excellence. 
A very beautiful seedling Viola was staged again 
this year by Mr. J. Hutton, named Duke of Clarence, 
under which name it was shown last year. The 
low'er petals are of a rich glossy satiny black colour 
with blue lilac clouded top petals of fine form, and the 
writer of these notes has seen it growing. A First- 
class Certificate was awarded to it. 
Some of the finest flowers in the stands generally 
throughout were Mrs. D. Johnson (Smellie), a fine 
back row flower of great size and fine form, a 
greatly improved James Swan style. William 
Watson (Smellie), rich blue violet top petals, excellent 
clean solid blotch on a small primrose belting to 
lower petals. Mrs. B. Smellie, Miss French style, 
and a fine flower ; Arthur Frater, clean, solid and 
rich in colour, deep primrose belting in lower petals, 
and deep blue lilac clouded top petals. Irvine s 
Seedlings, also Mr. David Allan, Kate McArthur, 
Maggie A. Scott, Agnes Mormon, Mrs. R. S. Niven, 
Wm. Adam, Lady Duff, Maggie Douglas, Louise 
Werter, Bella Johnson, Betsy Kelly, James S. Irvine, 
Lord Tennyson, David Rennie, Jennie Paterson, 
Mrs. Train, an improved Maggie A. Scott, with more 
solid blotch ; Henry Eckford, Maggie Douglas, Tom 
Travis, and James Campbell. 
Mr. Irvine sent also a great lot of blooms not for 
competition, as also did Mr. Wm. Sydenham, of 
Tamworth, including a large stand of 72 blooms of 
his new variety Duchess of Portland. Messrs. 
Thomson & Co., Birmingham, contributed three 
dozen or more pots of admirably grown Violas of 
hardy sorts, showing what charming things they are 
for indoor decoration, also in a cut state in bunches, 
and a nice lot of herbaceous cut blooms, Palms, etc. 
Messrs. Hewitt & Co., Solihull, also sent a fine lot of 
cut herbaceous plants and other plants in pots, and 
a lot of fine tuberous Begonia blooms, and Mr. R. 
H. Vertegans, Chad Valley Nursery, a box of the 
lovely Cytisus Andreana in full bloom, and cut 
examples of the superb herbaceous plant Khomnya 
Coulteri. 
Leicester Pansy Society 
Leicester and the surrounding counties have for a 
long number of years brought to the front a great 
number of cultivators of our old Florists' flowers, 
and very recently a few cultivators of the Pansy 
determined to form a society with the intention of 
holding an annual exhibition of this flower, the first 
taking place on Saturday, the nth inst., in the 
Lecture Hall of the Liberal Club. Four or five days 
previously of almost tropical heat had upset the 
flowers, and the calculations of some of the exhibi¬ 
tors ; still there was a goodly display of blooms and 
a fair number of competitors, and everything tended 
to the encouragement of the committee to expand 
their schedule in the future. 
In the class for 24 fancy Pansies, dissimilar, Mr. 
Wm. Whitehead was ist, amongst his best being 
Donald Morrison, Neil McKay, Tom Travis, Archie 
Buchanan, David Rennie, Lord Randolph Churchill, 
in excellent character, with deep solid cleanly cut 
blotch ; 2nd, Mr. George East, his most striking 
blooms being Maggie A. Scott, May Hynd, Neil 
Gillies and Tom Travis. Eighteen fancy Pansies, 
dissimilar: ist, Mr. George East. Twelve fancy 
Pansies, dissimilar: ist, Mr. Hy. Yeomans, with fine 
blooms of Tom Travis, Neil McKay, Lord Hamilton, 
Betsy Kelly and others ; 2nd, Mr. Dingley, amongst 
his best being Mrs. Hugh Weir, Mrs. J. McCombe, 
Neil McKay, David Strachan and some fair 
seedlings; 3rd, Mr. John Bowles. Six fancy Pansies, 
any one variety, well-filled class : ist, Mr. Dingley, 
with a bright yellow seedling fancy with good blotch 
and promising if it can be grown larger; 2nd, Mr. 
Yeomans ; 3rd, Mr. J. Bowles. All the above classes 
were confined to amateurs in the neighbourhood of 
Leicester. 
In a class for 12 fancy Pansies, dissimilar, open to 
the United Kingdom, Messrs. Biddles, Lough¬ 
borough, were ist, and in this stand were fine 
blooms of Mrs. John "McConnell, Lord Hamilton, 
Allan Ashcroft, and Tom Travis ; 2nd, Mr. Yeomans; 
3rd, Mr. G. East. For 24 fancy Pansies, open to 
all growers: ist, Mr. Wm. Sydenham, Tamworth, of 
whose flowers scarcely any were named; 2nd, 
Messrs. Biddles & Co. Mr. Sydenham also sent, 
not for competition, 72 blooms of his Duchess of 
Portland, and a collection of others, Tom Travis, 
George Anderson, Lord Randolph Churchill, Maggie 
A. Scott, and Lord Hamilton being very fine. 
New Varieties. 
Mr. Andrew Irvine, Tighnabruaich, attended on his 
way to York from the Birmingham Pansy Show, 
and set up a wonderfully fine stand of 24 new sorts, 
many of them not yet in commerce. Almost all 
should be in every collection, for all are so fine, some 
wonderfully fine,’ and they richly deserve recording 
as follows :—- 
James S. Irvine, a rich-coloured flower with 
superb large solid blotch, and of the finest form and 
substance : Mrs. John McConnell, Lord Hamilton, 
Mrs. W. Dean, a beautiful attractive light flower, 
very fine as shown : Donald Morrison, Lizzie Irvine, 
very rich in colour and fine; Robert Jamieson, of 
Donald Morrison type, very rich in colour and a 
superb flower; William Scott, a very fine flower 
with claret top petals, grand blotch, smooth and of 
fine form ; Tom Travis, George Anderson, rich gold 
with bright bronzy-brown top petals and superb 
dense clean cut blotch ; Maggie McPhail, a charm¬ 
ing and distinct flower of fine form and substance ; 
W. H. Gabb, bright rich yellow with dark bronzy- 
violet top petals and grand blotch and extra fine : 
Alexander Duncan, somewhat resembling Lord 
Hamilton, but distinct and very fine ; Archie Scott, 
style of J. J. Ashton, with very fine lower petals and 
side petals shouldering high and close, a first-class 
flower ; Mrs. D. Pinkerton, the best white we have 
with very dense cleanly cut blotch ; Allan 
McCrossam, of Allan Ashcroft style but brighter, 
a grand flower in size, iorm, and substance , 
Helen Valance, a very fine flower, with a 
touch of Lord Hamilton in it, a very fine 
thing; Nina Scott, much brighter than Archie 
Buchanan, a grand flower in form, substance, and 
blotch ; T. Morton, a distinct grand flower deeper in 
colour than James S. Irvine ; George Irvine, a rich 
velvety-crimson, tinted flower, of the finest form and 
substance ; and Captain Steel, another rich-coloured 
fine flower. 
Messrs. Biddles & Co. contributed a line display 
of cut herbaceous blooms, twenty-five varieties, 
which took the first prize easily, large bunches of 
good things well displayed: second, Mr. John 
Bowles. The Abbey Park authorities sent also a 
large collection of cut flowers, and there was a large 
dispiay of Ranunculus, and Anemone and Iris blooms 
from Mr. Rootzen. 
