July 23, 1892. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
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The plants and flowers described below were 
exhibited at the meeting of the Royal Horticultural 
Society on the 12th inst., and received awards 
according to merit. 
Linaria vulgaris peloria.— The flowers of this 
very singular variety are pale yellow with an orange 
throat, and in this they do not differ much from the 
type. The formation of the corolla is, however, very 
extraordinary, for instead of being irregular with one 
spur and two lips, it is regular with five equal sized 
reflexed lobes, and five equally well-formed spurs at 
the base. One or two peculiar appendages may also 
frequently be observed at the base of the corolla, close 
by the origin of the spurs, but their morphological 
homology is not very apparent. Cut flowers were 
shown by Wm. Marshall, Esq., Auchinraith, Bexley, 
and received a First-class Certificate. 
Gaillardia Aurora.— The ray florets of this 
variety are tubular and bright yellow, with reddish 
or orange buff tubes, and the variety is therefore 
very distinct from the ordinary flat-rayed form. The 
disc is large and crimson brown. An Award of 
Merit was accorded it when shown by Mr. T. S. 
Ware, Hale Farm Nurseries, Tottenham. 
Lilium Bloomerianum magnificum.— The leaves 
of this Lily are lanceolate, whorled, and of a deep 
shining green. The large and bold flowers are 
pendent and revolute, orange coloured at the base, 
and spotted with crimson, while the whole upper 
portion is orange crimson, sombwhat after the style 
of L. pardalinum. Altogether the flowers are 
darker than those of the type which botanically is 
more correctly known as L. Humboldti. An Award 
of Merit was accorded it when shown by Mr. Ware. 
Lilium maritimum.— The leaves of this little 
known variety are lanceolate, scattered, and of a 
deep green. The drooping flowers are bell-shaped, 
sometimes arranged in a curiously triangular form, 
orange-scarlet and heavily blotched with crimson 
from the middle downward, and revolute at the tips. 
On the whole it is an interesting and pretty Lily, 
although the medium-sized flowers cannot compete 
with such handsome subjects as L. Humboldti and 
L. tigrinum. A Botanical Certificate was awarded it 
when shown by Mr. Ware. 
Campanula persicifolia semiplena. -— The 
varieties of the Peach-leaved Bellflower are now 
fairly numerous, and some are very showy. That 
under notice has large, deep blue, semi-double 
flowers, consisting of two or three corollas inserted, 
one within the other, the outermost being the largest. 
The stems acquire considerable vigour when the 
plant is well grown. An Award o'f Merit was 
accorded the variety when shown by Wm. Marshall, 
Esq. 
Petunia Schwester Bonifatia.— This has large, 
fully double flowers of a rose colour with pink 
edges. It differs from other double varieties in the 
excessive amount of curling or crisping of the 
corolla with its supernumerary segments. It is 
evidently of German origin judging from the name, 
which might be rendered into Sister Bonifatia. It 
was exhibited by Messrs. H. Cannell & Sons, 
Swanley, and received an Award of Merit. 
Delphinium Princess May.— The principal spike 
of this variety attains a length of 18 in., and has 
semi-double flowers of large size and of a soft mauve 
with bright sky-blue margins. 
Delphinium Sailor Prince. —The flowers of this 
fine variety are single, of great size and intense 
purple, more or less shaded with indigo blue. The 
petals are small, black, covered with yellow hairs 
and fill up the centre of the flower. Blue is the 
predominating colour in old flowers. The terminal 
spike varies from 12 in. to 18 in. in length. 
Delphinium Henry.— The flowers in this case 
are also large, semi-double and bright blue. The 
inner petals are smaller and purple with a few white 
ones in the centre. The main spike is about 12 in. 
in length, but numerous smaller branches are given 
off from below. 
Gaillardia Mr. Pitcher. —The flower heads of 
this composite attain a diameter of 3J in. The flat 
2 to 3-lobed rays are blood red with yellow tips, and 
have a fine appearance around the crimson-brown, 
moderate sized disc. All the three Delphiniums and 
the Gaillardia were shown by Messrs. Kelway & 
Son, Langport, Somerset, and received Awards of 
Merit. 
Rose Clio. —This hybrid perpetual is somewhat 
of the same style as La France. The outer petals 
are revolute and white; the inner ones on the 
contrary are erect and flesh-coloured or almost pink. 
The bloom appears best when about half expanded. 
An Award of Merit was given it when shown by 
Messrs. Wm. Paul & Son. 
THE CHRYSANTHEMUM 
IN NEW SOUTH WALES. 
Our Chrysanthemum season has come and gone, and 
in many instances stock has been taken and placed 
in the nursery bed, so that everything may be in 
readiness for the battle of' the future. Fortunately 
there is no necessity here for the " pot coddling " pro¬ 
cess so essentially necessary during the long dreary 
stretch from October to May, as at home. All that 
is required here is to take two or three rootlets from 
each stool when in flower, dibble them out a foot or 
so apart, and wait for a further supply, the com¬ 
mencement to grow in real earnest taking place 
about the middle of November next. It would sur¬ 
prise an English grower, accustomed only to the 
method—the necessarily lengthy method — of culture 
pursued in the old country, to see what fine blooms 
are produced in this fast climate, under a culture of 
some five months only. This year the battle was not 
a very spirited one, though many handsome flowers 
were staged. Notwithstanding, and as showing the 
growing interest taken in this fine, autumn-flowering 
plant, some two thousand individual blooms were on 
view at the exhibition held in the Centennial Hall, on 
April 20th and 21st last. 
The fact that many admirers of the " Mum ” 
were but poorly represented—some not at all — 
was owing to the rather questionable proceedings in 
connection with the 1891 meeting of the Horticul¬ 
tural Society of N.S.W., many bona-fide horticultu¬ 
rists viewing the same with extreme disgust. True, 
time works wonders in all affairs of this sort ; all the 
same the sore is there still, hence the apathy shown 
in regard to the competition at what would other¬ 
wise have been a grand exhibition of the " Mum ” in 
this part of the globe. Last year strenuous en¬ 
deavours were made, and successfully made, to keep 
out the professional element, and who can blame the 
latter if they did look somewhat askance on such 
proceedings, and did but little to make the exhibi¬ 
tion what it might have been had any inducement 
been held out for them to put their shoulders to the 
wheel in real earnest. That happy time has yet to 
come, and signs are not wanting that it will not be in 
the distant future, for nothing brings people to their 
senses more quickly than the fact of the balance 
being on the wrong side the ledger, and likely 
to stick there and increase unless very drastic 
changes are brought about. 
All the principal prizes were taken by amateurs, 
and these too in many instances with remarkably 
fine blooms, a credit to the grower and also to the 
climate which produced them. This applies more 
especially to the Japanese section, many noble 
examples of the same being on view. I think I told 
you in my notes of last season that very many of our 
best examples were scarcely ever found, or perhaps 
it would be more correct to say not frequently found, 
in the best collections at home. Excellent as Mr. 
Molyneux's advice is to growers of the "Mum'' in 
the old country, and no one admits this with more 
pleasure or gratitude than I, still I think he has some¬ 
thing to answer for in respect to new varieties, in re¬ 
commending the rather extensive application of well- 
known, tried, and reliable sorts. Has not this a ten¬ 
dency to make your competitions somewhat monoto¬ 
nous ? Is not one 48 or 24 so much like another that 
in running round the tables the sameness or similarity 
of the various trays has a depressing effect on the 
visitor ? I think so. 
Here every variety with a name has a fair and 
reasonable trial, with the result that new and old are 
pitted against each other, and the best in form and 
colour (other things being equal) should win. I say 
should win advisedly, for we are badly off in the 
matter of judges as yet, and few employed in that 
capacity rigidly examine the exhibits ere making 
their award, which under the circumstances is as 
likely to be incorrect as not. Exhibitors as a rule 
are apt to value their own flowers too highly I knew 
when placed in competition with others. When ex¬ 
hibitors feel compelled to express an opinion that the 
judges have placed them too high up, something is 
radically wrong with the decisions given, and this 
was the case in more than one instance at our recent 
show. It will right itself in time, no doubt, for we 
are as yet only in our infancy with this fine flower, 
and good judges are not born. 
Some of the finest flowers exhibited were Lady T. 
Lawrence, as last year the best incurved Jap in the 
show ; Syringa, always a remarkably good flower 
here, and very reliable. (Has this latter variety — it 
is not new—had a fair trial in the old country ?) 
Viviand Morel, Condor, Stanstead White, Mrs. 
Anthony Waterer, Violet Rose, Beauty of Castle- 
wood, Sunset, M. A. E. Carriere, M. Leo Delibes, and 
other well-known standard varieties. Mrs. Alpheus 
Hardy is another failure here, and although Louis 
Bcehmer was shown in decent form, I am not particu¬ 
larly struck with its colour, if it has a colour, which 
I much doubt. Its constitution is good however, 
and that is more than can be written of Mrs. Alpheus 
Hardy, which is wretched in the extreme. 1 must 
not forget to mention Puritan, another grand sort; 
whether for exhibition, cut bloom, or specimen 
plant it would be hard to beat. At the Melbourne 
Exhibition I am told the best specimen Jap—a good 
plant — was Lady T. Lawrence. 
I had a run out a few days ago to visit another 
correspondent of yours, " G. H. K." I found every¬ 
thing as I expected in Mr. Von der Heyde’s garden 
at Strathfield under his charge in first-rate order, 
though he don't seem quite reconciled to the Buffalo 
sward in front of hisemployer’s residence—Hobson’s 
choice in this climate—however, even that is as fit as 
hands can make it. Of course while in the neigh¬ 
bourhood of Strathfield I had to pay a visit to your 
old friend, " C. B.," and I found him lost to sight in 
the midst of about 30,000 of his favourites, the "ever- 
bloomers," for which Homebush is getting cele¬ 
brated. It is well that the Roses retain-their beau¬ 
tiful and delicate tints in this far-off land, for it is 
more than can be said of an Englishman's skin when 
exposed to the rays of an Australian sun for a few 
summers. Could you, Mr. Editor, have but looked in 
upon us for a few moments as we stood amongst ihe 
lovely bloom displayed in such profusion on my 
friend's plants, your admiration for the queen of 
flowers would have been intensified ; but had you 
turned your gaze upon us, well, to say the least, the 
contrast would have " hit you hard." Friend C. B. 
has recently opened out in the Strand here, where, if 
ready courtesy and strict attention to business does 
meet with its reward, he will meet with it no doubt 
Of a certainty no one here can place such wares in the 
window in the shape of Roses as he, so his chances 
should be second to none. 
We are having lovely weather here now. French 
Beans are still being picked in quantity, and the last 
of the Pines (Smooth Cayenne) and Bananas (Musa 
Cavendishii) are being cut. Violets are plentiful, 
and Narcissi are just holding up their heads in the 
beds and borders, theugh winter work is in full 
swing.— J. H. H., Cranbrook, N.S. IF., May 3 isl, 1892. 
BEGONIAS IN AMERICA. 
A friend who is visiting the United States, writing 
from New York on the 6th inst., says:—"I have 
been out to see Mr. Griffin among other Englishmen 
who have settled down in the States, and was fairly 
‘knocked ’ with what I saw in the Begonia way, and 
especially with a strain of sweet-scented varieties. 
Mr. Griffin is located at the Oasis Nursery, Long 
Island, and besides a grand lot of plants under glass, 
he has over two acres planted out with Begonias in 
the burning sun—and old Sol does shine here. 
Needless to say they are doing splendidly, and will 
soon be a sea of bloom. Two large houses are for 
the moment the centre of attraction to visitors, and 
the flowers, both singles and doubles, are remarkably 
good in habit and in the form and colour of the 
flowers. The cultivation surprised me not a little 
also, for I saw some doubles with some fifty and 
more stems, making specimens 4 ft. through, but .1 
will write you more about these anon. 
" Of sweet-scented varieties I saw several thousand 
plants in flower. They are unmistakably and 
deliciously scented, and what this race will do 
towards still further popularising these glorious 
flowers it is quite beyond my power to estimate. 
They have been obtained by crossing B. Bowmanni 
and a garden hybrid named Fulgens, with ordinary 
varieties of stronger habit and possessing larger 
flowers, and the result is a success on which Mr. 
Griffin may be heartily congratulated.” 
