July 30, 1392. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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inauguration fete on the 19th and 20th inst. The 
proprietor. Mr. Ross, offered some very liberal prizes, 
and a large number of the leading trade growers of 
the kingdom gave a generous response in their large 
entries, but the very unsettled weather, with so much 
rain just before the 19th, so bruised the blooms that 
a large number of withdrawals had to be made. 
Still there was a very fine display by Mr. B. R. Cant, 
Mr. Frank Cant, Messrs. Cooling & Sons, Dicksons, 
Limited, Messrs. Prior & Sons, Messrs. Perkins & 
Sons, Messrs. Jeffries & Son, Mr. H. V. Machin, and 
many local amateurs. 
For 72 blooms, Mr. Frank Cant was 1st with a 
beautiful lot, including fine blooms of Mary Bennett, 
Victor Hugo, Her Majesty, Pride of Waltham, Duke 
of Edinburgh, Comtesse de Nadaillac, Benoit Comte, 
Madame Eugene Verdier, and Gustave Pigareau ; 
2nd, Mr. B. R. Cant, in whose stand were fine blooms 
open, 1st, Mr. Frank Cant: 2nd, Messrs. Jeffries & 
Son ; 3rd, Messrs. Prior & Sons; 4th, Mr. B. R. 
Cant. In the classes for 12 Lights, 12 Darks, and 12 
Yellows there was a good competition by the trade 
growers. 
The withdrawals through the terrible weather 
numbered nearly 2,000 blooms, and all through the 
first day it rained with a strong gale blowing. The 
second day was a lovely one, and a large number of 
visitors attended. Messrs. Cooling & Sons con¬ 
tributed two boxes of their garden decorative Roses 
as at Wolverhampton, and they were much admired. 
Large prizes were offered for circular groups of 
plants, and these filled t'he centre of a very long 
tent. Mr. W. PI. Dyer, gardener to Mrs. 
Marigold, Edgbaston, was 1st with a very beautiful 
group ; Mr. Earp, the gardener at Highbury, being 
2nd with a fine group in which were several Orchids, 
An exhibition of Dahlias and other things with 
good prizes is to take place the end of August. 
CATTLEYA WARSCE- 
WICZII HARDYANA. 
The season has again come round for such hand¬ 
some Cattleyas as C. Dowiana, C. Warscewiczii, 
better known as C. gigas, and C. W. Hardyana, to 
adorn the shelves and stages of the Orchid houses as 
well as the exhibition table. We were agreeably 
reminded of this fact by receiving some beautiful 
flowers of C. Warscewiczii, otherwise C. gigas, and 
C. W. Sanderiana from a Lancashire correspondent 
who signs himself '• W.” The flowers of the first- 
named, which was introduced about threa years ago 
under the name of C. imperialis, measured somewhat 
over 8 in. in diameter and bore every evidence 
Cattleya Warscewiczii Hardyana. 
of Mrs. John Laing, Prince Arthur, Ernest Metz, 
Countess of Rosebery, Gustave Pigareau, Mr. Paul, 
Comtesse de Nadaillac, and Madame de Watteville. 
For 48 blooms; 1st, Messrs. Perkins & Sons; 2nd, 
Mr. B. R. Cant ; 3rd, Messrs Dicksons, Limited ; 
4th, Messrs. Cooling & Sons. For 36 trebles there had 
been 10 entries, but only one could be staged, from 
Mr. B. R. Cant, a fine lot of bloom, to which the first 
prize of /6 was awarded. For 36 dissimilar, there 
had been 13 entries ; 1st, Messrs. Perkins & Sons ; 
2nd, Messrs. Dicksons, Limited ; 3rd, Messrs. Jeffries 
& Son ; 4th, Messrs. Prior & Sons. 
For 24 Roses, amateurs, 1st, Mr. H. V. Machin, 
Worksop; 2nd, Mr. J. Egginton, Wolverhampton. 
The two classes for amateurs residing within six 
miles of the Birmingham Post Office were well filled 
and well competed for. For 24 Teas or Noisettes, 
but a flatness in the arrangement marred the effect 
here ; Mr. Dunning was 3rd. 
Some charming smaller groups in another class 
were also set up, and Messrs. Thomson & Co., 
nurserymen, staged a beautifully arranged group at 
the entrance to the tent. Messrs. Hewitt & Co. con- 
tributeda fine bank of Pelargoniums, abox of plantsof 
the very pretty decorative variety A. F. Barron, fine 
Begonia blooms, and cut herbaceous plants. Messrs- 
Thomsons a collection of herbaceous blooms, etc. 
Mr. Hy. Eckford, Wem, 36 bunches of his fine 
Sweet Peas, including several new varieties. Mr. 
Jannoch, Lily Nurseries, Dersingham, a charming 
display of Lily of the Valley blooms, and his new 
fine Adiantum Capillus-Veneris, var. grande. Messrs. 
Hy. Cannell & Sons a grand lot of Double Begonia 
blooms admirably staged in sprays. 
of good cultivation, caasidering that the plant 
itself was a very small piece when bought at 
Mr. Tautz's sale about two years ago. The 
special feature of the flower was that the two 
conspicuous eye spots of the lip were connected 
together across the disc, a circumstance which, we 
think, is not very common. The other variety had 
smaller, but sweetly scented flowers with a much 
darker lip, without the scattered spots seen in C. 
Warscewiczii. The eye spots were also distinctly 
separated, as in the variety C. W. Hardyana, which 
we illustrate to show the general character of the 
grand forms of C. labiata, which may be ranked 
under C. 1 . Warscewiczii. The lip of Mr. Hardy's 
grand Cattleya is notable for its rich and intense 
colours reminding us of what occurs in C. Dowiana 
and which led to its being supposed a natural hybrid 
between G. labiata Dowiana aurea and C. 1 . 
Warscewiczii, otherwise known as C. gigas. 
