November 2, 1895. 
THE GARDENING WORLD, 
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charming yellow variety of C. insigne, named C. i. 
Laura Kimball, which is quite new (Silver Flora 
Medal). 
Messrs. W. L. Lewis & Co., Southgate, exhibited 
a collection of cut flowers, including Oncidium 
varicosum, Cattleya labiata, C. dowiana aurea, 
Vanda amesiana, and Cypripedium insigne Maulei. 
A showy and attractive collection of cut flowers of 
some splendid varieties of Cattleyas was exhibited 
by Thomas Statter, Esq. (gardener, Mr. R. Johnson), 
Stand Hall, Manchester. Amongst them we noted 
C. dowiana aurea johnsoniana, C. d. a. magnifica, 
C. labiata rubens, C. 1 . Excelsior, C. maxima, Cypri¬ 
pedium spicerianum virescens, and others (Silver 
Flora Medal). 
Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans, showed a 
mixed group of Orchids, in which we noticed some 
grand varieties of Cattleya labiata, Laelia marginata, 
Habenaria Susannae, Catasetum christyanum, and 
tall branching specimens of Oncidium varicosum 
Rogersii and O. tigrinum. A bigeneric hybrid 
named Laeliocattleya andreana was shown by A. 
Truffaut, Esq., 40, Rue des Chantiers, Versailles. 
Cattleya labiata Wingfield var. was shown by Mrs. 
Wingfield (gardener, Mr. Empson), Ampthill House, 
Ampthill. 
R. I. Measures, Esq. (gardener, Mr. H. Chap¬ 
man), Cambridge Lodge, Camberwell, exhibited a 
compact little group of Orchids, in which a large 
and well-flowered piece of Oncidium ornithorhyn- 
chum albiflorum was the most conspicuous object. 
Numerous Cypripediums, including C. insigne Cam¬ 
bridge Lodge variety, C. Charles Richman, C. allan- 
ianum superbum (a new hybrid), the beautiful 
Cattleya hardyana and C labiata R. I. Measures' 
var. (Silver Banksian Medal). 
Geo. C. Raphael, Esq. (gardener, Mr. Adams), 
Englefield Green, exhibited some fine forms of 
Cattleya labiata and Vanda caerulea Raphael’s var. 
That strange-looking Orchid, Houlletia tigrina, was 
exhibited by Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart, (grower, 
Mr. W. H. White), Burford Lodge, Dorking. 
A Silver Banksian Medal was awarded to F. 
Hardy, Esq., Cheshire, for a showy collection of 
plants and cut flowers of Cattleyas, including C. 
labiata, C. 1 . alba, C. Harrisii, C. bowringiana gigan- 
tea, and others. Wilberforce Bryant, Esq. (gar¬ 
dener, Mr. D, Kemp), Slough, showed a spike of 
Cattleya labiata Stoke Park var., bearing five showy 
blooms. 
Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, Chelsea, exhibited a 
group of Hybrid Orchids, including Laeliocattleya 
statteriana, L. Euphrosyne, Cattleya Eurydice, C. 
Mantinii, Cypripedium Thora, and C. Bruno, all of 
which possessed something peculiarly characteristic. 
Alongside of this collection was a group of the new 
double winter-flowering Begonias raised by the firm, 
including a charming variety named Success, having 
carmine flowers and a yellow centre to the rosette 
of petals. Cypripedium Clotho and Cattleya labiata 
youngeana were shown by R. Young, Esq. (gardener, 
Mr. T. Poyntz), Sefton Park, Liverpool. A fine 
piece of Cattleya Mantinii colorata, bearing six 
flowers on a stem, was exhibited by M. Georges 
Mantin, Chateau de Bel-Air, France. 
Chrysanthemums, although not present in such 
strong force as might have been expected were yet 
fairly represented. The only group of plants in pots 
was contributed by Messrs. J. Veitch & Son. This 
was a really grand exhibit, and thoroughly deserved 
the Silver Flora Medal awarded it by the committee. 
Viviand Morel, Louise, International, Charles Davis, 
Mrs. W. H. Lees, Sunflower, and Col. W. B. Smith 
were especially conspicuous, carrying large well-de¬ 
veloped blooms. Cut blooms were exhibited by several 
well-known growers. Amongst them was Mr. R. C. 
Notcutt, Ipswich, who had good samples of Elsie 
Teichmann, Edith Tabor and Miss Bostock ; Mr. W. 
Tidy, Brockhampton Nurseries, Havant, Herts, who 
had a good incurved variety, Zealandia; Mr. Robert 
Owen, Maidenhead, with Charles Young, Dorothy 
Gibson, Ada Fulford, and Rose Owen in first-class 
condition; Mr. H. J. Jones, Ryecroft Nursery, 
Hither Green, Lewisham, S.E., who had Madame 
A. Maulin, Mrs. E. G. Whittle among the Japanese, 
and C. H. Curtis, D. B. Crane and Mr. Jas. Murray 
among the incurved section in grand order ; Mr. W. 
Wells, Earlswood Nuseries, Redhill, Surrey. 
An Award of Merit was made to Mr. H. Briscoe- 
Ironside, Cedar Lodge, Burgess Hill, for the rotary 
Chrysanthemum stands, tastefully filled with flowers, 
submitted by him. Messrs. H. Cannell & Sons, 
Swanley, Kent, showed bunches of cut blooms of 
Japanese Chrysanthemums, Fashion and Yellow 
Source d'Or, the lovely single variety Miss Annie 
Holden, and a few named Cannas. From Messrs. 
Wallace & Co., Colchester, came examples of the 
rarely-met-with Lycoris aurea and Lilium 
nepalense. 
Mr. G. Bond, gardener to S. F. Fisher, Esq., The 
Grove, Streatham, staged a considerable number of 
remarkably well-grown Crotons in 48-sized pots. 
Many of the best varieties in cultivation were repre¬ 
sented, and the foliage throughout was clean, 
healthy, and wonderfully well coloured, and re¬ 
flected great credit upon Mr. Bond's skill as a 
cultivator (Silver Banksian Medal). 
Vegetables formed a prime feature of the show, 
several of the exhibits being of a very extensive and 
comprehensive character. One of the most con¬ 
spicuous exhibits in this section was undoubtedly 
the large display of Potatos made by Messrs. 
Sutton & Sons, of Reading. The collection consisted 
of thirty-one distinct varieties, which they have 
from time to time introduced, notably the far-famed 
Magnum Bonum, which has acquired for itself a 
name and fame as a splendid disease resisting 
variety. Supreme, Windsor Castle, Triumph, 
Satisfaction, Flourball, and Harbinger; all these 
sorts have abundantly proved themselves to be some 
of the very best in cultivation, for besides being 
heavy croppers, and, from their robust constitution, 
splendid disease-resisters, they possess superb 
cooking qualities, a most important point in con¬ 
sidering the merits of any Potato. The tubers 
placed by Messrs. Sutton & Sons upon the Drill 
Hall tables were throughout of great size and 
weight, clean, well-grown, and free from spot or 
blemish of any kind. In addition to the afore¬ 
mentioned sorts, several seedlings not yet upon the 
market were forthcoming, which gave good promise 
of adding yet further to the lists of reliable 
varieties. Very interesting, moreover, were the 
tubers of Solanum tuberosum, S. etuberosum, S. 
Maglia, and such novelties as Papa d'Amarylla, Fir 
Apple (both red and white), Almond, and Congo 
Potatos. A Silver Knightian Medal was awarded in 
recognition of this superb exhibit. 
A collection of vegetables which included 
Cabbages, Leeks, Turnips, and Potatos was contribu¬ 
ted by Messrs. H.Cannell & Sons. Potatos especially 
were present in great numbers, such well-known 
sorts as Mrs. Breese, Beauty of Hebron, Early 
Rose, Jenny Deans, Best of All, Come to Stay, and 
Schoolmaster were well and worthily represented, as, 
indeed, were a host of other varieties too numerous 
to mention. (Silver Knightian Medal). 
A large collection of vegetables in splendid con¬ 
dition was exhibited by Mr. Empson, gardener to 
Mrs. Wingfield, Ampthill, Bucks. Kales, Cauli¬ 
flowers, Cabbages, Leeks, Brussels Sprouts, Cucum¬ 
bers, Tomatos, Celery, and roots of all kinds were 
in abundance, and were wonderfully neat and 
meritorious samples (Silver Gilt Knightian Medal). 
A small group of salads of various kinds came 
from Mr. G. Wythes, gardener to Earl Percy, Syon 
House, Brentford (Silver Banksian Medal). Mr 
Wythes had also a very nice collection of Apples and 
Pears. Among the former such sorts as Ribston 
Pippin, King of the Pippins, Cox’s Orange Pippin, 
Lord Derby, Warner's King, and Blenheim Orange 
were excellent, whilst of Pears, Beurre Diel, Nouvelle 
Fulvie, and Mons. Leon de Clerc were excellent 
(Silver Banksian Medal). 
A most interesting feature was supplied by Messrs. 
D. and W. Buchanan, Kippen, Stirling. It consisted 
of a collection of Grapes and Tomatos which had 
stood the long railway journey remarkably well. The 
appearance of the fruit was much enhanced by the 
tasteful way in which it was arranged on the table, 
two screens of white canvas, decorated with beauti¬ 
fully-coloured vine leaves in all the rich glory of the 
first stages of autumnal decay, serving as a splendid 
background for the bunches of Grapes and trusses 
of Tomatos (Silver Banksian Medal). 
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OBITUARY. 
With deep regret we have to record the passing 
away of a famous horticulturist in the person of Mr. 
Christian Frederick Bause, whose death, after a 
long and very painful illness, took place at his 
residence, the Morland Nursery, Portland Road, 
South Norwood, on the morning of the 23rd ult. 
For many months past it was but too evident to his 
family and friends that poor Bause’s days were 
numbered, his sufferings arising from some internal 
complaint that set diagnosis at defiance, and for 
which he could obtain no medical relief. He well 
knew that his end was near, and bore his severe 
trials with great fortitude. By the death of Mr. 
Bause, horticulture has lost one of her most famous 
sons, a man of rare skill as a hybridist and plant 
cultivator, and one whose personal characteristics— 
enthusiasm in his work, genial and kindly manners, 
and whole-hearted good nature—endeared him to all 
who knew him. 
Mr. Bause was born fifty-six years ago at 
Rodichen, near Gotha, in Thuringia, and commenced 
to work in the nurseries of his native land at a 
very early age. Propagating became his favourite 
vocation, and in this he soon became an adept, so 
skilful, in fact, and so uniformly successful that it 
is doubtful if he had many superiors. His last em¬ 
ployment on the Continent was in the gardens of 
the Baroness de Rothschild at the Pavilion de 
Pregny, Geneva, whence he came to England in 
1863 and found employment with Mr. Hermann 
Herbst, at the Kew Nursery, Richmond. In 1865 
he became propagator in the Royal Horticultural 
Society’s gardens at Chiswick, and there found 
ample scope for the display of his talent as a propa¬ 
gator and his skill as a hybridist. One of his 
earliest achievements was the raising of the first 
batch of hybrid Coleuses (between C. Gibsoni and 
C. Verschaffeltii) ever obtained in this country, and 
the sale of a dozen of which at Stevens’ Rooms in 
April, 1868, for £390, created somewhat of a 
sensation among plant growers, and set a fashion 
that lasted for some years to the great advantage of 
the nursery trade. It was one of the conditions of 
sale that the whole of the batch of plants raised 
with the exception of the selected dozen should be 
destroyed, and it fell to the lot of the writer, then 
working under Bause, to carry out the council’s 
edict, which was done with great regret for many 
varieties were so destroyed that had more merit than 
many which have been certificated since. Bause 
also raised at Chiswick that very beautiful varie¬ 
gated stove foliage plant, Dieffenbachia Bausei, 
some beautiful tricolor-leaved Pelargoniums, then in 
the heyday of their glory, some yellow-leaved 
Caladiums, and the first golden-leaved Fuchsia that 
we ever had. 
In 1869 Mr Bause left Chiswick and entered the 
service of Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, at Chelsea, as 
foreman of the Fern department, subsequently taking 
charge of the new plant department, then a very 
responsible position. Here he raised a number of 
beautiful Crotons, Dracaenas, Anthuriums, Poin- 
settias, &c. In the autumn of 1873 the late Mr. John 
Wills took a large nursery at Anerley, of which Mr. 
Bause became the manager, and soon added to his 
reputation as a hybridist by raising a magnificent 
batch of new Dracaenas, many of which still hold 
their own against sorts sent out since. He also 
greatly improved the erect-flowering type of Gloxinia, 
and devoted a great deal of attention to the raising of 
new Ferns in which he was also exceedingly 
successful, several very beautiful things being 
obtained which will keep his memory green for many 
a year to come. In 1884 he started a new nursery at 
South Norwood, beginning with a few houses and 
adding others as circumstances permitted, until he 
last year completed his original scheme of building 
operations, for which he worked so hard and 
incessantly, alas ! only to see his ttisk accomplished, 
not to live to enjoy the fruits of his labour. Here he 
made Dracaenas, Crotons, Caladiums, and Palms a 
speciality, raising many new sorts of the first three 
named popular subjects, besides several more new 
Ferns. Two years ago he was successful in raising 
what he had long tried to obtain—a fine batch of 
dwarf, [compact-habited Caladiums which subse¬ 
quently passed into the hands of Messrs. Veitch & 
Sons, and some of which have already been put into 
commerce, in due time, as we believe, to become 
exceedingly popular for decorative purposes. To no 
other raiser of new plants has it been given, during 
the last quarter of a century, to raise so many 
splendid novelties, and when the horticultural 
history of our time comes to be written, may the 
grand achievements of Christian Frederick Bause 
find a worthy record ! 
The mortal remains of our old friend were laid at 
rest on Monday last in the churchyard at Shirley, 
near Croydon, in the presence of his sorrowing family 
and of many attached friends, including the Rev. W. 
Wilks, Mr. Marshall, Chairman of the Floral Com¬ 
mittee, Mr. Barron, Mr. Head, Mr. Laing, and Mr. 
J. H. Laing, Mr. Wynne and Mr. Wright. Mr. 
Bause has left a widow, three sons and two daughters 
to mourn his loss. His eldest son—and a worthy 
