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THE GARDENING WORLD 
^Tovem'ber 23, 1889. 
display of Primulas, all remarkable for their size and 
fine quality. The Grapes exhibited are for the most 
part very fine, and for six bunches, the first prize is 
taken by Mr. Goodacre, Elvaston ; Mr. J. F. Campbell, 
Uttoxeter, being second ; and Mr. Iggulden, Marston, 
Frome, third. Apples and Pears are also well shown, 
both in quantity and quality—there being no less than 
sixty-seven exhibitors. 
Kingston and Surbiton. 
In unusually pleasant weather on the first day, but 
somewhat marred by fog on the second, this popular 
suburban society held its annual exhibition in the large 
Drill Hall on the 11th and 12th inst. The general effect 
here is always pleasing, because the show is concen¬ 
trated, but still there were serious gaps in the groups 
and trained plants, which seems to evidence either that 
plant-showing is in this district getting out of fashion, 
or else that the season was too early for the show. 
Some excellent decorative groups of ordinary greenhouse 
and stove plants helped materially, the best coming 
from Mr. J. W. Read, gardener to E. Pettit, Esq., 
Oatlands Park, whose base was excellent, if less gay 
with flower than was the pretty one from Mr. T. A. 
Glover, gardener to E. Ellis, Esq., Wallington ; whilst 
Mr. J. Bress, gardener to H. Weston, Esq., Epsom, 
and Mr. G. Card, gardener to M. Buchner, Esq., 
Thames Ditton, were placed equal third. Mr. Pitcher, 
gardener to Mrs. Dunnage, Surbiton, had the best 
group of Chrysanthemums, which was well arranged, 
though the flowers were only moderate; Mr. T. 
Hunt, gardener to Cecil Doyle, Esq , Wimbledon, was 
placed second. Mr. J. Sallows, gardener to Miss 
Vaughan, Twickenham, had the best six specimen 
plants in Lord Wolseley, St. Patrick, Mrs. G. Rundle, 
and Mrs. Dixon. Mr. N. Street, gardener to J. N. 
Ponsford, Esq., Esher, had the best three specimens in 
W. Robinson, Mdlle. Paule Dutour and Mdlle. Lacroix; 
Mr. Sallows being second. Mr. Street had the best 
three standards, and Mr. Read the best six Pompons 
—a lot of capital plants unnamed. He also had the 
best single specimen Pompon in Golden Mdlle. Marthe. 
Mr. W. Sullivan, gardener to D. B. Chapman, Esq., 
Roehampton, had the best nine table plants, which were 
very good ; Mr. A. Carter, gardener to Alderman Evans, 
Ewell, being second. Mr. T. Cushon, gardener to P. 
Bancroft, Esq., Surbiton Park, had the best berried 
Solanums. The best six Chinese Primulas, all double 
white, came from Mr. Street; Mr. Bress being second 
with the same variety. 
The ordinary competition for the Challenge Vase, 
to which we have elsewhere made reference, brought no 
less than eight competitors, the conditions being 
twenty-four Japs and a like number of incurved, the 
vase to be won two years. W. Furze, Esq., Teddington 
(gardener, Mr. E. Coombes), who won last year, was 
again successful, taking clean away the fifth Challenge 
Vase. The incurved kinds were very good, the Japs 
moderate, whilst in both the second collection from 
Mr. A. Mease, gardener to A. Tate, Esq., Leatherhead, 
and the third from Mr. C. Beckett, gardener to T. H. 
Bryant, Esq., Dorking, the Japs were better, but the 
incurved sorts were less meritorious. Generally the 
blooms were not of the high quality seen in some 
previous years. Mr. Coombes was first with twenty- 
four incurved flowers, all very good. Mr. G. Woodgate, 
the esteemed secretary, and gardener to Lady Wolverton, 
Coombe Warren, was second, some of his blooms being 
excellent. In the class tor twelve incurved Mr. R. 
Cawte, gardener to P. Robinson, Esq., Esher, was first, 
Mr. Beckett coming second. With six blooms Mr. 
Folgate, gardener to the Duchess of Wellington, 
Walton, was first, and Mr. Quarterman, gardener to 
C. E. Smith, Esq., Cobham, second. For six blooms 
of one kind Mr. Coombes was first, with beautiful 
Violet Tomlin, a superb variety for this class. Golden 
Queen of England from Mr. Carpenter was second, and 
Empress of India third. Reflexed blooms were very 
good, Mr. Carpenter being first with twelve, Culling- 
fordi, Putney George, the Christines, Mrs. Forsyth, &c., 
being excellent ; Mr. Mease was second. 
Japanese made a good show, the best twenty-four 
blooms coming from Mr. C. Holden, whose exhibits 
were fresh if none too large ; Mr. Mease was second, 
and Mr. J. Thorne, Walton, third. With twelve 
blooms Mr. Beckett was a good first, Mr. Hookings, 
gardener to G. W. Graystone, Esq., West Molesey, 
being second, and Mr. Cawte third. Mr. Quarterman 
had the best six blooms. The best six Japanese 
blooms of one variety came from Mr. Beckett, who ex¬ 
hibited very good samples of the dark Jeanne Delaux, 
Stanstead White coming second, and Boule d’Or third. 
Mr. Woodgate had the best Japanese Anemones, Fabias 
de Mediana being very fine. Mr. Coombes had the best 
twelve ordinary Anemones. Mr. W. Clark, gardener 
to A. Nagle, Esq., Kingston, had the best twelve 
bunches of Pompons, and Mr. Wood, Wimbledon, the 
best Anemones and Pompons. 
Certificates of Merit were awarded to Mr. J. Bress for 
Lady Dorothy, a copper-yellow sport from Hero of Stoke 
Newington ; to Miss M. A. Haggas, from Mr. Molyneux ; 
and to some really wonderful flowers of a deep rosy lilac 
colour of Etoile de Lyon, Japanese, also from Mr. 
Molyneux. Bouquets were put up in fine form from 
Messrs. Perkins & Sons, of Coventry, and Mrs. 
Gardiner, of Twickenham, and Miss Clarke, of Whitton, 
had the best dressed Epergnes. 
In the fruit classes Mr. Hockings was an easy first 
with three fine hunches of Gros Maroc ; in the Grape 
class Mr. Griffin, gardener to Miss Christy, being 
second with excellent Alicantes. Mr. Griffin also had 
capital Muscat of Alexandria in the white class. The 
best Pears came from Mr. Bates, gardener to W. 
Nicholson, Esq., Poulett Lodge, Twickenham, and the 
best four dishes of Apples from Mr. Carter. Mr. 
Laytham, Royal Gardens, Hampton Court, had several 
baskets of good Grapes, and dishes of Potatos. 
Exeter. 
The Devon and Exeter Horticultural Society is, per¬ 
haps, of all kindred institutions in England the most 
unfortunate as regards weather. So persistently has 
Jupiter Pluvius attended its meetings that in Exeter a 
wet day for the flower show has become proverbial. 
Year after year the committee have had to face lean 
coffers as a consequence of this stereotyped bad luck. 
It was therefore a source of much mutual and hearty 
congratulation among the members that on Friday last, 
the 15th inst., for once the clerk of the weather was in 
a gracious mood, and granted a particularly fine day 
for the autumn show of the society. The result was 
manifest—a very large attendance, a swollen treasury, 
and a feeling of gratification all round. The exhibition 
was held in the Victoria Hall, and when opened to the 
public the hall presented a splendid appearance, the 
arrangement of the tables and the grouping of the col¬ 
lections being admirably managed, thanks to the 
unceasing care and forethought of the honorary secre¬ 
tary, Mr. G. D. Cann, and a good working committee. 
The judges were:—For Chrysanthemums: Mr. 
Wildsmith, Heckfield ; Mr. Luxton, of the Exeter 
Nursery ; and Mr. Leslie Tucker, an amateur florist of 
much repute. For fruit: Mr. D. C. Powell, of 
Powderham Castle Gardens ; Mr. Franklin, gardener to 
Edward Johnson, Esq., of Farringdon ; and Mr. Henry 
Michelmore. 
The first prize in Class 1, for a group of Chrysanthe¬ 
mums in pots, was awarded to Mark Farrant, Esq., of 
St. Thomas (gardener, Mr. Cauuter). This was really 
an excellent lot, and had not the scaffold-pole ap¬ 
pearance that so frequently disfigures a collection. 
The plants were well furnished with healthy foliage 
from the rim of the pot to the top of the blooms, and 
were sturdy and short. In Class 2, the competition 
was very close between Mr. Theophilus Knapman and 
Mr. Wm. Brock, the judges awarding premier honours 
to Mr. Knapman. Many experts thought it would 
have been as well that an equal first had been awarded. 
In Class 3, for a group of plants arranged for effect, 
Mr. W. Brock was an easy first; his gardener, Mr. 
W. Rowland, being facile princcps at arrangement 
for effect, worked in with good taste some remarkably 
well-grown and well-coloured Poinsettias and Crotons, 
relieved with Eucharis and white Bouvardias. 
The cut blooms were a very even lot, and nearly all 
were well shown. Messrs. Robert Veitch & Sons’ Cup 
for forty-eight blooms (twenty-four incurved and twenty- 
four Japanese) went to Mr. John Marshall, of Taunton, 
who staged a splendid lot of blooms, and who carried 
off the first prize at Taunton the day before. The 
largest bloom in the show was exhibited by T. C. 
Daniel, Esq., ofStoodleigh Court (gardener, Mr. Barnes). 
It was a fine specimen of Etoile de Lyon, measuring 
over 10 ins. across. The finest incurved was a bloom 
shown by Mrs. Wild, of Newton Abbot, a capital flower 
of that good old sort—Empress of India. Mr. J. 
Marshall also carried off firsts for twelve reflexed and 
twelve Anemone-flowered. For blooms shown with 
foliage on the stems, T. C. Daniel, Esq., was first with 
eighteen well-finished Japanese ; and General Hamilton, 
of Dunchideock, with eighteen incurved. Ralph 
Brocklebank and other new varieties were, as a rule, 
well shown. In the fruit classes, Mr. V. Sticky, the 
Rev. H. Clerk, and T. C. Daniel, Esq., were the prize¬ 
winners ; while for one Pine Apple, General Sir Redvers 
Buller, of Downes (gardener, Mr. Bull), as usual, took 
first place. 
Apples and Pears were a most formidable array, and 
it would be difficult to find at any exhibition a more 
uniform degree of perfection. For the twenty-four 
varieties of Apples, Sir T. D. Acland, of Killerton 
(gardener, Mr. Garland), was first with a remarkably 
well-selected and well-grown lot ; Mrs. Richards, of 
Beare House (gardener, Mr. Bawden), being a good 
second. Single dishes were well represented, some 
varieties, such as Blenheim Orange and Cornish Gilli- 
flower, not usually noted for colour, being shown with 
a wonderful bloom on them, in addition to great size 
and perfect shape. Pears have been shown better in 
Exeter than on this occasion, but still there were some 
very fine dishes staged. The first prize for nine 
varieties went to Sir T. D. Acland, and the six varieties 
for dessert to Lord Poltimore (gardener, Mr. Abrahams). 
The Rev. P. L. D. Acland, of Broadclyst (gardener, 
Mr. W. Biker;, showed a fine dish of Uvedale’s St. 
Germain, the five fruits weighing 7 lbs. 14 ozs. The 
leading local nurserymen, Messrs. Robert Veitch & Son, 
made a big display in fruit and Chrysanthemums, 
showing, amongst other varieties, a specimen of the 
famous “Mrs. Alpheus Hardy,” which attracted much 
attention from the leading growers of “Mums ” present. 
Messrs. Veitch’s collection was a fine one, and occupied 
the entire breadth of the large hall. Taken all round 
it was the best autumn exhibition the society has yet 
held. 
Bromley. 
The eighth annual exhibition of the Bromley District 
Society took place on the 13th and 14th inst., and 
was a thorough success. In the open classes Mr. Black- 
hurne, gardener to J. Scott, Esq., junr., of Chislehurst, 
was first for thirty-six blooms, distinct, eighteen 
incurved and eighteen Japanese ; and Mr. Adlam, 
gardener to W. S. Millns, Esq., Grove Park, second. 
Mr. Blaekburne was also first for twenty-four blooms, 
eight incurved, eight Japanese, and eight reflexed ; and 
also for twelve Japanese ; while Mr. Adlam was second 
for twelve Japanese and for twelve incurved, there being 
no other exhibitor. In the Cup class, open to the 
district, for thirty-six blooms, eighteen incurved and 
eighteen Japanese, distinct, Mr. Leadbetter, gardener 
to A. G. Hubbuck, Esq , Chislehurst, was first ; Mr. 
Jordan second ; and Mr. Parks, gardener to H. M. 
Pollett, Eiq., Bickley, third. Mr. Leadbetter was also 
first for twelve Japanese, for twelve incurved, and for 
six Japauese, Mr. Barnes, gardener to A. Bovell, Esq., 
being second, but beating Mr. Leadbetter in the class 
for six incurved. Mr. Pascoe, gardener to Captain 
Torrens, president of the society, was first for twelve 
large-flowered Anemones ; Mr. Leadbetter second ; and 
Mr. Cocksedge, gardener to G. Wilmore, Esq., Chish- 
hurst, third. Forsix blooms of one variety of Japanese 
Mr. Pascoe was first with Madame C. Audigueur ; Mr. 
Leadbetter second with Avalanche ; and Mr. Cocksedge 
third with L’Adorable. Mr. Barnes was first for 
reflexed varieties with very fine blooms, and Mr. 
Pascoe’s first prize lot of Pompons were superb. Mr. 
Blaekburne had the best incurved bloom, Golden 
Empress, and Mr. Leadbetter’s Sunflower was the best 
Japanese. 
Mr. Brister, gardener to F. Charlesworth, Esq., 
Bickley, won the Cup for the best group arranged for 
effect, with a lot of well-grown and superbly-flowered 
plants, among which the best Japanese kinds were pre¬ 
dominant. Mr. East was second, and Mr. "Walton, gar¬ 
dener to F. N. Lloyd. Esq., third. Mr. Brister was first 
forsix trained specimens, which were admitted to be the 
best ever seen in Bromley. The varieties were Mdlle. 
Lacroix, Elaine, Source d’Or, Mrs. Dixon, Hiver Fleuri, 
and Madame B. Rendatler. Mr. Bates, gardener to 
Mrs. Borton, was first for six standard Chrysanthemums 
and for three trained specimens ; Mr. Gearing, gardener 
to S. Williams, Esq., being second. For twelve table 
plants, distinct, in 6-in. pots, Mr. Hazel, gardener to T. 
A. Mitchell, Esq., was first ; Mr. Lyddiard, gardener 
to A. Norman, Esq., second ; and Mr. Saul, gardener 
to F. A. Philbrick, Esq., Q.C., third. Mr. Brister 
was first for thirty-six trusses of zonal Pelargoniums in 
twelve varieties ; and Mr. McArthur, gardener to J. 
Whitehead, Esq., had the best eighteen trusses in six 
varieties. 
Messrs. Barnes, Brister, and Gearing all showed well 
in the class for twelve Primulas. Mr. Sharland, 
gardener to L. Wigram, Esq., was first for six Primulas, 
and Mr. McArthur had the best six double Primulas. 
Bouquets of Chrysanthemum blooms and foliage were 
numerous and good, the Silver Medal in the open class 
