April 28, 1894. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
551 
similar, Mr. Henwood was again first, with Geo. 
Rudd (Woodhead), Lancashire Hero (Lancashire), 
Rev. F. D. Horner (Simonite), Mrs. Potts (Barlow), 
Mrs. Dodwell (Woodhead), and Geo. Lightbody 
(Headley). In this competition Mr. A. J. Sanders 
got into the second place, Mr. Douglas being again 
third, with Mr. Patterson fourth, Mr. B. Simonite 
fifth, and Mr. J. Weston, Clapham Park, sixth. For 
four, distinct, Mr. W. Smith, Bishops Stortford, 
came to the front with Geo. Lightbody (Headley), 
Heather Bell (Horner), Mrs. Potts (Barlow), and 
Rev. F. D. Horner (Simonite); and next in order of 
merit came Mr. C. Phillips, of Reading, Mr. W. F. 
P. Meakin, Castle Hill, Duffield,and Mr. J. J. Keen, 
Southampton. Mr. W. Badcock, Oxford Road, 
Reading, had the best pair in Mrs. Dodwell (Wood- 
head), and Rev. F. D. Horner (Simonite), followed 
by Mr. C. Phillips, Mr. W. L. Walker, Reading, Mr. 
Meakin, and Mr. A. Fisk, Broxbourne, Herts. 
The awards in the single specimen classes, always 
an interesting feature to those of the Auricula 
cult, were as follows:—Green-edged: First, Mr. 
Henwood, with James Hannaford (Simonite); 
second,T.J.Bennett-Poe, Esq.,with Rev.F.D. Horner 
(Simonite): third-and fourth. Rev. F. D. Horner; 
and fifth, Mr. Henwood, with the same variety; sixth, 
Mr. Douglas, with Prince of Greens (Traill); seventh, 
Mr. W. Badcock; and eighth, Mr. Douglas, with 
Rev. F. D. Horner. Grey-edged ; First and second, 
Mr. A. J. Sanders ; third and fifth, Mr. Henwood; 
and fourth, Mr. Patterson, all showing George 
Lightbody; sixth, Mr. W'^. Smith, with Rachel 
(Horner); seventh, Mr. Douglas, with his Marmion ; 
and eight, Rev. F. D. Horner, with one of Mr. 
Simonite’s seedlings. White-edged : First, Mr. W. 
Smith; second, Mr. Patterson; and third, Mr. 
Sanders, all with Acme; fourth, Mr. W. Smith, 
with Mrs. Dodwell; fifth and sixth, Mr. Simonite, 
with Heatherbell; seventh, Mr. Henwood, with 
John Simonite (Walker) ; and eighth, Mr. Douglas, 
with Lord Randolph Churchill. Selfs : First, Mr. 
C. Phillips, second and fourth, Mr. W. Smith, with 
Mrs. Potts ; fifth. Rev. F. D. Horner, with Fairy ; 
sixth, Mr. Simonite, with Haide (Simonite); seventh. 
Rev. F. D. Horner, with Doris ; and eighth, Mr. 
Henwood, with Mrs. Potts. 
Mr. Douglas secured the first prize for fifty plants, 
the Guildford Hardy Plant Nursery Co. being a 
good second; and the premier show Auricula was 
Mr. B. Simonite's Dr. Hardy, a very good green- 
edged flower, which also secured Mr. W. Smith's 
special prize for the best green-edged seedling. 
The Alpine Auriculas were also in strong force, 
but these would seem to be somewhat deteriorating 
in quality, and were hardly so bright a lot as usual. 
Mr. C. Phillips, of Reading, came well to the front 
in this section, showing many of his own seedlings. 
In his first prize collection of twelve Mr. Phillips 
had Evelyn Phillips, Mrs. Martin Smith, New Color, 
Fire Fly, A. C. Barth olomew, Florence Henwood, 
Dot, and Mrs. F. C. Barnett, nearly all of his own 
raising. Mr. W. L Walker was second; Mr. 
Douglas, third ; Mr. A. J. Sanders, fourth ; and Mr. 
C. Turner, fifth. Mr. Phillips had also the best six 
in Miss Frost, Mrs. Martin Smith, Defiance, Dot, 
Florence Henwood, and a seedling; and here Mr. 
Douglas was second; Mr. J. Gilbert, gardener, 
Merrow Rectory, Guildford, fourth ; and Mr. 
Sanders, fifth. Mr. W. L. Walker had the best four 
plants in Miss Moon, T. E. Henwood, Mrs. Martin, 
and a seedling ; and Mr. Phillips had the best gold- 
centred variety in his seedling Evelyn Phillips, while 
Turner's Edith, shown by Mr. W. L. Walker, was 
the best of the white-centred section. 
The gold-laced Polyanthuses call for little com¬ 
ment, being only of an ordinary character and 
introducing us to no novelties of any great merit. 
The fancy Auriculas and fancy Polyanthuses were 
very good considering the hail and heavy rains some 
of them had stood; and the collections of Primula 
species shown by Mr. Douglas and the Guildford 
Hardy Plant Nursery Co. were of an exceedingly 
interesting character. 
The prizes for seedling Auriculas were awarded as 
follows :—Green-edged : First, Rev. F, D. Horner, 
with T. E. Henwood (Simonite) ; second, Mr. 
Simonite, with the same variety. Grev-edged : 
First, Mr. A. J. Sanders, with Francis Sanders. 
White-edged : First and second. Rev. F. D. Horner, 
with Albatross and Bridesmaid. Selfs: First, Mr. 
C. Phillips, with Mrs. C. Phillips. Certificates of 
Merit were awarded to the Rev. F. D. Horner for a 
lovely brilliant yellow self named Buttercup ; to Mr. 
C. Phillips for his rich deep maroon self, Mrs. C. 
Phillips; and to Mr. B. Simonite for a fine black 
self variety named Raven, and for his promising 
green-edged variety, T. E. Henwood. 
NOTES FROM A SOUTH 
NORFOLK GARDEN, 
We had some beautiful showers on the i2th, after 
four weeks of very dry weather, and since then more 
has fallen to the gratification of everyone in this 
neighbourhood, for the total rainfall from the ist of 
January to the nth inst. was under 3| inches. Still 
vegetation was making rapid strides ; we could see 
things grow. Spring sown Onions came up quick 
and well,and the same must be said of young Carrots 
Turnips, Peas, Potatos, &c., which are all growing 
very freely. I never had such a good bed of Spring 
Cabbages so early in the season as this spring's, they 
seem to have been growing all the winter, which 
has been a favourable one for all hardy vegetables. 
The spring, too, has been a most favourable one. 
We have not had any hail storms or falls of snow, 
such as has been our experience in past years. Pears 
are very full of bloom and commenced to open their 
flowers on the 6th inst. Cherries, which abound in this 
locality, are also very full of bloom, and have been 
out a fortnight. Plums, too, are full of bloom again, 
as also are Apples, but the latter are not yet out. 
All wall trees are looking healthy and flowering 
freely, and in some places Apricots have set very 
thickly and have obtained a good size already. 
Figs on the open walls are showing a good crop 
and are bursting into leaf. 
We have commenced to harden off a good number 
of bedding plants ; the weather has been so beauti¬ 
ful and inviting to be in advance of former seasons. 
If anything has seemed to be hindered by the spell 
of dry weather it is the grass land, as on both lawn 
and meadow there has been very little grass to cut 
or feed; but now all this is changed. We see 
a difference every day since the rain came. A row 
of the scarlet Anemone Coronaria, sometimes called 
the Irish Anemone, which is never disturbed, but 
treated as an herbaceous plant, dried up in the last few 
days of the dry weather and were soon spoilt as 
they were last year. This is an Anemone which 
I don't see in any other garden but this. I think it was 
planted about twenty years ago by my employer who 
is very fond of it. I believe we shall have a fruitfull 
year again—there is every prospect of it. Goose¬ 
berries are very full; Currants not yet in bloom. 
The Strawberry plantations look healthy and strong, 
but I have not seen one expanded bloom yet, but 
they are things that grow away freely if we have a 
little showery weather.— T.L. 
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BIRMINGHAM DAFFODIL SHOW. 
Daffodils orNarcissi are now so deservealy popular 
that a Special Exhibition of these flowers was held 
on the i8th and igth inst., under the auspices of the 
Birmingham Botanical Society, and was considered 
the best exhibition of Narcissi ever held, excepting 
that of the celebrated Conference, It may be of 
interest to some of your readers and growers of this 
popular plant to know something about some of the 
newer kinds seen there, so I send you a few words. 
Messrs. Pearson & Sons, Chilwell, staged a very 
fine lot, and easily won the Silver-gilt Medal for a 
collection in a given space. They were admirably 
set up, and there was a freshness and brightness 
about the collection. Leading kinds of most of the 
sections were well represented, amongst them 
Madame de Graaff, a bunch of thirteen grand 
blooms ; Rev. J. B. M. Camm ; Glory of Leyden, very 
fine ; Mrs. Vincent, a flower of refined quality with 
small white trumpet; P. R. Barr, a smaller Emperor, 
a very fine refined flower of a bright shade of yellow ; 
and V/. P. Milnes, of the small trumpet section. Of 
the shortened cupped varieties were Maurice Vil- 
morin, soft cream with orange cup ; Incomparabilis 
King of the Netherlands, and Leedsii Mrs. Langtry, 
a soft creamy white self; Madame Madeline de 
Graaff, of the Incomparabilis section, pure white 
perianth, the cup lemon, margined with bright 
orange, a lovely variety: Incomparabilis Goliah, one 
of the starry type, creamy yellow perianth, with 
bright yellow cup; and Leedsii Duchess of West¬ 
minster, white with light yellow cup, a chaste and 
beautiful flower. In this collection were most of the 
standard varieties. 
Messrs. Peter Barr & Sons, King Street, Covent 
Garden, London, staged a grand lot of Narcissi and 
other things. Amongst the former were Queen of 
Spain, a beautiful, small flowered, delicate cream 
colour, of which there were quite a dozen bunches ; 
Incomparabilis Beauty, a striking variety ; Incom¬ 
parabilis Commander, a beautiful variety; Poeticus 
gfandiflorus, very fine ; Nelsoni Aurantius, and De 
Graaff, Napoleon HI., all very fine, besides a large 
collection of others. 
Messrs. Dicksons, Limited, Chester, had in a 
collection of cut flowers fine examples of Narcissus 
P. R. Barr, Princess Mary, Duchess of Westminster, 
King of the Netherlands, Leedsii Katharine 
Spurralls, very fine; Maurice Vilmorin, Shirley 
Hibberd, Leedsii Marie Magdalene De Graaff, 
Poeticus grandiflorus, very fine ; Madame De Graaff, 
Rev. J. B. M. Camm, Mrs. J. B. M. Camm, two large 
bunches of the old single sweet-scented Jonquil, 
which were much admired ; Mr. Walter Ware, and 
Incomparabilis Queen Sophie, very distinct, and 
other fine sorts. 
Mr. Robert Sydenham had in his display of 
Tulips and Narcissi very fine examples of Duchess 
of Westminster, Burbidgii John Bain, Barrii con- 
spicua, wonderfully fine ; and a very fine type of the 
Campernelle Rigulosus; also Wm. Goldring, the 
Swan's Neck Daffodil, very fine indeed. 
Messrs. Backhouse & Son, York, contributed 
several new varieties, including seedlings, some of a 
promising character. Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, 
Chelsea, sent some fine seedlings and new varieties ; 
and Messrs. De Graaff Brothers sent a fine lot of 
seedlings and new varieties. 
In the competing classes, the Rev. Joseph Jacob’s 
first prize twelve varieties consisted of Leedsii Mrs. 
Langtry, Backhousei Wm. Wilkes, Nelsoni major, 
Nelsoni Aurantius, and the following Incomparabilis 
varieties, viz.—Duchess of Westminster, Princess 
Mary, Maurice Vilmorin, Barrii conspicua, Cynosum, 
Flora Wilson, Figaro, and Titan, an excellent lot. 
Messrs. Pope & Sons, King's Norton Nurseries, 
first prize lot of six varieties contained fine blooms, 
viz.—Emperor, Empress, Rev. J. B, M. Camm, 
Mrs. Camm, Grandees and Madame de Graaff. 
The following new varieties were selected for 
Awards:—Silver Medals to Weardale Perfection, 
staged by Messrs. Barr & Sons ; to Hodsock Pride, 
exhibited by Mr. J. Mallender, Hodsock Priory 
Gardens, Worksop, Notts. ; and to Mrs. Hillhouse, 
exhibited by Messrs. Pearson & Sons, Chilwell. 
Bronze. Medals were awarded to the Rev. H. G. 
Engleheart, Appleshaw Rectory, Andover, for 
Sol and Biflorus Appleshawensis. 
First-class Certificates were awarded to Shake- 
spear, from Messrs. De Graaff Brothers; to 
Chelsonian, from Messrs. Veitch & Son, Chelsea ; 
to Ida, from Messrs. Hewitt & Co., Solihull 
Nurseries; to Messrs. Barr & Sons, London, for 
Gloria Mundi, Dorothy Wemyss, and Mrs. 
Langtry.— JV. D. 
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|aRDEN1NG ^ISCELLANY. 
ANDROMEDA POLIFOLIA. 
At all times of the year this forms a dwarf and 
twiggy evergreen bush about 12 in. to 18 in. high. 
The pinkish white flowers are produced in nodding 
clusters at the extremity of the shoots, and expand 
during April and May, earlier or later according to 
the nature of the season. It is the only true species 
of Andromeda which is known, notwithstanding the 
fact that plants belonging to several other genera are 
included under the name in gardens. Being a 
member of the heath family it likes a peaty soil, so 
that whether planted in the mixed shrubbery or in a 
bed by itself, its likings in that respect might be 
studied with advantage to the plant and all concerned 
in its well being and engaging appearance. 
BRUGMANSIA AUREA. 
The genus Brugmansia, or more properly Datura, is 
being enriched from time to time with fresh introduc¬ 
tions of great merit. L'Illustration Horticoh speaks 
of a new species which was found by Professor G. 
de Lagerheim, of Tromso, Norway, under cultivation 
at Quito, when he directed the botanic garden of that 
town. The plant is more attractive than B. arborea. 
The perfume of its flowers recalls that of Lily of the 
Valley, but it is sweeter; it is equally less penetrating 
than that of B. suaveolens, so much so that the 
flowers without danger can find a place in dwelling- 
rooms. They commence to expand during October, 
and keep up a succession for several months. They 
are at first of a sulphur yellow tint, but pass into a 
golden yellow colour. In its native wilds, very 
frequently its long, funnel-shaped corollas are pierced 
