June 13th, 1885. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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it may be that the successful venture of Waltham 
Abbey will lead to the institution of a good South 
Essex Show. There is, to all appearance, good 
material in the district out of which to form a taking 
show, and probably last week’s effort will give an 
impetus to its establishment. 
Royal Horticultural, Jane 9th .—The heavy rain¬ 
fall of the previous day seemed to have had but little 
effect in reducing the number of exhibitors at South 
Kensington on Tuesday, for the Conservatory was filled 
with gay flowers, and the “ Orchid Show,” as it was 
called, but which was rather a display of Orchids and 
Herbaceous plants combined, must be pronounced a 
success. On the long central tables the Orchids were 
grouped on one side, and the Herbaceous plants on 
the other, a method of arrangement which was cer¬ 
tainly to the advantage of both sections. Excellent 
prizes were offered in the Orchid classes, and they 
ought to have brought out more exhibitors. As it 
was, in the trade classes, Mr. Cypher, of Cheltenham, 
and Mr. J. James, of Lower Norwood, fought their 
battles over again, and again to the advantage of the 
former, while the amateurs’ classes were very weak 
considering the many fine collections within an easy 
distance of the trysting place. 
The brightest and freshest group in the show was 
to be seen in the amateurs’ class for six, the plants 
being shown by F. A. Philbrick, Esq., Q.C., Oldfield, 
Bickley, Mr. Heims, gardener, who was easily first. 
The group included a good Odontoglossum vexillarium, 
with three dozen large flowers; a superb variety of 
Cypripedium barbatum, a good Lselia purpurata, 
Cattleya Mendeli, and Phalasnopsis grandiflora, with 
two spikes, one of them especially fine. In the 
amateurs’ class for twelve, the first prize went to Henry 
Little, Esq., Mr. Hill, gardener, who had, amongst 
others, a large Dendrobium Dalhousianum, a well- 
coloured Cattleya Mendeli, a well-flowered piece of 
Cattleya Mossire, Cypripedium niveum, Aerides 
crispum, Arc. The second prize fell to De B. Crawshay, 
Esq., Mr. Cooke, gardener, with a good Cattleya gigas 
Sanderiana with seven blooms, C. Mendeli, C. Warneri, 
Vanda suavis, &c. The best amateurs’ group of six 
Cattleyas also came from Mr. Crawshay’s collection ; 
and in the cut-flower class, for six, Mr. Philbrick’s 
gardener again secured first honours with fine blooms 
of Odontoglossum Alexandras, Od. vexillarium deli- 
catum, Cattleya gigas Sanderianum, Cypripedium 
Dominianum, and C. Mendeli. The second prize was 
taken by J. S. Hodgson, Esq., Lythe Hill, Haslemere 1 
Mr. Evans, gardener, and the third by Dr. Paterson, 
Bridge of Allan. 
In the nurserymen’s section, Mr. Cypher beat 
Mr. James with twelve and six plants respectively, 
the former having large, "well-flowered specimens 
of Laelia purpurata, with ten spikes; Masdevallia 
Harryana, 2 ft. across, and well bloomed ; Cypripedium 
Lawrenceanum, with thirty-four fine blooms; a fine 
mass of Dendrobium Bensonire ; a nice piece of Odon¬ 
toglossum vexillarium, &c. Mr. James had, amongst 
other good plants, a large Cattleya Mossi®, and 
excellently-flowered examples of Dendrobium Jame- 
sianum, Anguloa Clowesii, Cattleya Mendeli, Brassia 
verrucosa, &c. With fifteen Odontoglossums Mr. 
James secured the first prize, and his collection was 
a good one for the date, amongst the species repre¬ 
sented being Alexandra, cordatum, polyxanthum, 
radiatum, Lehmanni, <fcc. With six Cattleyas, Mr. 
Cypher was again first, and Mr. James second. To 
the miscellaneous class, Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. 
Albans, contributed a remarkably fine group of 
Cattleyas, Odontoglots, Aerides, Masdevallias, &c., 
and a smaller collection came from Messrs. Heath 
A' Son, of Cheltenham. 
The splendid collections of showy hardy herbaceous 
plants, which so much enhanced the beauty of the 
show, were contributed by Mr. T. S. Ware, Messrs. 
Barr <fe Son, Messrs. Paul & Son, Cheshunt; Messrs. 
Kelway & Son, Langport; Mr. Van der Bees, Tooting ; 
and Messrs. Hooper & Co., Twickenham. The lead¬ 
ing features in all the groups were the exceedingly- 
showy German and other Irises, handsome and 
attractive single and double Pyrethrums, Turban 
Banunculuses, Ixias, Lupines, Day Lilies, Pseonies, 
and Poppies, &c. The Messrs. Barr had besides 
a showy group of Tree-flowering Carnations, and 
Messrs. Paul & Son various Alpines in pots. Messrs. 
John Laing & Co. had a specially fine group of 
double and single flowering tuberous Begonias, four 
of which were singled out for the award of First- 
Class Certificates. Messrs. Hawkins & Bennett, 
Lily Nursery, Twickenham, contributed a group 
which was much admired for its simple yet 
admirably effective character. It was composed 
merely of half-a-dozen superbly grown plants of 
Adiantum euneatum, from 3 ft. to 4 ft. through, set 
in a carpeting of scarlet, white, and pink Zonal 
Pelargoniums, with a backing of plants about 3 ft. 
high of a good semi-double,rose-pink flowered Ivy¬ 
leaved Pelargonium. Mr. Wiggins, gardener to W. 
Clay, Esq., Kingston-on-Thames, had a nice collection 
of Seedling Show and Decorative Pelargoniums, the 
second year of flowering. Mr. Barlow’s collection of 
sixty Tulips created a great amount of interest, such 
a stand of flowers not having been seen here before 
for several years. The Committee certificated half-a- 
dozen varieties, and awarded a Silver Medal to the 
collection. In our next we shall comment upon these 
flowers more fully. 
Messrs. Cannell & Sons, Swanley, sent some cut 
blooms of very fine single and double Begonias, and 
from the Slough Nursery, Mr. Turner sent two boxes 
of beautiful Mareelial Niel Bose blooms, and a fine 
assortment of Pyrethrums shown in bunches, a much 
more effective method of displaying them than the 
usual one, singly. Mr. Waterman, gardener to H. A. 
Brassey, Esq.,M.P., Preston Hall, Wateringbury, sent 
half-a-dozen specimens of the White Marguerite, which 
were greatly admired—the plants being from 4 ft. to 
5 ft. in diameter, and most profusely bloomed. Mr. 
Jennings, gardener to Leopold de Bothschild, Esq., 
Ascott, contributed a dozen and a half flowering 
plants of the Pride of Penhurst Carnation, which still 
further confirmed the high opinions which have been 
expressed of this grand yellow variety. From Messrs. 
Hooper & Co., came Croton Hooperi, a very prettily 
coloured variety, deep green and bright orange red. 
Messrs. James Carter & Co. sent a pan of the new 
annual, Phacelia campanularia, the deep gentian-blue 
colour of which should render it a very popular 
plant in the flower garden. Mr. Hill, gardener to 
Sir N. M. de Bothschild, Tring Park, received a 
Cultural Commendation for a very beautifully-flowered 
specimen of the white Cattleya Wagneri. A small, 
neatly fringed white Pink, named The Fairy, came 
from Messrs. Cross & Steer, The Canal, Salisbury ; 
and Mr. Cummings, gardener to A. H. Smee, Esq., 
had a nicely-flowered plant, imported last year, of 
Galeandra nivea, a pretty little Orchid. 
The New Plants Certificated were Bhododen- 
dron Manglesii, a hybrid (raised we presume by the 
late Mr. J. H. Mangles) between the Sikkim B. 
Aucklandi and B. album grandiflorum, and which 
produces large compact trusses of good-sized, finely- 
formed, pure white blossoms, in this instance on 
plants growing in the open air ; should it prove to be 
quite hardy, this interesting and beautiful hybrid 
should become a great favourite, as it certainly will 
for greenhouse decoration. It was exhibited by 
Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, as also were the 
following: —Chionanthus retusus, a Japanese ally of 
the North American Snowdrop-tree, having shining, 
green, simple leaves, and drooping clusters of four 
narrow white-petalled flowers, a handsome free- 
flowering shrub ; Gloxinia Marchioness of Aber¬ 
gavenny, one of the finest of the densely-spotted 
varieties, the ground colour being a shade of violet, 
with a deep crimson blotch on each segment; L®lia 
Canhamii, a hybrid between Cattleya Mossi® and 
Lffilia purpurata, showing a strong affinity to the 
last-named parent, and having the sepals and petals 
white, flushed with violet, and the lip bright rosy- 
purple. Of new Begonias exhibited by Messrs. John 
Laing & Co., the following gained Certificates:— 
Princess Victoria, a very large single flower of great 
substance, with a light-coloured centre, shading off 
to rose-pink on the edges; Marquis of Stafford, a 
double variety of medium size, but exquisite form, 
and of a vivid crimson colour; Globosa, a perfect 
globe in form, and quite 2£ ins. in diameter, full 
double and flesh-pink in colour; and Lillie, also a fine 
double flower of a delicate shade of pink. Mr. W. 
Gordon, Twickenham, received the highest award 
for a Tree P®ony named Snowball, one of a batch 
of several beautiful sorts received from Japan, and 
which bore flowers of large size and snowy whiteness, 
a most beautiful variety. Mr. Stacey, of Dunmow, 
received awards for Verbena Fairy Queen, pale rose, 
with a deep rose centre ; and Verbena Distinction, 
white, striped and flaked with crimson, both having 
good bold trusses of large flowers. Mr. William 
Bull was awarded a Certificate for a very remarkable 
Bromeliad, Bilbergia nobilis, a species with long, 
broad, erect - growing leaves, deep bronze - green, 
mottled with silvery-grey, and having a long droop¬ 
ing spike of greenfiowers, with large vivid rose-coloured 
bracts—a strikingly ornamental plant. Aerides Bal- 
lantineana, also certificated and shown by Mess:s. F. 
Sander & Co., is a free-blooming species, with the 
sepals and petals white, tipped with pale rosy-lilac, 
and yellow lip. Messrs. Paul & Son, The Old 
Nurseries, Cheshunt, received a Certificate for Saxi- 
fraga lantoscana superba, a good thing belonging to 
the encrusted section, with dense spikes, 8 ins. long, 
of small white flowers. One of the brightest and best 
double-flowered Pyrethrums ever raised was shown 
by Messrs. Kelway & Son, of Langport, under the name 
of Melton, and which was also certificated. It is a 
flower of good size, fine form, and a brilliant carmine- 
crimson, with a faint shade of violet in the centre. 
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Bath. and. West of England Agricultural 
Society’s Showat Brighton.—Formanyyearspast 
one of the pleasantest features of this annual exhibition 
has been “ the Flower Tent,” and the display at Brigh¬ 
ton proved no exception to the rule. The steward of 
this department, the Hon. and Kev. J. T. Boscawen, 
devotes much time and skill to the successful grouping 
of the plants sent for exhibition, and always succeeds 
in creating what the general public like—a pretty 
effect. Mr. Boscawen also endeavours to get a fair 
representation of the horticultural products or 
specialities of the districts in which the exhibition is 
held each year. At Brighton, therefore, we were not 
surprised to find Messrs. J. Cheal & Sons, Crawley, to 
the front with an instructive collection of cordon 
fruit trees, and a simple contrivance for protecting 
such trees from frost or birds. These were placed 
outside the tent, inside of which, at one end, the same 
firm are exhibiting a grand bank of Bhododendrons. 
Other local exhibitors were Mr. W. Balchin, Clifton- 
ville Nursery, Brighton, who has a large mixed 
collection of well-grown stove and greenhouse plants, 
and Mr. C. Bann, gardener to J. Warren, Esq., 
Handcross Park, Crawley, who contributed a large 
and imposing group of the fine specimen plants for 
which that establishment is famous. 
Of contributors from a distance we noted that the 
firms of Messrs. B. Smith & Co., Worcester, and 
Messrs. John Laing & Co., Forest Hill, were well re¬ 
presented, the former with a dozen large and splendidly- 
flowered Clematises, and the latter with new and choice 
Begonias. The Messrs. Laing have sent their flowers 
to this show so many times that we look for them 
now as regularly as for the show itself. The display 
of Orchids was disappointing, let us hope Mr. Boscawen 
may be more successful next year. There were two 
or three collections of fruits on the tables, and some 
good Strawberries, but we did not learn who were the 
prize winners.—( Communicated .) 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Books.— C. H. L. —There is no book now easily obtainable 
specially devoted to the cultivation of Heaths. The third 
edition of Vol. I. of Mr. B. S. Williams’s Choice Stove and 
Greenhouse Plants contains, perhaps, all the information you 
require. 
Names of Plants.— R. W. 31—1. Justicia carnea; 
2. Phoenix dactylifera; 3. Chamnerops humilis; 4. Adiantum 
decorum.— Jt. 3Iarsden. —1. Equisetum sylvaticum; 2. Equi- 
setum arvense ; 3. Iris Pseud-aeorus; 4. Polypodium glaucum; 
5. Agrostemma Githago.— R. H .—Dendrobium moschatum. 
Mildew on Vines. — James Collins. —The safest and easiest 
plan of dealing with it is to dust the affected parts with flowers 
of sulphur through a muslin bag. 
Communications Received.— W. T. —F. W. B —P C — 
W. D. F—T. W. 0.—T. S. W.—H. E.— D. J. N.— G D — 
— J. W—F. King—M. T — R. D.—W. G. S—J. D. 
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LONDON SEED TRADE, 
June 10th, 1885. 
Messrs. Hurst & Son, 152, Houndsditch, and 
39, Seed Market, Mark Lane, report the usual quietude 
which pervades the Seed Trade at this season of the 
year, business being almost at a standstill. There 
has been some speculation in Clovers, principally in 
German Seeds, but the transactions have been few, 
and only small in extent. Quotations are still firm 
