July 18th, 1885. 
THE GARDENING WORLD, 
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very fine sort, with Snowflake-like leafage ; Snowdrop 
(Perkins), with similar leafage; Prime Minister, 
Chancellor, Harvester, with curious, curled top leaves; 
Lilywhite, Cosmopolitan, all full of growth and 
white kinds; and Midsummer Kidney, Snowball, and 
London Hero, all dwarfer whites ; and Cardinal Rufus, 
Rosebud, The Dean, and Bedfont Rose, coloured kinds. 
All these twelve kinds are Mr. Dean’s raising. 
Bedfont Rose, the latest of all Potatos to push growth, 
was planted with the rest, and, failing to come up, the 
tubers were lifted and found not to have pushed 
growth, so well does it keep. Others were then 
planted in the same place, and these coming away 
after other kinds were earthed up, are now making 
rapid growth and promising a fine crop. Of Mr. 
Fenn’s kinds, besides Reading Russett, were Prize- 
taker, Lady Truscott, Reading Ruby, and many others. 
Also Ross’s fine Climax-like variety, M.P., which 
so nearly resembles the Doctor ; also Sutton’s The 
Clarke and Utility, strong growers ; Charter Oak, New 
Peach Blow, Adirondack, and other Americans; 
Hughes’ Crimson Beauty Kidney, like to Cardinal; 
McKinlay’s Pride and Model, both quite late sorts; 
Lord Beaconsfield, Yicar of Laleham, First and Best, 
and other known varieties. We shall watch for the 
final results of Mr. McKinlay’s efforts with much 
interest, as really fine crops must follow upon the 
present splendid clean growth. 
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OX-EYED DAISIES. 
The great white Ox-eyed Daisy of our fields is 
Chrysanthemum leucanthemum, and I think I never 
before saw it finer than during the early summer 
months of the present year. In fields and parks, 
on the sides of railway cuttings, and by the margins 
of roads, I have seen this common Daisy, both 
numerous and very fine, during the past two months. 
When I was at Bearwood some days ago, I was 
interested in noticing how much finer some of the 
roadside varieties were than others, having broader 
florets and more rounded blossoms. I suppose it is 
too common a plant to be cultivated, but if it were 
taken in hand, some very fine forms might be obtained 
from it. Did any one ever find a double variety 
growing wild ? Mention has been made of its appear¬ 
ance, and one writer notices instances he has met 
with wherein the florets of the ray were tubular. 
As Chrysanthemum segetum, the yellow Corn 
Marigold, has come to be cultivated, why not C. 
leucanthemum? The latter is a pereninal, and 
perhaps too persistent; while C. segetum is an 
annual. But the coming Chrysanthemum is un¬ 
doubtedly C. lacustre. What is its native habitat ? 
And with whom did it originate ? If introduced from 
abroad, when ? and by whom ? I ask these questions 
for the sake of information. It is a perennial, pro¬ 
ducing sub-erect stems 3 ft. long, bearing a profusion 
of large single white flowers in summer and autumn. 
It is a very showy plant for shrubbery borders, &c .; 
it has a handsome type of foliage, and is very showy 
when in flower. I cannot say too much in its praise. 
It deserves to be planted in a good deep loam. 
It would appear that the generic name — Chry¬ 
santhemum—is derived from Chrysos, gold, and 
Anthos, a flower ; and it refers not to the colour of the 
ray petals, but to the florets composing the disc or 
centre. C. leucanthemum is also named the Moon- 
wort, no doubt because the full flowers resemble a full 
moon. It is also known as the Magdalen Wort, or 
more anciently Maudlin Wort, because it blooms 
about the time when the anniversary of the Magda¬ 
lene is celebrated. But which is the Yellow Gowan 
of Scotland ? Chrysanthemum segetum, or the 
Marsh Marigold, Caltha palustris; as both are some- 
times so designated.— Quo. 
White Elephant Onion. —Last season I had ajnumber 
of kinds of Tripoli Onions, but none of any great 
merit. Onions being always useful, it is imperatively 
necessary that I should grow the best variety. 
Happening last season to judge the cottagers’ and 
amateurs’ collections at the Stamford Show, I noticed 
a dish of a variety called White Elephant, grown by 
our townsman, Mr. Pepper. This I at once noted and 
procured seed of it, and I am happy to say that it has 
given me the highest satisfaction, the bulbs being 
large, clear white, and there being very few runners. 
I shall grow it extensively next season.— R. Gilbert, 
Burghley, in The Garden. 
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 
Royal Horticultural, July 14th. —With a fair 
display of fine-foliaged plants, a magnificent group of 
Odontoglossum vexillarium, large and most effective 
groups of herbaceous plants, Lilies, &c., and first-rate 
competitions in several classes for fruits and vege¬ 
tables, this was a thoroughly representative exhibition 
of seasonable garden products. Of the group of 
Odontoglossum vexillarium, some seventy plants, 
large and small, all most profusely bloomed, and 
admirably staged, with a judicious mixture of Maiden¬ 
hair Ferns and Cocos Palms, it may, without fear of 
contradiction, be said that nothing finer has ever 
been seen, and we should have been pleased if their 
owner and exhibitor, George Hardy, Esq., Pickering 
Lodge, Timperley, had been awarded some more 
substantial prize than a Silver-Gilt Banksian Medal. 
In the competitive classes for fine-foliaged plants, 
the specimens shown were of medium size only, 
though for the most part well-grown stuff, and the 
lion’s share of the first prizes went to Mr. J. Hudson, 
Gunnersbury House, and the remainder to Mr. J. 
James. Mr. T. S. Ware was well first with a collec¬ 
tion—a remarkable one too—of hardy herbaceous 
plants, Mesrs. Paul & Son, Cheshunt, being second. 
Mr. Ware also came in first with cut spikes of six 
Lilies, showing L. Parryi, Canadense rubrum, testa- 
ceurn, Humboldtii, Martagon Dalmaticum and 
Brownii, Messrs. Paul & Son being second, and A. S. 
Smith, Esq., Silvermere, Cobham, third. 
The new plants certificated were Odontoglossum 
vexillarium Measuresianum, from R. H. Measures, Esq., 
a fine pure white form alluded to in another column ; 
Alocasia Hendersoni, a very distinct species with 
long handsome metallic green leaves from Messrs. 
E. G. Henderson & Son ; Begonia (tuberous) General 
Gordon, a remarkably large double salmon-rose flower, 
from Mr. R. Owen, Maidenhead; Lilium Parryi, a 
showy bright clear yellow-flowered species, exhibited 
by the New Plant and Bulb Company, Colchester ; 
Renanthera Storeyi, a handsome species allied to R. 
coecinea, but broader in the flowers and more beauti¬ 
fully marked, from Mr. Hill, gardener to Lord Roths¬ 
child; Rose Pride of Reigate, H.P., a very showy 
sport from Countess of Oxford, of a rich crimson 
colour striped and splashed with rose and white, and 
Rose Madame Norman Neruda, H.P., rose-pink, of 
fine size and form, and richly perfumed, both from 
Messrs. Paul & Son ; Pelargonium Blanc Parfait, a very 
neat, pure, double white-flowered Zonal; and Ivy¬ 
leaved Pelargonium, General Millot, a very good variety 
with double rosy-red flowers shaded with purple. 
A spike of seven flowers of the richly-coloured 
Cattleya Sanderiana came from the collection of the 
Comte de Germiny, Rouen ; and Messrs. Heath & 
Son, Cheltenham, had a large-flowered form of Odon¬ 
toglossum vexillarium. From G. Neville Wyatt, Esq., 
Cheltenham (Mr. Simeoe, gardener), and from Mr. B. S. 
Williams, came flowering specimens of the scarce Vanda 
Dennisoniana hebraica. Mr. G. F. Wilson contributed 
a basket of fine spikes of Lilies; Messrs. G. Bunyard 
& Co. some attractive Regal Pelargoniums; the New 
Plant and Bulb Co. several interesting forms of Calo- 
chortus; Messrs. Veitch & Sons, Clematis coccinea 
and the pure white Andromeda speciosa cassinoefolia ; 
Mr. R. Owen, several fine seedling Begonias ; Mr. W. 
Bull some flowering plants of the true Bermuda Lily ; 
Messrs. Charles Lee & Son, collections of ornamental 
leaved trees and shrubs, cut Roses, &c .; Mr. R. Dean, 
some beautiful Ten-week Stocks, Mauve Beauty and 
Bedfont Crimson ; Mr. Eckford, a showy collection of 
Sweet Peas ; and Messrs. James Carter & Co., a new 
Sweet Pea of great beauty, named Dedham Rose. 
At the meeting of the Fruit Committee, Messrs. 
Rivers & Son were awarded a First-Class Certificate 
for Nectarine Goldoni, a very fine variety of medium 
size and of a rich golden-yellow, flushed with red on 
the sunny side. Mr. Bannister, Cote House, West- 
bury-on-Trym, Bristol, sent a seedling Grape, the 
result of a cross between the Black Hamburgh and 
Muscat of Alexandria. The berries in shape re¬ 
sembled their first-named parent, but both in colour 
and flavour were more like the Muscat. It was said 
to set well and ripen off in a cooler temperature than 
is required by Muscats, and the Committee requested 
to see it again. 
The display of fruit was good all round, but nothing 
in the competing classes equalled in interest a superb 
collection of Cherries, Peaches, and Nectarines from 
Messrs. Thomas Rivers & Sons, Sawbridgeworth. 
Among the Peaches were beautiful examples of the 
Conkling, a large and handsome American variety 
of a beautiful orange colour suffused with crimson ; 
Magdala, Dr. Hogg, and Golden Rathripe. The 
Nectarines included the Spenser, a large variety of 
a fine deep ebony colour ; Goldoni, medium size, rich 
orange and crimson; Darwin, Pine Apple, Byron, 
and Humboldt. The Cherries, which were exceed¬ 
ingly fine, consisted of twenty-one dishes, and in¬ 
cluded, of light-coloured kinds, Gros Couret, Colour 
de Chair, a small yellow ; Bigarreau Blanc d’Espagne, 
and Bigarreau Monstreuse de Mezel, extra fine in 
size. Among the black-skinned sorts were Early 
Rivers, Large Black Bigarreau, and Bigarreau Noir 
de Guba ; while of reds, Espagne, Olivet, and Griotte 
Imperiale were the most conspicuous. With two 
handsome Queens, Mr. Louden, gardener to T. Barnes, 
Esq., The Quinta, Chirk, secured the highest award 
for Pines ; and the best of a dozen dishes of Black 
Hamburghs, compact, well-shouldered, and well- 
finished bunches, came from Mr. Tavener, gardener to 
Sir A. K. Macdonald, Bart. ; Mr. Louden being second, 
and Mr. Roberts, gardener, Prestwold Hall, Lough¬ 
borough, third. In the any other black variety class, 
Mr. Roberts, Gunnersbury, took the lead with a finely- 
finished sample of Madresfield Court, Mr. Miles 
coming in second with three bunches of Gros Maroe, 
weighing G lbs. 6 ozs.; and Mr. Allen, Gunton, third 
with Madresfield Court. The best dish of Muscats 
came from Mr. A. Smith, gardener to W. H. Sewell, 
Esq., Warren Hill, Loughton, good, well-shaped 
bunches, but wanting in colour. There was an excel¬ 
lent competition in both classes for Strawberries, and 
Mr. D. Roberts was first with two dishes, good samples 
of British Queen and President; and a capital sample 
of Sir J. Paxton, from Mr. T. Edington, gardener, 
Woodthorpe Grange, Nottingham, held the premier 
position in the single dish class. Peaches and Nec¬ 
tarines were both shown in good numbers and first- 
rate quality. Among the dozen dishes of Peaches 
staged, a splendid sample of Barrington, from Mr. R. 
Farrance, Shadwell Heath, was an easy first; and 
out of sixteen dishes of Nectarines the best was an 
excellent sample of Stanwick from Mr. Bashford, 
Gardener, Chorlton House, East Sutton. With two 
dishes of Cherries, Mr. J. Hudson, Gunnersbury 
House, Acton, was first, and Mr. H. W. Ward, Long¬ 
ford Castle, a good second. With a brace of the 
Longleat Perfection Melon, a large, oval-shaped, 
white-fleshed variety, Mr. Pratt, Longleat, took a 
premier prize ; Mr. Goddard, gardener, Hexton Court, 
Maidstone, coming in second, and Mr. Wildsmith, 
Heckfield, third, with Hero of Loekinge. 
The competition in the class for eight distinct 
kinds of vegetables was of an extensive and interest¬ 
ing character, no less than fourteen collections being 
staged, while the quality, except in a few instances, 
was all that could be desired. For the first prize the 
contest was a close one between Mr. Miles, gardener 
to Lord Carrington, and Mr. Richards, gardener to 
Lord Normanton, and the judges eventually decided 
in favour of the latter—a verdict that was not 
universally accepted as the right one. Mr. Richards 
certainly staged an excellent lot of produce, which 
included Green Globe Artichokes, Daniells’ White 
Elephant Onion, a very fine sample, Early London 
Cauliflower, Sutton’s Improved Intermediate Carrot, 
Sanders’ Marrow Pea, Perfection Tomato, Canadian 
Wonder Beans, and Lapstone Kidney Potatos. Mr. 
Miles had a very fine bundle of Asparagus, and first- 
rate samples of Stamfordian Tomatos, Veitch’s Pearl 
Cauliflowers, Culverwell’s Giant Marrow Peas, Green 
Globe Artichokes, and Sutton’s Improved Inter¬ 
mediate Carrot. Mr. S. Haines, gardener to Lord 
Radnor, came in third; and extra prizes were 
awarded to Mr. C. J. Waite, gardener to Colonel 
the Hon. W. P. Talbot, and Mr. T. A. Beckett, 
Cole Hatch Farm, Penn, Bucks. Besides the 
varieties above-named, the new Pen-y-bydd Marrow, 
Hibberd’s Prolific, and Moore’s Vegetable Cream 
Marrows, White Naples Onions, Snowball Turnips, 
and Hackwood Park Prolific Tomatos were well 
represented in the various collections. A fine sample 
of Trophy from Mr. R. Farrance, florist, Shad- 
well Heath, was adjudged first in a collection of eight 
