November 12, 1892. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
161 
Park and Palace, 414 acres, at £275,000 ; the Cross- 
bones Burial Ground, situate in Redcross and Union 
Streets, Southwark, S.E., and the adjoining estates, 
advertised for sale on the 15th inst. ; the Middle¬ 
sex Cricket Ground, Hampstead, N.W., i6J 
acres, at ^50,000; “Buffalo Bill's ” site, Earl’s 
Court and West Brompton Stations, S.W. ; and 
“ The Copperas,” Bromley-by-Bow, E., 5J acres, at 
£25.000. 
The Clipper Flower Cup and Tube. —Two or three 
sorts of cups and tubes for showing Chrysanthemums 
and other cut blooms came under the notice of the 
judges at the Crystal Palace Show last week, and 
one of them—The Clipper—was considered worthy 
of a First-class Certificate. It is certainly a neat and 
most effective arrangement, with the special advan¬ 
tage that whatever height the bloom may be fixed 
the stem is always in water, this important desidera¬ 
tum being brought about by the tube being held in 
position as required by a substantial clip fixed to the 
show board. Messrs. E. D. Shuttleworth & Co., 
Lim., 256, Peckham Rye, S.E., are the wholesale 
agents. 
Woolton Gardeners’ Mutual Improvement Society.— 
At the fortnightly meeting of this society, held on 
the 3rd inst., the usual routine business was varied 
by a lecture on “ Vegetarianism,” given by Mr. E. J. 
Baillie, of Chester. The subject was evidently a 
popular one judging by the large attendance and the 
enjoyment by the audience of the humorous thrusts 
made by the speaker, and by the practical 
illustrations given in support of his argument in 
favour of total abstinence from flesh eating, but none 
were more effective than the avoirdupois of 
the lecturer himself, who caused a hearty laugh 
when he stated that it might be’something in favour 
of the cause if he told them his fighting weight. 
After the lecture questions were asked by Messrs. 
R. Todd, R. G. Waterman, T. Carling, Hitchman, 
H. Corlett, and others, to which replies were given. 
A hearty vote of thanks to the lecturer terminated a 
most instructive and pleasant meeting. 
Scottish Horticultural Association. —The monthly 
meeting of this association was held on the 1st inst. 
at 5, St. Andrew Square, Edinburgh, Mr. Welsh (of 
Dicksons & Co.), the president, in the chair. Mr. 
Alexander M'Kinnon, Scone Palace Gardens, read a 
paper on “ Conifers,” in which he described the 
geographical distribution of the trees, and alluded 
to their adaptability alike for ornamental and profit¬ 
able purposes. He dealt specially with Abies 
Douglasii as a timber-producing tree in this country, 
and suitable for planting on a large scale ; and he 
also referred to various other species of Conifers 
which might be profitably planted in this country as 
forest trees. Some discussion followed the reading 
of the paper, and at the close Mr. M'Kinnon was 
awarded a cordial vote of thanks. 
Manchester Horticultural Improvement Society.— 
The annual meeting of this society was held on the 
27th ult., Mr. Bruce Findlay presiding. The secre¬ 
tary and treasurer’s reports disclosed an augmented 
membership and a flourishing state of the society’s 
finances. In spite of a handsome grant made during 
the year to the Gardeners’ Orphan Fund, a con¬ 
siderable balance remained in hand. A portion of 
this it was resolved to apply in prizes to be awarded 
for the first, second, and third best essays on some 
subject relating to horticulture by members of the 
society, and Messrs. Findlay, Stansfield, and M'Keller 
were appointed a sub-committee to carry out the 
resolution. Mr. Findlay was re-elected president of 
the society for the coming year; Messrs. A. Stans¬ 
field, E. G. Hughes, R. Tait, and F. Robinson, vice- 
presidents; Mr. R. Tait, treasurer; and Mr. W. B. 
Upjohn, secretary, assisted by a strong committee of 
practical gardeners. After the transaction of busi¬ 
ness, some fifty of the members dined together in the 
large room of the Atlantic Restaurant. The pro¬ 
gramme for the coming session was considered a 
promising one. The first lecture to be delivered will 
be by Professor Weiss, of the Victoria University, 
whose subject would be duly advertised in the Man¬ 
chester City News. Mr. Findlay will follow with a 
paper on Fruit Culture with reference to the Allot¬ 
ment System ; and among other papers promised is 
one by Mr. E. G. Hughes, and another by Mr. R. 
O’Kell on the interesting subject of Shrubby Vero¬ 
nicas. 
CHRYSANTHEMUM NOTES. 
Hextable. 
Chrysanthemums constitute the leading feature at 
present in the nurseries of Messrs. Pitcher & Manda, 
Hextable, Swanley, Kent, as they do at most places 
during November. This being the European branch 
nurseries of the firm, which has its head quarters at 
Short Hills, New Jersey, U.S.A., it is but natural 
to suppose that American novelties would figure 
largely at Hextable, as indeed they do, and some of 
them are grand. In the first rank we would place 
George W. Childs, with broad reflexed florets of an 
intense glowing crimson, resembling a greatly 
magnified Cullingfordii, and which gained the Gold 
Medal from Mr. J. R. Pitcher last year as the best 
seedling. Grown in small pots the stems vary from 
2 ft. to 5 ft. high, with healthy foliage clothing the 
stems throughout their length. Strikingly distinct 
also is Robert Flowerday, an incurved “ Jap ,” with 
broad, purple-amaranth florets, tipped with green, 
and having silvery incurved edges. Primrose League 
has huge flowers of a pearly white, primrose in the 
centre, and quilled florets. The above, together 
with The Tribune and E. A. Wood, are to be sent 
out next year. The former was honoured with a 
First-class Certificate at Brighton, also at the 
Crystal Palace. Standing alongside Edwin 
Beckett, The Tribune is seen to be per¬ 
fectly distinct, with broad, paler, but beautiful 
florets; both have the same robust habit as 
Avalanche. E. A. Wood on the contrary is of great 
size, bronzy-crimson and gold, with florets often an 
inch and a half in diameter when spread out. It 
belongs to the incurved Japanese section. 
A special feature of this collection is the number 
and variety of the plumose section, all of the incurved 
Japanese type like Mrs. Alpheus Hardy. More than 
a dozen seedlings were raised from the latter, and 
no two of them are exactly alike. Miss Annie 
Manda comes nearest the latter, but is of better 
form and stronger constitution. Spartel was a cross 
between Mademoiselle M. Fabre and Mrs. A. 
Hardy, with broad, pink, plumose florets, and of 
good constitution. Some of the seedlings are being 
grown upon trial and are not yet named; some are 
plumose and others not, and some of them promise 
well. The Bronze Ostrich Plume, better known as 
H. Ballantine, has bronzy flowers changing to straw- 
yellow, and will be certain to find admirers. More 
decidedly handsome and elegant is the Golden 
Yellow Ostrich Plume (W. A. Manda), which 
recently received a First-class Certificate from the 
National Chrysanthemum Society. It resembles 
Ralph Brocklebank in form, but is golden yellow 
and decidedly plumose. Louis Boehmer is also in 
good form ; the originally introduced plant is 3.J ft. 
high, and bears forty to fifty blooms. There is a 
sport from W. A. Manda, with perfectly smooth and 
flat florets resembling a yellow Lady Selborne. 
George Savage is a beautiful incurved and pure 
white Japanese sort, a seedling from Mrs. A. Hardy. 
In the early stages the flowers of Florence Davis 
are greener than the last, but it is of vigorous con¬ 
stitution and does well here. 
Of undoubted merit is Lord Brooke, an incurved 
Japanese sort of fine form with bronzy gold florets 
tinted with red. A First-class Certificate and a 
special prize was awarded to Mrs. E. D. Adams by 
the National Chrysanthemum Society last year. It 
has long, tubular white florets and a full centre like 
a huge Meg Merrilies. Mrs. Harman Payne is 
another grand acquisition but varies, the crown buds 
being pale pink and the terminals on the same plant 
rich purple. Quite a curiosity in its way is an 
unnamed seedling bearing six flowers aud exhibiting 
four different colours, namely, white, blush, pink, 
and deep purple. Very large blooms of a soft purple 
with a silvery reverse are produced by Robert 
Hamill (syn. Director Howellek). It is named after 
the grower, who has been very successful in growing 
new varieties in small pots with imperfect material 
and under other adverse conditions. 
The finest blooms of Col. W. B. Smith we have 
seen were here, measuring 8 in. by 5 in. in depth, 
and of a golden bronze or cinnamon hue. Mrs. F. 
Jamieson (ref. Jap.) is one of the finest of its typo 
among orange-bronze flowers, just as W. H. Lincoln 
is a favourite amongst golden-yellow sorts. Mrs. 
Libbie Allen is a seedling from Mrs. Alpheus Hardy, 
but of a beautiful clear yellow, smooth and of refined 
form. The old Fimbriatum, with huge pink-tinted 
white flowers, is still a good thing. Miss M. Colgate 
is a pure white incurved Japanese sort, while Mrs. 
A. G. Ramsey has broad crimson florets. The 
flowers of Eutopia are pure ivory white, and like 
W. Tricker and so many other sorts it belongs to 
the incurved Japanese section, which has been 
enormously augmented within the last two or three 
years. Avalanche and Eynsford White are also 
well done here, as are the incurved golden yellow 
Mrs. Robinson King, the beautiful large Anemone, 
Delaware, the single and fragrant Mary Anderson, 
and many others. A number of purely market 
varieties are also grown, including M. Hilliott, 
bronze, Clias. Molin, pale salmon, Ernest Bergman, 
lilac-pink, Mrs. Hicks Arnold, blush-pink, and L. B. 
Dana, orange-salmon, like a large Source d'Or. 
Swanley. 
Several houses are devoted to Chrysanthemums in 
tha autumn in the nurseries of Messrs. H. Cannell 
& Sons, Swanley, Kent. A new house, 150 ft. long 
and 25 ft. wide, has recently been built expressly for 
the purpose of accommodating the flowering plants. 
Some 500 new varieties have been obtained from 
various sources, makingj the number of varieties 
cultivated here 1,500 in all, and about 3,000 plants 
are grown in pots. Considering the number of new 
varieties in the collection it is needless to say that all 
the most striking varieties are those agitating the 
public mind in the Chrysanthemum world. 
On entering this house the first striking variety 
that we noticed was G. W. Childs, a brilliant 
variety described in the previous column. 
Three huge flowers of Mohawk on a plant 
were bronzy red on a yellow ground. Mrs C. 
Harman Payne bore four huge flowers of a rosy 
purple on stems 3 ft. high. The number of incurved 
Japanese varieties that are now finding public favour 
on account of their size, varied colours, and fine form 
is something remarkable. For instance growing in 
close promixity to one another we noted J. Stan- 
borough Dibbins, golden bronze, late, and 3 ft. high, 
with fine foliage; also Madame Ed. Rey, pink with a 
white centre and florets as broad as Comte de 
Germiny; the large Col. W. B. Smith, of a bronzy 
gold with its florets beautifully coiled against the 
direction of the sun ; L'Ami Etienne, soft pink with 
a silvery reverse ; Lilian Russell, large lilac-purple, 
Robert Cannell, bronze with a yellow reverse, also 
large ; Mademoiselle Susan Biron, of the Stanstead 
White type with narrower and more graceful white 
florets, and four blooms on a plant ; and Charles 
Bonstedt, rosy purple with white tips. Of the same 
type is Mrs. Philip Rider, of a bronzy hue with a 
yellow reverse, bearing three blooms on a plant only 
2 ft. high. The flowers of Ethel Paule are pure 
white, of medium size and ultimately globular. 
Other dwarf varieties are Mrs. Jerome Jones, with 
large flowers, and broad florets of a pink and white 
hue; Vice-President Calvat, crimson with buft 
reverse, and any quantity of material in the centre. 
Coronet is bright yellow with broad florets. Amos 
Perry gets to a large size here and has soft yellow 
flowers. A singular looking flower is Abbots White, 
having the white florets reflexed in the early stages 
but incurved at the tips and ultimately becoming 
perfectly incurved when the centre gets fully 
developed. 
Reflexed Japanese varieties are also very plentifu’, 
and some of them very fine, including George W. 
Childs already mentioned. Here may be placed the 
beautiful pure white Anna Hartshorn. Large 
quantities of Viviand Morel are grown, and the 
stand of huge flowers recently exhibited by Messrs. 
Cannell before the public shows how it responds to 
good treatment, although nothing otherwise special. 
The orange-bronze of Mrs. F. Jamieson is certainly 
fine, as is the fiery-crimson of J Blenkinsop. On 
the other hand Mrs. Carr Gomm is a beautiful ivory- 
white with curiously and irregularly twisted florets. 
Kentish Hero is like a soft yellow Elaine, whereas 
Edwin Beckett is a golden-yellow. The former is 
one of Messrs. Cannell’s seedlings. Joseph H. 
White is like a broad petalled Elaine and of the 
same colour. The flowers of Ernest Asmils are 
golden-bronze and measure about 5 in. across. We 
have frequently seen Gloire de Rocher of a pile 
hue, but here the blooms are of a deep bronzy-red 
and very attractive. 
Whether Florence Davis will ever become popular 
or not remains to be seen, but its constitution is cer¬ 
tainly good, and the flowers ultimately become of a 
