June 3, 1899. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
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ORCHIDS 
A Choice Selection of rare Established Plants. 
Grand importations just to hand. 
Cattleya Gaskelliana, &c., &c., &c. 
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LAINGS' BEGONIAS 
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The Premier House. 
IN BLOOM. 
Awarded Many Gold Medals. 
Unequalled as a Floral Display. Visitors are cordially invited ; free admission. 
Frequent trains from the City and West End to Catford Bridge, Catford, and Forest 
Hill Stations. 
Catalogues Post Free. Telephone 60 Sydenham , 
JOHN LAING & SONS, 
Begonia, Caladium, Clivia, and Gloxinia Specialists, Seed, 
Plant, and Bulb Merchants, &c. 
Contractors to the Greater Britain Exhibition, Earl's Court, S.JF. 
FOREST HILL, S.E., and CATFORD, KENT. 
JANNOCH’S 
LILIES OF THE VALLEY! 
RETARDED AND NON-RETARDED CROWNS. 
PLANTING CROWNS. 
“FORTIN” Yariety, the largest and finest Lily 
of the Yalley grown. 
PRICE LISTS ON APPLICATION. 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man."—B acon. 
E are the Largest Importers of Mexican and Brazilian Orchids in the World. Tens of thousands to select from. Visitors are 
cordially invited to inspect our Nurseries at Southgate, a most ctiarming and typical old English Village. 
Station :—Palmer’s Green, G.N.Railway. An omnibus, passing our Nurseries, leaves the Station at q.18, 10.43, lI -59 a.m.! 
2.9, 3.1, 4.1, 5.11 p.m. 
STANLEY-MOBBS & ASHTON, SOUTHGATE. N. 
And at RIO OE JANEIRO, CAIXA 906. 
Orchids are present in the usual quantity 
and shown by well known exhibitors. The 
headquarters of this noble class of plants 
are in the big tent as usual, the great 
central stage of which they worthily fill, 
while the overflow is accommodated in the 
tent next it as was the case last year. The 
president of the society, Sir Trevor Law¬ 
rence, Bart., took the proud position of lead¬ 
ing amateur exhibitor, and needless to say 
his group was put up in good taste, without 
the overcrowding too frequently character¬ 
istic of other groups. The amateur element 
was also supported by Sir Frederick Wigan, 
Bart., W. Thompson, Esq., Ludwig Mond, 
Esq., &c. The nursery element was sustained 
by Messrs. Sander&Co.,HorticoleColoniale, 
Ltd., Hugh Low & Co., Stanley-Mobbs & 
Ashton, B. S. William?, Charlesworth & 
Co., James Cypher, and others. A consider¬ 
able amount of variety is displayed in the 
groups, and as a matter of fact the plants 
actually shown are limited to those in 
season. Cool Odontoglossums particularly 
the multitudinous forms of O. crispum were 
present in overwhelming numbers, together 
with the natural hybrids and allies which 
cluster round them, thus undoubtedly 
evidencing the popularity of the genus as a 
whole. The Temple Show thus maintains 
its reputation for this class of exhibit. 
Roses for some reason or other were not 
so numerous as formerly ; but possibly the 
public is more fascinated by the charms of 
Roses grown in the open. Caladiums were 
fully up to the highwater mark of last year, 
the whole energy of the principal exhibitors 
of this class of plants being devoted to 
making them as attractive as possible. 
Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, Ltd., John Laing 
& Sons, and John Peed & Sons, made the 
most of the space at their disposal in the 
big tent, and in the way of leaf coloration 
nothing could well be more gorgeous or 
tropical in aspect For size of flowers, 
depth, richness, delicacy, and harmony in 
the blending of tints, the Phyllocacti shown 
by Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons in tent No. 2, 
stand unsurpassed, the group staged being 
the largest ever set up by the Chelsea or 
any other firm. They also show Gloxinias 
in grand form. The strain of Calceolarias 
staged by Messrs. Sutton & Sons has now 
reached a state of great perfection, making 
it difficult to conceive how these greenhouse 
favourites can further be improved. The 
group of Nemesia strumosa Suttoni and the 
forms into which these annuals have been 
developed suggest great possibilities in the 
future. Annuals proper have never been a 
striking feature of the Temple Show, but 
exhibits like this should suggest further 
developments. Messrs. J. Carter & Co., 
and Messrs. Webb & Sons also show well 
grown Calceolarias, the latter being new 
exhibitors at this metropolitan show. We 
should like to see gardeners taking up this 
class of plants more extensively than they 
do, for few things have a more brightening 
effect in the conservatory during the spring 
and early summer months. Messrs. Webb 
& Sons also enter the lists with Gloxinias. 
and Caladiums. Tuberous Begonias have 
T. JANNOCH, Lily Nursery, 
DERSINGHAM, NORFOLK. 
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LANDSCAPE GARDENERS, 
CONTRACT PLANTERS, ETC. 
New Catalogues Now Ready, Post Free. 
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LOWFIELD NURSERIES, CRAWLEY, SUSSEX. 
FERNS 
SPECIALITY. 
We have the finest, most varied, and interesting Trade 
Collection of Ferns in the world, comprising over 1,000 
difierent kinds of Stove, Greenhouse and Filmy Ferns, and 
over 400 kinds of Hardy Ferns. Every Fern lover should 
have our Illustrated Catalogue (No. 24.), the best ever 
published. It contains 170 illustrations, and a large amount 
of valuable information, price 2s., post free. We send our 
smaller partially descriptive Catalogue free on application. 
We now offer 12 beautiful kinds of Stove and Greenhouse 
Ferns for 3s.; 25 varieties for 7s. 6d.; 50 for 17s. 6d.; 100 in 
25 varieties, 25s. ; 100 in 50 varieties, 30s. ; 100 different Kinds, 
50s. 
Hardy Ferns, 12 varieties for 3s.; 25 for 8s. 6d.; 50 for 25s ; 
100 in 12 varieties, 21s.; 100 in 25 kinds, 30s.; 100 in 50 kinds 
45s-; 100 in too varieties, 75s. 
W. & J. BIRKENHEAD, F.R.H.S., 
Fern Nurseries, Sale, near Manchester. 
ORCHIDS ! ORCHIDS!! 
Quantity Immense! 
INSPECTION of OUR NEW RANGE of 
HOUSES 
IS CORDIALLY INVITED BY 
HUGH LOW & CO., 
Bush Hill Park, Middlesex. 
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Edited by J. FRASER, F.L.S. 
SATURDAY, JUNE yd, 1899. 
f oME Features of the Temple Show.— 
As we go to press the twelfth great annual 
exhibition of the Royal Horticultural Society 
in the Inner Temple Gardens is being in¬ 
spected by thousands, in all the freshness 
of the opening day. Every inch of space 
is as keenly contested as ever by exhibitors 
in the wholesome rivalry of putting the best 
garden and nursery produce in the most 
attractive arrangements to catch the eye of 
the British public. The fray reminds us 
of Shakespeare’s lines about the quarrel of 
Richard Plantagenet and the Earl of 
Somerset, which led to the wars of the 
Roses: “ This brawl to-day, Grown to this 
faction, in the Temple Garden,” &c. Times 
and manners are changed since then, and 
the “ brawl ” and “ faction ” are happily 
of a more pleasing order. The contention 
has been for the 12,420 square feet of avail¬ 
able space ; for nearly 30,000 square feet 
had been applied for and many had to be 
turned away, while the rest had to be con¬ 
tent with a more restricted area than they 
considered absolutely necessary for display¬ 
ing their exhibits. The decorative element 
had to be cut out of the programme 
altogether in order to make room for genuine 
cultivators. This class of exhibitor is there¬ 
fore absent, but otherwise the familar faces 
have turned up in force, while some fresh 
ones are exhibiting at the Temple Show for 
the first time. 
