December 5, 1896. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
211 
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5th, 1896. 
NEXT WEEK'S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Monday, December 7th.—Opening of the Potato Tercentenary 
Celebration at the Rotunda Rooms, Dublin (3 days). 
Sales of Dutch Bulbs and rare Perennials by Messrs. 
Protheroe & Morris 
Tuesday, December 8th.—Sales of Dutch Bulbs, Roses 
Carnations etc., by Messrs. Protheroe & Morris. 
Thursday, December 10th.— Sales of hardy Perennials by 
Messrs. Protheroe & Morris. 
Friday, December nth.—Sales of imported and established 
Orchids by Messrs. Protheroe & Morris 
f LEANINGS OF THE CHRYSANTHEMUM 
Harvest. —The early winter exhibi¬ 
tion of the National Chrysanthemum 
Society, just consummated on Tuesday, 
Wednesday and Thursday last, may be re¬ 
garded as the gleanings, and valuable 
gleanings too, of a long and abundant 
harvest of bloom. The exhibition just com¬ 
pleted takes the place of the mid-winter 
show, which used to be held in January. 
It was believed that a creditable and attrac¬ 
tive exhibition of Chrysanthemums could 
hardly be realised in London after the lapse 
of December in our climate ; and with exist¬ 
ing machinery for getting up the same, we 
are of opinion that this is a correct view of 
the case. The shows that have hitherto 
been held in January amply demonstrated 
this fact. The results of the early December 
exhibition have hitherto justified the altera 
tion of the dates of the closing show of the 
season. The National Chrysanthemum 
Society may justly feel proud, not only of 
its own shows, but of the example and 
impetus which it has given directly and in¬ 
directly to many other societies, whether 
affiliated or otherwise, throughout the length 
and breadth of the British Isles, and in 
distant colonies. 
Needless to say, many allusions to the 
National Society have been made by con¬ 
temporaries in various parts of the country, 
when reporting or commenting upon their 
local shows of the favourite autumn flower. 
The reports with which we have been 
furnished by our numerous correspondents 
in various parts of the country have amply 
corroborated these statements. A goodly 
number of Chrysanthemum societies have 
been rejoicing at their age, and others exult¬ 
ing in their vigorous youth and prospects ; 
some have started a Chrysanthemum show 
for the first time ; others have resuscitated 
an old one after the lapse of a number of 
years ; while others have widened their 
sphere of action by annexing a wider district 
and shifting to more populous districts, re¬ 
minding us of the progress of the old Stoke 
Newington Society, gradually shifting from 
its place of origin and ultimately blossom¬ 
ing into the National, at Westminster. It 
seems generally acknowledged that the 
Norfolk and Norwich Horticultural Society 
was the first to exhibit Chrysanthemums 
publicly in this country. This was in 1829. 
The Stoke Newington (now the National,) 
Society commenced in 1846. Brixton and 
Streatham have held their 37th show ; 
Birmingham its 36th ; Bristol its 33rd ; and 
Kingston-on-Thames its 20th, so that it will 
have come of age by this time next year. 
Amongst those places which have held their 
first show this year, we may mention 
Carlisle, Leamington, Stone, Horncastle 
and District, and Aberdeen, the show 
having been resuscitated after a lapse of 
eleven years. 
The features of the show on this occasion 
were undoubtedly the great competition in 
the cut flowers classes, both on the stands, 
and the collections of bunches of bloom, 
cut with long stems and carrying their own 
foliage, together with the groups of Chrys¬ 
anthemums, and Primulas. There is still 
some room for displaying these bunches in 
the most effective way while at the 
same time avoiding anything approaching 
formality, and which is evidently intended 
by framers of the schedule and the exhibi¬ 
tors themselves. The open autumn must 
be held responsible for the highly-coloured 
and fresh character of the Chrysanthemums. 
It is quite unusual to see such competition 
either in the Japanese or incurved classes 
at this season of the year, and the numerous 
exhibits must be taken as evidence of the 
great quantity of bloom still in the 
various nursery and private establishments. 
Madame Carnot upholds its reputation as 
a late exhibition bloom, and others might 
also be mentioned, but an account of them 
is given in another column. No doubt 
many of the blooms were from terminal 
buds, which would help to account for the 
rich colour of a large number of the blooms. 
-■ —— 
Mr. John Thatcher has been appointed gardener to 
Charles Druce, Esq., at Wynnewood, Philadelphia, 
Pa. Mr. Thatcher will be remembered in England 
as Orchid grower and foreman at Byrkley, Burton- 
on-Trent. 
The American Society in London celebrated 
Thanksgiving Day on the 26th ult., by a dinner in 
the Grand Hall, Hotel Cecil, at which Mr. Bayard, 
the American Ambassador, was the principal guest. 
A curious feature of the banquet was a huge Pump¬ 
kin, weighing 175 lbs. 
Mr. C. Harman Payne, Foreign Corresponding 
Secretary of the National Chrysanthemum Society, 
has been awarded tbe “ Order of Merit Agricole," 
by the French Minister of Agriculture, in considera¬ 
tion of the eminent services rendered by him to hor¬ 
ticulture as a contributor to Chrysanthemum litera¬ 
ture. 
Kewites to the Front.—The whole of the five appli¬ 
cants who were called before the committee 
appointed to make a selection of a suitable candidate 
as superintendent of the Liverpool Botanic Gardens, 
were old Kew men. The gentlemen in question were 
Mr. J. Gutiridge, Mr. J. Newsham, Mr. Geo. Lamb, 
Mr. R. Harrow, and Mr J. Milburn, superintendent 
of the Victoria Park, Bath. 
Reading Gardeners’ Association.—Mr. Arthur W. 
Sutton, of Messrs. Sutton & Sons, read a very 
interesting paper on Potatos, at the meeting of the 
Reading and District Gardeners’ Mutual Improve¬ 
ment Association, in the Abbey Hall, Reading, on 
the 23rd ult. Mr. Arthur W. Sutton is one of the 
best authorities on Potato culture, having made a 
special study of this branch of gardening, or agri¬ 
culture for the matter of that. The paper was the 
same as that delivered before the R03 al Horticultural 
Society last year, and was beautifully illustrated. 
The secretary of the Reading Gardeners' Association 
had asked him to read it again. He had to read 
another paper on Potatos at the Tercentenary 
Celebration at Dublin, and which takes place on the 
gth and 10th inst., but it would be unfair to the 
Irish Gardeners' Association to read that paper at 
Reading. His last years’ excellent paper appeared 
in The Gardening World, December 7th, 1895, 
and in succeeding issues, 
