July 24, 1897. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
789 
WEBBS'SEEDS 
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WEBBS’ 
EMPEROR CABBAGE. 
The Earliest and Best 
6d and Is. per packet; Is. 6d. per oz. 
From Mr. G. H. BALL, Comer Gardens. 
“ I herewith forward you a photograph of your valuable 
Cabbage—the Empeior. I find it is the earliest, largest, 
and most compact variety I ever grew." 
WEBBS’, WORDSIEY, STOURBRIDGE. 
LILIES OF THE VALLEY 
For Everybody and at any Time! 
Retarded crowns, i.e., crowns kept dormant by 
means of refrigeration, can be supplied twice a 
month. These crowns will bloom within 14-20 days ; 
send for a list at once to 
T. JANNOCH, 
Lily Nursery, Dersingham, King's Lynn, Norfolk. 
ORCHIDS. 
Clean Healthy Plants at Low Prices. 
Always worth a visit of inspection. Kindly send for Catalogue. 
JAMES CYPHER, 
Exotic Nurseries, CHELTENHAM. 
£25 in PRIZES. 
DANIELS’ GOLDEN ROCCA ONION. 
Splendid variety of fine globular form, pale golden 
yellow skin, and mild delicate flavour. When well 
grown will produce bulbs 2 lbs to 3 lbs. in weight. 
A superb exhibition variety, and the best for Autumn 
sowing. We offer £25 in prizes in 1898 for bulbs 
grown from seed sown this season. All purchasers 
of not less than one ounce of seed will be eligible to 
compete. Seed, with full cultural directions, peroz., 
is. 6d.; per packet, 6d. Post free. 
DANIELS BROS., Seed Growers, NORWICH. 
THE FINEST CABBAGE IN THE WORLD. 
DANIELS’ DEFIANCE. 
A very fine, short-legged, compact, and early 
variety ; growing quickly to the weight of 8 lb. or 
10 lb each; exceedingly tender and of the most 
delicate marrow flavour. A grand Cabbage alike for 
the market or private grower. Our own splendid 
stock, specially selected, per oz., is. 6d.; per packet, 
6d. Post free. 
DANIELS BROS., Seed Growers, NORWICH. 
H, CANNELL So SONS’ 
Cannas, Begonias, Pelargoniums, 
Carnations, Gloxinias, &c., &c. 
FINEST DISPLAY & COLLECTIONS IN THE WORLD. 
Our Nurseries will be found now and all the 
season the most interesting and edifying probably 
of any similar establishment in England. All ad¬ 
mirers of good gardening will save and derive con¬ 
siderable benefit by sending for Catalogues and 
making themselves thoroughly acquainted with 
cur firm. All kinds of Bedding Plants are ready 
and sent off at an hour's notice. 
SWANLEY, KENT. 
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Edited by J. FRASER, F.L.S. 
SATURDAY , JULY 24 th, 1897. 
NEXT WEEK’S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Tuesday, July 27th.— Royal Hoiticultural Society: Meeting 
of Committees at 12 o'clock. 
Tibshelf Rose Show. 
Wednesday, July 28th.—Beckenham Show. 
Chester Fete (two days). 
Thursday, July 29th.—Kempton Show. 
Saturday, July 31st.—R.H.S.of Southampton (two days show). 
Liverpool Show (two days). 
eitck Medallists of 1897.— 
The following awards of Medals of 
Honour have been made by the Veitch 
Trustees. Circumstances have this year 
prevented the attendance of the recipients 
in person, and the Medals have accordingly 
been sent to them. 
Norman C. Cookson in recognition of his 
great success in the hybridisation of 
Orchids. Among the earlier acquisitions, 
mention may be made of Cypripedium Io, 
C. godseffianum, C. nitidissimum, and C. 
Sanderae superbiens, still highly appre¬ 
ciated. Besides these, some of the finest 
hybrid Cypripediums obtained by other 
operators as C. Calypso, C. Morganiae, C. 
cardinale, C. Niobe, have bsen raised by 
him from the same pairs of species, and 
have very properly received the same 
names. In other genera he has obtained 
Calanthe Cooksoni, Cattleya William 
Murray, Laeliocattleya Phoebe, Dendro- 
bium Venus, D. owenianum, Masdevallia 
courtauldiana, all hybrids of great merit. 
With these may be grouped Phaius Cook¬ 
soni, a plant of exceptional interest, on 
account of its being the first hybrid Phaius 
in which the remarkable Madagascar 
species P. tuberculatus has participated in 
the parentage. Among later acquisitions 
Cypripedium Bryani, Laeliocattleya Doris, 
Dendrobium Sybil, and Phaius Cooksoniae, 
are beautiful hybrids ; but especial promi¬ 
nence must be given to Odontoglossum 
crispo Halli, one of the most remarkable of 
artificially-raised Odontoglots ; and scarcely 
less interesting is the confirmation of the 
supposed parentage of Cattleya hardyana. 
The hybrid.^ j& ised by Mr. Cookson include 
a large, ranged of subjects, and will bear" 
enduring testimony of his horticultural 
skill. 
Martin R. Smith, in recognition of his 
great success in improving the garden 
Carnation. This success is the more 
remarkable from the fact that when Mr. 
Smith took up the subject he began to work 
in a field in which great results had been 
already obtained, especially by the late 
Charles Turner and Ephraim Dodwell, 
besides other cultivators of this popular 
flower, when further improvement seemed 
well nigh unattainable. It is well known 
among amateurs of the Carnation, that of 
the numerous seedlings raised annually, 
very few retain a permanent place in collec¬ 
tions. A glance through the groups into 
which florists have distributed the different 
forms and colours, shows that some of Mr. 
Smith’s seedlings possess qualities that will 
make them exceptions to the general rule, 
especially in the group known as Malmaison 
Carnations. In this group Mr. Smith’s 
acquisitions are particularly valuable, not 
only to amateurs, but to horticulturists 
generally. 
Charles Naudin, for distinguished 
services to botany and horticulture. He is 
one of the most eminent French botanists 
of the present time, and has been for 
upwards of thirty years a member of the 
Academiedes Sciences, the most important 
scientific body in France. He began his 
scientific career in the Jardin des Plantes, 
where he soon gained distinction by his 
accurate investigation of the subjects sub¬ 
mitted to him. Among these were numerous 
experiments to determine the nature and 
validity of species, including the determina¬ 
tion of the many cultivated varieties of the 
Gourd and Pumpkin. By carefully growing 
the numerous kinds side by side, by 
comparing one with the other, and by 
crossing or attempting to cross one with 
the other, he eventually succeded in tracing 
all the edible and most of the ornamental 
forms to Cucurbita Pepo, C. maxima, and 
C. moschata. While connected with the 
Jardin des Plantes, he collaborated with 
Professor Decaisne a general treatise on 
horticulture, entitled Manuel de 1 'Amateur 
des Jardins, still the most scientific and best 
illustrated work on gardening in the French 
language. Failing health obliging him to 
leave the Jardin des Plantes about the year 
1870, after passing some years in experi¬ 
mental horticulture at Collioures, he 
accepted the directorship of the Villa 
Thuret garden, established by M. Gustav 
Thuret and Dr. Bornet at Antibes, as a 
botanic garden for experiments in the 
acclimatisation of subtropical plants. The 
villa and garden are now the property of the 
French government, and form a sort of 
southern branch of the Jardin des Plantes 
under the direction of M. Naudin, in which 
are cultiuated Australian, South African, 
and many other subtropical plants, for 
distribution among the French colonies, 
and for the use of the Universities of 
France. Since his instalment at the Villa 
Thuret, M. Naudin has published a 
valuable Manuel de l'Acclimateur, in which 
the author’s extensive knowledge of the 
large and difficult genera Acacia and 
Eucalyptus is conspicuously shown. 
Max. Leichtlin, in recognition of eminent 
services to horticulture, especially the intro¬ 
duction of many new and beautiful plants. 
Max. Leichtlin occupies a unique place 
among the horticulturists of the present 
day. Apprenticed to a gardener in his 
youth, he subsequently held situations in 
several places, but finally settled down at 
Baden-Baden, where he founded a private 
Botanic Garden, which has since become a 
household word wherever rare and beautiful 
species of bulbous and perennial herbaceous 
plants are prized. In this remarkable gar¬ 
den, scarcely half an acre in extent, Max. 
Leichtlin has worked for upwards of forty 
years, with the assistance of only one or two 
skilled labourers. During this period, 
