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THE GARDENING WORLD 
June 30, 1900. 
class and much-prized Tulip. Yellow Rose is a 
special favourite with many persons, persons too 
who are blest with perfect good taste. It is delight¬ 
fully fragrant, double, deep yellow, but it has one 
fault, and a serious one, its stalk is too weak to hold 
the rich double blooms erect. This can be remedied 
by the commonsense practise of placing a stake to 
each bloom. This one failing should not be 
allowed to affect the choosing of so fine a Tulip. 
La Panachee is a creamy-white variety, having 
bright mauvy stripes upon the perianth lobes. 
Lastly, Zeno, a glorious variety of a glowing crimson- 
scarlet colour, possesses a fine blue base. These 
are all very distinct and showy Tulips, with 
characteristics which we specially desire in this 
class of plants. Mr. Jones was successful in obtain¬ 
ing many commendations and some Awards of 
Merit at the Chiswick Tulip trials in the spring of 
this year. 
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WAR AMONGST PLANTS. 
The cry of war is in the air! Periodicals are 
charged to their utmost capacity with reports of war¬ 
like deeds, which are as glutinously devoured by the 
man at the street corner, as by the aristocrat in his 
breakfast room. Amongst all this war, and rumours 
of war, it is interesting to note the bellicose nature 
of all plants. Plants like all beings frequently 
succumb after a prolonged struggle against adverse 
circumstances-; hence, the life of an individual may 
be described as a battle against circumstances. 
Plants of different kinds growing wild in a state of 
nature may contend with each other, for roothold, 
soil, food, and for space to expose their foliage to the 
sun. Under such circumstances, if there be room 
for all, it may chance that the severity of the 
struggle is slight owing to the different requirements 
of the different plants, but even there the stronger 
will prevail, as exemplified by the preponderance of 
couch-grass, over the finer and more succulent forms 
of grasses, in waste ground. Plants of the same 
kind growing gregariously like heaths on a moor have 
the same requirements : and these are supplied in 
about equal proportions to all the individual plants. 
The result is that while the weaker ones are crowded 
out, the survivors are pretty much on an equality. 
This class of warfare is internecine, and competition 
between plant and plant may be mitigated by the 
adoption of thin seeding, whilst the competition 
between cultivated and alien plants may be prevented 
by weeding.— Alpine. 
Hardening Jiscellany. 
CROTON CULTURE. 
The best way to propagate these handsome stove 
plants is to take off the points of half-firmed shoots 
and strike them in thumb pots in a brisk bottom- 
heat. Cuttings of 6-ins. in length are quite suitable 
and only a few of the bottom leaves should be dressed 
off. Tie up the leaves and fasten them,when bunched, 
by a loose sling to a stake. Plunge the pots in a 
warm bed of fibre keeping the case close and moist 
till they get well rooted. Pot on when the small 
pots are comfortably filled using a rich but so far open 
compost. At each later shift let the compost be 
heavier, a good solid loam being given to plants in 
6-ins. pots. The plants may either be grown as 
standards or as bushes. Standards are the more 
recommendable. The heat of the Croton house can 
hardly be too great, in fact Mr. McIntyre of Dar¬ 
lington does not give them direct air half-a-dozen 
times all summer. And it is important that the 
atmosphere should be laden with moisture. When 
plants are to be coloured-up highly, little potting 
should be done, but watering with clarified soot-water 
or fertilisers should be depended on. Constant spong¬ 
ing or smokings are necessary to keep the plant free 
from the insect pests which trouble them. 
SCILLA CAMPANULATA ROSEA 
GRANDIFLORA. 
This is one of the grandest varieties of the compan- 
ulate Scillas there is. The flowers are large, distinct, 
deeply coloured, and are a cheery rosy pink. The 
racemes are long and handsome. For planting in 
the grass in association with the common blue and 
white Scillas, it forms a charming addition. It is 
worthy of special culture, and where one can afford 
to plant it in masses, this syetem is best for effect. 
SOCIETIES. 
ROYAL BOTANIC OF LONDON .—June loth. 
On Wednesday, June 20th, the Royal Botanic 
Society held a floral fete in their gardens at Regent’s 
Park, N. The weather was all that one could wish 
it to be, though frequently it threatened to rain. 
The flower exhibition seemed a little adjunct thrown 
in as a variety along with the other attractions. A 
report of the flower exhibits follows The Pastoral 
Play or cantata held during the afternoon in the 
open air, and sustained mostly by juveniles, interest¬ 
ed and drew out a large throng. The conjoined 
volume of the many girl-voices in song, was borne 
on the breeze for fully a quarter of a mile across the 
park, and was very pleasant to listen to. The Royal 
Hand-bell Ringers also gave a charming entertain¬ 
ment during the afternoon. They were a source of 
great interest and pleasure, and were very highly 
appreciated. The band of H.M. Second Life Guards 
rendered a programme of select music at intervals. 
Along the central walk leading from the conserva¬ 
tory to the south or main entrance, on either side 
tall Bamboo poles were obliquely placed, and these 
were decked from top to bottom with bouquets of 
flowers. In the evening fairy lights by the 
thousand were placed about the grounds. 
Messrs. Barr & Sons, King Street, Covent Garden^ 
staged a collection of cut herbaceous flowers, such 
as they had at the Drill Hall the day previously. Of 
double Paeonies.the following were certainly very fine: 
Lord Rosebery, Duke of Wellington, Mdme. Mon- 
tot, Mdme. Miellez, and Nobilissima. The Ixias, 
Dictamnus, Heuchera sanguinea, Astilbes, and 
Spanish Irises in many varieties were staged in de¬ 
lightful profusion. (Silver Medal.) 
Messrs. A. W. Young & Co, The Nurseries, 
Stevenage, Herts., set up a collection of such fine 
hardy cut flowers as Linum alpinum, Centaurea 
montana alba, Lychnis, Linaria dalmatica, Achillea 
umbellata, Aquilegias, Pyrethrums, and various 
varieties of Irises, Delphiniums, Anchusa italica, &c. 
(Silver Medal.) 
Mr. Geo. Prince, Rose Grower, Oxford, showed 
the very fine Roses which he staged at Westminster 
the day previously. This fact was remarked by not 
a few of the visitors, so that the interest in so fine 
an exhibit was somewhat weakened. He also ex¬ 
hibited a collection of Sweet Peas. (Silver 
Medal.) 
The class for a^ patriotic design drew forth two 
competitors, the first prize falling to Mr. L. H. 
Calcutt, Fairholt Road, Stoke Newington, who had 
a large anchor, with the words " Well Done, Power¬ 
ful," in blue Cornflowers above a white ground. 
The design had plenty of blaze about it. The 
second design was more modest, taking the form of a 
picture-frame with a portrait of the Queen behind. 
Bunches of Shamrock and flowers were placed in 
the corners. 
Miss Mary Louise Gordon, 29, Denbigh Place, 
S.W., was first in the class for a ball-room bouquet. 
Mr. L. H. Calcutt was second. Mr. Henry O. 
Gorford, Floral Depot, Stoke Newington, was first 
for a lovely bridal bouquet, all in white, Roses, 
Sweet Peas, and Stephanotis being used. Miss F. 
Boff, 203, Upper Street, Islington, London, N., was 
second. 
There were seven nice tables (though mostly after 
the same pattern, having a profusion of Poppies) of 
floral decorations. Messrs. A. and U. Youens, were 
first, Mrs. Cole, 137, Charing Cross Road, W.C., 
second, and Mr. Calcutt, third. 
Messrs. Carter & Co., High Holborn, London, set 
up a fine table of their Invincible Prize Gloxias, 
magnificently flowered plants, denoting a good 
strain. (Large Silver Medal.) 
In the competitive class, for three vases of flowers, 
arranged for drawing-room decoration, Messrs. A. & 
U. Youens, 15, Tower Road, Dartford, were first, 
having spikes of Gladiolus, Astilbes, Grasses 
Spanish Irises, &c. 
RICHMOND HORTICULTURAL .—June 27th and 
28 tli. 
The twenty-sixth annual show of this prosperous 
and influential society was held in the Old Deer 
Park, Richmond, and was favoured with splendid 
weather, though the clouds were rather threatening 
on the morning of the opening day. The Richmond 
society was joined by the Royal Horticultural 
Society, which had a large and well filled tent of its 
own, in which the various committees met and gave 
awards to new plants. The Richmond society had 
several large tents and at the combined luncheon of 
the judges and committees of the two societies 
several speakers, including Sir Trevor Lawrence, 
Bart., T. Skewes-Cox, Esq., M.P., and Sir William 
T. Thiselton-Dyer, acknowledged the fact that the 
tents were overcrowded notwithstanding the hun¬ 
dreds of acres at command for the putting up of 
more tents. The show was opened by Lady 
Lawrence. 
A large group of Orchids, not for competition, was 
exhibited by Sir Frederick Wigan, Bart, (grower, 
Mr. W. H. Young), Clare Lawn, East Sheen. In 
the centre was a massive piece of Coelogyne asperata 
surrounded by a band of Laelia tenebrosa. Bold 
and handsome subjects also were Sobralia macrantha 
alba, S Veitchi aurea, Cattleya gigas, C. g. sander- 
iana, Phalaenopsis grandiflora, Laeliocattleya 
Wiganiae, Lc. Aphrodite, Lc. Wiganiae aurea, Lc. 
canhamiana marginata and Odontoglossum crispum. 
'Henry Little, Esq. (grower, Mr, A. Howard), 
Baronshalt, East Twickenham, also exhibited a large 
group, not for competition, including some massive 
pieces of Cymbidium lowianum. Oncidium mar- 
shallianum, O. praetextum, Odontoglossum citros- 
mum, O. crispum, Cattleya gigas, C. Warneri, C. 
Mendelii, C. Mossiae and others were also fine, 
Miscellaneous Exhibits. 
Mr. James Hudson, V.M.H., Gunnersbury House, 
ActoD, W., made an interesting exhibit of his well- 
grown Castalias (Nymphaes) in tubs. These occu¬ 
pied an end space in the large Orchid tent, and 
having Holcus grass, Rumex, Cyperus, Myosotis 
palustris, Ranunculus, with a fine desp edging of 
Bracken and Eurya latifolia. The C. stellata with 
Typha latifolia or Reed Mace at its back made a 
beautiful show. The other fine named hybrid sorts 
were in flower and bud. 
Messrs. Carter & Co., High Holborn, London, N., 
had a splendid collection of Gloxinias, the flower of 
many of the plants being as fine as any we have ever 
seen. The size and form were all anyone could 
desire, and the floriferousness and brilliance were 
equal in points of merit to the other factors. They 
have some very fine pale pink speckled varieties. 
And their Petunias. Well! Surely anyone seeing 
them would make up their mind to have a batch for 
their conservatory as soon as possible, we mean of 
the double sorts. 
Messrs. J. Peed & Son, Roupell Park Nurseries, 
Norwood Road, S.E, had an exceedingly fine 
exhibit of Caladiums. The plants were not so large 
as those usually staged by the firm, but this was 
merely a matter of convenience, space being at a 
premium. The finer varieties were Verdii, Ibis 
Rouge, Chelsoni, Thomas Peed, Mrs. H. Veitch, 
Lord Derby, and Vreelandii. 
Mr. John Russell, Richmond Nurseries, Rich¬ 
mond, set up one of the finest and choicest groups of 
choice hardy shrubs we have ever seen or referred 
to. Euonymus ovatus aureus, Quercus concordia, 
Laburnum aureum, Cornus Spathii aurea, and other 
fine subjects supplied the yellows, while Prunus 
Pissardii, Acers in variety, Yuccas, very fine Ivies, 
Bamboos, Hypericum moserianum, and Eulalia 
gracillima, which is the perfection of grace, and 
quite hardy, were a few of the many good things in¬ 
cluded. (Silver Gilt Banksian Medal.) 
Messrs. J. Hill & Son, Barrowfield Nursery, 
Lower Edmonton, occupied 400 sq. ft. of tabling 
with choice exotic Ferns. These had plenty of space 
accorded to them, with here and there a tall pedestal 
raised and upon its top a lovely pendent growing 
Fern, on the forked arms of a cork bark frame with 
some choice and rare Adiantum, &c., cropped up. 
Some of the loveliest were Gymnogramme schizo- 
phylla gloriosa, Pteris scaberula, Platycerium alci- 
corne, P. tricolor, Asplenium caudatum, Gymno¬ 
gramme peruviana argyrophylla (nearly white), 
Platyloma flexuosa, Adiantum farleyense, A. macro- 
pbyllum, Asplenium Hlllii, Davallia tenuifolia 
stricta, and a host of other subjects scarcely ever 
seen, which means that people do not know of them. 
Messrs. Barr & Son, King Street, Covent Garden, 
made one of the finest displays of hardy cut flowers, 
including choice Liliums and Irises, alpines in pots, 
