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THE GARDENING WORLD. 
June 22, 1901. 
There are also many kinds of creepers grown for 
their bloom alone, these would be very effective 
climbers for the wall at the back of the border. Two 
excellent varieties of the climbing Tropaeolum or 
Nasturtium are: Tropaeolum canariense which is 
commonly called Canary Creeper, and is delightful 
for its yellow blooms which are exhibited in great 
abundance. It flowers from July to October and 
enjoys a well shaded and cool position. Tropaeolum 
speciosum is much after the same style only it has 
deep scarlet flowers instead of yellow. This lovely 
species is often seen climbing over the roof of many 
a Welsh and Scottish cottage. 
Another great feature of the garden is a designed 
bed. These geometrical looking objects are more 
suited to parks and estates than to country and 
small gardens. A few kinds of colour in broad 
masses would give far more effect in these beds 
than any mixture. 
If the gardener requires a number of flowers to 
be placed together on a lawn in small beds, and the 
bright colours are all to be used in a limited space, 
then some of them can be separated by a screen of 
tall-growing foliage plants. The following combin¬ 
ation will perhaps give some idea as to how coloured 
beds may be placed together on a lawn :—First bed. 
—Mauve Ageratum, with gold Pyrethrum edging. 
Second bed. — Pink Pelargonium, with silver 
Centaurea edging. Third bed.—Rich blood-red 
Pelargonium or tuberous Begonia of the same colour 
with gold leaf Pelargonium or golden Thyme edging. 
Fourth bed.—Screen of foliage plants, Castor oil, 
white Tobaccos, Virgin Thistles, purple Beet, 
Gladioli and Echeverias. Fifth bed.— Scarlet 
Pelargonium or Lobelia cardinalis, with silver leaf 
Pelargonium or Cerastium edging. Sixth bed.— 
Blue and white Lobelia, with gold Mesembryanthe- 
mum edging. Seventh bed.—Palms kept in the house 
during the winter such as Chamaerops Fortune!, or 
Privets (shrub). Eighth bed.—Yellow Calceolaria 
with deep border of brown Caleeoloria, and grey 
Sempervivum edging. Ninth bed.—Purple Beet, 
with deep border of white Marguerites or Geranium 
cinereum which has white flowers with hardly per¬ 
ceptible pink veins, and Mesembryanthemum edging. 
Tenth bed.—Red tuberous Begonias with a border 
of Ageratum, and Centaurea edging. The above 
screens of foliage are used to shut off one colour so 
as one can enjoy the next. 
A greenhouse well filled with plants and climbers 
is a very beautiful sight both in summer and winter. 
Indoor gardening is most useful and interesting 
and in the higher stages most complicating. In the 
summer more interest is naturally taken in out of 
door study, for it is then that all nature’s work is 
exhibited. 
In winter the open air flower garden is rather 
dud and monotonous and then it is that the 
gardener takes a real interest in getting his conser¬ 
vatory at the highest pitch of perfection with all 
the flowers that are too delicate to stand the cold winds 
and frosts which will inevitably occur. The reader 
must not think that houses look their best in 
winter; his experience will most likely tell him 
differently. 
Oh, what a lovely sight it is to see the glasshouse 
rafters well covered with the famous Lapageria 
rosea or L.r. aioa with their waxy bell-shaped 
flowers banging in profusion and blending with the 
gay masses below, staged up to exhibit their glory 
amongst Maidenhair and Pteris Ferns. Also a house 
well stocked with the lovely fibrous tuberous Begonia 
Gloirede Lorraine, which throwsforth massesoi bloom 
from November to January, will indeed prove a 
glorious spectacle when mingled with Panicum 
variegatum, which is a very beautiful creeping 
grass. For overhanging baskets and draping stag¬ 
ing there is no equal. White stripes with tints of 
pale pink give it a very glorious appearance when 
the full view of the sun is upon it.— G. IV. D. 
SOCIETIES. 
GRAND YORKSHIRE GALA. — June 12th, 13th, 
and 14th. 
Although this big floral exhibition was slightly 
below par last year it made up for the deficiency 
this year. The exhibits were very numerous and of 
a high standard of excellence. A visit to a flower 
show year after year is very instructive in the 
different phases of gardening. Not many years ago 
the Fuchsias were a feature of this show, now they 
take a modest background and are scarcely repre¬ 
sented ; Calceolarias also seem to have had their 
day, and Gloxinias fill their places on the show 
boards. Roses, of course, still hold the paramount 
position in everybody’s estimation, but they are now 
finding a pair of keen rivals for the supremacy 
in the Chinese Paeony and the Carnation. English¬ 
men seem to be catching the enthusiasm which the 
Americans are rocked with for the Carnation, and 
the vast strides in improvements that have taken 
place during the past few years and the multiplica¬ 
tion of varieties is amazing, and show with what zeal 
our hybridists are working. Orchids also hold their 
own in the public's estimation, and are likely to con¬ 
tinue to do so as there are none to compete with 
their fascinating forms. It is rather early in the 
season yet to expect much fruit, but in spite of this 
there was a big display. 
Seven hundred and fifty pounds were awarded in 
prizes—/300 for Orchids, stove and greenhouse 
plants; /'zoo for Carnations, Pelargoniums, Be¬ 
gonias, &c. ; ^[50 for Roses, cut flowers, &c. ; and 
£100 for fruit and vegetables. This is the forty- 
third year since the society held their first show, and 
starting in a very modest way it has become one of 
the first shows in the country. It is under the dis¬ 
tinguished patronage of the King and the principal 
personages of the country. Space will not allow of 
a detailed report, but the principal of the prize¬ 
winners are given below. 
Groups. —There was keen competition in the class 
for groups of miscellaneous plants arranged for 
effect. The prize-winners were, first, Mr. E. Beckett 
Faber, Harrogate; second, Mr. J. S. Sharpe,Hudders¬ 
field ; third, Mr. W. Vause, Leamington. For 
twelve stove or greenhouse plants in bloom (Orchids 
excluded), first, Mr. J. Cypher, Cheltenham; second, 
Mr. W. Vause; third, Colonel Harrison-Broalley, 
Welton. For six ornamental fioe foliage plants, 
first, Mr. J. Cypher; second, Mr. W. Vause; third, 
Messrs. R. Simpson & Son. For a specimen Croton, 
first, Messrs. R. Simpson & Son ; second, Mr. E. 
Beckett Faber; third, Mr. W. Vause. Good prizes 
were offered for twenty alpine and herbaceous 
plants, yet there was only one prize awarded in this 
section; it went to Mr. S. Hardcastle, Bishop 
Wilton. 
Ferns. — There was better competition for six 
exotic Ferns, first, Rev. G. Yeats, York ; second, 
Messrs. Simpson & Son. The order for ten hardy 
Ferns was, first, Mr. T. Nicholson, York; second, 
Messrs. R. Simpson & Son ; third, Mr. J. 
Jackson. 
Carnations. —For a group of Carnations, first, 
Mr. A. Wilson, Hull ; second, Mr. F. B. Grotrian, 
Wetherby ; third, Messrs. Walshaw & Sons, Scar¬ 
borough ; fourth, Mr. E. Beckett Faber. This sec¬ 
tion was one of the features of the show, and some 
idea of the extent may be gathered when the lowest 
number of plants in a grwap was limited to fifty. 
Table Plants —For eight plants suitable for 
dinner table decoration, pots not to exceed 6 in., first, 
Sir J. W. Pease (gardener, Mr. J. Mclndoe), Hulton 
Hall, Guisborough; second, J. B. Oldham, Esq, 
Easingwold ; third, Messrs. W. Artindale & Son, 
Sheffield. 
Gloxinias. —Good prizes for tastefully arranged 
groups of Gloxinias in bloom were offered, and the 
order, first, Messrs. R. Simpson & Sons; second, 
Rev. G. Yeats ; third, Mr. W. T. Owbridge. 
Orchids.— For a table of Orchids 12 ft. by 5 ft. 
arranged for effect the lead was taken by Mr. J. 
Cypher; second, Mr. John Robson. The awards for 
ten distinct Orchids were, first, Mr. J. Cypher ; 
second, Mr. John Robson ; third, Mr. W. P. Burk- 
inshaw. The display of these floral aristocrats was 
very striking and came in for a deal of admiration 
and eulogistic description, but although flattering, it 
was often far from botanical 
Roses —These were well represented and filled 
the tent in which they were grouped with a delight¬ 
ful fragrance which was as gratifying to the olfactory 
organs as the form was to the eyes. For a group of 
Roses in pots Mr. J. D. HutchisoD, Kirbymoorside, 
was fir^t ; Mr. H. Pybus, second, and Messrs. W. 
Jackson & Co., third. 
Greenhouse Plants. —For a group of Begonias 
and foliage plants arranged for effect Mr. W. T, 
Owbridge was first ; Messrs. R. Simpson & Son, 
second ; and Miss Warton, York, third. Miss Warton 
was first for six distinct Fuchsias,and Mr. J. W. Clark 
second. In the class for a group of Calceolarias 
arranged with foliage Mr. W. T. Owbridge was first; 
Mr. T. M. Lambert, York, second ; and Miss Lloyd 
and G. Cottam, equal thirds. For six Liliums in 
pots Messrs. R. Wallace '& Co., Colchester, was 
awarded first; Mr. A. Wilson came a good second; 
and Mrs. Tetley, third. 
Cut Flowers. —There was some very keen com¬ 
petition in this section, and all the classes were 
well represented. Roses were a conspicuous feature 
and of very good quality. For six dozen single 
blooms of Roses, in not less than thirty-six varieties, 
Messrs. B. R. Cant & Sons, Colchester, was first; 
Messrs. Harkness & Son, Bedale, second; Mr. Geo. 
Mount, Canterbury, third. For forty-eight distinct 
varieties, first, Messrs. B. R. Cant & Sons; second, 
Messrs. Harkness & Son ; third, Messrs. Townsend & 
Sons, Worcester. For thirty-six distinct varieties Mr. 
G. Prince, Oxford, was first with a magnificent collec¬ 
tion ; Messrs. B. R. Cant & Sons, second ; Messrs. J. 
Townsend & Sons, third. For twenty-four distinct 
varieties the prizes were awarded to Messrs. Prince, 
Cant, and Townsend in the same rotation as in the 
class for thirty-six varieties. For eighteen distinct 
varieties Messrs. B. R. Cant & Sons were again a 
close second to Mr. G. Prince ; and Messrs. George 
Cooling & Sons, Bath, came in third. For a stand 
of white and yellow Roses, first, Mr. G. Prince; 
second, Messrs. B. R. Cant & Sons; third, Messrs. 
Harkness & Son. 
For twelve varieties of Carnations, first. Sir J. W. 
Pease, Bart., M.P. ; second, Mr. W. H. Battie 
Wrightson, Doncaster. This class proved very 
attractive, as the blooms were arranged as cut, with 
the buds and foliage, and not ,set off like a dog's 
head in a certain familiar performance, with a paper 
collar. For twelve bunches of stove and greenhouse 
cut bloom, distinct, Sir J. W. Pease, Bart., was first; 
second, Mr. W. H. Battie Wrightson ; third, Mr. J. 
D. Ellis, Worksop. For twelve bunches with 
Orchids excluded, the prizes followed the same 
rotation. 
For eighteen bunches of hardy flowers in nine 
varieties, first, Messrs. Harkness & Son; second, 
Messrs. G. Gibson & Co., Learning Bar; third, Sir 
J. W. Pease, Bart. For twelve bunches, Messrs. 
Harkness & Son were again first; Sir J. W. Pease, 
Bart., second ; and Messrs, Gibson & Co. third. 
For a collection of hardy cut flowers, Messrs. Hark¬ 
ness & Son, first; Messrs. G. Gibson & Co., second ; 
Mr. W. Hutchinson, Kirbymoorside, third. 
In all the classes for Pansies, Mr. J. Smellie, 
Busby, Glasgow, was first; and Mr. Ramsden, 
Halifax, second. 
Fruit and Vegetables. —For a decorated table 
of ripe fruit, Sir J. W. Pease, Bart., was first; Mr. 
C. E. Simpson, second; Mr J, Sinclair, York, third. 
This class seems hard on those who have not a Pine 
stove, and very few have, for a Pine can receive ten 
points in the judging, which is more than any other 
fruit, which have a maximum of six, eight, and nine 
points. Sir J. W. Pease, Bart., was also first for a 
collection of eight kinds. Even in a collection of 
four kinds Pines were included. All the prizes in 
this class went to aristocratic recipients, the first 
going to Lord Barnard, the second to the Earl of 
Derby, and the third to Sir. J. W. Pease, Bart. 
For the best Pineapple, the Executors of Mr. J. 
Corbett, of Droitwitch were first; and Lord Barnard 
second. 
For three bunches of Black Hamburgh Grapes, 
first, Mr. A. Wilson ; second, Earl of Londes- 
borcugh ; third, Lord Barnard. For three bunches of 
White Grapes, first, Lady Beaumont • second, Lord 
Barnard; third, Sir J. W. Pease, B3rt. For six 
Peaches, first, Earl of Feversham ; second, Mr. J. D. 
Ellis ; third, Mr. W. Sheepshanks. For six 
Nectarines, first, the Earl of Derby ; second, Mr. J. 
Summers; third, Sir G. Meyrick, Bart. 
For a scarlet-fleshed Melon, first, Earl of Londes- 
borough; second, Lord St. Oswald; third, Earl of 
Derby. For a green-fleshed Melon, first, Earl of 
Londesborough ; second, Col. F. Gascoigne; third, 
Col. Harrison Broadley. For a white-fleshed 
Melon, first, Mr. J. Summers; second, Mr. H. Tel- 
lusson ; third, Earl of Londesborough. The order 
for six Figs was, first, Mr. A. Wilson; second, Mar¬ 
quis of Ripon ; third, Earl of Feversham. , 
In the class for a dish of Cherries, no first 
was awarded ; second, Earl of Londesborough. 
For a dish of Strawberries, first, Earl of 
