November 14, 1903. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
947 
Douglas, the blooms of which when disbudded are 5 in. in 
diameter, the ray florets being very numerous and pure white. 
Those who like smaller flowers, and a, large number of them, 
can easily obtain the same- by leaving the shoots undisbudded. 
It is one of Messrs. Wells’ seedlings. Another one which has 
not yet been fully named is labelled for the present X Duck- 
ham, and might be described as having flowers similar in style 
and form to those of Mary Anderson, but of a rich bright, 
yellow. 
If space were to allow, we could name many other very 
choice things that might be employed to great advantage in, 
the conservatory. We may mention Earlswood Glory, large, 
nure white ; Edith Pagram, ros-e^p-ink. with a white ring round 
the discLadvsmith, bright rose-pink : Miss Marv Anderson, 
blush-white : Mi's. Langtry, a, sweetly-scented variety, with 
rosy flowers : and Oldfield Glory, with creamy-white 1 flowers of 
large size. The number of named varieties is really very great, 
offering plenty of choice. 
Exmouth. 
The name of Mr. Go-dfrey is a household word among all 
growers of this queen of winter flowers, and at the time of our 
visit, November 7th, himself and half a score of his employees 
were busy in cutting and arranging many of his latest novelties 
for the Crystal Palace and Birmingham Shows early the follow¬ 
ing week. Like all other growers, he had to lament over the 
past wet season and the little sun, the latter so beneficial for 
the ripening of the wood, without which the finest flowers can- 
net be expected; and we admit we were net a little surprised 
to find such grand blooms in evidence. 
Godfrey’s Pride was much in evidence. This is a noble 
flower, with broad florets, reddish can run e-crimson, with lighter 
reverse. F. S. Vallis is: a noble flower, a, yellow Japanese of 
free growth, much in the way of Madame Carnot except colour, 
is of good depth, and appears to withstand the dull season well, 
as we noted upwards of 300 blooms in fine condition. Madame 
Nagelmaokers is a good white, almost a, counterpart- of F. S. 
Vallis, except colour 1 , and will be sure to come to the front. 
Ethel Fitzroy was represented with very fine blo-p-ms of soft 
Apricot—a good show flower. Sensation still maintains its 
good qualities as a rich golden orange, though Mr. Godfrey has 
a promising seedling which he considers an improvement on 
the type. Bessie Godfrey is a grand flower of canary vellow. 
Mrs. Vallis is a. telling bloom of terra-cotta, overlaid with 
orange, and so is Nellie Stevens, a rosy-carmine, with amb-ered 
tips. 
In Mr. D. V. West- we have a. good white of fine form, a, seed¬ 
ling from Madame Carnot. Exmouth Rival is decidedly +he 
most brilliant- crimson of all, and well merits- it-s na-me. Mas¬ 
sive blooms of pale yellow were found in Loveliness-—a flower 
much exhibited this season. Exmouth Crimson is still grown 
in quantity, and is a most useful colour. Col. Wetherell bias 
deep o-range flowers, somewhat shaded with bronze. Very fine 
was Glory of Devon, of amber yellow, with a shade of rose. 
Britannia is another very good yellow of fine form ; Mrs. John 
Balfour, a -seedling from Madame Carnot, extra fine ; Mafeking 
Lero, crimson, with buff reverse, a good shape flower ; Wilfred 
IT. Godfrey, a deep crimson, with a mixture of old gold ; and 
W. R. Church, a- rich colour of crimson, very fine. Glory of 
Devon revealed a good white variety. Among the Anemones 
Reliance proved one of the best vellows. Among incurves, God¬ 
frey s Masterpiece is well to the- front, and takes- a- lot of be-ating 
among the crimson and old gold varieties. There- were scores 
of other good varieties, bu f the above comprise the cream of 
those in flower. 
j Ba-rge batches of late-flowering kinds were not-e-d in other 
-rouses, and I gleaned from Mr. Godfrey that- Winter Queen 
was the best late white he had come across yet, and that he 
grows ten times more of this than he does any other variety. 
his speaks well from one- who has a great experience- among 
Chrysanthemums for market work, as well as for the show 
boa-rd. We also noted good ba-tebes -of single varieties, these 
emrr lYindi sought after for decorative purposes—one specially 
good large white flower named Grace. 
The increase of stock is a veiy big item at- Mr. Godfrey’s 
nurs-ery, and a start had already been made. Somewhere about 
10,000 were observed in cold frame®, all struck singly in small 
pots; no fire-heat applied unless frost- is likely to penetrate 
through the -glass. As before mentioned, the majority of the 
plants looked the picture- of health, considering the untoward 
season, and I gleaned from “ W. J. G.” that in another branch 
establishment he had -some hundreds of plants still in the open, 
which, of course, were all late-flowering varieties. I remarked 
upon the dwarflne-ss- of the plants- throughout the collection. 
“ Yes,” re-plied Mr. Godfrey, “ -but- I prefer t-o see them go a 
bit higher than they -have this year, as finer blo-o-ms are the 
Single Chrysanthemum Lady Marguerite Douglas. 
(See p. 945.) 
result generally.” Some 6,000 plants are grown for show 
blooms alone, and Chrysanthemums were to be seen in every 
house pretty well; -but- the large show house was a picture, and 
contained thousands of fine blooms, but to enumerate all would 
be superfluous, many of them having already being described 
in the Press, such as H. E. Hay man, Co-1. Kekewich, Exmout-h 
Rival, Kimberley, Mrs. J. P. Bryce, Geo. Lock, the la-tt-er a-nd 
Col. Kekewich being both good incurves-, etc. Mr. Godfrey ha-s 
other specialities which he does remarkably well, which include 
Carnations (tree), zonal Pelargoniums, Begonia-s, Primulas, the 
“ Godfrey Calla-,” etc., but, these will be treated upon in a 
separate article, probably in our next issue; suffice to say we 
are indebted to Mr. “ W. J. G.” for the time we took up a-t so 
busy a- season for such a noted grower -and exhibitor as he is. 
Oakhurst, Ealing. 
The all-absorbing topic just now is the queen of autumn 
flowers, and, notwithstanding the temble trials and abnonnal 
conditions of the past season, the “ Queen ” is- here as usual, 
and apparently little the worse for the- extraordinary vicissi¬ 
tudes of a too vicarious clime. At, least, that was my im¬ 
pression on being introduced to a- creditable collection under 
the charge of Mr. C. Edwards, gardener to the- Mayor of Ea-ling. 
H. W. Peal, Esq., J.P.. In fact, judged by the- standard of 
