August 6, 1904. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
637 
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. 
Holland House Show. 
To the Editor of The Gardening World 
Sir, — I should like in a word to call attention to the incon¬ 
venience caused to- exhibitors, more especially those from a 
distance, through the council of the R.H.S. holding the above 
show on a Tuesday. I am sure they have no wish to encourage 
Sunda-y labour. All the same, it almost becomes a- necessity 
to those from a distance, -or even from London, who- have a 
large exhibit to face; no one wants to pack their plants or 
cut their flowers until -the last moment,- and I should like to- 
ask how much of this (with a. journey thrown in) can be done 
on Monday. A day later should make little difference to- the 
R.H.S., and it, w-ould mean a, lot, to- exhibitors and their oft- 
worried employees. - A Briton. 
The Gardeners' Royal Benevolent Institution. 
To the Editor of The Gardening World. 
. Sir, —At a meeting of my committee held -on the 22nd inst. 
the following resolution was unanimously adopted, which I was ^ 
desired to- forward to you : — 
“ That the best, thanks of this meeting be tendered to the 
Editor of The Gardening World for his kind services: rendered 
to the- institution at- all times, and especially in. connection with 
the recent- successful and record anniversary festival dinner in 
aid -of the funds.” Geo. J. Ingram, Secretary. 
July 25. 
To the Editor of The Gardening World. 
Early Cabbage. 
Sir,—I a,m much interested in Mr. Beckett’s note® on early 
Cabbage®. It may interest- him and many others of your 
readers to know that from several years’ experience with the 
two- Cabbages, he names, viz., Sutton’s Flower of Spring and 
Ellam’s Dwarf, I find that Flower of Spring invariably turns 
m well in advance of the other. This is- -a, very lat-e place, and 
I have toi sow my spring Cabbages: about July 9th. Sown on 
that date l-a-st year, I began cutting good-sized he-ads of Flower 
of Spring on May 10th. This is early for this locality. 
Ellam’s Dwarf was not fit for nearly three weeks after that 
oate, and, in fact, made a splendid succession to: the other 
variety. With me, neither variety “bolts,” and both are of 
first-rate quality. Ha® Mr. Beckett tried' Sutton’s Earliest of 
All? Even in o-ur backward climate:, I have this year had it 
ready in four months, sown middle of March under glass.— 
Yours, etc. - C. Blair. 

Great Yield of Strawberries.— Owing to the extraordinary 
yied of Strawberries, consignments from the fruit-growing dis¬ 
torts of the Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire Fens have been 
exceptionally heavy. In the Wisbech district as much as 80 
tons of Strawberries and a similar quantity of Gooseberries have 
een sent off by train each evening. One grower in the same 
ocality has sent away 24 tons of Strawberries in one day. 
SOCIETIES. 
HODDESDON FLOWER SHOW. 
July 21st. 
The annual show of the Hoddesdon, Broxboume, and 
Wormley Horticultural Society was held in t-he Cricket Field, 
Hoddesdon, on Thursday, July 21st. The weather was fine, and 
there was a record attendance. The principal exhibits were 
staged in a, large marquee, and the table decorations, bouquets, 
and other flo-ral arrangements in a smaller tent. The- groups 
of flowering plants, and vegetables were quite up to the usual 
standard ol excellence. 
Group® .of flowering and foliage plants: Mr. R. Dover, 
gardener to R. Barclay, Esq., High Leigh, Hoddesdon, was very 
easily first with a very tasteful arrangement, the chief plants 
being a good specimen Cocos weddeliana for centre, with some 
highly-coloured Crotons We-ismanid, Heath,ii .elegans, Countes-s 
and Thompsonii, Liliwm lancifolium album, and some fine 
double Begonias and Gloxinias, with a groundwork of Adiantum 
cuneatum and gracillimum, with an edging of small Crotons, 
CaJadium argy rites, Fit-tioni-a argjyraea, and Panicum va.rie- 
gatum. Mr. G. Welch, gardener to Miss Warner, was second 
with Humea elegans, Dracaenas, Coleus, Caladiums, and Palms. 
Small groups : Mr. Housden, gardener to D. D. Taylor, Esq., 
was first with Cannas, Bougainvilleas, Gloxinias, etc., with 
groundwork of Ferns. Mr. W. Bray, gardener to Dr. B-isdee, 
was second with Palms, Lilium Harrisii, Gloxinias, and Ferns. 
In the clais-s: for six stove and greenhouse plants in flower Air. 
R. Dover took premier honours again with' good specimens of 
Allamanda Schottii, Lilium tigrinum splendens, Lilium lanci¬ 
folium album, Agapianithus: umbellatus, Acalypha sande-riana, 
Begonia President Carnot ; second prize, Mr. Welch, with 
smaller plants, chiefly Begondias. 
Six stove and greenhouse- Ferns : Mr. R. Dover was again first 
with Davallia mooreana, Davallia fijiensis, Asplenium Nidus, 
Adiantum cuneatum, Williamsii gracillimum; second, Mr. 
Ho-usden ; third, Air. Pearce. 
Six tab-l-e p-lan-t-s : First, Air. Dover ; second, Mr. AY. 
Housden ; third, All". W. Welch. 
Six greenhouse and stove cut flowers : First, Air. R. Dover ; 
second, Mr. W. Housden. 
Six sprays of Sweet Peas-: First, Mr. R. Dover ; second, Air. 
Butcher ; third, Mr. G .T. Welch. 
Herbaceous- cut flowers: First-, Air. W. Housden ; second, Air. 
R. Dover ; third, Air. J. M-aile. 
Twelve cut garden flowers : First, Mr. W. Housden; second, 
Air. R. Dover. 
Twelve distinct Roses-: First, Mr. F. Fish ; second, Air. James 
Day ; third, Mr. AY. Housden. 
S-ix Carnations with foliage : First, Mr. F. Butcher ; second, 
Mr. F. Spencer. 
Six dishes, of fru-it (indoors) : First, Mr. R. Dover, with good 
Melons (Sutton’s Superlative), Black Hamburg, Buekland 
Sweet-water Grapes, White Marseille® Figs-, Oranges-, and 
Citrons. 
Four dishes, of fru-it (indoors-) : First, Air. J. Maile ; second 
Air. G. T. Welch. 
Four dishes of fruit (outside-) : First, Mr. J. Eden ; second, 
Air. G. T. Welch. 
Melon®: First, Mr. J. E-den ; second, Mr. G. T. Welch. 
Dish of -Strawberries : First, Mr. AY. Byno-th. 
Dish o-f Cherries : First, Air. R. Dover ; second, Air. J. Ala-ile. 
Two- dishes- o-f To-matos: First, Air. R. Dover; s-econd, Air. 
AV. Housden ; -third, Air. W. Pearce. 
Ytegetab-les.—Six varieties of vegetables (prize-s- given by 
Messrs. Odam-s, Manure and Chemical Co., Ltd.) : First-, Air. 
R. Dover, with 26 points-; second, Air. AY. Bray, with 19 points ; 
third, Mr. C. Dudley ; fourth, Air. W. Housden. 
Collection of vegetables- (silver cup- given by Messrs. G. Paul 
and Son, Cheshunt) : First, Air. F. Butcher (22 points), who just 
succeeded in -beating Al-r. R. Dover by the narrow margin of two 
points, Mr. Dover being -the winner last year; third, Air. 
W. Spencer (17 points). 
Collection of s-ix salads : Mr. Dover was- again to the front- 
with a very credit-able lot; second, Mr. W. Butcher. 
Messrs. G, Paul and Son, Cheshunt, were well represented by 
a go-o-d collection o-f herbaceous- out flowers and cut Roses, both 
H. P. and H. T. Their novelty, Pieton Rose Roger Lamber- 
lain, came in for al deal of admiration from the ladies. 
Air. G. AVarner, Admiral’s- Nursery, Hodde-sdon, had a'good 
collection of zonal Pelargoniums-, bo-th double and sin-tie 
varieties on a groundwork of Ferns. AY. H.° 
