November 5, 1904. 
THE GARDENING WORLD . 
895 
Plants Recently Certificated SOCIETIES. 
By the Royal Horticultural Society. 
November 1st. 
Orchid Committee. 
Laeliocattleya Cappei. 
The parentage of thisi 'brightly-ooloured hybrid was L. oinnar 
barinia x C. gigas. The sepals are of a rich orange, fading 
to yellow at the base. The narrowly elliptic petals are several 
shades darker, tending towards scarlet, and certainly a rich 
shade of orange. The wavy lamina- a-nd side lobes- of the lip 
are a, rich, crimson, while a large yell-ow blotch occupies the 
base of the lamina- and the throat. First-class Certificate 
to Messrs'. Chari eisworth. a-nd Co., Bradford, Yorks. 
Laeliocattleya illustre. 
Thei parentage in 'thisi instance Was L. Latosoa x C. 
dowia-na a,urea,. The flowers are moderate in s-ize with oblong, 
pale red -sepals, -shaded yello-w. The -elliptic petals are of a 
soft rose, very finely mottled, as if dusted with a -darker -colour, 
and bright, yellow on the claw. The lip- isi very wavy, and of 
a rich crimson,-purple, shaded with maroon in the centre; the 
outer face -of the tube is a. mixture of red and dark purple. 
Award of Merit to Messrs. Charles-worth and Co. 
Cattleya G. W. Law-Schofield. 
Thei above hybrid was raised from C. Lord Rothschild x 
C. Co-o-kso-niae. The sep-als and elliptic petals are pure white 
The lip, on -the other h-an-d, recalls C. labiata-. Tire orbicular 
lamina is rich purple, with -a pale purple edge; the side lobes 
are also very pale purple, almost white at the sides of the 
tliroati, but there are no eye-spots. The interior of the tube 
is striped with crimson and white, the latter -being the veins. 
Award of Merit to Messrs. F. Sander and Sons, St, Albans, 
Cattleya labiata Miss Kate Brazier. 
The sepals are broadly elliptic, petals are pure white. The 
lip is also white for the mo-sit part, there being a purple blotch 
on the lamina and purple lines in -the tube. The variety is 
both distinct and handsome. Award of Merit to- Messrs-. F. 
Sander and Son-s. 
Cattleya labiata Mrs. Francis Wellesley. 
The most! -striking feature of ‘this variety is -the delicate and 
almost uniformly pink hue of the sepals and petals. The lip 
is also very pale, with the a-pex shaded and veined with blue 
purple- ; a, large area on each -side of the lamina is creamy 
white. The- usual blotch in the -throat takes the form of 
orange, forking and radiaiting line®. 
Liparis fulgens. 
The sepals- and very small petals are pale salmon. The 
ohcordate li-p is toothed -at the outer end, and rich chestnut- 
red. Botanical Certificate to F. W. Moo-re, Esq., Ro-v-al 
Botanic Carden®, Glas-newin. 
Floral Committee.’ 
Chrysanthemum Kathleen Thomson. 
The above is a- market- or decorative variety, a -sport from 
Caprice du Printemps. The plant i-s about 3 ft-, high, bushy 
on the top, and carries blooms abo-ut 3 in. to 4 in. in- diameter. 
The ascending florets are short, stiff, deep chestnubre-d -o-r 
bronzy-red, with- yellow edges and tips-. Award of Merit to- Mi’. 
Frank Lilley, S-t. Peters, Guernsey; and Mr. J. H. Thomson, 
Brimsd-own Nurseries, Enfield Highway. 
Asparagus medeoloides myrtifolia. 
The cla-dodia o-r leaf-like bnanehlets of -this variety are 
scarcely more than J in. long, and half that- width. The 
aspect o-f the- plant is therefore -much more graceful and slender 
than that of the ordinary one-. Award of Merit- to Messrs. 
Hugh Low -and Co-., Bush Hill Park, Enfield. 
Scotch Exhibits at St. Louis. —Mr. John Forbes, Buccleuch 
-Nurseries, Hawick, has been awarded a gold medal for his collec- 
tion of Phloxes, East Lothian Stocks, and Antirrhinums at the 
>-t. Louis Exhibition. 
NATIONAL CHRYSANTHEMUM. 
November 2nd, 3rd, and 4th. 
The great autumn competition and fete of the above society 
was held at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham. The opening day 
was somewhat misty, but otherwise fine for November, and the 
show drew a much larger concourse of people as we were going 
to press than the October show did on both days. The blooms 
exhibited were in many cases magnificent specimens of their 
kind, and a very large proportion might be described as in 
their pristine freshness, without showing any signs of damping. 
Miscellaneous exhibits were also numerous, but the fruits, par¬ 
ticularly Apjiles, were notable for quantity and fine appearance. 
Many large groups of Chrysanthemums, not for competition, 
filled the side-benches all round the central transept of the 
Palace, where the competitive exhibits were chiefly located. 
Messrs. Geo. Bunyard and Co. alone had 400 varieties of Apples, 
thus offering a splendid opportunity for selection. Prizes were 
offered for a floral display of Chrysanthemums and suitable 
foliage plants in pots, witli the addition.of cut blooms, the ex¬ 
hibits^ to b© arranged in a space not exceeding 300 square feet. 
The Gold Medal and first prize were secured by Mr. W. Howe, 
gardener to Lady Tate, Park Hill, Streatham Common. In 
the centre he had a conical mass of Chrysanthemums, relieved 
by Palms and Crotons. Around this on the floor was a broad 
ring of Ferns, Crotons, Palms, Chrysanthemum blooms, etc., 
with clusters of Chrysanthemums arranged at intervals in the 
groundwork of other subjects. The second prize and Silver Gilt 
Medal were taken by Messrs. J. Peed and Sons, Roupell Park 
Nurseries, West Norwood, who hud a similar but less compli¬ 
cated group of Chrysanthemums and plants. 
The Crystal Palace Company offered a prize of 12 guineas for 
12 vases of specimen blooms of Chrysanthemums, and this 
brought some grand exhibits, though not so many as we have 
seen on former occasions. Mr. Chas. Beckett (gardener to Sir 
W. G. Pearce, Bart.), Chilton Lodge, Hungerford, secured the 
premier honours with magnificent blooms of Mrs. H. Weeks, 
Mrs. Barkley, J. R. Upton, Mme. Paolo Radaelli, Mr. F. S. 
Vallis, Airs. J. Bryant, Miss E. Shrimpton, and Henry Perkins. 
Slightly smaller or less perfect were liis vases of Mrs. J. 
Hadaway, W. Duckliam, Airs. F. W. \ T allis, and Bessie Godfrey. 
All of them were, however, wonderful samples of their kind. 
Air. Frank J. Clark, gardener to Mark Firth, Esq., Wistow Hall, 
Leicester, took the second place with grand blooms of F. S. 
Vallis, Mme. Waldeck-Rosseau, Miss Olive Miller, Henry Per¬ 
kins, Mildred Ware, and Aliss Elsie Fulton. Air. James 
Brookes, gardener to IV. J. Newman, Esq., Totteridgo- Park, 
Totteridge, came in third with good blooms of Alafeking Hero, 
Mary Inglis, Mildred Ware, Bessie Godfrey, Marquis V. Ve- 
nosta, and Duchess of Sutherland. The whole of the exhibits in 
this class were excellent, though some of the varieties were 
weak. 
A Challenge Trophy and money prizes were offered by the 
Ichthemic Guano Co. for six vases of incurved blooms, and the 
premier honours were carried off by Mr. W. Higgs, gardener 
to J. B. Hankey, Esq., Fetcham Park, Fetcham, Surrey. The 
varieties shown by him were Mrs. J. Seward, Lady Isabel, 
Topaze Crientale, Nellie Southam, Hamvell Glory, and Duchess 
of Fife. All were grand blooms of their kind. Mr. G. Hunt, 
gardener to Pantia Ralli, Esq., Ashtead Park, Epsom, took 
the second place with a very good exhibit. Air. Hunt’s varieties 
were Miss Violet Tomlin, Duchess of Fife, Aliss C. Seward, Ada 
Owen, IJanwell Glory, and Mrs. F. Judson. 
A Challenge Trophy was offered for 48 blooms—24 incurved 
and 24 Japanese—in the National Competition of Affiliated Chry¬ 
santhemum and Horticultural Societies, and the first place was 
secured by the Epsom and District Chrysanthemum Society, 
which was represented solely by Air. Geo. Hunt, The Gardens, 
Ashtead Park, Epsom, who had grand Japanese blooms of 
Duchess of Sutherland, Mafeking Hero, IV. A. Etherington, 
Godfrey’s Pride, Bessie Godfrey, C. J. Salter, Miss Stopford, 
F. IV. Vallis, J. H. Doyle, Mrs. Barkley, Mme. Waldeck- 
Rousseau, Mrs. J. Thornycroft, Henry Perkins, and Marquis I’. 
Venosta. Amongst incurved blooms, very fine were Pantia 
Ralli, Miss E. Seward, IV. Pascoe, Duchess of Fife, C- H. Curtis, 
Mrs. J. Seward, Aliss V. Foster, Mid. Lyne, Mrs. F. Judson, 
and Hanwell Glory. The Bromley and District Chrysanthe¬ 
mum Society was second, and was represented, by blooms from 
Messrs. King, Lees, IV. Pascoe, C. Blick, E. Dove, J. Lyne, and 
Stent. They had a veiy even lot of blooms, including W. Duck- 
