September 23, 1905 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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OLDEN LOCKS' 
GARDEN 
The trodden Lily lifts its head, 
The broken bush will often bloom, 
But when our dearest are our dead 
There’s no returning from the tomb, 
And nought is left but broken-hearted 
To mourn our joy so soon departed, 
Sweet Golden Locks 1 
Although for many a year our pet 
Has been where Howrets never fade, 
We keep the little garden yet 
That darling Golden Locks once made. 
The chips and shells still lie in order 
That she bad placed there for a border, 
Our Golden Locks. 
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Her little spade and watering pot 
Reminds us of small hands long cold, 
Which worked once in this garden plot 
Where we sit sighing, growing old. 
The broken doll which she set there 
She looks forth with unshrinking stare 
For Golden Locks. 
Was’t yestereve we heard her say 
She’d plant some Daisies in the bed 
And feathers which should grow to birds 
And fly each morning to be fed ! 
Alas, to make a Daisy chain, 
Our sweetheart never comes again ! 
Dear Golden Locks. 
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Me. R. Hociiixg, of Top the Hill Farm, 
Cadgvit.h, recently out in his garden a mon- _ 
strous cabbage that weighed 211bs., and f i * 1 ' ' 
measured 65in. in circumference. 
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Do children change when up above ? 
We think of her as still so small. 
The little Golden Locks we love » 
Perhaps is now grown up and tall! 
But sure we are we’re not forgot, & 
Nor is the once loved garden plot 
By Golden Locks. 
W. F. de Bois Maclaren. 
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SOCIETY DOINGS.® 
7Ac Editor will be pleased to receive particulars of the Fixtures, Meetings. Lectures, etc., of 
orticultural Societys. Secretaries or Members willing to send us brief notes of general interest are 
Invited to forward name and address to the Editor, who will gladly send supply of stamped addressed 
contributors’ slips. 
* * * 
Me. C. Hinde, of Southport, writes that his 
gardener counted in one magnificent truss cf 
the zonal Pelargonium. King of Denmark. 
107 separate blooms. This, he believes, is a 
record. 
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To encourage a love of flowers, and to aid, 
in beautifying Manchester and Salford, Mrs. 
Leo Grindon is offering prize® for the best 
creepers grown within a mile of the Manches¬ 
ter Royal Exchange. 
* * * 
King Edward has started a new fashion—a 
fashion in buttonholes and etceteras to match. 
This year his Majesty has favoured pink 
Malmaisons. At Ascot he wore a pink shirt 
and a pink buttonhole. The fashion is 
spreading. 
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The Gold Medal of the Royal Horticultural 
Society for the examination in horticulture 
has been awarded to Miss Tate, a student of 
the Lady Warwick College, Studley Castle, 
and six students out of thirteen sent up by 
the college have passed in the first class. 
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Mr. Nippard, of Ashton Court Gardens, 
Branksome Park, has charge of probably the 
very best private collection of hybrid Rhodo¬ 
dendrons in the United Kingdom. He re¬ 
cently read a paper dealing with these beau¬ 
tiful flowering shrubs before the members of 
I the Bournemouth Gardeners’ Mutual Improve¬ 
ment Association. 
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Probate was granted, on the 14th ult., of 
the will of Mr. John Innes. of Merton, Surrey, 
who died on August 8th, 1904, the gross value 
cf his property being sworn at £338.026. Mr. 
: Innes’s fine house, at Merton, with eleven 
acres of land, is to be given over to the 
residents of the district. The house, with two 
acres of ground, is given for the purpose of a 
fully-equipped school of horticulture. 
Judges’ Little Weaknesses. 
The amenities usual at the luncheons held 
in connection with horticultural shows, as in¬ 
deed at other like public functions, have, it 
would seem, in certain cases, at any rate, a 
tendency to pervert somewhat a strict ad¬ 
herence to fact, or, to put it more suavely, per¬ 
haps, incline speechifiers to magnify more or 
less, under the influence of good fellowship, 
etcetera, the quality of the exhibits upon 
which they may have been called to adjudi¬ 
cate. This little failing, shall we call it, is 
exemplified to us in the reports of such 
speeches which come to hand in shoals— 
speeches made by enthusiastic judges at show 
luncheons. 
A judge, speaking on one of these occa¬ 
sions, declared with emphasis that every ex¬ 
hibit was worthy of a first prize. Seeing that 
he would admit inevitable degrees of excel¬ 
lence where a considerable number of 
similar flowers or other exhibits were staged, 
tlie logic of the remark is not quite clear. 
Another judge said, “ There is certainly only 
one other show in the country that can be 
compared to this, namely, that of Shrews¬ 
bury.” Rather rough on the metropolitan 
shows of London and Edinburgh, at any rate. 
At a small Midland village one of the judges 
was more specific. “ Nothing,” he said with 
emphasis, “ that I have seen at any of the 
great- London shows equalled the fine display 
which you have brought together to-day.” 
Not to multiply instances of this kind, yet 
another kindly-spoken judge is reported to 
have said of a flower show held in the drear,. 
isolated and sparsely-populated district of 
- leneage, in far Cornwall, “ The exhibits are 
equal to anything I have ever -seen in the 
large exhibitions up the country, and were 
not excelled at Shrewsbury.” Comment on 
that would be superfluous. 
Of the multitude of flower shows which 
have this year been held up and down the 
country it is a fact worth noting that not a 
few of them owed their existence to individual 
effort. Thus the Bolton-le-Sands (Carnforth) 
Floral and Horticultural Society, having 
decided not to hold a show in 1905 on account 
of adverse circumstances, the Yic’ar and 
Rural Dean, the Rev. A. R. Tomlinson, deter¬ 
mined to run an exhibition “on his own,” 
taking upon himself all the financial and 
other responsibilities. It is pleasant to know 
that this plucky venture was crowned with 
success so far. at any rate, as the display of 
flowers, etc., is concerned. Tiiis achievement- 
ought to have the effect of rousing up the 
local association to a fresh effort, next year. 
It may be mentioned that Sir Savile and Lady 
Cross ley hold every year a cottagers’ show 
in the grounds of Somerleyton Hall, near 
Lowestoft, for their tenants on the Somerley¬ 
ton estate. Sir Savile finds the whole of the 
prize money, and entertains his tenants and 
their families in a most hospitable manner. 
Lecture at the R.H.S. 
A lecture on the true meaning of natural 
selection was delivered last Tuesday by the 
Rev. Professor G. Henslow at the bi-monthly 
meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society. 
