THE GARDENERS’ MAGAZINE. 
363 
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1913. 
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e^ibitions and 
MEETINGS- 
Royal Horticultural Society. 
It was difficult to imagine May 14 was a 
Wednesday, because for so many years the 
B.H.S. meetings have been held on Tues- 
diiTS. On this occasion the day was altered 
' to’make things easier for exhibitors in con- 
I section with the Whitsuntide holidays. There 
WM6 a fair show, but many people, especially 
' tke orchid growers, were holding over for 
the Chelsea Show. Tulips were the great 
feature of the meeting, and these were splen¬ 
didly exhibited, no fewer than fourteen 
^ups being staged. Hardy flowers and al- 
pines were shown freely, and carnations made 
a good showing. Novelties were good. 
Messre. J. Piper and Son, Barnes, exhibited 
the new yellow Pseony, La Lorraine, re¬ 
ferred to at length in our Ghent report, and 
I gained a F.C.C. for it. Other new things 
are referred to below. 
The tulip competition arranged for this 
day fell through, as the recent storms had 
damaged the flowers so' badly that all the 
amateurs withdrew their entries. 
FLORAL COMMrrTEE. 
There was a larg’e attendance of the mem¬ 
bers of this committee, and the number of 
novelties were rather more numerous than 
by Messrs. Bobbie and Co., Edinburgh. The 
flowers were in superb condition, flowers and 
spikes being alike fine, and the colours beau¬ 
tiful. It was the firm’s intention to exhibit 
sweet pe^ at Ghent, but lack of sunshine 
made this impossible. Here they presented 
some bunches of Brunette, Blue Picotee, with 
Wire edge of blue; Decorator, Thomas Steven- 
wn, Melba, May Campbell, Charles Foster 
(lovely)? Inspector, Marks Tey, and Mrs. 
tnthbertson. Some tulips grown at Marks 
ley were wonderfully clean, bright, and of 
Brand size and substance, while collarette 
uanlias, pansies, and violas in pans completed 
a very fine display. 
CapiW blooms of Ulrich Brunner, Sun- 
uist, C^t. Hayward. Frau Karl Druschki, 
ichmond, and Mrs. John Laing roses were 
t by Messrs. G. Mount and Sons, Canter- 
staged by them in some quantity. 
Elisha J. Hicks, Twyford, was also an eL 
Ecses from Messrs. B. R. 
were charming and fragrant, 
backed by a selection of 
fflWii vaneties; Klondyke, the big white 
p- ^il'^^r Moon, and the lovely pink Lady 
P>me commanded attention. ^ 
fmm m “ f ented-leaved pelargo- 
CheW^ Messrs. James Veitch and Sons, 
of min-i interesting, and a source 
oorS *^"<7 
five neat^I represented by about 
tienUdnt*^ F.'ffiocarpus re- 
flowers w .^vooping, fringed white 
firm Seb:® shown by the Chelsea 
deep rose 
flne form flowers, was shown in 
f'oloncl the^ gardener to 
Bishop’s Hall^ Lockwood, 
chSri^ Komford. Lilacs, pyruses, 
•hrubs from other flowering 
^E^^endrons from Miss 
Seale, Surrey, were 
««inewhat E* Bose Queen (A.M.) has 
pink shade a lovely rose- 
and ^^’^Jl^^.-hree inches 
creamy-velW pale 
pedieilR iri i flowers, carried on 
Jang^ and ’ B. Rose 
Bhillip Ladds ^mna^barina. Mr. 
The Spe^r a Heliotrope 
.^‘K^h heliotrm^^b grrower, with fra4<rrant 
pe owers; stocks, pelargoniums. 
petunias, etc., came from the sagie exhibitor. 
Embothrium coccineum, rhododendrons, Fri- 
tillaria persica. Daphne cneorum, and pri¬ 
mulas in variety, were shown among other 
things by Mr. G. Reuthe, Keston. 
Mr. C. Engelmann, Saffron Walden, showed 
Sunstar, Lady Northcliffe, Carola, and Lady 
Meyer carnations in fine style. Messrs. Stuart 
Low and Co., Enfield, had a bold and dis¬ 
tinct grouping of carnations, and their flowers 
Cf Cinnabar and Baroness de Brienen 
were very fine. Messrs. W. Wells and 
Co., Merstham, were other exhibitors of car¬ 
nations, and they made a speciality of Benora 
and Northport. A selection of caladiums from 
new seedlings, such as Bayardo, crimson; 
Debutante, pink; Commander Peary, pink 
and red; Lieut. Shackleton, deep red and 
green; and Argus, of fine shape, pink and 
rose, with red veins. 
Very pretty was Thunbergia Gibsoni, a 
warm-house climber, with brilliant clear 
orange flowers and large green and purple 
bracts, which gained an A.M. for Mr. 
W. van de M^eyer, Smedmore House, 
Corfe Castle. Mr. J. Elliott, Hassoclp, 
gained an A.M. for Rose Flora Mit¬ 
ten, a large-flowered single, deep blush 
variety, carrying its flowers in large 
trusses. Messrs. William Cutbush and Son, 
Highgate, presented a fine bank of polyan- 
tha roses in great variety, as well as hardy 
flowers, and a selection of carnations, in 
which the buff Mrs. W. Astor was very con¬ 
spicuous, and Lady Shrewsbury, a lovely soft 
pink, with sweet and large flowers, gain^ the 
coveted A.M. Messrs. H. B. May and Sons, 
Fdmonton, were represented by heliotropes, 
salvias, verbenas, and ferns. 
Some good varieties of Iris germanica were 
brought over by Messrs. Goes and Koene- 
mann, Nieder-Wallaf, Germany; Ix>hengrin, 
pale blue, and WalhaUa, of darker shade, 
were some of the best. Messrs. Wlutelegge 
and Page, Chislehureit, confined their atten¬ 
tion to violas, and put up twenty-one baskets 
of plants, each basket containing one variety 
only; this set was much admired. 
Among those who set up rock garden dis¬ 
plays were Messrs. Bakers, Wolverhampton, 
whose Incarvillea Delavayi and the large- 
flowered golden Geum bulgaricum were not¬ 
able plants. 
Messrs. G. and A. aark, Dover, had some 
bright hardy flowers; and Mrs. Lloyd Ed¬ 
wards, Llangollen, showed a fine lot of 
saxifr^es in boxes and baskets, together 
with Anemone alpina graindiflora with flowers 
three inches across. Mr. H. Hemsley’s rock 
garden contribution was a very interesting 
one, and contained a mass of the new Myoso- 
tis Marie Raphael, with a white stripe down 
each blue petal. 
Mr. W. Miller, Wisbech, displayed violas, 
etc. Messrs. T. S. Ware, Lira., Feltham, 
presented a rock garden gay with aubrietias, 
saxifrages, and hardy orchids. The War- 
grave Hardy Plant Farm, The Arcade, Liver¬ 
pool Street, had a fine lot of hardy primulas, 
•notably P. pulvenilenta and the dainty P. 
involucrata. Messrs. J. Cheal and ^ns, 
Crawley, arranged a rock garden with small 
shrubs, etc., and they had a beautiful set 
of Primula japonica carminata. Messrs. 
Carter Page and Co., London Wall, were re¬ 
presented by violas, annuals, and early 
dahlias. Miss Wiilmott, Y.M.H. (gardener, 
Mr. C. Fielder, V.M.H.), Warley Place, 
Great Warley, showed the glowing tritoma 
Orange King. 
ORCHID COMMITTEE. 
The contributions to the meeting of this 
committee were comparatively few in number, 
but of much interest. 
Mr. Macdonald, gardener to Sir George 
H. Kenrick, Whe<tstone, Birmingham, se¬ 
cured a Silver Flora Medal and Cultural 
Commendation for thirteen fine plants of 
Dendrobium Dalhousieanum, all carrying 
long, drooping panicles of buff, maroon- 
blotched flowers; these plants were all raised 
from one specimen secured a few years ago. 
A very large specimen of D. Dalhousieanum 
exhibited by Mr. Salter, gardener to Lord 
Lawrence, Chetwode Manor, Bucks, stood six 
feet high clear of th^ pot, and carried a 
dozen grand spikes. A Cultural Commenda¬ 
tion was worthily awarded. 
From the Orchid Nursery Oimpany, Gate- 
acre, came a small group of Laelio-cattleya 
Cowani, and other laelio-cattleya hybrids. A 
curious Lissochilus with yellow and green 
flowers, evidently a free grower, with spikes 
3ft. to 4ft. high, was shown by Mr. W. van 
de Weyer, Smedmore House, Corfe Castle, 
Dorset. 
From the Burford Lodge collection Mr. 
White, grower to Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., 
brought up a fine example of Braeso-cattleya 
Njjvalis, with over thirty white flowers; 
Laelio - cattleya Fascinator - Mossiae, with 
lovely purple lip ^A.M.); L.-c. Fascinator, 
with six splendid blooms ; and Odontoglos- 
sum crispum. Messrs. J. and A. Mc^^an, 
Cooksbridge, staged Odontogloseum Phoebe 
splendens (A.M.), with flowers fully four 
inches across, the segments being much 
broader than in the usual forms of tWs grace¬ 
ful odontoglossum. Dendrobium Falconeri, 
shown bv W. R. Lee, Esq., Plumpton Hall, 
Heywood, was especially tine, nearly a yard 
high, smothered in bloom, and in a 54-6ized 
pot; from the same exhibitor came Odonto- 
f lossum Parlova, with deep maroon-purple 
owere. 
NARCISSUS AND TULIP COMMITTEE. 
The displays of tulips submitted to this 
committee were numerous and of great ex¬ 
cellence. 
A particularly fine exhibit of Darwin and 
May-flowering tulips was arranged in very 
bold style by Messrs. Sutton and Sons, Read¬ 
ing, on a high four-tiered staging with a 
background of aoers and bamboos. The 
flowers were very large, and the varieties, 
set up in groups of four bunches each, were 
most imposing. Particularly striking were 
the representations of Bacchus, Sunrise, 
Scarlet Emperor, Orange King, Clara Butt, 
Fairy Queen, Psyche, La Tristesse, Mrs. 
Stanley, Pride of Haarlem, Inglescombe 
Pink, and Philippe de Commines and Black 
Chief, two of the black tulips. Messrs. R. 
H. Bath, Lim., Wisbech, set up a fine lot of 
Cambridge-grown tulips, all Darwin and 
May-flowering sorts, tall, stately, and bril¬ 
liant. There were about a hundred varie¬ 
ties, each represented by a good bunch of 
from a dozen to a score of flowers. A few 
varieties of outstanding merit were Salmonea, 
Mrs. Moon, Fairy Queen, Orange King, 
Suzon, Bleu Aimable, The Fawn, and Golden 
Goblet. 
Tulips, almost entirely Darwin varieties, 
were capitally displayed in tall glass vases 
by Messrs. Jas. Carter and Co., Raynes Park. 
There were about fifty large bunches, and 
notable among the varieties were Mrs. Cleve¬ 
land, Loveliness, Clara Butt, Mons. S. 
Mottet, the branching stemmed white tulip ; 
Mrs. Moon, Gretchen, The Fawn, the lovely 
Inglescombe Pink, and the bold rose-pink 
Antony Roozen. Some splendid t^ips from 
Messrs. Hogg and Robertson, Dublin, showed 
that the Irish climate had been more kind 
of late than our own, for the flowers were 
wonderfully clean; Biscuit, Millet. Pride of 
Haarlem, Fairy Queen, Rev. W. Ewbank, In¬ 
glescombe Pink, and Mrs. Moon were grand, 
and a vase of Iris lupina was as much ad¬ 
mired as the tulips. 
Mr. Christopher Bourne, Simpson, Bletch- 
ley, put up a score or so of vases of clean 
tulips that included such good yellow sorts 
as Bouton d’Or, Solfaterre, Mrs. Keighley, 
and Mrs. Moon. Messrs. R. Wallace and Oo. 
submitted tulips associated with Japanese 
maples, and a selection of irises, the latter 
including a series of the xegelia hybrids, 
with I. violacea, etc. Among the tulips 
Beauty of Bath, Chameleon, Jaune d’CEuf, 
Inglescombe Scarlet, and Grenadier were con¬ 
spicuous. Messrs. Jas. Veitch and Son, Chel¬ 
sea, presented Darwin tulips, and also a good 
selection of the gorgeous and interesting 
Parrot varieties. 
Messrs. Barr and Sons, Covent Garden, 
filled a large space with a famous collection 
of tulips, a hundred and eighty varieties 
