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November 8, 1913. 
THE GARDENERS’ MAGAZINE. 
BRADFORD 
CHRYSANTHEMUM 
EXHIBITION. 
In St. Georgie s Hall, on 
FRIDAY and SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14 & 15 . 
£50 for Cut Blooms on Boards, 
besides other \aluable prizes lor open competition. 
Schedules with entry forms post free from— 
Horton Park, Bradford. H SPENCER, Hon. Sec. 
T he hull and east ruling chry¬ 
santhemum SOCIETY. 
The 23nid Show of tho above Society wOl be held 
im THE CITY HALE, HULL, on WEDNESDAY and 
THURSDAY, November liltih and 20th. 
£“200 PHIZES; entries close November 12th. 
Send; f or Schedules to— 
H. HAUL AND, Hon. Sec.. 
Manor Street, Hull. 
H orticultural show advertise- 
MEiNTS are inserted in this column at Six¬ 
pence per line, the miimimiujn charge bedng Two Shal- 
lingB and Sixpemoe. Offtces, 148 and 149 Aldersgute 
Street, London, E.C. 
Edward/S, Primrose Girl, and Master Rex 
were equally good ; ait the back were hne 
big blooms of Mrs. H. J. Jones, Mrs. A. T. 
Miller, and other Japanese va^rietdes. In an¬ 
other part ot‘ the hall the Chelsea hrm pre¬ 
sented a large group of such hne w^initer- 
howenng begonias as Agatha, Winter Cheer, 
Emita ^very brilliant). Winter Perfection, 
Easoiniation, Mrs. Heal, Exquisite, Optima 
(very bright), and Elatior. 
A great feature of the meeting was the 
“Jones’ Avenue” of chrysanthemums. 
Messrs. H. J. Jones, Ryecroft, Lewisham, 
filled both sides of one lon^g gangway, and. 
were deservedly awarded a gold medal for an 
unique and glorious display. Against a white 
paper backgix>und, Mr. Jones arranged splen¬ 
did stands of hne fiowers of high-class Japa¬ 
nese varieties, with low bowls of single and 
decorative varieties in the foreground. 
Autumn foliage was associated with the 
blooms. A few of the outstanding large- 
fiowered sorts on view were Bob Pulling, the 
biggest flower; Mrs. R. C. Pulling, Mr. H. J. 
Jones, Mrs. Howard Kinsey, Mrs. E. TTckle, 
Mrs. F. W. Smith, Mary Holiest, Jones 
Stratton, His Majesty, Elsie Davis, J. Sur¬ 
rey, and LoM Airlie; the best sin^gles were 
Hector Menzies, Mrs. Harry Wood, Mrs. Her¬ 
bert Weller, Miss Dorothy Weedon, Florrie 
King, and Arthur. A most comprehensive 
e^bit, including representatives of all sec¬ 
tions from the tiniest pompons to the biggest 
Japanese varieties. 
The Messrs. Price and Fyfe, Grove Park 
Nursery, Lee, put up a very bright lot of 
chrysanthemums, associating the flowers 
pleasingly with autumn-tinted foliage. 
Messrs. \Vhitelegg and Pa^, Chislehnrst, 
presented an imposing exhibit of single and 
decorative chrysanthemums, and set up bold 
masses of Mrs. Leonard Harrison, Miss M. 
Bower, F. Andrews, Master Arthur Chap¬ 
man, Canneir.s Crimson, and other fine single 
varieties. 
Messrs. W. J. Godfrey and Son, Exmouth, 
displayed cbrysanithemums, and made a fea¬ 
ture of their single varieties Devonshire Lass, 
pink; Miss Margaret Gidley, orange-bufl; 
Mollie Godfrey, deep rose; and Excelsior, 
orange. Messrs. Reamsbotham and Oo., 
Geashill, King’s Co., Ireland, show'ed pompon 
and decorative ohrysanithemums. Messrs. W. 
Wells and Co. made a bold display of chry¬ 
santhemums, and secured awards of ment 
for The Daily Mail and Madame Theresa 
Morel, Japanese varieties; Golden Mensa, a 
fine yellow single; and for the vivid scarlet 
perp^ual carnation named Champion. 
HARDY PLANTS AND DAHLIAS. 
Messrs. J. Oheal and Sons, Crawley, 
brought up an interesting collection of cut 
sprays of ornamental trees and shrubs, se¬ 
lected chiefly for their autumn effects; acers, 
s^leas, rhus, thorns, spiraeas, plums, and 
b^hes were well represented, while vero- 
mcas, ceanothuses, heaths, and Daboccia 
polLfolia were flowering subjects; a reallv 
go^ display of dahlias, including the pink 
Crawley Star, was remarkable for such a 
late date. Messrs. Pipers, Bayswater and 
Barnes, filled a corner of the hall with 
paeony-flowered dahlias set up boldly on tall 
stands; the flowers showed the effects of the 
weather, but were nevertheless remarkable 
for Noveniber 4, King Leopold, Eyton Roy, 
Romolo Piazzaui, Caesar, and Geisha being 
especially fresh and clean. 
The Wargrave Hardy Plant Farm.. Ihm., 
'^e Arcade, Liverpool Street, presented a 
little rock garden, furnished with diminu¬ 
tive conifers and colonies of Mazus rugosus, 
Linaiia cymbalaria globosa. Plumbago Lar- 
pentae. Polygonum vaccinifolium, P. capita- 
turn, and the white-berried Margyricarpus 
setosus. Mr. G. Reuthe Keston, had many 
interesting hardy plants on view, notably 
Aster Tradescanti, Desfontainia spimosa, 
autumn crocuses, colchicums, Nerine flexu- 
osa, alba, N. Mrs. Gunther, and Schizostylis 
coecinea. 
Messrs. R. Wallace and Oo., Colchester, 
showed fruiting branches of Decaisnea 
F<>rgeti, with their long, bean-Uke, fleshy, 
bright purple fruits; and also submitted Iris 
Yartani White Pearl (A.M.), a very beautiful 
dwarf iris. Messrs. Barrie and Brown, King 
William Street, London Bridge, showed 
berried sfhrubs, chief interest centring im 
the pemettyas and Gaultheria purcumbens. 
Mr. Du Came Godman, South Lodge, Hor¬ 
sham, exhibited Knipbofia multiflora, a white, 
late-flowering species referred to elsewhere 
in this issue. 
Mr. Clarence Elliott, Stevenage, showed 
small conifers suitable for the rock garden 
and colonies of saxifrages, sedums, plum¬ 
bago, and gentians. Messrs. Thos. S. Ware 
contributed a quite brilliant lot of dahlias, 
Schizostylis ooccinea, Kmiphofia Modesta, a 
slender-spiked, white-flowered species, and 
selections of alpines. Messrs. Thompson and 
Charman, Adelphi, W.C., presented alpine 
plants in great variety. 
Mr. G. Prince, Longworth, was the only 
exhibitor of roses, and his little group was 
greatly admired, as the flowers were both 
fresh and fragrant. 
GREENHOUSE PLANTS AND CARNA¬ 
TIONS. 
Messrs. W. Cutbush and Son, Highgate, 
showed their carnations on a table, and, in 
addition to well-known sorts, set up the 
bright purple Madame Barrain, the red- 
flaked Mrs. Tatten, Mrs. W. Aster, buff and 
scarlet, and Mrs. L. D. Fullerton, heliotrope 
and red. Winter-flowering begonias from 
the same firm filled a long tabie. Heaths, 
soianums, dwarf, bushy chrysanthemums in 
small pots, winter-howering begonias, the 
lovely Selaginellas caesia, and ferns made up 
an initeresting display from Messrs. H. B. 
May and Sons, Edmonton. 
Mr. S. Mortimer, Farnham, exhibited car¬ 
nations and a batch of the perpetual stock 
All-the-Year-Round, a fragrant white 
variety. Mr. L. R. Russell, Richmond, made 
up a really first-rate display of ornamental 
stove foliage plants. Crotons, dracaenas, mar- 
antas, palms, alocasias, ficus, and aralias 
were freely staged in great variety. 
Messrs. Allwood Brothers, Haywards 
Heath, put up stands of beautiful fiowering 
perpetu^ carnations, and were particularly 
successful with their blooms of Mary All¬ 
wood, perpetual Malmaisons, Cinderella, 
Mandarin, Enchantress Supreme, and 
Wivelsfield White. Gorgeous (A.M.), a new 
cerise-scarlet perpetual carnation, broad- 
petalled and full, was finely shown by Messrs. 
Stuart Low and Co., Enfield, with other 
varieties of this section. 
Messrs. Wills and Seegar, Onslow Terrace, 
Keusington, exhibited hne specimens of Be¬ 
gonia Gloire de Lorraine in ornamental tubs 
and vases. 
ORCHIDS. 
A handsome group of orchids from Messrs. 
Charles worth and Co., Haywards Heath, was 
a fine feature, and it contained Epidendrum 
vitellinum majus, fine odontiodas, ondonto- 
glossums, cypnpediums, OattleyaTityus, very 
fine, C. Fabia, and C. Fabia alba, C. Enid, 
G. Venus, and other useful late-flowering or¬ 
chids. Oncidia Cooksonae, a fine form, was 
sent by Mr. C. J. Phillips, Sevenoaks, and 
Mr. Hunter, gardener to the Duke of Marl 
borough, Blenueim, brought up several good 
tUmgs, notably Laelia-cattleya Olenus Blen- 
heim var. (A.M.), rich crimson-purple, with 
royal purj3le lip. 
Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart, (grower, Mr 
W. H. White), Burford Lodge, Dorking lu^ 
finely-grown specimens of Coelogyne ’ tim. 
hriata, Cattleya Fabia, and Sigmatostylax 
radicans, and gained two cultural commen- 
dations. Messrs. Flory and Black, Slouah 
and Messrs. Waters Butler, Edgbaston, Bir! 
minglmm, each showed a few orchids. R. G. 
Thwaites, Esq., Streatham, brought the 
dainty white cattleya hybrid’and some odon- 
tioclas. Lieut.-Oolonel Sir George Holford 
(grower, Mr. H. Alexander), submitted C^ri- 
pedium Olympus (A.M.), a very bold form 
with a wide, white green-based dorsal sepal; 
Odontioda Latona Westonbirt var., and 
Odontoglossum crispum xanthotes Weston¬ 
birt var. (A.M.), white with golden spots. 
Mr. J. Cbllier, gardener to Sir Jeremiah j 
Colman, Bart., Gatton Park, Reigate, showed 1 
a dozen and a^half flowering plants of Catt. ■ 
leya Portia caerulea, the blue tinted hybrid 
obtained by crossing C. Bowringiana violac^a 
and C. labaata caerulea; the two parents were 
also represented, and added to the interest of 
the group. A pleasing group of orchids from 
Messrs. Armstrong and Brown, Tunbridge 
Wells, contained good examples of Cattleya 
Bowringiana, C. Mantini, C. Fabia, C. Arm- 
strongae, C. Mrs. Pitt, Brasso-cattleya 
Maronae, .Laelio-cattleyia Berthe Fournie, and 
numerous cypripediums, odontoglossums, 
and odontiodas. 
The orchids from Mesrs. Sander and Som, 
St. Albans, included Cattleya Hardyana, C. 
Sylvia, C. Fabia, CypriTiedium insigne Hare- 
field Hall, Cymbidium erythrostylnra, 
Brasso-cattleya Mrs. Leemann, Cirrhope- 
talum Rothschildianum, and the dcep-hned 
Odontioda Charleswo<rthi, 'Ihe Comet. Or¬ 
chids were well shown by Messrs. Stuart low 
and Co., Enfield, and the group included 
Pbalaenopsis Rimestadiana, Vanda caerulea in 
some quantity, Oncidium varicosnm, Catt¬ 
leya Fabia, C. labiata, and the lovely Brasso- 
cattleya Leeanae. 
Messrs. Hassall and Co., Southgate, diowed 
the pretty Cypripeddum Niobe, Cattleya 
aurea, the lovely white-pet ailed C. Sylvia, C. 
Pittae, and other good things. From Messrs. 
J. and A. MoBean, Cooksbridge, came many 
good things, including Cymbidium Doris and 
the beautiful gold and mauve Cattleya An- 
driana McBeans var. (A.M.). Messrs. J. , 
Cypher and Sons, Cheltenham, brought up 
59ome interesting cypripediums, Cattleva 
Pittae, C. labiata, C. Bowringiana, and C. ^ 
Minneia. ' 
VEGETABLES AND FRUIT. 
A splendid exhibit of seventy-two bask^ 
of finely-selected potatoes was made by 
Messrs. Dobbie and Oo., Edinburgh. 
there were about forty varieties. In tn€ 
matter of display this was a particular y 
handsome exbibit, and in the matter of 
tivation the potatoes were first class. 
varieties as Dobbie’s Prolific, Great 
Burhouse Beauty, a white, pebble-shapw 
variety to be sent out in 1914; 1 
Favourite, Midlothian Early, The Chapman, 
Windsor Castle, The Factor, British Queen, 
Conquest, King Edward VII., Erins Qu«e^ 
and Sutton’s Abundance were 
what high-class potatoes should be.' 
washed tubers attracted quite as much att 
tion as the carefully-cleaned ones. 
A grand lot of finely-coloured 
by Messrs. W. Sea brook and Sons 
ford, was greatly admired. Mr. 
dener to E. J. Johnstone, Esq., Burrs 
Groom bridge, submitted aboiit sixty ‘ 
of well-coloured apples, including the ^ 
dessert and culinary varieties. Mr. ^ ’ 
gardener to the Duke of 
Castle, Grantham, sent about 
ddshes of pears, which included 
amoles of Easter Beiirre, Pitmaston Du 
Catillac, Diircmdeaii, Beiirre Hardy, etc. 
AWARDS OF MERIT. 
No First Class Certificate was gran 
this occasion. 
