Mat 34, 1913. 
THE GARDENERS- MAGAZINE. 
Mr Bes Pricliard, West Moors, Wim- 
■^rne, showed Campanula Stei^nsi nana, one 
dwarfest and best of the dwarf cam- 
-inolas- Helichrysums bellidioidos, and 
Linum capitatum, as well as a variety .of 
alpine plants of quite good quality. 
Messrs. Reamsbottom and Co., Geashill, 
Ireland, had their St. Brigid anemones in a 
- )nderful variety of colour, the blues and 
mauves and the brilliant scarlets being 
belp^ by the whites and paler pink shades. 
Primula pulverulenta and a hybrid between 
it and P. Cockburniana called Yarm variety 
were shown by Mr. W. Laurenson, Yarm-on- 
Tees. The hybrid is a promising plant of vigo¬ 
rous growth, with fine terra-cotta flowers. 
Messrs. Phillips and Taylor, Bracknell, 
Berks, had a group of bog and water plants 
on one side of the big monument. Primulas 
pulverulenta Bulleyana and japonica were 
L'«ociated with Trollius Orange Globe and 
Spiraea Peach Blossom, while gunneras, poly¬ 
gonums, anchusas, etc., made up the prin¬ 
cipal portions of a good show. Mr. J. Mac¬ 
donald, Harpenden, made another remark- 
went by way of a paved walk into an old 
English garden, arranged by Messrs. Carter 
and Co. From the low terrace wall a grin¬ 
ning gargoyle spurted water into a semi¬ 
circular pool, and the stone-edged borders 
round about were thickly planted with 
azaleas and rhododendrons. Little stone 
men played with dummy cards on a round 
stone table, or, at least, they were supposed 
to play, and you mounted the steps to an 
upper terrace and paved garden. Here a 
little fountain played under an elm that was 
permanent, and here again the borders be¬ 
yond the pavement were furnished with 
flowers. From the paved garden you looked 
into a heather-thatched tea house, which 
looked as old as the armour that hung on the 
walls. From a leaded window in this struc¬ 
ture you looked out over a garden that 
s^med to belong to a past and gone page in 
history, where the feminine fashions of 
modern London seemed somewhat out of 
place. It was hard to believe that this crea¬ 
tion was all the work of the last few weeks. 
You hardly could realise that you were in 
flowers that filled the borders under the shel¬ 
ter of the walls, and you wondered how the 
pool of water in front of and underneath the 
stone-built tea house managed to get there. 
Then, to leave the garden, you mounted 
other steps, at the top of which there was 
a stone garden seat, and the figure of a 
lady supporting an old-world sundial, and 
then you passed out—and remembered that, 
after all, you were in the grounds of tlie 
Chelsea Hospital. It only remains to be 
said that Messrs. Wallace’s fine effort will 
be remembered for many a day to come, and 
we cannot close this all too inadequate de¬ 
scription of it without according a word of 
praise to Messrs. Wallace’s expert, Mr. 
Dillistone, who was responsible for design¬ 
ing these charming gardens. 
Messrs. Pulham and Son, 71, Newman 
Street, Oxford Street^ W., had a rock and 
watei* garden on an imposing scale, with a 
neat garden house on the rising ground, 
from which the whole of the design could 
be viewed comfortably. A large irregular 
pool occupied a considerable part of the 
CHELSEA SHOW—A BEAUTIFUL DISPLAY OF GREENHOUSE AND OTHER PLANTS. 
Arranged by Messrs. Sutton and Sons. 
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the Chelsea Hospital grounds when you 
turned a corner and your eyes rested on the 
weathered Welsh stone which played such 
an essential part in the rock garden arranged 
by Messrs. R. Wallace and Co., of Colches¬ 
ter. Away in the distance water tumbled 
down a rocky cascade into a pool below, and 
the greeni turf, dotted here and there with 
stones, sloped gently to the water edge. 
Scotch firs at the background seemed to 
add a still more natural appearance to the 
cascade, and, while just enough alpine 
flowers were planted in the crevices between 
the stones, anything approaching extrava¬ 
gance was studiously avoided. Then, to find 
contrast, you turn^ to the left across an 
expanse of grass and looked over a loose 
stone wall into a sunk garden, where a kmd 
of stone-built summer-house, covered in with 
Horescombe tiles from near to Bristol, looked 
as if it ought to have been in a garden on 
the Cotswold Hills to have been quite at 
home. You entered the old English sunk gar¬ 
den by means of stone steps, and wandered 
round it on a paved footway, admiring the 
length of the exhibit, with low rocks rising 
from the grassy bank on the one side, bolder 
rocks rising from the other side of the water, 
then a narrow, rough paved pathway and a 
steadily rising wall of rocks beyond, with a 
beautiful little ravine near the summer¬ 
house, where a small rocky bridge spanned 
the rocky watercourse which supplied the 
pool below. In this cool, shady ravine were 
ferns and other shade-loving plants. This 
corner was one of the prettiest of ideas, and 
was a surprise to all who passed along the 
pathway to the summer-house. Among the 
higher rocks were iberis, phloxes, saxifrages, 
veronicas, cotoneasters, sedums, cytisus, rock 
cistus, daphnes, etc.; while round the pool 
we made note of irises, spiraeas, bamboos, 
ferns, trollius. funkias, moisture-loving pri¬ 
mulas, etc., with iberis, lithospermurns, alys- 
sums, etc., on the rocky mounds. There was 
something decidedly hold about the scheme 
of rock garden for which the Guildford 
Hardy Plant Company was res|X)nsible. 
From the front you looked on a bed of hardy 
primulas, and surmounting a piece of rockery 
