THE GARDENERS' MAGAZINE. 
401 
MiT 31 , 1913 . 
EXHIBITIONS AND MEETINGS. 
GREAT FLOWER SHOW AT 
CHELSEA. 
(Concluded from page 385.) 
ROOK AND FOEMAL GARDENS. 
Planted out in beds, with grass walks 
i»tween them, the azaleas, acers, rhododen¬ 
drons, and other flowering and ornamental 
-ubjecta, shown by Messrs. J. Cheal and Sons, 
Crawley, produced a surprisingly beautiful 
the splendid condition of the plants 
and the taste evinced in their arrangement 
leing worthy of the high reputation enjoyed 
else but rock and water; and, as you looked 
at it, you felt that instead of being brought 
all the way from Yorkshire, Nature had put 
the stones there, thrown them up by some 
upheaval in the past, and left the craggy 
points in some places, and the edges of the 
strata emerging from the ground in others. 
You could also imagine that the rocks had 
been weathered and washed where they lay 
by the storms of passing generations, leaving 
just enough soil in the pockets and crevices 
for the pretty little alpines to grow in. In 
reference to the latter, there was nothing 
out of the ordinary, but every clump of 
the side of a face of rock. Water trickled 
musically down a cascade, and lost itself in 
the pool below. In ' the crevices between 
the stones grew, or seemed to grow, batches 
of suitable plants, and in the sunlight the 
colours of crimson primulas were reflected in 
the water. At one point an ornamental 
purple wistaria drooped over the pool, at 
another a white one; while at one corner 
there was a compact little representation of a 
bog garden that seemed to have been dropped 
in just the right place. 
Enclosed by a yew hedge and paved with 
stones of all shapes, Mr. R. C. Notcutt, 
of Woodbridge, made a garden of hardy mol¬ 
lis and other azaleas and rhododendrons. The 
former, which filled a raised bed in the 
centre, were interspersed with Japanese 
maples, and the whole effect was very pleas¬ 
ing. Messrs. R. Tucker and Sons, Oxford, 
set up an arrangement of rockwork with the 
usual steps and paved ways. A batch of blue 
gentians at one corner was very pleasing, and 
popular rock plants were dis|>er».d about. 
ROCK GARDEN EXHIBIT AT CHELSEA. 
ranged by Mr. J. Wood, Boston Spa, who was awarded the gold medal. One of the most natural pieces of rock-work yet 
displayed. 
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plants was in its right place, looking as if 
they had grown there from the days of in¬ 
fancy. There was a suspicion of newness 
about the rockery set up by Meters. T. S. 
Ware, Feltham, but otherwise it was attrac¬ 
tive, and the big patches of aubrietias, aza¬ 
leas’ and violas made a good display, and the 
semi-aquatic plants round the edges of the 
ornamental pool in the centre looked quite at 
home. 
Enormous were the stones used by Messrs. 
J. Piper and Sons, Bayswater, in the forma¬ 
tion of their rock and water garden, but what 
is more to the point, they arranged them to 
such good effect that they looked as if they 
had occupied their positions for years. Even 
the London sparrows seemed quite at home as 
they hopped from stone to stone. A very 
natural-looking pool that twisted in and out 
was cros^ by steppipg-stones, and a paved 
way led up to a stone ©eat, set, as it were, in 
Mr. Clarence Elliott, Six Hills, Stevenage, 
u.sed his position to great advantage, skirt¬ 
ing a low bank with easy rockwork, rendered 
gay by colonies of Primula sibirica, P. in- 
volucrata, Gentiana acaulis, iberis, aubrie¬ 
tias, and Daphne cneorum. On a rocl^ 
bed near by were saxifrages and sedums in 
the open sunshine, with aquilegias, anemones, 
and dwarf pines. On the larger, bolder part 
of this rock garden Mr. Elliott had a superb 
mass of the glorious blue AquUegia glandu- 
losa, carrying wonderful blooms on sturdy 
stems. Besides this we noted alpine phloxes, 
Saxifraga Stormonth Seedling, ramondias, 
and Yiola gracilis. For the dainty little 
rose-red Pentstemon Davidsoni Mr. Elliott se¬ 
cured an A.M. Alpines of many kinds were 
exhibited by Messrs. Cunningham, Fraser, 
and Co., Comely Bank Nursery, Edinburgh, 
but the leading subjects were choice 
saxifrages, Pinus mughas, Sohizocodon 
