THE GARDENERS* MAGAZINE. 
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jrsE 7, 1913. 
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MANCHESTER, 
JULY 11th and 12th, 1913. 
ROSES. SWEET PEAS, GROUPS, STOVE and 
GREENHOUSE PLANTS, OAR.NATIONS, 
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EXHIBITIONS AND 
MEETINGS. 
Royal Horticultural Society. 
Although coming so close after the great 
thelsea Show, the meeting held at the Royal 
Horticultural Hall on June 3 was a good 
one, and the show of hrst-elass order. Every 
bit of available space was filled, and, taken 
^ a whole, the groups were well arranged and 
the plants and flowers in excellent condition. 
In a few cases the error of overcrowding was 
observable. Orchids, carnations, roses, pelar¬ 
goniums, fuchsias, alpine and border flowers, 
and sweet peas and antirrhinums were the 
principal features. The attendance was not 
very large owing to the large number of 
^lety functions that were being held in 
town the same day. 
ORCHID COMMITTEE. 
exhibit of orchids, admirably 
g;M over maidenhair ferns, bv Mr. Geo. 
gardener to H. S. Goo^son, Esq., 
Hill, Putney, proved a gr4t 
aUraction, and, indeed, it was a fine Iffort 
Dolita.n within the metro- 
^meron Odontoglossums were esj^ially 
0 iR«iRded such good things as 
W "o c^ispum Battle of Water- 
Laml^Q?*- O. amabile roseum, O. 
c. Mossiae, C. M. Reineckiana, 
^anhaminn^^^ Hndine, Laelio-cattleya 
^wia^ Wigan, Cymbidiura 
^ereoth^r: and some odontiodas 
Hartland represented. Messrs, 
or^^hids anH ^ contributed a few 
a curious showed Diananthe coerulea, 
Messrs B? by 
Milto^^^^ Southgate, together 
two spikesi ^ v^illaria Cobbiana carrying 
^orms^ of OafH ^ bright odontiodas, and good 
exhibit Conspicuous in 
Enfield wl/j 1 ^ ^c^rs. Stuart Low and Co., 
Ionia Imschootiana, Mil- 
^ossise ^ Cattleya 
^^'»tiful maiiv Eudora, and the 
Brasso-Cattleya Veitehi. ‘ 
Burford Lodc»I^T?5 Bawrence’s collection at 
^Bo<-attwf > ^^hite brought 
j Uauhanuana Burford var.. 
with broad white sepals and petals; the 
graceful white and purple Odontoglossum 
Lairessei (A.M.), the quaint little Epiden- 
drumorganense, a lowly plant with greenish 
flowers; and a fine example of Oncidium 
Cleaesianum with brown and purple flowers. 
Two inter^ting hybrids came from Mons. H. 
Graire, St. Fuscien, Sains; these were 
Odontoglossum Saturne and O. Neptune var. 
St. Fuscien, the latter a bright red-blotched 
hybrid between O. nebulosum and O. crispum 
(A.M.). 
Laelio-cattleya The Freak, showm by Mr. 
Duncan, gardener to C. J. Lucas, Esq., 
Warnham Court, Horsham, w^as a source of 
great interest, as its parents were L. pur- 
purata and C. citrina; it has creamy sepals 
and petals, and a purplish lip, and the fra¬ 
grance of C. citrina (Certificate of Apprecia¬ 
tion). Mr. J. Stevenson, gardener to E. G. 
Mocatta. Esq., Woburn Place, Addlestoue, 
sent up a good plant of the bright Odonto¬ 
glossum Jasper, and Sir Jeremiah Col man 
(gardener, M^;^ J. Collier), Gatton Park, Rei- 
gate, exhibited the interesting Catasetum 
Cliftoni and C. Colmanae. Dendrobium 
Thornitoni, Veitch’s var., with clear yellow 
flowers, occupied a central position in a 
group set up by Messrs. J. CyfDher and Sons, 
Cheltenham; Miltonia Bleuana, Oncidium 
pulchellum, and Thunia Veitehi were other 
good things. 
Mr. E. H. Davidson, Orchid Dene, T^vy- 
ford, exhibited a few good orchids, but his 
Odontoglossum Aire worth Orchid Dene var., 
red-brown with purple margins and wdiite- 
tipped lip, was the finest feature, and it se¬ 
cured an A.M. Cattleya Mossiae Golden Ray, 
from the same grower, had yellow colouring 
towards the apex of each petal—an attempt 
at peloria. Messrs. Charlesworth and Co., 
Haywards Heath, had a small display of 
orchids, but had grand plants of Miltonia 
vexillaria Empress Augusta Victoria, Odon- 
tioda Bradshawiae, Odontoglossum Dora, and 
Laelio-cattleya Fascinator. 
Two grand spikes of Coelogjme pandurata, 
i-ts green and black flowers always attractive, 
were contributed by Messrs. Armstrong and 
Brown, Hayward’s Heath, and with these 
were Odontoglossum Leonides magi|flicum 
with yellow and brown flowers, a fine snike 
of Cymbidium Lowianum concolor, Odon- 
tioda Vuylstekeae, 0. Rosefieldense, and 
some good examples of Laelio-cattleya Can- 
hamiana. Laelio-cattleya Canhamiaiia and 
L.-c. C. Walter Gott were beautifully shown 
by Messrs. Sander and Sons, St. Albans, and 
these were associated with miltonias in 
variety, odontoglossums, odontiodas, the bril¬ 
liant Renanthera Imschootiana, some beau¬ 
tiful varieties of Laelio-cattleya Fascinator, 
and Brassia verrucosa with nine spikes. 
FLORAL COMMITTEE. 
The beautiful sweet peas exhibited by 
Messrs. Dobbie and Co., Edinburgh, proved 
very attractive, especially the varieties In¬ 
spector, Melba, Thomas Stevenson, and lav¬ 
ender George Herbert. Equally beautiful 
and attractive were the antirrhinums from 
the same firm, and the sheaves of lovely 
spikes of Cottage Maid, Amber Queen, Queen 
of the North, white; Maize Queen, Bobbie’s 
White Beauty purest white; Brflliant, deep 
rose; and Moonlight, apricot-yellow and 
pink, were all very charming. Phloxes from 
Messrs. Gunn and Sons, Olton, were capital 
for such an early date, and of Elizabeth 
Campbell and Selma there were grand spikes. 
Messrs. W. and J. Brown, Stamford, ex¬ 
hibited the crimson hybrid Dianthus Atkin- 
soni and some good forms of Heuchera san- 
guinea. Irises of the germanica type were 
largely shown by Mr. C. W Chantler, Cock- 
manmngs Nurseries, St. Mary Cray, but 
manv of the blooms suffered from the heat. 
Irises and lupins were the chief feat^ures 
of the display from Messrs. Barr and Sons, 
Coveut Garden. The former were particu¬ 
larly good, especially the spikes of Ophir, 
Nlellie, Moerheimi, Enchantress, the deep 
Taplow Purple, Eastern Queen, and the 
dainty Rosy Gem. Messrs. W. Artindale and 
Son, Sheffield, presented fine bunches of 
Mdme. Munier, Yvonne Cayeux, White Aster, 
and other pyrethrums, with Oriental pop¬ 
pies, lupins, and Incarvillea Delavayi, but 
their flowers were crowded together. 
Oriental poppies made a rare blaze of 
colour as shown, by Mr. Amos Perry, Enfield, 
and some of the best varieties were Marie 
Studholme, salmon-pink; Crimped Beauty, 
salmou-orange; Aleuolik, deep 8<‘arlet; 
Perry’s White, and Perry’s Unique (A.AI.), 
vivid scarlet, with black blotches and deeply 
laciuiate segments. Messrs. G. and A. Clark, 
Dover, rather spoiled their exhibit by crowd¬ 
ing the flowers; Pentstemoii heterophyllus. 
Ins sibirica Snow Queen, Verbascum Ivan- 
hoe, and Gcum Mrs. Bradshaw were a few of 
the more important subjects shown. 
Messrs. Kelway and Son, Langport, pre¬ 
sented a glorious selection of both single and 
double pyrethrums, and some lovely lupins 
and paeonies, but tlieir new yellow 
Paeony ujimod L’Esperance, a hybrid between 
P. lutea and a P. Moutan variety, was the 
great attraction. T1iis was very like P. 
Lorraine in its colouring, but liad only 
three rows of petals, whereas La Lorraine is 
quite double. In LT^spcrance the yellow 
shade is, perhaps, a trifle brighter, and the 
crimson i>etal bases are, of course, more pro¬ 
minent, wliile the crimson, yellow-tipped sta¬ 
mens form a fine centre (A.M.). At so late 
a date it was a surprise to find Messrs. R. 
H. Bath, Wisbech, showing some cajjital 
tulips, all Darwin varieties, the flowers of 
fine colour, form, and substance. The same 
firm contributed a score of hunches of sweet 
peas, and among these the delicate pink Lan¬ 
cashire was very pretty. 
Messrs. Sutton and Sons, Reading, ar¬ 
ranged a lon^ stretch of their improved 
aquilegias. The flowers were displayed in 
colour blocks; the pink shades contrasted 
well with the blues, which adjoined the crim¬ 
son and gold type, lliese long-spurred colum¬ 
bines are exceedingly graceful, and showed 
a marked improvement on the old typo. 
M. Drummond, Estj., Cadland, Southamp¬ 
ton (gardener, Mr. Lewis Smith), showed a 
goodly batch of excellent long-spurred aqui¬ 
legias. 
Mr. James Box, Hayward’s Heath, Sussex, 
had the most attractively arranged hardy 
flower exhibit in the hall. Besides a great 
variety of irises, pyrethrums, and aquilegias 
there were the more uncommon Anemone 
sulphurea, Thermopsis montana, and Paeonia 
alba grandiflora, in which the golden stamens 
contrast charmingly with the pure white 
petals. H. J. Talbot, I^q., Little Gaddesden 
House, Betkhamsted (gardener, Mr. E. Pin- 
nook), showed the exceedingly vigorous pink- 
flowered stock named Nice Beauty. 
Messrs. WTiitelegg and Page, Chislehurst, 
by placing them next to the type, illustmt^ 
the greater value of such improved varieties 
of Heuchera sanguinea as Queen of Roses, 
Prince of Wales, and sanguinea superba. 
Lupins and Habranthus pratense were also 
well shown. Mesrs. Bakers, Wolverhampton, 
staged lupins, Oriental poppies, good 
batches of Primula Bulleyana, P. Lissadell 
hybrid, and other border flowers. 
Messrs. T. S. Ware, Lim., Feltham, 
included several vases of excellent antirrhi¬ 
nums in their exhibit of hardy border and 
rock garden plahts. Amongst fhe last- 
named we noted Linaria pallida and Gera¬ 
nium cinerium album as being especially 
good. Messrs. Wm. Fells and Son, Hitchin, 
made a speciality of herbaceous pyrethrums 
and hardy primula species. One end of the 
tabling contained a few very desi'rable 
Messrs. R. Wallace and Co., Colchester, 
showed a large quantitv of German 
irises. Pentstemon W ahersis is a very useful 
blue-flowered herbaceous plant, and the erect 
inflorescences were displayed to advantage. 
Other uncommon subjects exhibited were 
Calochortus Lyoni, Nectaroscordum siculum, 
and Allium albo-pilosnm. Mr. G. Reuthe, 
Keston, Kent, included several desirable 
half - hardy rhododendrons in his lis- 
play of shrubs and herbaceous plants. 
Amongst the former the sprays of Emboth- 
riiim coccinea provided brilliant colouring. 
Messrs. G. Bnnyard and Co.. Maidstone, 
gave the place of honour to a group of very 
