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THE GARDENERS* MAGAZINE. 
July 12, 1913. 
Mrs; W. Sargent.—A very sitron^-growing 
hybrid tea rose, carrying substantial flowers 
on stout growths. The shapely-pointed 
flowers are teascented, and of a soft cream- 
white colour. Card of Commendation, N.R.S., 
July 4. Messrs. Hugh Dickson, Lim., Bel¬ 
fast. 
Ulster Standard.—A very large and free- 
blooming single hybrid tea rose, with blooms 
five inches broad, and of a brilliant crimson 
hue. A.M., R.H.S. July 1. Messrs. Hugh 
Dickson, Lim., Belfast. 
Mrs. Godfrey Brown.—A pretty rose, after 
the style of Mrs. W. J. Grant, but with flesh- 
tinted petals, shaded with rose on the outer 
surface. It has fine size and good form. 
A.M., R.H.S., July 1. Messrs. Hugh Dick¬ 
on. Belfast. 
large, but have comparatively few petals. 
The colour is bright reddish-rose or car¬ 
mine. A.M., R.H.S., July 1. Messrs. Hugh 
Dickson, Lim., Belfast. 
CATTLEYA MOSSI^ DREADNOUGHT. 
A wonderful variety, with petals about four 
inches across. Of fine form and size, it has 
also good colouring, the sepals and petals 
rose-pink, and the lip finely marked with 
crimson, purple and gold. A.M., R.H.S., 
July 1. Messrs. Sander and'Sons, St. Albans. 
CATTLEYA M0SSIJ3 OLYMPIA. 
A large variety, with blush-coloured, rosy- 
veined flowers, and a fine lip handsomely 
marked with deep purple. A.M., R.H.S., 
July 1. Messrs. Charlesworth and Co., Hay¬ 
wards Heath. 
CATTLEYA SERENATA. 
C. Whitei is the parent of this hybrid, 
and it lends sub6ta.nce to the broad and 
handsome flowers. The segments are of 
good form and coloured brilliant rosy-mauve. 
A.M., R.H.S., July 1. Messrs. Mansell and 
Hatcher, Rawdon, Leeds. 
MILTONIA HARWOODI, FOWLER^S VAR. 
A striking orchid derived from M. vexil- 
laria and Oochlioda Noetzliana. The rosy- 
cerise flowers are very attractive, and the 
colouring is enhanced by the neat golden- 
yellow crest. M. Harwoodi gained an A.M. 
some time ago, but this variety is a great 
advance on the original. F.C.C., R.H.S.^, 
July 1. J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. (gardener 
Mr. J. Davies), Glebelands, South Woodford. 
MILTONIA SANDERS. 
An extremely beautiful milfonia; indeed, 
one of the finest ever seen. Its parents are 
M. V. Memoria G. D. Owen and M. St. Andre. 
The large flowers are white, with a lovely 
shading of soft rose-pink. On the broad lip 
the b^al disc or ** mark is very dark, 
blackish purple, and the shortly radiating 
lines are as nearly black as possible. A 
fine spike of this superb hybrid was shown. 
F.C.C., R.H.S., July 1. Messrs. Sander and 
Sons, St. Albans. 
ODONTTODA BREWI. 
A wonderful secondary hybrid, obtained 
by crossing Odontioda Charlesworthi with 
Odontoglossiim Harryanum. Only a small 
plant was shown, but its rich red-brown or 
bronzy-red colouring attracted all the orchid 
specialists. The shade of colour is very 
deep, and lightened by the spreading golden- 
yellow crest. F.C.C., R.H.S., July 1. Messrs. 
Charlesworth and Co., Haywards Heath. 
ODONTIODA WILSONI THE PRESIDENT. 
first-named parent has exercised great influ¬ 
ence. as the flowers are of similar shape, but 
smaller, white, with rosy-violet markings. 
A.M., R.H.S., July 1. Messrs. Charlesworth 
and Co., Haywards Heath. 
CARNATIONS. 
The Baron.—A light yellow-ground fancy 
variety, with splashes of rose and lilac. The 
flowers are large and of good shape. A.M., 
R.H.S., July 1. Mr. Jas. Douglas, Great 
Bookham. 
Virginia.—Another fancy, the buff ground 
colour shaded and flaked with rose- 
pink, and being but irregularly bordered 
with the same shade; a large, full flower. 
A.M., R.H.S., July 1. Mr. Jas. Douglas, 
Great Bookham. 
ADIANTUM TRAPEZIFORME QUEEN 
MARY. 
The type of this species is not now gene¬ 
rally cultivated in private gardens, but the 
new varietal form should be^me fairly popu¬ 
lar. It has tall spreading fronds carrM on 
black stems, and rising about two feet bigb. 
The pinnules are closely set on the fronds, 
and depend instead of spreading flatly. More¬ 
over, they are broadly fan-shaped, prettily 
crinkled and fringed at the margin. F.C.C., 
R.H.S., July 1. Messrs. H. B. May and 
Sons, Edmonton. 
ADIANTUM SIEBERTIANUM. 
A beautiful and graceful fern, that is a 
variety of A. Weigandi, but more slender and 
of lighter green hue. Should make a useful 
pot plant for decorating. A.M., R.H.S., 
July 1. Messrs. H. B. May and Sons', Ed¬ 
monton. 
POLYPODIUM MAYI CRISTATUM. 
Sooner or later every fern largely grown 
seems to enter upon a crested or plumose 
form, and so the handsome P. Mayi, while 
retaining all its old beauty, has now added 
to its fringing, and become crested at the 
tops of the fronds. A.M., R.H.S., July 1. 
Messrs. H. B. May and Sons, Edmonton. 
MAGNOLIA DELAVAYI. 
This broad-leaved, large-flowered specie® 
from Southern China has been seen on several 
occasions, and now it has received the hor¬ 
ticultural hall-mark. It is hardy in the 
southern counties, and makes a handsome 
shrub from a foliage point of view. The 
flowers are sparingly produced apparently; 
they are deep cream-yellow, with red-tinted 
stamens, and about six fnches wide. F.C.C., 
R.H.S., July 1. Messrs. Jas. Veitch and 
Sons, Chelsea. 
ERIGERON PINK PEARL. 
A pleasing and distinct form, much smaller 
than the finer forms of E. epeciosus, but free 
and of bright pink colour. A.M. R.H.S., 
July 1. Mr. Amos Perry, Enfield. 
NEPENTHE ATROPURPUREA. 
A grand pitcher plant, with footdong 
pitchers of fine bronzy-crimson colour, with 
a wide and brigjiter crimson-friUed rim. N. 
sanguinea and S. Curtisi superba were the 
parents. A.M., R.H.S., July 1. Messrs. 
Jas. Veitch and Sons, Chelsea. 
NEPENTHE LEWIS BRADBURY. 
A magnificent hybrid between N. mixta and 
N. sanguinea. Some years ago this would 
have made a great furore, but stove plants 
have not the same interest now as then. The 
big cylindrical pitchers are light crimson, 
shaded green, and blotched with crimson. 
Though not so brilliant, it is larger than N. 
atropurpurea. A.M., R.H.S., July 1. Messrs. 
Ja®. Veitch and Sons, Chelsea. 
IRIS K^MPFERI MORNING MISTS. 
An exquisitely beautiful single variety of 
wonderful size and lovely colouring. The 
standards are pure white, and the frills are 
also white, with a little yellow on the claw, 
and beautifully shaded with light blue on the 
upper half. A.M., R.H.S., July 1. Messrs. 
R. Wallace and Co.. Colchester. 
Orchids *for Amateurs.— This is the 
title of a practical guide to the culture of sixty 
easily-grown cool, and fifty warm house kinds 
adapted for small mixed greenhouses. The 
book is very well illustrated, and can be pro¬ 
cured by p^ for 2s. lOd. from the Publi^er, 
148-9, Aldersgate Street, London, or through 
any bookseller, price 2s. 6d. net. 
FEEDING LAWN AND 
SHRUBBERY TREE& 
From time to time readers of The Gie. 
DENERs’ Magazine are presented with illng. 
tra4;ions of single specimen trees, and those 
grown to form groups on lawns and in 
shrubberies. One cannot look at these ex- 
ceUent reproductions without experienciiig 
a certain longing to possess such speci¬ 
mens a® they represent. One findy 
grown tree will afford a great amount of 
pleasui-e, and it is really worth more in a 
garden than a dozen badly-grown spe¬ 
cimens. 
Too often a visitor to a garden can detect 
faulty planting, followed by faulty treat- 
meint, as regards many kinds of ornamental 
trees and ©hrulbs. In the first instance 
(especially where deoid’uous subjeote are 
planted in asociation with evergreen ones) 
overcrowding is evident. 
The principal trees and shrubs ought 
alfways to be planted first, and in positions 
where, when fully grown, they will stand 
clear of all others, and not encroach on 
drives, paths, or fences. Where possible, 
the location of the main trees should be 
decided by the planter while he looks from 
the windows of the dwelling-house. Bar- 
ing judiciously planted, and, in after yean, 
taken out all those specimens used at first 
for filling-up solely, the cultivator should 
feed the permanent ones before they be¬ 
come stunted. 
It is frequently the case that every leaf 
in a shrubbery is raked out in the winter 
time. I have seen soil so well raked from 
the surface as to lay bare many roots. If 
soil was wheeled in and fallen leave* 
covered by it, in some seasons, the treee 
and shrubs would derive an immense 
amount of benefit therefrom. 
I saw a photograph recently of a coni¬ 
ferous tree growing on a lawn, and the 
photograph was taken aibout forty 
ago. A recent photograph had 
taken, and the tree presented much the 
same appearance in both photographs, h 
looked las good a specimen forty 
as it does now. No feeding had ever been 
done, and now the specimen will begin 
deteriorate. , 
No doubt it is a very wise plan to few 
the trees in the autumn and winter bme, 
but much assistance may be i 
now. In cases ‘where the grass is 
to grow right up to the stem m the ’ 
much attention to cutting and frim o 
is necessary. It is different with speci 
that have basal branches sweeping 
lawn evenly and gracefully. 
There should, in many instances. 
neat circle cut around the trees, 
which they can be fed; and the diamem 
of the circle must be in proportion 
size of the tree ; one 20 feet high 
have a circle with a diameter 
eight feet. If the soil on it 
very poor, and quite devoid or rn 
should be removed down to the ^nai . ^ 
and a rich mixture of filbrous be 
rather lumpy state, with rotted nia , ’ 
applied. If this added compost be i^g 
watered throughout the 
the early part of autumn, 
roots will become fairly plentiiu 7 
spring, and every two years « of 
soil should be put on. Good ^ -^glly 
clear wuter must ibe given. 
' followed by dflutod liquid mani^- 
According to the quality of * ® 
the way in which it has 
young trees will thrive for a “ 
years, but their progress sfi^uld 
so that food may be given befor ^ ^ 
signs of weakened growth. 
