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THE GARDENERS’ MAGAZINE. 
?eptember27.1913. 
bronze medal seemed scarcely an adequate 
award for fruits of suck kne colour and 
quality. 
Premier onion, of fine form and size, was 
finely shown by Messrs. Dickson and Eobin- 
son, Manchester, who staged about sixty 
weighty and clean bulbs. 
jlwaeds of MEKIT. 
No First-class Certificate was awarded on 
this date. 
Award of Merit.—^To Carnation Fair- 
mount, from Messrs. Allwood Brothers, 
Wivelsfield, Haywards Heath; to Aster Mrs. 
Frank Lean, from Mr. H. J. Jones, Lewis¬ 
ham; to Aster Beauty of Ecnsdiojif, from 
Messrs. Thos. S. Ware, Feltham; to Eose 
Moonlight, from Eev. J. H. Pemberton, 
Havering, Eomford; to Berberis aggregata, 
from Hon. Vicary Gibbs (gardener, Mr. E. 
Beckett), Aldenham House, Elstree; to Pri¬ 
mula vincaeflora, from Prof. I. Bayley Bal¬ 
four, Edinburgh Botanic Gardens, to Chry¬ 
santhemum Olive, from Messrs. W. Wells and 
Co., Merstham; to Carnation Salmon King, 
from Messrs. Stuart Low and Co., Enfield; 
to Laelio-cattleya Armada, from Sir George 
Holford (grower, Mr. H. Alexander), Wes- 
tonbirt, Gloucester; to Cattleya Cybele, 
Davidson’s var., from Air. E. H. Davidson, 
Twyford, Berks; to paeony dahlias Baroness 
von Brunswick and Mrs. J. C. Vaughan, 
from Messrs. Warnaar and Co., Sassen- 
heim, Holland; to dahlia Homere, from 
Messrs. Burrell and Co., Cambridge; to 
dahlia Dorothy Hawes, from Messrs, J. 
Stredwick and Son, St. Leonards; to dahlia 
Eupert, from Mr. H. Shoestaith, Woking; 
to dahlia Eeginald Cory, from Messrs. J. 
Cheal and Sons, Crawley; and to dahlia 
Euby, from Messrs. J. Cheal and Sons. The 
awards- to dahlias were made by a joint com¬ 
mittee of the E.H.S. Floral Committee and 
the National Dahlia Society. 
MEDALS. 
Gold.—Messrs. Sutton and Sons, Eeading, 
for vegetables. 
Silver Flora.—^To Messrs. Bobbie and Co., 
Edinburgh,- for collarette dahlias; Messrs. 
Charlesworth and Co., Haywards Heath, for 
orchids; to Messrs. Armstrong and Brown, 
Tunbridge Wells, for orchids; to Messrs. 
Sander and Sons, St. Albans, for orchids; to 
H. S. Goodson, Esq., Putney, for orchids. 
Silver- Knightian.—To Messrs. Dickson 
and Robinson, Manchester, for onions; to 
Mr. Cradduck, gardener to Col. Lockwood, 
M.P., Bishop’s Hall, Eomford (with Cultural 
Commendation), for collection of aubergines. 
Silver Banksian.—To the Church Army, 
Westminster, for vegetables; to Mr, T. 
Smith, gardener to the Marquis of Eipon, 
Coombe Court, Kingston, for apples; to 
Messrs. Hassall and Co., Southgate, for or¬ 
chids ; to Messrs. J. Cypher and Sons, Chel¬ 
tenham, for orchids; to E, G. Thwaites, 
Esq., Streatham, for orchids; to Mr. E. 
Ballard, Colwall, for perennial asters; to 
Messrs. W. Wells and Co., Merstham, for 
phloxes and chrysanthemums. 
Bronze Flora.—^To Messrs. Stuart Low 
^nd Co., Enfield, for carnations; to Mr. 
J. B. Biding, Chingford, for dahlias; to 
Mr. W. Treseder, Cardiff, for dahlia bou¬ 
quets; to Wargrave Plant Farm, Lim., The 
Arcade, Liverpool Street, E.C., for Michael- 
m^ daisies; to Mr, Jas. Box, Lindfield, for 
liliums, etc. 
Bronze Knightian.^To J. H. Porter, Esq., 
Malden, Surrey, for apples. 
DAHLIA COMPETITION. 
The competition for the Cory Silver Onp, 
presented by Eegdnald Cory, Esq., Duffryn, 
Cardiff, was held, on this occasion, and the 
judiges were a committee composed of mem¬ 
bers of the E.H.S. Floral Committee and the 
National Dahlia Society. 
The cup, valued at 75 guineas, was worth 
lowing for, and brought no fewer than 
eleven entries. The specification read.;- “A 
group of decorative garden dahlias of all or 
any sections; 25ft. run of 3ft. tabling, not 
to be built up more than Sft. in height from 
the ground level.” - , 
The judges had no light task, and even¬ 
tually they awarded the cup for the ensuing 
year to Messrs. Carter Page and Co., London 
Wall, whose bold and brilliant exhibit of 
single, collarette, ponupon, cactus, paeony- 
flowered, and decorative w^as very attractive. 
The firm made no special effort to secure an 
imposing or startling effect, but massed their 
flowers in stands and vases, and had just 
sufficient light colouring to emphasise the 
gorgeous hues. Such cactus varieties as 
Amos Perry, Mrs. D. Fleming, Arthur 
Pickard, Sweet Briar, and Johannesburg 
were capital, while Bayard as a single pseony- 
flowered. sort, and Delice as a decorative, 
were very striking, and Souv. de Chebanne, 
Diadem, Frogmore, and Princess Louise were 
the most notable collarette varieties. 
Messrs. J. Cheal and Sons, Crawley, were- 
placed second, and were awarded a Silver-igilt 
Flora Medal for effedtive groupings cf Love¬ 
liness, Mrs. F. Paton, Mrs. C. Foster, Prin¬ 
cess Juliana, Lustre, Mrs. Greville, and other 
good garden varieties, as well as representa¬ 
tives cf all sections of dahlias; thfls wias a 
very bright display that followed closely 
upon the fiTst-prize group. 
Other competitors were Messrs. Keynes, 
Williams, and Co., Salisbury, who put up 
some very handsome stands of cactus and 
decorative varieties in association with 
coloured foliage and grasses. Mr. Charles 
Turner, Slough, used tke large, white paeony- 
flowered variety Aphrodite, as a fine centre 
group to collarette, giant decorative, and 
pompon sorts in great variety. Messrs. Thos. 
S. W are, Lim., Feltham, depended upon well- 
arranged stands of collarette and Parisian 
dahlias for their principal effect. Mr. J, T. 
West, Brentwood, showed Brentwood Yellow, 
Futurity, Geiislia, and Mabel, all splendid 
varieties in fine form (Silver Banksian 
Medal). 
Messrs. Hobbies, Lim., De reham, gained a 
Silver^gilt Banksiia-n Medal for a very effec¬ 
tive group that was a trifle cirowded, if any 
fault could be found; paeony-flowered varie¬ 
ties were placed at the back, then came cac¬ 
tus sorts, with collarette varieties rising 
from singles, pompons, etc., in the fore¬ 
ground. Messrs. M. V. Seale, Sevenoaks, 
put up very large stands of good cactus 
dahlias as a background to rather low vases 
cf pompon, pompon cactus, and collarette 
varieties, shown just as out. 
Messrs. Wm. Treseder, Lim., Cardiff, had 
a very lightly-larranged display, and their 
central display of show dahlias was a capital 
idea. Mr. J.'^Emberson, W^althamstow, had 
a comer exhibit, and presented cactus, 
paeo-ny-flowered, and collarette dahlias in fine 
form, and staged' them most effectively. 
AMATEURS. 
In the amateurs’ class the Rev. Arthur 
Bridge (gardener, Mr. C. Daisley), Worth 
Rectory, Sussex, won the silver cup offered 
for a collection of decorative garditfn 
dahlias, displayed on a space 12ft. by 
aft.; this competitor had a fine back¬ 
ground of cactus dahlias arranged with 
foliage and grasses, and did well wdth such 
cactus varieties as Snowden, Mary Perrier, 
Mrs. Lonsdale, Sweet Briar, and Arthur 
Pickard, and used pompons, single, and col¬ 
larette varieties in the foreground. Sir 
Randolf Baker, Bart, (gardener, Mr. A. E. 
Usher), Eanston, Blandford, was awarded a 
Silver Banksdan Medal for handsome gronp- 
ings of cactus and collarettes, with a few 
paecny-flowered varieties in rather low vases; 
a similar award fell to Mr. J. S. Kelly, 
gardener to the Duchess cf Albany, Clare¬ 
mont, Esher, for an exhibit in which the 
green foliage of dahlias seemed a little too 
obtrusive, but the stems and flowers were all 
staged as cut, without any dressing qr trim¬ 
ming. ' 
YEGETABLE SHOW. 
There was a fair amount of competition 
for the prizes offered for vegetables at the 
Royal Horticultural Society’s Exhibition on 
Se^eraber 23. • The quality throughout was 
of a vory high order, and sreat taste 
shown in the display of collections \oL 
wit^tanding the note placed on theiihitu 
in Class 2 by the council, no one mmii 
able to fully understand whv the collectiv 
were disqualified, seeing that similar n- 
hibits in a similar class have in previcti. 
years been admitted and granted priae* ac 
cording to merit. If a different standard of 
judging was to be employed on this occawo- 
as it evidently was, it seems only just thit 
due notice should have been givm. 
There were five entries for the premia 
collection of twelve kinds, distinct, all cf 
which were splen<Bdly grown. The first pri» 
was awarded Mr. E. Beckett, gardener to tho 
Hon. Yicary Gibbs, Aldenham Hou*. 
Elstree, who staged splendid example 'jf 
celery Superb Pink, cauliflower Early Giant, 
leek Prizeltaker, superb examples of Aihi 
Craig onions. Tender and True parsnips, iritk 
Superlative potatoes. The entire exhibit 
was well displayed in a bed of parsley. Thf 
second prize was awarded to the redoubtihii 
amateur exhibitor Mr. Thos. Jones, Ruaboi, 
who had fine, well-ripened bulbs of oniea 
Ailsa Craig, parsnip Marrowfat, runner beu 
Exhibition, leek Colossal, and British Qoni 
potatoes; while the third prize was awarded 
to Mr. F. J. Barrett, Overton, Ellesmere, for 
a very creditable exhibit; Mr. H. Keep. 
Aldermaston, Reading, wus third. 
There ware two entrants for nine distinct 
kinds, the object of the class being to iUif- 
trate vegetables in daily use, and possess the 
qualities most valued by cooks for table w. 
But, strange to relate, the judiges did rot ^ 
gard splendid examples of vegetables saw¬ 
able for the cooks, so both Mr. E. R. Jaa^ 
gardener to Lord North, Wroxton Abbey, aid 
Mr. G. Ellwocd, gardener to W. H. Myers. 
Esq., Bishop’s WalUiam, had*to be cortent 
with a typewritten explanation of ww 
failure to comply with the 
The type-written notice on each of 
hibits read as'follows. - The judges consi^r 
that the vegetables shown in class 2 do 
strictly comply with the conditions set fort 
in the schedule for this particular . . 
magnificence of the products ^ 
of view of the art of cultivation is unq^ 
tioned, but the items do not 
sess the essential qualities jj. 
the cook, with the exception 
flower and tomato.” These have ta P 
in previous years under similar 
The competition for six kinds, 
was most keen, there Iniitt- 
The first prize was award^ Mr ^ 
gardener to Mr. Brodie Hendemn-^ 
Berkhampstead, who staged G ^ 
celery, Mont Blanc nea • 
York tomatoes, and the 
fine condition. Mr. J. L Shiv«^ 
Mr. F. Bibby, Hardwic^ f^erv, 
burv, was second; and G**' 
deri; to the Right Hon T. F Hal^.v. ^ 
denden Place, Hemel Hempstea , 
For a collection of 
potatoes there were but tw 
A. Basile, gardener to 
Woburn Park, Weybridge, , j bowejjj; 
with a fine level 
only contained one 
best dishes were GonquesL /yjjjeitain- ^ 
of Cornwall, Mr. Tardene^ 
Goldfinder. Mr. A. G. Gentle, ^ 
Mrs. Denison, Berkhampstead, ^ 
second, but lacking Windsor 
dishes were The 
King Edward, and Bong 
varieties, distinct, Mr. ^ ;pith ^ 
Ashford, Kent, was well ahean ^ 
dishes of Empress, P L Fact^- ^ 
George Y., Chapman, and I a ^ 
F. L. Pike, Srardener to Mr. ^ was^ec^ 
son. Serge Hill, King^s rear^ 
and Mr. J. Taylor 
larger tubers, though they w 
green through exposure. aistinct-^ 
For six varieties of onions, u ^ 
were four contest^ts, the garde^^ 
awarded to Mr. H- 
Mrs. Jenner, Wenvoe Castle, 
