THE GARDENERS’ MAGAZINE. OCTOBEB 11. irjlj 
I^ROYDON CHRYSANTHEMUM 
SOCIETY’S 
TWENTY-SIXTH AUTUMN SHOW, 
CENTRAL BATHS HALL, SCARBROOK ROAD, 
WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY, Oct. 29 and 30. 
C’lhiallenge Cnpg and Priz-ee over £100. 
Emitries clo€c Oct. 23. Sohedulcs from the Secretary, 
F. OXTOBY, 
The Oo-ttaige, Coom'be Lodge, Ooombe Road. Croydon. 
H orticultural sho>v advertise¬ 
ments are inserted in tEie column at Six- 
p^oe per line, the minimum charge being Two Shil¬ 
lings and Sixpence. Offices. 148 end 149, Aldjenegate 
Street. London E.C. 
EXHIBITIONS AND 
MEETINGS, 
Royal Horticultural Society. 
The Clerk of the Weather has to he pri- 
marily thanked for the splendid exhibition 
held at the Royal Horticultural Hall, West¬ 
minster, on Tuesday, October 7. Had lie 
been in a bad temper and given frost and 
rain a few days previously the show would 
have been shorn of more than half its glory, 
because dahlias, and the great majority of 
the border flowers so finely displayed, would 
have been a dreary desolation. As though 
regretting his generosity, the weather man 
gave us a deluge of rain in the earlier 
part of the day, but followed this with sun. 
shine and warmth, consequently the attend¬ 
ance at the hall was large. Mr. S. T. 
Wright informed us that on no previous 
occasion has there been such a demand for 
space at the hall. 
Besides dahlias and Michaelmas daisies 
there were many groups of fruit, a good show 
of autumn.flowering orchids, carnations, 
late roses, and wonderful exhibits of bamboos 
and new Chinese trees and shrubs. Novelties 
were fairly numerous, and of considerable 
interest. 
TREES AND SHRUBS. 
Filling a large breadth all along the whole 
side of the hall was one of the most re¬ 
markable collections of new Chinese trees 
and shrubs ever exhibited. It was from 
the celebrated gardens at Aldenham House, 
Elstree, where the Hon. Vicary Gibbs and 
his able gardener, Mr. Edwin Beckett, 
V.M.H., do so many wonderful things. This 
fine collection of trees and shrubs, grown 
almost entirely in pots, consisted of six hun¬ 
dred species and varieties, many as yet un. 
named or determined. Every plant had 
been raised from seed at Aldenham, and 
seed sowing commenced in the autumn of 
1908. The seeds were collected and sent 
home by Mr. E. H. Wilson, whose work 
as a plant collector in China* is well known 
to our readers. 
A few of the plants exhibited, lik^e Ber- 
beris Wilsonae, for example, are sure to 
become popular and general favourites in 
our gardens, and there are others that will 
find a place in the larger gardens and plea¬ 
sure grounds of the country, but there are 
very many which, as at present known, 
have little claim to special notice, although 
of their value as park or woodland trees 
it is not possible to speak; years must elapse 
before the full value of Wilson’s finds can 
be estimated. Everyone is grateful, how¬ 
ever, to the Hon. Vicary Gibbs for culti¬ 
vating such an immense collection, and for 
the opportunity of seeing so many well- 
grown examples. 
In the gold medal group in question a 
few kinds that seemed to possess merit were 
the extraordinary broad-leaved willow, Salix 
magnifica; Ligustrum Pratti, small-leaved, 
and suggesting a free-growing cotoneaster; 
Clematis uncinata, with dark purplish-green 
trifoliate leaves; Liriodendron chinense, a 
new tulip tree; Ailanthus Vilmorinianus, a 
very graceful " Tree of Heaven ”; Paulow- 
nia tomentosa lanata (A.M.), with big pal¬ 
mate leaves; Liquidamber formosana mon- 
ticola, with dark purple-red leaves; Berberis 
subcanlialata, of neat and elegant growth; 
Berberis Sargenti, with large spines and 
autumn-tinted foliage; and an evergreen 
perpetual-flowering yellow jasmine. Sym. 
phoricarpus mollis, an American plant, 
crowded with large snow-white berries, also 
came from Aldenham, and gained, de¬ 
servedly, a F.C.C. 
Dahlias and cut sprays of trees and shrubs 
from Messrs. J. Cbeal and Sons, Crawley, 
proved interesting; ceanotliuses. Genista 
tinctoria. Amygdaliis communis purpurea, 
Choisya ternata, and Buddleia Veitcbianus 
were notably good things, while Dahlia 
Crawley Star attracted everyone by means 
of its bright pink and elegant flowers. 
Bamboos were most extensively exhi¬ 
bited by Messrs. James Veitcli and Sons. 
Chelsea; there were about forty species and 
varieties, and these were represented by 
large specimens, grouped with grass plumes, 
along the end of the hall. 
HARDY FLOWERS. 
Michaelmas daisies were well shown by 
Messrs. Cutbush and Son, Higbgate, and in¬ 
cluded huge bouquets of the small-flowered 
Silver Queen, Perfection, Novelty, Ringdove, 
Ideal, and Simplicity. With these were other 
varieties, notably Climax, Sirius, and Blue, 
beard, and small grouplets of perpetual car¬ 
nations, where the new cerise and heliotrope 
Airs. L. Fullerton was conspicuous. Alessrs. 
Barr and Sons, Covent Garden, showed early 
chrysanthemums in variety. Michaelmas 
daisies, montbretias, kniphofias in variety, 
the lovely pink Gladiolus Dawn, and some 
spikes of the yellow-flowered Groff’s hybrids. 
Air. G. W. Chantler, Cockmannings, Kent, 
filled a table in the fruit annexe with a 
selection of hardy autumn flowers and 
dahlias. Messrs. G. and A. Clark, Dover, in 
their group of hardy flowers, displayed the 
beautiful Helianthns sparsifolius, the white 
Delphinium Aloerheimi, and the graceful 
Cimicifuga simplex. Messrs. Gibson and Co., 
Bedale, put up Verbascum Caledonia in fine 
form, and a selection of Alichaelmas daisies 
and the light blue form of Lupinus poly- 
phyllus. Mr. A. L. Gwillim, Sidcup, was a 
small exhibitor of hardy flowers, and showed 
Campanula Burghalti and the useful Bol- 
tonia asteroides, bjit his chief display con¬ 
sisted of picked blooms of his fine strain of 
double and single tuberous begonias. 
Pot plants of various pretty little polyantha 
roses were grouped on the floor by Alessrs. 
Paul and Son, Cheshiint; Jessie, Katherine 
Zeimet, Madame N. Levavasseur, Queen of 
the Alusks, and Mrs. Cutbush were the lead¬ 
ing varieties; the same firm contributed 
sprays of interesting shrubs. 
Air. Ernest Ballard. The Court, Colwall. 
Hereford, presented new Michaelmas daisies 
in bulk; Ragtime, loosely single, bluish- 
lavender; Glory of Colwall, double, pale 
lavender-blue; Nancy Ballard, and Peggy 
Ballard, the latter double blue, were a few 
of the best sorts. 
Roses were capitally shown in large stands 
by Alessrs. B. R. Cant and Sons, Colchester; 
the popular Aladame Abel Chatenay, Frau 
Karl Druschki, George Dickson. La Tosca, 
Mrs. J. Laing, and Irish Elegance were very 
much in evidence. Messrs. G. Jackman and 
Son, Woking, submitted roses in variety, and 
put up a bank of Climax and other Alichael¬ 
mas daisies, chrysanthemums, Kniphofia 
corallina, helianthuses, etc. Mr. G. R'euthe, 
Keston, including Desfontainea spinosa, Ber- 
beridopsis corallina. Schizostylis- coccinea, 
red and white lapagerias, and Gentiana An. 
drewsi in his group of flowers. Messrs. Price 
and Fyfe, Grove Park, Lee, were exhibitors 
of hardy flowers. 
The Wargraye Plant Farm, Arcade, 
Liverpool Street, E.C.. put up a big bank 
of Michaelmas daisies and chrysanthemums, 
and among the former made special features 
of Thora, Bianca, Gaiety, Climax, Chastity, 
Proserpine, Damosel, and other good varie¬ 
ties. Messrs, W. Wells and Co., Merstham, 
made up a bright autumnal display of chry¬ 
santhemums, showing big blooms of Mrs. R. 
Lnxford, Queen Mary, and Airs. W. Hookey, 
and stands of smaller blooms of Joan Caster, 
Monarch, Harrie, Leslie, and the pink Nor¬ 
mandie. 
Mr. H. J. Jones, Ryecroft, Leiruk*. 
always shows well, and on this occa^on ^ 
a white paper ground for his sprat* 5 
Alichaelmas daisies Henry Adams Chmu 
Alicky Adams (of Climax type), silver 
and Royalty. Air. Jas. Box, Lindfield kad 
a splendid bank of autumn dowers, a’tnif 
crowded perhaps, but it contained a ^ 
selection of phloxes and Michaelmas 
with the blue Gladiolus Baron Hulot Lina 
tigrinum fl. pi., Cimicifuga simplex,’dtlp* . 
niums, and montbretias. Messrs.’ \Vh;V- 
legg and Page, Chislehurst, were large n- 
hibitors of Alichaelmas daisies, pentetemoi*. 
delphiniums, etc., and had a nice 
of the pretty Potentilla Aliss Willmott. aia 
rockwork plant. 
A rock garden exhibit from Messrs. Tbosp. 
son and Charman, Adam Street, .Vdelpk., 
contained a selection of encrusted saxifragr* 
Liatris pycnostachya, the dainty litle <Ui*T- 
like Lagenophora Forsteri, the equllj 
dainty w'bite-flowered Veronica Lyalli itii 
Primula megasaefolia. 
DAHLIAS. 
Dahlias were brilliantly exhibited U 
Messrs. Dobbie and Co., Edinburgh. Tta 
firm confined its attention to collarette tit f- 
ties, and in many instances set up frw 
fifty to a hundred blooms of a variety. Or- 
standing sorts were Frogmore, Eddydow, 
Lowestoft, clear yellow; Tuskar. cnms* 
and rose and white; Queen Anne; tVk, 
lavender; Princess Louise, aud the wlut* 
varieties Inchoolm and Purity. A ^ 
display for the time of year. Show dah.iw 
w’ere very finely shown by Mr. S. Mt>rtim<‘r 
Farnham, the blooms being of large 
full, and richly coloured, especially la tb# 
case of the varieties Esmond. Marjorie, Dr* 
fection, Wm. Pemberton, and . 
Mr. J. B. Riding, Chingford. subin; 
collarette dahlias again, and the atten 
paid them by the visitors was 
denee of the way these varieties «ttw‘ 
public. Varieties that met woth t > 
proval of the Floral Committee were 
Bechstadt (A.M.), scarlet, 
yellow disc florets, and n 
(A.M.), rich crimsou-scarlet with yll 
lar and fine stiff stem, very flue. 
had also a splendid Itit 
named OffenLch (A.M ) of 
sheen, slightly pointed ^ ^ A C 
stem. Thesie varieties also secured t Ik E ^ 
of the National Dahlia 
Cole, wJio has now the r 
put up a considerable variety o 
presenting most of the 
^ Paeonv flowered and cactus 
ciated with Michaelmas dai:*i^ 
gether, made a pretty exhibit f^m 
T. S. Ware, Lim.. 
display of dahlias was : jjjis trt 
Page ^ and Co., London f * po„. 
staged selections of ^and 
tiis, pseouy-flowered, ^iKse gor^ 
dahlias, and in the pory 
autumn flowers they ^ 
w'on at the previous meeting 
dahlias. . . group 
A particularly pleasing pariK^- ^ 
pssrs Pioers Bayswater a 
greatlv 
iilH 
Alessrs. Pipers, Bayswater 
manded attention, and ^as 
The sides <>f handsome 
towering stands of s'lch pakcr. 
flowered dahlias (jem. Tbe 
W. E. Whincrey. Codsall Oem^,, 
rior, Connie Humphreys, ji 
Forbes, King Leo^W, ^ put i» 
and the pink Mrs. R- a 
centre of the cM”«''^Xmn of 
round it, stood a j.hlia-s-'l"'*!? 
daisies and poeonyfo^.^^^rores ■-> 
little bit of novelty that p 
ing and attractive. Aue 
number of dwarfed Japan 
greenhouse 
P erpetual carnations ^re 
Allwood Brothers, ,i„ood, 2*)^ 
of Fairmount, Mary A1 were 
tress Supreme; '"‘h the« 
petual Malmaison '^a l A.- 
blush; and Es^uisito. oW 
