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JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER, 
IMay  28,  1903. 
Societies. 
Temple  Flower  Show. 
No  finer  exhibition  has  been  held  in  the  Inner  Temple 
Gardens  by  the  Royal  Horticnitural  Society  than  that  arranged 
there  during  Tuesday,  Wednesday,  and  Thursday  of  the  present 
week.  The  same  tents  were  in  the  same  places,  and  the  same 
exhibitors  occupied  in  the  main  their  wonted  stands :  but  where 
novelties  are  numerous,  or  the  exhibits  are  of  such  superlative 
all-round  excellence,  the  intense  interest  which  they  draw  forth 
quite  precludes  the  impression  of  the  monotony  that  some  might 
imagine  to  prevail. 
A  rapid  survey  of  the  show  serves  to  illustrate  the  magnifi¬ 
cent  variety  which  garden  lovers  possess  in  these  present  days 
of  grace.  Roses  of  the  purest  beauty  are  brought  forward  by 
Messrs.  Wm.  Paul  and  Son.  Waltham  Cross;  Charles  Turner, 
Paul  and  Son,  Cheshunt ;  B.  R.  Cant  and  Sons,  F.  Cant  and  Co., 
and  Geo.  Mount.  Orchids,  of  course,  were  forward  in  their 
usual  great  splendour  and  rare  merits.  Messrs.  Gauntlett,  of 
Recli'uth,  hav'e  Rhododendrons.  Barr  and  Sons,  and  the  whole 
h.ost  of  hardy  plantsmen,  are  strong  in  alpine  and  herbaceous 
plants.  Dobbie  and  Co.  assort  Pansies  and  Violas.  W.  J. 
Godfrey  has  new  Papavers,  crosses  with  P.  orientale  and  others. 
Blackn'iore  and  Langdon  have  a  gorgeous  array  of  double  and 
single  tuberous  Begonias;  while  Messrs.  R.  and  G.  Cuthbert’s 
Azaleas  are  more  dazzlingly  brilliant  than  any  other  thing. 
Add  to  these  Richard  Smith’s  Clematis,  Cutbush’s  Carnations, 
Hill’s  Ferns,  Russell’s  Alocasias,  Balchin’s  Ericas,  Ac.,  Cannell’s 
Cannas,  H.  J.  Jones’  Sweet  Peas,  Veitch’s  stove  foliage  plants, 
and  their  splendid  choice  selection  of  forced  trees  and  shrubs 
and  greenhou.se  subjects,  together  with  their  novelties  in  tent 
No.  2,  which  we  detail  elsewhere  in  the  report  ;  and  after  this 
great  vmriety  consider  Peed’s  Gloxinias,  B.  S.  Williams’  Tulips, 
with  other  groups  of  this  passing  flower  from  R.  H.  Bath,  and 
Hogg  and  Robertson,  and  the  imagination  becomes  enchanted. 
Nor  were  these  by  any  means  all  the  special  features.  Messrs. 
Carter  and  Mes.srs.  Sutton  each  contributed  Calceolarias,  Cine¬ 
rarias,  and  other  popular  subjects;  J.  Backhouse  and  Soir  had 
a  neat  rockei’y  with  choice  subjects;  A.  J.  A.  Bruce  had  Sarra- 
cenias;  Hugh  Low  and  Co.  placed  up  a  well-grown  lot  of 
Schizanthus  ;  and  Messrs.  Bull  and  Sons  had  their  new  Wlrite 
Excelsior  Stock,  a  grand  acquisition.  Kelway’.s  Pteonies,  and 
Storrie  and  Storrie’s  Primrosas  and  Pol.yanthuses,  together  with 
sixty  varieties  of  Apples  from  Geo.  Bunyard  and  Co.,  and  fruited 
Peach  trees  in  pots  from  Rivmrs  and  Son,  surelj^  make  up  a 
representative,  choice,  v'ariedly  interesting,  and  beautiful  horti¬ 
cultural  exhibition.  Outside  the  various  tents  there  were 
arranged  numerous  groups  of  Japanese  Mairles,  and  the  choicer 
flowering  and  foliage  trees  and  shrubs. 
It  is  most  pleasant  to  be  able  to  record,  for  early  in  the  first 
da,v  at  least,  that  the  weather  was  ideal,  sunshine  and  breeze, 
the  grass  in  the  Temple  Gardens  soft  and  green,  the  trees 
gratefully  shady,  and  everything  comfortable.  The  arrange¬ 
ments  had  beerr  made  with  the  usual  orderliness  by  the  Rev.  W. 
Wilks,  M.A..  the  secretary,  and  Mr.  S.  T.  Wright,  the  garden 
superirrteirdent,  who  were  admirably  .secoirded  by  Mr.  Reader 
(the  courteous  cashier),  Mr.  Humplire.v's,  of  Chiswick,  and  other 
members  of  the  society’s  .staff  at  headquarters. 
Orchids. 
The  exhibition  of  choice  groups  of  Orchids  was  vvell  up  to 
the  usual  high  .stairdard  seen  at  Temple  Shows  of  the  Society. 
Messrs.  B.  S.  Williams  and  Son,  Upper  Holloway,  London,'  N., 
were  admii'ablj"  represented  by  minor  group.s  of  Cattleya  iMcssise, 
Laelia  Latona,  L.  purpurata,  Vanda  tricolor,  Oncidium  Mar- 
shallianum,  and  a  juagnificent  piece  of  C.ymbidium  Lowianum. 
Their  Thunias  and  Odontoglos.sum  crispunrs  were  very  good. 
Mr.  Richard  Ashworth,  Ashland, s  Hall,  New  Church,  Lanca¬ 
shire,  was  forward  with  grand  forms  of  Odontoglossum  crispum 
and  other  things.  His  O.  c.  Mai’jory  is  a  gem,  with  bright 
crimson  spots  on  a  white  ground.  O.  c.  Grand  Duchess  is  a 
bold  flower,  strong  and  well  built,  and  beautifully  marked;  and 
with  these  he  also  had  some  almost  pure  white  forms.  The 
novelties  were  all  well  flowered.  Messrs.  A.  J.  Keeling  and 
Sons,  from  the  Grange  Nurseries,  near  Bradford,  had  a  finely 
flowered  O. -crispum  Westgatense,  and  a  really  beautiful 
Lselio-Cattleya,  the  iraine  of  which  we  were  unable  to  read  from 
the  front  of  the  stage.  H.  Becke,  Esep,  13,  Beresford  Street, 
Jersey,  had  varieties  of  Lrelia  purpurata  :  Beckeri,  very  rich 
amaranth  lip,  and  shortened,  .strong  form;  and  Bellissima,  with 
bright  purple-mauve  lip,  a  fine  thing.  Mens.  Jules  Hye  de 
Crom,  117,  Compare,  Ghent,  had  a  magnificent  piece  of  Odouto- 
glossum  amcenum  (a  cross  with  Pescatorei  and  superbum) ;  also 
O.  ardentissimum  numosum,  fine  form  and  rich  red  blotching 
(A.M.).  Messrs.  Stanley,  Ashton,  and  Co.,  of  Southgate,  had 
Cattleya  Mossise  Wagneri  var.  King  Edward  VII. ^  with  broad 
wavy  white  petals,  and  finely  formed  lip,  vvdute,  with  a  dash  of 
1  ’inon  yellow  on  either  side. 
M.  Chas.  Maron,  Brunoy,  France,  bi’ought  Vanda  Marguerite 
Marou,  soft  and  sweet,  but  not  very  striking.  M.  L.  J.  Di'aps- 
Dom,  Laeken,  Bru.s.sels,  had  Vanda  tricolor  tenebrosa,  really  a 
handsome  subject,  with  huge  clustered  spikes,  each  flower  pos- 
ses.sing  a  rich,  bright,  rose-amaranth  Up  and  spotted  segments. 
Leopold  de  Rothschild,  Esq.  (grower,  Mr.  Geo.  Reynolds), 
Gunnersbury  Park,  Acton,  was  again  represented  by  his  famou.s 
Vanda  teres,  which  are  so  splendidly  cultivated  and  handsomely 
flowered. 
Sir  Frederick  Wigan,  Bart,  (grower,  Mr.  W.  H.  Young),  Clare 
Lawn,  East  Sheen,  had  put  forth  his  best  effoi't,  and  those  who 
watch  the  shows  will  know  what  this  fully  means.  He  staged  a 
very  large  complement  of  most  excellent  Orchids,  and  we  can 
only  name  the  newer  or  rarer  subjects.  The  sweet  little 
Phalaenop.sis  Luddemanniana  was  in  vigorous  health,  and  had 
four  flowers.  His  Zygc-ne.sia  Rolfeana,  Miltouia  vexillaria 
Alfred,  Lselio-Cattleya  Canhamiaua  Rex  (a  noble  bloom),  Odonto¬ 
glossum  Loochristiense,  and  Cattleya  Mendeli  delicata  were 
amongst  the  lesser  known  ;  wdiile  others  deserving  of  a  special 
reference  are  Aeridos  Fieldingi,  Orreidium  cucculatum,  Phalse- 
nopsis  Sanderiana,  Dendrobium  Beirsonise,  Odontoglossum  ar¬ 
dentissimum  Wigan’s  var.,  and  L.-c.  x  Major-Gen.  Baden  Powell 
(C.  Lawrenceana  x  L.  tenebrosa),  a  fine  light  purple  flower. 
Lastly  there  is  the  new  Cattleya  White!  magnifica  (C.  Schilleri- 
ana  x  C.  Warneri),  a  hybrid  remarkable  for  the  depth  and 
brilliance  of  its  purirle-crimsoii  colour.  It  secured  a  F.C.C. 
Jeremiah  Colman,  Esq.  (grower,  Mr.  W.  Bound),  Gatton 
Park,  Reigate,  in  his  group  had  Odontoglossum  crispum  Margery 
I'yrrell  Giles,  a  form  that  has  mauve  pink  segments  spotted  with 
crimson,  very  sweet  and  lovely ;  also  L.-c.  Sparkling  Gem,  a 
bright  mauve-pink  flower  with  much  deeper  lip  ;  his  Cypripedium 
niveuin  was  well  flowered,  and  Cattleya  intermedia  ooerulea,  with 
three  flowers,  was  very  distinctive.  The  lip  here  is  violet 
purple.  The  C.  Mossiaes  and  Mendelis  and  Miltonias  were  very 
fine  examples  of  culture.  Masdevallia  Harryana  Bull’s  Blood  is 
a  rich  and  fine  variety. 
J.  Rutherford,  Esq.,  M.P.  (grower,  Mr.  Lupton),  Beardwood, 
Blackburn,  set  together  a  gorgeous  bank  of  Cattleyas,  forms  of 
Mossia?  and  hybrids,  all  in  good  condition.  A  plant  of  Odonto¬ 
glossum  crispum  bore  ten  pure  white  flowers  on  one  raceme, 
these  being  large  and  finely  built. 
M.  FI.  Claes,  63,  Rue  des  Champs,  Brussels,  who  makes  a 
speciality  of  Odontoglossums,  was  represented  by  some  distinc¬ 
tive  forms  of  O.  crispum.  He  was  able  on  this  occasion  to 
stage  a  tea-yellow  variety,  but  which  he  did  not  distinguish  by 
a  name.  O.  Andersonianum  Dulce,  with  two  dozen  flowers,  had 
some  good  pseudo-bulbs,  and  there  were  other  unnamed  meri¬ 
torious  forms. 
Messrs.  Jas.  and  A.  A.  IMcBean,  Cooksbridge,  Sussex,  on  this 
occasion  made  a  speciality  of  Odontoglossum  enspum  in  its 
varieties,  with  some  other  leading  types.  Their  O.  c.  roseum, 
with  a  dense  spike  of  well-coloured  flowers,  was  of  interest.  O. 
Rolfa*,  0.  triumphans.  and  an  0.  crispum  var.,  for  which  tlrey 
received  an  A.M.,  were  each  admirable. 
A  vei\v  select  representation  of  many  of  the  popular  genera 
was  arranged  from  the  King’s  Road  nurseries  of  Messrs.  Bull 
and  Sons.  Their  plants  were  most  creditably  cultivated,  being 
vigorous,  clean,  and  healthy.  They  had  a  number  of  very  excel¬ 
lent  novelties,  chief  among  these  being  0.  crispum  Chelsoni, 
richly  barred  with  crimson,  and  likely  to  be  a  first-rate  thing 
when  well  grown.  Others  under  number  were  very  fine,  par¬ 
ticularly  a  yellow  crisiium  named  Primrose  Dame.  A  wdiito 
crispum  in  their  stand  with  a  crowd  of  flowers  was  unexcelled 
for  it.s  purity.  A  white  lipped  Cattleya  Mendeli  was  admired 
by  all  eyes.  The  group  was  indeed  an  excellent  one  in  all 
respects. 
From  Gateacre,  Liverpool,  Messrs.  Jno.  Cowan  and  Co., 
Ltd.,  brought  a  representative  group  of  the  best  .sorts.  Oypri- 
pedium  callosum  Sanderfe  and  C.  niveum  were  here,  and  a  very 
charming  pale  coloured  form  of  Cattleya  Mossise  was  admired. 
C.  Schilleriana  bore  well  ripened  bulbs,  and  had  flowered  freely. 
The  Miltonias,  Masdevallia  ignea,  and  Cymbidiums  were  repre¬ 
sented,  and  Odontoglossum  triumphans  latisepalum  was  worthy 
of  note,  and  also  a  finely  spotted  O.  crispum  under  a  bellglass. 
Strongly,  also,  was  the  Cheltenham  firm  of  Cypher  and  Sons 
representecl,  who  grouped  together  an  excellent  display. 
Cattleya  Mendeli  grandiflora  is  a  magnificent  flower,  having 
grace,  and  size,  and  colour  all  on  its  side.  Their  Cattleya 
Skinneri  was  seen  in  robust,  freely-flowered  pieces,  and  besides 
these  they  staged  good  pieces  of  hybrid  Phaiuseis,  Lselio-Cattleya 
Aphrodite,  and  Odontoglossums.  Special  notice  was  demanded 
in  the  case  of  Vanda  teres,  L.-c.  Hyeana,  Sophronitis  grandi¬ 
flora,  and  C.  citrina,  Miltonia  vexillaria,  Oncidium  Marsha'.li- 
anum,  Masdevallia,  Harryanum  Scarlet  King,  Lselia  purpurata, 
and  a  fine  set  of  Dendrobium  Bensonise.  This  group  was  un- 
doubtedh’  one  of  the  largest  in  the  exhibition. 
From  Messrs.  C'harlesworth  and  Co.,  Bradford,  Yorks,  there 
came  also  an  immein.se  selection  of  choice  Orchids.  Chiefly  to  )>o 
noted  were  their  Laelio-Cattleya  x  G.  S.  Ball,  a  most  showy 
piece,  bearing  nearly  fifty  flowers,  and  it  appeared  to  be  one 
)  plant,  in  a  large  jian.  Laelia  purpurata  Belinda  has  a  rich  open 
