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liyindsor,  November  8tl|. 
Qdite  the  best  of  the  ninth  annual  autumn  exhibitions  was  that  held 
on  the  date  named  in  the  Albert  Institute.  If  the  entries  continue  to 
increase  a  much  larger  site  will  be  required  in  the  near  future,  or  the 
prize  schedule  will  have  to  be  limited,  as  space  cannot  even  now  be 
found  to  do  justice  to  the  excellency  of  the  exhibits.  The  arrange¬ 
ments  were,  as  usual,  excellent  under  the  able  guidance  of  Mr.  Finch, 
the  hon.  secretary,  and  an  efficient  committee. 
Groups  of  Chrysanthemums  interspersed  with  foliage  plants  were 
the  feature  of  the  show.  A  challenge  cup,  along  with  a  good  cash 
prize,  was  the  chief  inducement.  Seven  competed,  and  as  all  were 
meritorious  the  display  was  most  satisfactory.  Mr.  W.  Cole,  gardener 
to  Mrs.  Poster,  Clewer  Manor,  Windsor,  gained  the  coveted  award  with 
an  exhibit  that  little  fault  could  be  found  with.  The  plants  were 
dwarf,  well  clothed  with  foliage,  carried  good  blooms,  and,  what  is  of 
equal  importance,  were  so  arranged  that  all  could  be  seen,  no  crowdinar 
being  perceptible.  Foliage  plants,  too,  were  judiciously  employed, 
making  it  a  meritorious  display.  Mr.  W.  Sheet,  gardener  to  Sir 
D.  Gooch,  Clewer  Park,  Windsor,  was  second.  Mr.  Lane,  gardener  to 
Miss  Burning  Smith,  King’s  Ride,  Ascot,  a  good  third.  Groups  of 
miscellaneous  plants  arranged  for  efftct  were  meritorious.  Mr. 
Thurlby,  gardener  to  R.  Buckworth,  Esq.,  was  the  most  successful. 
Orchids  were  capitally  displayed.  Mr.  Lane  and  Mr.  J.  Cowie, 
gardener  to  Sir  J.  Luoas,  Bart.,  followed  for  second  and  third  places 
with  meritorious  exhibits. 
Cut  blooms  were  provided  for  by  seventeen  classes,  and  as  the 
competition  was  good  in  most  cases  an  excellent  display  was  made. 
A  challenge  cup  with  the  first  cash  prize  was  offered  for  twenty-four 
distinct  varieties,  half  to  be  incurved  and  the  remainder  Japanese  ; 
strange  to  say  but  two  competed.  Mr.  Lane  secured  the  coveted  awaid 
with  full  solid  blooms  of  the  following — Japanese  :  Madame  Recurva, 
Mr.  A.  G.  Miller,  Le  Grand  Dragon,  Nellie  Pookett,  Beauty  of  Teign- 
mouth,  Anstralie,  Lady  Hanham,  Mutual  Friend,  Mrs.  Mease,  M.  Hoste, 
M.  Marius  Picard,  and  President  Nonin,  Incurved  •  Mrs.  N.  Molyneux, 
Princess  of  Wales,  Mrs.  Coleman,  Madame  Ferlat,  Mrs.  H.  J.  Jones, 
Lord  Alcester,  C.  H.  Curtis,  Bonnie  Dundee,  Mrs.  R.  C.  Kingston,  and 
Mont  Blanc.  Mr,  E.  J.  Wilmot,  gardener  to  Rev.  R.  C.  Radolvffe, 
second.  For  twenty-four  incurved  in  not  le?s  than  eighteen  varieties, 
there  were  five  competitors,  and  as  all  were  creditable  a  good  display 
was  made.  Mr.  A.  Sturt,  gardener  to  N.  L.  Cohen,  Esq,  was  an  easy 
first  with  grandly  developed  specimens  of  the  following  -Mrs.  H.  J. 
Jones,  C.  H.  Curtis,  extremely  fine;  George  Haigh,  Miss  D.  Foster, 
Golden  Gem,  Duchess  of  Fife,  Miss  V.  Foster,  Ma  Perfection,  good; 
Princess  of  Wales,  Queen  of  Et  gland,  Perle  Dauphinoise,  Lady  Isobel, 
W.  Tunniugton,  Hanwell  Gloiy,  Topaze  Orientale,  Mrs.  R.  C.  Kingston, 
Ernest  Cannell,  and  Empress  of  India.  Mr.  G.  Lane  second  with 
smaller  but  neat  blooms ;  Mr.  F.  J.  Paul,  gardener  to  Miss  Bowring,  a 
good  third. 
Mr.  Foskett  annexed  the  premier  award  somewhat  easily  for  twelve 
Japanese  with  an  even  stand  of  high-class  blooms ;  Mr.  J.  Gutteridge, 
gardener  to  Mrs.  Romaine,  second.  Mrs.  Mease  won  for  Mr.  Sturt  tlie 
premier  award  for  six  Japanese,  any  one  variety,  with  full  solid  blooms, 
Mr,  Lane  following  with  Nellie  Puckett;  Mr.  G.  Weeks,  gardener  to 
G.  Campbell  G  ffard.  Esq.,  third  with  small  but  good  specimens  of  Mrs. 
Mease,  For  six  any  one  variety  of  incurved  Mr.  Sturt  was  the  most 
successful  with  Ma  Perfection  in  faultless  condition,  Mr.  A.  Hanthun 
following  with  Lady  Isobel.  For  three  blooms  of  six  variedes,  to  be 
staged  in  vases  with  Chrysanthemum  foliage  only,  there  was  keen 
competition  and  a  pleasing  display.  Mr.  Sturt  annexed  the  leading 
award  with  full  solid  blooms  of  Phoebus,  Mr.  T.  Carring  on,  Madame 
Carnot,  Oceana,  Fair  Maid,  and  Mrs.  Mease ;  Mr.  Lane  second  ;  Mr.  A. 
Hanthon  third.  A  new  class  was  provided  for  Japanese  blooms  in 
eighteen  varieties,  distinct,  to  be  arranged  in  a  space  of  5  feet  by  3  feet 
with  foliage  plants,  to  illustrate  the  decorative  value  of  the  lar^ie 
blooms.  Five  competed,  making  a  satisfactory  display.  Mr.  Sturt  was 
once  more  successful  in  winning  the  leading  award  with  fud-sized  solid 
blooms  of  popular  varieties,  thinly  arranged  on  a  base  of  Ferns  with  a 
few  light  Crotons  for  relief ;  Mr.  W.  Cole  second.  The  last-named 
secured  the  leading  award  for  twelve  Anemone  blooms  with  full  centred 
examples  of  well-known  sorts. 
Amateurs  added  considerably  to  the  beauty  and  interest  of  the  show 
by  the  number  and  quality  of  their  exhibits.  Space  forbids  more  than 
a  mere  passing  notice.  Mr.  Young,  Windsor,  won  the  premier  award 
for  a  group  of  Chrysanthemums,  and  a  grand  display  it  was  in  every 
respect.  For  twelve  blooms,  any  varieties,  and  for  six  Japanese, 
Mr.  Young  also  secured  the  premier  place  with  distinctly  creditable 
examples.  Mr  A.  Sainty  and  Master  C.  G.  Colville  were  also  successful 
in  these  classes.  Mr.  Young  won  the  award  for  the  premier  bloom  in 
the  amateurs’  division  with  a  well  developed  specimens  of  Mrs.  Weeks, 
a  like  honour  falling  to  Mr.  Sturt  in  tlie  open  ola-sses  for  a  superb 
example  of  C.  H.  Curtis.  Double  Yiolets  in  pots.  Begonia  Gloire  do 
Lorraine,  Solauums,  fruit  and  vegetables,  were  all  thoroughly  well 
lepreseuted.  Mr.  Titt,  Windsor,  had  a  lemarkably  fine  display  of  floral 
designs,  consisting  of  wreaths,  &c.,  all  made  up  with  much  taste. 
Altriiicham,  Novembsr  9il(  and  10th, 
The  above  society  held  their  fifth  annual  show  in  the  Drill  Hall, 
Peel  Causeway.  In  the  six  staged  groups  the  first  p'^ize  was  awarded 
to  Mr.  Jonison,  gardener  to  Watson  Baxter,  Esq.,  Earlscliff,  Bowdon,  f  r 
a  group  consisting  of  most  perfect  blooms.  The  second  prize  exhioit 
was  a  close  one,  and  well  arranged,  of  Mr.  F.  Leah,  gardener  to  liam 
Thompson,  Esq.,  Brentwood,  Altrincham.  Mr.  J.  Holbrook,  gar.  ener 
to  Sir  W.  Pollitt,  Fernlea,  Bowdon,  came  in  a  capital  third ;  and  Mr. 
J .  Smi'h,  a  master  joiner  of  Moss  Cottage,  Bowdon,  an  admirable  fourth. 
Mr.  J.  Ashbrook,  gardener  to  W.  B.  Edmondson,  Esq.,  Brooklands,  won 
the  prize  for  a  decorative  group,  and  also  that  for  six  vases  out  of  an 
enormous  competition.  The  groups  were  of  the  finest,  and  no  one  could 
have  wished  for  anything  smarter  than  those  staged  by  Mr.  H.  Mottram, 
gardener  to  Messrs.  Inmans  &  Walmsley,  The  Priory,  Bowdon,  the  best 
varieties  being  Graphic,  Mons.  Louis  Remy,  Mrs.  J,  Lewis,  Gustave 
Henry,  Pride  of  Madford,  Lord  Ludlow,  Viviand  Morel,  Lady  Ridgway, 
Anstralie,  Chrysanthemiste  Bruant,  Madame  Perlat,  Charles  Curtis, 
Lady  Isobel,  John  Lambert,  Empress  of  India,  Ernest  Oannell,  Countess 
of  Warwick,  and  Globe  d’Or.  Mr.  S.  Yicars,  gardener  to  James  Lamb, 
Esq.,  Bowdon,  was  a  most  respectable  second. 
For  twelve  Japanese,  and  for  twelve  incurved,  Mr.  Mottram  was 
really  first-class,  and  would  have  held  his  own  against  all  comers. 
Messrs.  Clibran  &  Son  of  Altrincham  showed  beautiful  singles, 
Japanese  and  incurved,  Gloire  de  Lorraine  Begonia,  and  other  plants. 
An  admirable  stand  of  Mr.  Pockett’s  new  varieties  of  Chrysanthemums 
came  from  Mr.  Wells  of  Earlswood,  W.  R.  Church,  a  grand  broad- 
petalled  Japanese  of  the  richest  maroon  with  gold  margin,  and  Charles 
Longley,  a  deep  magenta,  receiving  certificates. 
Eccles,  November  9th  and  lOth, 
A  FAMILIAR  figure  has  been  removed  from  the  committee  of  this 
prosperous  society  by  the  death  of  Mr.  H.  Huber,  the  late  secretary,  to 
whose  genial  and  kindly  disposition  many  a  worthy  tribute  was  paid  by 
his  old  colleagues  on  Saturday  last,  at  the  fourteenth  annual  show, 
held  in  the  Town  Hall. 
To  speak  of  it  as  being  equal  to  former  occasions  would  be  wide  of 
the  mark,  for  the  many  Liverpool  growers  who  have  helped  to  make  the 
show  were  entirely  absent,  and  it  fell  to  the  lot  of  that  excellent  grower, 
Mr.  J.  Kirkman,  gardener  to  J.  Stanning,  Esq.,  Leyland,  to  win  outright 
the  valuable  silver  cup  presented  by  Mrs.  J.  F  Wilkinson,  and  the 
good  money  prize  also.  In  this  exhibit  the  darker  shades  of  Japanese 
were  almost  entirely  absent.  Graphic,  Mrs.  W.  H.  Lees,  R.  H.  Langton, 
Swanley  Giant,  Mrs.  Mease,  Mrs.  White  Popham,  Mrs.  Coombes, 
Midame  Gustave  Henry,  Charles  Davis,  Viviand  Morel,  J.  R.  Upton 
were  the  Japanese ;  and  the  incurved  Perle  Dauphinoise,  Lady  Isobel, 
TopHze  Orientale,  Madame  Ferlat,  H.  J.  Jones,  lalene,  Chrysanthemiste 
Biuant,  Major  Bonaffon,  Conntess  of  Warwick,  Globe  d’Or,  James 
Agate,  and  General  Symons.  In  the  class  for  twenty-four  miscellaneous 
Mr.  J.  R  berts,  gardener  to  Miss  A.  L'ghtbown,  came  first  with  a  very 
handsome  stand  of  Anemones.  In  the  best  bloom  class  for  N.C.S. 
certificate  Mr.  Kirkman  won  with  a  splendid  Viviand  Morel.  For 
twelve  cut  blooms,  incurved,  Mr.  S.  Ollier,  gardener  to  F.  Ashworth, 
Esq.,  Knutsford,  staged  most  creditably  ;  Lady  Isobel,  Madame  Ferlat, 
Queen  of  England,  and  Baron  Hirsch  were  excellent.  Mr.  A.  F.  Foden, 
gardener  to  A.  R.  Tnorp,  Esq.,  Newton-le-VVillows  staged  twelve  extra 
good  Japanese,  Eva  Knowles,  Mr.  Carrington,  Pride  of  Madford,  and 
Robert  Powell  being  of  the  finest  form  and  colour. 
A  new  introduction  was  the  class  for  eighteen  large  flowered  with 
their  own  foliage  in  six  varieties.  In  this  Mr.  G.  Weaver,  gardener  to 
R.  Gorton,  Esq.,  Eccles,  was  the  winner.  For  six  incurved  and  six 
Japanese  Mr.  J.  Wainwright,  gardener  to  A.  Cross,  Esq.,  Pendleton' 
de,erved  the  utmost  credit,  especislly  for  the  blooms — Madame 
Gustave  Henry,  Charles  Curtis,  Mrs.  White  Popham,  and  Lady  Isobel. 
Mr.  Wainwright  also  took  the  prize  in  the  classes  for  six  of  each.  In 
the  district  and  amateur  section,  Mr.  J.  Guilford,  Patricroft,  with 
blooms  arranged  in  vases  was  superior  to  the  exhibit  in  the  open  class, 
and  the  prize  was  a  really  smart  win.  A  very  handsome  silver 
challenge  cup,  presented  by  the  late  Henry  Lightbown,  Esq.,  J.P., 
Pendleton,  was  worthily  won  by  Mr.  J.  Atherton,  Swinton,  and  Mr. 
J.  B.  Wroe,  Patricroft,  won  yet  another  class  for  blooms  staged  in 
vases.  For  nine,  six,  and  six,  Mr.  T.  Mulloy,  gardmer  to  Thomas 
H  irker.  Esq.,  had  plants  that  would  have  been  invincible  in  any 
cumuetition,  and  he  also  had  the  distinction  of  winning  the  silver 
medal  of  the  N.C.S.  Mr,  Powell  won  with  three,  and  Mr.  G.  Weaver 
also  with  three  grand  Pompons. 
Slieffield,  Novemb^'r  9th  and  lOtlj. 
The  sixteenth  show  of  the  Sheffield  Chrysanthemum  Society  was 
held  in  the  Corn  Exchange,  and  it  is  not  saying  too  m  ich  when  it  is 
stated  that  it  has  never  been  equalled,  and  may  never  be  excelled.  The 
quality  of  the  cut  blooms,  and  the  arrangements  of  the  exhibits,  left 
ii  ithing  to  be  desired,  and  gained  the  highest  admiration  of  the  judges 
in  this  respect. 
In  the  cut  bloom  open  class,  twenty. four  incurved  and  twenty-four 
Japs,  nine  exhibitors  staged  full  boaids;  these  of  themselves  were  quite 
sufficient  to  make  a  good  exhibition.  In  the  twelve  also,  although  not 
quite  so  numerous,  the  blooms  again  showed  quality.  In  the  district 
