LIFE IN THE GARDEN

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIV, Issue 25, 22 June 1910, Page 38

LIFE IN THE GARDEN

Official Organ of the Rev/Zealand Z <sv/eet Pea Society and Auckland hi Horticultural Society. Zj|

By

Veronica.

All communications for “Veronica" should be addressed to “Graphic" Office, Auckland. Secretaries of Horticultural Societies are invited to send us short reports of thair proceedings, and also any items of interest to Horticulturists. Photographs of Flowers, Fruits or New Vegetables, or Garden Scenes, will be welcomed.

SHOW DATES. Schedules may be obtained on appliealion to tile secretaries. Rose and Carnation Club's Show, Wellington, at Town Hall, November 10. National Sweet Pea Society of New Zealand, Palmerston North, December. E. A. Osmond, Secretary, Stratford. Auckland Sweet Pea and Carnation Show, Choral Hall, December 1 and 2. W. \V. Bruce, Secretary. jt jx SEEDS TO SOW THIS MONTH. Vegetable. — Broad Beans, Early Peas, Saladings, Early Carrot, White Turnip, Onions. Flower.— Nemesia, Schizanthus. Sweet Peas. Bulbs. — Flowering bulbs and tubers, Narcissus, Hyacinths, Ixias, Sparaxis, Iris, ete. Plant Out — Potato Onions, Eschallots. Garlic, Rhubarb. GARDEN WORK IN BRIEF. Take up Dahlias, label carefully and store in dry, airy place. Plant out Strawberries in clean land, the rows should be 2ft apart and the plants nine inches. Plant out Cabbage and Cauliflower; see that plants are strong and hardy. Plant Broad Beans. These should not be set too thickly, 3 to 4 inches between each bean, and rows 2ft apart will give ample room. Dig or trench all vacant ground intended for cropping; it is better left rough until ready to sow seeds or put out plants. Sprout potatoes in boxes in readiness for early planting; get strong thick buds, and discard all “stringy eyes. ’ Sow Lettuce and Cauliflower in boxes or frames or in a dry sheltered spot. Attend to growing crops by stirring the soil whenever dry and keep down weeds. Look out for Slugs and Snails, and use snell lime or ‘ Rough on Slugs’’ freely, and frequently. Sow Sweet Peas in pots, boxes, pans or frames, using loam and sand in about equal proportions; don’t use any manure. lied lead all seeds sown outside to protect from birds.

Herbaceous Borders can be rearranged where required, and the plants or roots subdivided and replanted. Attend to Carnation beds; keep clean and dress with soot and lime, and keep the beds as dry as possible. Regulate and prune hardy trees and shrubs where necessary.

Roses: Where fresh planting is to be undertaken, the beds or borders should lie got ready at once; dig deep or trench the soil.

Attend to Lawns and Edgings. Lawns are improved by frequent rollings when sullieiently dry. Edgings may be trimmed and put in order. Keep Garden Tools in good order; spade bright and sharp, an oil rag should be kept handy for rubbing the spade after using: shears, secateurs, pruning hooks and knives should all be kept in good order, when work will be much more pleasant anil also better done.

Growing Geraniums from Seed. Geraniums are not considered cd much value in the North. These plants being so easily grown, have been in many cases relegated to some out of the way corner, or made to do duty for shelter. There are few plants, however, which give so much flower for so little at ten tion, and now that the plant has been through the hands of the skilled hybrid ist, it is surprising how large and varied the flowers have been bred to. One seldom sees in our colonial gardens the old bronze and tricolour leaved sorts so much prized in the Homeland, yet we feel sure they would Bnake splendid bedding subjects here. Our object, however, in writing is to call the attention of amateurs to the fact that geraniums

can be grown without much trouble from seed, 'rhe only difficulty is to procure seed of the best new sorts. We have seen some very good varieties raised in Auckland from seed. Single, double, and semi'doubles of most beatuiful shades can be procured from seed, and the treatment is very simple. Sow during April or August in pots of finely sifted loam and sand, of about equal parts; place the pan in a frame or greenhouse, covered with a pane of glass; keep fairly moist, and when the seedlings appear, remove? the glass. When the seed-

lings have made their second pair ot leaves, pot oil in small pots. We have found potting the best plan, singling out into boxes often cause loss through the young plants damping off. Pelargoniums can be raised in precisely the same manner as geraniums.

Thunbergia Fragrans Var. Laevis. The twining Thunbergia is a very freeflowering plant, and in a warm greenhouse it will blossom practically through the whole year. The growths, being slender and twining, are suitable for training round the smaller pillars in a greenhouse, or they may be trained to small wire balloons or even to a tripod formed of three stakes. In the Begonia house at Kew, where the spray of blooms shown in our illustration was photographed. several plants are arranged on the front of the stage and trained up wiles to the roof. The pure white flowers are 2 inches across: they are freely produced from the leaf-axils. Unlike the species, the variety laevis is not fragrant. Plants are readily propagated from seeds, which are freely produced, and also from cuttings inserted in spring. For repotting the plants a compost of fibrous loam, leaf-mould, and coarse sand is suitable. Thunbergia fragrans is a native of the East Indies, where it grows in hedges and bushes on the banks of streams. It is especially plentiful on bushes along the water courses in districts of the Coromandel eoast. SWEET PEAS- I EOVE THEM." We have been permitted to make a few extracts from an interesting letter received by a Swet Pea grower in Anek land. The writer, a resident in the Wellington province, says: “I have been up to my eye-brows lately getting my peas out for the Auckland show in December. I shall also exhibit at the New Zealand show, to be held at Palmerston North, and the Wellington show. For the Auckland show I shall compete in the waved section; also in the 3-6, 12-18, amt 24 vases; so you see I shall have my hands full. I am looking forward to meeting the Auckland growers. Our bowling club asked me to take a team tc the Auckland meeting in January next; 1 told them I could not do it as I was going to the Sweet Pea show, and do yon

know, I am an enthusiastic bowler. It must, however, take second place to peas. I love them—they are a part of my being every day of the year. 1 honour and pay it tribute. Earl Spencer seed is now selling in England at from 2/6 to 3/ a seed; it has a greater run than any yet offered previous to Zephyr, which held the highest price. Last year it was sold at 2/6 a seed, but the de

mand was only limited. I received two packets of that variety which cost me 5/, and only four seeds came true. 1 hope I shall be able to get my blooms through to Auckland all right; I believe wet wadding wrapped round the stems and water-proof paper outside will help them; shall be glad to learn of any better way of sending them. 1 sent 50 varieties to Melbourne last year and they arrived in very good condition, but they were placed in water. I want to push along the New Zealand show; it must not be allowed to drop. This show must be boomed. I am depending on Maori Belle for my lavendar this year; it is superior to Asia Onn. Maori Belle was raised by Mr. Trevethick, of Wellington. What a time we will have next year; it will be shows every week. I don’t look upon this as letter writing, but just a little chat about our lovely flower. I gave an exhibit and a lecture on Sweet Peas last year; the people were so taken up with the blooms tnat the.

evening was passing rapidly. The president came to me and said: ‘How long will it take yon to talk about Sweet Peas?’ 1 replied: ‘I eould talk for two months, and then feel fresh.’ At a recent show in this district I had an exhibit on two tables each more than 100 feet long, and I was delighted with the result. You see, I not only put my work 1 also put my soul into it. Have you read Dean Hole on roses? He says: ‘lf you want roses in your garden you must have roses in your heart’—that’s me. Several other growers in the North Island, south of Auckland, will compete at the Auckland show, including Mr. Fox, of Wellington. I often send notes to ‘The Gardener,’ in London, but if other growers get up a controversy in the ‘Graphic’ 1 shall be there with both feet. The thought has just come to me that Mr. Plummer is a stranger, and I have let myself go like this, but I smile and console myself when I remember he is a Sweet Pea grower.” Some New Cactus Dahlias. To those of our readers who take an interest in dahlias and their cultivation it is well known that Messrs James Stredwiek and Son, Silverhill Park, St. Leonards-on-Sea, have occupied a prominent position among raisers and cultivators of these flowers. It is also a matter of common knowledge that they have been especially successful in their efforts to improve the cactus dahlia, and as the result of their persistent endeavours have enriched our garden with a large number of varieties of an especially high order of merit. The number of varieties of their raising that have received distinction from the Royal Horticultural Society, the National Dahlia Society, and other bodies is very large, and the popularity enjoyed by the most noteworthy is indicated by the free use that is made of them by growers for exhibition in making up their Collections for competitive purposes. Their new varieties belonging to the cactus section are each season anticipated with much interest. The varieties that are being dis-

tnbuted from Silverhill Park this season are all marked advances upon the cactus varieties in the same lines of colour. Red Admiral is a remarkably line var-

iety with large, finely-formed bloums ot a rich scarlet hue. The size and form of the blooms is well shown in the accompa living illustration, and with the

aid of this it is not difficult to under* stand that the National Dahlia Society should have awarded it a first-class certificate an<l the Royal Horticultural Society should have made an award of merit in its favour. Messrs. St red wick offer a set of four cactus varieties for garden decoration. These are Erecta. Lightship. Penguin, and The Lion, and they appear to l>e especially deserving of attention from the general body of cultivators. —“G a rdeners’ Maga z i ne. ” MIDLAND DAFFODIL SOCIETY. The annual exhibition of the Midland Daffodil Society, considered by many the premier society in England, was held at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens on the 28-th and 29th April. The show was acknowledged by all present to be the best ever held, both in quality and quantity. Amateurs and experts alike agreed that 'the present exhibition was particularly prolific in new and interesting varieties. The Birmingham “Daily Post.” describing the show, says:— In their first prize exhibit in Group “A,” Messrs. Cartwright and Goodwin stage two new specimens of poeticus daffodils, which they have named “Oliver Goldsmith” and “Childc Harold’’; a large, white trumpeted “Ailsa” —one of the purest white trumpets in existence and several noteworthy Triandrus hybrids. In the trumpet classes some exceptionally line blooms are seen, particularly “Van Waveren’s Giant,” which has a deep yellow trumpet with a paler yellow perianth four and three-quarter inches in diameter. Among the short trumpets are “Mrs. William Miles” and “Giraffe,” each having a pale yellow perianth with a deeper yellow cup. Prominent among the small cups is “Ethelbert” and “Dorothy,” the latter raised at King’s Norton. It has a very brilliant deep yellow cup. Mr. F. If. Chapman’s display in the poeticus group contains some very beautiful blooms; and of the fiat cups the most outstanding is “Arnie-

line,” which has a large ivory white perianth with a cup of deep orange. The exhibition was opened by the Lady Mayoress, a great lover of flowers, and specially interested in Daffodils. The Lord Mayor (Alderman Bowater) followed with a few remarks, and referred to what the city had done in the way of floriculture. He pointed out that there were nearly half a million bulbs in the various parks, and of these about 180,000 were different kinds of narcissi; and for 50,000 of these they were indebted to Mr. Robert Sydenham. (Applause.) In Birmingham they had about 650 acres of parks and open spaces, and through the generosity of bulb growers even their smallest recreation ground was now lieautiful with spring flowers. They spent £25,000 a year on their parks, and the parks cost the city—exclusive of those which were presented to them—£l72,ooo, so that they might claim to spend a fair amount in flowers and gardening. Messrs. Cartright and Goodwin secured first prize for a collection of 50 varieties, also for long trumpet varieties, and for short and trumpet flat cups. The Rev. J. Jacob won the prize for large-cupped varieties and bunch-flowered (polyanthus). 'Mr. 11. F. Chapman won for true poeticus. For seedlings and new varieties, the Bourne Challenge Cup and gold medal for group of 12 distinct varieties, raised by exhibitor, was won by Mr. E. M. Cro-field, Mr. F. 11. Chapman being second. The same gentleman also secured the Cartright Challenge fup and piece of plate for 12 distinct varieties that had not been in commerce more than four years. Awards of merit were taken by F. 11. Chapman for “Kingsley,” a very tine poeticus; Mr. E. M. Crosfield, who showed “Anchorite,” which has a large white perianth and a large eye tinged with green; “Challenge,” having a large white perianth and brilliant scarlet cup; and “Firetail,” with a brilliant red cup; Messrs. Cartwright and Goodwin for “White Star,” a flower, with an ivory perianth with a deeper coloured eye and a bright green tube; and Barr and Sons for “Snow King.” 3J inches in diameter, a poeticus with bright orange eye heavily edged with crimson. At the Grand (Hotel Mr. Robert Sydenham entertained to dinner the principal exhibitors, the judges and a number of visitors. After the toasts were completed, the Rev. G. 11. Engleheart gave a short address dealing with the show'. It was two years since he was there last, he said: and what he had seen that day was a full two years’ advance on what he saw on the last occasion. There was a greater discrimination in what was shown, a greater knowledge of what constituted a flower fit to put on a stage, and there was a great advance in the quality of the flowers themselves. As to the future development of the daffodil, Air. Engleheart said he thought if they had not reached the possible limit of size, they had

A. A branch of Erica: a. shoots which have flowered. and are not suitable for rutting; h.. soft upper shoot, not suitable*: c. short side shoots, suitable*. Tin* cuttings may he* taken about I inch long whe*n the* wood is a little* firm at tin* base*. B. cutting pre* parrel: el. cut under a point; e. leaves removed; f. depth of insertion. E. section of cutting pot: I. drainage; in. rough! soil; n. samly prat; <». sand: p. space for water; ep bell-glass. F. young plant potted: r. drainage; s. moss: t. sanely peat; u. spare* for water: v. point of steepping if side* shoots do not form naturally. reached the desirable limit. (Hear, hear.) Then, he thought, they had got into somewhat of a rut as to what was considered beauty of form. He thought there was a larger future than they had been making for in the long petalled, ami the star-petalled flower. Referring to the question of colour, the speaker

said lie thought by not keeping “off coloured’’ Howers when they had been trying for pure whites or strong yellows, they had, perhaps, missed what a more discriminating public would seize upon, and which would enable them to give a larger range to the series of things they put upon their stages. An interesting discussion followed. J* How to Propagate Ericas (Heaths). Ericas are such splendid subjects for the garden, supplying as they do exquisite blooms for cutting, that no garden of any size can be complete without a few. Some amateurs say they find the plants hard to cultivate, and we believe that many amateurs kill their plants through kindness. We have no dittieulty in growing the majority of ericas, and have them flowering most profusely. Our mode of treating these plants is to plant on dry situation without any manure of any sort, and plant firmly, in fact, ram the soil round the roots; and then leave them alone. These plants resent cultivation, and where the ground is being continually stirred around the roots, many of the varieties are very short lived, but we have proved (hat they can be well grown by following the plan we have described. Some varieties of erica are splendid pot subjects, and are extensively used in the Old Land in this x>ay for winter decorations. We recommend for pot culture. Ilyemalis. Wilmorcana, Autumnalis and Cavendishii. All the ericas are hardy, and can be grown in the open. Some of our readers are interested in the mode of propagating these plants, and we give an illustration showing tin* plan usually followed. Ericas may be grown from seed, which is very minute. It should be sown soon after being gathered on live sphagnum moss or peat, and the greatest care must be taken not to allow the pot to dry out. The Epacris is a member of a closely

allied species to the Erica, and requires practically the same treatment. The cuttings root very slowly, and bottom heat is desirable. Winter Pruning the Gooseberry. Select a good position in the garden for this fruit, and avoid placing it where if is too hot and likely to be dry. There is little or nothing which is new to say about the pruning of the Gooseberry. The tree is most accommodating and long suffering, scarcely ever failing to bear fruit whichever system, or no system, is adopted. Still, experience has

proved, even ill the ease of the gooseberry, that its fruitfulness and the quality of its fruit may be improved by properly directed pruning. For the benefit of the more inexperienced of your readers, I will endeavour briefly to describe the system mostly in vogue with our best growers. Starting with the cutting, this should have been placed in the ground in the autumn, but it is not too late now. Select a straight, elean shoot of last year’s growth. Cut it straight across the bottom with a sharp knife, rub all the buds away from its base to the height of 10 inches; open a trench 5 inches deep, and put 1 inch of sand or road grit at the bottom, lay the cuttings in this, and bury four inches deep in soil, pressing the soil to them as firmly as possible. The cuttings should be 4 inches apart in the row, and the rows (if there are more than one) should be 12 inches apart, to allow of hoeing and cleaning amongst the plants in summer. Having denuded the cutting of buds to a height of 10 inches from its base, as above-mentioned, there will remain 0 inches of the denuded part above the ground after the cutting has been inserted. This will give our future tree a clear stem of 0 inches above the ground, always a desideratum in a gooseberry bush, as then the branches and the berries do not get besmirched by the soil in wet weather. (This is a point worth bearing in mind when buying young gooseberry trees.) The cutting beyond the denuded part should have three buds left on. Select a shady, cool position in the garden in which to insert the cuttings. We will now suppose that a year has elapsed, and the cuttings are young trees, each having three shoots. They should now be removed to another part of the garden, still a cool one, and planted 18 inches apart, pruning each of the three young branches back to within 0 inches of its base. From each of these cut back shoots select other two shoots to grow during the summer their full length. Probably other shoots may start. These should lie stopped with the finger and the thumb at the fourth leaf; with the object of compelling them to form fruit spurs instead of branches. In pruning these one year old trees, and in the subsequent pruning of older ones, care should be taken to prune always to a bud on the outside of the branch, and never on the inside; by this means the bush is forced to form side 'branches inclining outwards, compelling the tree to spread out laterally, leaving the centre more or less open, in the form of a saucer. We now come to the second year in the life of the tree, and this is the age the trees are generally sold out from a nursery and, I think, the best' age for satisfactory planting in permanent plantations in field or garden. The pruning now to adopt will be a repetition of that of the past winter, namely, shortening back the three shoots of last year’s growth to within 8 inches of the base, and selecting in spring two fresh shoots from each of the cut-back ones to grow their full length during the summer,

pinching back as advised before any other shoots which may start. The third year will be practically the same when the

feMbM, •• • nde wiU be furnished with their full complement of permanent branches. Those intending to grow gooseberries for exhibition, or merely for size and appearance, must adopt the system which may be termed the thinning out of the branch process, depending for the crop on the full length shoots of last year’s growth, slightly shortened by cutting 3 or 4 inches off the top. Those shoots will result from partly cutback shoots of the previous year. THE NATIONAL SWEET PEA . WHAT ARE THEY DOING? (By MR. C. TREVETHICK, Lower Hutt.) I was very pleased and gratified when I received the advance schedule of the Auckland Sweet Pea Show, and it is a step in the right direction. It gives intending exhibitors a good idea what to BOW, and the number of plants of each kind they want, and there is no specula-, •tion whatever about it. How different is the National managing their affairs! ■■ I have written several letters about the advance schedule, but I can get no satisfaction whatever. I wanted to know, so that 1 could sow accordingly; and I left my sowing as late as I could, hoping I could get the information desired. 1 have now sown, and I am mostly depending on my novelties for the great fight at Palmerston. There is no need for the secretary to send this information to individuals; I am sure your journal would be pleased to publish anything that might be useful to growers. -I understand that the “Graphic’' was made the official organ for the National at the. initiatory meeting held at Stratford last year, and your readers are naturally waiting and anxious for information. 1 don’t think it will do any harm if they shake themselves up a little. As the society is only just formed it depends so much on the results of the first show, and some life and energy and grit should be put. into it. I am pleased to say that I have a substantial sum towards the Wellington trophy, and hope to get more soon, and when I get members’ cards 1 will get to work getting members. We must have a big membership, and all the horticultural societies should be asked to affiliate, subscribing, say, 20/ a year. It all brings grist to the mill, and gets them interested. Let me say this, the public knows nothing about this society yet—only just a few growers. What is to prevent the Society having a notice in all the horticultural societies’ schedules, and I quite believe this could be got with very little, if any, cost to the Society? Just one line in a prominent place would do, and all lovers of flowers would know of it. I would suggest to the executive that an endeavour to do this be made before the printing of the schedules for the coming yar. It will entail more work, but if it is too much for one, why not ask one of the committee to do it, so as to relieve the secretary ? And now a last word about the schedule: Let two or three draw it up and submit it’ to the others. As it is now, it is not conducive to the good of the society. J* INQUIRIES FROM CORRESPONDENTS. A large daphne now flowering measures about three feet every way, stem 41 inches round at base, leaves yellow and scanty. We propose to dig it up, dig well under it, adding some good soil, and replant. What time of year should we do it? What Jelse can be done? We think the soil under it has never been deeply dug, and is probably stiff clay. Three years ago the leaves 1 were all deep green.—“QUERGUS.” The cause of your daphne leaves turning yellow is probably owing to a stiff clay' subsoil, and stagnant water being unable to soak through. We should say if yon -tunnel under the plant, without cutting all the roots, break up the subsoil-,* and add good, fresh soil, your plant; will recover. This or next month is a suitable time. We would-advise you tolajler some of the branches, and provide young plants. Two large camellias about 5 feet high - are in bad places, and need moving. Is it possible, and if so, what time of year, and should they be much cut back, and how much?— ’ ' *QUERCVB.”

Large camellias require very careful handling. If you can shift your plants with a large ball of earth, there will not be much danger, and if, as we assume, your soil is clayey, this should not be a difficult matter. Make the hole large enough to hold the ball of roots before lifting the plant, press the soil firmly round the roots, and stake, to prevent the winds shaking the plant. You could cut back the plant just sufficient to maintain it in good shape. Attend to watering during dry weather. Last year our sweet peas were all mildewed in October, and sprinkling them with sulphur had no effect. Suppose our present sowing gets mildewed in July or August, what shall we do?—“QUERCUS.” Sweet peas should not be grown twice on same land without adding fresh soil, and deep digging is essential. We take it your peas would be about 12 or 18 inches high when attacked, and

would recommend you to try sulphide of potassium, loz. to 3gals. water, with 4oz. soft soap added. Use this twice a week, and give a top-dressing of sulphate of ammonia at the rate of loz. to the square yard. VERONICA. A* DAFFODIL NOTES. EXHIBITS AT THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SHOW. One of the finest groups ever seen at the R.H.S. fortnightly show was set up by Mr. A. M. Wilson, of Shovell, North Petherton, Bridgwater, and w’as awarded a well-merited gold medal. Very high quality was maintained throughout, particularly good being such fine new things as Conqueror (an improved Weardale Perfection), Ingiescombe, a large yellow double of great refinement, Gadfly, with brilliant •flat red crowd, several Poetaz seedlings of large size and brilliant colour, and Ivorine, a most relined Leedsi, with many other high class flowers. Messrs. Barr and Sons had a very fine lot, including high class varieties such as Bedouin, Jaspar, Seraphin, Charm, Mermaid, White Slave, Mrs. G. H. Barr, Loveliness, and Lord Roberts in exceptionally fine form. Silver flora medal. Messrs. Cartwright and Goodwin again put up otie of those exhibits of theirs in

which good taste in arrangement is so noteworthy. Good new things comprised Scarlet Gem (Poetax), several new doubles of remarkable colouring, and a few quite new seedlings, of which Target (Princess Mary—Chaucer), and Sailor, a fine hybrid from Minnie Hume, and Stella superba, were of file best. Silver flora medal. From Lissadell (Sir Josslyn GoreBooth) came a fresh, bright lot of flowers, prominent among which were Acme, Sir H. Plunket, a fine new self yellow trumpet, Mrs. R. Sydenham, Muriel, a Poeticus with deep coloured eye, Joseph Sangster, fine bicolour Incomparabilis, and several nice seedlings. Silver flora medal. Messrs. R. H. Bath, Limited, Wisbech, had a stand of tulips and daffodils, the tulips fresh and good in colour, and such narcissi as Apricot and Brilliancy—a much improved Barri conspicuous. Bronze Banksian medal. Messrs. Carter's. High Holborn. had a bank of Narcissus King Alfred, remarkable for the high quality of the flowers, but these were only an item in a large

and varied group of elaborate and excellent design. Silver Banksian medal. Messrs. Lilley, all the way from Guernsey, showed a collection of well-grown flowers, among which one noted l_x>rd Muneaster (an improved Emperor) ; Rev. C. Digby, a triandrus hybrid; Homespun (very good), and others. Bronze Banksian medal. J* THE BEST CARNATIONS FOB EXHIBITION. Herewith I send you an audit of the principal Self and Fancy Carnations exhibited at Westminister last July, and published in the annual report of the National Carnation Society for this year. It may have come interest for your numerous readers. BLOOMS ON WINNING STANDS. Selfs. Miss Willmott 03 Mrs W. H. Parton.■ 37 Daffodil 30 Mrs E. Hambro 20 Sir Galahad 20 Cardinal 19 Agnes Sorrel 18 (Helen 12 Cecilia 10 John Pope 10 llildyarde 0 Miranda.... 0 Lady Hermione 8

Fancies Sam Weller ($3 Rony Buchanan 31 Lord Steyne 22 PUsquin 22 Hidalgo ig King Solomon 13 Erl King ip .Richness 10 The Nizam 9 Millie 9 Mandarin fl Carnival fl Liberte 5 Highland Lass 5 YELLOW GROUND PICOTEES. Their name is legion, but few of them hold out for long.. “Their little systems Itave their day, they have their day and cease to be,” but the following were in evidence and take a lot of beating. Mrs Walter Heriot, Lady Halford, Togo. Exquisite, Leonora. Peregrine, Astrophel, Aesop. Santa Claus, Archie Brown, Cymbeline. David Walker, Kay Parks, Kilmarnock N.B. The Jubilee Bulb Show, held at Haarlem from March 23rd to April 17th, attracted no less than 82,418 visitors. The Perpetual Flowering Carnation Society has decided to continue the trials instituted last year at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Regent's Park, in order to further test the suitability or otherwise of perpetual earnations for the open garden.