. The Gardeners' Chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. in whichthe plants were only borrowed. Thus, at our lastgreat exhibition in 1890,1 remember that one of thejurors, the director of a famous Netherlands botanicgarden, exclaimed, surprised,How comes this planthere? There exists of this species but one speci-men, and that is in my garden. The exhibitor,questioned about the matter, declared that the headgardener had borrowed it for the exhibition. Cer-tainly the exhibitor has no other claim to meritthan that of having brought the rare plant to theexhibi
. The Gardeners' Chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. in whichthe plants were only borrowed. Thus, at our lastgreat exhibition in 1890,1 remember that one of thejurors, the director of a famous Netherlands botanicgarden, exclaimed, surprised,How comes this planthere? There exists of this species but one speci-men, and that is in my garden. The exhibitor,questioned about the matter, declared that the headgardener had borrowed it for the exhibition. Cer-tainly the exhibitor has no other claim to meritthan that of having brought the rare plant to theexhibition. To award him a prize would be absurd,but he earns large rewards for the rich collectionshe has brought to the exhibition, which cannot beproved to be grown by himself. Certainly, at anexhibition, the labour of the cultivator should winhim the prize, and not the fact that he has the longestpurse to enable him to buy up the best specimensfrom different nurseries. It is misleading, if theexhibitor does not declare that the exhibited plantsare not cultivated by himself. The jurors cannot. FlQ. 117.—LILIPUT NASTURTIUM. paration during the preceding summer, as doesCharles X. The only preparation needed is thatworkmen should divide the bushes in the nnrsery-cvden during the summer months. From one squaremetre Mr. Harms raised from 60 to 90 the same time, he forces three times during oneseason, so that the yield is good, especially as muchMarly Lilac is still imported from Paris. Dr. UdoDammer, Friedenau, near Berlin, A Question Relating to International HORTICULTURAL COMPETITIONS. In the spring of 1897, will be held, on the occasionof the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Berlin Horti-cultural Society, an international horticulturalexhibition. The exhibition committee has proposedthat only such plants as have been for at leastone year, or for one cultural season, in the hands ofthe exhibitor, shall be admitted in competition. Tothis proposition considerable opp
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