. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. emaintained during London fogs or drizzling wetweather. Of the show itself it may be saidto be rather exceptional in its way. Not that thereis anything novel in the style of arrangement, but the very finest show kinds in cultivation. These are verycheerfully intermixed with the brightest of the Japaneseand large-flowered Anemone varieties, which, takenas a whole, give a mass of colour so harmoniouslyblended that the most fastidious taste can hardly fail tobe satisfied. The finest flowers of the colle
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. emaintained during London fogs or drizzling wetweather. Of the show itself it may be saidto be rather exceptional in its way. Not that thereis anything novel in the style of arrangement, but the very finest show kinds in cultivation. These are verycheerfully intermixed with the brightest of the Japaneseand large-flowered Anemone varieties, which, takenas a whole, give a mass of colour so harmoniouslyblended that the most fastidious taste can hardly fail tobe satisfied. The finest flowers of the collection areof the following kinds, leaving specialities out of thelist :—Empress of India, Prince Alfred, Triomphe duNord, a very popular Japanese kind ; The Sultan,Jardin des Plantes, Harlequin, Refulgence, Bron:eDragon, Peter the Great, John Salter, Venus, Dr,Sharpe, Mr. Corbay, a sport from Prince of Wales;Prague, a grand variety for massing ; Abd-el-Kader,Grand Turk, Mr. Bunn, an improvement on GolddiBeverley; Bismarck, Diamond, Mrs. Heale, LadyMargaret, a fine Anemone variety j Madame. Fig. 133.—the emperors walk at grimston. (see p. 656.) general excellence to the display of flowers now onview at Finsbury Park in a long span-roofed structurerecently erected as a show-house, and which has beenpatronised by thousands of visitors during the pastweek. A short journey by rail from Liverpool Streetto Stamford Hill, on the Great Eastern Railway,takes the visitor to within a few minutes walk of thePark. The show-house is on the east side, and withinsight of the gates of what is commonly known as theManor House entrance. The traffic is well ordered,the ingress and egress to the exhibition being soarranged that a block is impossible, and thethousands who avail themselves of the oppor-tunity of visiting the show must in itself be a highcompliment as well as a pleasure to Mr. Cochrane,the superintendent-in-chief, and Mr. Mardlin, hisdeputy. The structure is 100 (ect long and iS cul
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