The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . Fig. 76.—begonia tuberosa vittata : with stripedblossoms. best twenty-four incurved, Alfred Lyne, VioletTomlin, Princess of Wales, and Lord Wolseley,being particularly good. Mr. Murrell had the besttwenty-four Japanese, having Mrs. Clarke, ofinordinate size. Mr. Howe had the best twelveJapanese, showing some beautiful blooms. Otherclasses for cut blooms were well filled. A classfor twelve Japanese on tall stems brought seven. Fig. 77.—galllareia, lorenzs perfection. exhibit, but were much too crowded
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . Fig. 76.—begonia tuberosa vittata : with stripedblossoms. best twenty-four incurved, Alfred Lyne, VioletTomlin, Princess of Wales, and Lord Wolseley,being particularly good. Mr. Murrell had the besttwenty-four Japanese, having Mrs. Clarke, ofinordinate size. Mr. Howe had the best twelveJapanese, showing some beautiful blooms. Otherclasses for cut blooms were well filled. A classfor twelve Japanese on tall stems brought seven. Fig. 77.—galllareia, lorenzs perfection. exhibit, but were much too crowded to produce anygood effect. Grapes were capital. Mr. Howe was 1st, withthree bunches of Alicante in two classes for blacks,and with Muscat of Alexandria in a class for whites,all being first-rate. Apples and Pears were abundant and good, so alsowere vegetables in two classes, all Bhown admirably inlarge flat baskets. Messrs. J. Peed & Sons showeda good collection of Apples ; Messrs. Cannell & Sonstwelve fine blooms of Louis Boehmer Chrysanthe-mums ; and Mr. W. Roupell, the Hon. Sec, a finebasket of Grapes. WATFORD CHRYSANTHEMUM. The sixth annual exhibition of the above washeld in the Agricultural Hall, Watford, on Tuesdayand Wednesday, November 3 and 4, and proved, asin former years, a great success, the attendancebeing very large on both days. The entries greatlyexceeded expectation, no fewer than 1300 cut bloomsbeing entered. The splendid group of miscellaneousplants sent by the President (the Earl
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