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CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW DELIGHTS.

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(By H. H. Thomas.] Gardening passed through its violent revolutions long ago: the changes that take place now are no gradual that they are scarcely per. ceived by those to whnee influence they are due

THE CHINA MAIL.

LOSS OF SUMMER IN 1927.

EXPECTATION OF SEVEREST WINTER IN HISTORY.

Juno

9. Nineteen- of

A few years ago we were content "with only the blue, while, and ! purple, but now, owing largely to the work of Mr. Downer, we have them in heliotropë, mauve, and ! many shades of rese... Among dol- phiniums the "Sir Dougins Haig. Chicago,

magnificent Indigo-purple. was twenty-seven will be a return unapproached for size and splen- 1816. "the year without a summer,"; dour; and of the begonias none ex-growing senson with marked crop colled or even equalled the "Lora frilures throughout the whole Lambourne," a variety of glowing northern hemisphore, and it will orange shade named in honour of become, necessary for the nationa the Royal Horticultural Society's of the world to use their war president.

powers to conserve food and pro- tect their populations-from stary- ing, according to a forecast mado by Horbert Janvrin Browne, ocean meteorologist and long-range wea- ther forecaster, before 500 students attending the four-day session, of the college of scientific price före- easting which opened, "At the 'Con- gress hotel to-night.

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Chelsea Flower Show, which was

Carnation Garden, held during the past week, was ai

Allwood's carnation garden con- tained up-to-date varietion of the faithful mirror of the prevailing old-world flakes and bizarres. re- fashions in gardens, and an in-splendent in many colours; they "spection of the exhiblis provided an have the great advantage over the index to the style and character of old sorts of blooming for months

together. early twentieth century gardening

Azaleas famed in orange, apricot, and to the flowers that are favour-and other indescribable tints;

"The same oceanic changes that rhododendrons were masses of prevailed 110 years ago are now in This is the golden age of colour rose, pink, and purple; the tulips evidenca," he said. "We will have In gardens. There is. Indeed, a

weru.....gorgeous sweet peas.... of danger that it may triumph over orange

the severest winter in 1926-27′′ over, khade were the latest known on the North American con- grace and beauty of form, which novelties: roses formed pillars of ought to be regarded as of equal pink and scarlet. Among them allrounded by cold water and will be tinent. America'is practically sur- value in design. The present-day | the cool greenery of the hardy ferns by next year." garden relles for its appeal chley came as a relief to senses natiated on masses of flowers so grouped with colour.

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of colour or bold effects.

that they create subtle harmonies The dahlias were in the nature contrasting of an anti-climax; it is true that ther served as a reminder that now is the time to plant," but they seemed to dim the sunshine of the summer flowers, to east a shadow on the lawn.

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Colour and Variety. The gardener's palette was never so full or his materials so varied as they are to-day, and as a result he lays on the colours, with per-1 haps too heavy'n brush. Certain- "ly he did so at Chelsea, but as the purpose of a lower show is to dis- play medel gardens and as grent a variety of Bowers as possible, no apology is required of him.

Chelsea show was like a garden. ing catalogue come to life. We saw the trees, shrubs, and flowers of which we have read without realia- ing what they were like, and we confess that the natives were pot too eulogistic.

SUN'S PHASES.

Calendar for July.

Sunrise and Sunset in Hongkong for July, 1926. (Standard Time of the 120th Meridian, East of Green- wich).

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The group that won'the cup for the best exhibit in the show was a Bower garden of enchanting colour | planted by Sutton and Sops with plants grown from seeds--cal- ceolaria. begonia, cineraria, and others that are in. full beauty at this time of year.

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"Dally Graphic" Cup. The "Daily Graphie" Cup for the best rock garden wis awarded" to' Pulham and Son for an Alpine and stream garden built with grey, weather-worn stone, its nooks and crannies filled with some of the fairest flowers of the mountains and upland valleys,

7.07.

7.06.

7.05 ❞ 7.00

The gardener of a large house one day approached the butler.

Jenks," he exclaimed, "you might point this chap Darwin out to me the next time he comes to dinner."

"Darwin, Darwin," echoed the butler, looking perplexed.

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"Yes, Darwin. I happened to. hear his Lordship say the other day that every time he looks at, me his mind goes back to Darwin,"

The chief awurd for an old-world formal garden went to Wallace and Co., for an exhibit which took the form of an oval garden, its quter edge aglow with rhododendron, azalea, and Japanese maple; within were borders and paved paths and

little pond. that reflected the 1: rolours and contours of the neigh- bouring shrubs and dowers.

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The charm-of-the-pool-and-wood-- and garden made by Carters lay In the reflections of the trees and flowers on the water's surface, a form of design that will doubtless- be given greater consideration now that attention has been drawn to

its possibilities, and may indeed be come a vogue.

The King and Queen,

These and many other exhibits engrossed the attention of the King and Queen, who were greatly in- terested in the fascinating display of dowere provided by the show. The King was attracted by the bedg filled with "gold and silver" orna- mental grasses shown McDonald, and

THE CHILDREN LIKE THEM.

Medicine giving and medicine-taking gives trouble to nobody when Baby's by Mr. Own Tablets are used, for the Tablets the Queen, pur-crush to a tasteless powder or can be chased several coloured drawings cator ns a lozenge, and children like of Rowers in the artist'a tent, а them. The action of

feature which was restored at Her

Majesty's suggestion. Princess

Mary and the Duke of Connaught :

were other Royal visitors.

The exquisite-móderp-varieties

Baby's Own Tablets

He bases his forecasts on the changes in the amount of heat given off by the sun and absorbed by the salt waters of the ocean. "IN bus taken since the beginning of 1922 for the northern Pacific area to exhaust the momentum of 'the sun's heat which began to drop nearly five years ago. Cold air will come into the Canadian north- west and deep into the United States next winter and in 1927 from Cold the Arctic and Bering sons, will also come from cold waters

which now extend from California to the Hawaiian Islands."

Despite the fact that officials of the United States,weather bureau claim that there is no scientific principle known whereby weather can be forecast accurately, more than 96 hours in advance, Mr. Browne finds plenty of evidence in the ocean to indiente a "summer- less year" in 1927 and predicts a repetition of the time when farmers broke ice here at Fort Dearborn to water their horses on July 5,

1816.

He also predicts that within five years Lake Michigan's level will be restored to the mark where it stood before the drainage canal was open- ed. This will come as a result of increased rainfall, he claims.

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