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Double White was charming. Elegans, perhaps the finest plant in the 

 house, carried her very large mottled rose and white flowers from the 

 ground line to a height of twelve feet. Many of the blooms on this plant 

 were six inches across, and we counted over four hundred while wait- 

 ing for Mr. Milne, and when he came in we gave it up, and left perhaps 

 two hundred more uncounted. Woodsii and Althesflora are in the same 

 style of growth, rivalling orchard trees in magnitude, and as heavy with 

 colour as a May-day garland, though in much better taste. Among the 

 many other varieties, some of them new, which we noted as specially in- 

 teresting, the following deserve mention here : — Due de Chartres, carmine, 

 blotched white ; Due de Bretagne, rose, beautifully formed, and fine sub- 

 stance of petal ; Imbricata, glowing carmine, waxy petals, and here and 

 there mottled with white ; Marchioness of Exeter, rose, large flower, fine 

 habit ; Cup of Beauty, sent from China by Mr. Fortune along with Princess 

 of Prussia, a splendid plant five feet high, blooms pure white streaked with 

 pink ; Archduchess Augusta, rosy purple striped white ; Fordi, shining 

 rose, small, and very neat; Valtavaredo, bright rose, occasionally blotched 

 white ; Archinto, white, carmine striped, very beautiful ; Kossuth, scarlet, 

 very full, and admirably formed ; Cariophylloides, a new carnation kind ; 

 Lady Mary Labouchere, rosy purple ; Optima, a magnificent flower, bright 

 rose, foliage fine, and habit free and bold ; Beali Palmeri, rich warm crim- 

 son, exquisite shape ; Coquette, carmine dashed with white ; Washington!, 

 soft carmine, opens fine. As we lately gave a list of the best old varieties, it 

 is unnecessary here to occupy space by repetitions. In the course of our 

 inspection of this nursery we met with vast quantities of young stock in 

 pits, the freer sorts on their own roots, and the choicer sorts grafted or 

 inarched. Camellias planted out in the open ground have thrown off all 

 their flower-buds, as they have also at Mr. Mongredien's, at Forest Hill, 

 and in several of the gardens at Stamford Hill and Stoke Newington, where, 

 in favourable seasons, they make a fine feature. Choice Americans are largely 

 cultivated at this nursery. In the propagating-house, rhododendrons were 

 in process of grafting in large quantities. Vines in pots were also a 

 notable feature, and the usual candidates for bedding favours were to be seen 

 on every hand in prodigious quantities. The flower-garden will, this season, 

 be very attractive, and will doubtless afford useful lessons in colour to 

 the readers of the Floeal World who have their tents pitched on the 

 pleasant road to Wandsworth Common. 



Horticultural Society^— The most energetic action prevails at Ken- 

 sington Gore, and plans of the new garden are being pushed on with 

 extraordinary rapidity. The whole society, from the oldest of its officers to 

 the newest of the Fellows, seems to have acquired new life, and public 

 opinion is favourable, so that the new project is liberally supported both 

 pecuniarily and morally. At Chiswick extensive alterations have been made, 

 to render the place strictly an experimental garden, and very many nursery- 

 men and amateur cvdtivators have sent collections of fruits, seeds, etc., for trial. 

 The plans of the grounds at Kensington Gore are by Mr. Nesfield. 



Royal Botanic, March 21. — At this exhibition of spring flowers, collec- 

 tions of hyacinths were shown by Messrs. Cutbush, Cross, Mackintosh, and 

 Jackson. Cinerarias were very fine, and were contributed by Messrs. Dob- 

 son, Turner, Wiggins, and Smith. Among the other interesting novelties was a 

 double primula, named Atro-rosea plena, shown both by Mr. Turner and 

 Messrs. Henderson. Messrs. Paid, of Cheshunt, sent their new tea rose 

 President, and Mr. Standish, of Bagshot, sent a new hybrid perpetual, called 

 Mrs. Standish, which will probably appear again at the National Pose Show. 

 April 4. — Cinerarias were again in the ascendant ; among them one named 

 Reynold's Hole, a dazzling crimson purple, from Mr. Turner. Mr. Wiggins, 

 gardener to E. Beck, Esq., had a fine plant of Bridesmaid ; and, among a lot 

 sent by Messrs. Dobson, was one named Mr. Marnock, white ground, with 



