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pretty seedling, ground purplish 

 black, rather cupped, paste excellent. 

 4'ch, Mr. E. Headly, No. 33, a very 

 distinct and attractive variety, leaves 

 of great size and very mealy, like 

 those of Salvia argentea, truss loose, 

 body colour maroon, in a thin, sharp, 

 circular line, edsje tolerably good, 

 paste excellent. 5th, Mr. JR. Headly, 

 No. 38, body colour dull purple and 

 run through, an inferior flower. — 

 Selfs .- 1st, Mr. C. Turner, with 

 Campbell's Pizarro, sixteen pips in 

 the truss, fine. 2nd, the same, with 

 Martin's Mrs. Sturrock. 3rd, Mr. 

 Stewart, of York, with Seedling No. 

 1, broad colour fine violet, small pure 

 paste, neat eye. 4th, Mr. C. Turner, 

 Spalding's Metropolitan, twenty in 

 the truss. 5th, Mr. It Headly, Seed- 

 ling of no value. In this class was 

 shown, by Mr. Butcher, Robert Trail; 

 not placed. 



United Horticultural Society. 

 — The May meeting of this society 

 was what is termed a " Gardeners' 

 Meeting," and was devoted to an 

 examination of novelties and curi- 

 osities. Wm. Marshall, Esq., of 

 Enfield, the president, exhibited a 

 peculiar form of Dendrobium Daya- 

 num. Mr. Baker, gardener to A. 

 Bassett, Esq., Stamford Hill, brought 



three beautiful orchids, namely, On- 

 cidium bifolium, Cattleya mossiae, 

 with the sepals so coloured as to 

 appear as if furnished with a double 

 lip, and Cattleya citrina var. Pesca- 

 torei. Mr. Oubridge, of Stoke New- 

 ington, exhibited a new and beautiful 

 variegated sport of Stella geranium, 

 which was much admired. Mr. Hib- 

 berd sent a fine specimen of the 

 variegated Japanese honeysuckle and 

 a specimen tree sempervivum as ex- 

 amples of successful cultivation. The 

 next exhibition of the society will be 

 held on Whit- Tuesday, June 6th, and 

 is likely to be a mos*t attractive and, in 

 some respects, a novel affair. Through 

 the kind intercession of Alfred Smee, 

 Esq., F.R.S., the committee have ob- 

 tained permission to hold the exhibi- 

 tion on the lawn in the beautiful 

 garden of Finsbury Circus, and they 

 intend, therefore, to produce as grand 

 a display as the space at their com- 

 mand will admit of, with the very pro- 

 per accompaniment of a military band 

 and the usual festive accessories. It 

 will be quite a new thing for the city 

 of London to be entertained with an 

 out-door flower-show, and no doubt, 

 if favoured with suitable weather, it 

 will be thoroughly successful. 



FORMING BUSH AND PYRAMID TREES. 

 No. 2. — Tue Dwarf Bush. 



When I look over my little trees in 

 order to make notes in my mind of 

 the points that require to be dealt 

 with at length in these papers, I am 

 struck with the fact that with respect 

 to very many of them, there is lite- 

 rally nothing to say. For instance, 

 I have many neat round bushes, 

 smothered with fruit, which have 

 never been pruned or pinched at all. 

 Do what I might with them, I could 

 not improve them, but I might easily 

 spoil them altogether by doing too 

 much. Being on suitable stocks, and 

 subjected to biennial lifting, their 

 growth is so moderate and regular 

 that they make only enough wood to 

 keep the size of the bush slowly in- 



creasing, and every addition of new 

 becomes speedily fruitful, so that 

 with increase of magnitude there ia 

 also increase of production. I have 

 just observed a little lot of pear 

 bushes. They are Louise Bonne of 

 Jersey, six years from the graft, two 

 and a half feet high, each bush con- 

 sisting of eight to ten rods, which 

 spring from the same point and bend 

 upwards, so as to form the tree to 

 the exact shape of a goblet, and these 

 rods are regularly clothed with fruit- 

 spurs from base to summit, and are 

 now hung with a regular and beauti- 

 ful crop of pears. This cordon style 

 is very different from the ordinary 

 round bush, in which the principal 



