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Sumachs, &c., were judiciously introduced — and how rich might 

 English scenery really become with the deep browns, oranges, and 

 crimsons of the kinds named, and others, intermixed with our ordinary 

 forest trees. 



These trees are now to be rnet with in most nursery grounds, and 

 their expense is but trifling ; in fact, there exists no reason why they 

 should not be as commonly planted as Poplars, Elms, and the like, 

 except that we fear taste is sometimes wanting, and, in other instances, 

 the plants are not known sufficiently to be appreciated, or they may be 

 thought too expensive. 



Gardeners who have the management of plantations should take 

 every opportunity of bringing these facts under the notice of their 

 employers, or should introduce them on their own responsibility. As 

 far as landscape gardeners are concerned, especially those who have 

 commenced with being artists, we have not much hope that it will be 

 done by them. Their profession, in a great measure, precludes that 

 practical knowledge of trees — their colour, habit, and peculiarities — so 

 essential to dictate their exact position in the landscape ; and, with the 

 most correct knowledge of design and effect, they fail in not being so 

 well up to the study of colour in trees as the subject demands. Those, 

 therefore, who have to carry out the designs of landscape gardeners, 

 should be prepared to suggest what would recognise the admission of 

 more colour into park and rural scenery. 



ROYAL NATIONAL TULIP SOCIETY. 



May 24. — The seventh anniversary meeting of this Society took 

 place at the Crystal Palace, in connection with the great exhibition of 

 plants, &c., and is fully reported in another page. 



The spring has been unfavourable generally to the growth of the 

 Tulip, yet there was a good show of blooms, far better than many were 

 led to expect. Eighteen stands were put up for competition in one class 

 alone, so that there were plenty in number. It was, however, too 

 early for the midland growers. 



The show for this season differed from its predecessors, there being 

 no class showincr. The committee may congratulate itself on the result 

 — the experiment was in every way successful; neat uniform stands set 

 the flowers off to advantage, besides the desirable change of being with- 

 out the unsiglitly bottles. 



The principal new flowers were Groom's Duchess of Cambridge, a 

 feathered bybloemen ; Groom's Lord Raglan, a flamed bizarre in the 

 way of Shakspeare, but much finer shape ; and Willison's Mr. San- 

 derson, a feathered bizarre, a small but beautiful flower. 



There was a fine specimen of Lawrence's George Hayward exhibited 

 — decidedly the best bizarre in the entire exhibition. 



No premier prizes were given. Had there been, we should have 

 placed them thus :— Feathered Bizarre, George Hayward (figured by 

 us in 1854) ; Flamed Bizarre, Lord Raglan. 



NEW SERIES, VOL. VI., NO. LXVI. N 



