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LONDON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY'S GARDENS. 



division of the best varieties in cultiva- 



tion: 



SELECT LIST OF CARNATIONS. 



Scarlet Bizarres 

 Appleby's Rainbow, 



Mansley's Lord Byron, 

 Mitchell's Patriot, 



Elliott's Duke of Sutherland, Merchant's Lovely Mary, 



Easom's British Hero, El^s&ng of Scarlets, 



Admiral Curzon, _.' fi * r :? r ^ n ff er ' 



Ely's Lord Pollington, CH^wrek s Brilliant, 



Colcott's Juba, Brabnall's Mrs. Abney. 

 Hepworth's True Briton, 



Merchant's Sir Rob't Peel, Rose Flakes. 



Robinson's Joe Langsdale, Elliott's Duchess of Sutherland, 



Rainforth's Game Boy. Easom's Ocean Queen, 

 Barringer's Apolla, 



Pink or Crimson Bizarres. Ely's Lady Ely, 

 Cartwright's Rainbow, " Lovely Ann, [shire, 



Ely'^ Lord Milton Fletcher's Duchess of Devon- 



* Major Goldworthy. Hoyte's Lovely Nancy, 



Gregory's Alfred, Hudson's Lady Flora Hastings, 



Mansle'y's Robert Burns, Wilson's Harriet, 



Wakefield's Paul Pry. AVardman's Lady Stanhope, 

 Hardman's Splendid, 



Greasley's Lord Brougham, Purple Flakes. 



Ely's Duke of Bedford, Hufton's Blue Ribbon, 



Bamnger's Masterpiece. Evan's Victoria, 



„ , „, , Ely's Mango, 



Scarlet Flakes. Brabbins' Squire Meynell, 



Maude's Susannah, Hudson's Miss Thornton, 

 Simpson's Marquis of Granby, Lee's Napoleon, 

 Wilson's William the Fourth, " Belerophon, 



Turner's Princess Charlotte, 

 Marsden's .1 oily Angler, 

 Mansley's Bonny Bess. 



Tolworthy's Isabella, 

 Holliday's Bridal Ring, 

 Wood's Victoria, 

 Sharp's Hector. 

 Picotees— Purple, Heavy Edged. 



Mitchell's Nulli Secunda. Picotees-Rose Edged. 



Brinkler's Lady Chesterfield, Borrough's Lady Alice Peel, 

 Ely's Field Marshal, Crouche's Ivanhoe, 



" Mrs. Lilly, Sharp's Comet, 



" Grace Darling. Twitchett's Fair Rosamond, 



Willmer's Princess Royal, 

 Picolees — Purple, Light Edged. Barnard's Mrs. Barnard, 

 John's Prince Albert, Crouche's Conservative, 



Crask's '" Green's Victoria, 



Borrough's Duke of Newcastle, Wilson's Fanny Irby, 

 Robinson's Nottingham Hero, Garrett's Lady Dacre. 

 Matthew's Enchantress. Ydlow Picotees . 



Picotees— Red, Heavy Edged. Barraud's Euphemia, 

 „, , ,, „ Martin's Queen Victoria, 



Ely's Mrs. Horner, Heslop's Prince of Wales, 



" Mrs. Meynell, u * Marsha i Soult, 



Sharp's Duke of Wellington, willmer ' 8 Romulus, 

 Ben's Marc Antony, „ Goldfinder, 



Brooke's Duch'sot Cambridge. Wood , g chil(le Harold) 



t.. ^ , T • , t-.j j " Eugene Aram, 



Picotees— Red, Light Edged. Groome » s Favorite, 



Matthew's Ne plus Ultra, Clark's Queen of Sheba. 



I have the honor to be yours, most obe- 

 diently, Wm. Chorlton, 



Gardener to J. C. Green, Esq. 

 Staten-Island, December, 1849. 



NOTES ON THE LONDON HORT. SOCIETY'S GARDENS AT CHISWICK. 



BY H. E. HOOKER, ROCHESTER, N.Y. 



During a recent business trip to England 

 and France, a few hours spent at Chiswick 

 gave me so much pleasure, and proved so 

 valuable to me, as a cultivator of fruit 

 trees, that I have thought perhaps some of 

 your readers, who are also fruit and fruit 

 tree growers, might be interested in a few 

 notes on this great centre of pomological 

 nomenclature. 



The society's grounds are divided into 

 departments, as the kitchen gardens, the 

 conservatories, the fruit yards and fruit 

 room, the arboretum, &c. &c; but as each 

 department is of itself a complete and large 

 establishment, and so well worthy of mi- 

 nute inspection, as to require more time 

 than was at my disposal, I could only pay 

 particular attention to those parts in which 

 I felt most interested ; namely, the fruit 



quarters, and fruit room, and the arbore- 

 tum. 



At the head of the fruit department, I 

 found Rob't Thompson, a man who soon 

 made me feel that a visit from an Ameri- 

 can nurseryman was not unwelcome, and 

 whose kind attentions I shall not soon for- 

 get. The collection of different varieties 

 of fruit in these gardens is immense ; but 

 as many tested varieties which are thought 

 worthless are annually removed, I suppose 

 the number does not increase very rapidly. 



The specimen trees are many of them 

 fine, and show what may be effected by 

 skilful pruning, trenching, and liberal ma- 

 nuring ; but all are not equally good, and 

 among the exceptions are many of the ap- 

 ple trees, cultivated on Paradise stock, 

 which have been annually sheared, (I call 



