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JOURNAL OF HORTICLTOtraE AND COTTAGE GARDENEK. 



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from the principal towns on their 

 lines of railway during the Show. 



The Local Committee are work- 

 ing with a right goodwill, and are 

 now sending out thousands of small 

 bills auuouucmg the Show, and 

 placarding the principal towns and 

 railway stations with large posters. 

 The model garden, which has been 

 skilfully laid out by Mr. Eyles, is 

 neai-ly completed, and a large por- 

 tion of the space for horticultural 

 buildings and implements has been 

 already applied for. The refresh- 

 ment department has been entrust- 

 ed to Mr. E. B. Cater, of Bath, 

 who is thoroughly competent to 

 provide for the wants of the visit- 

 ors, and the Society may look for- 

 ward with every confidence to the 

 forthcoming Show as one of the 

 most attractive and successful yet 

 held in the provinces. 



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BOTAL BOTANIC SOCIETY'S SHOW. 



May 14th and 1.5ih. 

 This is one of the best of the May Shows that have been held 

 at the Regent's Park of late years. Some of the collections are 

 remarkably fine, there are few to "which exception can be taken, 

 and the arrangement is excellent. On the forenoon of the open- 

 ing day their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians, 

 together with their Highnesses the Duke of Teck and the 

 Princess Mary, made a lengthened inspection of the Show. 



In stove and .greenhouse plants Mr. Baines, gardener to H. 

 Micholls, Esq., Southgate, took the foremost place, both for 

 groups of nine and for six. In these Anthurium Scherzerianum 

 with twenty-eight spathes ; several Eriostemons ; Erica ventri- 

 cosa coccinea minor, .5 feet in diameter and covered with blos- 

 som ; Azalea Magnificans, a snowy mass nearly 6 feet high ; 

 Ixora coccinea with superb heads, some of them 8 inches in 

 diameter — these form objects well worthy of Mr. Eaines's name, 

 and are conspicuous among a lot of plants admirably grown and 

 splendidly flowered. Mr. Ward, gardener to F. Li. Wilkins, Esq., 

 Leyton, is second for nine ; and Mr. Chapman, gardener to J. 

 Spode, Esq., takes the corresponding position for six. In the 

 nurserymen's class for the same number Messrs. WiUiams, Rol- 

 lisson, and W. Cutbush are the prizetakers. 



Azaleas are very well represented in a collection from Mr. 

 Chapman, inclitding closely trained but beautifully flowered 

 specimens of Leopold I. and Juliana, and in groups from Mr. 

 Turner, Messrs. Jackson & Sons, Ivery & Sons, and Lane. 

 Messrs. Lane and Mr. Eowe, Eoehampton, have excellent groups 

 of Rhododendrons ; while in Heaths Messrs. Ward, J. Wheeler. 

 G. Wheeler, and Jackson & Sons take the lead. Show Pelargo- 

 niums are not on the whole nearly so fine as we have seen them, 

 Roses were noticed fully last week in the report of the Show 

 at Kensington, and, as might be expected, most of the finest 

 specimens there exhibited again put in an appearance. Mr. 

 Tm-ner, of Slough, and Messrs. Paul & Son are first in groups 

 of six and nine respectively, while for twenty the awards went 

 to the same exhibitors and Messrs. Veitch. 



Of Orchids, Mr. Ward, Mr. HQl, gardener to R. Hanbury, Esq., 

 The Poles, and among nurserymen Mr. Williams and Mr. Bull, 

 have good groups, for which they are placed in the prize-hst. In 

 Mr. Williams's group is Cypripedinm caudatum with nineteen 

 flowers, and a fine mass of Cypripedium barbatum superbuni. 

 The best single specimens of Orchids are Dendrobium infundi- 

 bulum from Messrs. Jackson, Cattleya Mossise from Mr. James, 

 and Phalasnopsis graudiflora from Mr. Chapman, all of which 

 are excellent. 



Mr. Ware, of Tottenham, sends collections of Lihaceous plants, 

 hardy herbaceous plants, fine-foliaged and flowering plants, cut 

 blooms of Fancy Pansies, and a charming horseshoe group of 

 flower-garden plants near the fountain in the centre of the tent, 

 and producing an admirable eiiect. For this a first prize was 

 awarded ; and first-class certificates were likewise granted to 

 the same exhibitor for Polyanthus Parisina, Pansy Pluto almost 

 black, and yellow Polyanthus Crcesus. 



Messrs. E. G. Henderson likewise exhibit a collection of 

 flower-garden plants arranged for efiect, including numerous 

 Tulips. Certificates were awarded to that firm for Aralia 

 Sieboldi am-ea reticulata, with pale yellow variegation, and for 

 Canna Tricolor with cream-coloured variegation, and the blade 

 of the leaf edged -with red. Mr. Turner sends LiUum am-atum in 

 fine bloom; Mr. C. Noble his new Clematises, among which 

 Mrs. V. Lister had a first-class certificate. 



Of new plants groups are shown by Messrs. Veitch, Williams, 

 and Bull. Messrs. Veitch take certificates for Platyloma beUuru, 

 P. braehypterum, Oncidium fuscatum, JIasdevallia Lindeni, 

 Daemonorops fissus, and Ptychosperma KuhUi; Mr. WiUiams 

 for Colax jugosus ; Mr. Bull for the same Orchid, Yriesia reticu- 

 lata, Encephalartos regahs, E. ampliatus, and Dracasna splen- 

 dens. Mr. Ware has certificates for Iris austrahs and Primula 

 acaulis The Giant, double yellow; and Messrs. E. G. Henderson 

 one for Spu-aea japonica aurea reticidata, with neat yellow- veined 

 foHage. Rose Madame Lacharme and Azalea Apollo from Mr. 

 Turner had likewise certificates. 



Bouquets of Eoses. — On the occasion of the recent visit 

 of Her Majesty to the International Exhibition bouquets of 

 Eoses, consisting chiefly of varieties raised and named after 

 Her Majesty and the Eoyal Princesses by Mr. W'. Paul, of 



