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XL YIII.— MONTHLY SUMMARY. 



July 1, 1862. 



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American Show.— Messrs. Waterer and Godfrey's splendid 



exhibition of American plants was brought to a premature terrai- 

 nation early in the month by a heavy gale of \Yind which blew 

 down the tents. The mortification caused by the accident was 

 the more severe, that the show was at the time at its finest, and 

 that Messrs. Waterer and Godfrey had ready a succession of 

 later-flowering species, which they were to have put in the place of 

 others as their bloom dropped off. Such a magnificent shov/ will 

 probably never be seen again, as the tent (from its enormous 

 dimensions) showed the flowers to great advantage, and it is not 

 likely that one with such a wide and lofty span will again be tried. 

 Many of the Fellows who were disappointed in not having seen 

 the show, visited Messrs. Waterer and Godfrey's nursery ground 

 at Kuaphill, near Woking, where there were acres upon acres of 

 the finest Rhododendrons and other American plants, making an 

 infinitely larger and scarcely less magnificent show. Messrs. 

 Waterer and Godfrey's nursery is classic ground ; it is one of the 

 oldest in Britain, having heen established for not less than 

 100 years ; the first Rhododendrons and Azaleas introduced into 

 nurseries in this country were brought over by Mr. Waterer, the 

 predecessor of the present partners, and the original plants, now 

 perhaps the finest in the kingdom, are preserved in a little nook 

 of great interest in the heart of their ground. While speaking of 

 the nursery of these gentlemen, it may interest such of the 

 Fellows as are fond of Conifer's, to know that there maybe there 

 now seen a specimen of Picea Nordmanniana, in cone, numerous 

 examples o£ P, nohilis, crowded with cones; some fine trees of 

 P. Cephalonica in cone, and also some of the Deodars. The 

 Golden Yew flourishes in great beauty in that disti'ict, and forms 

 a very marked feature in the scenery. It is scarcely an exagge- 

 ration to say, that the mass of golden-yellow shown by these plants 

 at this season (and lasting almost all the year round), equals in 

 richness the glowing bloom of a bank of furze, which although one 

 of the commonest, most of the Fellows will agree with Linnaeus 

 in thinking one of the most beautiful of our native objects. 



Flower Shows in June. — The second Great Flower Show 



took place on the 11th, about a week after the tents bad been blown 



