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In Azalias, a first prize was awarded to Mr. Green, for a collection containing 

 variegata in fine condition ; speciosissima, producing large bright rose-coloured 

 blossoms; and a good plant ot'Indica alba. — In. the Nurserymen's class a first 

 prize was awarded to Mr. Smith, of Norbiton, for a collection containing good 

 plants of formcsa, bicolor nova, the old Indica alba, and splendens. — Mr. Gaines 

 obtained a second prize for a group, in which were pulchella, Queen Victoria, 

 Florida, and floribunda ; the latter covered with blossoms of a most intense 

 scarlet colour. Some good specimens were also exhibited by Mr. Clarke, who 

 sent a splendid plant of the double-red, and an excellent double-flowered pur- 

 purea.. — Mr. Slowe likewise furnished very fine plants of Indica alba and plu- 

 mosa ; and in Mr. Hunt's collection was a most beautiful lateritia, and a mag- 

 nificent plant of splendens, 5 feet in height and 3 feet through. 



The display of Pelargoniums exceeded our expectations. The collections 

 which contained the new and distinct varieties were not only the most interesting, 

 but they were produced in finer condition, than the older sorts. Mr. J. Dobson, 

 gardener to Mr. E. Beck, had no competitor in this class. 



Calceolarias. — First prize, Mr. Gaines, for six distinct and well-grown 

 varieties, named Sylph, Eclipse, Candidate, Vivid, Venosa, and Crimson Su- 

 perb. 



Cinerarias were shown in collections of four distinct varieties, in 11-inch 

 pots. 



Seedlings were not numerous in any class. Two Seedling Pelargoniums of 

 the present year from Mr. Beck, of Isleworth, Named Hebe's Lip and Patrician, 

 received Certificates of Merit ; both flowers are large, of good substance, and 

 form, and should they retain their present good qualities will find their way into 

 every good collection. Resplendent, a seedling of 1844, from the same grower, 

 is a high-coloured variety, with a white centre, and remarkably clear and strik- 

 ing in appearance. 



Among Miscellaneous Objects were six handsome plants of Schizanthus, 

 from Mr. Cox, of Stockwell. — A collection of British Ferns from Mr. Taylor, 

 and an ingenious device executed with cut flowers, illustrating the principles of 

 arrangement and combination of colours of plants in beds, in a flower-garden, 

 from Mr. Barton. 



OBSERVATIONS ON THE GARDENS AND COLLECTIONS OF 

 PLANTS AT EALING PARK, NEAR LONDON. 



The name of Mrs. Lawrence is so familiar to every one interested in horticultural 

 pursuits, and her magnificent plants, long associated with the great Exhibitions 

 of the Horticultural Society, are so well known and appreciated, that every lover 

 of gardens will be interested in hearing of the actual state of the collection at 

 Ealing Park on the eve of those occasions when the choicest are again to be 

 produced for public competition. 



Ealing Park, then, has been singularly favoured this winter, compared with 

 other suburban residences ; so fresh and luxuriant are all the evergreens, that 

 one might be led into the belief that a great glass-house had sheltered the 

 whole. The Laurustinus are blossoming freely, so also are the crimson Rhodo- 

 dendrons ; Garrya elliptica ; and Euonymus variegatus are quite unscathed ; 

 Aralia japouica and Paulownia imperialis are bursting out with their wonted 

 vigour ; a fine plant of Arbutus procera is just coming into flower; Photinia ser- 

 rulata and Madura aurantiaca are both unhurt, and so is Berbtris trifoliata, a 

 rare shrub of great beauty and interest. Ceanothus thyrsiflorus has been killed 

 almost everywhere near London ; hut at Ealing Park, against a wall, it appears 

 as green as if we had had no winter at all. 



The lawn, connected with the house, occupies a surface of several acres, 

 studded all over with valuuble objects of great interest ; amongst them we 

 observed the following: — Fine plants of Picea Webbiana, P.nobilis, P. umabilis, 

 Pinus Montezumae, P. monticola; indeed all the scarce and valuable sorts pro- 

 curable in the vicinity of London. A great number of Deodars, Araucarias, &c, 

 are occasionally grouped over this lawn, which, with great propriety, may be 

 termed a Pine-grove ; one reinaikable feature is an avenue of Cedrus deodara, 



