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stance, then from another kind bring either the plant, or a blossom, and dust 

 the summit of the centre body retained where the thread-like ones were cut 

 away by the powder (pollen). Protect the blossom so impregnated from bees, 

 by covering it for a few days with a piece of gauze, and let no w ater be sprinkled 

 upon it. — Conductoi!.] 



REMARKS. 

 LONDON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The first General Exhibition took place at the Chiswick Gardens cu Saturday, 

 the 13lh May. The gardens were in the highest keeping; the splendid Wis- 

 taria sinensis was in full flower ; while many of the Hawthorns, Rhododendrons, 

 Azaleas, &c, greatly enlivened the scene with their gay blossoms. Since last 

 season, the small piece of water which stretched across the arboretum has been 

 filled up; so that the company was able to promenade the lawns without havinc 

 to seek and pass over the crowded bridges. In the large conservatory the plants 

 were in a most remarkably vigorous state ; and a specimen of Dolichos lignosus, 

 laden with its pretty pink flowers, with Hardenbergia macrophylla, equally 

 covered with bloom, the two being placed opposite each other, and nearly unit- 

 ing in the centre, had a splendid effect. The favourableness of the weather 

 drew a considerable assemblage of visitors. Above 4,800 received admission. 



In the tents set apart for flowers, the splendour of other seasons was well sus- 

 tained, there being only a trifling deficiency in the number of larger collections. 

 Instances of superior cultivation were particularly numerous, and some of the 

 specimens in which this was observable, excelled, perhaps, all that has ever been 

 witnessed, even in these notoriously rich exhibitions. The general aspect of 

 plants of this class indicated a decided advancement in the art of culture, and 

 this was especially noticeable in those which had been treated according to the 

 liberal method of potting recently adopted, and which consists in transferring 

 plants at once from the smallest pots to the largest, which they are capable of 

 filling. As the plan thus referred to was best exemplified in the large collection 

 of Mr. Goode, gardener to Mrs. Lawrence, of Ealing Park, we shall give them 

 the first place in our report. The collection was grand in the extreme. It filled, 

 within a very little, one side of the principal tent. This collection did not 

 consist so much of new things, as of large specimens of excellent but compara- 

 tively old plants. Foremost stood a large specimen of Euphorbia splendens, six 

 feet in height, and nearly eight feet in diameter, beautifully studded with its 

 rich crimson velvet flowers. At the back of this were bushes, nearly as large, of 

 Cytisus racemosus, microphylla, and rhodophnaea ; Polygala oppositifolia and 

 cordifolia, Chorozema cordifolia, and Azalea pl.cenicea, indica alba, lateritia, 

 variegata, and many other hjbrid varieties. These plants were admirably 

 grouped as to colour, and inculcate a lesson which we hope will not be lost on 

 some of the other exhibitors. Among the plants which formed the frontline 

 were many beautiful things, such as Leschenaultia formula and Baxteri, largo 

 globular-formed plants, with the branches depending round the sides of the pots, 

 and covered with bloom ; Eriostemoncuspidatum; Zichya pannosa and inophylla, 

 trained on trellises, and the bloom almost hiding the foliage ; Gompholobium 

 polymorphum, Tioparolum tricolorum, and a great variety of dwarf-growing 

 plants. In point of health, size, and quantity of bloom, nothing could excel the 

 plants in this collection. Most of the young plants had been grown on the 

 "One-shift system" of potting, and were a very sufficient contradiction to the 

 statement that plants will not bloom freely in large pots ; while most of the large 

 plants bore evidence of having received a larger shift than it is customary to give 

 them. A lovely specimen of Chorozema glycinifolia — so difficult to manage — 

 was particularly noticeable. 



In addition to this general collection, there was a specimen from Mr. Goode, 

 which, as an instauce of superlative beauty and admirable cultivation, was in 

 every way astonishing. It was the Pimelea spectabilis, the extreme delicacy 

 and grace of which will be familiar to most growers of new plants. The speci- 



