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basket of Grapes. Tlio middle silver to Mr. Hamp. for a Pine-apple. The 

 middle silver to Mr. Martin, for four sorts of vegetables. The small silver to 

 Mr. J. Gaines, for ditto. 



N.B. — Delight; this Pansy is the most perfect specimen of form we have 

 seen ; the circle is complete, the flower lies quite flat, and the petals are in fine 

 proportion to the size of the flower, the eye is fine, the upper petals are crimson- 

 purple, and the belting, which is somewhat irregular, is of the same colour. It 

 was pronounced a first-class flower, and was raised by Mr. J. S. Cook, of Long- 

 wick. Second class prize was awarded to Bragg's Elizabeth, a dark self of good 

 substance. First-class Tulip, Ulysses ; bizarre, broke by Mr. Brown, of Slough, 

 ground clear, leathering clean and decided, cup short. 



X)n Fohcing Roses. — It is generally asset ted that Roses do not succeed, if 

 forced, two years successively. This I find from practical experience to be an 

 erroneous opinion, as I have forced the same, plants five consecutive seasons. 

 They have been treated as any other potted plant would be, namely, shifted as 

 they increased in size ; and this year they have bloomed more profusely than 

 they did the first season : in fact, they have annually improved in the number 

 and beauty of their blossoms. My collection consists of Moss, Spong, Cabbage, 

 Unique, Wellington (Hybrid China), Crimson Perpetual, and Smith's Yellow 

 Noisette, which succeeds much better as a forced than as a garden Rose. I am 

 induced to mention these circumstances respecting forced Roses, from the failure 

 which I perceive in that department in many gardens where there is every 

 facility for procuring them; and there is no flower so highly appreciated, even 

 by non-amateurs, as a forced Rose. Rosa. 



Amauyi.lis Belladonna in Pots. — I recommend any of your readers who 

 wish to cultivate this plant in pots, to try the following experiment:— keep the 

 plants constantly on a light shelf in the greenhouse, with a pan of wet sand un- 

 derneath them, which should never be allowed to become quite dry, not even in 

 summer, when the plant is dormant. By this treatment some bulbs received from 

 the Cape of Good Hope, which if not A. belladonna, can hardly be distinguished 

 from that species, have flowered regularly every autumn in great luxuriance. 

 They should never be fresh potted unless the roots split the pots, which some of 

 mine have done, and of course the foregoing treatment must not be adopted till 

 the bulbs have rooted themselves. This management was adopted accidentally 

 as regards these bulbs, having been ordered, under the suggestion of the Rev. VV. 

 Herbert, for Brunsvigia Josephin* and multiflora, which were received at the 

 same time, and which now flower regularly every other year. For some fifteen 

 years before, I never succeeded in getting any of them to flower. The ordinary 

 cause of failure in the cultivation of B. Josephinse is too much heat in winter, 

 and want of moisture in summer. — J. R. Gardeners' Chronicle. 



LITERARY NOTICE. 



Horticultural Essays, being the Papers read at the Meetings of the Regent's Park 



Gardens Association, for mutual Instruction. Parti. Svo. p. 73. 1843. 

 It is highly creditable to the young men who have formed this Society, and 

 given ten such essays on the subjects contained in the publication. They are 

 drawn up in a clear and useful manner, and though not very extensive, they are 

 still better — complete; each person has commenced at the point required, gone 

 through the subject practically beneficial, and finished only when complete. 

 Too much praise, we think, cannot be said in favour of the benefits of such 

 societies, and the one established in connexion with the Regent's Park Gardens 

 will, we doubt not, be one of the most useful. We hope it will be as well 

 supported as it is justly entitled to it. 



The following are the subjects treated upon: — On Cacti, by Mr. Maher; on 

 Camellias, by Sir. Pigg; on the Oak, by Mr. Bevis; on training the Pear, by 

 Mr. Moore; on the Mushroom, by Mr. C. M'Douald; on the Atmosphere, by 

 Mr. Moore ; on the Willow, by Mr. Bevis; on Water, by Mr. Pigg; on Drain- 

 age of Plants in Pots, by Mr. Field ; on Tropaeolums, by Mr. Maher. The last 

 article includes a very descriptive list of eighteen sorts. 



