HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY’S FLORAL EXHIBITION. 179 
British florist has a peculiar claim to this privilege, because he has 
taken under his care the floral beauties of every clime in both hemi- 
spheres—affording to each, as near as can be, its natural temperature, 
its natural soil, and its natural rank and station among others. If, 
then, he should occasionally interfere with nature’s Jaws in bringing 
forth flowers out of season, he is not only excusable as their cultivator, 
but it is creditable to him as their guardian. To have them always in 
beauty would diminish rather than advance them in our estimation ; 
but the recurrence of a flower when not expected—and especially if 
obtained without any derangement or mutilation of the plant operated 
upon—would be a delectable rarity, and really a desirable incident in 
the flower garden. Every one knows that transplanting Rose trees 
late, or pruning them late in the spring, procures a Jate bloom—three 
weeks or a month later than the usual time of flowering. I am speak- 
ing of the common Provence Rose, though this treatment of Rose 
trees is less necessary now than it was before the introduction of so 
many French and Chinese varieties, some of which are always in 
flower during the summer and autumn months. The Laburnum is a 
highly ornamental plant from the latter end of May to the middle of 
June; if the flowering shoots be cut back, and the tree divested of its 
racemes of pods, it will again bloom nicely later in the summer; 
indeed the whole of the Cytisuses may be made to flower twice in the 
summer, by careful cutting back after the first flowers fade. The 
Rose, Acacia, and several others of its congeners, will flower a second 
time; and so will the Althea frutex, presenting its second flowers as 
late as October, when flowers of any kind are much wanted. Check- 
ing the growth of herbaceous border flowers, by transplanting, or by 
divesting them of a few of their stems, to delay the flowering, or only 
allow it to be developed gradually, is an old expedient; and with 
attention paid to this management of perennials and biennials, and to 
the different times at which annual flowers may be sown, a continued 
display of flowers may be kept through the growing season.— Gar- 
deners’ Journal. 
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY’S FLORAL EXHIBITION. 
A sunny day, cloudless and cool, enabled 8,839 visitors, from among 
the higher classes of the London world, to witness and enjoy the 
second great exhibition of the year in the garden of the Horticultural 
Society. A more delightful day, and a more glorious collection of 
flowers, have never been combined: the softness of the turf, the 
freshness of the foliage—here matured, there coloured with the peculiar 
tints of spring, or elsewhere gushing forth with all the transparency 
and delicate texture characteristic of early vegetation—banks of 
Rhododendrons in blossom, tents filled with an endless profusion of 
the most admirably varied flowers, together with a crowd of gay 
costumes, graceful forms, and happy faces, constituted a scene which 
has often been witnessed in these gardens, and rarely elsewhere. 
Of the exhibition we cannot speak too highly. We had ample 
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