13^ BRIEF REMARKS. 



sort of hamper; Cherry. Apple, Plum, Service, and Sweet Chestnut 

 trees, a few Pear-trees, all shrubs, and selling for double what they dd 

 in Paris; the Lilies of the Valley, especially, seemed to bear a must 

 exorbitant price. We saw, too, Pseonies, and all sorts of perennial 

 and shrub-like plants. 



'• Flowers are sold, too, by travellers, who go from house to boose, 

 carrying upon their heads boards, upon which the flowers in pots are 

 closely packed. But these pedlars offer their purchasers neither 

 variety nor beauty: a few "Wallflowers, Pelargoniums, Fuchsias, Lilies, 

 Echium, Gesneras, Roses, Mignonette, Cinerarias, Verbenas, Phlox, 

 and Justicia, form the whole of their collection. 



-' Although there are many more florists in St. Petersburgh than in 

 Taris, the collections of the former are much more meagre than those 

 of the latter. Their trade in bouquets and flowers in pots is prodigious, 

 far surpassing what we had imagined." 



Mr. Groom's Tulits. — All lovers of this beautiful tribe of flowers 

 who have the opportunity should visit this noble collection, now in its 

 meridian splendour. His pet bed is fiftv yards long, and consists of 

 seven rows, comprising two thousand Tulips. We should be glad to 

 give particulars of all the kinds here, but reserve them for a futuie 

 number. The following were the most striking : Hoses — Catafalque, 

 Duchess of Sutherland, Camuse de Croix, Countess of Wilton, Cata- 

 lina. King of Saxony, Fleur de Maria. Byblcmens — Claude, Impe- 

 ratrice riorum, Michael Angelo, Louis the Sixteenth, Victoria Regina, 

 which Mr. Groom states is the best Tulip he has raised. Bizarres — 

 Prince Albert, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cambridge, Duke of Devon- 

 shire, Duke of Norfolk, Duke of Sutherland, Everard, Marshal Soulr, 

 Nourri Etfendi, Lord Sandon, and Dr. Horner, which proves to be of 

 first-rate excellence and a second-row flower. The price affixed to it is 

 one hundred guineas ; the prices of the others above named are from 

 ten shillings to ten guineas. 



Exhibition* at the Horticultural Society's Gardens at 

 Chiswick ox Mat 3rd — The day was very unfavourable, the rain 

 falling heavily a great part of the day : consequently the attendance 

 Mas not equal to the first exhibition of former years. The specimens 

 exhibited, however, were far beyond any former meeting in point of 

 excellence. There was scarcely a specimen but what was superbly 

 cultivated. 



We have not space for all the particulars, and must only notice those 

 most likely to be interesting to our readers, enumerating, for their 

 guidance, what are the most showy and valuable plants for general 

 cultivation. This plan we adopted last year, giving only one insertion 

 of such generally exhibited plants in each volume, and then remarking 

 upon new plants only which are shown at the subsequent meetings held 

 at the three great Societies' exhibitions, held at Chiswick. Regent's 

 Park, and the Surrey Zoological Gardens. The following were exhi- 

 bited at Chiswick on May 3rd : — 



In collections of twenty Stove and Greenhouse Plants, the large 

 Gold Medal was awarded to Mr. May, gardener to Mrs. Lawrence, of 

 Ealing Park. At the back of this group stood an enormous example 



