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to increase the number of them; they might apportion at no great expense 

 or labour, a part even of the Kitchen or experimental Garden now unculti- 

 vated, and lay it out in fanciful figured beds and compartments for all such 

 plants and flowers as come into bloom in June, July, and August, taking care 

 to plant or sow each compartment with a different species or variety; a solitary 

 flower, however beautiful, if intermixt here and there with others in a garden 

 like this, is in a manner lost; it is only in beholding them growing in masses 

 that the eflect is felt, and the eye gratified ; this would in some measure obviate 

 the complaint alluded to. 



The management of the standard and trained fruit trees, which generally 

 appeared in good bearing, does much credit to their curator, Mr. Thompson ; 

 no gardeuer who visits London ought to neglect taking a view of them, and 

 to examine attentively the way iu which they are pruned aird trained. The 

 ground itself being flat and level without any of those undulations of surface, 

 iiatural or artificial, as the raised mound, the sloping bank, the mimic vale, 

 and the murmuring rill, presents little or none of that picturesque beauty and 

 grandeur which we meet with in some of the pleasure gardens of our Nobility. 



DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES. 



The first large Silver Medal was awarded to Grapes, from C. Dowli.vg, 

 gardener to Lady Clark; the second to Stove and Greenhouse Plants and 

 Flowers, from Mr. Redding, gardener to Mrs. Marryat, of Wimbledon ; aud 

 the third to blooms of Carnations and Picotees, from Mr. Hogg, Paddington. 



The first Bauksian Medal to Pines and Grapes, from John Wilson, gar. 

 dencr to the Earl of Surrey; the second to Flowers and Fruits, from S. Snow, 

 gardener to J. H. Palmer, Esq. ; the third to Cockscombs and other Flowers, 

 from J. Faulkner, gardener to Archdale Palmer, Esq.; the fourth to Dahlias, 

 from John Cooper, gardener to Mrs. Law, of Cannon Hill; the fifth to Ger- 

 man Stocks, from Mr. Hopwood, florist, Twickenham ; and the sixth to Car- 

 nations, Picotees, and Dahlias, from Mr. George Glennv, of Twickenham, 

 Editor of the Horticultural Journal. 



No dissatisfaction that I heard of was expressed at the judgment and deci- 

 sion of the Committee of censors aud umpires, whose duty it was to examine 

 the various articles and to award the prizes. 



The black Hamburgh Grapes sent from Lady Clark's, were of unusual size, 

 in bunches of 41bs. and 441bs. weight; the Racemes and Peduncles were of 

 corresponding strength and magnitude; the only observable defect wanting to 

 render them perfect, was a slight brownish hue on a few of the berries instead 

 of that dark rich bloom, which adds so greatly to their beauty, even if it does 

 not improve the flavour; they were much noticed, for no others could compete 

 with them. The Carnations and Picotees of Mr. Hogg were also among the 

 most attractive objects at the exhibition ; the flowei"s were remarkably fine, 

 large, and distinct, and being ranged in four boxes set close together, produ- 

 ced a very striking effect; the first box contained 24 varieties of Caruatious, 

 the second 24 ditto of English Picotees, the third 24 ditto of foreign Picotees 

 with yellow grounds, and the fourth 18 blooms of Self Carnations, of various 

 shades. 



The excellence of these Carnation blooms affords no small proof in favour 

 of the mode of culture which is recommended and minutely described in Mr. 

 Hogg's valuable and recently published Supplement. 



The dis|)lay of Dahlias was pretty considerable, but the proper season for 

 their flowering not having arrived, the blooms wire neither distinguished for 

 size nor variety of colours ; there was a total absence of the striped, the mot- 

 tled, the radiated, the tipt, aud piccoteed. It was impossible in such a moving 

 crowd to minute down many of the flowers that were placed in the tent. 

 There were several fine specimens of Fuchsia, Hibiscus rosa sinensis, Callipora 

 flava, Lupinus ornatus, and of Salpiglossis in great variety. The flowers of 

 Colochortus venustus, splendens and luteus, which are so much admired and 

 so much coveted, shone with peculiar lustre; these plants, I understand, are 

 still exclusively iu the Society's possession. 



It was whispered among some persons in the gardens, and asserted very 

 coDtidcntly, that one mau liad gained a Ranksian medal at one of the meet 



