•66 Foreign Notices: — England. 



The London Horticultural Society held its tliird sliow for the year 1834, on 

 the 13th of Sei)teiiiher last. The display of j,'eor^nnas was inost splendid; 

 but it was greatly injured in effect by tlie want of cia<sitication of the kinds. 

 Only two attempts were made at classifieation ; and though confessedly done 

 in great haste, yet the result to us was very satisfactory. One of these at- 

 temi)ts was made by Mr. Veitch of Exeter, but the name of the party who 

 made the other we could not learn. Had reading gardeners been the princi- 

 pal exhibitors of these georginas, we are persuaded that what we have before 

 said on the subject of classification would not have been lost on them; but 

 practical men, we shall be told, are not to be taught their business by books, 

 or bookmakers. So much the worse for them. Among the plants exhibited, 

 was a very fine specimen of Anigozanthos rufa, from the Swan River, from 

 seed sent to Robert Mangles, Esq., by Sir James Stirling, sown in August, 

 1833. It is a half-hardy haemodoraceous plant, with leaves like an iris, 

 al)out 2 ft. high ; a free grower and flowerer, and likely to ripen abundance 

 of seeds. Its tubidar corollas are of adeep crimson color, runningatthe base 

 into a deep velvet-like bluish green, which gives the whole a parrot-like as- 

 pect, and harmonises well with the trees and paroquets of Australia. A 

 beantifid silver-leaved Quercus /lex was exhibited by Mr. Veitch. A dried 

 specimen of a new hardy climber, Physianthus undulatus, which flowers 

 from August to winter, was shown us, and, when plants can be obtained in the 

 nurseries, it will probably be found as great an acquisition as Lophospermuni 

 or Calampelis. Among the fine specimens of old plants were Oncldum pa- 

 pllio, (of which we recently received a drawing and dried specimen from Dr. 

 Hamilton at Plymouth) a very handsome Brugmansia suaveolens, numerous 

 fuschias, &c. Among the fruits were very fine melons, pine-apples and 

 grapes. Among the articles shown incidentally, was an improved orange 

 tub of slate, which we shall hereafter figure and describe. The following 

 prizes were awarded : — 



The gold Banksian medal: 1. To Mr. C. Dowding^ gardener to Lady 

 Clarke, for miscellaneous fruit ; 2. To Mr. Redding, gardener to Mrs. Mar- 

 ryat, F. H. S., for miscellaneous plants; 3. To Mr. C. Brown, F. 11. S., for 

 a collection of 100 georginas; 4. To Mr. Glenny, F. H. S., for a collection 

 of 100 georginas. 



The large silver medal : 1. To i\Ir. Atlee, gardener to T. Farmer, Esq., 

 F. H. S., for gra|)es; 2. To Mr. R. Buck, of Blackheath, F. II. S., for Mus- 

 cat grapes; 3. To Mr. Fletcher, gardener to George Smith, Esq., for a queen 

 pine ; 4. To Mr. Wm. Bridden, gardener to Mrs. IMyddleton Biddidph, for 

 a New Providence pine ; 5. To Mr. J. Loudon, gardener to Samuel Gurney, 

 Esq., F. H. S., for green-fleshed melons ; 6. To Mr. Wm. Lindsay, gardener 

 to the Duke of Devonshire, F. H. S., for Gansel's bergamot pears; 7. To 

 Mr. Jarvis, of Turnham Green, for beurree Diel pears ; 8. To Mr. Joseph 

 Kirke, F. H. S., for a collection of apples ; 9. To Mr. Upright, of Morden, lor 

 miscellaneous plants ; 10. To Mr. George Mills, F. H. S., for miscellaneous 

 plants; 11. To IMessrs. Rollison, of Tooting, for Epidendron cuspidatum; 

 12. To Mr. Stej)hen Hooker, F. II. S., for Ciiina and perpetual roses; 13. To 

 Messrs. Rollison, for nfiscellaneous roses ; 14. To Mr. Widnall, of Cambridge, 

 for a collection of 100 georgmas; 15. To Mr. Gaines, of Surrey Lane, Bat- 

 tersea, for a collection of 100 georginas; IG. To iMr. C. Brown, of Slough, 

 F. H. S., fur a collection of 25 georginas ; 17. To Mr. Widnall, of Cambridge, 

 for a collection of 25 georginas. 



The silver Banksian medal: 1. To 3Ir. Clews, F. H. S., for black Ham- 

 burgh 2ra[)es; 2. To Mr. Spong, gardener to Robert Gordon, Esq., M. P. 

 F. H.S", for melons ; 3. To Mr. Jarvis, of Turnham Green, for apples ; 4. 

 To Mr. Boone, gardener to S. Warner, Esq., F. H. S., for citrons ; 5. To Mr. 

 Cuthill, gardener to Lawrence Sullivan, Esq. F. H.S., for cucutnbers; 6. To 

 George Robins, Esq., F. H. S., for Yucca aloifjlia ; 7. To Mr. Spence, gar- 

 dener to R, Durant, Esq., F. H. S., for Brugmansm arborea ; 8. To Mr. 



