432 Foreign J^otices. 



by Messrs. Youn.j, were verj^ splendid. Mr. Knight, nurseryman, 

 King's-road, Chelsea, exhibited a beautiful collectifjn of New Holland 

 plants, oai)e heaths, Sic. Mr. Bluir, gardener, Staniford-hili, and J. 

 Brampton, Esq., also contril)uted; and Mr. Low, Clapton Nursery, had a 

 fine stand; Mr. Wood, had some line specimens of Alstrieiiieria tricolor, 

 and one of A. puchella. Messrs. Young had also a fine A. tricolor, and a 

 magnificent geranium newly imported from France. Mr. Lane produced 

 a fine collection of balsams. An immense variety of cut flowers, from 

 Mr. M'lntosh, gardener to the King of the Belgians, at Claremont, were 

 employed in decorating the tent in which all cut flowers were exhibited: 

 around the pillars were trained some fine specimens of Combretum pur- 

 pijreuni, Qnisrpialis indica, and Bignonia capreolata. The cliarms of 

 music were also enlisted on the occasion — the band of the Coldstream 

 Guards being in attendance. The refreshments were of the most light 

 and delicate kind. Numerous marquees were erected, and every arrange- 

 ment which ingenuity could devise, or art effect, was made to enhance 

 the enjoyment of the visiters. It was not the least animating feature of 

 the day, that tiie attendance of ladies and gentlemen was numerous and 

 fashionable, and that every one appeared to partake the espiret sponta- 

 neously arising from the nature of tiie entertainment, — a great many per- 

 sons expressing a wish for an early repetition of so interesting and a^'ree- 

 able an exhibition. The tout ensemble of the Gardens was beautiful in 

 the extreme. On the first day, near 8000, and on the second day 6000 

 persons were present. Amongst the comp.iny there were Lords A. and 

 F. Fitzclarence, Laily Munster and f^xmily, Lord Stuart de Rothsay, the 

 Marquis of Hastings, the Marquis of Worcester, Lord Southampton, the 

 Turkish and French Ambassadors, &c. &c. After the business of the 

 day was over, the gentlemen who exhibited at the Gardens dined to- 

 gether at the Horns, Kensington; Mr. Tyler took the chair, and was sup- 

 ported by many gentlemen well known in the floricultural world, but 

 unconnected with any other Society of a similar description. 



The Judges on the occasion were — Mr. M'lntosh, Gardener to His 

 Majesty the King of the Belgians; Mr. Low, nurseryman, Clapton; and 

 Mr. Watts, nurseryman, Peckham. These gentlemen standing so high 

 in the profession, and in the esteem of every person acquainted with 

 them, not the slightest cavil existed relative to their decisions. — lb. 



Various prizes were awarded for roses, heartsease, geraniums, &c. 

 &,c. 



A grand Floricultural Fete and Exhibition of Flowers and Flowering 

 Plants for the Victoria cup, and other jirizcs, was held at Lord's Cricket 

 Ground, St. John's Wood Road, Regent's Park, May 26. It was nu- 

 merously attended, and the display of flowers and plants was very bril- 

 liant, notwithstanding the state of the weather, which Avas unfavorable. 

 It is pleasing to see exhibitions of this sort taking place in every 

 quarter of the metropolis and its suburbs. We hope the exhibitions at 

 Lord's Cricket Ground will be continued regularly ; and this, with the 

 exhibitions at the Surrey Zoological Gardens, would supj)ly, if the ex- 

 pression may be used, the demands of the north and the south sides of 

 the metropolis ; the Ciiiswick exhibitions supply the west end ; and there 

 remains only one to be established at Greenwich or Deptford, to gratify 

 the eastern quarter of the metropolitan district. We could wish to see 

 four large botanical and horticultural gardens similarly situated, with a 

 view of promoting the same objects. — Gard. Mag. 



Acacia lophdniha. — There is a plant of this species growing luxuriant- 

 ly, without the slightest protection, to the height of forty feet, at Abbots- 

 bury Castle, on the Dorset coast, Avhich ripens its seeds in the open air ; 

 and there is another plant of the same species, twenty feet high, also 

 growing without any protection, in the grounds of E. Pendarvis, Esq., 

 M. P., Cornwall.— L. W. D.—Ib. 



