350 Foreign Mikes. 



is essential that societies should publish the rules by which they intend 

 flowers to be judged, and quite as essential that judges should follow 

 their instructions. Societies should also, like the Metropolitan, class 

 the blenn'shes; for the interest of the best growers in public exhibitions 

 will assuredly cease, unless they can tell, when putting up their flowers, 

 the properties most valued by the society, and the leading principles 

 which are to govern the selection of the stands or flowers by the com- 

 mittee; and if the judges act contrary to this, they ought to be told of 

 it. We are led to these remarks by the two opposite principles which 

 governed the two sets of judges on Monday, May 28, at Hampton: the 

 one set, going in direct opposition to the rules published by the Metro- 

 politan Society, and giving the prizes to a stand which such rules abso- 

 lutely disqualified; the other being guided solely b}' the rules; the one 

 set deceiving the exhibitors, the other placing every stand just where 

 the exhibitors, who knew the rules, expected to find them. 



Mr. Lawrence's bed of tulips is, upon the whole, not so fine as usual 

 this year, but he has several magnificent new flowers. Messrs. Brown, 

 of Slough, are as grand as ever, though they have lost, like their fellow 

 cultivators, very many bulbs. Groom's, of Walworth, are better than 

 he usually blooms them. Many private growers have suffered severely 

 in the loss of splendid varieties, and almost all have to look out for sorts 

 to make up. The Duke of Devonshire, who this year blooms his first 

 bed, has already paid some visits; and must, before the season closes, 

 if he desire to excel, visit Slough for a public bed of beauties, and look 

 a little among the beds of private growers, all of whom, be it remem- 

 bered, would be proud of a visit from his Grace, and be able to show 

 some flowers which their competitors have not. His Grace is precisely 

 the individual who, by example and precept, should foster a flower in 

 which England nov/ rivals Holland, and which only requires such a cul- 

 tivator to render it the most popular, as well as the most grand, of our 

 garden ornaments. 



The following is the award of prizes: — 



The Queen's Plate Class, tieelve in a stand. 



1. Mr. Holmes — Aglaia, Fleur de Dame, Rosa Blanca, Selim, Bru- 

 lante Eclatante, Desiderata, Holmes's King, Violet Rougeatre, Rubens, 

 Shakspeare, Abercrombie, Strong's King. 



2. Mr. Glenny — Rose Camuse, Catalani, Claudiana, Seedling, 

 Holmes's King, Violet Quarto, Beinfait, Cleopatra, Garrick, Strong's 

 King, Abercrombie, Polyphemus. 



3. Mr. Strong — La Tendrisse, Delia, Rainbow, Commander-in-Chief, 

 Titian, Hero, Lord Holland, Princess Victoria, Duchess of Kent, Em- 

 peror of Austria, Unknown, Like Grand Turk. 

 For the Society's Cups, value 51., 41., 31., 2/., and ll. Nine in each stand. 



1. Mr. Lawrence — Ponceau tres Blanc, Rose Astonishing, Bijou des 

 Amateurs, David, Salvator Rosa, Monarch, Princess Sophia of Glou- 

 cester, Ariadne, Strong's King. 



2. Mr. Brown — Lac,Wallace, Ponceau, Polyphemus, Rose Camuse 

 Extra, Captain White, Ambassador, Solon, Salvator Rosa. 



3. Mr. Wilmer — Dutch Ponceau, Bienfait, Milton, Camuse, Apollo, 

 Transparent Noir, Triumph Royale, Carlo Dolci, Colossus. 



4. Mr. Strong — Cerisse a Belleforme, Cerisse lelat. Hero, Duchess 

 of Kent, Princess Victoria, Strong's King, Cicero, Surpasse Pompe. 



5. Mr, Lovegrove — Triumph Royale, Perle Brilliante, Rose Quarto, 

 Monarch, Holmes's King, New Seedling, Platoft", Alcon, Franciscus 

 Primus. (Gard. Gaz.) 



Stdtice arbbrea. — This very showy plant, which we noticed at p. 57, is 

 advertised for sale by the London nurserymen at five guineas each. It 

 is said to be a " splendid conservatory plant," and Messrs. Lucombe, 



