Foreis:n JSTotices, — Ens;land. 303 



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New method of grow tm; Jlsparagus at Nice. — The following is 

 llie method of growiiiii; asparagus at Nice, of which a high account 

 has been given, viz: — Take a quart wine*bottle, such as fresh wine 

 is sold in; invert it over the head of an asparagus just rising from 

 the ground, and secure it !)y three sticks so that it cannot be knocked 

 over. If left in this state, the asparagus will grow up into the in- 

 terior of the bottle, and, being stimulated by the unusual heat and 

 moisture it is then exposed to, will speedily fill it. As soon as this 

 has taken place, the bottle must be broken, and the asparagus re- 

 moved, when it will be found to have formed a thick head of tender 

 delicate shoots, all eata!)le, and as compact as a cauliflower. (/t?.j 

 1842, p. 331.) [We recommend a trial of this method.— jKd,] 



Art. II. Foreign Notices. 

 ENGLAND. 



Exhibition of the London Horticultural Society for May, 1842. — 

 This Society holds three monthly exhibitions during the summer sea- 

 son, one in May, another in Juno, and a third in July. We already 

 jjossess reports of the May and June exhibition, and that of July 

 will reach us before our next number appears. 



The exhibitions have been unusually splendid this year, exceeding 

 those of any previous one. The reports in the Gardener's Chron- 

 icle are given at length, and each occupy at least ten of our pages. 

 We cannot, of course, give them entire, but we have extracted the 

 most interesting ))ortion of the report of the May exhibition below, and 

 shall give that of the June one in our next, and of the July exhibition 

 in a succeeding number, if it possesses the same interest as the others. 

 Nothing that we can find in the foreign journals interests us more 

 than these reports, and we doubt not that a majority of our readers 

 will be pleased to share with us in the gratification we have derived 

 from them. 



The exhibition was attended by a great concourse of people of all 

 classes, including the Queen and Prince Albert, the Duke of Devon- 

 shire, and others. Upwards of five thousand five hundred tickets 

 were sold. Of the beauty of the exhibition, and of the rich and 

 varied display, the best idea can be formed after reading the report. 

 But one of the most important facts connected with it was the high 

 cultivation of many of the species of older plants, rather than the 

 gathering together of mere novelties — thus showing that the legiti- 

 mate objects of the Society are attained, and good gardening pro- 

 moted. It is to this particular feature of the report that we would 

 call the attention oi' cultivators: the sight of such fine specimens of 

 azaleas, ericas, cactuses, and |)elargoniums, as are mentioned, would 

 be worth a host of all the novelties which could be gathered to- 

 gether. 



