310 Foreign J^otices. — England. 



max, and two others we did not ascertain the names of. Each of 

 these collections received the same award — the highest prize offered 

 by the Society. They were very attractive from their being so finely 

 grown, and shown in such perfection. Mr. Beck was the most suc- 

 cessful exhibitor in the amateurs' class; his plants were well grown, 

 but not sutKciently in bloom; the selection of the sorts was unexcep- 

 tionable, as the following list will show: — Nymph, Sultan, Matilda, 

 Erectum, Vivid, Vulcan, Rienzi, Deborah, Gipsey, Sylph, James, 

 Hebe. There is no doubt, had Mr. Bromley exercised the same 

 judgment in the choice of his plants, Mr. Beck would not have been 

 so successful, as the plants in Mr. Brondey's collection were gene- 

 rally well grown, and well bloomed; the state in which Lady Den- 

 bigh, Victory, Jewess, Discount, and Dennis's Perfection, were ex- 

 hibited, will bear us out in our opinion; but in the present state of 

 this beautiful class of flowers, to see such sorts as Lady Murray, 

 Diadematum rubescens, and Garth's Perfection, with but a few 

 blossoms expanded, was a circumstance sufficient to condemn any 

 collection; and to this cause we attribute the decision that was giv- 

 en. Mr. Stowe's collection was not well managed; they appeared 

 to have been tied up so short a time before the exhibition, that the 

 flowers and leaves had not had sufficient time to recover from their 

 altered position. There was no deficiency of bloom on the plants. 

 At the end of the tent, a single specimen (Florence) was exhibited 

 by Mr. Cock: a magnificent i)lant, covered with flowers. Those 

 who were in search of novelties, flocked to ihe small tent appropri- 

 ated to the exhibition of seedlings; this tent was much crowded — a 

 proof of the interest taken in floricultural productions. Several 

 seedling pelargoniums were shown, but two only selected for prizes 

 — Symmetry, raised by the Rev. R. Garth, a beautiful flower; the 

 under petals have a broad band of very delicate pink, which is 

 changed to white in the centre; the upper j)etals have a blotch of 

 deep maroon, a little softened at the edge, with a broad band of pink 

 around them. The plant was exhibited, (which is the best mode of 

 showing seedlings,) as evidence is at once obtained of its being a 

 free bloomer, with good sized trusses. Gaines's Amulet was the 

 other seedling selected; a very finely formed flower — the under pet- 

 als particularly fine; the flower is novel in appearance; the ground 

 color is rather a deep rose, carried round the spot in the upper petals 

 by a broad band. There were other seedlings meriting attention, 

 but not shown in their greatest perfection; we think this was the 

 case with Gaines's Orange Perfection, a beautifully colored flower. 

 Mr. Pontey's seedlings were seen under great disadvantages; the 

 distance they had to travel had no doubt caused the petals to flag 

 and to reflex; one called the Duke of Cornwall — a flower of extra- 

 ordinary brilliancy of color — we trust to see again under more favor- 

 able circumstances. The June show will prove the great contest 

 for seedling pelargoniums, and we hope to see as many as possible 

 exhibited on the plants. {Gard. Chron.) 



Great Crop of Grapes, — in the Gardener^s Magazine we find the 

 following notice of a grapery, with the product of fruit the present 

 season. Length of house forty-five feet; breadth ten feet; height at 

 back ten feet; at front three feet. Heated by one fire, over which 



