Horticultural Society and Garden. S-iS 



Also, from the Garden of the Society. Knight's protecting Broccoli, 

 flowers of Coloured Oxlips, Coloured Cowslips, Poppy Anemones, Early 

 Tulips, varieties of Fritilluria, Ribes sanguineum and aiireum prae cox. 

 Double Furze, Jmjgdalus persica flore pleno, Prunus sinensis, varieties of 

 iS^arcissi. 



May 19, — Read. On the Management of the Genus Camelh'« ; by 

 Mr. Thomas Blake, F.H.S. gardener to Lord Rolle, F.H.S. Remarks on 

 the Culture of the Vine; by H. Barry, Esq. 



Exhilnted. Candle from the wax of the i?hus succedanea, from 

 F. D. Davis, Esq. Broccoli, from Mr. James Dann, Gardener to the Rev. 

 Henry Symonds De Brett, F. H. S. Ten sorts of Flowers, from Robert 

 Barclay, Esq. F.H.S. Azalea indica alba, iihododdndron fragrans, and a 

 seedling var. of Rhododendron catawbiensis, from Messrs. Cl'.andler and 

 Son. Remarkably fine Asparagus, from Mr. Grayson of Mortlake, Surrey. 



Also, from the Garden of the Society. Nine sorts of apples and thirteen 

 sorts of Rhubarb, flowers of Wistaria Consequawa, Yellow i?6sa Banks/c?, 

 Chelone Scouleri, Common and Irish Poppy Anemones, Narcissus Fseonies, 

 Double Tulips, Single Tulips, Parrot Tulips, Double-flowering Furze, C'y- 

 tisus ruthenicus, fytisus elongatus, ^partium scorpius, Kibes aureum, 

 seedling Heart's-ease and Double Prunus 6'erasus. 



Tlie Anniversary Fete of the Society will take place at the garden at 

 Chiswick, on Saturday, June 27.; for which tickets will be issued from 

 the office in Regent Street under the following regulations: — 



1. All Fellows of the Society will be furnished with tickets of admission 

 for their own personal use at 2\s. each. 



2. All Fellows of the Society will be furnished with tickets for each and 

 every member of their family at 2\s. each, up to the 1.3th of June inclusive ; 

 after that day and up to the 20th of June inclusive, at 1/. 1 \s. 6d. each, and 

 subsequently, at 2/. 2s. each. 



5. Such tickets as may be required by Fellows beyond those for indi- 

 viduals of their own family, must be applied for, either personally or in 

 writing, when vouchers will be issued by the Committee in fivour of the 

 applicants. These tickets will be 25s. each, up to the 13th of June in- 

 clusive; after that day and up to the 20th of June inclusive, they will be 

 1/. lis. 6d. and subsequently 2l. 2s. 



4 Tickets will not be transferable. 



5. If tickets are exchanged, the difference must be paid between the value 

 of the original ticket and the price which may be borne by tickets at the 

 time of the exchange being effected. 



IVie Chiswick Garden, May 20. — We have visited this garden two or 

 three times since our return from the Continent, but found little to remark 

 on. On the whole, it is kept in good order, and extra-attention seems to 

 be paid to the hot-house plants, and especially to the orchideous epiphytes. 

 Wistaria Consequawa is now splendidly in bloom on the open wall ; the 

 number of blossoms exceeds 1500, each raceme from 12 to 18 in. long,, each 

 blossom like that of a scarlet runner, but much larger, and of a light purple. 

 Such a plant, trained to a parasol or to a tree, in the open garden on a lawn, 

 would produce an effect much more natural and imposing, because one 

 beauty of all flowers and fruits that come in bunches is to hang freely down. 

 No person having a house or garden, either in town or country, however 

 small, ought to be without this extraordinary fine climber ; when once estab 

 lished it grows with great rapidity. The plant in the Chiswick garden last 

 year made shoots 30 ft. long ; four plants, we should think, if done justice 

 to at the roots, would cover the walls of St. Paul's Cathedral in ten yeai* 

 and one plant, in a good churchyard, would cover any country church iu 

 less than that time. The price from being 40s. has fallen to 5s. and 7*. 6d. 

 each. 



It deserves to be noticed, that the ai'tesian well here, which four years 



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