May 8.] 
Mr. G. Spriggins Stove Plants: Mr. Venables —Orchidee: Mr. 
€. Warner.— Cut t Flowers : 1st, Me. Williams 2nd, Mr. Venables, 
eres Prizes :— Miss Hadsley, for N w Potatoes and Rhubarb: 
t. Plinibly, for collection of éenhidlise Azaleas; Mr. T. Daw: 
son, for collection forced S and six Hydrangeas ; Mr. 
Milne, for Mushrooms; Mr. Venables, for aie . sense: 
shaped Cacti. Cofracées’ Prizes :—Frwit: . Forrow, 
Tewih ; 2nd, John Anthony. — Flowers : 1st, Ed. raylot. 1 asendot | 
end, Win. Taylor, aaeeicamae ist, Mr. Forrow ; 2nd, aan 
Anthony. Extra PRiz : John Anthony ; ‘ditto, V 
Cooler.— County Press. 
Kent and Canterbury Floral and Horticultural Gene gt 
aso 
Me echoa 
and manured soll, and-ai 
on the e of a precipice, atid som: 
drift-8oil. The flowers of C. trichrém: 
quarters long, and of a light si 
down the centre of each, whence the 
Regent's Pied t oes 
e true Cot bir rgias are © shy- flowerer: with u S, and 
antry, havi rg a great dinpositiots m to aukes 
ike 
THE Soe CHRONICLE. ; 
ar 
et colour; the segments of the 
k of sg ya 
earlet 
perianth are edged with paler scarlet, and a streal 
specific name,— Bot. 
ted ew tte 8. 
sg are 
that the 
gla 
Egy: Hore flowing sa list of the ai ogg this nm took | Botanical Society are now at work in cian with their 
Favrr:—Best two bunches of Black Grapes, R. Halford, Esq.; | gatden in the Regent’s grand entrance gates 
best Pine; GC: Halle } best plate of Strawberries (not and the neipal pro re almost finished, an 
less than 12), Rev. W. Brockman; od ditto, W. Hyder, Esa.; | between 70 and 80 labourers are employed daily in com- 
best eight dessert Apples (Golden Harvey), R. Fra Esq. ; let d-work inspection of Mr 
2d ditto (Hunt’s New Town Pippin), ditto; 3rd ditto (ouva: pletin: ground-wor: e Insp! a 
reil), ditto; best six Kitchen Apples ‘(London | Pippin), t dd ecimus ton and Mr. Marnock. With money and 
ditto, Mr. R. Filmer; 3rd or (Norfolk Beaufin), Ps | good taste this may e a beautiful place. 
Marsh; best six Pears (Beurré Rance), J. Friend, Bog. ~ ‘ea rons St. J 4 k.—_Will f friend fe ua 
(ditto), R. rancis, Esq. ; ng ditto. (Uvedale St Germain), é $ thet il an 'y of our friends inform 
big aa eet brace fee E Ral 2 n what principle Elm trees in full leaf, from 10 Bi 12 
2d ditto, ditto; bes <idney Beans, lock, Esq. ; - ~ ‘ ? 
best six stalks of Rhubarb, Rev. W. Brockman ; 2d ditto, J. G. feet high, — a be —— 1 cine 3 —_ 
Shepherd, Esq.; best three Lettuces, T. Do , Esq.; best now thai gardening: Bas sstesy made rapt strides 
three Endives, Mrs. Webb ; best three heads of Broccoli, J. Cates, | towards perfection, bu did not before know that i 
Esq. ; best twelve heads of Sea-kale, Rev. W. Brockman; best | had rendered planters ky ag of seasons. We 
twelve Pot: S (1841), R. Halford, Es best basket of watch th ‘ogress 0 of these . st 
Salading, without cucumbers, T. Dorman, Esq. ; best basket of sig aA 6 
i Ba: best basket of Mushrooms, Rev. ‘agonian is an h fruit ype 
fifty Asparagus, Lesnar Swed peal” ‘aes ed 
k " pherd, Esq. Fiowe arias 
(Phidias, Victoria, Rubens, Ion, tw o elaveaets ig 
three ditto (Phidias, Tait, Fuyeacens he, 
ds’ Perfection, ‘Atkin. 
‘are, Robinsoni, Perone Rosea), Mrs. Webb; 
ersoni, Lownds’ ag ig nee Hector, Mal. 
ditto; b Yow lpomene, 
Emily, Gem, Corinne), ditto ; best two ditto Gem, J geen sed 
Hyder, Esq. 3 best three Stove Plants (Stay mill4- 
ria), J. G: Shepherd, Esq. ; as a st three ditto (eu iphorbia, 
Cactus abiiérmis, Echinocactus pa), J. G. Sheph _ 3 
racilis), Rev. 
Marthioncss ‘Obnyine- 
» Rev. C. H. 
eliow 
‘Tea-scented China), 
se Plants . Mrs. Webb; 2d 
r ditto, G. Buckley, Esq. ; best 
Eripmansis sanguinea), E. Knight, 
| sembles in 
colour, 
qual lity. 
he Pat ao 
like the hemes Gourd, which ita “ake yellow flesh re 
Itis very 1 remarkable for its dark-gree 
The Scenery of the 
seducing than 
ders of the 
with h winding walks, greensward, an 
the trees are all cut, pruned, and trained. 
the majestic heads of _the trees 
osks, its ruins, its hermitage, a 
ere is what is pest n 
i ‘divide the surface into numerous straight ribs sym- 
ly arrai say" —Bon Jardinier. 
River — in ; Belgium.—Nothing 
ound that has been 
d thick — ; 
They have n 
in England, which have 
Ci in flower (Ackerménni), J. Cates, ~ prospered under H 
best two ditto (Ac ayy Rye es csi H a ; is the saw and the pruning-knife that here hold sway. 
best dian Azal tirea), ey, 3 
four iy leas (Pulchérrima, Bicolor, Floribanda, E Y hegre Wiggs: Verviers.—Near Mazutes, in 
), Archdeacon ; best two ditto (Tricolor, Crispa), | Belgium, there is a Hornbeam some centuries old, whose 
3 best six Cape Heaths (Ventricdsa, Stellata, Vestita, Pu- ss nches at s — ng —_ a Bg mi e been trained 
béscens, Lite: nzeana), Mrs. Webb; best two ditto (Ca a civeular ewer. The 
Gracilis), rs. G. Neame ; best si nnuals, grown pots, T. ag ‘ 
rman, Esq.; best four ditto, chdeacon Croft ; tw living branches o ‘case, 
green-ed; d Auriculas (Oliver’s Lovely Ann, Pa; ampion), } th Iso do ti 
T. King, Esq.; 2d ditto (Wood’s De Lascelles, Page’s Champion), | dead branches stuck in the saci and fixed to the larger 
queror, Taylor’s Glory 
Duncan, Taylor’s Glory), ditto ; best two self-coloured gg 
son’s Apollo, Scholes’ Ned Ludd), ditto ; See Polyanthus. 
H. Baldock, Esq.; best three Cinerarias (H 
pulifélia), Miss lta? Sage three Bulbs (Gla 
bb ; ae 
Seedlin: 
branches of the tree. 
Twelve a mer be protected 
th ordin 
extra 
B 
tific ial seulpture, though, 
aturally tool 
er the eet wes ang 
the 
the form of our Saviour. When 
dry, and when the agriculturists ‘wished ‘rai 
ap this prose nn was found in the middle 
lor’s Ploughbo: ynqueror and Goldham’s 
Blacher, igh’s Venus, Moore’s Jubilee, two Taylor’s 
Glory, three ch’s Violet, tee Lovely Ann, three — 
Waterloo, three Hedges’ Britannia, four Page’s Champion), 
itto. Cur FLowers :—Best basket of Greenhouse Flowers, 
thdeacon Croft; 2d bern G. Buckley, Bag: 3 best bi gent — 
Hardy Flowers, Archdeacon Croft; 2d ditto, fans G. P. 
ies (Curion, Midas, Grand Duke, oP ae iia. 
Eclipse, Dr. Johnson, Victo: Wellington, m, Jewess, Tippoo Saib), 
i (Aurora, Victory, Mogul, Iago, 
e, Wellington, Ditto, ia d Duke 
odg- 
Sy 
f. Bnight, Esq. Extra: B f 
int ; Hardy Flowers, Lady Grey 
Mr. Masters contributed greatly to the show, by 
sending a few large _e s of plants, which formed a coup 
or 
rem: 
pai ansions of bark in such (a man 
when they grow een 
‘ocks. _On an € elevation near Soa near nn entrance 
le form, the ze 
cae cs rock, and prtaere its uni 
with e 
ner, that: it it Iooks Tike ‘the 
spec 
Pail bred easily imagined than describ ed.— Abridged the 
Canterbury Jo lar — 
NOTICES OF NEW PLANTS WHICH ARE 
EITHER USEFUL OR ORNAMENTAL, 
Cry’sIs BRACT! ENS. (Stove Epiphyte.)— A fine epiphyte 
Mexico, whence it was imported by George Barker, Esq., who 
flowered it it forms the third of the genus now 
known, and is r y disti hed be! its large white, not yellow, 
flowers, and inflated le: Its pollen-masses show 
thy 
es 
Tae ae an preene for ier 
or ms in which these negi , or repre. 
inexactly, are w in the pri it state of our know- 
ledge. In the original ©) aurea there are five princi, 
on the hypochilium, and minor ones on each side, all downy, 
diverging ; in whole, nine. In.C. éscens there are five 
= ridges only, all smooth and eahgben . levis, there 
hat confluent one smaller on 
large it ridges, 
cock side, the whole being smooth. The cone of those species 
Of Orchidacez which stand in — without a precise description 
of the of the lip, require to be re- critically.— 
Bot & 
Couvacta coccr'NBA. (Half-hardy Bulb.)\—This plant was dis- 
covered by J. Mac! as ee eee ere ey sane excursions 
over the Cordilleras up by him were sent to 
Spofforth 
autumn of 1939, the season nusually wet and cold, but 
appeared to dislike sunshine and weather, At the approach 
of winter the leaves perished, w they were set to dry in the 
§teenliouse, Ear! in the spring both the bulbs flowered, the 
when 
ly in 
Spathe havitig appeared when the bulbs were dry. them 
flowered again at the end of October, very shortly perse the pot 
had ~The flowers are bright seatict, haxe yellow 
a quarter long, and — 
bene 50.08 th be lara pendent positions about four ena 
iced on a stem.— Bet. Mug. 
Cose’rcta “prion (Greenhouse Bulb.)\—The bulb of this 
Pes whe: en ene June 1838 was sent by 
sggen sas on doer mm It 
silly to the pla plant yore ng ee in Mexico; and bulbs 
have been received from 
M. Dutrochet could ne 
nee to explain the 
yo 
oles?” Wew ould advise our 
£. 
interlacing of the cortical system 
ver have found a better 
a Re” 
| of 
gular process 
295 
GA DEN “MEMORAND 
Knigh?s Exotic Nursery.—There are at 1 ek here many 
plants of considerable interest in flower, besides the Rhododen- 
drons described in 
teful arom: gor odour which its 
im sats 
fiéra Loudéni is 
the anest  epeeined in Europe ; its flowers are yellowish-orange, 
atid the back of the standard is dark purple. 
varieties of Rhod in 
Azalea, called olatum ; i 
at the edges, a gn ne ee 
the bottom like 
mditi is unequalled in this 
‘country, or perhaps 3 e conp-d’ceil is su , and 
the infaity of tints are such as to render it im bie to de- 
se! them. We will, however, n some of the best in each 
. Roses.—Bacchus is a fil feathered at the 
edge with dark rose, and ig lightty flamed ; Ce- 
belle e is ly clear white, car- 
H idiana is finely feathered with light ; Gtoom’s Du- 
bi 
of the best of its c' ; Ponceau trés-blanc is clear, with feathered 
edges of a deep blood colour; Rose Brillante, beautifully fea- 
thered, and flamed with ose—and flamed 
rather lighter rose, are Superior Byblemens.— 
poe a clear w flamed with dark purple; 
onredecee ge hee is wl ith qi chocolate-coloured flame 
Tinperveris floram is feathered with very dark bees Lewali 
beautiful Clear white, with a dark p 
best of its class; Violet Alexandre i 
violet feather, as “is Queen Adelaide for its lilae flame, paler than 
any other flower; and Michael — is ee sana for 
feathered and flamed with dark rich maroon ards.—Cata- 
falque is prettily feathered with reddish- brown on ryere yellow 
ground: a noch Ele one va the rer yellows, with a brown- 
ish feather urri Effendiis a superb flower, beautifully shaped, 
constant, 
seed-bed: 
Prince Albert, = sols Mantra with @ strong dar! 
SE a anitas ane Caeeeer, ast year and a Rose 
& Byblemen after not yet named.—May 5. 
£ 
The sige a: of Mexico ap: _— 
an, Esq., F.R.S., &c.—Part 5. 
omares ome ee sat this at ificent work contains 
he t first. is Oncidvam Insledyi 
the flowers is n oO. 
which closely resemble the ante 
e next figure is is Brassia garaddad: which aoe 
rilliant in its colours ours as B. Lancedna or 
e ie te + 
hit.” it 
and Moles.— 
of the mn a jap at 
AS 
coraponiet ‘not. to in- 
aad th 
which form their princip: al food. 
vomica and other potonoas mixtures 
mo 
fore 
_ ae afore let ot an ot kill 
bora 
they 
considered noxious 
erica: : Se cacy then. 
aus oer os Our 5 orem sags re y rita 
Gasette 
ee eaget 
brine them 
his oes. ‘When nearly all the 
» but 
do this effectually by remov- 
- 
respec 
in such ane ; and is so attentive to them, that, when 
have be finds th 
as nus 
les oe ae worm 
worms are destroy 
the oe which baee oe 
having served hi 
a lighted | match 
an rrative,’ has un incerietag wecieanle 
St in aoe Chaleo, oe enema niin, 
thelr hai havi 
noxious in ce peaees al 
rendered it a pe fe 
Flor de Maio. tei Bewees ark At grotto eat bers ner 
—_ six inches to s| foot high ; their Solves’ is rich 
S the lip is y and pencilled with 
rn a aad be dge. * collected 
by Mr. in San 
point.” 
vators iat hen 
of Penlle rege who says, “it was 
said to have 
culti- 
| ce fall « neg when it 
to | the plant carried back 
2 el repeated, and. 
