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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 5 
267 
T TORTICULTURAL 
Annual Report 
Bassot the peg; No. aa 
of May next. 
EET, 
CIETY, 21, 
80 
APRIL 21, 1818, 
tha 
of President, 
year and for receiving W 
f the Auditors, oii take place at the 
reet, on Monday, the Ist 
a precisely at "ea o'clock, 
retary. 
RAL Bo BOTANIC TT, REGENTS — — 
e T 
inted for th Exmnt ons 
7 be anys appo 10, June 14, July 3. Tickets can be was gone: three months had effectually exhausted it 
are ed a the Gardens, by. orders tht m Fellows of the Societ It may be said that this was wħat is called an 
price 5s. ; or on the e Exhibitions 7s, 6 m crucis—an experiment push 
H SOCIET „ SH W of | extremities and beyond all reas was 
e r. LIDGARD’S, the im 
r But by suc experiments gre ths are quickly 
Serie, ee 24 blooms, Nurserymen 36 —5 Sub- | elicited. The opposite experiment was the growt 
iption 10s, For further particulars apply to Mr. R, S. Mount | of a ER ga = x 755 r, fi nd un 
gor, Ealing.—Apri ALIAS ained ; had strong, stiff, short-jointed | w 
DA 
Se aes —.— 
i e er 
five and brilliant 
5 fee 
Journal,” Sept. 18th, ne eport 
should 
e follow 
lants 
ssession of — 
is variety 
Thi 
“Gar ardener,” Oct. 2.—Re- 
ing 
2 raphe onice,” RA 6th. sem — 
108. 6d. 
of the Surrey. 
awarded to Mr. Tamil. for Fire Kine x ovel 
— 4 scarlet orange, large, fine in form, good | a 
a — oer maroo 
Ei ADi — 1 — 
epor 
e to Collison’s 
1 aich centre, and 
— — — — 
an eminent degree.“ 
G (Torvill), oriental anga of Bo most attrac- | k 
that essential 
die Any 1 — 
as 
and lar! in 
n, fine symmetry, 4 to 5 ft., 10s. 6d. 
nner), the best white, [ey 10s, 6d. 
s. ôd. 
CAN: er), primrose, tinged, 3 to 4 feet t, 
A (1 beds yellow edged red, 4 feet, — 6d. 
- Blas oa (Turner), 
feet, Ts. 
HERO (turner) large constant rose, 5 feet, 7s. 6d. 
last — named varieties for 203. Also every other 
tice. 
yellow shaded w 
0. —— collection of fancy Dahlias is 
and co! 
ton —Chalrey, 1 
with crimson 
very epee ain 
Catalogues on applica 
REGENT. 
CE IS t the ANNIVERSARY 
ETING of the Tor the year for — oe ction 
1 x 
peared: but — 85 FiA, a 3 leaves instead of fj 
e blind. Next came the breaking 
© y 
branches ; oe ‘black, thick . ves, with the di iges- tion—par tly with the des 
hard w o bursting into | soa 
aterals ; fine plump clusters of 5 sd perfect skies: “ Yet let us test rr o sup- 
and tho-| pose that a fragment of the most bea ati Rose- 
flowers, and huge ber ies, hard, sound, 
circumstances. is possible that he may there improvement on Paice, we became involved in a 
Just expression: no one hesitates dee he shall 
give that title to the leaf of a Ros or to th 
what can be more clearly made out ary this 
It. 
pfincipde, that sublimity in colour is enti rely 4 
to 
endent on accompanying „ 
d as 
so. | ciations? But genius can add fresh colour to * 
V II 
Rose, and perſume to the Violet. How on earth, 
inds, seems 
on a work of supererogation? The Editor actually 
writes thus—partly, 2 the way of correc- 
leaf that can be found ehall be applied to the tip of 
erfect maze of ende. Why should the tip 
of a respectable young woman’s nose be ch 
an 
bad are relative terms, and con vey no distinct ideas. | could it be a climax to the illustration so happily 
We have seen people erage the excellence of given by Price? Why, again, should this mystically 
or 
The Gardeners’ Chron icle, 
TURDAY, APRIL 22, 1848. 
ETINGS FOR THE TWO FOLLOWING W ee 
ME 
Weonespay April ae Bcroscopical 
Moxbar May 11 e icultural (Anniversary) > F! r — 
3 a 
Turspar 
WEDNES. — 
Farbax * — 
A READER in 
that although “ he k 
— 
2 Lim 
melogical 
e 
the West of England assures us 
close as he 
i ap years during which we have been 
ala dissipate errors “of this kind have been 
gardenin 
— Sete of 3 
pl 
insurmountable by such 
mlm culties th 
we at — 
ee t presen 
fi 
77 
no fact m Sank a ‘ak thas that 
xpos 
R vse In b 
to onise 
with their natural poe hee 
nd omega of 
is the alph 
or case we 
s permit, 
sed to a free circulation of 
Let ‘np one 
Vine ab 
ne in an absolutely close | one 
of his penean: 
e right, a Vin 
ter in a Wanp’s cas 
e than in a 
gh try the 
m the . — uence 
to be mistaken, We 
it ele ond can tell 
eal 
are formed fair lea: 
Presently its its 3 0 
long-jointed 
f bloom ap- 
of managemen 
e 
forced Roses which t oug o have been on-laid’ Rose-leaf seem so “ Searfully strange and 
eee to acknowledge as their own. We have unnatural,” when we are expressly told that th 
een Gra apes, too, as large as Peas, and as red as spectator is led “ to believe that the hue is native 
apital by their innocent owners. of the spot, and essentially belonging to it ?” 
We do not say that our correspondent’s Grapes why must the spectator be necessarily a stranger 
of that sort: we hope and believe not: but we eS —and look askance, instead of taking a plain, honest 
tainly should li enj opportunity = front view? All these ideas t up 
hronged upon us; 
but there remained the greatest difficulties of all. 
0 
reared in a Vine ry “kept as close as it can bo What was the real bearing of this marvellous 
good part, as they are intended, 1 that the ot 
tleman whose practice has called for them wil 
ibe 
We trait that these remarks will be taken in PRICE 
g 
the amount of closeness bein at the same time illustration? And what was the nature of the test 
t h 
4 great ge 
try | triumphant progress. Having amazed us by this 
the effect 5 87 his Vines of a more rational system | unaccountable test, the Editor thus lucubrates: 
“Thei l 
co ft 
We have seen enough of the Essay on the quired its beaut 
ORIGIN or TASTE, fefixed to Sir Uvepae Price’s | immedi 
w 5 to appreciate the Editors peculiar calibre of one's mind with the rich fragrance of the flower 
wh JEF 
eaves ALISON and Jerrrey to in- i 
en he t 0 
LE’S chapters, with the express view ker gropii Sir bob a could never pase 
ir Uvep 
of rendering the book more completely serviceable | m 
to th 
Gardener, 
It is needless to enforce a yl ength, or to do i 
more 2 lay down, the self- evident 8 en no ojh b 
aying oar ‘of rounds according to the ee and 
bite . ple—“ there 
rahe n bring true Taste to 
Gardening until he have e Wat w uh the |a 
e 
spirit of that Takie. Ši have acquired = 4 great from the immediate association which it awakens in 
principles. To the instilling of this 
very alderman’s mind 5 the rich fragrance of a 
aste, e 
then, Price devotes himself in the frst er es — of venison.” We have ace aa the few 
and although, at a cursory glance, the student may | words which we have alt ERN in itor’s text, 
} 
deem all this to be of a purely abstract nature, yet |t 
o show how universally applicable his priuciple 
found. 
he will find that when he comes to practise his nS must be 
those 338 — develop themselves almost un 
ge ih or improvements whi 
handled as it is by Diti oe oa usual acuteness, 
without his a al extrava 
He has ted of t 5 in reference 
to form, light, and 4 — ak e has distinguished it 
O Landscape Gardener l—never mind the in- 
t 
—— usly to himself, and — ae will direct his creased price which — are thus side to pay for 
and Price’s work. out these wonderful com- 
e 7 tempt Take one branch af ‘the subject, | ments it would have tes utterly incomplete. == 
ON THE ASPARAGUS OF THE COSSACKS. 
(Ty latifolia.) 
[Tne following is extracted from an article, b 
yM. 
2 A Morren, in na s Journal d'Horticulture de Gand, id 
from the sublime and the jonai while he — for March, 18 i 
i The 
authors F. a humorous publication x Sapan 
e 3 
now goes on to show “how far t 5 5 e in 1847, 1 of 4 3 
principles operate with regard to RS. ere | into their pee They have enumerated, in verse 
nt pie he É at open issue with his Ap EE . names a varieties of the famous Solanum tu = rosum, 
e 
nded Editor as to the opinions of B 
walled tl the attention of horticulturists to the 
RK 
uted happy capital, ichavited 
ayi p us: Mr. BURKE'S idea er the R Bokha 83 suse PPY san mack 
ainly th 
beautiful in fone seems to me in the highest de- 
e| gree satisfactory, and to correspond with all his 
other ideas of beauty.” He then m e what a 
appears tobe a aig just as well as acute rem 
on which 8 aspra ape r should |? 
onder well. Im erve, at the same time, 
that the beautiful in — is of a positive and inde- 
a great degree 8 and depands on the cir- 
ass 
panied, “A þe aut perde is a common an 
bu 3 aden = the kind of freemason 
mong botanists throughout the world, we "si 
but : i 
what happe e| pendent nature, whereas the sublime in colour is ib was Se — > lar pe e piant „e 
7 i ong ä } 
— i En e well, grew in ns by which it is accom- Dr. Clarke's a we found w peiorem 
d history of x% 
