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JE XHIBITIONS OF PLANTS, FLOWERS, AND falt may be to step backwards; z 
FRUIT fi 
TANIC SOCIETI, Regent s-park, o 
and July sth.— Tie 
Fellows, — 
1 Exhibition of Plants, Flow and Fruits, 
will be — bys the kind permission of se tord Bishop of Chi- 
chester, in the el Sa ote on Thur , the 22d of June. 
Open k. y aee ion „One Shilling. 
A rur ot Mase will wil attend, . of Premi 
had of Mr. H. S k, Jun 
EDN NESDAY, June 
on the days of exhibition 7s. 6d. e 
SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1848. 
MEETINGS FOR or Two FOLLOWING — 
ri M. 
fir 
Monna June 
Tons Dar — 
WD Zs Aar 
Sarvurpar - 
Mownpar * 
ae ol 3 * 
è Microscopical: s.s.sg esses. ss 8 r. v. 
2 — 22— = any Botanical... erie aE 8 P.M. 
Sarusvar — 24--Royal Botan: de. u. 
Suows.—Tuesday and — — e1sth and 14th: 
F pte et ao Hortioulural, —Monday, June 18: re pa eies Floral and Haam 
ame Maidstone Horticultural, Chichester Horti- 
— — : Veron and Exeter Horticult ural, Staines 
Horticultural. 
s now some years since we endeavoured to 
arouse attention to the IMPROVEMENT, * Pie ng, of 
eo HARDY SHRUBS e par 
ticularly pointed t the Bönerenerie as a a pihi 
the 
which was open t nge. In genus 
Caprifolium we 8 species fragrant and tender, 
hardy ra Kin hard fragrant, evergreen 
and deciduous, weak ponos of delicate Sanne 
but beautiful like “ Minorea,” and coarse unin- 
— ramblers like the “ pubescent.” ie colour 
— for bee ment—y 
and deep cri 
no yer rnn why such . 
should not be varied so as to render this charming | ® 
genus much better suited to our fr lignite, and to the 
fact as man 
T by Me penne aprifo- 
ceupy the serious attention of 
possible to predict what oe — result would be, 
80 little do we know of t t 
acquisition of interesting 3 Am 
ies. We should 
tainty would be the 
probably most valuable variet 
wever limit ourselves to the sorts in gar er being 
It would be quite as important to gain the Mediter- 
Tanean and other species still u 3 in culti- 
vation. "There is for or example th Woodbine of 
the Pyrenees, by no hg tT identical 
with chat of n ä to the Seo d'Urgel 
collect the berries. me of the wild Italian 
or Tuscan —— are finer than any in culti- 
vation they should be obtained from Trieste, 
Naples, Montpellier, and especially from the moun- 
tains of the Sierra Nevada in Spin, where girer, 
found them as as 5000 above the se 
Then there are two or r three fits i in the Bal 
hedgerows 
near Tit in 5 And fin nally thie is that 
red thing, 
San and to AA copses, at the elevation of 5000 
7 he gave the name of Splendida.” 
as these at his Wee ee or 
a W 14th 
— obtained at the Gardens , by orders 
HICHESTER CAIRAT SOCIETY, jak 
ums may be two 
he Gardeners’ Chronicle. 
diversity enough to furnish mate- | 2S 4 
n „straw- colour, rosy we 
-| words about clum 
ner 
glimpse of distance, * been 
- | THE THING IS DONE now w befo ore 
mous ph ay signing himself 
f ; 
“ 
T.,” from | 
flowers and leaves of | 3 
ears 5 one in 
sings are 
have the bulging ae of ti the 3 cara moari the 
11 —.— of W naana the foliage is biended trom the two 
mules are t 
while mal 
It may be right to add, in regard t to the 
| mules, that the older leaves oniy are intermediate ; the 
ounger being smooth and more ol ter 
| Trumpet Riek Helly. une 2, os 
— N 
y. tured to make abe eda ars ago were well 
und order to render the result stiil mo 
th | app parent, we 1 ve placed in parallel columns a 
scription ‘of the parents and of the hybrid progen 
e ven- 
v. 
Scarlet Trumpet Honey suckle, Pubescent Honeysuckle. Hybrid. 
(Male Parent.) (Female Parent.) | 
— 
. W eak: Strong. 
DEU 5 dark green, Deciduous, wrinkled, spl Bere shining, dark green, 
aucous beneath, quite green, very hairy, coarse |g * beneath, slightly 
— 
Conne 17.3253; Slender, smooth, crimson, 19 Short, hairy, — 9 lines Stout "moth, brighter crim» 
rig 
lines long, 3 lines across the long, 9 lin the son, 15 lines long, 6 lines 
mouth ; equal, mouth; segmen * | s pae 
short, erect, the same clad spreading ; — 4 bons ver) two-lipped, reading, 
on both sides ; 3 lateral bos: conspicuo ous. E yellow inside; late 1 
very slight. ery conspicuous, 
Thus it appears that the hybrid retains the 
general c 68 * the male 9 aA with its 
vergreen lea and that las given 
her — re to thn o id of Am 2 ho some of her | dient 
age, and imparted much of her 
hairiness to the 
vigour to the cio he flowers are — ter 
and stouter male, with the w two- 
lipped mouth of the aid, they are longer and 
narrow e female, with the ri 
and smoothness of 5 male. These — will serve 
n after time than 
ante Meets impos- 
of a piin — and. above all, 
sibility o 
point at lea y escaped mere geom 
trical formality 5 and nothing could be easier in 
e thinning process, 1 5 which he 
could make his hae i precisely w 
ui gardeners in their experiments wit 
Honeysuckles: that they will be appreciated > 
r intelligent cultivators we ent no do 
in gardening than the obtaining a hardy 
* with the everg oliage. < 
— of the Trumpet, and the del 
he Woodbine. Such a result 
rumpet were th 
us fragrance 
ght evidently 
papa and th 
arranged group, there has been an amazing war of 
mps. Browns, their origina al creator, 
was not more zealous in sca formin g them than | | 
Price was fierce in runnin 
In spite of a former 
cular division of i —— 
respondent himself ca a 
ssage: “In the modern style of Lan 
on it is our aim, in plantations, to produce, not 
only what 1 called natural beauty, but even g as 
and m ty of expression, and of in- 
dividual e „than we se in N ape ure: ie 9 
variety and intricacy i in t ence | 
by variou 
elegant or — oi air se p 
rare and foreign species : 
of surface—disa 
y int 
to conceal a il det 
eable — i buildings 
s the 
eing 
* other offensive objects. 
or the straight line, is the l orm in the geo- 
arrangement of stents so, let A enforce 
note of the modern s e smallest 
K 
bee asses—thic 
with the most — en. 
for some stifly and awkw — planted, it is 
exceedingly å ee to 2 it a natural an Epe 
hile me fod scarcel 
d lovely by ite 
Eon the 
uckles, 4 although — valuable for 8 
attraction to thousan 
to the To of gardens who rank the Woodbine 
ds of 
that t 
15 an 8 veo pr 
the be ea of ae wha: Nichi Pag S 
í * onwards, in the great dread shaft to move at | 
. — 8. as 
next i 
so 
these are the specula- | so 
For | story of a 
till to | accomplishing 
And who 
Not a man 
fe ie least 
of trees.” 
This is ene be pe 
sence of es 8 are the charm 
* 
peni 
ndscape Gar- pearanc 
gr 
angement : a eie a 2 highly out 
laces b 
ts | We . dae of any hundred men whom 
etri 
it upon our readers, me Grovr is equally the key- | cl 
fears $ in the p wat taking into one 
comprehensive view the whole scenery with which 
he has t „the effects which his proposed 
groups * — produce on that sce as a whole, 
and the relation as to beauty which hag will bear 
to each other t this e voll ss dne iew must 
in v 
i e expected if the Tr Eve at this stage there are difficulties enough in 
e Woodbine the the oway “Of the mass 2 Le ee But we doubt 
t a. — less when the 33 
_ Grovrs and Crburs. In the question of planta- | garde arrange e ach particular 
tions, wie two features form an important element, | hols m of the groups to 
While no one can for a moment object to a tastefully tastefully bid rastie designed, the praya are 
certainly against eias bis vst group being 
it ought Dov ks are Red hang 
Nothing, at first thought, would appear easier 
than to arrange a few trees in — form of a natural 
mencing 
amental nating, 3 in- 
regular 
mal and asi ap- 
ent as possible e from t y- 
ware outline of ‘the group. 
erhaps, however, our i hardly a 
1 the exact difference between 
ol 
gro 
uty than 
should meet by chance, and should as 
nce betw 
w to invent something which, under th 
ts, should disfigure a whole park, 
could be contrived to ye Stara purpose 
emg 
ke each other as 
d out a one 
are full d openings and hollows—of 
Peire retiring behind each other 
pirr — of N 4 variety, of deep 
