THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1847. 



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coo ot ^ood gardening. At first sight it migl 

 var, indeed, that no greater 



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be reasonably pro. 

 it is by no means 



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icording to the manner in i 



■ :;ive always bee 

 some parts of tie 



ge, and quite beyond a!i return 



- that they ha^ 



va object, by limiting rewards 



it has been found that "the larger the 

 offered to exhibitors the worse the ex! 



:here is no denying 



Cotent-garden. When i 

 f conveying r 

 y, that t' 



tea did not work well. " For it is to a defective 

 •ntern tiut we attribute the decline of the Fruit 

 Wdhtioa at Chiswick, and not to want of skill 

 •wag gardeners. The latter is higher than ever, 

 y.7' aud as the exhibition tables of 1848 

 T e ? ou °t not, prove triumphantly, 

 d,, . pUnof lowing fruit at Caiswi k is entirely 

 jS*.. No fruiterers are to be allowed the 

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," de u r <-Wc ,t success of his humble 

 *¥hbour who only owns a Melon frame. Growers 

 £ placed on a footing of the strictest equality, so 

 isuo e 1S an 3 r possibility of doingso; and there 



nowill meda,s were distributed; the number 

 » above 130. The quantity oMruit to be put 



^infi«d l lTmfts : ^ ^ n ° W COn ^ ned BOt ° nI - V 

 of Gran* m ° re tha:i om Pine-apple, three bunches 

 berries o S ' °™ P ° M " f ' of Cherries > one dish of Straw " 

 ^ therewlV^™ '" each class * Each exhibitor 

 "hen Z " 0W exacll y what he has to expect 



Ser£!J terS i he garden : and J ud ° es wil1 *> 

 *** ihouK ^ the difficulty ot * determining 

 fine, , have th e first prize when A shews 6 





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that Seedling Florists' Flowers at 

 no longer to receive prizes at the hands of the Ho 

 ticultural Society. The reason for this is that it 

 in the nature of things impossible to make sue 

 awards satisfactory to either the growers or th 

 public. A specimen of some seedling may by a 

 or accident be brought for a day into such a state < 



may receive a prize, when it immediately acquire 

 a high selling value : it is propagated and sold at 

 large yi ' 





e great purposes of cubiv,, 



from mere accident, 



The Horticultural Society declin 



sir .b e that cxhii iti.rss uedd point out any improve- 



susceptible, so that whenever the proposed regula- 

 tion shall be issued they may be such as will be 

 most advantageous to the cause of horticulture. 

 Between the complete state of the old formal 



by Kent, there was as in almost all things indeed, 

 a period of transition, and its author was Bridgman. 

 His character appears to have been rather that of 

 one who on conviction renounces glaring errors, 



ventures to accomplish an entirely new creation, in 



which Nature's beauty should hold predominant 



ay. Addison had taken some great effect even 



th him. He had been bold enough to banish 



lat Walpole calls " verdant sculpture " altoge- 



er ; but with clipped hedges he could not bring 



himself to dispense ; from straight walks he could 



persuade himself to depart. Yet he " 



— and one which opened the door to greater 



undary of the garden and _ 

 a substitution of the sunken 

 place. The very name which it has retaine 



e time, from its being the exclamation c 

 ose who were struck by surprise at the effect thu 

 produced by throwing down the screen betwee 

 the home-ground and Nature — the Ha-ha!— how 



men's minds. The 

 as confined to that 



how completely the c 



the man whose obse 

 precisely ugly— cnul. 



rt, than the dear old i 

 s passed all her life in 



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a crotchety man. and no c 



and at Esher, 



excellence. 



b the Duke of Clev, 



> deep as the Red ] 





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te ripening. 



die.- Tuislkii . 



B i ibes the first effect of this j the majority of practical gardeners ; but each feels jida 



