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FLORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
r. W. Masters in the Chair.. The portion of Mr, 
n the my ye —— - > properties, nat rea 
Apri 
eens reine 
he Secretary p _The following pro- 
7. a une 
y or, and well filled — aoe pear rcular, dense, pure 
white, | and equally poe apron —_ ground eg be —— a-rich 
ether re) 
width round 
ents 
ided into four eq f the eter, 
he paste one- fourth, the -eround porno pendent and the 
ging one-fourth. Mr. m here dyanded ‘in a — 
v 
t 
ed 
¥ 
meter > ~ a “ the tu en one-third for | 
ceils 
v 
ti 
ive proportions should be fourt noomtae 
arate A en on ‘the Tulip, ‘ro which he 
erial points ; zy 
r. Bowler’s) opinion, was 
the very worst that could possibly a not having rene 
power to retain its general outline; neither should t le 
be depressed —in our best flow He ‘did not 
r, Groom that the petals sho - 
ewe his, with a a — spheroidal form 
quart 
ers it was not. 
of a - te ered aa by an unskilful n_ his opinion 
the semi-globular was the more Ceetutebinre wee the me. 
all o Tulips ad been remarked that 
the third of a globular ball would rep t t ts ; but 
he had never met with it, and in his idea it would present a 
mi . The of the pe should be unbroken their 
n Pp, which would prevent all quartering 
(a term which in reali eant dividing — yon eine - 
a in and it woul in his opinion 
ito six, 
talising, or some ee proper term, were  saletueens. ir Kw 
is, however, greatly counteracted by night covering. metimes 
pals fall first ; at. = in Rose Brillian moran and 
t to colour, that of the ground 
sepals falktogether. ‘With 
is an important object; it v: m te toan intense yellow 
th e white and bright yellow being the best. The feather, 
whether broad or narrow _ be insensibly lost toward t! 
centr e petal in'the und-colour, and forming: fine un- 
—- en anes either elternataly yellow and sane sa oe 
eee yee ee of a mass of colour in the 
orth the pettine ving rregular and angular outline: - is = usaly 
associated with the feather, but Peed is pny ble t it 
with the broad eee The bottom “yh wells oe 
and appreciated eat intich ‘aectpuonn, ‘ flame without a 
feather often has mes appearance = i although the absence 
of it ww i necessary to form He 
flushing of colouw 
san 
ing kno own, and not the cause. 
‘or colour, cleanliness, and Toi te) he would mention Cerise 
blanche, and Gloria mundi, which had always 
d held their pla i 
£2 
é 
68 
we a former occasi 
yt tf ood one. After 
paneer it was ~aemna 4 that the subject should be peter for 
further discussi nm fi owers could be procured to illustrate 
respective argum: 
COUNTRY SHOWS. 
Kent and Canterbury Hor pig ee Sociefy.—On April 7th = 
first st exhibition took place at the Corn Exchange, and 
Pe ag 
Ki sors: 
ent from the ihr 
uded m anf apes 
Rhodod in arbs- 
st plate 
Esq. aoe three Lettuces, | a R 
Rev. W. Brockman. c) 
toa: ul in flow 
ocactus scopa), cig Pagid P pant six ditto, ‘without 
eto second best Azaleas, inblossom (Alba, phoe 
ditto ; 
le 
»T. King, 
ra est (Stora ine 
aterhouseana), Rey. W W. Brockman ; best 
— » ditto; best two Wallflowers, goer 
Exrra,—Rhododendrons (arbére 
ad 
(cl vari Ju 
cor rhe eh three Caméllias, 3G. Shep. 
© ditto, G, Buckley, Esq.; best basket of 
single Anemone, Miss 
best basket of ‘cut flowers, Rev. G 
P. M 
Flint ; 
arsh. Extra —Nosegay, Rey. W. Brockm 
Winchester Polyanthus Show.—This exhibition took plac 
Thursday, April 21. The eagle, fh were the ance cessfu. "s compe- 
titors : sr prize, Mr. Foster. 2d, Mr. Wever young ; 
4th, M Sheppard ; 5th, Mr. Shenton ; cr ot, Me Hyller. 
The aero prize was gained by Mr. Jas. Pattis 
piigiaiecag te ve! hat PLANTS WHICH 38 EITHER 
FUL OR ORNAMENT 
Mi'MvULvs wh etd var. Ma eee Mr. Tee 
rose- a Monkey- flow Scro ophula ridceee. Didynamia 
n (Stor < Hlerhecomne Plant.)—Beautiful as are the 
n ll-know Mimulus from California, M..réseus 
and M. cardinalis ; "this, we re oes exceeds them both in the size 
the flow _It was raised by Mr. Aten; 
> 
=f 
29 
a 
ae 
ic) 
best when grown in a light, rich compost, a pan of water being 
1 der the and kept in the stove. The hone ers do not 
bear exposure to the Fara —Bot. Ma 
Aca’ CIA PL — Broad-w cacia. Leguminosa. 
amia Monce (Gre enhouse Shend, Thi penatitn) Aca- 
cia compensates for ‘the eieence of leaves i 
vend oe colour of its head 
th 
ce, at 
ray, at Oa aelds CCelten 
it is a a‘ peculiarly free. flow rer, 
and a most desirable greenhouse autumnal blossoming pl : 
— 
Dec andra ee ia. (Greenhouse Ps i ous ce secede 
of tty species ch nt by +l Tw tn ja the neigh- 
and Monte Vide eo the Gla 
undantly in e roots are tuberous, and the 
leaves, calyx, Peary — “od of ay petals hairy.— Bot. 
GASTROCHILUS PULCH s.—Handsome-flowered “Ga tro- 
chilus. Scitaminese. “Mo niet ar Beotiog fui (Stove Herbaceous 
Plant.)—A native of Rangoon, in the East Indies, where it flowers 
in August, and whence plants were sent tu the Royal Botanic 
arden, sa. where they es ape ow at Lae same time, by Dr. 
lich. estes ossoms are very handsome and grace’ i, mee at first 
sight “pre — of some Orehidaceous a th white 
or a? olow witha which are Pot o white 
streaks he requires the heat of a stove, ma seems to darien well 
po eatment as is given to Orchidaceous plants.— 
t. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Manures.—At a late meeting of the Ashmolean Society, 
fessor Daubeny exhibited a A ote, of Mr. Daniell’s 
New Patent Ma vewrhid “Whiid ta is stated ve 
nate 
ij 
ae 
ct 
Be 
4 
ot 
wa 
#- 
or 
rant to the rab t of subsistence, so ae eperges varia 
of animal manure, by givin ergy and vigour vid 
the organs of plants, will cause the to raw m rs S ibe 
’ force a hg 
tionately larger quantity of them into existen 
Buckland thought that an important principle, 
$ ating manures, had been brought forward, viz., that 
a plant, under their action, draws more freely t 
atmosphere. addition to the increase of human ma 
nure with a the quantity of carbon given out b 
imals, an bed by fer a hg. hc aa 
ately ‘ekeauen He furt her adverted scrimina- 
tion necessa 
tlem n haye 
| sidering that tien See 2 and in many case 
ns in good conditio the prices they realised =e “Hai 
markable- ‘The following are the ory s for whic h 80 of 
ay 
4 vols. med fetched rea which ‘is juat’ twice the seis at 
which new copie ) sen fete ne Duke. of 
nats 50 copies were printed. 
Magazine, consisting of 67 vols., 207. 15s.; Edwards’s 
otanical Register, 27 vols hialf-bous d, 211. 10s. ; EL 
liott’s Botany of South Carolina, 2 vols., 1. lls.; An- 
ews’s Botanical Repository, 10 vols. 4to, 7/. 5s. ; Blume’s 
Flora Javee, 3 vols. fol., half-bound calf, 197 coloured 
tes, s. A fine copy of Catesby’s Natu is 
Fl 16k; it r n copy to Peter 
very ra ork, with tw 
x’s North American Slr 
2. pelds in 4, ure bound in calf, with 156 colour res, 
92, 10s.; Geertner de Fruct a ~ Seminibus 
3 vols., 225 plates, 47. Hum an 
(Partie Botanique), 7 vols. rien in russia, with 700 plates, 
71, 10s.; Jacquin’s Collecta i 
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fol., half-bound i in mn with 120 salute plates, 4/. 16s.; 
the Mimose, at fol., half-bound in russia, with 61 co- 
loured plates, 4/. 13s. ; Jacquin’s en Plan 
vols. fol., bound in 6, w 
Sc 
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ies of 
BH fol., half-bd., sold, one for 
indley’s Digitalium Moabgrapbis, 
tes and one drawing 
‘inus, in 
— the aig cote 
28 coloured 
in calf, 5/.; Plum 
al folio volumes of dra 
knsbotipt volume of descriptions, 
pus Botanicum, .consatng ~ 385 plates 
and 135 and-ink drawings, in 4 vols., calf, and 
 hat-bound “Bi. 18s. 6d. 5 Roscéee pt Phat Plants, 
ith lio, 121. Sow 
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"Garden, in 7 vols., half-bound in ealf, 
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G RDEN M MEMORANDA, 
J. Alleard, Oa Stratford-gneen.— 
flourishing in 
grow them 
; bat 
e roots, ody eee 
Dendrébium fimbriatum 
ea very st y. Last year Cape H 
planted out ina bed on oe lawn for the summer ; they were 
the s' the plants 
stem, has erected ; a is 
zp ants in, ead es Guaweiea st admirably} the 
ar pieces of wood, which form the back d front of each 
th ventilation can be : peuntaloanels 
windy weather, without any injury to the plants in the niki 
boliriga it 
The Journal of the Royal G. mooreeiien! Ayelet of 
ondon. Vol. XI., Part ag = 
Tue first section of the ican a 
eee account by Mr. Ainsworth of an 
vari ts of Wes m 
pan oth 
the 
ein with a coloured pease 81. 8s.; | but also the 
were 's Pro- 
