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.: HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. quality. It seems to us as if the Rose-growers were | Gunter and his visitors ; but «Relea ae 
ie as fan og ae! ma Sites bear Plage on oem striving af after novelty of any sort; regardless | What we describe is what we u and to 
Fe ar. Subjects for Exhibitian must be at this Oftee cn De | Of merit; and if that be so, they will do themselves | facts ; 3; for we were not sharba-xnd the only fic Br 
fay, the sth of July, or at the Garden before half-past Kight mischief ; for the effect can only be, that buyers will | tion is, that where Gunter fails, who can hope to 
gelock, AM., on Cia ay a y of — ibition. The Gates re be disappointed at pete not being as beautiful as | succeed ? We do not believe there is another pur- 
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Be ts. each; or at the Garden in the aftemoon of the days of older kinds, and will cease to lay their money out. | veyor of good things in London who has the courage 
ibition at 10s. each; but none will be issued without an order Perhaps the societies who offer medals at public ex- | even to make the attenipt. 
m a "Fellow of the Soc y.—21, Regent-stree 3 nibitions are to amed for thi nis state of things : for | It is with great pleasure that we can close these 
R. PAXTON’S COTTAGER’S C ALEND AR is they have, one and all, neglected to establish any rules marks with a well-deserved compliment to Mr. Su- 
now reprinted in the form of a small v hese e, for general | for jud ing Roses, or to determine what it is that perintendent Williamson and his force of police. 
ce price 3d. cat copy; it may be ordered of all Book- | really constitutes a fine variety. It is highly desirable | With nearly fourteen thousand visitors te the garden, 
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ese 2 Vest t-office order to this Office, at the Toke of 5s. for | this matter ; and we invite our correspondents to en, horse-boys, grooms, and loiterers innumerable, 
y favour us with their ideas concernin g it. We, in the | there was not a single serious accident. One gentle- 
meanwhile, shall shortly proceed to point out what | man was thrown from his horse, the poney of a mail- 
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t would be, however, unjust to e Commissioners jf | of Waterloo, barring the balls; and the police, who 
' Never before did the ie good people of Turnham | We were not to add, that in n fact de roads were watered | Were on hard duty in that broilin g sun for eight hours, 
Breen behold such a scene as was presented last Kata as long as it was practicable, and as far as the means | Were so ex austed, that they ey lik fond leave the 
y to their astonished eyes. As early as four o'clock | 2 their ‘disposal would ermit. The truth is that no give: a7 it all passed aw e adream, without 
n the morning, the a. of preparation for the Hor- | attainable amount of watering would suffice to remove ty to dam ae oa ‘lease that, after all the 
ficultural Society's Exhibition were sounded by the oe ae a he cary ah fo at 100° ig jae decodes aid atte 
mployed in erecting awnings, and in com. | and ha en nearly or a fortnight before 
ting the Le Spit toa at “he ates. Then suc- | the roads were as hard and hot. as i they had been i b mS om she weal tte eae Janguage 
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s who knew that the Gardens were already filled | every ten minutes. Su neemte ate tobe ok upon and the i ia nee of ‘their views Mii ch 
beautiful objects that were afterwards to | rect,and in fact itis within the truth, a little citation 
act, within their sphere, an eager and mighty will show the utter impossibility of contending with 
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s the day drew on, however, water-carts were seen | Pied by carriages Jn motion was five miles long, an 
ng at an unusually Ia e hour ; mounted and foot | Seventeen yards wide on an average. In watering this 
a er 5 oak iage after carriage slowly effectually, 74,800 gallons would be required every ten 
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pped into line ; caravans of soldiers wit ith their r mu- minutes for fiye hours ; or on the whole /wo million n them oe diffe erently ; and we trust “they 
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here = a crowd. From that hour | #8 much as jive thousand water-carts would hold. To ce coflae ‘vielen ed the impor mee of the ole 
even in the evening, the arrival of * Visitors was | #bate such a nuisance, nothing short of turning a river maxim—not to throw stones at our neighbour’s win- 
sant. fies: pais of admission were choked | ©¥er the road could have sufficed. dows until our own are bricked up. 
the greens, the lanes, the ro ds, and every field eater thigfortine was the failure of Mr, In another column will be found the commen 
had an authorised inlet, became crammed with Guiter’s atrangetients for supplying ices and similar ment of a translation of a critique of Professor Liebig’s s 
s and all sorts of carriages ; and at last thirteen refreshments. Wi th this, however Astra it was to be | views and assertions, ronr-t e pen of no 
able a person than Dr. Schleiden, one of the best 
vegetable omer! toe physiologists whom Ger-° 
e | With room, covering, nas produced, whose intimate acquaintance 
where there was much reflection, | and Mr. Gunter takes all the y upon himself—in | with the minutest facts of vegetable organisation ren- 
aten even more fiercely than that. By nine | consideration of which he has whatever the epee ia ‘ d be 
‘ock in the evening, the whole had disappeared like | loss of the ito may be. He has for found to test the soundness of such an author as Liebi 
vision ; flowers, visitors, carriages, horses, and ser- | years carri his operiitods without scaaent who, al h his talent is undoubted as a very ms 
erable were gone: and it might have been | and ee com Pa, ti inerefore, only Teason- | chemist, and a writer of no common order, deals so 
i he failed on the late occasion, | much in unsubstantiated assumptions on the one 
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oad ; | rience and enormous means could not guard him. It | render it very desirable that they should be submit- 
as to ale, porter, ginger “te er, soda water, or such | is of no use blinking the question; his arrangements | ted to the rigorous analysis of some critic both ablé 
Q achmen and their friends de- | did, in fact, entire as ref nd willing h Q 
id, in fact, entirely break dow (as therefresh- | xamine them th ly. 
ght in, it ty His to a for them, and some | ment tables, which were thrown down. ‘But why?! “We inyite the attention of our scientific readers to 
ersons Gonktes whether the pumps would continue | We wish to say nothing about the importunity of | ,,i. document, which yeeros translated, with the 
0 their duty. | the visitors, every one of whom wanted his ices at exception of a that we have taken 
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: 2 ot exhibition, it was even finer. than that of | the same moment; for in such difficult situations the liberty of pruning away. 
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he wondrous beauty of the Orchi t of temper may be fairly laid to the account of ~ 
¢ have rewarded the ‘isitae for the du i |e how of the wedtnee. Thi reat cause of allthe| Tuene is unfortunately a class of low gardeners 
and annoyance, inse able fiom’ & eos lisddvebilehice that was sustained was this: those who | who abound at all exhibitions, where they render 
g near _ apie, in the hotest of hot ae Sptataes their refreshments, instead of waiting at or | themselves nuisances ; and we regret much to add, 
of exhibitors usually large, as | near the tables to consume them, carried them away | that they were present u at th 
ais Srp Bu. ‘ck, re hundred into the grounds, very naturally thinking that an ice | H tural Society’s late Show. Of their eau 
e aw: me AE A ee in porn age sada there are complaints without end, a specimen of w 
we ease the oad oes the introduced into the stomach beneath a direct is afforded by the following extract from a letter iil 
of se flower, and the extra beauty | rature of 120°. So, in order, swe hane a toy before us :— 
ibition as a whole, eg ri ial points | their ices, the fortunate f th “It has been a subject of much complaint by the 
‘A we think it necessary toadvert. =~ ~—=S&sthem off into the grounds. Now this would have been | Fellows, and visitors at the Horticultural Shows, that 
Peon was unworthy of the scene. The y. of little consequence, had the and plates, and | the tents are so beset with persons of the rank of prac- 
ty weather that had been experidheed for glasses, in which said ices nd been apatlete been left | tical gardeners, that it is difficult for the amateur to 
previously ought to have bis cad r- | behind. Unfortunately, however, it was necessary to gain even a cursory view of the objects exhibited. As 
§ forward an abundance 0 prt arry them off too; and as it was too much to think | thent 
epartment ; “ yet the judges wi of pressing through the crowd to return them, they | it appears to me absolutely necessary that some means 
find one collec: n deserving of the. Siatest were left in the garden. After standing thisrun upon | should be devised, either for excluding persons of this 
offered by a Sock ociety. Some fruit | the crockery for an hour or two, Mr. Gunter began to description . after a cert ain | hour, or, at any rate, for” 
Was, no doubt; and Sir Geo. Staunton’s Musa | find his stock of glasses, spoons, and plates disappear- | enforcing 
a fine object; eat these were the exceptions to | ing, o one’ knew whither ; we héar it was suggested | should moe on without lay oi tgs 
We confess we do not ‘rmlematendahig The | that, by some new sap a — they had been | cimen. The practice at p is this 
i as large as those for flowers; | converted into eatables and drinkables, and so aoe tent prohably twenty or 
onveyance backwards and forwards is | Vanished. In fact, a porn they had disappear » | examining every s i 
by the Sociéty, and all fruit is returned to | and no more were to be procured. 5 Bes there =n spection, writing the 
Whers. Why, then, does it not come? Is it | buckets full ; 8 enone abundance, as we are in- | randum books, sid athe 
use the skill ‘of foreing gardeners is on the de- | formed ; But - ther the one nor Se other could be | their liarities ; 
It is see them to answer that question on a | handed “out cay the i pe so in time affairs | of 
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oe Mies bi ' came, as they Aa - A a dead lock.” Atlast, by some 
regard to ey no doubt were grea y in- | dire e mishap, es were all pushed down ; ; the 
by the causes which ought to have been advan- | small remaining stock of crockery and assery 
is to the fruit. Nevertheless, we may appeal to | demolished; and then it — over. Of w. 
? saw them for a confirmation of our opinion | pened afterwards we know nothin 
large n umber of varieties were of inferior unfortunate—parii ticularly di 
