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THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
803 
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON 
This Day is published, — “e 6d. am sas saree, of the Society, and 
CATALOGUE OF THE FRUITS Cultivated in 
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q fie Gardeners’ Chronicie, 
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1842. 
tay ab FOR oe TWO dada oe Bbc drain 
Monday, Dec. Entomological . 8 p.m. 
orticultural 2 P.M. 
Tuesday, Dec.6 . . + AMMMORH o-67T gee eile arm 
Floricultural 9.4. y : are 
Saturday, Dec.10 '. . . Royal Botanic . . + Sp P.M 
Tuesday, Dec _ Weer es 8hr.™M. 
eolomioal’. sews 8 i 
aman: Dee 4 : Se co ee ee B* sae 
Friday, Dee.16:3° 6 26"9 4h aa! Se Be ed ee 8 pM 
will “follow the peace with China, an ove opening of 
that little-known country to Europeans, we trust th 
one will be the acquisition of a large number of 
valuable hardy ‘plants for our gar The 
Fokien, the Black 
yarde i 
; the o be fou 
E et Caielitae Ae. a ; and from the same part | 10 
a 4 a Celestial Empire to itudes of 
 beauti 
ifu sige authentie “gy ht gps of which 
Mor more motes 
wh 
st be an admirable post 
‘e are then mos i ye py to announce that the 
Horticultural Society of London have resolv ed upon 
eted. 
We forget what was promised ee the voluptuary 
to him who should procure him an 3 bu 
alue in gard eserves a much better 
reward—the gratitude and sup of those who are 
benefited by it. Sv invention is now before u 
h 4 
Mr. Ro 
mpty, as circumstances 
may dictate, 
nature ; 
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ea ef a ey oe asa eenerrane ot of very. ery gat a 
would give themselves the trouble to attend to 
wi 
different, and far less usefi 
with do uble c/ 
= author urges | or 
leash, its may suffer, in such pots, from 
od 
count of tht m 
ty 
nd the source of many of our | 4 
w pleasure t 
f\t 
The following: cut will explain its 
0 
| aowens: but how cana 
the quantity of water to which they are exposed in 
ite he says, harvard be introduced between the 
of this reg co ae its j ne surface will be = 
n ie young wi 
much mit so that v4 will rot, fy and the } ae wil 
be 
erm uire 
m injury ;” for thi e re- 
avec wes Ma le invention as one of souaariiae 
young n ted in soa end nm no 
gardener would, we presume, expose his plants 
to the risk in winter. 
Our ni ne ene week contained a detai ace 
3 and it is the ey Heng 
sion of On on re! part ork a large ag of prac 
ti ni 
stich 0 a the present occasion. 
that has been recommended by in has been agreed 
that ended has 
to; but all they have recomm 
fully considered. 
We trust who are interested in 
matters will see that the present scheme of exhibitions 
nevertheless, beg permissi n to paint out some of the 
more striking features of cra 
It has long been felt as a hardship by gardeners of 
small means, that great growers should be allowed to 
destroy all their chances cess as exhibitors b 
bringing plants. me. = me oallectiin ms a 8 
medied, and the general col- 
indeed: that all can 
nes 
lections of plants = fot ay divided into clas 
forty, prsgersi and six, but no cat can exhibit in more 
- und. upon looking 
ver the plan, that there are pone em of a 
saitiae kind. 
r the first time, a distinction is drawn be- 
tween pe eetepiee of Pela of whatever kind, 
a tions of new and first-rate varieties : 
small-sized pots, so as 
whose means of 
conveyance are not considerable. 
The value of the ee offered ae pheacougpe 
nts is conser y i “s We entertain 
without su 
the specim Pe pdiiates te ame the wold 
thea welt given, were often very far from being 
such as prizes of that value sh be offered for. So, 
the exhibitors were not to themselves, 
2 ye how Signs a ; Siaeacal 
Math Be the heat and dryness of aaa unrivalled excellence; and in 
h. they are growi d ‘how continually it is sie tui ane Do ama aeaieieey at 
Tequired to obviate the inconvenience by one ane or. 
ithin another, or by surrounding them with} The number of plants to be shown in the large 
moss, or by plunging them in soil. All this is rendered | collections of Stove and Greenhouse plants has been 
_ Unnecessary by the contrivance in question; for if | reduced from 60 to 40. This, it is presumed, will 
the sides of the pot are 1] , the stratum of air | make ae emesis ms more select, and, at the same | ¢, 
contained in them will prevent the earth from time, put the exhibitors to less expense for conveyance. 
becoming heat nd if they are filled with water, | Medals are, for the first time, offered for collections 
the inconvenience of over-watering, on the one hand, | of Fuchsias, The country swarms with vari 
or over-drying, the other, will be prevented in bad, and indifferent ; ‘the exhibitions at Chis- 
ae it bea ia ter will be Soap ged filtering | wick will now put some of them to the = 
Siowly through the inside lining as the roots require} Amon ing Florists’ flowers a very W 
it. The la ve in it Sie ta re 8 introd: All seedling Pelar- 
striking cuttings, and for window g; » where goniums must be in and not in acu 
1s almost impossible to keep plants duly supplied with | state. We t some growers w 
moisture, even if the servants entrusted with oe “pee t at thi insi possi 
beautiful as 2 Orfeo 
;, and, what is quite as | 
spect, the flowers of which will not bear the test of a 
public exhibition? 
flowers suited the purpose 
lin _ to sell; we trust that the new regulations will 
suit the p of the buyers. The fact i, that the 
decision of the Judges at the seg ’s exhibitions de- 
termines the taste of the public, is looked to as 
guide by those 
ave been 
could not 
acquaintance with 
the value of what are 
prod to th iety, on the other, by 
withholding ike sr plants which have no 
"The last sj best hi ah t 
é last su 7 ich we think it necessary to 
tice is Roses. one will admit that the theta 
tet a> now in vogue for exhibitin 
as possible. 
air ce ; but they are selected 
ment, exhibited without skill, _ conv! 
who loo 
mbers 
sorts ; and, if cut, in loose bunches, as case) £0 
et us, | as to exhibit as Sar as soasle the habit of t the ys 
and every sort is to be —_ But the great nov orl 
is the catsbiiainhen tof a of 
which much 5 Satay than those for “pes 
are assigned. als, of the intrinsic value ‘of 7i.and 
Kan are — ‘or ee Sabi igh but for cut Roses 
nothing above 1/. This ery important. It 
is not to be denied that, after all the fine —_ aes 
odern disc oduced, th 
very d 
of attraction among the v: arieties 
credit that, although no great success | 
may attend the first efforts, yet, if the Society will but 
persevere in offering a inducement to gardeners 
to direct their attention to Roses as pot argc pee! 
Il | conveying them to ano 
will, before long, form quite a new feature i 
WE wILL Seek a hy Five Guineas to the 
ig oe all win the princi; 
‘or Roses in 
ON MANURING WITH GREEN CROPS.—Ne. 1. © 
(By Proresson Cuances Srrencet. Translated from 
a te: 
ieodere are for it was used even meses pans, 
ot lara “stance 
a 
