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THE GARDEN] R 



^T^Pnnie exliibuion spe 



"ontiei ^ of Monti _ ? _ 



^>i gardvii at Verneuil, are also now making a g o j 



Matt*. 



, , ciniens. The Gloxinias iroiu 



G on tier s 9 oi Montrouge, and from M. de Talley- 



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and 



tWAinviJlaga trained as a small standard. 



JL second stove (No. 26* of the plan), about 60 feet by 

 JM, constructed by Madame Lefevre, is occupied chiefly 

 byan elegantly-shaped aquarium, formed of the chanx 

 hydravUqtu of St. Quentin. It is filled almost exclusively 

 by Tan Houtte, of Ghent. The Victoria in the centre 

 i» young *nd has not yet flowered ; the blue, red, and 

 while > t»phoeas are but just coming out, and we cannot 

 j*t judge fairly of their merits ; but, generally speak- 

 ing, their vegetation is not so vigorous as could be 

 wished, owing possibly to the quality of the water. 

 The commoner aquatics, such as Pontederia crassipes' 

 andPistia, are however very flourishing. Some good 

 Sarraceoiss and a fine Diontea, showing the remains of 

 several flower stalks, are now fading off. Outside the 

 basin are Tan Houtte's stove plants, amongst which the 

 most conspicuous at present is the Aphelandra Leopoldi 





bainboo-poimedpole^andopenatthesidtsTnvo \«jl *,n I <^\ .~ ~ — 



and 51) by structures in imitation of fflj t^T y\ " i ^ ^ **"* ^»* 



htdm* pavilion*, and two smaller ones (^0^30 and n SS™"* * ^^^ * hiCh * d ° Uut " 



by mere awnings. In each of them a Palm, a DracW Th * • • 



■—»-- * la^raccena, Ihe remaining open round or kidney-shaped beds are 





Uect 



or a tuft of greenhouse shrubs, forms a raised "Veen 

 centre, showing off to advantage the colours of the 





p^«. i • l0W ******* n or flowering shrabs, herba- 



""^ or annuals ; the green shrubs in most 





flowering specimens arranged round them. Of 



perhaps too great a preponderance of wh i_ _ 

 Chrysanthemum frutescena, Iberia of various sorts 



these cases form 



— -^*.^-w, iuuuu miicu we hi 



r* ... — . . ■ 



or borders 



., WI !„,„„,„ ^zuieas, graauaiiy passing 



^ Ver m, ° the Care Hcallls > **»*•» occupied the lower 

 end. The whole had the appearance of a fiery bed, 

 which attracted the eye from any point of the garden 

 where it could he seen. As the Azaleas withered tliey 

 were replaced by Pelargoniums, which hare now again 



given way to incipient dwarf Dahlias, too vounz as ye" f here *cXd ?.„, '^TVV'fP* by "J-***"" 

 to form any opinion as to their merit. &™E ' W jfA5*^>' ** .•* ] ^^ or less r ink ; for 



tcted by 1L Herbeaumont, of Charonne, near 



Paris, and No.|32, 50 feet by 30, built by M. Leaute, of 

 8ari§) are not heated, but serve to protect such green- 

 home plants as would suffer even now from exposure 

 aider the tents. One wing was, ten days since, very 

 brilliant with a collection of Cape Ixias and Gladioli in 

 fall flower and in considerable variety ; they are now 

 replaced by succulent plants, some of which are of a 

 £0od size and well grown. The remainder of these 

 greenhouse plants call for little remark, excepting the 

 collection of above 30 pots of European Orchideas exhi- 

 bited by II. le Docteur BoisduvaJ, who has met with 

 peat success in overcoming the difficulties usually ex- 

 perieDced in preserving these interesting plants through 

 a number of years in a state of cultivation. They com- 

 priae most of the common species of Orchis and Ophrys 

 two jots of Serapias, several Epipactis, and three pans 

 filled, the one with above a dozen plants of Liparis 

 Loeaeli, in full flower a fortnight or three weeks since • 

 the two others, respectively, with as many of Hermi' 

 mum monorchia and Goodyera repens, now in flower. 

 All are in full vigour, after having been thus kept in 

 pass for several years. 



. The show specimens of greenhouse and other flower- 

 ing specimens in pots are chiefly collected in seven 

 circular or oblong beds, of which three (Nos. 28, 29,and 

 •oj are sheltered by elegant tents supported on high 





to form any opinion as to their merits. The "Heaths 

 were none of them large plants, but looked exceedingly 

 well when closely pressed by the Azaleas. They have 

 now dwindled down to a few small specimens 

 , Under the other tents, Pelargoniums and Petunias 

 occupy the chief space. Two uncovered beds (Nos 27 

 and 39) are also devoted exclusively to Pelargoniums, 

 and many of them good, especially the fancy sorts. 

 Ihe plants are not so large nor so regularly and for- 

 mally trained as most of our show specimens, but with 

 less of stiffness and a somewhat freer admission of green 

 foliage, their best plants have a more pleasing effect 

 than ours. The large bed (No. 27) is now exclusively 

 occupied by a fancy kind exhibited by M. Alphonse 

 Dufoy, of Pans, under the name of Irraa, and No. 39 

 by M. Thenier's scarlet Triomphe de Paris. 



The Petunias are amongst the best of the articles ex- 

 hibited. Last month there were already several dis- 

 tinguished for the enormous size of the flowers, and at 

 present there is a very great variety among the different 

 collections : that of M. Picquenot of Levallois-Clichy 

 near Paris, under the tent No. 29, is perhaps the most 

 remarkable for the elegance and number of varieties, 

 amongst which we especially noticed a pink one with a 

 green eye, called Marquise de la Ferte, and the Aurora 

 and other mottled varieties. Some in this and other 

 collections, with the corolla almost entirely of a leafy 

 green, are more curious than handsome. There are 

 also several with more or less double flowers. 



Amongst the miscellaneous greenhouse plants in these 

 covered beds we observed, a fortnight since, two Big- 

 nonia jasminoides, in specimens 1-} foot high, covered 

 with their delicately tinted flowers. Lysimachia 



month ; we now see abundance 



I r; n ™ TJT'T 8 *"? *? J draD 8**. ™* »ome very showy 

 I ™ g8 °f 1k ?J?!™ of Campanula carpatica. Two beds 



are exclusively occupied by H \ Irangets 





_ _„ ^.^.^ WM j Ul uie ui UlS Q nut in or near 



Paris. One bed (No. 34) is devoted to the annuals 

 supplied by Madame Havard-Beauvieux, of Paris ; and 

 another, a larger circular one (No. 35), to a large and 

 varied collection of flowering annuals and j miais 

 from Vilmorin-Andrieux, very prettily arranged— the 

 larger ones in the centre, and the lower sorts in 

 centric circles round the borders. Viscarias, both 

 pink and white Leptosiphons, in considerable variety 

 with many others, have been very full of flower, and 

 we particularly noticed as new to gardeners the 

 Nyctennia selaginoides forming dwarf masses covered 

 with the prettiest little starlike flowers, and a ring of a 

 most elegant dwarf feathery Aira dividing the lower 

 flowers round the border. 



Although there are many Roses in the different 

 beds and shrubberies, we observed none of the finer 

 kinds, which are only exhibited as cut flowers in the 

 Pavilion Chinois. Along the north-west screen (Nos, 

 43, 44, and 45 of the plan) a lone; row of small pink 

 Uoses (the name of which 1 omitted to notice) trained 

 as half standards about 3 fee t high, and covered with 

 flowers, had a very pretty effect, which, however, is not 

 so good now that they are replaced by a similar row of 

 the white Aimee Vibert Rose. 



There are Beveral collections of Coniferce, mostly 

 young and vigorous plants in pots. A few larger speci- 

 mens, as well as a few greenhouse trees or large plants, 

 are scattered about in tubs or planted in the ground. 

 Palms, Phormium tenax, Abies Pinsapo, a tall Arau- 

 caria (or Eutassa) Cunninghami, from the Jardin des 

 Plantes, Cunninghamia sinensis, etc.; and an Agave 

 coming into flower has been sent from Algeria, Unfor- 



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2SftSif^ h <> f the flowering stem ha 



*** *hich t rn C0D u ned in its P«*a£ f ifc has a. 



*** » Sat K U ° h Spoil9 its appearance, but it 



^ere ar* !, jeCt J? f auction to the Parisiai 



*^appS ^ rnS ' f0r the culture of t 

 * ** ua Z* i becomi ng as much into fas! 



*■** A?; e8ervedl ) r 80 > f <* nothing can 



Hlay theirs £ ^ 0Wn ' m ^ nti ^ them ' S0 



** the roel- *f * forras - Some of the s P eci " 



U* P*>d effect # ° r i a9 Sin S le tufts > have here a 

 ^^ ^ern, "!? t .", . A V Y e *•«> particularly noticed the 



u - usa'tU *Sn blta ? , chiefl ^ b ^ M - Prie M*> the spe- 

 T ^ Mos/;!^ pa ? t ? d and imbedded, as it were, in 

 ^•Wiuma , ;^i .' \} ihe out-door department, and 



— » ^elagmellas) in the hothouses, take a verv 



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conspicuous and useful share in the tasteful arrange- 

 ment of the different exhibitions, hiding whatever 

 might be unsightly, and forming the best possible ground 

 for showy flowers. 



Six long parallel beds or borders (Nos. 15 to 20 of the 

 plan) are planted with fruit trees as specimens of 

 grafting, pruning, and training, for the estimation of the 

 merits of which we must await the result of the scien- 

 tific investigations of the jury. The vegetables, the 

 | fruits, and cut flowers in the Pavilion Chinois, and the 

 contents of the Pavilion of Horticultural Industry will 

 form the subject of a future communication. Paiis, 

 July 16, 



The contents of the Pavilion Chinois, and Pavilion de 

 l'Industrie Horticole, must still remain to be described. 



RE7EBB3TC8S 



1 and 2. Conifers? Yuccas and 



Phormium. 

 3 to 7, and 9 to 14. Evergreens 

 surrounded or edged by 

 flowering- plants. 

 8. Pavilion Chinois, containing 

 fruit, cut flowers, and wax 

 models. 



15 to 20. Fruit trees and vege- 

 tables. 



i. Greenhouse. 

 I. Fuel as, &c. 

 J. Pavilion of Horticultural 

 Industry. 



24. Conifer and Hydrangeas. 



25. Pelargoniums. 



26. Hothouse with au aquarium. 



27. Fancy Pelargoniums. 



to the Plan. 



1 28 and 29. Beds for plants in 

 • pots under tents. 



30 and 31. Do, do. under awn- 

 ings. 

 32. Greenhouse. 

 33 to 42. Flowering plants and 



shrubs, 

 43, 44, 45. Ros< with some 



other plants. 

 48. Hothouse. 



47. Conifer®. 



48. Plants in pots under a tent. 

 ). Fernery in front of the 



shrubs. 

 50 and 51. Plants in pots under 



Indian pavilions. 



12. Conifers. 



53 and 54. Ornamental Water 



