THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



: advantage of th- e mow. i'a " ' 



I? 1 " 1 ';..'' 1 



salted. Then, in tl 



given to the be 



mid be mixed w 

 ring-pot. For 1 



ThT'hfe of t*. c^monTw is b^y^nd* Sort! ° T 



1 1 hill has advised for old beds, and then the oh 



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'/V««,/, Ww/ Potatoes.— We hope that all who have 

 ivailcd themselves of the opportunity ui raising Pota- 

 ;oe3 as precocities, or before their natural time, have 



liould be ready to be plunged 





yw. Lucruuuers irom | line manner, a month hence, the third crop; in the 



SffMSrlwe'SLT ^ iD ^ m 7 h *! ''"* Preserved abroad 



She Cbinese"\SleL andtf U ™ y *" iai >' P Iace ' and then 



S iris ato ;•• k #A and Son. 



tte bright yellow coloor^iw V^ ytlding^prigllt 



.. : 

 rnellias Roaes, Primulas, Cinerarias, and such like 



■ 

 Mvrt!-, :.,-..-!. .. 



m morel". -<1 ; the plants 



£!!!',• '* . re, i uired >. *** this, when 'occas'ona^y 11 ^- 

 ^r one tLw^f a, Letn the 1163840 ** whole . hou8e - 



kale pot, and "plunged to the* p. 

 through, aud is at this moment 



iriir two months ' P rofuseJ y cov 



blend their Bowi I 

 and such like, 

 rather subject*, the 



- 

 i use of the syringe wb 



Horticultural, May 5: Garden Exhibit™ 



e Certificate of Honour. 



and admirably 



"', ^l'n«-p»rk, for a 



cultivated plants. At tne back stot 



Epacris grandiflora, and, supporting it 



Podolobium staurophyllum and trilobal 



forming a globe of yello 



4 feet in diameter ; Bore 



as much through ; Choroz 



Kf Daviesia latitolia, with Jong pei 

 . 

 airi/ ^? : the l0Ve ' y Di P ladenia crassinod 



unorozema JLiawrenceanum, a pretty 



, -w-flowered Gompholobium barbige- 



t of the genus; a pretty Adenandra 



I planta. Of Azaleas, 



contained Old White and splendens, the 



cultivation, all ot tttem fell short of the fi.J. --T t T 

 20 plants from the garden of C. B. Warn* }£*t 

 Hoddesdon. These were produced in capital'«2lT 



- ■ ' 

 gardener. The group contained a large D«fcZ. 

 carulesoens. snmnwhat injured by travelling^? 

 with 15 flower-spike*; ]K 

 n sphacelatum, with 12 spike*. Wt 

 anced ; Dendrobium nobUO S 

 .caste HarriMMi; 

 Blip«i ; Zygopetoloa' 

 DeodrobiunTS 

 is Oncidium phymatochilnm; fe 



bright yellow Oncidium bifolium ; and good plutsef 

 Cattleya Skinneri, Lycaste cruenta, and others.-Tbe 

 My lam, gr. to S. Rucker, Esq. The gem of this group 



J his 



Esq., of Dartfor 



jr. to°H. Co°lyer 



Lawrence. Mr. Cole'* 

 - . miilis, 

 " species of 

 it-blossomed Tetratheca 



e ^ G: I iS^ S ^^p^^tt , £2 



^^■se^^a^ 







second group m point of merit was produced 



yellow^, K°7 ,0 K iU ^ PulteDJea ' covered w?A ]ar ge £e 



Mr. Rucker's one ; likewise i 



the yellow- lipped D. tortile; a well flowered L>.macro- 

 phyllum ; Cypripedium barbatum, beautifully flowered ; 

 the small transparent blustflowered 

 Dendrobium aduncum, and various Oncids. 



Collections of 10 Orchids were numerous. Th* best 

 group was produced by Mr. Carson, gr. to W. F. G. 

 Farmer, Esq. ; its chief novelty was Arpophyllum gigan- 



little waxy purple flowers, looking like so many shells 

 beautifully arranged round an upright flower-spike. 

 The plant in question was however but apoorrepra- 

 sentation of the wild beauty of this species. Assoc** 

 with it were Brassia maculata major, Phaius grant 

 fohus, Broughtonia sanguinea, copiously ornamented 

 with deep crimson blossoms ; a 



;.: !■•:■■ :i ■ ■:.•]■■■ 

 next best group was exhibited by Mr. Plant, gft<» 

 J. H. Schroder, Esq , of Stratford. It contained goo* 

 plants of Phaius Wallichii ; Calanthe veratrifolia, be* 

 tifully flowered ; the purple Cattleya Skinneri ; a baa- 

 tif'ully managed Trichopilia tortilis, forming a lit* 

 globe a foot through ; Vanda cristata, and other »■ 

 chids —Other collections of 10 plants were shown l>7 



gr. to Mr. Bed 

 Mrs. Lawrence. Mr. Beck's ] 



pots, small, but in excellent health. Mrs. w*""' 

 group was also chiefly composed of small plants.-*"; 

 Jack.gr. to R. G. Loraine, Esq., obtained a sUrerjp* 

 medal for a nice group of 6 species.— As single spec 

 mens, Mr. Iveson, gr. to the Duchess Dowager* 

 Northumberland, showed a well cultivated Dendroonw 

 " T "" -lianum, and Mr. Brace, D. fimbriatum. 



sas.— Being numerous and generally large pM* 



ntia, and Gledstanesii, and to these we mfl** 

 double red. The above could not measurefe*^ 

 from 5 to 7 feet high, and from 4 to 5 feet **?%_, 

 they were so thickly studded with flowers, that ,toW 

 fellow ^1 b ?' 1 "^^ ^^ "^T^^lf^^^*™ rf^-SSlf"**- 

 Prostranthera^ £%££S^££L ^o'd '"" * & * Mrs. Lawrence, a^J 



