o<>— 1849.] 



THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE; 



C * L * W ^^L were awarded as follows :-For the tour 

 *mZL shrubby plants, the highest prize was voted 

 •■g^sEjh, gr. to the Lord Advocate, for fine speci- 



HtoSThuinilii, and Statice mucronata. For the 

 *^«L.t Cape Heaths, a first prize was awarded to 

 £™l £ to the "Hon. H. Coventry, for E. tri- 

 ^ .Liosa. and E. ventrieosa pregnane; and a 

 Jji Tn» voted to Mr. Veitch, gr. to Lord Melville. 

 ?l32 waf' awarded "o M^M^^lanTgr? to 

 • Kmsay. E«l- for the tw0 best dark F ™ h *™> 

 ifrfc being Etoile de Versailles and Comte.de 



^Atim> best light Fuchsias, with Purity and One-in- 



■Ts. R»y. ^l-' for Delicata and Dr. Jephson ; tl 

 •1..H beinf Eood, but the varieties not considered si 

 E^tWdistinct. For the two be 

 Jj5s Silver Medal was awarded to Mr. White, f 



For the six best 

 Pelargoniums, an a 

 >n, for Gulielma, 



toMr.Cossar.gr.to Lady Hay, for b 

 plants of Jehu Superb, Anais, and Queen Victoria ; a 

 second premium was awarded to Mr. Cameron, for La 

 Belie Africaine, Queen Victoria, and Champ - 



Thomson, with a very large Myosotis azorica ; and a 



feisor Dunbar, for Calystegia pubescens. For the thre 



Baxter, gr. to Sir J. Gibson Crai?,for well-grown plant 



gained the first prize for the two finest flowered Glox: 

 nia», his kinds being G. maxima and rubra ; a secon 

 n» voted to Mr. Baxter, for G. Cartonii and rubri 

 The prize offered for the two most distinct varieties < 

 dnrf Lobelias was awarded to Mr. M'Lachlan, for 

 naraifieent plant of L. Erinus in full flower, measure 

 more than 9 feet in circumterence and 2 feet in height, 

 Jfd i smaller plant of L. Erinus compacta alba. Mr. 

 M'Uchlan's specimen of L. Erinus being so adr : -"- 





"''/:'■:' 



ed for garden plflr] 



esided in the ! noticed a select collection of Junipers, among v 



eountry.° Mr. T. Smith : at I! _ N J. excelsa, J. oblonga pendula, aJpina, I 



■ -->, but how mata, and others ; and by the side of them were A; 



was a man to carry it out in the heart of London ! in 6-inch pots, on the true French Paradiae 



There was no doubt but liquid manure was valuable, (Pomme de Paradis), which Mr. 



ixed, the charcoal letins: > a 

 Mr. t! Smith said into his tank a large 



Passing one of Mr. Ker'streilises, figured at p.827,lS48 f 

 on which Peaches, Cherries, Plums, and Pears were 



nds of Gooseberries, intermixed with which were Fil. 

 berts and Nute, having straight clean stems 4 feet high. 



In o r rderTo e givryou°n™ Peaches! 



he refuse of London. Mr. Rogers admitted 

 ' " ■" in ODe of those particles of charcoal it was re- 



to°the West Indies f 



London, the system could be brought into practi 

 application. The liquid manure, he considered, i 

 quite sufficient for agricultural purposes. It was easy 



courage such investigate 

 facts they could get broug 



:,',:,; I 



r gentlemen spoke upon 

 the'subject, allud ing to the great interes t of the question. 



Garden Memoranda. 



Mr. Rivers's Nursery, Sawbridgeworth. 

 hour's ride by a fast train on the Eastern Counties 

 Railway brings the visitor to the Harlow station, 

 is scarcely half an hour's walk from this nursery. The 

 latter is situated in a pretty part of Hertfordshire, on 

 rand. The turnpike-road to Cam- 



frontage near Mr. Rivers's 

 i approached by three terraces, 



bing Roses pegged to the groun 

 le house is a lawn sloping to t 

 raped dwarf China and Bourb 



gently undulating grounc 

 bridge and Norwich boui 



fcr the best 12 Pinks, an award was made to Mr. 

 Bmwll, Falkirk, for fine flowers 

 fentuh Hero, Smith's Exoniensis, Pilot, Harris's 

 Uwmtless, Bates's Number 2, Rubens, Whetstone's 

 rchioness of Douglas, Queen Vie- 

 nna, President, Henley's Beauty, and Joseph Sturge. 

 *w the prize of one guinea, offered by Messrs. J. Dick- 

 ™ and Sons, through the Society, to practical gar- 

 *■•», for the best 24 named Roses (in equal numbers 

 L kf' Provins > French, Perpetuals, China, and 

 ^oons), there were several good stands of flowers 

 ■« m competition. The prize was gained by Mr. 

 **>, with the following kinds : common Moss, Alice 

 ^ Unei, B Feuilles inisantes, Adeline, Common, 

 "*wme L'Abboy, Comtesse de Segur, Surpasse tout, 

 «*ue Lemaire, Matthieu Mole, Infant de Norce, 

 £*** of Sutherland, William Jesse, Julie Dupont, 

 ^^SOiarlesDuval, Chenedole, Belle Thu- 

 CibL ■? phe de L aqneue, Mrs. Bosanquet, Nina, 

 ^o>5ie Superieure, and Triomphante. A second 

 gjj* (given by the Society) was voted to Mr. 

 to mH^ Carlowrie. An honorary award was made 

 flo"S i S0D ' &•> Balcarres, for a box of Cactus 

 tifieatp'Jf ngst wnicn were several seedlings. A cer- 



*«Za. zT? waa e granted t0 Mr - Scofct ' «*■ to Q - n ' 



GnnS'' b ' Lachlan produced S rbwket of well grown 

 MoreL eaehe8 > a "d Nectarines; and Mr. Pender, 

 BesioWtk a basket of fine Peaches and Nectarines. 



virens. This group receives no pruning beyc 

 necessary to keep it within bounds, and certau 



specimen of the Fern-leaved Beech, about 50 years o 





eh are kept in a small state 

 oince stocks, and by root pruning. In 

 front of these was a plantation of Mr. Rivera's large 

 fruited monthly Raspberry, both in flower and fruit. 

 It produces the latter from lateral shoots, which it puts 

 forth from every joint ; and in this respect, as well as ill 

 the size and flavour of the berry, it differs from the old 

 variety known as the double bearing Raspberry. This 

 nursery being loam on sand is quite a Vine soil, and 

 Mr. Rivers is trying some important experiments with 



on^ulars, on which 'the Vine has a very ornamental 

 appearance, < ven independent of fruit ; but Mr. Rivera 



to that end plants have been procured from the very 



mgst them Picpoule Noir, Moustardie, Raisin 

 falentia, and numerous others, were in bloom, 

 promised to bear well. Mr. Rivers is a strops; 

 ■eate for the growing of Pears in a pyramidal 

 ,, and on Quince stocks. He has them planted 

 over his nursery in rows running from nortn- 



anging boughs, is left between the principal re 

 V . . ,. ...,::• "-■:;•: 



well furnished with branches from the base, and b 

 ing fruit They are all shortened in twice a year, ^ 



from 2 to 2* feet in height. Tbese are also never 

 pruned: the branches are allowed to droop to the 

 around In front, again, on the steepest part of the 

 :, climbing Roses (Ayrshire* and Sempervirens 

 danted, and left to ramble as they please. Althougl 

 their best, these were all in flower, and the ettec 

 produced (looking at them from the road) was really 

 irable. On the side of a walk, leading from the 



EsTv P° AL ' op London, July 6.-E. Doubleday, 

 dTj M- ' m the C,,a *> * hich *"■ afterwards taken 

 ' • «»ers, Esq., V.P., F.R.S. Mr. J. W. Rogers 



***KTof V he u?e8 * Dd Properties of Peat MoB8 ' 



£>v 8 0, 7 ' J?*" "• Toulmin Smith uid, while he didnot 

 he*ar! e ? cienc y of ^e agent spoken of by Mr. R-, 

 * *£ in g adv °eate for the use of liquid manure, 

 suited f n. g J >ract,c al experience, he had found it best 

 pa"* the purposes of vegetation. On his own 

 4 ^ nise8 k had a tank, into which the whole of the 



stem 9 inches in girth), Bennet's Seedling, &c^ 1 

 form in which the Rose could be trained could have 

 .etter effect than these weeping Rose trees, which a 

 lever touched with the knife. Immediately behind .M 

 iivers's house were numbers of pans full of seedh, 

 :onifers. Mr. R. raises all his seedling Conifers in ti 



\?™^fITo7\oune. Vines, and at the end of one of the 

 Jou^ here wJ noticed a nice stock of young plants of 

 the Stanwick Nectarine, which has been committed to 

 the care of Mr. Rivers to propagate. They were 

 worked on Peach stocks, and are hnving well. Mr 



as plants can be fruited on it in a very small state v\ 

 saw Peaches in 4-inch pots quite healthy, and Mr. J 

 thinks they might be fruited well in 8-inch pots. 

 Rosea in pots there were many thoua 



»•> ing some ex 

 1 1U . U on the Sloe, which b likely b 



n 1 with a view to get dwarf Cherry trees 



J Cherry* 



as a stock. His object is to have fruiting trees of afl 



U sorts, in order that the purchaser may 

 be enabled to buy a tree just in whatever state he 

 chooses. He has Cherries a foot high that have borne 

 nearly a quart of fruit, and Plums in fruit no more 

 improved race of hardy late Pears, and m order to 

 prove the seedlings quickly he plants them in rows with 

 a Quince stock between each plant ; the top of the 



Jten off and grafted on the stock, and m 



this way much time is saved in this important opera- 



ut trees, of which Mr. R. 



i!„o o„ mn ™mw collection, and he has a quarter fer 



^t\\ h a t F iktea U ^SLScff^^ 

 TquTeV is planted with different kmds of Oaks, in 

 dei -to prove their respective hardiness. Among 

 B m was a seedling nearly evergreen, about 15 feet 

 A having the habit of a Lombardy Poplar. Ot 



sortSTf Brooms and Cytisus grafted on the purple 

 Laburnum. He has new weeping Elms, m 

 Birches and Thorns, and a w 



.terns 12 inches in girA, 



ad been transplanted, and were domg well, 



how retentive of life the Mulberry is. These 



j. cut well in, root and top. Mr. Rivers has just 



Jut up~a cheap house for propagating Magnolias inland 



growing Vines, &c It has no back wall except a Beech 



hedge f the roof is supported by stakes driven ratal Bie 



ground 7 feet high at back, 2 feet high in front, with* 



U feet rafter. Nereis a sunk path up ^nAaH 



and on the right and left beds, which are thus rased ^p 



near the glass. The rafters are 20 inche^apart, ami 



e glass. The rafters : 

 rith sheet glass ; and o 



