Horticultural Society and Garden. -3 4 3 



Also, from the Garden of the Society. Knight's protecting Broccoli, 

 flowers of Coloured Oxlips, Coloured Cowslips, Poppj' Anemones, Early 

 Tulips, varieties of Fritiliaria, Ribes sanguineum and aureum pr^e^cox. 

 Double Furze, Jmygdalus persica flore pleno, Prunus sinensis, varieties of 

 iVarcissi. 



May 19. — Read. On the Management of the Genus Camellj<r< ; by 

 Mr. Thomas Blake, F.H.S. gardener to Lord Rolle, F.H.S. Remarks on 

 the Culture of the Vine; by H. Barry, Esq. 



Exhibited. Candle from the wax of the 7?hus succedanea, from 

 F. D. Davis, Esq. Broccoli, from Mr. James Dann, Gardener to the Rev. 

 Henry Symonds De Brett, F. H. S. Ten sorts of Flowers, from Robert 

 Barclay, Esq. F.H.S. Azalea indica alba, i^hododendron fragrans, and a 

 seedling var. of i?hododendron catawbiensis, from Messrs. Chandler and 

 Son. Remarkably fine Asparagus, from Mr. Grayson of Mortlake, Surrey. 



Also, from the Garden of the Society. Nine sorts of apples and thirteen 

 sorts of Rhubarb, flowers of Wistaria; Consequajia, Yellow i?6sa Banksfce, 

 Chelone Scouleri, Common and Irish Poppy Anemones, Narcissus, Pseonies, 

 Double Tulips, Single Tulips, Parrot Tulips, Double-flowering Furze, Cy- 

 tisus ruthenicus, Cytisus elongatus, 5'partium scorpius, R\bes aureum, 

 seedling Heart's-ease and Double Priinus Cerasus. 



The Anniversary Fete of the Society will take place at the garden at 

 Chiswick, on Saturday, June 27. j for which tickets will be issued from 

 the office in Regent Street under the following regulations : — 



1. All Fellows of the Society will be furnished with tickets of admission 

 for their own personal use at 215. each. 



2. All Fellows of the Society will be furnished with tickets for each and 

 every member of their family at 21*. each, up to the 15th of June inclusive ; 

 after that day and up to the 20th of June inclusive, at \l. 1 Is. 6d. each, and 

 subsequently, at 2/. 2s. each. 



5. Such tickets as may be required by Fellows beyond those for indi- 

 viduals of their own family, must be applied for, either personally or in 

 writing, when vouchers will be issued by the Committee in favour of the 

 applicants. These tickets will be 25s. each, up to the 1 5th of June in- 

 clusive; after that day and up to the 20th of June inclusive, they will be 

 ll. lis. 6d. and subsequently 2/. 2s. 



4 Tickets will not be transferable. 



5. If tickets are exchanged, the difference must be paid between the value 

 of the original ticket and the price which may be borne by tickets at the 

 time of the exchange being effected. 



27;!^ Chisivick Garden, May 20. — We have visited this garden two or 

 three times since our return from the Continent, but found little to remark 

 on. On the whole, it is kept in good order, and extra-attention seems to 

 be paid to the hot-house plants, and especially to the orchideous epiphytes. 

 Wistaria Consequa?za is now splendidly in bloom on the open wall ; the 

 number of blossoms exceeds 1500, each raceme from 12 to 18 in. long, each 

 blossom like that of a scarlet runner, but much larger, and of a light purple. 

 Such a plant, trained to a parasol or to a tree, in the open garden on a lawn, 

 would produce an effect much more natural and imposing, because one 

 beauty of all flowers and fruits that come in bunches is to hang freely down. 

 No person having a house or garden, either in. town or country, however 

 small, ought to be without this extraordinary fine climber ; when once estab- 

 lished it grows with great rapidity. The plant in the Chiswick garden last 

 year made shoots 30 ft. long ; four plants, we should think, if done justice 

 to at the roots, would cover the walls of St. Paul's Cathedral in ten years, 

 and one plant, in a good churchyard, would cover any country church in 

 less than that time. The price from being 405. has fallen to 5s. and Is. 6d. 

 each. 



It deserves to be noticed, that the artesian well here, which four years 



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