578 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, ‘(June 18, 1864, 
a variable quantity of best E ‘and nitrogen, | [X of similar character, but nothing half hod by collections of what are are called hardy 
the pr ies ortion of the former varying more than | rigidly formal was ever perpetrated among He 3c Rhododendrons, which would give variety d 
the lat Not a trace of o arte, hydrogen, càr- | as now appears pe amongst the poor | colou 
bonic iis or carburett ed —— appeared in| Azaleas um monster pem i at least a goodly number 
the expressed juice. A ion arises as to the | Of course it is not to be supposed — the — of them, we could not spare, but we do 
origin of the contained gasos, a i pe most | plants of all kinds bro shows leas, | want them ui i in i^o dreary banks abont 
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D Gan Berge mor coved proved that in an stipporé necessary to a plant—other points being |extended—so as to change the aspect o 
atm omm ot po ogen under a fece glass, which | equal—the greater has been the merit in respect | show at every step, and then wi 
excludes atmospherie air, carbonic acid is formed | of its cultivation; and as a second, that the less|to see visitors taking as much interest in ¢ 
in "v sound fruit, notwithstanding the | rigidly formal the arrangement of the branches | modes of the plants as in the modes o 
stwied under that necessary amount of support, the f fellow visitors. Above all, let us have an unli 
be in part derived, -— he concludes therefore that | greater has been the merit in respect of its training. | number of these large flowering plants and of 
= stion, during which the | If, as we have said, in regard to the cultivation | spreading Palms an Ferns, placed as single obj 
oxygen of air is eium of their plants British gardeners always aequit| where the view of their beauty 
In fruit like Ber view and Medlars, where the|themselveslike men, we must add that it would | structed: that is to say, let us me 
process of bletting takes place, and without which | be an advantage in respect to the training of them, | on. appropriate stands, amongst. groups o 
it eatable; it is only after vitality has | if they could be persuaded, not indeed to appro- Lm placed well beneath the eye 
ceased ‘that the requisite chemical changes for priate the garments, but to listen to the advice of | have infinitely more low-growing 
economical ones Eee place, changes which are g set "login interesting in themselyes, 
sometimes p ted, or at least attempted tobe} The great deficiency, however, of our flower | useful as a surroundin more 
promoted, by sprinkling the fruit with. some fer- | shows lies in the arrangement of the plants after | and conspicuous — " haiti 
mented li ** Air then enters the cells and | they have been grown and transpor Een to the! It will be said, perhaps, that such a change 
acts first of ‘all upon the sugar, causing alcoholic | place of exhibition with so much care and cost. | would lead to the occupation of much more spaca 
fermentation with disengagement of carbonic acid | This defect has indeed grown up with the growth | than we devot our present en py and 
ni t of alcohol, which is in its turn th xhibitions themselves, and i rhaps | would sacrifice more time than 
acted upon by the acids of Es fruit, thus BE inaspetuute. from the customs which obtain|under our present system. Very probably it 
a true ether, which produces the aroma o amongst us. Nevertheless it is a om and a|would be so, and w A not? We must 
fruit. The air then attacks tho cell itself, "which | great ‘and ‘palpable b iai and one which all who | thing to keep up the interest of our sahibitionn 
1 e of flower id should they will either cease sy e, or will cease 
of which it is formed.” lend their aid to be ei. the prominent position they have hitherto done, 
We are indebted to an admirable article in the| The chief evil may perhaps be best indicated by | As to space, that would, however, be readily pro- 
Reader of May 21, 1864, for the above extract | the statement that our flower shows are Apex LM vided by covering, as we long ago suggested, an area 
from a r à blaze; there is no relief, or no efficient relief, to | of sufficient size with a ridge-and-furrow roof of 
part of the matter, wnic as merely been the intense aud universal glare, —Ó is oppres- glass, supported on iron columns, screened by 
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te in ett Sen sten abstract of et the momolt ole HRA ed. That we have too great a crete na | plants and flowers to the very best adv 
1 ROS pues Hisstvabed "gr m he ES al f the |° of bright colours, and too little of refreshing | pror leading condition; and it would -— 
‘ound in the J cbr ed News for April 30, of the een, is a fact whi ch one glance at su h an | the plants secure against accide nts of wind an 
present year, AL. J. B. i d 412 a cd r most essential VR We 
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| THE IMPROVEMENT OF OUR FLOWER SHOWS is could do Pih Peckake «tod ron Pleven average, secure neither the one nor ‘the other o 
‘a matter of such vital importance to horticulture | state is a fallacy. That it has taken possession | these necessary conditions ; an 2 to 
—at least to that department vhi eh bears on the | to some extent, of the publio mind, is, however, | talked-of superiority of canvas ov other 
eultivatio on of flowers and flowering plants— —that|evident from the passing remarks one hears at| ings for setting off the plants, we say teet hel 
all who|a flower show. ‘(The co olours are too oppres- | may be all very well in fair weat e it iij etu 
are i n any way y connected with gardening pursuits, | sive," says one, looking all the while with intense | in foul weather, and could not un 
now that the summer exhibitions are at their|admiration at the huge blazing  crinoline| stances be superior to a properly ^il 
height. The advantage of giving attention to the zalease "But I do like to see the green leaves | glass TT NR 
ust now, consists in this, that we can | amongst the flowers," says another, whois gazing} Bu $ then, the time! It is impossible no do d 
actually see the point to whieh we have attained, | with satisfaction on a plant with seantier flowers. | to — with sufficient meant the nature of 
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Hag “ee getting-up,” £ " to petii; of to fhalétidls who so mu h admires the * green leaves among the | must be done while the collectio t ont 
so admirably noe and this is  the|flowers," Vo: learn to point to a thinly- eee | We do not z how this difficulty is to be dl 
point where, in ys pedit sense, the cultivators | plant as poor and paltry com with specimens | without an extensi (— and notw! 
of exhibition pla: "s may contribute their quota of | within his recollection, an would walk away | the exhibitors lite protes 
impr ions . är as we now are at our shows | disgusted if he found that such were the best|u t 
ter specimens, we € eould not do without i| productions the, PUN of meme could set} with some plan for the uide of hri 
a im. ange ve y cid to | do Lu desire to see exhibitions come to 
and familiar as we are, too h blossoms - | lessen the blaze ‘a ening our aes As a rule, these great flower-shows don't pay, 
fusion almost pinion eh Mentem: el n. IM have i plants up to a puo that i sate of things which cannot ^ 
not which the blossoms ard of cultural skill, and if they cAN be| What we would PES. is, either rer that Mire 
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ourselves to admire the same kind of shrub| desirably or lend ge yere ip of additional geld as now, ad i en arranged in 
clipped evenly and smoothly to the form of|m mg pg ns solely as a setting for th the floral | an opening. 
a cone. And so we could edmire an Azalea,|gems. We rease the non-floral DR pem than 
for instance, in whieh the spray, while pre- element of n ind: shows by inviting more pa 
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‘we could not admire the training of a plant | Conifers, yea, eve ardy Evergree = uch } single d likely to 
r had been e e hoops, and. resembled as collections of Hollies, coletins of ox, näema tthe extension to a week, all reasonable eae 
huge erinoline. of Aueubas, collections of Yews, and sueh | taken to firda stove plants, a e 
$ about the forest of |as these. They all ett the eir use, 'and m might | rarities S ien precautionary shelter. 
oat exhibition Heaths ea | | indeed very wall be supplemented in the earlier! selves, too, we enter a protest again 
