JaxvanY 23, 1864.] 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
77 
their own roots. The Tea-scented ‘kinds predominated, | 
ri ei } 
show de^ much we an hav re 7 = to learn about the ripen- 
are 
poem of insufficient currents of air through the 
e orchard- house fruit i is, as a rule, quite fu fu il 
north-east wind, which ire across the - ib a 
iolence which 
| in go 
Nectarines equally so, if you oniy t thin enough. Being 
macrocep m, Ártbrotarus | F 
a a perfect picture, with ita frt sO evenly spread 
am 
selaginoides, ug Dace, Magnol "pH and a very 
noticeable variet y. of Magno olia bx with peta 
variety ; of that species. Another range 240 fe et long! j 
chiefly filled with Cam ellias and Vines in pots; and o 
the shelves A ess of Amaryllis, D. Lachenalia, 
Hemanthus, with a fine batch of Spigelia mari- 
landica in in Tower, a apres yo of the Exmo outh variety 
ripen, so, after taking off a very great many, he Jefe on 
doze t 
rin which ma nake 
n; these coloured well, but 
f 
+} 
inferat "in avour to their ps! a 
ioadea 
last c comes the hai range, 120 feet i, and serving 
the double purpose of Vinery and specimen Camellia | 
On 
y perhaps. be allowed to o quote your own 
grow: If any of y 
Frstance of R 
sB oyal Botanic Society's Shows. 
—Messrs. Lane, of adr dni ars have ps x trem 
proper even at this distant period to 
Qutof doors the interest is of a high order, 
pers the cme E range came upon an | 
y of Tree ronan: EE plants 2 to 3 | 
through, w 
were very extensiv 
There were large ded thriving plantations of Araucaria, 
nia, and all the better kinds, while in the 
and Pinsapo, Wellingtonia, Cupress 
Torreya myristica, Juniperus pe arom Cephalo 
Harrin axus coriacea an = yellow- emi 
single non. of. the i. varietie 
th 
on 
| varieties. We prefer it m the best Newton 
. | PI h 
e | has 
the eds to send. “Finer oured s 
fin —— E. f table 
Pippins, 
ums, such as the Golden Drop, are an aie id oe 
certain and fine eae crop ; some of these trees 
p 
pples as well as of the very 
pecimens we | June 
never tasted of this, — most Brida of United States | | 
even 
decision of em Judges, in iren to 
last. Had they don 
EL 
given. i 
a great obje am cd to c9 ves Not only didI 
plan 
for years past I have 
hotogr d year aft y JY 
taken 
di of 'instilling into the minds of all 
aphe cu E i 
the fruit almost i in ho 4 
and n year four Stanwiek Nectarines 
fipánbd ‘cel fruit and wer eue Me 
probab the warm ket dei 
ing nor even keepin 
ig d 20 feet wide, the 
of | oc 
oppo 
the Suibtore = nec — ^ 2 wing Roses as good 
in form and as well gro ordinary greenhouse 
ipM if. hay ashe to po pace with the times. 
What judges would countenance Azaleas, Fuchsias, or 
ea! the 
a face as to h 
e 
g | jus ust u 
nearly all the Vei Specimens that 
n. eut 
lon 
oiher L) feet by 15 a ;the s built with the idea 
keep v 
expo aod t6 
to give 
p ~ r, I find 
o the bet SM How w you “Old Tsun scriber ” 
arrived at his conviction is the more pasadi to 
e, as while th sort of advantage my trees have 
fa 
TOM is pur plants, „whether oie Fuchsias, or 
ance with co mpact, dense, well-formed 
Rhododendro 
From this ‘point a broad walk leads to the top of | the 
imis "This. Fes been a constant remark ems icd me by 
Freel is it we s any 
o m: 
s that we have dong since 
ursery, having & border on each side, pl o (for purposes of experiment) subjec d ies 
mixed collection of choice ard hardy shrubs. Of t them ne net stronger Gishurst and other anti-inset discarded ag ott ette hosin; while the introduc- 
ap there were y th nd seedlings, b ashes than he wou are to recommen tions of later years are so infinitely superior to them in 
- Eu e transplanted ; dy Heaths were The result of his eonvietion, which has gro vith the all resp » My reply has been, ‘ that the growth 
igo being nearly 50 varieties | trees’ growth, is that any one with tim and, | of several years is requisite before a plant can have 
and si of which a reat number were in bloom, | and with a fi air amount of habit of vae NM rrived at a size sufficiently large to corres- 
eit. ring large squares Pith their delicate though ich. gro ouses as has never| pond with others shown the same collection." 
* ective e tints. I was quite s surprised at the immense | yet been "^ from wa Mie; for besides the roots of the | This undoubtedly to a certain extent is correct, but it 
quantity of Lilium lancifolium in fine h ealth, and | trees being under perfect control, so that seep es is no m why varieties conspicuous only for their 
Th P. about the fourth o i ac d. | can be Wo ges T "xs right place at the = bad qualities ‘should be retained, solely on account of 
2 wi a goo k of Lilium eximium, | time, the Ad S spe e pla yo of air all round | their size. I just add that young dwarf compact 
f Le onicum, excelsum ; of the best Scillas ; as wellas | fruit giv ven tir ing and colouring than | plants have invariably been the turning point towards 
9 d phyranthus, Colchicum, and Croc pring | the halts dice, half-shaded wall fruit ever the higher prizes, and that the tall scraggy ones have 
"n is dig, and of Orchis foliosa. see the | George Wilson, st Cottage, Weybridge. [For had a contrary tendency, whenever the ve come 
lue romedas—tetra hypnoides, € | other communicatio been, on thi subject received and | under my noti is unfortunate for Messrs. Lane 
tigiata EM visit to this home of rar A. fas- moti, fe in type, we must endeavour to find room next that the same did not officiate both at the 
teris, bar i l looking little gem, in a the way of w yal Horticultural and Royal Botanie Shows, as 
dene ut if possible prettier. A. hypnoides is ge for Wild P. —I have been — my- | then A uld have had o es rry 
"el A ioc ieu now-a-days, the only other place | self to make out the meaning of the ouncement | and Pe erry t to blame, but as other judges pem the 
thon € it - Backhouse's noble rockery. | a : 2^ uote below from your notice "m e pro acing Messrs. Lane second, it 
(ini was such a fine lot of Rhododendron | gra f the Roval Horticultural ‘Society at p. 32. | must be ca t that the generality o of conde * 
zcistus, of Azal ea p: and Epigza repens, | | nae elp me? I— Yd that “for the encourage- — m wer before they will fall in tor 
e 
peg seen in perfection and abundance for pir 
Amongst herbaceous 
notice, and some hardly to be found elsew — culti- 
vation, ione rivi she dg E ie 
argenteum 
sufficiently to suppl T its nume- 
ce health a t 
lants were many worthy of |S 
i 
ections of wild vents of p separate county of th 
United Kingdom, dried, mounted on paper, eu Jey 
Size, classified. according. to the natural sy 
s 
TY 
ned th 
ionema membranaceum ; 
Bent of Arnebia a echiodes, a aud acing 
d 2. Three Gold Medals will be given 
for at = ohn best of e the emeret te ied all the 
several county collecti: Not more than one of the 
Vm TP PIENE ENT TEEN EE E 
very striking’ E apaes and 
ill not be ie found elsewhere, Aum Anemones 
fully "ur pro PRAET ct n ere plen 
luxuria as were the Gentian 
I 1 
| own; &e 
| ut which La I fes delighted to find a batch of the 
ur r- 
that| A 
Royal He 
e | dense in 
ok who b > "that ve be Messrs. Lane from the 
E | exhibition fie ld, but the -out specimens which a: 
will persis! public. Messr: 
ne ng approaching a complete British Flora 
rranged under the counti es, as it is to consist of col- 
lectione from “eac un n but ore 
be mei medals are to be 
collections under No. 2, I am fairly puzzled. ETE 
as. Perry, The € 
ane state that 
| pri rise last Fa une pat the Royal Botan anic se Geass s, Rege 
Park. What they complain of is that it would not hale 
be eu awarded to them had their opponents’ plants not 
o bea n trained to a “ face.”|——In your Number tor 
ary 9,1 find a rather ven rs. Lan 
“Messrs. Perry & P 
"fair 
by, i th this ite inthe linevof ‘a horticultur 
. [We do not think “that ‘the 
Ccaucrs inay Provaulry be at a loss to 
ewe ie Par are, 
Sawbridge worth, “the other 
Tath 
— 
ondence. 
your correspon- 
. 54) that my 
n Dec. 
x ecessor ; an 
he pinching s tum 
is the fr d » 
tote 
from last year's ex experience | 
— y not to do with horticulture, an 
ema not ae te laying itself wee ^e 
eret of Des pint Ae to destroy the habitats of rare 
British plan 
sm show t 
extreme hardiness of the denen in - i vii 
suits it, may be interesti ers, 
years ago three 
Pory, P. ed Bromwich. I have not the pleasure of 
ing the latter, but the former er, who has | been with 
ers from bo yhood, a 40 year s, ] 
EB ot 
Mr. Rivers 
showing, a sowie “and fom all poultry 
articularly the latter, seem 
n be more — c 
— 
D 
zu 
at the west e f thes: 
smother = ne small by the Sedge, but one ne, them | 
above it, ae aa these othe € - me 
e hig! 
wees enti in bier 
believe this to be merely a con- ! 
! and the coast of Norway there ii nothing to break the 
ae and other 
— gentlemen, disputing— 
discree but = ill with 
t er ; 
ore thei dno. boxes, 
disputation and diseatisfaction, because the; 
they have been treated unjustly by the judges. 
or or clergymen, officers in the army o: 
callin 
ne 
