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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND zc: odium GAZETTE. 
[May 28, 1864, 
mm e stove is such that through the few nights of 
severe frost ois winter no sn ow lay o n the ground 
within 4 feet of my frames. By 
use x steam with that of Foe for warming lur 
rag ings, I feel lcg obtaining the advantage of 
Mr, Goldss worthy | Garn mode of “hea ating, together 
Societies. 
ko REGENTS Panx: May 21 ( 
Grai Aelibitiom, ok gloomy morning succeedit ng 
ee orm which took ey on the prev 
doubt ke thi eat gathe 
nry bel fost i on. .——[Mr. 
consequence in 
t : The mean — 
rsley’ s Vine border during the sev 
winter was à pen 
Orchids.—1 have read the report of the 1 
delivered by Mr. Bateman E South Kensington on oet 
subject; and one ression produced on my mind 
W reading the few m which only s pradtediiy- on 
at Mr event 
ell. 
ecture | but 
away is gre 
Pas n res of MEM oh DUAE would have pns 
1e attendance was comparatively 
plants for we ni 
batted, 
all numbers, a 
unusu 
ma 
ill grown p The 
Roses, the pde ra Orchids, and jen mM groups | 
of *stove and greenhouse plants,” were and alls 
cerne examples of Porman men skill. 
Sto and an enhou e Plan —With the She 
o] of our readers | 
in "this case ne odit. 
cultivators could have seen 
lecture. When an improved metho 
most 
saree the different subjects shown | 
well- E is wn forms were as Am ad 
ognisable ; e did see, and w 
Orchids is so strongly mapai, it is only fair tha d 
the lecturer sho = produce exam mpl es of his own 
an ought be 
he »e last 
—— MÀ for 
self to le otare, | | 
is to 
hoe gan. = 
Tacha, of i oiae ree persons acquainte ae 
this only in a small state could have conceived eee it | | the 
ave mad effective exhibition plant; but | 
i is the case was universally Mn its 
rupit flow ers, half- hidde nbya snow-white : calyx 
ses ^3 by "Mr. 
warm than cool, 
ed build 
hs : 
stronger in flower than those now 
e of the most remarkable i gie points in iho 
eva now fo und t oun nta 
ain | 49 
zen 
soon aring to much a ate un ne a dist 
blue Leschenaultias there were w fine rne 
specially o: an TE eiim sem of plants from | 
fortun zs — to land t 
fonds, 
235 so noticed m any | 
shee ming St tephanotis | 
Whore the rays af ae sun never sen boon 
hich, if correct, opens up anew field of ™ 
speculation. Robert Warner, Browse ld, Chelmsford, | | 
E: 
This is | mente 
First | © 
vious om | was 
——— 
noticed. It may however be said that we ki, 7 
we have, but not what we shall get. Ney. te o What 
ange seems npr ee recess mrs and we fee tome 
the tw rest owers in - 
nifice 
iw ‘of 8 pee Tu 
ar nt of the new double 
e? jel here was also 
ine 
bes. plants: 1, Messrs. "eiteh ; 2, 
. J. Fraser; 4, Mr. 
2, Mr. Melluish ; 3, Mr. Page; 4, Mr. 
5 r. Penny; 3, Mr. Wheeler; 4, Mr. Kai 
i og MT. Turnor; 3, Messrs, 
p zd tvithstanding the trying Circumstances 
as reg “ke we e 
. W. Pa hn Mese de 
t + af 
ong the ese tl 
Ve did, ho ever, obse erve a ae new ‘Kind 
and among ol 
Exe itm cw a. 
ow 
EN adt 1, Mr. Ch hilm ae 2. Mr. May; 3, Mr. Wh eeler, 
PEL ARGONIUMS.— Those shown by Mr. E í 
Shardeloes wer 
agni 
a ane ea 
eep purple 
| as regar 
t| comparatively in 
bl 
rds flower and fine growth ; as toth alle 2. 
n the background. Nevértholast his 
l Society’. ea a go tow 
XO ith ^l urprise—tho uo. ugh t rie quasi. | belongs More interesting, howeve r, to many were doubt- likewise Dna. fer NE i s pone aB s 
1 
vat cade doings at at the West- end of dada almost fail Dur fue fiago nificent specimens of pla inte remarkable for 
hatever their extravagance—the prc- ht. fer on the 
Hend „and Young. A and about 2 feet in heig p 
í EC d he ty Ae “Bert [ora of | M , Wil mo ieni p "Caec fa ia. M Gm ong | | baral instructions whic ave in our volume a 
A flower 1 aes rers Nia been less | the handsomely-variegated variety of A.macrorhiza;and last year (see p. 725), iueressed value van erc 
wu and that 1 the ‘word Wes cate he ts which t " pon S A Nd, | earth Su oft he pl T" dad a the Xp Ai 
misprint for ^u thoughts I gave| With leaves coated as wit silver, and Br AR The Belle, 
up this Acsi za came to the peu a ui the e better varieties of. bicolor, t ek liage, of which Monarch, “Rose nay p I Bina, Detenans, Te rielies, 
Speke ihe: fla es | parcel— —it is so like all the | was splashed and spotte ed T th car MEE e Sary Mir were perhaps D isiscstt Osiris, and Spotted 
hag those wl pus magnificum, on some of. which. the. lenves Gem. Fancy kinds w MN find in b tter conditia at 
bave a love for ride a ar to assimilate them as | wer usually large and fine. - A e pt Prett "-— Bee —— perd 
uch as possible to such amusing —Ó » | were e Theo hrastas, honey ines, Dracenas and Fern recived F First- U e Wd my rs. Ford, a 
A flower-market indeed! Why ca 
the — at South Kensington, as they are fend | 
ey are honest, after taking care | of Horti- | 
dattore, Aiae fa the Fellows, and b 
them, sad fs garden equal at bs toan average priva ate 
rden cs rs m and flori - € 
ursuit: of their proper callin: jer A flow arket 
deed! They hadt far better set up an Appl stall, mi 
then they y mig ht be creating a a marke t for the » Society 
"i the latter inclu a 
wards.—16 
| bea 
- 
ny remarkably fin ne Re OM 
Mr, A 2, Mr. 
"Rodas; 8, 
. Green; s 
we 2, Mr. 
a Fine: Tae Fa and 
kom ‘emp; 4, Mr. Cross. 
r, Williams ; 3, Messr: 
3 Ke: 
| fowering plants: 1, Messrs. Lee; 
a n & Co. Y 
DUM —Of these ther s the usual bank ; but 
QS je or two exceptions there was a general absence 
de sinn d — them we notice 
-3 4, 
instead of emptying, its coffers—as must be me result | 
of such bungling Minnie as mnn hes 
n Odie VÀ ossum Phalenopsis, with 
| marrow v grass Tike leaves, and large reete Hh white and 
eolou o s, flat and beautifully marked ; also 
tra and | 
to i ores fruits, or instituting * * flor al fetes” of | 
rs to be de Riser REM ok has been | 
done by ie the Jongi pe Uo total failures. ‘I hope 
man aga ies Pla nts and Best Mode of Packin, 
mcd ity ird of Orsi ust received from the Andaman Islands 
phi need with other plants an nd | 
different from 
some risk, 
and the « officer 
still they 
may turn 
pM rng in pepe 
charcoa. 
gh 
ing | som me 
any | gal and other well-known 
m and 
specimens of O. nevium 
a to 
wel 
of O. Peseatorei, the last 2 a gem in the class 
| re it belongs. Of Ang 
e and white Fancy variety, a Second-class Certificate 
eal awarded. 
yore plants: 1, Mr. Bailey; 2, 
held ; Mr. Weir. 12 plants: 1, Mr. 
Turner. he Fancy sorts: 1, Mr. Turner E [^^ 
—1, Mr. Baile; ja 2, aes, ; ae var 
all group of these 
and from Mr. 
Mr. Nye; 9, Wi 
aser; 2, Y 
A T Lg 7 
toe first rank. Eu is, we believe. is 
elegans, 
to be very har eM and a comparatively late TI 
Calceolarias.—Collections of herbaceous vi 
P oues with no fewer ‘aan: is fully — ze 
bright vlde 
grand e 
Basse ache i Lælia, Dengupiom nobile, 
on ius t, but 
we remarked amon Other species 
— —— ink- LE. i 
diu rte ne son well owad pla iod 
TT an of €. Hooker, an 
ndlan 
lt 
time, and soldered down in a Ei 
a stout wooden box. Many when washed looked se 
green d Erg and i hope may I suspect the 
found in 
hers I 
y may have more 
Wardian cases are out of he question, but 
: 
| OF rarities, among Dendrobes there were Dalhousia- | 
|num and Dayanum, the last certainly, as shown, in all 
respects inferi ke E either send o MITT or anosmum, 
| AC mer r. Bak 
nn 
for at present all is in confu- 
poe Lape ar, = Bosa 
ther unks 
t, of dos fine than | m ‘which 
b 
hem und 
rosca An in Indie 
us hei 
Elms.—I enclose two twigs from a} 
he Bes v 2 ape e green leaf i is on 
MM main stem. 
vm 
were l 
wany rue 
lan 
a remar 
Hi Mr. Turner, both of whose groups 
of great size. It was universally 
| oie perfect vas ther Y 
Mod ^q The 
Winter a 
show 
e | general ub especial T "di on nce, 
| was more that of huge olaa that lants. Let us| 
dete therefore, e m — tasteful iade of trainiug 
xb mentio: accoun noe afi 
es had a ge Tous - name 
East 
kind, with prettily variegated leaves and |; 
ue furnished by an 
— on a buff ground; CoD 
a yellow "a ; Miss 1 
e | Kelly were a all varieties well worth grow these 
Miscell Subjects.— Foremost amongs 
was a terra cotta ey ote of ee er 
sent from York ackho To a 
| — to have been chown’! in the its an found 
little moss-cover 
in 
nely in flower; the orange and violet E pinkeyed 
osace villosa, "ui with e Barr & 
ants, of whi 
eir 
a Passa: well grow! 
may be as soon subtituted for that just 
eee , of Highgate. Nas blooms ane fr 
Ji S RU from Mr. Hooper, 
t 
