THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
366 [Aprir 16, 1861, 
the] Lily of the Valley.—1 beg to forward P Om 
, but having |“ Book of the Ga rden and * TI jomson on rward a con 
oe Vin eof Snow's Masel Hambur mh e Bed ing | ine” has so fully Mcr the gardening world ut pots « of this favourite Lily, of tira I have had agi 
the Black Hamburgh, and bearing benches weighing | | the Grape vitai so largel bes success sfall ps eue Rud in November e re Week in Jantar, 
nearly 6 lb, each. On aga n through an aqnatic house | there, that probably any notes t fail thats. M a Shed flowers only yan 
with the Victoria into ard house 70 feet long | would have been i wice told. Ind oors and ou every dag abri s Eu that N Neapolitan 
and 22 feet wide, “wall, fled with aeos plants; and | spot of the place which I cha was in the most perfect bai cf Mignonette, = Roses, ilies of the Vaj alley, sj 
from that into a ridge-and-fur Camellia house, | keeping possible. Wim. Robin occa Pee Pon ps h dene, "nd he eee ma 
66 feet long and 24 wide, the vial large and in fine | prizes offered for t ES , rm 22 ee » 
condition. Next, the Heath house, a large half. span | Home Reseespentene tatie: 32 pots of Lily 4 a yet opal 
PNE qus atti ofp, ea TE Tue Dayt Shore Tncoegene of feintenton| Hagen Pk so gach itt baa 
; f the Royal Hortiesltural $ Society now sent, and the Judges awar the 
= T with all the best appliances, ^i | dof th cotées vely, the exhibitors an thou à cá which di did ein clear m my expenses in pe 
i that intention. he ardener to James a 
ir remainder of the Vineries, Pineries, s Bean necessary to pe etition against l J , "- ES 
Strawberry houses, Cucumber, Melon pits, do, I| exhibi tors think it necessary for the information of al — d “House, Ba Balham. [The plan 
hi lished in your Paper, if you would kindly oblige them. | 
| Geo. Baker. 
servatory," aborately 
ture, contai "medicinal pri am riy 
reci of do. dat thence arare dann d make 
a few notes on the ribbo ond y m These ae sid 
y 
an el 
YAL HORTICULTURAL Society 
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‘ai To THE Couxer OF TH 
nfor rm you 
ive en elsewher ustice to our fenus eave: =p oyers, 
very desirable dertten Fons the orditikry be shown, our former experi- 
i e J e ond day 
ode of “ ribboning ” by the judicious use of that fine | ence having convinced us that t 
plant, Centaurea ragusina, which I believe Mr Thom- — n d the bus n I w the € Aki E | 
i an a e | 
mh t he firs t to bed out extensively about 200 Second =~ "dodbly "Miraets een our galls po ranita onseq) ent | y 
plants of it vi g been annually used in the bedding to our employment; that the expenses att Ju taking 
out at Dalkeith for the past five ye There is ourp reri i tov from the exhib’ ition, "couple with e 
strictly speaking no flower garden, though the vast t pray tal are ll tke those our oe et m 
borders which run along the sides of the “square” am ob ion tt esl exhibitor Úno y your r orion con- 
garden, and i in front of the great ranges of glass, make a It hav 
elin the"greatest bediding-out places. But the with i s, we 
» ddi een at Dalkeith, do gas woul 
owledge 
to parall 
beauties of the 
ing system decidedly inj 
not arise from opposition of “the primitive colours; to A. Basset, Esq , Stamford m; - “Wheeler: Gr: 
only one large Bade bei: en up to the red, blue to Ti Bipot, eget Sm rd Hill; C. ] 
and ellow and that bor n the | Gibbs, Esq., ross, Gr. to P. go oldsmid, 
hy zp OE nel ire a sae SIO ? | Regent's oro a "Pee Gr. to Mrs. Tredwelh Lower 
Some P Meta apod Norwood ; T. Page, Gr. to W. ed Esq., Str MR n Com mmon ; 
n are planted yea with the ©. ume — to A. Anderso *, Norwood Grove ; J. Green, 
after yea om 
d the t were one | to Mrs “Sith, Ashtead H 
= exercised by the m 
een 
1 and kitchen gardens, pae n e maintained in the 
a 
ilfal etalon, hernia 
bloomed, and deliciously fragrant. | 
Influence of the aen shall esteem it a c it 
you will S w me to say that I shall bet reat] 
to any o n vM 
y 
mation scales to 
moon on vegetation, "CL L, 13, Roman 
Road, erate London. 
Death of Mr. Andrew Stewart.—I pre) with your 
per ion, to inform your rea e departure 
from Saat ane us i a highly successful gardener, and a 
very wor Mr. Andrew 
rthy m 
Demain in: "Sanday last, was, I doubt not, well 
n to many of your readers, and I - "a 
eset pass without — ng my 
me ae 
ide was so well par 
n invited 00 some years to ye asa 
it at the best London § 
he was much respected by everyone aquiatel with 
lim. gm the death of the late Duk 
r, Stewart had sole charge of "e pei tsworth fruit 
l known. He und 
about Londo 
etd Medie but I am convince 
of Mr. s seen in juxtaposition, a vues: E Badae rol Barr 
tJ P Wigeins, “Gr. tow. Beck, Req “Isleworth J. Smith, Gr. $9 
and ae the French [oo and "had visited some 
strictir 
Dalkeith may be now well and used in the| his Grace the Duke of Nort humberlan iW. Taylor, rer of the best gardens e Continent, His 
; W. Youn di emina qualified 
North, though vs a smaller iale s vat it a be “tive ofal | J: Yates; Esq Lauderdale H Hig moral r^ ind y 
|to R. Barclay, Esq., West Hill E High ate; J. Weir, : 3 
to the Southern rif I des ie some e more | Gr, to Mrs. "Hodgson, "The Elms, Ham impstead ; W. Milford, Gr to | bim for taking u new ideas - iu o) 
important bor den that ent $ the | E, MeMorland, Esq., Hampstead; T. Bailey, Gr. to T. T. Drake, | of gardening as practised i in his youth, My Al 
i e! | Esq., Sharde joes, Amersham ; 5. eke or. to J. v Esq., 
all 
ham; R. Bullen, Gr. to A. Turner, Esq., 
gnonette, aud beyond | , Leicester ; W. May, r. to J. Spode. Esq., 
rip of Red e i did e work well as a fine- | H: 
plant. There were borders shaded and m d t Distri ibut 
ones 
id "Plan ng. ng.—I have read with much 
5 
looking ple 
effective display was in peri nb "i range | prizes for oleate wild flow 
of glass 420 feet iong, running its ein rius and | The practice—and seem agree ed 1 n thinkis ng the our 
planted in the follow Br nner, Between the glass flora i n in some particulars scanty. If that therefore 
and first row of plants w de T€! sever: Md feet Mie |is the case, cannot we do something towards increasing 
Wiolintel ; then two rows Sof Scarlet Pelargonium the it? Why should every crevice in our old chalk pits not 
first Shrubland Rose, and second Sutton s Dwarf Scie | tésti with flowers of the beautiful Centranthus ruber 
ing Verbena; the | and i its white variety, and Echium vulgare, an iade and 
memory—about 
in s of the 
8 of 
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E 
vi 
iT away, and learned from it that n o Fossovin 
ad there, What would be easier than for me to gather 
few hundred seeds and send v through the post for 
she ny? Further, what mne vent him or her, as the 
case might - from sowing them in some tte hy |* 
td M my 
sitions at Dalkeith. 
e ec side of o wide ie fronting this 
d on € eq ual 
be. 
J 
TOW 
t .5 1 
belt of "Purple 
bena, nearly as wide as the opposite one oF 
ia, Lobelis, and Ped and along the centr 
` icd of little squares of Calceolaria aurantia attt 
district. 
th 
my na and e 
Ps id r 
3 feet across and 10 apart in the line, oppo- | plants to any applieant, and sen ceive seeds in | ; and 
plants of Centaurea on the other Side. the way just maates: “Dide, Hu M a sy S nd it v^ br 
of Alma Variegated Pelargonium, | Exhibiting Orchids.—As the time for exhibiting these | est double whites: Prince of Orange, glowing ^] 
Commander-in-Chief at hand, I to offer a few remar upon the way | tet: prin bert. Wists semidouble Ti w E 
and mixed, in which we often see them shown, T allude to the Ara 5 ge te 
a 
ground. rticular 
Another fine border, 460 feet long, 
of Centaurea at abt 
3 — 
e inio (See 
Hisointha and Tulips were plentifu 
came 
cate. z " 
t crimson; 
Vervaene, Te salmon s otted with Carlin 
good w hite A First-class | 
along the centre, surrounded | those matters must h iced a the prin- 
by a band of Lo iosa, encircle a chain of | cipal shows, both in fonda id be places, that this 
white gravel walks, the intermediate space on the side ie is frequently resorted to, and I consider it any- | 
the h being filled with eame a but n'exhibitor doing the same thing |? 
off from Ti tham Rose to Brilliant, and in fron y| | wit any other — of pu would be sure to be dis- 
Vietoria a line of Cerastiu s detected eservedly so. I 
m between itand| | qualified as 
Cus urea-varied | 
border, beginning with ‘ala I fancy I hear some of the make —Con ipe cuous among 
zre Miss Hamilton Scarlet Verbena, with | up entlem y, “Ob, but can’t m rule Eli D Dake "OF Cambridge, and Patt 
taurea E the centre ; and further on a | absolute rs regard to Orchids; for some growe nja a crimson seedling Mes 
le King, ge one of Calceolaria aurantia | the 6 kaif their induce the back | received a First-class Certificate; ed à; 
; end Dahlia Zelinda and » ca ues further disturbing the plants ; | Hoole Hall, — had a Second-clne iar yard 
n that case ber of pl e same pot is | Magnifica, a large crimson. A ith dark cent 
ts premis po fauli with this so | also made to S Satisfaction, a white kind "Mr Lacey. 
grown in the same pot, and this | and broad edging « ors rich i from 3, Mr. Lacy: i 
easily peee x any, als ba sage in Orchid | 4vards.— Aet mer j 
> Was med Leones oem What I allude to is the practice of making up Amaryllis zy eens group 
have yet seen. Had t mens a few weeks or in wee cases a few e from Mr. Mem of ind of và 
have much enjoyed a rambl pefore exhibiting them; in that case, instead of rewarding ariei consisted wholly 7. 
en gardens, with a | the best grower, the to the man who com- | leaved kinds, iine e cy little ie nore tera Mr 
E Bel mands the "T. Baines, Gr. to H. L. Bhar Bulbs.— arge bush amd 
eit Micholls, Esq., Summer Field, ld, Bowdon, Cheshire. ere again furnished by M. 
my knowledge o am sure 
will v ien me the on to the gardening world of a man 
so exemplar very relation of life. Joseph Paxton. 
octe 
ROYAL -HoRTIOULTURAL: due 5.— 
Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., in the chair. on 
^ following ea candidates were pos Fe seh e^ d 
w 
Gn 
col, 
G. Plucknett, Esq. ; Mrs. binson, W. Shairp, Esq; 
- of Sheffield, Mos. Stephens, Madame ebur d 
Valmency, Mrs . Watts , Mrs. Manuel, and Mrs. 
s 8; Show- 
Seco d i 
[other early fov 
OTANIC : April 9 
and there was also a capital display of 
ing plants. 
rained f these some ay flow: 
margin ; and Perfection, rosy cri 
Lane had Reine des Blanches, white ; 
h 
—— s 
corper ase 
charming rosy kind, spott: : 
ite a epee Hi 
greca with white, qui Tod a; Ld 
ross; 2, Mr. < g, Mr. 
$m EC E 2, Messrs. o; d ars 1 
New Kinds. ae Mr. Turn ; equal 2, Mr. m UE 
— Messrs. Sm were 1 
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