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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND iii om GAZETTE. 
[APRIL 30, 1864, 
which we — associate with what is — the 
& stove.’ Multitudes of beautifu 1 Thibau and | 
lbe found in these Toten 
, cannot 
the cultivation of whic eh n given a fresh impulse 
e Orchi ; 73 mania ; - qd th these matters 
BATE 
a 
question the wisdom 
esent Sa comi at S 
we 
o deal, as they fall 
i4 "ile subject that he | 
dotes 
e 
e 
e|  Collinsi 
— Horticultural Sookety.— 
| bloomed at Bagshot, yy also e a in size and o: 
viridissim here are 
many other botanica 
| Altogether ys n “plant is the m 
I have no doubt it will prove a very im 
ions It will be per 
when once plante 
pra [We shall. ourselves his rn 
early- occasion the meanwhile it will most 
deservedly bear the name of its — able and enter- 
prising RET m will 
E 4 
IRA 
. The Floral Committe AT 
be called FonsYTHIA | 
green stripes of two shades, 
: Decr cce that the roots will n 
From t ig Em 
si bei Xperiment 
anything water-tight, but Ss that 
I 
TES 
Ivy keeps 
a week 
ing the 
ensington, 
very green with merely dronckiag bs 
with rain water; and every two years changin, 
soil. B. 
EMT icultur. ral Society’s bite al Sout, 
here ? P within. t )e e quiet 
Arcadia seer these plebe 
warlike 
bedecke a 
subject ? -— he vor can permit oa E 
Italia an garde n o be converted i into a ni 
Ml 
iH 
—Having succeeded aft 
ral years’ expe nce in a e under cultivation 
little plant. 
se 
th 
placed along the op of terrace walls, on 
these as 
a 
ay, and th 
Med isi 
by la 
Fi 
ho: 
at is saying ae d doi at a 
cd are endeavouring T E. it 
merit croquet, and similar fashionable 
BATEMAN’S LECTURE ON Coo OL 
ORcHIDS. 
> | having entirely failed to prese I was induced to 
dhe a few specimens to pe las exhibition of the | 
ort pr essit MR that its great | 9 
to be and that bes | à 
a 
Ro oyal H 
merit d not, fai ised, 
would affor 
Orchids fe for coo 
large number of inog v speci be 
NOTE ON A NEW FORSYTHIA FROM PEKIN! 
Forsyt —— 
s 
secret of the Herat of the Committee leaks out. 
r this 
say, I € eprint to have felt any ae 
tever. But, though quite as i uch puz 
account for this want of ju justice, a was mn 
gl should not have asked permission to „occupy y 
still appea: 
most prom 
ait [s in the arden 
on hor 
your own pow 
old proverb nq, - What uc pe makes Martha 
sick.” Joseph Newton, 30, Eastbourne Terrace, [We 
have no voice in ce aioe matter, as we hoped every. 
y 
ould have see: 
Royal Horticultu -— es.—On' what e n 
tive of that award, which I find in your r eport 
the exhibition, 
several examples 
annual.” Ini thi 
of Collinsia verna, ** an old-fashi 
s not over puis Ahead phrase the 
It 
u give 
Your reporter states er I d 
Jud, 
does the. Hortioultural Society’ Fioral Commi 
ificates Po 
qu cal the agë of the “ oldest inant 
Wills some of the Committee explain? Flora, [As 
Collinsia “ verna," that is noticed editorially pis 
ntry fro 
cultural Society of Lon 
bad Sh Paw tiiat 
year in fu E — and in that s 
mental in 
nly pro odao - a most 
ikio a dd agreeable e w other 
shrubs a are in bloom A the open 
rub is | 1 
ee 
approval, thoug’s ted I it strikes 
reign Correspondenc 
Tin 
AN merited less their dod dri than their eren 
robation. o far, e Collinsia | 
Fo e. 
| EXHIBITION OF OCIÉTÉ ROYALE DE 
-— e 
ture this Society, held at Brusse 
anion of the Belgian Government, was opened on 
the 24th insta nt. The exhibition, which Ag of the 
sd a ahi 
gardens attractive during the MN of April. 
it has the n ae eM Ra, a 
cultivation, its blossom: 
Then 
is of easy 
in gen 
eo Forsythia has recenth; 
introduced from Reien re rte Mane 
eof b even new 
Feki for the Té simple 
before been cultivated ! C. gran ndi do ora, often 
| eously sold oe the name of verna, has evidently 
of | J 
of May. Our limits do not admit of gap 
| Ttt a report as the merits of the show would hare 
ified, as will be evident ‘from the fact that 
the 
been mistaken for thug Ej a et small amoun: nt 
ld 
| attention wou ent to dispel this 
B 
of 
introduction of t of the n ew e recs is, I thi 
Lg aedi aas MEL auge wegen cede present; permit 
and first introdt 
ud 
ut without enlarging on “that Taint, at 
me to state that e Collinsia verna was 
subjects Aue c- fran 
o , occupies 
s doro, th 
J 5 
T: 4 H "s ;7 3; ppt 
nk, worth 
ed in the Garden € Chronicle. m] 
visited he Chinese capital in 
xpected to find man 
mental "Thats m ight be met with inity, 
arly as it isa well ascertained fac that all that 
PL. n I 
y | of 1856. 
4 T its 
Mr. Wattall in 1855, and b y him m plan ger to 
Kew fte a where they piotat early in Mp spring 
I 
ins 
T€ a letter of Mr. Nuttall who styles it the most 
beautiful of the genus. Mr. Nuttall failed in perpetua- 
oder I may give “London as one example of wan 
and if another were wanted a little further awa; 
I 
—€— 
to be disappoin 
scarcity of plants, he here, as in other carla of the 
country, the people exhibit an ardent love for flowers, 
Nu 
— j e ill-success — at Kew. 
Having hit he right mode of treatment, a nd 
pem it for eiit beginnings till I am at oen able 
toshow beds of about 8000 plants, thus securing it I 
hope to our gardens, y> nds can j udge f for them- 
t was figured in ee Botanical M e fho 
d Sir W. J. Hooker, | 
open, 
intere 
portion 
the majarity ol 
groups of varying outline, pro 
by a removable "T aspe r the 
selves whether I have 
dr: both against the award of be: Floral Committee, 
elevated, An irregular patra hero bi 
TTE 
an nd the Statement of your repor 
hat 
d that my beds of this beautiful plant; | ev en those 
Neid the sides of the bui 
this eae S group, there stood 
the more southern parts of the empire, and were entirely unprotected, were in bloom some days before | Commencing with jnster 
already in Europe. The p eerie ons of Canton -— ie of Wen a us n which no other Collinsia, | immediately in front of the entrance a mo 
Woo choir, and Shanghae y represented, and o other annual whatever, | cimen of Livistonia Biro, exhibited by gr 
were apparently highly hited by the natives. Sweet- blooms ihe the s ; ind that the effect of so large a mass lle d'Hanis, of Antwerp. This emt in dia- 
es, Pomegrana fragrans, Oranges, | of pure azure blue and white is such t ot less than 20 feet in height, and as m the show. 
md with Apples and Pears, were in pal blic at large (and I heartily ^ they could) witness | meter, formed one of the finest features a Azalets 
and all cultivated in pots, so those | this display E: — Lee mond tans «i the | In front of it stood a group of d from one 
that were tender could be protected in winter. AsI Committec 1. W, | of all colours, the plants being on stem ections of 
ly into every hole and corner in quest of two h. Right and left came cot of 
somethi lige’ that of Injury to Wa igantea.—Some years erns, continued to the right by a fine, of 
et the good nat > eviden planted but finding that many | larger Azaleas, forming the northern termi tinned 
> “ Had I not come for flowers? Wi ed in spring from the east winds, which did not | the central mass. The dwarf Azaleas were the 
ere plenty of th which could be had ; to affect Wellingtonias in other of the left in company with Rhododendror sed 
vis dit Tot ak some of ten It ji aT pm — — anted | bank bein en up by a group of dwarf 
to make them believe that. all the ois ey frat ae gee instead. For seasons the latter | foliage plants, and small Roses. ongst the ely 
thoy pts so much, had been long in cultivation eded Hen, hu this ean they are all -= standard Azaleas, which consisted of V best 
iderably injured on their eastern side, whereas grown plants, ly of — ipod with 
A — epe were not s acad Deodars are not affe in in the slightest degree. o were Gloire de Belgique, white, finely “coloured 
fruitless, An w Fo: piers as discov ered, which me the circumstance is perfec oA inexplicable; can any v e fies nites! 
p y g ? J. B., Bidd2?ph flowers, masqued with white; Rubens, & "Alexandets 
was hen I? io Grange. range-scarlet tinpe size and fine form; ^" ing 
with it it, I i^ no opportunity ref seeing its lowers, and | Ivy and Red — Having read in your columns white with stripes ; mirabilis geratel 
therefore could on inion of it by its | (p. 392) tice relatin d Ivy, I at Set ade s Tork 6 white, fine show 
i hocce dei the result of my experi in the| with rose ; Roi des Doubles, è gre white 
t more than 10 an ie grown Ivy | double rose; and Roi des Blancs, a fine P^ about 
inside a wistiow, and though the plants have never) At E ee a silvered globe, elevated surround 
d it is and pretty, but I have | the of the eye, and refi all the os set Up 
ed I should lose it, and once from red | ing f Then came a few tall Tree ^6 g jarge 
; in my trouble all my friends what to | on stands; a new Camellia, and a fine gr T ruandre 
do, and followed all their advice with ,u | leaved e Camellia was Comte with imbri 
told to try what shifting it from the ornamental | à. full rose-col sort, Jarge lene 
to the common red earthenware w | cated and foliage. Of the | macró- 
This I did, and in a few weeks my Ivy was clear from | plants, the most noticeable were Gustavit 
"eli its red intru and I never have since. The|phylla and im Crescentia tia regalis ^5 Beo- 
have! o's were MADE of ZINC, and painted very prettily with | Leopoldi, Bote yodatdeón dron macrophyllum, 
