310 Domestic Notices : — England. 



grafting, only one wound is seen, well closed, and, from its proximity to the 

 ground, in all probability when it is transplanted it will have the advantage 

 of being put a little below it, so that the graft itself may put out roots, as I 

 have already observed in several of them. I have seen a paper by M. 

 Poiteau, in his Revue HorticuUurale, on this method of grafting ; also, perhaps, 

 in the Annales de la Societe Hort. de Paris; but the putting it in practice in 

 summer is new, and that is the time when plants are in their full vigour. — 

 Giuseppe Manetti. 



[The foregoing communication was unfortunately mislaid after the essence 

 of it had been used in the Arboretum Briiannicum. On this account we entreat 

 our correspondent and our readers to pardon the seeming neglect. We have 

 now, we believe, inserted all the communications which we have ever received 

 from Signore Manetti, and we hope he will be encouraged to continue them ; 

 for we are certain that all those of our readers whose taste rises higher than 

 mere culture, who have, in fact, elegant minds, will read them with pleasure 

 as well as with instruction. — Co7id.] 



Art. III. Domeslic Notices. 



ENGLAND. 



The Horticultural Fete at Ckiswick, May 16. — It has never been our lot to 

 see so many beautiful and rare plants collected in one place, as were yester- 

 day in the Horticultural Society's Garden. The orchidaceous plants were 

 in fine order, and were generally admired. Among the more remarkable were, 

 Phalaenopsis amabilis Blume, with its large white moth-like blossoms; the 

 plant we were told had been in flower for nearly eighteen months ; Cory- 

 anthes macrantha Hook., having a lurid crimson flower unlike any thing else 

 in nature, the labelliim or lip being folded round almost like a sack ; Myan- 

 thus cernuus LindL, a fine plant with two long drooping spikes of dull green 

 flowers, spotted with purple; Cattleya Mossice Hook., two very beautiful 

 varieties with deep lilac petals, and a crimson labellum edged with white ; 

 Acanthophippium bicolor LindL, a very large plant producing yellow blos- 

 soms edged with red, close to the soil of the pot, in such masses as com- 

 pletely to hide it; Aerides odoratum />«?»., a most elegant plant with two 

 drooping spikes, closely crowded with delicate white flowers, exhaling a most 

 delicious scent ; Fdnda Roxburghii R. Br. ; the rare and richly-coloured 

 Oncidium divaricatum B. R., and many others, too numerous to mention 

 here, were in native beauty and vigour. These plants were principally sup- 

 plied from the rich collections of Messrs. Rawlinson and Mr. Rucker. A 

 very large quantity of heaths, all in fine flower, including nearly all the rarer 

 kinds ; one of the most remarkable specimens was a large plant of J^rica 

 elegans Andr., from the Exeter Nursery, so completely covered with bright 

 pink flowers as entirely to hide the foliage. A very numerous collection, in- 

 cluding E. Hartnelli Ro. C, JS. vestita Thun., and several varieties ; E. 

 Thunbergja W., E. mirabilis Lod., and many others, occupied nearly the 

 whole of one side of the central tent. The cacti from Mr. Harris, of which 

 there were between 300 and 400 specimens, chiefly from Mexico, of all 

 shapes and sizes. Mr. Cock's geraniums, and the innumerable variety of 

 calceolarias, attracted universal attention. To describe the number and ex- 

 traordinary varieties of Calceolaria is impossible ; suffice to say, that some 

 were " rich in streaming gold," others of a deep velvet purple, others white, 

 with a purple stain in the centre curiously marked with white ; others again, 

 having a white ground with a pink spot in the centre, very regularly marked 

 with lines of deep crimson, &c., &c. The Azalea Indica and its varieties, par- 

 ticularly A. i. variegataand A.i. lateritia, were deserving of notice ; these, with 

 the Rhododendron arboreum and its varieties, added not a little to the splen- 

 dour of the show, by their large white, purple, pink, or red flowers. Cereus 

 speciosissimus, and Epiphyllum Ackermannz major, produced a gorgeous 



