294. 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
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— floor, and he probably will soon discove ne the had * it for all my houses, &c. It keeps flowers in 
of that livi wae ag “sn which his foo d weeks longer than any other glass, and — 
— are ted. ſrom — — ple taly gets rid of the necessity of shades. I have use: 
Some years —— my dining-roo —— was similarly infested. it for pits and hand-glasses with g + 
Within a few minutes after the cloth had been laid for | answers admirably for striking cuttings under it, even 
dinner party of ants would take p of the most delica s. The time will co hen 
of it, and have a taste of all the good things on the | noo gl ill be used for horticultural p 
table. Havi years of my life within the | roof: I h seen many imitations of it, 
tropics, I could have stood thi n, but in co ost wretehed and imperfect su „ 10 but 
of time their numbers uch that the legs| common sheet glass with one side roughened, Every 
one who has seen the patent rough plate is satisfied 
ng the of use, while the house- 
did — — ppened, how- 
ever, that ve — vered with a Turkey carpet, 
So that the brush, — worked by a oe — had 
but little effect in routing the enemy. wever, 
I-found my nei — cry out, and Huy shy — my beef 
and 8 te, and removing the furni- 
room, “had two or 
fiow of its efficacy, though the 
year. John ~ Pje jun., the Rectory, South Perrott, 
near Crewker 
20 leties. 
ROYAL BOTANIC, REGENT'S PARK, May 8.—This Society was 
E n in having a ** day for its first fe * this Sennen 
Without * hag se. Be if we except some e 8, 
h d M 
t zaleas, e's collection of Kiai and — 
ouse — * . were — the exhibition was not more 
than an average one. There were no cti worth men- 
moved early hou 
3 ots a of 30 Stove and GREENHOUSE PLANTS were shown 
with ants and the dust and mate of w ey had by Mrs. Lawrence, of Ealing Park, and Mr. Cole, gr. to H. 
formed their nest. I then gave them a few ho rest, | Colyer, Esq., of 2 In Mrs. Lawrence’ group, — h 
posed tragglers and foragin ies-had 1 erior to Mr. Cole’s, we rema 
— rys their ston N when I — some spirits Eri ste mon my oroides and bazigi . 
W TS, — = I pan aa gone gra i Ne mo pna 
iflor 
=o a 3 4 be os pies 5 
h hi of finely * 2 7 — — 
— — of C ore — Taw — nceana, Podolobium. ‘taurophyllum, 
the —— yellow- red Oxylo obium Pulte 
Swa 8 8 a plant which few 2 kaye? 
mall G. orphum, trained to stakes, in the f of a 
dsom than that of placing” it on a 
vea Celsi, 
t Chronicle 
a 
2° (the —— of w 
he rset and the latter — a — 2 
| hich with him in Suffolk have either 
killed o tained y, while with myself, living 
in what i is 9 cold 2 bare district (the Cots- 
injur 
r things — y Mr. es, 
B — one —— of late 8 not in 
e 
| speciosa, A zalea Gledstanesii, a purple- i Everlasting, 
Hovea 1 not so highly coloured — * should have been, and 
somed Clerodendr ron sple 
‘Gollestions of 20 STOVE h 
tia formosa, bet 
a — — plant; Ixora 
Everlastings, an 
trained on a wire t relli 
pyramidal Erio stemon buzifo lium, Thee: 3 a pal pink 
— — - limata W ee a 
Heath, d Alber tii and a i ps —Messrs. 
Frazers’ Pleat were small, and incapable of 8 with 
the fine specimens supplied fr same eee in former 
— pe mong them were g pie ts of Erica — — 
Azalea indica alba —— ag 3 Epacris grandiflora 
ang 1 Jas Mr. Pamplin had Genista race- 
a, Hovea Celsi, so 8 nd Heaths, and a good bus 
of t the net — inde Tides lanata. 
Collections of 10 STOVE and GREENHOUSE PLANTS we 
maon The two best were furnished Mr. * oi 
tamford-hill, and Mr. Laybank, of Norwood. In the fo ‘ales 
of these we observed a iarsa Epacris grandifiora „ well flow 
d highly coloured; Adenan nig aeons rica bropendens, F. 
Len — box — 
reg to have d (as has 1 
» quite ear, a Mia 
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8 
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appearance of — — 
The Ilex 
eared I had lost it, but it has, ho —— recovered 
its hue of — 2 though from what has * I must 
rather dou its being = e Mag- 
nolias (grand ra) agains * ho ope 
and believe, little if at all aa * for the — winter's 
he exposure to the cold of fro 
* é 
ne 
7 So 
noble look- 
pe 
nd there appeared a 
prospe: eason; 2 3 on 
the evening of May a a sharp aag m 
that on the morning of the 3d t 
perhaps. some of your 
— in diff feriak DaS parts ‘of ie country will give the 
mount of frost t registered on the m 
38 a 
m 
that nothing can | 
pinched, ryptomeria | Erica B * 
h not yet planted out, and a gelii; 
i tt the earl 
| can um, E 
t e Saccolabium mi 
t Me: —.— Lucombe and Pince, of — pone’ an 
— a — en a, ear temon, a 
prettily man paris miniata, and Choro a Hench- 
manni.—Mr, bs De, 10 plants contained Tro sie, trico- 
lorum, trained in the form of an upright cylinder, + feet thigh, 
and covered with flo owers, > pro roducing er ren oe effect; a well- 
cultivated Boronia anemoneefolia, a aoa Golly coc- 
cinea, a pate aa variety of Gompotobiam polymorphur, 
E iana, a hands oma Heath in of so 
zema — ifolia 
— wh and fl 
y were very sceptical last | °F 
, fag showy - 
buft-flowered | 
Pin 
be 
Wrence. 
ri speciosissinia, — 
st oe and Gledstanesii 8 . — — 
2 
Gillio 
double =e coronata, v ata, an 
a little ae. ‘ot the double red; also 
varie avourite, 
egat 
Roses bite — tiful ¢ 
Indeed it sonia. be difficult to surpass the excellence of 
of the specimens in Mr. ap mest Lay sag asc Mr. Pa 
a plant of | Madame de St. 05 -Ag very fine Tea , which 
was r. Fraucis’ collection also 
d b Row. 
Mr. Lan 
Duches 
2. — 
2 fine b piante 0 
e de om Joseph (alluded to Togo 
. * e. 
p 
Mr. Franci tine Mous 
chelet, Baronne Prevost, 4% Reine, General Allard Mrs, — 
— ourbon a — Duval, P. Teas 
2 Souvenir ra la alm 
reai t Mr. Lane’s V 
Smith's neler 8 de Caze Plantier, and 
Clara Wendel.— Mr. — — had, in sain t to the — two 
= s Yellow d Solfaterre. To the 
ree La P 
Care HEATHS og plentiful, but 1 — — rall y insufficiently in 
bloom. The plants — aeo from 3 Mr. won A Baten. and 
cultivated by Mr. Leac nly a ples of 
successtul Heath — puera — 
of Beaumontia, pro endens, perspicua — vas 5 — Hart. 
le egans Spills * — tortulæ- 
Amon 
ridi 
habit of "he 5 Sindriana, *favoides elegans, 1 
. s, intermedia, elegans, perspicua nana, am 
tita rosea, nitida, and Wen —Mr. Cole had 2 nice 
reece — groups of six plants were produced in 
condition by 8 May, Williams, 1 Green. — In the 
Nurserymen’s Class, Mr. Fairbairn had 12 good plants, some 
account of which will be found in anot: mio — and so had 
rom Pm 
Mears: e and Veitch. oup 
p a new kind; and 
observ pipa exam 
— non n had the seldom-seen alr ‘and Sin- Sin- 
driana. — —.— Heaths, a parent! 
but t 
were not suffici wea distinct to m r 
This remark also — o a seedling produced b; 
— idstone, in the way of Dunbariana or, perhaps, 
gas specimens consisted of an immense Pimelea specta- 
bilis from Mrs. Lawrence, Rhododendron Gibsonii from Mr, 
Lane, Boronia spathulata from m Messrs, Veitch, Hoya imperialis 
ge oiher pun of . . 
NTS were Veitch had Medinilla 
bracteata, 1 Fuchsia spectabilis —.— — ge condition), Pimelea 
$ kieh Stylidium ciliare, ang 
e and Co, sent Gardenis 
Dn tras we nin Mews 8. * ucom 
i 3 anum.—Mr. 7 had 
malleifera and — . 
Pimelea — 
called grandis, and Pimelea v 
showed a seedling 5 vea,—Messrs. Vei 
lanceolata as a sa piang * economical interest. 
— 
a — Eee erlasting.— te 2 plants from Mr. ai of 
Tooting, which were placed next in point of merit, we remarked 
0 owin variety; a charm ming Epacris 
I ica | perspicua — — Other 
den uc y W. H. Gilliot, E Sda of hes gg — 
Traill, of ‘Bromley ; ; Mr. Matron; > —— andram, Esq., 
Blackheat ; Mr, Slowe, gr. to ge Mr. Stanly, 
Mr. Young, and others. In thes collections we Sepia d 
Erica — — which is noticed in 8 — 
nice mbes of B ia, twhic 
sombre appearan . exhibition plant ; 
Oxslobiuns 8 one — the bsg mag of yellow-flowered 
reenhouse — —— ca m a charming purple 
Heath; and the stro — — wered Prostanthera 
rotun * 
A 
| 
efore leaving this part of the exhibition, we must not omit 
to wales that in the tent in gee — — stove and greenhouse 
r be io besa ed, Erg 1 with turf have 
n substi — si on w 
used — be > piaeod, and with aka effec’ stags 3 
Orc 2 17 of 25 w as produced by Mr. 
Williams, gr % to C. B. N arner, Esq., of Hoddesdon. It con- 
tained a majalis, with one —— L cinnabarina, Cypri- 
pedium 1 with four blosso 
dendrum bicornutum, 8 ochilum, aurantia- 
m, crassifolium, and variegatum, . cruenta, “Cattleya 
— C. citrina, with two flowers; C. Skin and C. 
Mossi, a finely- nang Den drobiam miacrophy lium, mo- 
niliforme, densiflor zerules and nobile; Phalæ- 
nopsis gr Fi or ang Mazillaria “tenuifolia, the Nee orange- 
s Wallichii, the 
ety of Bras — 
of 15 ORCHIDS — . 
of Sy ‘Stratford, aud = pane 8 shown 9 . n Boksa Es 
2 = 
en. 
and 9 ; 
RCHIDS were supplied by Mr, — — Mr. Wooly, gr. 
to H. B. Ker, Esq., of Cheshunt. [tong at 
slate pots) contained a large and 9 
drobium nobile, also D 
9 called Bian 
bited by —— . — Mr. Stark, of Edin- 
burgh, ier a e ert Waldo which was stated tos 
be violet-scente 
PELARGONIUMS. ve stated, these were numerous, 
oom, For 12 new kinds 
first with Hope, 
Bertha, 
ctum, 
Pearl, ote * and Gustavas; 20, 
ie Miss 
for Focus lela. Rolla, Centurion, Virgin 
— Lady, Pearl, 
N Nurserymen (sa (sa 
son, — to Mr. Beck, for — ath 
Rosalind, Mont Blane, Chloe, Gustavus, P 8 
‘Rosamond; 2d, Mr. Gaines, f y ripe a ia 
Grenadier, Mont Blanc, Mrs. Beck, J ulian 
i were Adoni „ kosy 
9 Zanzummim, Pearl, and a Regrets. 
eee te = elle, Emm "e Neg 
re ma omone] * > een, and 
0: 8 = ueen, Jehu superbum, 
Madame Melle; 2, Mr. Moseley, fo for Nosegay, p Statuiski, nsis, 
Lady Rivers, Yeatmannianum grandiflorum, 
3, Mr. Stains, Queen, — — Statuiski, W., Wale 
belle Africana, and Yeatm diflorum.— 
six consisted of An — —.— memi, Jenny Tind, Madame 
8 8 N Rivers, and Ibrahim Pacha. abrotani- 
Of 5 Mr. Parker had elegans, a major 
reniforme, crispum Mit id 
g dfordianum, elatum; 
quinquevulnerum. 
SEEDLING PELARGONIU to see 
parable, two varieties of g great colour, ‘wo we hope io-s 
again. ‘Little, but good,” fro Mr, Hoyle 
promising flower. Other seedlings were produced by aod for 
and others, but the ason is not yet — h ad 
had Rosa and Income 
CINERARIAS, — p aches my of «Henao 
St. 
dela Villiers, Flor aM I 
1g — So ra Melvor, 
—— pat 
8. — ery sent Beauty of 
binso 1 00 Oa Ring, Edmondaiana, 
son produ Fairy B, 4 825. 
525 N *. —— x 4 e ON ampbell, 
e in the 
EEE S 2 
4 . 
e — te 
; Lye 
8 — — — —— 
bium cerulescens, some 4 — igh and ye: much 
t deep, and w 
Tae cenis an pan 
ns — 
— Messrs, V 
gro 
elsewhere in 
bi Dendro- 
co: rom 
equal “ Hartley’s pa Rough f Plate.” 
I only wish I 
wp e rom n e nd dite. 1. 
e noticed | and Messrs, 
ipedium 
Mrs, Er. to H. B. Ker, 
— Stanly 
of Norfolk, the flowers were was produced 
Woolfs 
A collection of 30 wal a mapa A 
Willi Warner, r * weet 4 Mr. 
— 3 Alpine 
— 
