374 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE, [June 15, 
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the plan which I reeomm rs ago. two red Azaleas, Ixora coccinea, Chorozema varium, erantha purpurea, spectabilis Ae and Phæno- 
answers e — Prat = mos south of Eng. the yellow- blossomed we Cunninghami, Erica | coma . 
land idea what peat m is; they | Cavendishii, and a variety of E innzwoides s Polygala| Oncurps as these w n May, they were far 
imagi it is * heath soil, which is a r, acuminata, an Everlasting, —— imelea, the | excelled both A in 9 and — on OSatunden last. 
sandy, blac ld ly the surface of white-flowered — sane, oim phala, api iatha Mr. Holford’s r. Bassett produced a Camarotis pur 
ground, not more than 6 or 8 inches deep. On the polymor the nala speek: . suppe orted | purea 5 feet in height, quit pyramid of purple 
other hand, I have see 0 feet deep, and in| by a 1 sticks ; Fra acumin Boron pin- | flowers from the top to the bottom. This f ed, as 
some places 30; all one solid mass, e T 3 —.. and 119 well it might an object of general admiration, Scarcely 
Irish Amelioration = Wege to manufacture two —— 9 mplin, of Lea- bridge road, inferior to it was an Odo ssum citrosmum in the 
sizes, one as jump, sugar we put into our sent a fourth group, in whi oppo v — of Mr. Mylam, S. Rucker, Esq. 
tea; this size would keep — elay — d noes , | Polygala, a large white Heath, the woolly Pimelea (P d five glorious spikes of flowers on it, they 
warmer, and le 01 ould | lanata), Epacris miniata, the b nt red Azalea called most tifully coloured. Indeed the amount of colour 
also retain —— in the com longer in in hot d 0 * t N em — ica or, the which they possessed formed a distinguishing charac. 
weather, and pie i be m Box tw se fragrant — H Mr. Mylam's — His 
astin 
oro te size would suit Tight and, 
and would be serviceable f ngs. It uld 
be a pity to burn * — — or it co ald be 
easily compressed in a machin 
then be bought in — e and it 
the = of fuel. If Mr. Rogers’s pl 
the 
makes 
out — a 
may be te nga 
mneys or “gully holes” are 
Peat charcoal 
waggon and 
with a man or two, to — — a load of — Pa much 
dried; it might An 
E AND ed Boa PLANTS, 
ed to Mr. Green, gr. to Sir 
can be planted he be 
fe i is =F Sphenotom 
kova „ Wilson’s e 
1 4 best group, in whie 
arge * Fv! Em a . 
Ade 
miniata, a sm Gardenia radicans, and Adenandra 
By 
the class of 10 STOVE AND GREENHOUSE PLANTS 
of the goodness of which has been washed and heated 
out of it. For my own have for some years 
nothi 
am 2 it will prove a boon, as it will do away with the 
filth and nuisance of dung. —— "Cuthite, Camberwell, 
Leaking in a Swimming Bath.—I should be obliged | 
by some information i 
re 
a swimming bath bath is si 
old quarry, one side being good rock, from whene 
flows the stream which supp T 
sides and the bed q 
of rotten stuff and , which, notwithstanding con- 
* — puddling, is continually ing y the 
223 and lettin e water out, The size of the ba‘ 
8 
is 16 by 18 — maii and it ought to be 8 feet deep. Dif- 
ferent cements have been repeatedly adv 
much water. J. C. C. 
Sotieties. 
be — in another 
we shall, as before, confine ourselves here 
strictly to details. 
collections of 20 Stove AND GREENHOUSE PLANTS, 
we fiest ache to Mr. Ma; M 
grandiflora (not the same or whieh 
monr ae well farnished with Tel e and 
blossoms to the very * 3 Supporting it on one side was 
vertised in your | po 
paper, but I shall g” Wome = N if they will bold sọ 2 
1 
In 
here were seven exhibitors, 244 of whom sent ere er 
G al w 
soot, 
collections. A Go anksia was awarded to 
it | Mr. Carson, gr. to W. F. G. * mer, * of Cheam, Aeri 
managed plants of Kn 
gg rons ath eathartica, 
naultia formosa, and b v iloba ; 
Spheno racilis ; a small Ixora coccinea, with 1 
fine he f flowers, and the showy Medinill (M 
speciosa), 
nd 
gr. to H. » Esq, 
ed Vinca, Henderson’s Pi- 
Aphelexis macrantha, the 
from sepomre, the plant 
elose warm house 
in ti be imagiy 
1 placed first. At t a ivp: Sopas 
n atum, anda 
n was contributed by. Mes 
‘It consisted of the large f 
orna- | h 
owers ; the purple 
best of | Ge 
Azalea, 
| prizes were awar to Mr. Hamp, gr. 
a nomi ami in lange 
d Zich ee e lata. 
collections of, six STOVE 2 3 Prants, 
the first prize was awarded to Kinghorn, gr. to the 
Feno of ae > ty fs Drea House, a Ars 
fine Erica Cavendishii in a tub, the 8 
i * tanes ower 
of pi |e elexi 
humilis, and a charming foh: 1 the violet . 
Tremandra vertieillata.— Second, Mr May. gr 
oodhart, Esq., Beckenham, Kent, for ocein 
Pimelea Hendersoni, Erica Cavendish Primate ia gluti- 
nosa, lexis sesamoides, and Aer 
. to C. eee Esq., D 
bs 
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12 
il 
to Mr. Speed, of “Edmonton. In 
| groups we 2 ked a well flowered Erica j 
a large Pimelea decussata, Mr. For- 
's Gardeni enia, Fa Everlasing, Clerodendron fallax, 
Rn verticillata, t -Colo inca, two 
Heaths, and Chironia glutinosa. 
ELICHRYSU 
F sums.—Coliections shown by Messrs. | 
mA Gren Xenos. (Ah Gria, E Stanly (4). In 
Ay sat 4 purpurea, 
l variety, argentea ; ma- | 
tru 
of Cape Heath, the eee Gloxinia, 
Sale Tinearis, insuffeientl the red and rar 
hite Vin * 
8 . guttat 
. | speetabilis, Anguloa een, with three open blossoms, 
2 s pink h colou . 
“ 
er 
gers ms hands, really charming. But in additi tion to 
his p 
w. hich — na turally possessed ; they were eapitally cul- 
— ed and flowered, and on this account richly de- 
rved the Large Gold Medal which er awarded them. 
The group comprised, in age renee the Odontoglos- 
um and Vanda cristata above ninda to, 
Cattleya violäcea, with six —— of handsom 
. Mossi 
a co viously bloom 
the sai . cellent Saccolabium preemorsum 
that was produced o on nthe * of Mey, . in perfec. 
; the rare Aer osum, and ntoglossum 
Karsinskii; t the — —— Butterfly pan pep vt 
3 . p apupa ium barbatum, a 
m, a tall Vanda teres, — 
to 
le 
one about to exp beautiful specimen of 
the white poun Calanthe — AE Mr. Williams, 
gr. oddesdon, obtained a 
third prize, for e . ate an Odontoglossum 
hi 
eitrosmum which had all its colour, and was per- 
onia | fectly white. Severa land — species of Brassia, 
e Lowei, the peo ig Dendrobium 
m or 
the oe Ceelogyn m 
evo m, an two, Aerides 
Mossiæ—the latter, although 
— aa ttleya 
it had bee 
„ Was her t its 
In Nu ’s Class of 15 Orchids there * 
| three exhibitors, Messrs. Veitch, Rollisson, and Dobson. 
The of the rare Cattleya Ac- 
landize, a 3 t as yet 
— ns) ma- 
a, Cattleya veratrifoli 
beautiful | Dendrobium — rein Oncidiam 
Ys 
the large-flowered Epacris is, two | 
a e „F. mie Farm 
ma rubrum, 8 cor- | crispum 
eiscea Eriea 
a beautiful specimen e flowered variety of 
Oncidium ampliatum, : a fine example * =a crispum, 
the ocho um, E, cras- 
sifolium, a and a few . 
Collections of 10 Sic IDs were ue 
rmer, Esq, b and Mr. 
wrence, Mr. Carson 
. Ee 2 surface of 
3 
. 
0 
2 hi dam D 
spikes 
ee (E: ge Stanho 
ndrobium pulchellum, 45 
Gro roups of six ORCHIDS W 2 re communicated by Mr 
Gerrie, gr. 4 Sir J. Cathcart, “Bt, and Mr. Kins — 
to the Earl of any The former had a et 
as not 1 enough ; an 
species of . Cattleya Mossiæ, two On 
i horn sen 
oss the 
large powered Phalaenopsis, and a Stanhopea ez 
way o * 
Specimen Orcurps consisted of the nob noble Camar arohs 
purpurea, already alluded to, from Mr. Bassett; a g0 
Dendrobium speciosum, from Mr. Cole Piaget 
