THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE 



9 on., and Mr. Chapman, gr. to J. B. Glegg, Esq., of 

 Wellington Hall, Knutsford, a small, but nicely shaped 

 Black Jamaica, 13 lbs. 12 oz. Among Providenoee, Mr. 

 Jones had the heaviest fruit ; but it was not so well 

 formed or ripened as one from Mr. Briddon, gr. to W. 

 ( >. Gore, Esq., which, on that account, received the first 



The latter weighed 9 lbs. and Mr. Jones's fruit 



prize 



Moffatt, 



pie 



TIie%bove were what received prizes. 



tDther Pine-apples consisted of some nicely-swelled 

 Queens, a Providence, and an Enville, 8 lbs. 9 oz. from 

 Mr. Jones ; a Queen from Mr. Jervis ; a Queen and 

 an Enville from Mr. Constantino ; a Queen, Providence, 



gr. to Lady Puller ; Mr. Rust ; Mr. Turner, gr. to S. 

 George, Esq. ; Mr. Busby ; Mr. Valentine, gr. to 

 T. Clarke, Esq. ; M*. Grant, gr. to E. Simons, Esq, ; 

 .Mr. Tillyard ; Mr. Russell, gr. to J. Ames, Esq. ; and 

 Mr. Wilson, of Warwick. Of other kinds, of Straw- 

 berries, Messrs. Parsons, Lydiard, and Wilson showed 

 Myatt's Eleanor ; Mr. Wood. gr. to S. Murray, Esq., 

 Downton Pine ; Mr. Eckford, Keens' Seedling ; Mr. 

 Rust, Elton ; Mr. Turner, Myatt's Mammoth ; and 

 Mr. Valentine and Mr. Elphinstone, Eleanor. We also 

 remarked Myatt's Goliath and Bioton Pine. The latter 

 is a white Strawberry. Mr. Elliott, gr. to Mrs. Boothby, 

 showed a collection of British Queens in pots, and along 



Pieroma elegans insufficient! 



fl 





- x . __^ larg_ 



and a Prickly Cayenne, 6 lbs. 2 oz., from Mr. Bray ; a pots, in order to show what this Strawberry will become 



Queen from Mr. Brummond ; an Enville from Mr. under pot cultivation in rich soil and plenty of room. 

 Watson, gr. to Mrs. Tredwell ; the same variety from The plants were very robust, and well fruited.— Mr. 



■»-»*« -"v ** *~* *» sy « i 11*1* 'Til* 



Harrison. - - 



blance to Myatt's Eleanor. 



Raspberries. — Examples of the Fastolff came from 



Mr. Moffat ; the same kind of Pine from Mr. Jay, gr. 

 to Mrs. Colston ; and a Providence, 6 lbs. 15 oz., from 

 Mr. Patterson, gr. to the Baroness Wenman ; Mr. 

 Dixon, gr. to Mrs. Villebois, showed a fair sized Queen, 

 in a 7-inch pot. 



Grapes— Among private growers the best Black 

 Hamburghs were contributed by Mr. Stent, gr. to W 

 Herbert, Esq., Clapham ; the second best by Mr. Hen- 

 derson, gr. to Sir George Beaumont, Bart. ; and the 

 third best by Mr. Umpleby, gr. Mrs, Benyon, Round- 

 hay, near Leeds. Among market gardeners, Mr. 

 Harrison, of Oatlands, was first; Mr. Spary, of 

 Brighton, second ; and Mr. Davis, of Oak Hill, 

 third. Other exhibitions of this kind of Grape 



..« v „x* Jiuja, carnosi k"*i 1 



small example of the bl ue &JI™v ^ 

 — -=— - %«a trkolorina^ «*< 



radicans 



**eet. 



^ 

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Ten Stove and Greenhouse Pr . 

 by Mr. Speed, of Edmonton, Mi cT?******* 

 Hill, and Mr. Carson, gr . to W F C r^ SS 

 Cheam. Mr. Speed's plants rJ^ 

 grown and flowered, consisted of AlkrJS* 



ttfau 



■ 



a fine head of bloom, a spreading Kafi|^ * 

 and a beauuiu ly blossomed BiplaJS^ *** 

 Mr. Croxford, whose collection was littl 

 above, had a finely bloomed 





Mr. Martin, Mr. Smith, and Mr. Elliott. 



Melons. — The 1st prize was awarded to Mr. Brown, 

 gr. to H. Minton, Esq., for a Trentham Hybrid ; the 

 2d, to Mr. Munro, gr. to the Earl of Clarendon, for a 

 Persian Green-fleshed ; and the 3d to Mr. Grant, gr. to 

 H. Simons, Esq., for Bromham Hall. Other varieties con- 

 sisted of Hybrid green-fleshed, Sidcup green -fleshed, 

 Golden Perfection, Scarlet-fleshed ; Bowood, Egyptian 

 green-fleshed ; Black Rock, Snow's Hybrid, Munro's 

 ditto, Stowe Hybrid, Colney Hatch ditto, Pitt's ditto, 

 Napoleon green-fleshed, Emperor, Fish's Hybrid, Cole's 



ci [ ^ mi ****% 



Allamanda cathartica, Stephanotis iuSEj *fc 

 Kalosanthes miniata, a nice Roella cilia^ v S 

 mg, a brilliantly coloured ^Echmea fuW V* 



4 



Carson contributed two fine Allam.wjl ^l**L 

 Iloudeletia, .lEschynanthus Lobbii, LackJZ 

 mosa, Kalosanthes miniata, Pavetta raiatul? 

 Ixora, the neat white flowered Spheno^a ij 

 and Dipladeiiia crassinoda, Wk 





ditto, Marcham's ditto, Victory of Bath, and others. 

 were communicated by Messrs. Williams, Meredith, Con- Among other kinds of fruit we observed a very fine 



? Smith, Newman, Elliott, Williamson, 'Davey, [ red Currant, called Mammoth, from Mr. Jackson, of 

 Russell. Munison. and Buektmnt The best Kingston; a red Grape Currant, from Mr. Harrison of 



were numerous* 

 Pamphn, of Lea Bridg 



examples of Black Prince were shown by Mr. M'Qualter, 

 gr. to Col. Challoner ; and Mr. Turnbull, gr. to the Duke 

 of Marlborough ; and Mr. Hill, gr. to R. Sneyde, Esq., 

 had good specimens of this kind of Grape, as had also 

 Mr. Rust, gr. to J. Maelaren, Esq., and Mr. Martin, gr. 

 to Sir H. Fleetwood, Bart. By far the best White 

 Muscadines were exhibited by Mr. Rust — not 

 that they were larger either in size of bunch or berry 

 tlian some of the others — for this was not the 

 case ; but they were beautifully ripened and coloured. 

 Very good examples of the same kind of Grape came 

 from Mr. Wood, gr. to S. Murray, Esq.; and Mr. 

 Williams, gr. to C. B. Warner, Esq. Mr. Buck- 

 tront, Mr. M'Qualter, Mr. Tillyard, gr. to Lord South- 

 ampton, and Mr. Steers, of Teddington, also showed 

 Muscadines*. Excellently ripened Muscats were pro- 

 duced by Mr. Taylor, to whom the first prize was de- 

 servedly awarded ; and beautiful fruit of this variety 

 came from Mr. Campbell, of Darlington ; Mr. Davey, 

 gr. to Mrs. Smith, and Mr. Mitchell, of Brighton. The 

 latter obtained the first prize in the market gardeners' 

 class. Other Muscats were from Mr. Williams, gr to 

 C. B. Warner, Esq. ; Mr. Rust, Mr. Turnbull, Mr. Car- 

 penter, gr. to Sir E. Scott, Bart, Mr. Bignall. gr to 

 Mrs. Tomkinson, and Mr. Davey, gr. to Mrs/Smith. 

 Very fine Chasselas Musque were furnished by Mr. 





from ___ 70 



Esq.; and Oranges hi pots, from Mr.°Watson, gr/to 

 Mrs. Tredwell. 



In collections of 20 Stove and Greenhouse Plants, 

 the first prize was awarded to Mr. Cole, gr. to H. 

 Colyer, Esq., Dartford. At the back of this group 

 stood a very fine Allamanda cathartica, beautifully 

 _i*own and flowered ; and supporting it were Dipladenia 

 splendens covered with blossoms, a rare occurrence with 

 this fine species, Dipladenia crassinoda, equally hand- 

 some, a good bush of Crowea saligna, perhaps hardly 

 sufficiently in bloom, a fair Clerodendron Ksempferi ; the 

 Scarlet Ixora, in admirable condition ; Erica ferruginea, 

 quite 4 feet across, and scarcely less in height, loaded 

 with flowers ; a spreading Everlasting ; the Scarlet Kalo- 

 santh, a brilliant plant at this season of the year ; a 

 small example of Roella ciliata ; the bright-coloured 

 iEchmea fulgens, with nine flower spikes ; Jackson's 

 variety of the Three-coloured Heath ; a small but 

 finely managed plant of Ixora alba, whose heads of 

 snowy blossoms contrasted well with those of the saffron 

 and red 



Leonard, gr. to J. Cox, Esq., who also sent examples 

 of Joslmg's St. Alban's ; and excellent Grizzly Fronts- 

 nans came from Mr. Carpenter and Mr. Henderson. 

 Mr Elliott, gr to Mrs. Boothby, had Frontignans 

 and Syrian. Three specimens of Black Hamburgh 

 Grapes, in pots, with from four to five well coloured 

 bunches on each Vine, were contributed by Mr Smith 

 gr. to S. Ricardo, Esq. 



Mr. Elphinstone, gr. to the Right Honourable the 

 bpeaker, at Heckfield, received an extra prize for three 

 beautiful bunches of Black Hamburgh from Vines 



that had bePn amu™ irr ™*c Along wfth the ^ 



Mi-. Elphinstone furnished 



g memorandum 



species ; Phsenocoma proliferum, the pretty 

 Cape Heath called infundibuliformis, the Red Lesche- 

 nault and Crowea elliptica. — Mr. May, gr. to Mrs. Law- 

 rence, was placed second on this occasion ; but his plants 

 were scarcely inferior to those just described. The 

 collection contained a noble Allamanda cathartica, 

 finely bloomed ; Stephanotis floribunda, a little bare at 

 bottom, but a very good specimen, and thickly covered 

 with flowers ; Kalosanthes miniata, a worthy rival, in 

 point of beauty, to the scarlet species ; the best variety 

 of Aphelexis macrantha, the blue Solly* linearis, 

 a magnificent bush of Ixora javanica, the " euown head" 

 of the collection, literally covered with orange scarlet 

 blossoms ; the clear yellow flowered Allamanda grandi- 

 flora, Clerodendron Ktempferi, with two spikes of "low- 

 ing scarlet flowers ; the lovely Dipladenia crassinoda. 



Collections of Six Stove and GEEBmoca p 

 "" ~"~~ " lhe test group was furnished W? 



-x*oad, Leytoa. I t —"* 

 me yenow Auaraanua cathartica finely gr 

 flowered, the white Stephanotis noribundZ £££ 

 lacea, Roella ciliata, the useful Franciscea wmSu 

 Kalosanthes miniata.-- Mr. Kinghora, gr. tothe L* 

 Kilmorey, whose group was next in point of m J|"j J 

 Allamanda Schottii, a fine variety ; the rosy-Si! 

 Vinca, Leschenaultia forrnosa, the' JasminTiJI!?! 

 Heath, the showy Kalosanthes eoeeinea, and ^2! 

 lasting.— Mr. Bunn, gr. to — Richards, Esq, j JW 

 ton, sent, Tetratheca verticillata, Stephanotis flo^TT 

 the showy Clerodendron fallax, Sollya linearis, JtalW 

 like Cyrtoceras renVxum, and Kalosantlies minW 

 Mr. Over, gr. to W. M< Mullen, Esq,, of CtoU 

 communicated Hoya carnosa the ^ay ifOvZ? 

 miniata, Sollya linearis, the useful AlWn,J a ^ 

 tica, the brilliant Epacris miniata, and a f ?ee&-ftow«» 

 Cape Heath (Erica viridifl ora.) — Mr. Wa&ou t, 

 to Mrs. Tredwell, sent, a variety of Erica tricolor, 

 white variety of Vinca rosea, Allamanda cathartic, i» 

 blue Sollya heterophy Ua, the rosy Dipladenia crasiiek 

 and Clerodendron fallax, the latter a good deai m 

 its best. Mr. Hamp also showed in this- class. 



Hejlichrysum.s were exhibited by Messrs. Tufa 

 Green, and Watson. The varieties consisted of Apt 

 lexis sesanaeides, S. purpurea, S. superta. r«% 

 huniihX macrantha purpurea, spectabUis, and its k$ 



flowei^ed vai'iety. 



Orchids. — Of these universal favourites there w't 



n collections of 20 smg^ ib. 









the same kind ; Mr. Martin and Mr. 



concerning its production :— « The Vines, from which 

 the Urapes exhibited! w «r» taken, were struck from 

 eyes, potted in February, 18.50, and grown in pots." 



fiJ^v^wfiJ*' . Snow ' ^- to Earl de Grey, sent very 

 fine Violette Hative ; Mr. Turnbull, Early Purple • 



a M , Unr ^^ *° the Earl of Clare "<lon, Royal George ' 

 and Mr. Wdson, Warwick, finely swelled specTmfns 



vJl Q ^T e Vane t y ' Mr - Robe ^on, gr. to Lady 

 Emily Foley, seat Late Admirable ; Mr. Collinson, 4 

 to the Marquis of Westminster, Bellegarde • Mr 

 Meredith Hoy* Gecrge ; and Mr. Conltantbe, and 

 »lr. Bucktront, *^~ —- — '=-j -■.»-■»-.. ? ^ 



Busby, grs. to 

 Mr. Tilly 



and Mr. iiphmstoue, Grimwootl'q Tf<*Jri"c" ~" — """i 

 Noblesse. wnmwooAa Royal George and 



NECTARiNESL-.Excellent examples of Elru-e were 

 commun.eated by Mr. Tillyard, gr. to L ,™d SouS 



Rlf,,^ ^ ia > & t0 Sir «. Fleetwood, BarT- 

 Mr . rurnbull and Mr. Wilson, of Warwick, had^lso 

 good specimens of tliis kind of Nectarine, as had S 

 Mr. Mered,^ , Mr. Elphinstone sent Red RomS, an2 



Turkey^" ^Pb^stone showed Brown Ischia and 

 CH EIlB i Ea .-Bttntiful dfehes of Black Circassian were 



large and fine display. 



Mylam, gr. to S. Iiucker, Esq., wm first His ptxjt 

 contained a noble Vanda Batemanni, with tm ^teon- 

 spikes of lovely blossoms, Sobrajia macRfflfca «dv 

 neai'ly a dozen flowers oa it^ Aerides LarpeatR^haa 

 spikes, a plant apparently the same as AciaeU dettt 

 exceedingly handsome Cattle-ya superba, Dendnfa* 

 formosum ; Brassia Lanceaua, finely grows aDdtlouBii 

 the lovely Barkeria spectubilis ; a small pliant of Awifci 

 maeuiosum ; Cattleya violacea, beautitully hl&m 

 t\w large-flowered White Butterfly-plant (Phal^KfK 

 grandiiiora) ; Oucidium Lanceanum, the chtfP| 

 SaiGColabium guttatum, the yeiiow-Wossoined 

 citjrinum, a j>yra;uidal Aendes odoratuni, nearly ^W 



, . - * . .-, high, regularly flowered from bottom to top ; the {A 



tlie lai^ger variety^ of Crowea saligna, the rose-coloured lemon -col oured Mormode3 luxatuw ; Phal«Mp» 

 and white Vincas, Kalosanthes miniata, a large Erica rosea, considerably past its best ; the twisted 

 Irbyana, the Chinese Indigofera decora, the rose-coloured (D. tortile) ; Aeridea crispum- a mass of liighly-c*" 

 variety of Erica Parmentieri, an Everlasting, and " " ' '" " 



Glonosa superba.— A third group was contributed by 

 Messrs. Fraser, of Lea Bridge-road. It consisted of a 

 large Allamanda grandiflora, the rosy-flowered Dipla- 

 denia crassinoda, the sweet-smelling Steplianotis 

 noribunda, huge bushes of Epacris miniata, Allamanda 

 cathartia, and the white Schubertia graveolens ; also 

 Kalosanthes miniata, Crowea saligna, hardly sufficiently 

 in boom ; the Oleander-leaved Tristania, the sweet- 

 smelling Sphenotoma gracilis, the white Vinca, Clero- 

 dendron fallax, the beautiful Lisianthus Rii**lliaiius, 

 \\ ilson 8 variety of Erica tricolor, Ixora coccinea, and 

 Koella ciliata. — Mr. Stanlv. cm +r, w 



M 



i i. , ~~ xUr ' ^ tanI y> gr. to H. Berens 

 also showed a group of 20 small plants, amonu WMlc-i 



the most conspicuous were. Euphorbia splendens, a 



flowers; and Hie 1 ilac- blossonied Epidendrwn 

 eosum.— Mr. Frankliu, gr. to Mrs. Lawrence, of £nt 

 Park, was second. k The best plants k thiscotiecnoB^ 

 Sobiulia macrantha, with upwards of a dpzen 

 coloured flowers on it; the large variety of *»*** 

 ampliatum, stUl in good condition, althoogM 

 lias been in flower nearly all the season .;» 

 iium luriduw guttatum ; 0. leucochilum, ^*^ 

 ceanum, and two otlier Oneida ', ^J.rTS 

 somed Clowes Angiiloa ; Barkeria spectabiJis, «g» 

 orange scarlet Epidendrum vitellinum, Aende*<»^ 

 turn, rather past iU best ; Epidendruin 

 Odontoglossum grande, and hafitilabium; ^^^ 

 citi-ina, a tliinly-flowered ^Honiaspect^iiis,^^ 

 Wrayae, " 





_ Hiams, gr. to C. B. Warner, ™ ^ 



<z,»w^ n t~ til. * -' Kal ^ anth e» miniata, the j the best variety of Oncidiuia Lanceanuio, with * °^ 



tfvZ^T*' P ^^ coma Proliferum, the white variety ! spikes ; the JaW White Butterfly- plant (PbaWj 

 Chi^ia^So^ e ^^ S ™ il ™ 1 MaUeson ^ an ^ I wS3i«S .T rJu^ crisoa. middling ^ ^ 



In coUections of 11 Stove and Greenhouse Plants ^ 

 the first prize was awarded to Mr. Green, gr. to Sir 1 

 Antrobus, Bart., of Cheam. In this group 'we remarked 



nlll^ anaged *?r m r ° f Allam ^da cathartica, bi 

 pladema crassinoda, Ixora coccinea, Pieroma ele^J 



crown 



rs. Boothby ; ami Mr. Myers 



StR4W«EKJUES.— LarnrA aa< l 



ciosa 



— — — -— 4 



finely 



& 



Queens were shown in the Amateur 



Elliott, gr. to Mrs. Boothby ; and Mr 



C CMd, Esq. ; nd In the Market Gar n£?J2E£ 



Mr. Beaeli, of Isleworth, and Mr. LydL^ ^ 



Other exhibits of this kind of fruit were, Mr Wv 



charm ..„. ..„...__ „..„_ ... 



purple 



the pretty Cape Heath "called S^iET The 

 tford " I B f ^ "J R f Leschen ^ts S a vai-ietyl Erick « 



M British ! SS» JSSftCi-^ «!f-A- cJISafea 



Pjuit of Lisianthus Russellian^s, ftK,^ 

 and Ixora aurantiaca ; the latter insuffi -ntlv in 

 bloom The next collection, from Mr. Taylor «r. o 

 J. Coster Esq., of Stoatham, cental ,1 a d.armin g ty 

 blossomed Ixora coccinea. Allamanda cathartica and 

 Schottn, the truly beautiful Dipladenia SSnfi 



lie ilasuca, Epidendrum cochleatum, « ^ ^ 

 14 flower spikes ; examples of the Bearaea 

 Lady's Slippers (Cypnpedium bai-batua w"^^ 

 Gongor* maculata, the smgular Cycnoches yei ^ 

 and Loddigesii ; a small Miltonia SP^^-J* 

 Lanc^ana, the tailed Angrec (A. caudatum;, •• 



brown l'aphinia cristata. hv Unss> 



Collections of 15 Obcuids were » ow * ^tfd* 

 Vei tch and lioliisson. The former had the ™ s 

 beautiful Cattleya Aclandiw, the Bluutf ^ ^ 

 charming condition, CypripeW lo*«, ^ 



Aeridts auinque vulnera, hardly sutfaciei iwy. *" # 



.?. * .. ,-..i' n™.!^].iuiu transpa rCT °^ fc 





bloom, th* pretty little Deiulrobiuiu 

 rare; d curious D. Veitchiauuw, uui 

 plant (Phalsenopsis anial^i^)-. the 



Howerea Epidendxiuu aromot«« uul ' 





greeaiso )*£ 

 die oraug® m 





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