436 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [May 9, 1863. 
$айтопв will not always succeed, „and Mr. М'Сок- | that there are flowers in each of the sections alluded have not been alre ther bases; and 
а ALE has shown satisfactorily that "this arises | to, which are so closely up to the mark in points of са they: шау be а me into and discussed 
great measure from the myriads of a Cur- technical excellence 'аѕ) not to each n: by | thoroughly, so th wi e best" course may be uni. 
into called Entomologists Hylobius мын p And this we find is also the ry of S adopted an year. Our great dealers and 
Lis га a shelter amongst the chips and fi Teleg таш, Ё ' for he says, that ‹ “ such a fusio sion is not ve с тех пона Ir le - hr us way ды а has n 
nly ” | this e [ready evote по 
= ун f bark which were the result of the "ast | 9 аби И da one, the effect abes. be | our ispace to any remarks elucidatory of. the pem 
$ marvellously brilliant. So we que: biatlona: involve n 
Different methods of planting have been tried 
with a view of checking the evil, but as might be 
ve. 
чыте Amateur expresses prete uzzled— 
ertain to bep kind of dulness to refor his сеу 
в 
fire, to the mE бод of insects, eggs, and engl 
lin i ху too, of rudiments of Fun 
"Вовк 
А VISIT ТО THE BULB FARMS OF HAARLEM, 
—in attempting to ГАР ern how t d 
l,"and yet 
oy kept distinct for the examination of the judges Ав walking along our streets, or in visiting our Ar. 
often happens with people who get in E чу an e auction rooms during autumn and w 
Amateurs perplexityis of his own making. We at|every one is struck with the extraordinary qua! nti of 
| least, and he refers to us, have зоте suggested $ Шр t Hyacinths, Tulips, Narcissus, ок other c "e 
3] - same show ve blooms should b and pla nts which are exposed for Early in 
What we said w aea —“ 3: m in ик E 
yet kept ‘dist 
iuste. which are strictly confined. to florists" 
be 
house, and in | almost every window. But if we wish 
t idea of the extent of this re ad 
» it wou. uld quite ' legitima te, an 
+ MEE 
3 
novelti es, to offer 
pro: mp: 
| prizes in each class. 
Ре 
ia d RM 
of acros of lend boin ing covered 
flower, we must pay a 
d 
of April. As I have [^e jg an l opportunity o » f seeing 
Ralh £ 
a Show, for 
any local coté ет on а small s 
all general exhibitions ой the | 
e|of them will probably have some ihn for the 
Ta 
and not after the common idle fashion of slitting, | м further said :—'“1п readers of the Mog Chronicle. 
and the result has en successful far beyond alo ther hand, where the min or de tails of йо oricu ulture | The railroad from otterdam to Amsterdam. hag 
те EN ve e Uu Mc UN M С n not | P referableas productive of a more varied di spla y, to | sea, an d passes the towns of The Hague, Leyden, ond 
uffer f th t thook AM TRA this admit all class =й flowers] to quid competition ' Haarlem, in the order in which I have placed them, 
B prd: ART d. difficulty 5i = vr e teurs competing separately, - Lyr the. Between Rotterdam and Leyden the land is chiefly 
former case being to get th plants to grow at iL ono o cinas ersons ——— е Palboslüvation. Oh Poncii 
xi comparatively few brightly- tipped flowers from be ein, 
вес 
placed in juxtaposition, and to 
| teen Pes qt ut thes 
hell 
and w 
moist s rapidly d 
he dead leaves e lling тепстеп |p 
nches, it is с не that they ha et д 
s see "anylbs to be| 
zzled about in these propositions. But after all, 
this. d of arrangement ina flower 
із а | ext 
ble, the lan 
ation, and was evide tly 
ing Leyden, however, a 
sandy 
(бише 
its form 
ensive, buti 
f^ 
d 
in the heart t the 
th 
es actually 
suddenly, as the e 
vigorous growth w would Tutfe 
like the work of pede or of any decay from hos рав 
casses 
presence i of old roots in the ground, and we 
probable cause. 
Mueh is still to be learnt about the ful 
show 
much less important matter са the adoption обла 
lat 
great Bulb cou 
& we found 
f | intelligible од of classification, which latter once 
launch S t во оп] 
dis- 
tribute without ntermixing I flowers of 
differe rent character ; and an actual trial, wm 
LEM 
against the 
which extend along the const for a great distance, are 
widt 
ipd uma Y Holland are considerably below 
the 6 ofthe ocean. А belt of sand hills or Dunes 
ur bee 
De. ин 
parts of paang knowledge. M. 
- | ments dede c be best 50 feet 
| dà be quite content with that which а to be 
ary 
th, varying from 40 to 
d vie 
est in practice. 
Then as - sported blooms, the expressed opinions | 
поне We have said that every variety should 
e re беге to one of the distinct classes propor, 
class 
w 
m the CLASSIFICATION О: LIAS, T де дор ng bes atten- | 
бод «t Rr mes to de эе T resulted in a dis- 
chiefly in the pages of Gossip, | 
ns arrangements proposed 
and ourselves have met with -— 
approval, and cm await it gen: neral adoptio: Some co со; 
ык class showin 
course in 
in mixed s showing the point is presa 
of this discussion, call for a few poe observations | 
on our 
to what groups to invite at our Exhibitions, 
айо of the ‚ usual stands of * “show " Е “faney” x 
n of little hills 
| unlike ches waves of a stormy sea. 
Haarlem are situated on the inner edges 
мре 
апа 
The Bulb farm 
the 
On ival at Haa we were most ki 
abad ids Менн srs. кенеа and Messrs. 
and that 16 should be shown in that only— Polman 
| we mean in those cases жые the system v classe Mooy, of that place; and by Messrs. Byvoet and Van 
showing is adopted. being so, we said that а | Velson, jun., of Overveen, a village two miles to the 
| sported seif bloom pro € by a variety уы should | west of em. Мг. Krelage hasa large garden іп 
bear parti-coloured blooms, ought not to руа the town as well as a number of farms in the country. 
We adhere to His t en markable for a beautiful of 
from either end of ie s Tulip walk” hs most 
— e b bea 
It had been suggested, and of course has been all blooms me refer- 
along intended M E = бизе” LH." 
adopte should not remain a barren theory, b f each of the otl 
that it в S bear some fruit; first, in the reformation | grou web tipped, pend Mr. Key eren 
of the catalogues of dealers; and secondly, i in the im group lE sums x pite and sca 
de 
provement гер MU uem prize schedules, in both of 
— esses 
-|gests 24 or 12 selfs, and the 
ted blooms, the latte 
- | formed UE the pests known as Vermillon pua 
In this gard 
ero тегу = 
arlet Duc van Thol. ere was 
n 
елдо, include; аЙ Dares. of. ih aged al 
which it has been the ice to adopt what | змат i-col red sections. “Tel ? pic-| t a тн, varieties of gain. "Under it there were 
some writers very truly de signate as the "absurd |tures his idea of а perfect stand of 24 blooms thus: 12 o long beds сойо 0 rows in eac (six 
division" into *show "fancy" c without | selfs and 12 made up of four from each of Mia in each row), са опе pues filled with the 
attaching any intelligible : eri to the tapa: em- | the sections. Mr. Rawlings would have dealers show | sing gle ее p ied es som doub. The different 
ployed. If we could secure the first of these reforms, | 36 selfs, and 12 of Esr of the other sections, manner 80 
whe second would follow. But what ne 
y improve our exhibitions 
en rately, making a 
M. usually 
вера- | 
tal equal to the numbers now| 
shown: viz, ‚48 of self and light groun d laced | 
question to to which probably the replies would not b 
змене ће effect. P each o 
? s and 24 of striped and tipped sorts=to the present | Tulips, Narcissi, and 
к , One ot à the rar m 5 igns himself | stands of “ fanei He, however, asks т) ould | Cape Ape Ic üpnaneuiosee, Anemones, 
Ne 3 y that | be 1 which are both tipped and afternoon of our first Pieve we drove out with 
5 ‹ т be attempted or thought of | striped, and is answered by editor of i . see his farms, and those of 
as t Кошон) self and ted bl таа hen bote afin numerous to form | Byvoet and Van Velson, jun., at Overveen. 
same stand ? xml TE ahe worda aro t What іза |а $ y be shown either as ti or | On the road sides as we went al. we с fields 
variegated bloom? If the w have any |striped. We Siod Peer to say they should go to|of Hyacinths and Tulips in every direction covered 
meaning, the terms self and dtl must apply | that section whose r predominates in their| with bloom, and the sweet t from the former pêr- 
respectively to whole-colonred and We fancy “ Telegram's ” suggestion as to i e fields are all perfectly level, 
blooms. Well then, m, eng gs as tey h have been, divided by cli ре ied TR close 
it has been mmon practice to up selfs | fi 1 w the suggestion of Mr. Rande w i r the шл of leni 
and partieoloused | "аке: ts the same РУ d | looks like a s good o one, if the proportion of selfs could | of the wind, and of reventing the loose sand from 
must have m rue шг his eyes | be во: aeaa ing too great an injury to'the flowers, as it flies about 
. Bu mooted in this di here like dry snow. The bulbs are arranged in beds, 
exhibition in competition stands of seedlings | and the different kept together in masses, by 
us manifestly. wrong, there | which means a vi effect is prod i 
i objections to the adoption examined Mr. Krelage's country 78. 
f such а practice. We quite agree therefore, that a | then. t onwards to Overveen, to those of В 
schedules to prevent во | Byvoet. Неге the squares into which the land is 
y a custom. We also fall in entirely with the | divided appeared to be larger than those nearer 
should, wherever can lem. Whole fielda were covered Н; 
eMe Lu vua ыы ones, Ran "n пы 
marking of any ‚ which may | Hyacinths appeared to be remarkably good; : 
tend to render the ownership of the blooms T tels ati cu io may that the supurb pelas collat 
some of the questions which just now | tions exhibited in London this Messrs. Cut- 
ose societies 
valleys to the eye E. 
or 
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