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THE) GARDENERS: CHRONICLE 
[AUGUST 21, 1875. 
the best the Society has yet held, as the committee 
will be able to increase both the number and value of 
the prizes offered. Mr. E. S. DODWELL was elected 
President by acclamation ; and it 
make a special effort to raise the 
Picotee to something of its old pre-eminence in the 
north and midland districts. The Rev. F. D. 
Hon i is the Hon. Treasurer and Secretary. 
—— — We are informed that one of the fine old 
plants of AMERICAN ALOE 
Agave posee varie- 
gata) so well to visitors to the OXFORD 
BoTANIC GARDEN, is n owering in pri estab- 
lishment—the first ving exp don th 
16th instant. Indications of its blossoming were first 
rved on A t en the tral leave 
rsting open, and the rate of growth fom sts 
at so t necessary t 
was d as to render o 
the plant from the house in which it had been tremor 
on May 5, when its height was 12 feet 9 inches, and 
the plant n dew ss to tip of opposite Seared 
12 feet 74 in mporary covering was pro- 
vided for it, which wi removed early in July, and it 
now зерна on the n e east side of the 
; ‚ fully exposed. r 
garden. F 
the sud see to the summit of the flower 
stem it measures 23 feet 4 inches. It has twenty- 
peduncles or branches, n their ex- 
tremity numerous clusters of sul coloured flower- 
buds. Altogether the plant has a very stately appear- 
ance, although its leaves are becoming flac 
and drooping. We believe this to be the first varie- 
d American Aloe that wered Engl 
can as flo 
an any —À tell us "e another 
OLD pg hee NOW SOUTH 
KENSINGTON 
WE propose recalling e visit to what was 
lately known as Old Brompton. ending our 
[on that occasion] from the head the Grosvenor 
Canal, the site of which is now spanned the iron 
ribs of the Victoria Station, we cross some of the land 
appertaining to Ebury Farm, to the king's private road, 
and so on to the elbow of the road which crossed th 
Tybourne brook, whose ae might be traced 
through its sedgy banks on the site of the present 
Cadogan Place. 
From the partially-built Sloane Square, we turn 
down a narrow lane of rustic bui i 
the back of Colville’s nursery garde: 
Blackland’s house on the right. The fields of Box 
a 
the 
i ry 
but a few years since held the largest collection of 
owth and artificial culture in the country, 
the proprietors of which were Messrs. u & 
ise. hen enjoying the well-cooked chop in the 
room of the South Kensington Museum, 
c grill- 
and whilst noticing the = xce. ea nt — 
agreeable accessories to comfor i 
are surprised at the oo eei ra Tm 
since this site formed a portion of. walled-in 
i occupation of a private ndn 
public fame (Green жерй), the 
army a its and 
ns on the left, and 
t-groun 
e had disappeared 
ls, and Kean e Young had occu- 
о rime — 
—men as а 
men of extensive power rw) uh. 
half-mile of wall 
d 
air in 1851, when the m 
volution in society became greater an any "emer 
which ‘had селы it. 
To et к this old nursery was to ws ыр» ми 
with an end of. many associati 
iunt б. cons nursery of Mr. Kirke, "whore careful 
дела 
dwa w favour at th 
eriod, and the space which the -present 
Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest 
ith - Streets adjacent, ng since covered 
hese hich ке from the Fulham 
ds, w 
Road to Old Brompton, re h the same till 
1844, when the before mentioned hospital was the 
first intimation of an altered si 
We main, е а in the Old Brompton 
Lane a little longer, so narrow at the and Horns 
‘hat you m POE fairly jump across it, with. ws Elms 
and Poplars and As forming a 
green vista to look down from the Te and dusty 
One mile from Hyde 
the wom sed askets on their 
eads, from the neighbouring vids 
That most agreeable novelist of litera- 
ture, the late Lord Lytton, gives : very баву picture 
of this suburban locality in his novel of Godolphin. 
Though slightly satirical, it = perhaps раа {о 
* Lord ‘alco ey 
; and Falconer was of age 
spirits when a listener may be para dispensed with. 
They arrived at a little villa at Brompton ; there 
was a little gene around i a little bower in one 
corner, all kept ex байуу де and the outside of 
the ho had j En white from top to 
bottom, а to the house; 
the windows were jan € ny 
only here and there a Goth was stuck in 
g ‘tasty,’ and vag obe one -— ndow 
ground ye the lights shining within showed 
crimson silk and gilded chairs, ed all sorts et f finery. 
Louis Quatorze in : na ell! ws the 
sort of house as well as if he had lived in Tales 
of Fanny Millinger’s tum of mind aways а. the 
same kind of habitatio It is astonishing what a 
men bres 
hei 
E 
et 
re 
o 
~ 
S Ld 
3 
© 
5 
D 
et 
— a Gothic cu 4 feet by 8 feet, 
conservatory wit river god i niei middle, the 
two visitors M Акане in the presence of 
Fanny Millin 
I which, however, we must look 
Almshouses, in a 
The repose are) seclusion of ** Old Brompton” were 
especially well regarded by all those whose lives were 
passed before the stage lamps. 
Pass we on, however, to the lane which led by a 
wicket-gate into Ramsay’s ELA ral i 
at those quaint o 
ie ata xime low 
Scured by their loftier ыза ҮТ 
the site that we һай sor i identifying à it 
:verthe they were, some tw months 
as it were д іп 
at the same time obviated the employment of Calceo- 
r 
The houses of this charity of William Methwold, 
scs chatty, and eac 
received £4 per annum. Di i 
e decree at this date Sub 
E the — was nid by ive crane a 
the Hall House Est 
They occupied e sides of a small cig 
space, and, pep saei as they were with pleasa 
garden-grounds in the 
ofar € country Dee. 
formed a S tig little ат bit to loo on. 
omely and picturesque spot has d wa 
like many another: the nightingale warbles here 
longer ; = the 16 acres of ] , doubtless, ae 
о valuation as coul ve been co 
day 
po^ as to the appropriation 4 ig Tusce The 
Рие 
ТАЕ. CRYSIAL PALACE. 
THE bedding-out season of 1875 will be remem- 
rau io mes aga flower gardening. At the 
other places, it has been a 
vor difficult sd to- т; et the plants put out into 
anything like their normal condition, but we are glad 
to be able to say the grounds now we 
that, notwithstanding the severe ora a which the 
plants received a fortnight ago. Under Mr. Thom 
son’s able management the bedding-out at Е Crystal 
Palace has risen out of the limbo of obscurity into 
which it had well night dropped during the last few 
years, and from the ample evidence of capability 
which is this year afforded we look forward hopefully 
to his keeping the bedding-out at Sydenham upto the 
high rank which it has taken in the Par 
another floral shrine to the summer attractions in the 
metropoli 
Commencing our survey on the terrace we note that 
the us beds which always used to be edged with 
the variegated Alysum, have this year a margin of 
Golden Feather Pyrethrum, by which their outline is 
boldly marked out ; and the use of the Pyrethum has 
ГА 
ellow colour), which 
The 
seen from the Palace 
above, i is at once bold and effect ive. 
11. 1 
th e into fi ion, and will 
be still farther er аъ а continuance of bright 
weather. Without the aid | of diagrams it t wou uld be 
impossible th 
e colour which аге here to be seen ; шы we p 
ve, ne TTA 
nete and i eh consists TH 
rns of some Р dozen of the 
bri jte coloured butterflies, set, 
rich 
wo last-named 
are given in the annexed illustrations (figs. 54 and 57.) 
In the pre ко the Swallow-tail Butterfly (fig. 54) the 
colours are wrought out with—a, Alte ао versl- 
or; B, Pyrethrum “ae pecca , Alte 
co 
ei те ване Lob 
mil erastium fonce ps Lobelia Indigo 
hera amcena; J, versi 
uc and 
sign of s ‘Peacock Battery бе E is made = 
— А, Alternanther атсе 
А. 
Mais ag D, nelle Gol- 
oval : 
осы eh Ver aen lia 
den Feather, and n the upper win 
with. stium t xd ceci glaucum ; F, 
anthemum cordifoli ariegatum ; G, 
H, Pyrethru 
14d 
, f urnished by a E 
the manne 
and 
hich they have been eter out reflects great RA elit 
upon Mr. Mes cct for though we do not hold 
up as examples to Si Oel, we must speak to their 
ks, and so add ~ 
Row ten TR eee gr re mn 
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