June 27, 1865. ] 



JOUENAL OF HOETICtTLTTJEE AND COTTAGE GAEDENEE. 



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glass baskets being attached by a wire hook to the body of 

 the stand. Mr. Nay lor was commended for an arrangement 

 consisting of a central circle in which the glass flower-stands 

 were surrounded by spar and Ferns, and an outer circle for 

 water and flowers. The whole was novel and rather pleasing. 

 The prizes offered to ladies by the proprietors of the 

 Gardeners' Chvonide for plants grown in a room — viz., ^£10 

 for the best Orchid in bloom, and ^£10 for the best flowering 

 or fine-foliaged plant, brought forth a good competition. 

 Miss Williams, Sutton House, Highgate, took the first- 

 named prize with a very good Aerides affine; and Vis- 

 countess Doneraile had the other for a basket containing 

 a fine plant of Alooasia metalUca, Gymnostachyum Ver- 

 schaffelti, Draciena Cooperi, and a Caladium. We noticed 

 besides a good plant of Lycopodium caesium from Mrs. 

 McKenzie, Alexandra Park, a fine Adiantum cuueatum from 

 Mrs. Dombrain, and some good Oncidiums andCypripediums. 



PEETTY CAJSTADIAJN" WILD PLOWEKS. 



Befoke the last patch of snow has melted from the hill- 

 side the beautiful little Mayflower (Epigaea repens), bursts 

 its buds, and dots its dark glossy leaves with pretty pink 

 flowers, as it creeps over the granite boulders, and peeps 

 out here and there on the mossy banks. Then come the 

 modest little Hepatica, the yellow Dog's-tooth Violet (Ery- 

 thronium americanum), the Blood-root (Sanguinaria cana- 

 densis), used as a dye by the Indians, the purple TrOlium 

 (T. erectum), and the painted Trillium (T. ery throcarpum) . 

 In more open places, and by the roadside, may be found the 

 Spring Beauty (Claytonia virginiana), whilst down on the 

 sandy beach of the St. Lawrence is to be seen the elegant 

 fairy Primrose (Primula mistassinica), a perfect little gem, 

 pale lilac in colour, and so small that a plant in flower may 

 be potted in a thimble. 



A little later, and the woods are gay with the Star-Flower 

 (Trientali; americana), the Bunchberry (Cornus canadensis), 

 the Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis), tlie Clintonia borealis, 

 with its rich glossy leaves and pale yellow flowers, the Di- 

 oentra (D. canadensis), and the Corydalis (C. glauca). 



As the month of June advances the swamps contribute 

 their share, and yield in profusion Kalmia angustifolia, and, 

 still later, K. latifolia, Labrador Tea (Ledum palustris), Eho- 

 dora canadensis. Pitcher-plant (Sarracenia purpurea). Cran- 

 berry (Vaooinium oxycoccus), Cypripedium acaule, SmUaeina 

 trifolia, Pogonia ophioglossoides, Calopogou pulcheUus, and 

 several of the more common varieties of the Orchis. 



^ In the woods we have the yellow Lady's Slipper (Cypripe- 

 dium pubescens), one or two varieties of Wintergreen (Py- 

 rola), the Prince's Pine (Chimaphila umbellata), and the 

 beautiful Linnsa borealis, trailing so gracefully over the 

 moss-covered logs. — {American Gardener''s Monthly). 



THE TOEKSHIEE GALA. 



Wednesday and Thursday, the 14th and 15th of June, 

 ■were the days fixed for the seventh year of the York Gala 

 and Floral Pete, held in the grounds of the Bootham Asylum. 



The show of plants and cut flowers has each year gone on 

 improving, and this year the display of Pelargoniums, stove 

 and greenhouse plants, and ornameutal-foliaged plants was 

 exceedingly good. One of the most interesting features of 

 the Show were the collections of cut Roses, which were 

 brought together by the additional prizes offered by the 

 Cominittee this year, with the hope of inducing some of our 

 principal Eose growers to compete ; and although, owing to 

 its being too early in the season, our northern Kose growers 

 were not represented, yet the Committee have every reason 

 to congratulate themselves on the exceedingly fine display 

 of Eoses shown, and all the space we can spare is for some 

 notes on them, for, as is usually the case, when a good col- 

 lection of cut Eoses is exhibited, they proved the most 

 attractive feature in the Show. 



In Class 27, for forty, eight varieties, single blooms, Mr. 

 Keynes, of SaUsbury, was first ; Mr. E. B. Cant, of Colches- 

 ter, second ; and Mr. E. P. Francis, Hertford, third. There 

 were no other competitors. Mi-. Keynes was facile princeps. 

 The race between Mr. Cant and Mr. Francis was much 

 closer, the number of good blooms in. each tray being nearly 



equal ; but one or two inferior ones occurred in Mr. Francis's 

 collection, which gave Mr. Cant the second place. Mr. 

 Keynes's forty-eight were, to take them as they were staged, 

 Madame Hector Jacquiu ; Madame Joseph Guyet, a good 

 new Eose; Mdlle. Bonnaire, too small; Madame C. Joig- 

 neaux, too open ; America ; Marechel Suchet, good ; Al- 

 paide de EotaUer, a very fine bloom ; Senateur Vaisse, good; 

 Cloth of Gold, very good ; Madame Pauline Villot ; Comte 

 de Nanteuil, good ; H. Laurentius, moderate ; La ViUe de 

 St. Denis ; Olivier Delhomme, very good ; Anna de Diesbach, 

 too far gone ; Madame C. Wood, very good ; Baronne 

 GoneUa, good but a little sullied ; Prince Camille de 

 Eohan ; Louis Van Houtte, new ; Madame Vidot ; Charles 

 Lefebvre; La Tour de Crouy, an enormous Eose, but ap- 

 parently n®t likely to open well in damp weather; Parmen- 

 tier, moderate ; Devoniensis, splendid ; Madame Victor 

 Verdier; Vioomtesse Douglas, too loose ; General Jacquemi- 

 not ; Caroline de Sansal ; Maurice Bernardin ; Soeur dea 

 Anges; Souvenir de C. Montault ; Louise Peyronny Souvenir 

 de Malmaison, too far gone ; Madame Boll ; Eveque de 

 Nimes, very fine; Madame Furtado; Louise Margottin, 

 both very fine; Duchesse d' Orleans, too loose; Madame 

 Boutin ; Lord Maeaulay, a splendid bloom ; John Hopper, 

 almost equally fine ; these two Eoses were superb, and 

 prove that our French raisers wiU have to look well to their 

 laurels, as Lord Maeaulay is equal if not superior to any 

 French Eose in that class; Francois Lacharme, good; La 

 Fontaine, too loose ; Madame Vigneron ; Marechal VaiUant. 

 too small. There were two or three others whose names we 

 forgot. On the whole the collection was first-rate, though, 

 as the blooms were fuUy expanded when they were first 

 staged, the heat of the tent soon caused some of them to 

 open too much. 



Mr. Cant was second. Among his blooms we noticed some 

 very good specimens of Souvenir d'Elise (Tea), Madame 

 Hector Jacquin, Prince Camille de Eohan, Colonel de 

 Eougemont, rather too light ; Franijois Lacharme, Mathu- 

 rin Eegnier, Comtesse de Kergolay, Eveque de Ntmes, 

 Princess Marie, Keane, Elise Sauvage, very good in colour ; 

 Eugene Appert, President (Tea). We especially noticed 

 that all the Tea Eoses in Mr. Cant's collection were good. 

 Madame C. Wood, Madame Caillat, Gloire de ChatiUon, 

 and Vicomte Vigier were hardly up to the mark. We re- 

 mai'ked a curiously striped bloom of Comtesse CecUe de Cha^ 

 briUant in Mr. Cant's collection, which is no improvement. 



Mr. Francis was third with exceedingly good blooms of 

 Anna de Diesbach ; Louise Peyronny ; Cloth of Gold ; Louise 

 Margottin ; Isabella Grey ; Joseph Fiala, rather small. 

 There were also good blooms of Pauline Lanzezeur ; Smith's 

 Yellow ; Auguste Mie ; Eugene Appert, rather faded but of 

 good form; Gloire de Dijon, curiously marked with pink 

 from the sun. General Washington, Charles Lefebvre, 

 Caroline de Sansal, Madame Furtado, Victor Verdier, Marie 

 Portemer were none of them up to the mark. 



In thirty-sixes, Mr. Keynes was again first ; Mr. Treen, of 

 Kugby, second ; and Mr. Cant, third. In Mr. Keynes' col- 

 lection were some splendid blooms of Baronne A. de Eotha- 

 child, the best we have seen of it yet ; Charles Lefebvre ; 

 Alpaide de Eotalier, a great acquisition, a clear satiny pink 

 with fine form and smooth petals ; Lord Maeaulay ; Madame 

 Boutin. Gustave Eousseau, a good Eose, but rather too loose 

 in form, and thin, John Hopper, Triomphe des Eennes, 

 and Comtesse Ouvarofi', were also very good, Madame Cle- 

 menee Joigneaux was too far gone, it wants to be shown 

 before it is fuUy expanded ; Madame C. Wood and Beauty 

 of Waltham, both very good, but too much alike ; Eev. H. 

 Dombrain, a good new Eose, somewhat like Catherine 

 Guaiot. Among the light Eoses in this collection, Sceur 

 des Anges, Madame Vidot, and Madame Vigneron, were all 

 good, but none of the blooms of Soeur des Anges in any of 

 the stands was as good as it ought to be. There were 

 some good blooms in Mr. Treen's collection, who was second 

 forthirty-sixes, but they were badly named and not judiciously 

 staged. Jea^i Goujon appeared as Jan Jougon ; Caroline de 

 Sansal, was called Catherine de Sansal, &c. We should ad- 

 vise Mr. Treen to take more pains both in staging and 

 nomenclature. Mr. Cant was thkd in this class, but we did 

 not remark any blooms which were not shown in his forty- 

 eights, which were a superior collection. 



In Class 32, a prize of £5, given by W. Dove, Esq., Crown 



