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JOHKNAL OF HOETICULTUBE AND COTTAGE GAEDENEE. [ October 4, 1864. 



Mr. Legge, Edmonton, sent Black Doctor, with fine large 

 very dark blooms; also, Excellent, Ellen, Mr. Golding, 

 Dauntless, Glory, and others, most of which had been pre- 

 viously shown, but not thought of sufficient merit. Mr. 

 Knight, Battle, had Albert Edward, large blooms, carnation- 

 striped and flaked on a buff yellow ground ; Mr. Burgess, 

 Chelsea, President Davis, reddish buff ; and Mr. Hopkins, 

 Brunette, apricot, very deeply laced with dark crimson. 

 The following were shown by other exhibitors, but received 

 no award — viz.. Earl Radnor, Mrs. Brunton, Lord Clifden, 

 Boule de Feu, Fanny Sturt, Queen of the Vale, Chrome, and 

 Beauty. 



From Mr. Standish, Ascot, came two very fine seedling 

 Gladioli, for both of which first-class certificates were given. 

 They were — Our Little Lucy, bright magenta rose veined 

 with white, and having a purple feather in the throat, very 

 distinct and beautiful ; and Miss Mowbray Morris, . large 

 flower, flesh, with splashes of rose, and purple feather, a 

 very fine variety. Skimmia oblata, also from Mr. Stan- 

 dish, was likewise awarded a first-class certificate. It is 

 very ornamental both in berries and foliage, the former being 

 oblate and bright red, the latter of a uniform light green, 

 and it is stated that it stands sun well. 



Mr. Veitch, Chelsea, sent a magnificent basket of Odon- 

 toglossum grande, the flowers 5-i inches across, the plants 

 in which had been treated on the cool system, never having 

 been afforded fire heat since last winter. For this a well- 

 merited special certificate was given. Cattleya exoniensis, 

 one of the hybrids raised in the Exeter nursery by Mr. 

 Dominy, the parents being Cattleya Mossia? and crispa su- 

 perba, had a first-class certificate. The flowers are large and 

 showy, the lip being deep purplish crimson, orange veined 

 with purple at the base, and the petals and sepals of a 

 delicate ldac blush. Odontoglossum TTro-Skinneri, was also 

 contributed by Mr. Veitch. 



Mr. Watson, gardener, to C. Leach, Esq., Clapham Park, 

 had a first-class certificate for Nerine coruscans major, a Cape 

 bulb with fine, compact heads of orange scarlet flowers, the 

 stamens, of the same colour, standing out conspicuously 

 above the divisions of the flower. He likewise exhibited 

 species of Serine and Brunsvigia of no remarkable beauty, 

 and a showy Hajnianthus, with orange anthers and scarlet 

 filaments. 



Mr. Smith, Hornsey Boad, received a second-class certi- 

 ficate for Petunia Fame, with crimson purple and white 

 flowers, a pretty variety. Mr. Barker, nurseryman, Godal- 

 ming, had a first-class certificate for Asplenium resectum, a 

 very pretty stove Fern from the Island of Ascension. From 

 the same exhibitor came also Pteris flabellata ascensionis, 

 Asplenium erectum proliferum, in which the fronds are pro- 

 liferous towards their extremities, Psilotum triquetrum, 

 three pretty varieties of Mimulus, and twenty-four kinds of 

 Tropaeolum, among which were several brilliant in colour, 

 and others peculiar in their markings. 



Mr. Parsons, Welwyn, contributed Achimenes Stella, 

 rich velvety crimson purple, a fine variety, for which a 

 second-class certificate was awarded ; Mr. Batley, Bugby, a 

 stand of seedling Verbenas ; and Mr. Thompson, Ipswich, 

 Callirrhoe involucrata, crimson purple, with white base, 

 which was commended as likely to prove a useful border 

 annual. Lastly, from Mr. Bull, came Dendrobium adun- 

 cum, with small but pretty white flowers, with a faint blush 

 of lilac; Cattleya bicolor major, with a rosy purple lip, and 

 olive sepals ; Adiantum prionopbyllum, Aloeasia longiloba 

 zebrina, the leaves metallic green, and the leafstalks with 

 zebra markings ; and Fuchsia The Giant, with very large 

 double flowers, the corolla blue violet, and the sepals scarlet, 

 but in the specimen seen not reflexing well. 



Fktjit Committee. — F. J. Graham, Esq., in the chair. A 

 scarlet-fleshed Melon of good size weighing about 3 lbs., was 

 received from Mr. John Murdoch, gardener to H. Allsopp, 

 Esq., Hindlep Hall, Worcester. The flesh was very tender 

 and melting, and the skin thin, and the flavour was re- 

 markably good, so much so, that the Committee awarded 

 the fruit a first-class certificate. Mr. Henderson, of Trent- 

 ham, sent a dish of very handsome Peaches, of the variety 

 known as Gregory's Late. This Mr. Henderson considers 

 the best of all the late Peaches, both as regards flavour 

 and lateness, and his opinion was confirmed by the Com- 

 mittee, who unanimously considered it a variety worthy of 



general cultivation. Mr. Myers, of Brentford, also ex- 

 hibited a fruit of the same variety. Mr. Graham, of Cran- 

 ford, exhibited fruit of his Muscat Muscadine Grape, which 

 was delicious in flavour, differing entirely from that of 

 Chasselas Musque, it is more brisk, and has a sort of orange 

 flower flavour mixed with that of the Muscat. This was pro- 

 duced in a house without any fire heat. From the garden 

 at Chiswick there were two varieties of Frontignans, Muscat 

 Eegnier, and Chasselas Musque de Nantes, both very similar, 

 and neither calling for special mention. Mr. John Bichard- 

 son, gardener to Joseph Pease, Esq., Southend, Darlington, 

 sent splendid bunches of Golden Hamburgh, and Foster's 

 White Seedling, but unfortunately they were so smashed in 

 the box through being badly packed, that their beauty and 

 flavour were destroyed. 



ME. "WILLIAM PAUL'S JS T UESEEIES, WALTHAM 

 CEOSS. 



It is now upwards of two years since we paid more than 

 a passing visit to these nurseries, though often intending to 

 go over them in a deliberate manner ; but want of time, 

 and the very knowledge that there is something there to 

 interest at all seasons, were the cause of that intention not 

 being carried into effect till the other day. As a walk leads, 

 directly from the platform of the Waltham Station to the 

 nurseries we availed ourselves of that mode of access, and 

 passing beside large quarters of fruit trees, Conifers, and 

 ornamental shrubs, and then along a broad grass walk with 

 beds of evergreens on each side, we reached the office, where 

 we were fortunate enough to find Mr. Paul, who kindly offered 

 to show us round. In leaving it we passed through the 

 shop, which, as might be expected in the height of the bulb 

 season, was full of Hyacinths, early Tulips, Crocuses, Nar- 

 cissus, &c. ; and on remarking on the size and weight of the 

 bulbs, Mr. Paul informed us that they were the largest and 

 heaviest which he had ever imported. 



Being anxious to again look at the splendid new Gera- 

 niums which Mr. Paul is about to send out, we visited the 

 houses first. Of these several new ones have been erected 

 during the last two years, and one is now being completed. 

 They are all span-roofed, about 50 feet in length, and from 

 18 to 20 feet in width, and the whole are efficiently heated 

 by means of two boilers, one being a modification of the 

 saddle-form, and the other one of Monro's cannon boilers, 

 with the performance of which Mr. Paul expressed himself 

 perfectly satisfied. These houses, though alike in their 

 general appearance and of the most simple construction, 

 are admirably adapted to the purposes for which they are 

 severally intended, and might be studied with advantage 

 by those who seek to erect glass structures combining effi- 

 ciency and durability with economy. 



The first house we entered was filled with Tea Eoses, 

 planted out in beds in the middle* and at the sides, and 

 trained up the pillars and over the roof. Notwithstanding 

 the dryness of the season, which has affected plants under 

 glass as well as those out of doors, in consequence of its 

 being impossible to preserve at all times the requisite degree 

 of humidity in the atmosphere, Noisette Lamarque and 

 some other Eoses in this house have made extraordinary 

 growths, varying from 5 to 7 feet in length. Gloire de Dijon, 

 planted in the central bed, and grown on its own roots, is 

 trained to a single stem 7-J- feet high, the growth of but one 

 year ; and as a further example of the rapidity with which 

 this variety grows, Mr. Paul informed us that he knew an 

 instance in which it had in one year gone up 14 feet of the 

 front of a cottage and then run 7 feet along the roof, making 

 a growth of altogether 21 feet. Were it not that almost all 

 the ripe shoots have to be cut for buds, this house would be 

 a magnificent sight, but as it is it contains many glorious 

 blooms, scenting the air with their delicious perfume. Of 

 the numerous varieties planted here, Celine Forestier is the 

 freest and best yellow climber, and the blooms are well set 

 off by the fine mass of green foliage which it produces. That 

 superb variety, Gloire de Dijon, was also in fine condition; 

 indeed, if properly managed it is seldom seen otherwise. 

 These two with Belle de Bordeaux, pink, resembling Gloire de 

 Dijon in habit, are the best three for covering a house. Isa- 

 bella Gray and Jane Hardy are also fine climbers, with beau- 



