150 THE PHILADELPHIA FLORIST. [Sept'r. 



NOTES CENSORIAL. £) 



As the space you allow for our "Notes" is rather restricted, we will \) 

 confine our censorship to one or two subjects which seem to us to re- 

 quire correction. 



The Monthly Tour of Inspection. — We are informed that you made 

 a mistake in your distribution of offices on the place of Mr. Welsh — 

 Mr. Shields being farmer, and Mr. Ross not his assistant, but head 

 gardener. 



Achimenes Gloxinccflora — Really a horticultural gem; but we must 

 say that your plate of it is most striking evidence of the loss to your 

 subscribers by the death of Mrs. Hill. We hope they will suspend 

 their judgment of the flower until they see it in bloom, or a better re- 

 presentation of it. The plant has been in this neighborhood nearly 

 two years, and was exhibited in a collection of Achimenes in the 

 spring of 1851, What you say of the value set upon new plants at 

 the exhibitions of the Penn. Hort. Society is painfully true. We saw 

 the other evening there (August stated meeting) a few spikes of Gladi- 

 oli Gandavensis and floribundus labelled "new, and shown for the first 

 time.'' 1 



Penn. Hort. Society. — Still the same discernment in bestowing pre- 

 miums. Isaac Collins, gardener to Gen. Patterson, exhibited a large 

 collection, which received first premium, probably because it was the 

 President's. Mr. Bisset's second, because it was the best. The prizes 

 awarded the designs seemed to be made on the same principle. What 

 ails that committee! What rules have they in judging of the best an,d 

 most interesting collection '( Is it size 1 — for then the lucky man who 

 flowers the biggest Hydrangeas can always take the premium. A com- 

 mittee should have some knowledge of plants, their variety, growth, 

 &c The exhibitions of the Society will certainly fail, if gardeners 

 feel assured that their fine collectious will be passed over, or a place 

 assigned them inferior to their merits. Brougham.. 



As Mr. Saunders furnished us with a sketch to illustrate his remarks 

 on the introduction of Grapes into Greenhouses, which we could not 

 have engraved in time to insert with the communication, our readers 

 will find it annexed : 



| """ \ " It consists of a wooden frame made 



I A I to fit into the upright lights in front; the 



|l end pieces taper from a point at top, to a 



kft breadth of 8 or 10 inches at bottom; board 



|ii at bottom same width, and furnished with 



f-^'-J, — ==_-- - --' -' two semi-circular holes for the introduc- 



^*Lr\ j^^^sdL ti oa of the vines. See p. 114, Aug. No. 



(£7* W. D. Breckenridge has been appointed to "superintend the 

 improvement of the public grounds at Washington, in the room of the 

 late A. J. Downing. Mr. B.'s extensive knowledge in the various de- 

 partments of horticulture promise that the public will not lose so much 

 «^as was anticipated in this department by the late accident. 



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