THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY'S GARDEN. 
■wliich are rather rare. In the first place, it is more round than many present favomiteg ; next, the 
edges of the petals arc very smooth, and exhibit neither the points that are conspicuous in some, nor 
the indentations, whieli are natural to others, and these are verj' valuable characteristics. Next, we 
have sti'ipcs much better defined 
than we can produce them in most 
other striped varieties, exhibiting 
some of the character of a flaked 
Carnation, and sufficiently distinct 
to lead us to hojje that other flowers 
will be found still more beautiful, 
for we need hardly tell our readers 
that the Camellia will sport a good 
deal, occasionally giving us plain 
flowers, at other times showing a 
good deal more white. Again, if 
we look to the face, it would seem 
that the petals, though smaller as 
they near the centre, are as smooth 
and as perfect as the outer ones ; 
and this, be it recollected, is a pohit 
which many of our present favour- 
ites have not, for they are in most 
varieties less perfect as they are 
farther removed from tlie outer edge, 
and in the centre differently formed, 
and, ill many cases, absolutely shape- 
less, and altogether imperfect. To 
give an idea of the efi'ect where the 
flowers are really small, let us look 
at Sasanqua rosea, let us imagine those little flowers as perfect as many larger ones, and we could 
hardly picture a more haudsor.ie specimen than it would be if well grown ; but then the flowers are 
ragged and uncouth, so that, unless it is too far ofl' to see the defects in the form, it is excessivelj' ugly. 
Myrtifolia would be a beautiful variety', if the petals were as well formed as those of the portrait in the 
present number, but they are pomted. The Double White is nearly alwaj's indented so as to exhibit the 
petals heart-shaped. Eximia long considered a first-rate variety is pointed in the petal ; and Imbricata 
is not nmch better. The striped white varieties, such as Press's Eclipse, Punctata, Kosa Mundi, King, 
and others of that kind, are for the most part undefined. The Countess of Orkney is, perhajjs, the best 
of the light striped sorts. Tricolor, though pretty in its markings, or stripes, is of a most worthless 
form. All the " Ancmonefloras," and " Altheifloras," are as unworthy of cultivation as any we have 
seen. Reticulata is, in oui' estimation, good for nothing, with flowers as uncouth as a large semi-double 
popj)y, and joints so long, that it is im2)ossible to grow a compact plant ; it has long ceased to be valu- 
able except as a stock. We have only mentioned a few that are familiar to most persons, or we might 
fill a volume ; but there are others so flat on the face, as to appear very poor and mean, and others so 
notched as to be perfectly ugly. Of those in cultivation, now, we jn-efer Hafilda, which goes by a dozen 
other names, to almost any we have seen, not less for its superior form than for its delicate peach 
colour, and its manageable habit. We shall be glad to see Messrs. l)ry sdale's new variety well grown and 
bloomed, for wc must regard it as an acquisition, and a valaable one, if it comes up to the portrait, and 
of this we have no riffhtto doubt. 
VISITS TO llEMARKABLE GARDENS. 
The garden or the HOETICULTUEAL SOCIETY, CHISWICK. 
MSTABLISHED many years since for the promotion of science, the Garden of the Horticultural 
Society has long attained an European celebrity, not less for its magnificent collection of fruits, 
than for the splendid exhibitions of both fruit and plants, which have annually been held there. 
Situated upon a dead level, the view is confined to its own grounds, and, therefore, for picturesque 
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