March 23, 1882.] JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 235 
the usual liberal and numerous prizes will be offered. Seventy- 
seven classes are provided, the majority being for plants and cut 
flowers, and nearly equally divided between nurserymen and 
amateurs. Yery liberal provision is made for the exhibition of 
Orchids, the prizes amounting to a total of £136 in seven classes, 
the amateurs’ class for fifteen Orchids in flower and the nursery¬ 
men’s class for sixteen in flower being the chief, the prizes rang¬ 
ing from £16 to £6. Stove and greenhouse plants, fine-foliage 
plants, Azaleas, Roses, Pelargoniums, Ferns, and herbaceous 
plants, all have several classes devoted to them, and one of the 
customary fine exhibitions may be confidently expected. 
- A Sussex correspondent writes—“ Owing to this excep¬ 
tionally mild season hardy flowering shrubs are in bloom 
fully three weeks earlier than they were last year ; Magnolia 
conspicua, for example, is now a mass of bloom. Berberis 
Darwinii is also in full bloom, likewise Andromeda floribunda, 
Lonicera fragrantissima, &c. Hardy fruits, too, are coming 
rapidly into bloom.” 
- The usual monthly dinner of the Horticultural Club 
took place on the 16th inst. at their room in Henrietta Street. 
There was a good attendance, and the following gentlemen were 
elected members—the Eev. F. H. Gall, Messrs. Cuthell, Buston, 
Balderson, E. Hawtry, and Stottenhoff. The arrangements were 
considered very satisfactory. 
- In the stove at Kew a remarkably pretty new species 
of Impatiens is now flowering. The plant is of dwarf compact 
habit, with small lanceolate leaves, and rosy scarlet flowers about 
2 inches in diameter, [and produced very freely on the upper 
portion of the stems. The tint is extremely brilliant, and to¬ 
gether with the neat habit renders the plant highly ornamental. 
It is said to be a native of Zanzibar, and is related to Impatiens 
Walkeri. It is well worthy the attention of horticulturists, 
and would, no doubt, soon_become a general favourite if in the 
hands of a nurseryman. 
•- Mr. \V. H. Sadler writes—“ I am requested by the Com¬ 
mittee of the Horsham Rose Association to give notice that 
our Rose Show is fixed’, for the 29th June.” We also learn 
that the Borough of Hackney Chrysanthemum Exhibition at the 
Royal Aquarium, Westminster, will be held on November 15th 
and 16th. On page 217 in our notice of forthcoming exhibitions 
Plymouth was misprinted for Weymouth, which Show takes place 
on July 26th, the Secretary being Mr. W. Mordaunt Thiselton. 
- The schedule ofjtke Farningham Rose and Horti¬ 
cultural Society announces that the annual exhibition will 
be held on June 29th, when prizes will be offered in sixty-one 
classes, the principal_being for Roses, but miscellaneous plants, 
fruits and vegetables are provided for, prizes in the cottagers’ 
section being also offered for honey. We learn from the financial 
statement of the past season that the Society continues in a satis¬ 
factory position, for though at the last exhibition the total value 
of the prizes was [considerably increased, the returns show a 
balance of £25 to the credit of the Society, 
- Mr. B. S. Williams has now a good display of Orchids 
at Upper Holloway. Many are in flower, and many more are 
fast advancing. One of the most noteworthy is a handsome speci¬ 
men of Dendrobium^Wardianum in a basket suspended near the 
door of a warm house. It is a remarkably fine variety, with 
flowers 4 to 5 inches in diameter, the centre of the lip and the 
tips of the petals being very richly coloured. The superb Dal¬ 
keith variety of Vanda a tricolor is also flowering well, having a 
handsome spike of its brightly coloured flowers. The fragrant 
Dendrochilum glumaceum is represented by a specimen with 
nearly three dozen spikes of flowers, and although it has recently 
had a journey to the Manchester Spring Show, it does not appear 
to have suffered in the slightest degree. Dendrobes are abundant) 
such favourites as D. Pierardi, D. nobile, D. densiflorum, and D. 
crepidatum flowering profusely, some extremely fine varieties 
being included in the collection. Perhaps, however, one of the most 
remarkable is D. teretifolium with cylindrical leaves and small 
white flowers slightly blotched with claret, which are borne on 
very fine hair-like peduncles in a much-branched panicle. It has 
a peculiar effect, and the inflorescence has been not inaptly com¬ 
pared to a cloud of smoke. An early batch of Odontoglossum 
vexillarium is in flower, with fine forms of 0. crispum and O. 
Rossii ; Cattleya Trianae, C. maxima, Oncidiums, and many others 
being equally beautiful. A handsome hybrid Zygopetalum, Z. 
Clavi, is in remarkably fine condition, and the rich orange- 
coloured L;clia harpophylla is similarly noteworthy. 
- An amateur writes to us as follows—“ Thanks for your 
advice. I have observed that nothing is read from week to week 
with such interest as your answers to correspondents. If 
those who are in difficulties could keep up a narrative of their 
troubles and triumphs, upon which you could comment and 
correct, I believe it would prove of great service to your amateur 
readers.” We have only to add that a record of the “ triumphs” 
of our readers and how they have been achieved will be very wel¬ 
come because useful, and their “ troubles ” shall continue to have 
our best attention. 
- A remarkable article, entitled “No Vegetables,” has 
been cut from the Pall Mall Gazette and sent to us for perusal. 
We are glad to read from time to time special articles in the 
general press on matters pertaining to gardening. Most of these 
are at least entertaining, and a few denote the acquisition of tech¬ 
nical knowledge of the subject in hand by the writers. But now 
and then, notwithstanding their wide knowledge, the editors of 
our leading journals are induced to publish curious productions ; 
but it is only fair to the writer of the one in question to observe 
that he seems to have been impressed by an American whom 
he “ met in a restaurant.” As there are a few sentences in this 
extraordinary effort that ought not to be lost to the gardening 
world, we hope to be able to find space for them in a future issue, 
with such comments as the somewhat novel paragraphs suggest. 
- The first volume of Messrs. Cassell, Petter & Galpin’s re¬ 
issue of Paxton’s Flower Garden, revised by Mr. T. Baines, is 
now completed, and as regards printing, paper, and binding it is 
all that could be desired. Many of the coloured plates are also 
admirably executed, particularly the Chionodoxa Lucilise, which 
we consider one of the best in the work ; but some show a defi¬ 
ciency in this respect, which is regretable, as the book is other¬ 
wise highly commendable. Thirty-six plates are given, the ma¬ 
jority the same as those which appeared in the original edition, but 
several good additions have been made. In the gleanings and 
original memoranda much information is given concerning new 
and recently introduced plants ; and we observe that the capital 
initial letters for specific names, the use of which, as we pointed 
out at the time, disfigured the first few parts, have been discon¬ 
tinued—a considerable improvement. It forms a handsome pre¬ 
sentation volume. 
- Promenaders on that grand promenade, the Thames Em¬ 
bankment, have lately had a floral treat, and have greatly admired 
the beds of Crocuses in the Inner Temple Gardens. On the 
south terrace of the gardens about forty beds of these flowers have 
under the brilliant sun of this and last week been extremely 
attractive. Ten thousand bulbs were planted, about two-thirds 
being of the large yellow Crocus, the others comprising Princess 
of Prussia, pale blue, and Sir Walter Scott, silvery white with 
purple stripes. The flowers are remarkably fine, and from five to 
