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by all the great continental nurserymen, amateurs, and gardeners, who 
hold conversaziones, and dine together under the presidency of the 
King. We are not aware who will represent the English trade besides 
Mr. Glendinning, who we hear is one of the jurors. 
Our readers will be glad to know that Mr. M‘Ewen, formerly gardener 
to the Duke of Norfolk, at Arundel Castle, and more recently to — 
Beaumont, Esq., Bretton Hall, Yorkshire, has been appointed garden 
superintendent at Chiswick. 
We see by an advertisement in our present number, that the Bath 
Hanoverian Band Committee have named Wednesday, May 13th, for 
holding their first Horticultural Exhibition at Sydney Gardens, in that 
city. The celebrity of these exhibitions is now well known, and great 
praise is due to the Committee for having brought the Horticulture of 
Bath and its neighbourhood to so high a degree of perfection by their 
exertions. 
PLANTS FOB MASSING. 
As amateurs are frequently asking for the best kinds of flower-garden 
plants for massing, or for planting entire beds, we present our readers 
with the following selection, furnished us by Mr. Foggo, as being the 
kinds used in the extensive flower gardens at Shrubland Park, and 
where the best varieties in each class are carefully selected. The 
general requisites for plants adapted for grouping are, 1st, dwarf compact 
habit and good foliage ; 2d, decided colours, that wiU bear rain and 
a bright sun without fading; 3rd, that will produce a succession of 
bloom from June or July to November, or later. 
V&rhmas—Scarlet 
Crimson . . . . 
Purple and Violet 
Lilac and Lavender . . 
„ Rose and Pink 
,, White 
Calceolarias — Yellow . 
,, Orange . . . . 
„ Bronze,Brown, ^ Yellow 
,, Crimson . . . . 
Petunias—Purple 
,, Rose . * . . 
,, White .... 
„ Striped and Variegated. 
Horse-shoe Geraniums—Scarlet . 
Mrs. Woodroffe, Defiance, Eblouisante> 
Engl efield Scarlet, King of Scarlets, Louis 
Napoleon, Rougieri. 
Rendalleri, Tommy, Geant des Batailles. 
Purple King, Andre, Emma, Palladium, 
Favourite, Madame Adolphe Weick, 
Matchless, Tyrian Prince. 
Haidee, Duchesse d’Aumale, Iphigenia, 
Nelly, Mrs. Mills, Parfume Madeline, 
V ariegata. 
Loveliness, Cardinal Wiseman. 
Mrs. Halford, White Perfection. 
Fleming’s Yellow, Shrubland Yellow, Sul- 
phurea splendens, Amplexicaulis (pale 
yellow). 
Prince of Orange, Shrubland Orange, 
Orange Boven (new). 
Albira (new). 
King of Sardinia, Sultan. 
Translucens. 
Shrubland Rose, Countess of Ellesmere. 
Shrubland White. 
Dr. Andre, Marquise de St. Innocent, 
Prothe, Herraione. 
Prince of Wales, Wightman’s Seedling, 
King of Nepal, Shrubland Queen, Globe, 
Compactum, Punch. 
