JUNE. 
169 
We said just now that the Azaleas made the exhibition at the 
Crystal Palace, but not altogether; there were some magnificent Roses- 
in pots, and when we looked—and who did’nt look, and admire too— 
at that grand Paul Perras in the Messrs. Lane’s collection of 10 pot 
Roses, we thought of the trouble Dr. Lindley had in persuading these 
great Rose firms, (and nearly everybody else,) that Roses might be 
grown in pots; whether the Doctor had in his mind’s perspective any 
of those wonderful specimens which of late years have formed the great 
attraction of these meetings, and of which Paul Perras appeared to us the 
acme of perfection, we are not prepared to say ; but as he is not the man 
to give up a thing when its practicability has been made clear to him, 
he persisted, and then people began to try what could be done with 
them, and now we see the result; and we beg therefore to thank the 
Doctor for having been the means of introducing the highest features of 
art—as regards cultivation—on the most beautiful flower in creation. 
The w^eak point in the exhibition appeared to us to be the four first 
classes, stove and greenhouse plants. Whether these collections were 
really the best that could be brought forward, or whether, as was hinted 
to us, the best plants were being kept in reserve for Kensington Gore, 
we are unable to say. If there was no reservation, then most of the 
collections were faulty and not up to the mark, and moreover some of 
the plants were so outrageously overtrained that it ought to have 
amounted to a disqualification. 
The feeling that one has after having seen these great show's for 
two or three seasons is that they become so familiar that one can almost, 
without going to look at the cards, award the prizes, and even name 
the individual plants that comprise the collections. In greenhouse 
plants this is especially the case. Now and then a new plant finds its 
way into the collections, and adds a little variety; but generally 
speaking we are face to face with old friends, who have, indeed, grown 
£C trifle larger and more corpulent than last year, but whose general 
contour is very much as it was, exhibiting tokens of a ffreeu old age. 
The first collection in stove and greenhouse plants was that contributed 
by Mr. Tredwell of Norwood; it contained the usual quantum of Cape 
and New Holland plants, Ixoras, Boronias, Impatiens, Aphelexis, &c. 
In collections of 12, Messrs. Green, Baxendine, and Cutbush; and in 
collections of 6 and 8, Messrs. Chilman, Kaile, Page, and Smith, were 
contributors. Those of plants distinguished for the beauty of their 
foliage w'ere certainly deficient, probably owing to the early day at 
which the exhibition was fixed; but the plants generally speaking were 
not remarkable. Amongst Orchids, the largest and best collection was 
furnished by Mr. Day of Tottenham, the most remarkable of his plants 
being Dendrobium Devonianum and macrophyllum, Lselia purpurata, 
Cattleya Mossice, and Oncidium arnpliatum. Mr. Tredwell was 
second; and had some fine plants of Phaius grandifolius, Phalaenopsis 
grandiflora, and Lycaste Harrisonirc. Collections of 6 and 10 Orchids 
were furnished by Messrs. Milford, Stone, Page, Penny, Bunney, and 
Woolley. Amongst the plants exhibited were Phalaenopsis amabilis, 
Cattleya lobata, C. Aclandiae, C. Mossiae, C. amethystina, Laelia 
purpurata, Vanda suavis, Oncidium arnpliatum, Uropedium Lmdeni, 
