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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
and crimson blossoms, that, under common greenhouse 
treatment, bloom freely in spring and early summer. 
Like some near neighbours, the habit is so slender, that 
if not looked after, the plant would get what is termed 
leggy ; but this, in a large specimen, may be easily 
I guarded against by frequent stopping, and tying the 
1 lowest shoots down to the ring round the rim of the pot. 
It will, no doubt, be easily propagated by seeds; and 
considering the ease with which seeds may be obtained 
from similar New Holland shrubs, it is full time our 
hybridists turned their attention to the pea-blooming 
groups. Mr. Beaton lately told us the meaning of A 
when placed before some words, and here it is used in 
the same subtractive manner. Thus otus would have 
been eared; A otus, without ears, having reference to 
the appearance of the calyx. 
Cuttings are easily obtained from this plant, as, while 
the shoots are blooming, they also continue growing 
freely at their points, so that half-ripened cuttings from 
these may easily be procured in April and May. In¬ 
serted under a bell-glass in a cool pit, they will soon 
root. About equal portions peat and loam will suit it, 
and enough of charcoal and broken pots to keep the 
whole mass open. When stubby plants are required, 
the plants should be liberally pruned after blooming ; 
and to expedite the forming of young shoots, it will be 
advisable to shorten flowering-shoots when they begin 
to bloom, by nipping out their points. Instead, then, 
of making growth, which would in most cases require to 
be removed, the strength of the plant would be given to 
swelling the buds nearer to the base, to which you wish 
to cut back. After pruning, keep close, until fresh 
growth has taken place ; then repot if necessary; keep 
close again; then expose to sun and air; house by the 
end of September; and if there is plenty of room, keep 
in an airy place in-doors all summer, though the plants 
will not be injured if out of doors from June to Septem¬ 
ber, if well-drained, watered, and guarded from storms. 
R. Fish. 
Error.—P age 128, 1st col., 5 th line from top, for “sixpence,” read 
“ six shillings and sixpence 
FLORISTS’ FLOWERS AT CHISWICK. 
June 12. 
On this occasion the exhibition of florists’ flowers 
was exceedingly interesting, especially in two classes of 
flowers, namely, the Pansies and the Pinks. The once- 
thought impossibility of bringing roses in pots to the 
exhibition has been triumphantly overcome, so much so, 
that we may assert, without fear of contradiction, that 
larger and more perfect blooms of roses have been 
shown in pots than ever were exhibited in stands of cut 
flowers; and as the cultivators have been so successful 
with roses, there is no reason why they should not be 
equally so with other flowers, and pansies in particular. 
This flower, indeed, lias made some progress already as 
a pot plant. We reported, at the last exhibition in 
May, a fine stand of well-grown and finely-bloomed 
pansies in pots, from Mr. Turner, of Slough, and the 
same grower sent another stand on the 12th, equal, if 
not better, than on that occasion. Mr. Bragg, of the 
same place, also sent a stand in very good order. We 
noted the following as being flowers of first-rate proper¬ 
ties— Fanny Irby, dark eye, yellow ground, with a rim 
of rich blue, surrounded with dark crimson ; good form 
and substance; size medium; a beautiful gem. Eu- 
phemia, yellow ground, dark blotch, broad white line 
round it, with purple margin; large size; form and 
substance good; a fine variety. Jubilee, yellow ground, 
dark yellow eye, margin purple-maroon; good form. 
Adela, yellow self, with a dark eye; good form. Thisbe, 
a bronze flower of good properties. Aurora, a light 
July 1. 
flower, excellent form and substance, and Blue Perfec¬ 
tion, similarly good. 
Pines in Pots. —There was a stand of twelve, exhi¬ 
bited by Mr. Wilrner, of Sudbury, in good order. The 
plants were healthy and well grown, with numerous 
flowers on each plant, being another proof what skill 
and perseverance can effect. They looked remarkably 
neat and handsome, and exhibited a good lesson to the 
amateur of what can be done with the pink in jiots, and 
we hope to see this worthy example imitated in future 
largely. The following were the best— Jenny Lind, 
Holmes’ Coronation, Lady Mildmay, Princess Royal, 
Lord John Russell, Lady Rivers, Norman’s Henry 
Steers, Ibblet’s Jenny Lind, Wilmer’s Sudbury Hero, 
and King of Purples. 
There was a beautiful stand of fifty cut Ranunculuses, 
from Tyso and Sous, of Wallingford. The following 
were noted as being excellent— Flamingo, Gipsy, Kil- 
geour’s Queen, Dido, Herald, Burns, Kilgeour's Princess, 
Gomes, Horatio, Lady Cathcart, and Tele Nocturnum. 
Roses in Pots. —These were in better order than at 
the Park. The following are additions to our former 
report— Paul Ricaut, a dark hybrid Bourbon; Lady 
Alice Peel, Magna Rosa, Goubalt, Borbot, Brennus, 
Pauline, Plantier, and Pactole. 
Pelargoniums. —The collections of this effective exlii 
bition plant were numerous. They occupied a large 
tent entirely. The following were the best in addition 
to such as we have already noted at the May shows— 
Ambassador, deep crimson; Delicatissima Purpurea, 
dark crimson, shaded with purple; Pearl, a good white, 
with small blotch; Constance, light; Enchantress, ex¬ 
cellent form and substance ; Ganymede, a new variety, 
of excellent form, upper petals dark maroon, edged with 
crimson, white eye, lower petal a rich rose; Diadem, 
dark upper petals, white eye, lower petals a dark rich 
rose, au excellent variety; and Bertha, a white, with 
small dark spot, lower petal a pleasing salmon colour. 
The above are all worthy of being in every collection. 
Fancy Pelargoniums. —Ayres’s Celestial, a fine variety, 
a great improvement on Anais ; Mignon, dark, a well- 
formed flower; Purity, a delicate, handsome variety. 
Mr. Ayres, of Blackheath, offered a prize of a piece of 
plate value five guineas, for six plants of fancy gera¬ 
niums, sent out by him in the autumn of 1851. The 
prize was adjudged to Mr. Robinson, of Thames Bank, 
Pimlico, for Advance, Formossissima, Gipsy Queen, Mi¬ 
randa, Caliban, and Conspicuum. They were all neat, 
well-grown, and finely-bloomed plants, and the kinds are j 
all desirable. 
Seedlings. —Very few seedlings were exhibited, and i 
for the very simple and sufficient reason, that the society I 
does not give prizes for them. There was a seedling ! 
Fuchsia named Model, which is a superior variety; beau- j 
tifully reflexed; sepals, broad, and of the richest crimson; i 
corolla, a fine deep purple; size, large; a free bloomer, j 
This will be sought after by the connoisseur. There were 
two others, named respectively Grandis, a large flower, 
but not reflexed sufficiently; and Perfection, not so 
good as “ Model.” A Petunia named Pilot, from Mr. 1 
Gadd, was a good large flower; rose, veined with dark 
maroon; a superior variety; of fine form and substance. 
In Fancy Pelargoniums there was a seedling named 
Jane, of considerable merit, but it only had one bloom 
expanded. We hope to see this again; dark blotch 
broadly edged with white; the centre white; surrounded 
by a rim of dark maroon; form and substance good. 
The plant that attracted the greatest attention, and 
unqualified admiration was an orchid, named Cattleya 
purpurata (though we believe it to be a Lcelia), from 
Messrs. Backhouse, of York. The plant itself, when out 
of bloom, might very easily be mistaken for Cattleya 
crispa, or a broad-leaved variety of that fine species. 
The flowers are produced from the top of the pseudo- 
