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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN'S COMPANION.— June 3, 1850. 
not, boliovo mo there never was a more gay or more 
promising collection got together in so short a time. 
Before 1 begin my report of the exhibition let mo 
explain the engraving. The whole Show was, and for 
the future will be, held in the nave between the crystal 
fountain on the west aud the bronze fountain on the 
east, and nowhere else. At the west end, the Show be¬ 
gins with the fruit-stand, which slopes up from both 
sides, like the roof of a house, with a single shelf along 
the ridge, on which the Pine apples are placed, and also 
the Grapes in pots; and there is a passage between the 
fruit and plant stands, which is not shown in the en¬ 
graving. The next stand is very long, and is numbered 
on each side from 7 to 13, each number showing where 
a particular tribe or class of plants is placed. After that 
you see a square marked on the plan ; that is the base 
of a colossal obelisk, which cuts off the view of the next 
stage, which is in the form of a cross, and is in the 
centre of the great transept; each of the longest arms of 
the cross, marked 1,1, is twenty-two yards long; and the 
short arms, 2, 2, are twelve yards each in length. The 
large collections of Stove aud Greenhouse plants, and 
the collections of Azaleas, occupy the cross, which is the 
best way of placiug them to the best advantage of all 
the plans I have seen tried. Immediately behind the 
north arm of the cross stands an orchestra, which cuts 
off the view from the north end of the great transept, 
and confines it to the objects of the show—another most 
judicious arrangement. To the east of the cross is 
another square, which is the base of the Peace Monu¬ 
ment, and which hides the view of the next long stand 
for plants, marked 3, 4, 5, 0,—figures referring to Or¬ 
chids, New Plants, Cape Heaths, and Rhododendrons, 
a, the extreme east end of the show, is a stage twenty 
yards long, with two sides, for Tulips, and the whole was 
covered with them. Between the end of the tulip- 
stand and the bronze fountain stood another orchestra, 
across the nave, hiding the view in that direction, pur¬ 
posely to concentrate your eyes and thoughts to the 
flowers—the great object of the day. 
Here, then, we have two fundamental principles which 
ought to govern every gardening movement, from the 
cottage to the palace. The first is, that however small 
the garden may be, all the flowers, or beds, or trees, 
greenhouse, and all the rest in it, should be so arranged 
as not to be seen at one view. Instead of orchestras and 
peace monuments, however, a clump or group of shrubs 
must suffice to part what is “next and next;” and in 
the largest garden, one principal scene should not stand 
so far from tbo next principal scene as to tire one in the 
distance between them. Hero, again, instead of orches¬ 
tras and peace monuments, introduce distinct scenes, 
having no reference to the one you left behind-, or to 
that which comes next to view; aud it is in the 
originality, the appropriateness, and the taste with 
which these distinct and different scenes are conceived 
and carried out, rather than in the great features of a 
place, lies the secret why one place is so much admired 
above another of similar extent. 
In anticipation of a good Rose season we shall 
begin with them first. General Jaqueminot was the 
greatest stranger there, and the best dark one. The 
Geant and Paul Ricaut have a distinguished rival in 
the General. Chenedole, Coup d'Hebe, Paul Perras, 
Baron Prevost, and Paul Ricaut, were the next best 
represented kinds. La Marque, and Dcvoniensis, Eliza 
Sauvage, Gobault, and Adam, were the best of their 
sections. Louise Perrony, in the way of La Reine, 
Leon des Combats, a dark perpetual, Mauvais, a Tea 
Rose, Louis Buonaparte, and Blairii No. 2, were the 
next most conspicuous Roses. The growers who contest 
the prizes are now so well known as to need no mention, 
and they are “ above all praise.” Mr. Paul’s Roses 
were better grown than Mr. Lane’s, but not so well 
bloomed, the plants being a week or ten days behind 
their best; therefore, the first prize went to Mr. Lane, 
as usual, and Mr. Francis had very capital Roses, while 
Mr. Busby, Mr. Holland, aud all the other private i 
growers were never better in the field. 
Fancy Pelargoniums. —Here is where I can make ; 
the only suggestion for improving the present arrange- ' 
meut at the Crystal Palace Shows. I am certain, and I ; 
am backed by the best judgments in the lady peerage 
in saying, that you disturb the effect produced on the 
eye and mind, by either of the fancy or large Pelar¬ 
goniums, when both are placed side by side, or in the 
same view. If you want to make the best of them, see 
the large ones first, then turn round the end of the 
stage and see the fancy ones next. Jenny Lind, Deli- 
catum, and Princess Maria Galitzin, were the most 
telling, and Plectra and Lady Hume Campbell the two 
highest-coloured. 
Mr. Turner, of Slough, is the best grower of all the 
Geraniums, and he places them the best for effect. They 
| were here in three rows, oue above another; and this is 
j how he placed them—Richard Cobden, lowest. Celestial, 
middle, and Empress of France on the top shelf. Second 
| row— Compicuum, bottom, Mary ILowitt and Plectra; 
1 and the next row began at the bottom with Cloth of 
Silver, then Lady Hume Campbell, and Madame Sontag. 
His large Pelargoniums were thus staged, in threes 
from bottom to the top shelf. 1 . National, Arethusa, 
and Petruchio. 2. Wonderful, Governor General, and 
Lucy. 3. Una, Majestic, and Magnet. 4. Sanspiareil, 
Basilisk, and Carlos. 
The last three are my own favourites of all that were 
there. Then the following— Achilles, purple; Conqueror, 
dark; Rosamond, one of the best, with a large white 
eye; Ambassador, rosy front; Queen of May, orange- 
scarlet; and Magnet. The best white ones were— 
Pearl, Evelyn, Euphemia, Delicatum, and Una. The 
last is, perhaps, the best white Pelargonium for amateurs 
with one greenhouse. 
Stove and Greenhouse Plants. — The following 
were the principal plants for making up the large and 
small collections—Heaths, Boronias, Azaleas, Polygalas, 
Tetrathecas, Epacris, Eriostemons, Aphelajxis, Choro- 
zemas, Dracophyllums, Adenaudras, Pimelias, Lesche- 
naultias, Clerodendrum Kaempferi, Mitraria coccinea, 
Ixoras, Vincas, Hovea Celsii, Cissus, Stephauotis, Cyr- 
toceras reflexum, Dipladenia crassinoda, Hederomatuli 
pifera, Tropoeolum Jarrattii, and two straugers, Pliilo- 
theca australis, like a small-leafed Eriostemou, and that 
kind of flower being first cousins, if uot brother and 
sisters, and an Hypericum-like plant, with good habit 
and yellow flowers, called Albertia perfoliata, which I 
take to be a smuggled name. 
All the prizes here went as usual also, and Air. 
Green was first with the finest Azaleas in the world. 
Criterion was the best new Azalea there. I noted it 
last year with Mr. Ivery; it is a cross from Exquisila, 
and a great improvement on it. Constantia rosea, 
Magnifica, a half double; Crassijlora, from China; 
General Williams, Magnifica, white; Festa, white; 
Holdfordii, Frostii, and Beauty of Reigate, were the 
next best of the newer Azaleas. Frostii being the 
nearest to a circle of them all. 
Heaths. — Sindriana was the best specimen pf them 
there, from Air. Cutbush, of Barnet, and his Bergiana 
was nearly as good. There was an improvement on 
Albertus, called Alberlus superba, that and Devoniana 
were the newest. Elegans, Deptressa, Cavendishii, Jas- 
minoides, Vestita, and Ventricosa, Propendens, Muta- 
bilis,A ud Mundula, were the most numerous and con¬ 
spicuous. 
Fuchsias. —There was one collection of six Fuchsias, 
the best grown of all which were yet exhibited—Five 
red ones and a white one; the former in the way of 
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