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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN'S COMPANION.— June 3, 1850. 
I Gracilis in growth; they were from Mr. Bousie, gardener 
i to the Right Hon. H. Labouchere. Macbeth was ton 
i feet high, like a Pillar Rose, and the bottom shoots 
flowering down below the pot. Glory, Autocrat, Alpha, 
Othello, and Queen of Hanover, were the others. 
Calceolarias —Mr. John Cole, of St. Albans, had 
two good bedding, shrubby kinds. Primula, a cleat- 
yellow, and Grandis, in the tint of the Kentish Hero. 
The herbaceous kinds were numerous and very good 
for the season. 
Cinerarias. —There were not many of them, nor 
very select. Of such as there were, Optima and Sir 
Charles Napier, in Mr. Turner’s collection, were the two 
most telling. 
Petunias. —There were several distinct kinds, and 
some of them were very badly grown. They were grown 
under vines, or had had too much heat. It is related of 
the poet Burns, that he wished to knock a man down 
once, for hearing him (the man) sing one of his (Burn’s) 
new songs in a wroug key, or to a bad tune. I could tell 
a somewhat like tale about a celebrated Petunia that was 
there which was outraged by bad growth. 
Lycopodiums, or Perns, were not numerous,nor select. 
July, or later, is the right time for them, when flowers 
begin to get scarce. 
Gloxinias. —Three collections, and some very nice 
stand-up flowers among them, but nothing different to 
what have been described over and over again. 
Aphelexis, or Everlastings. — A lino, separate 
' collection of well-grown plants of them, besides what 
were used to make up mixed collections. 
Amaryllis. —One large collection of Hippeasters from 
Mr. Hamp, who is an excellent grower of them. 
Alma Geranium. —Mr. Dennis had a dozen of his 
Alma Geranium there. I am not yet certain if Alma 
is really a good bedding sort. Have any of our readers 
grown a bed of it last year; and how did it look? How, 
also, did it stand the sun, the rain, and the wind ? We 
cannot use shades over flower-beds, as florists do over 
miffy flowers; therefore, we must look to different 
“points” from them. 
Pansies. —There was a collection of cut blooms and 
one in pots. 
Tulips. —Three vows on one side of a stand, which is 
twenty yards long, and two rows on the other side of the 
stand,—just one hundred yards, if they were all in one 
row. I paid for seeing a larger collection of them in 
Manchester, this time 1832, and as they have been 
improving them ever since, this must have been the 
best collection of Tulips that was ever seen. At all 
events, there was nothing like it at the shows round 
Loudon for the last five-aud-tweuty years, and that 
might account for the press and crowding round them. 
I Rhododendrons. — Three collections, and the tall 
i yellow ones from Mr. Lane. The most telling Rhododen¬ 
dron Dalliousianum was in one of the general collections; 
I it is not so good as Edgworthii ; it comes in threes, 
| and is yellowish-green. Rhododendron cinnabarinum, 
among a collection of new plants from Mr. Yeitch, is 
the most curious of the Sikim race that has yet been 
exhibited. The flowers are tubular, and turn down like 
a Cyrtanthus flower. 
Seedlings. —The most remarkable new seedling was 
Azalea amcena grandiflora, a cross, which has retained 
the “ hose-in-hose ” style of flower. It is said to be from 
the pollen of Lateritia; but the colour is much clearer 
than that parentage would indicate. 
New Rose. —Two plants of one called Bacchus were 
j among the novelties. It is the best shaped of all the 
Roses, a hybrid perpetual; a seedling from Geant des 
BataiUes apparently, but not quite of such a high 
colour; it was exhibited by Mr. Paul. Bacchus will 
make a stir among rose-growers. 
Miscellaneous Novelties. — Embothrium cocci- 
neum, a crimson-flowered greenhouse plant; Gleichenia 
micTophylla, a very pretty, drooping New Zealand Fern ; 
Ceanotlius origanus, with white flowers; a curious new 
species of Brodieva; Medularium pistum, a short pine¬ 
apple-leaved-like plant; Drosera dickotoma, a very 
interesting curiosity, a “ sundew,” with a wiry stalk, six 
to nine inches long; it then divides into two stalks, and 
these again divide immediately into two more (dichoto¬ 
mous) ; the last forkings are covered with glandular 
hairs, the glands being the “ dew.” Ouvirandra fenes- 
tralis, the new skeleton water-plant from Madagascar, 
in a glass milk pan, with clean dear water and white 
pebbles under the plant and all over the soil, which 
“ showed off” remarkably well; a Huntleya fnnbriata, 
not much ; and several others of no great account; a 
good-looking Corrcea, called Cardinalis ; a good Rhodo¬ 
dendron Javanicum ; a collection of excellently-grown 
Pitcher-plants ; two collections of tall Cacti, with a plant 
of Eyertoni in each, and in one a Crenatam. 
Orchids were very numerous. The Saccolabiums 
were better coloured than usual, but the Pludcenopsises 
not so good. Anguloa Clouesii, with four large blooms, 
ArpophyUum giganteum with eight spikes, and Barlceria 
spectabilis with fourteen spikes, is a rare sight at a 
Show; and Lcclia jlava is not worthy of the family 
name; but there was a good plant of it there, with five 
upright, rigid spikes, twenty inches high, and about ten 
dull, yellow flowers on the top of each. DendroVium 
torlilis was the only other plant noticeable from the 
general run of old Exhibition orchids. This Dendro- 
bium has a most delicate-looking cupped labellum, or 
middle part, which is a light creamy tint; and the 
sepals, or side parts of the flower, are wavy, and light 
blush. A large nosegay of Cantua dependens, from 
Trentham. This was the handsomest flower at the 
Show, and flowers, at Trentham, in the conservatory, as 
freely as any other plant—on the starving principle. 
There was also a fine collection of A ncectochilus. 
Altogether, it was a good average Show for the month. 
There were very few inferior plants of any kind; but 
the greatest improvement of all was in the new arrange¬ 
ment. It is better than that either at Chiswick or at 
the Regent’s Park, besides being in-doors. 
I did not examine the Fruit very particularly; but 
the truth is, there is too much to look at for the short 
time we had before the public were admitted; and once 
the stream is let in, you must look to your toes, to keep 
from trampling on the ladies’ dresses. 
The Grapes, the Peaches and Nectarines, and the 
Strawberries and Cherries, were very good-looking. 
There was nothing particular about the Pine-apples, of 
which there were forty-one placed along the top ridge, 
with an arch of pot Grapes at each end. Mr. Fleming’s 
collection was in the place of honour — the first on 
the list or on the stage, and every one could thus see 
it. It consisted of three bunches of Blade Hamburghs, 
two dishes of Melons, two of Plums, two of Nectarines, 
one of Peaches, and one of Strawberries! 
There were three or four competitors for Cucumbers, 
which were long enough for anything. Essex Rived and 
Himalaya were the names of the longest. 
The Railway Colonnade. —The most of the soft- 
wooded climbers, which I mentioned last autumn as 
doiug so well in this part of the Palace, have been cut 
down by the frost. The whole length of the climber 
border is now planted, in one single line, with hardy 
Azaleas and Hybrid Rhododendrons, in four shades of 
colour, the yellow being the strongest colour. Every 
one of the shades is repeated at every five or six yards, 
and the effect is extremely good. Those pseudo-critics 
who object to planting flowers in long, straight row r s, 
must suck their thumbs after seeing this one row. 
In the Palace itself, the climbers, and, indeed, all 
