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THE COTTAGE GA11DENER. 
June 19. 
j clown, Touchstone; as gardeners, however, we have 
j nothing to do with these particulars; yet, as gardeners, 
: wo may ask why the Fuchsia and the Passion Flower 
are introduced ? The period and the country of “ As 
i You Like It” are the 15th century, and a Duchy of 
I France under Louis the 12th. Neither the Passion 
Flower nor the Fuchsia are natives of France, but of 
South America; the Fuchsia was not known to Euro¬ 
peans until some thirty years ago; nor even the 
| Passion Flower until Shakspere had been some thir- 
! teen years in his grave! 
The gardening anachronisms of the picture do not 
! end here. The season of the scene depicted is autumn— 
| the bramble beneath the garden-seat- is “in the sere 
and yellow leaf,” and fallen Vine leaves in their autumn 
colours strew the foreground. Now, the Fuchsia does 
not bloom naturally at that season; and Mr. Maclise 
i has clenched his anachronism with this flower by 
pourtraying a white-sepaled variety—one of a race of 
j hybrids created by florists within the last ten years. 
HORTICULTURAL FETE AT THE CRYSTAL 
PALACE.— June 2. 
(Continued from page 181.) 
PELARGONIUMS. 
There were Geraniums, Fancy Pelargoniums, and 
Pelargoniums; but not so many of any of them as 
have been seen at Chiswick and the Regent’s Park. The 
reason seems to be, that no one can surpass Mr. Turner 
of Slough, in growing them; and spirited growers, like 
Crnsar, would rather be first with them at a village show, 
than second best at the Crystal Palace. The Messrs 
Fraser, however, have now taken to the Pelargoniums, 
and after beating out Mrs. Lawrence, on her own terri¬ 
tory (Chiswick), it will go hard with them if they cannot 
“ enter the Strait” between them and Mr. Turner, where 
Mr. Dobson has been waiting his opportunity during the 
I last three or four campaigns. 
Mr. Turner had .£12 for the best collection of twelve 
S pelargoniums, on which my notes run thus:— Rosamond 
j the richest; Governor General the highest coloured; 
: Sanspariel the gayest; according to my fancy, this is the 
| best Pelargonium we have; Una is the best white that 
has yet been exhibited; but I heard that another, called 
| Fair Helen, one of Mr. Storey’s seedlings, is even better 
than Una) Exactum, the next best white; it is only two- 
thirds white, however; Esther three-fourths white, and 
! equal to, if not superior to, Exactum; Carlos and 
Majestic, most noble looking; Arethusa, Mockana, 
Achilles, and Lablache, all excellent. 
Mr. Dobson had £8 for the second best collection. He, 
too, began with Rosamond —Why do the florists deprive 
her of her FVar title?— Ambassador, Gulielma, Magnificent, 
Prince Arthur, Enchantress, Vulcan, Painter Improved, 
Exhibitor, Delicatum, Empress, and Purpurea. 
The Messrs Fraser had £0 for the third best, and of 
them 1 noted Galatea, Ganymede, Ajax, and Magnet, as 
different from the above. Extra prizes were given to 
Mr. Gains, Mr. Reck, and Mr. Strachan. 
For the prize of £0 for the best collection of six, 
Mr. Foster, Mr. Hoyle, and three private growers con¬ 
tended. The most distinct kinds wore in Mr. Hoyle’s 
collection, though they only took the third prize. The 
kinds were Sanspareil, Wonderful, Serena, Magnet, 
Portia, and Carlos. These six were the best placed for 
effect in the Crystal Palace. This was the first time I 
had seen .Serena, —for the class with a large white eye, 
I shall name it as of the first order, and keep it on my 
string for recommendation. Mr. Hoyle had several new 
seedlings there, of which Pallas and Josephine were my 
choice. The former is a scarlet, and the other a lilac 
ground. 
Fancy Pelargoniums. —I have noticed that at Regent- 
street, at the Regent’s Park, and at the Crystal Palace, 
the Fancies do not look so gay as they do in the more 
open tents at Chiswick; but wherever they are exhibited, 
you have only to place them after the Pelargoniums 
when you want to murder them outright. The “effect” 
for which the Palace people paid so much money was 
not worth sixpence from the Fancy Geraniums. They 
were drowned as completely as if they were at the bottom 
of the lower waters. If I had seen these for the first 
time, I might go about and tell people not to have any¬ 
thing to do with Fancy Geraniums. 
Mr. Turner was first with them also, and had £12 for 
his pains. This is how they took the “effect” on my 
eye— Perfection, Delicatum, Erulescens, Madame Sontag, 
Gaiety, Celestial, Formosissima, Cassandra, and Jenny 
Lind, with Richard Cobden. 
Mr. Gains followed, and had £8 for the second, in 
which the following were different from the above,— 
Galatzin, Vandyke, Princess Alice Maud, and Eclipse. 
The Messrs Fraser had the third prize, £6, with 
Empress, which is the next best light after Delicatum; 
Queen Victoria, Madame Rosatti, Miss Sheppard, with 
two bad black ones, and the rest as above. 
In the sixes, Mr. Bousie, of Stoke Park, near Slough, 
was first; Mr. Robinson, Mr. Breadley, Mr. Mocket, 
and Mr. Windsor followed. Among them, Revenger was 
the darkest flower, and the best of the darks; Defiance, a 
purplish-black; and Exquisite, too poor a thing to be so 
called. 
Mr. Young, gardener to Mr. Edwards, had twelve 
plants of the exact size which amateurs ought to aim 
at; they were a gay lot indeed. 
ROSES. 
To those who saw the Roses at Gore House this show 
would seem out of joint and sweetness. Mr. Lane was 
first, second, and third, on the part of the trade; he 
being the only Rose trader who tried his skill for the 
highest honour; and Mr. Wilkinson, of Ealing Common, 
stood up for the Celina stock, as usual. 
Mr. Busby, gardener to J. S. Crawley, Esq., of 
Stockwood Park, near Luton, had the first prize in the 
sixes, and A. Rowland, Esq., the second. These were 
all the Rose showers, and none of them were quite so 
sweet as they were at Gore House; but Mr. Busby, who 
had the bad tallies there, changed his tune, and had the 
best printed tallies in the Palace this day If Mr. 
Busby had not come out first-rate at Gore House, I 
should have said nothing against his tallies, for I never 
pounce Upon small game, and I hope I shall never hit 
a bird except on the wing; the law on Grouse shooting 
says, that a man who could shoot a bird sitting, or un¬ 
awares, would commit murder. 
Mr. Lane had La Reine, Juno, Geant des Battailles, 
Paul Perras, Chenedolle, Coup de Hebe, Great Western, 
Blairii No. 2, Paul Ricaut, Duchess of Sutherland, with 
the Teas, Adam and Devoniensis. Mr. Busby had 
some of the above, and the Malmaison Rose, Armosa, 
and General Jacquemont, a good dark red. There were 
boxes of cut Roses, but uuless I see a very distinct, new 
kind, I pass them. 
FUCHSIAS. 
The second of Juue was rather early for them, but 
with the exception of one collection, which was shown 
last summer at the Regent’s Park, the first collection of 
