THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN’S COMPANION, June 23, 1857. 
varieties sent. The variety with the dark foliage I call 
Brilliant; it grows about the same height as the huff. Please 
describe the colours of these two seedlings, and you will much 
oblige. I have not as yet seen any varieties of the same 
habit and appearance. I have several seedlings just now 
showing bloom of the minus var. crossed with others, with 
the view to get some varieties still more dwarf. If they turn 
out well I will send some for inspection.”— William Mel¬ 
ville, Dalmeny Park. 
[These two seedlings of Tropceolum majus are very 
striking, and quite different from the new continental kinds 
in the Pine Apple Nursery, which are between T. minus 
and the breed of T. Lobbianum. The creamy buff is flaked 
with crimson. Brilliant is a rich dark crimson. That 
name is pre-occupied, however, in Mr. Arthur Henderson’s 
catalogue, and has been in type at our printer’s above six 
weeks waiting for room until to-day. This should be called 
Royal Crimson , or something like that. We have all the new 
seedlings from the Continent which appear to he from T. 
minus and Triomphe de Gand. Brilliant might be said to be 
a summer-flowering variety of Triomplie de Gand , and Mr. 
Melville should get it, and cross it with his new crosses 
also.] 
IMPLEMENTS AND OTHER CONSTRUCTIONS 
SUITED FOR GARDENS. 
Exhibited at the Horticultural Society’s Show 
at Chiswick. 
This was a novel yet very important portion of the 
Chiswick Exhibition, and if we wished to point out a promi¬ 
nent demonstration of the superior good sense of the 
present Committee over that of the Committee which sat 
benumbed over the Society’s decline, we would point to this 
exhibition of manufactured articles for gardeners. There 
were here assembled together suitable articles of all kinds, 
from brooms up to greenhouses, and the visitors we noticed 
pondering .over their merits, and the communications we 
have since received, assure us that though some exhibitors 
may be disappointed at not reaping an immediate harvest, 
yet that the Exhibition eventually will produce a recom¬ 
pense to every exhibitor of anything meritorious. 
We wish to have our report illustrated, and shall notice 
those first and principally who furnish us with the promised 
wood engravings. We shall also avoid strictly giving any 
opinion upon the comparative merits of the articles ex¬ 
hibited. If we think an article exhibited by A. good we 
shall say so, hut we shall not say we consider it better than 
B.’s, and for this valid reason—no one is justified in giving 
such an opinion on comparative merits unless he has been 
able to submit the competing articles to carefully-conducted 
and fairly-balanced experiments. 
Boilers and Hot-water Apparatus Exhibited by 
Messrs. T. & G. Hood, 
Wholesale Manufacturers of Hot-water Apparatus, Iron Wharf, 
Earl Street, Blackfriars, London. 
Wrought-iron Arched Boiler, with furnace fittings. All 
sizes, from 18 inches to 12 feet long. To heat from 50 to 
5000 feet of pipe. 
The same may he had of cast iron, of all sizes up to 30 
inches long. 
Cast-iron Conical Boiler (a), with furnace fittings. All 
sizes, from 15 to 24 inches diameter. To heat from 50 feet 
to 400 feet of 4-inch pipe. 
Cast-iron Conical Boiler on stand (b), and not requiring 
any brickwork whatever. Made of various sizes, to heat 
from 50 feet to 350 feet of 4-inch pipe. 
Cast-iron Conical Boiler on stand, with fire-clay furnace, 
and not requiring any brickwork. These boilers can be 
used for the smallest description of hot-water apparatus, 
and will burn steadily with as little as 25 feet of pipe if 
required. 
