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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, May 17, 1859. 
Nursery. Tlic clouble-yellow Datura chlorantha, a 
fine thing, was conspicuous in this collection; also, the 
new Arums and Caladiums; Brunsfelsia nitida, Gre- 
villea longifolia, a most elegant-leaved kind; Boronia 
Drummondi, Fimelea spectabilis rosea, and P. Hender- 
sonii, Epacris miniata splendens, a fine thing; with 
Heaths, Palms, and other fine-leaved plants. Here the 
prizes began in my rounds:—A first-class certificate for 
Caladium Neumannii, and one to Caladium Koullettii; 
also, a first prize for the double-yellow Datura; and there 
was a Tydcea hymenophyllum, a beautiful Pern, under a 
bell-glass. 
Behind this collection was a row of tall Palms, and 
Palm-like plants from the Messrs. Jackson, of Kingston, 
which had a second prize. They were— Monsteria dcli- 
ciosa, Livingstonia Borbonica, Fandanus utile, Phoenix 
dactylifera and sylvestris, and Thrinax parvijlora , the 
first time of booking it. Most of these handsome Palms 
are wintered with Chinese Azaleas. 
Next in order stood a collection of Ferns from Mr. 
Hally, for which he had a second-class certificate. Then 
a collection of eight handsomely grown plants with fine 
foliage and variegated, which took a first prize to Mr. 
Young, gardener to H. Stone, Esq., Dulwich. Bromelia 
seeptrum was a wrong name in this group for Saussurea 
zeylanica, and two bunches of Exocorda grandiflora, in 
bloom, from Mr. Standish,—that was the Spircea grandi- 
Jlora, a fine, hardy, early-fiowering shrub, not unlike the 
looks of a Deutzia gracilis, with flowers that measured 
four times the size. 
This Exocorda, the new Aucuba Himalaica from the 
Wellington Road Nursery, and the Holly-leaved Olive 
from Mr. Yeitch, were the three most useful plants there 
for the country at large, as they are everybody’s plants, 
f hardy, as they are said to be. 
These are really the right kind of Shows for a London 
room. The hall is “set off” like a conservatory; the 
galleries are “ decorated ” like the lobbies and corridors 
of large mansions. The smallest plants have the same 
interest as the large ones ; and the novelties from the 
nurseries and cross-breeders are not swamped by purse- 
proud grown specimens which are of no use, except in the 
fancy of those who grow them, and for the middle of the 
Crystal Palace. Yes—Depend upon it we want nursery 
exhibitions like this one ten times more than the scramble 
for pot-prizes as at Chiswick; and if the London trade 
were to put their slioidders to the wheel, they might win 
themselves more trade, and have less credit in their books, 
than running after the Doctor down at Chiswick, besides 
landing the Society out of the fix. “That is all very 
well, Donald Beaton; but why not tell the reason why 
we practical gardeners can no longersupport the Society P” 
Well, I have had to tell more than I liked already ; and 
I can tell the reason why. You and I have been pricked 
at last on our most sensitive nerve by Dr. Bindley. Our 
wives and sweethearts, our bairns and those who rest on 
our arms, have been most wontonly insulted in open day 
by the Doctor not later than the Saturday before this 
Show. He tells a foreigner, in his “ Answers to Corre¬ 
spondents,” that we are all gentlemen here in England, 
except “ small tradesmen and ladies’ maids,” who alone 
read cheap books ; and that influential people can take no 
part with such folly and wickedness; and that all the 
best gardeners in the kingdom are married to ladies’ 
maids, or nine out of every dozen of them, at all events. 
And nine out of every ten of all the best gardeners round 
London, on reading this gratuitous impertinence, vowed 
that they could strain at a fool and swallow an ass sooner 
than support a Society which encourages the writer of that 
insult. 
Ten Orchids (Amateurs).—First, Mr. Wooley, Cheshunt, Herts. 
Ten Okchids (Nurserymen).—First, Messrs. Veitcli and Son, Exeter and 
Chelsea. 
Eioht Chinese Azaleas (Nurserymen).—First, Messrs. Fraser, Lea 
Bridge Road, Leyton. 
Six Chinese Azaleas, Standards (Nurserymen).—First, Messrs. Fraser. 
Second, Messrs. Lane, Great Bcrkhampstead. 
Eight Riiododendkons, distinct in Pots (Nurserymen).—First, Mr. J. 
Standish, Bagshot. Second, Messrs. Lane. 
Six Roses in Pots.— First, Messrs. Lane, Great Berkhampstead. 
Eioht fine-foliaged Plants.— First, Mr. Young, gardener to H. Stone, 
Esq., Dulwich Hill. Second, Messrs. Jackson, Kingston. 
Uaek Ornamental Plants.— First-class certificate, Messrs. Veitch and 
Son, Exeter and Chelsea, for a species of Puthos; ditto for Clianthus 
Dampieri. Second-class certificate, Messrs. Veiteh and Son, for Begonia 
AmdbiHs ; ditto for Caladium Chanteri. Third-class certificate for Begonia 
Queen Victoria. 
Single Specimen of the most Onamental Plant in Flower.— First, 
Messrs. Veitch and Son, for Philcsia buxifolia. Second, Mr. Wooley, 
Cheshunt, for Dendrolium latifolium. Third, Messrs. Henderson and Co., 
Pine Apple Place, Edgeware Road, for Datura chlorantha. 
Single Specimen of TnE most Ornamental Plant in Flower. —First- 
class certificate, Messrs. Veitch and Son, for IVellingtonia giganlea; ditto, 
Farfugium grande ; ditto, Oyanophyllum tnagnificuin ; ditto, Olca icifolia. 
First-class certificate, Messrs. Henderson, Pine Apple Place, for Caladium 
Necomanrici ; ditto, Caladium Chantcri; ditto, Caladium Koullettii. 
Miscellaneous. First-class certificate, Mr. Francis, F.II.S., nursery¬ 
man, Hertford, for a collection of Roses; Messrs. Veitch and Son, for a 
large group of miscellaneous plants ; Messrs. Henderson and Son, Wel¬ 
lington Road, St. John’s Wood, for a miscellaneous collection. Second- 
class certificate, Ml . Standish, F.H.S., Bagshot, for Mgosotis nobilis ; 
ditto, Exocorda grandiflora; Mr. Hally, Blackheath, for a collection of 
Ferns; Mr. Gaines, F.H.S., for six Amaryllids. Third-class certificate, 
Mr.. Bragg, Star Nursery, Slough, for cut Pansies. 
On the second day of the Exhibition the plants looked 
very ill; the Roses shed their bloom, the Azaleas flagged 
and shrivelled up, and there was an evident indication 
that they were not in comfortable quarters. Unfortu¬ 
nately the windows of the Hall are all close; and there is 
no free admission of fresh air sufficient to counteract the 
evil influence of the foul air that must inevitably act so 
prejudicially on the plants. It is quite clear that these 
close halls are not the places for Flower Shows of two- 
days’ duration. 
The attendance of company was, unfortunately, small; 
and, in a pecuniary sense, the speculation must have 
proved a failure. D. Beaton. 
CANDLES FOR WALTONIAN CASES. 
I have been experimenting for six weeks with a view to beat 
Waltonian Cases by means of candles, not for my own pleasure 
or profit, but for tlie good of all who use this famous contrivance. 
Messrs. Price and Co. have very kindly comphed with every wish 
I have expressed, and made no less than eight different kinds of 
candles, all of them suitable except one. I will not take up your 
space by a recital of the minute details of the affair ; suflice it that 
I consider the essentials to be a caudle eight inches long, to burn 
twelve hours, and to heat the Case to at least 80°. The result is, 
as previously stated, a candle which burns twelve hours, and gives 
80° bottom heat, or 84°, if the Case is kept very close. That it 
should not be ready for public sale may be the case, for there is 
great trouble and no little expense attending the construction of 
the moulds and the selection of a material of the proper degree 
of hardness, size of wick, &c. But that is no reason why I 
should keep the result to myself, especially as I have no interest 
in the sale of anything. Some people tliink all writers dealers. 
I never sold a plant or packet of seed in my life, and have nothing 
to do with the sale of these candles ; but, as I am now burning 
them, I can aver that “ Price’s people have been lucky,” and that 
I have been lucky too in making such a suggestion. Again, Mr. 
West may have “ tried Palmer’s people,” without success ; but 
I got from Palmer’s people a candle ready made, winch I used 
before I wrote to Messrs. Price and Co. Having a sick-houso, 
we were burning Palmer’s Minimum Night Lights, and the mess 
of the lamp drove mo to try one of them. Of course they were 
too weak; but I got at once from Mr. Colsell, of Bishopsgate 
Street, a supply of Palmer’s No. G Night Lights, and a lamp to 
fit them, and I had a candle for the case at once, which gave 75° 
bottom heat, and burnt twelve hours. Why not be content P 
Because my Case stands on legs eight inches high, and Palmer’s 
lamp for the No. 6 is about twelve inches high; and for my first 
experiment I had to take up a piece of paving, and make a hole 
in the floor of the house, into which to sink the lamp under the 
Case. Those who want candles, therefore, can do as I did, and 
either lift up tho Case, or sink the lamp; and there the matter is 
settled. But the candle Messrs. Price will provide, will be ten 
