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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN Juirt 14, 1859. 
answer to tie (ho right hand of a reporter and the left | 
hand of a reviewer on such a day as this P I would not 
tie my little finger for all the societies and for all the 
exhibitors in the three kingdoms. 
The Judges at the Crystal Palace say they have no 
share or sympathy in the game of “ hide-and-seek,” 
about turning the cards on which the names of the ex¬ 
hibitors are written, while the plants are being judged. 
They, the Judges, say it is most absurd to do so ; but 
some of the exhibitors will have the cards turned; and 
unless nurserymen will break through the rule, and let 
their names be seen by their humble servant, he will not 
be “ tied” to say if they had prizes for their new plants. 
But about the ties. Mr. Dods, gardener to Sir J. Cath- 
cart, Bart., and Mr. Whitbread, gardener to H. Colyer, 
Esq., Dartford, came to a tie with two first-rate col¬ 
lections of stove and greenhouse plants in bloom. Mr. 
Dod’s plants were more artistically placed, and consisted 
of a splendid Ixora salicifolia for a key plant in the > 
centre of the group. On one side of it stood an Everlast- ' 
ing (Aphelexis), and, to match that, Erica tricolor Wil- 
soni on the other side in front of them ; and in the front 
row another Everlasting, cross-corner-wise with the first 
Everlasting, and a white Vinca, crossed with the said i 
light Heath. Then spreading out and rising higher from I 
the key plant were noble, and most noble, and honourablcs 
in the way of Azaleas, Eriostemons, Boronias, Pimeleas, 
Allamandas, Polygalas, and the blue Leschenaultia. Mr. 
Whitbread’s were not such big monsters of specimens 
as his employer used to bring up against Mrs. Lawrence j 
at Chiswick, and all the better for that. Some plants in 
both these collections are just at the limits of the size at 
which prizes should cease. Eondeletia speciosa, two 
Allamandas, Ixora Javanica, Vincas, Heaths, Erioste¬ 
mons, Polygalas, Pimeleas, Chorozemas, a fine Dipladenia 
crassmoda, Polygalas, and Everlastings, made up the 
collection from Mr. Whitbread. 
The second prize of £15 was also a tie between Mr. 
Green and Mr. Peed. These four collections of eighty 
specimens made a grand display ; for the plants were set 
far better than the common run, and the setting is one- 
half the battle. Mr. Green’s collection was more various, 
as Hoya Leila, Tetratheca verticillata, Elickrysum proli- 
feram, Porphyrocoma and Eranciseea were in addition to 
such as are mentioned above. Mr. Peed had a fine speci¬ 
men pf the most difficult plant at this Show to do well, 
the Leptodactylon Californicum, thirty inches above the 
pot, and as much, or more, across. What a lovely colour 
for a bed under glass! Also a white Ixora and a Draco- 
cephalum gracile different from the rest. Mr. Page, gar¬ 
dener to W. Leaf, Esq., Streatham, was third in twenties, 
Hederoma tulipifera being only different from the rest; 
and an extra prize for twenty to Mr. Baxindine, gardener 
to W. H. Smallpiece, Esq., Guildford, who hacl the best 
specimen yet exhibited of AcrophylVum venosum. It wa3 
over four feet by four feet. Clerodendrum Kcempferi, and 
a Stephanotis were different from those above him. 
The next collections were in twelve stove and green¬ 
house plants in bloom. Here Mr. Rhodes, Stamford 
Hill, was first; and the only plant with him different from 
the above was a fine Cyrtoceras refiexa —a Hoya-looking 1 
flower. Mr. Peed, of Streatham, was second with the same 
kinds and style of plants ; and Mr. Cutbush, of Barnet, 
came up as a nurseryman for a prize in this class. He had 
the best-bloomed plant I ever saw in a pot of Comhretum 
purpurcum, a fine Dipladenia crassinoda, Allamanda, 
Stephanotis, Adenandra fragrans —the rest as above. 
The next were in sixes; and Mr. Chilman, Epsom, 
was first with Polygala, Stephanotis, Everlasting, Pime- 
lea, Epacris, and Erica Cavendishii. Second, Mr. Smith, 
gardener to A. Anderson, Esq., Norwood, who had a 
good yellow Ixora, a blue Leschenaultia, Ehyncospermum i 
jasminoides, Stephanotis, Tetratheca, and Everlasting. 
Third, Mr. Carson, who had a very good Azalea Apollo, 
Allamanda, Ithyneospermum, Pimdea Ilcndersonii, Poly¬ 
gala, and Everlasting. An extra prize to Mr Hamp, who 
had Mitraria coccincu different from those above ; and a 
fourth prize to Mr. Tegg, who had a large purple Azalea, 
and the old Leschenaultia formosa different. 
Mr. Summers, of “new Grass” celebrity, had a very 
interesting collection, in which were Callicoma serratifolia 
—the first I ever saw exhibited, a fine old thing, a New 
Holland shrub, with white balls of stamens in large 
spreading clusters ; Leptospermum Imllatum, Clerodendrum 
Kcempferi, Hoya carnosa, and Eiplacus glutinosus. 
All the sixes were well set this time. Then a collection 
of very large specimens of scarlet Geraniums from Mr. 
Somebody (his card not turned), of which PecJcenham 
Scarlet was the best kind. 
Fine-leaved Plants in tens for amateurs and in 
twelves for nurserymen, went thus:—First prize to 
Mr. Veitch, second to Mr. Jackson, and third to Mr. 
Cutbush, of Barnet. And first to Mr. Hods ; two seconds 
to Mr. Young, Dulwich, and Mr. Colgate, Kensington ; 
third to Mr. Summers; and extras to Mr. Hamp and Mr. 
Oubridge. There was nothing new in all these; but Mr. 
Veitch’s plants, or some of them, were of enormous size, 
and the same with Mr. Jackson’s. 
Azaleas were very few and very good. Mr. Green 
was first with, eight plants, and Mr. Carson with six. Mr. 
Page was second to Mr. Green ; and Messrs. Peed, Hamp, 
and Chilman had prizes for Azaleas. Mr. Ivery, of 
Dorking, did not come up this time in Azaleas. 
Heaths very good and numerous ; and Gloxinias block¬ 
ing Up both ends of their run. " Here was another tie 
between Mr. Jackson, of Kingston, and Mr. Cutbush, of 
Barnet, with eight plants each; followed by Messrs. 
Baxindine and Chilman. In Six Heaths the Messrs. Peed 
were first and second; he from Lower Norwood being the 
first. The following Heaths were the principal kinds :— 
Ventricosas of sorts, perspicua nana, florida, depressa, 
Cavendishii, elegans, tricolor of sorts, gemifera, P axiom, 
mutuhilis, ampulacea, and Westphalingia. 
Tall Cacti. —Mr. Green first, of course. His own 
namesake— Cactus, or Epiphyllum Greenii, was the best. 
Mr. Bunn, gardener to J. It. Scott, Esq., Hornsey, second ; 
and an extra prize to Mr. "Walters. 
Fekns very good indeed ; but not such large plants, or 
so numerous, as vre had two or three years back. Mr. 
Veitch took the first prize for nurserymen with twelve 
very large plants ; and Mr. Baillie, gardener to W. C. 
Carbonell, Esq., took the first prize in the amateur class. 
Mr. Summers was next, followed by Messrs. Wooley, 
Gedney, Halley, Larey, and Stacy. Then a host of odds 
and ends. Eighteen cut Ranunculuses from Mr. John 
Baily, Benson, Oxon. Twelve Hippeasters (Amaryllis) 
from Mr. Gaines. Large collections of miscellaneous 
Cactuses and other succulents from Mr. Summers and 
Mr. C. Pfersdorff, Kensal New Town. A first-rate col¬ 
lection of Ferns from Mr. Sims, Footscray, Kent, which 
had a first prize in miscellaneous. A very beautiful and 
well-bloomed plant of Eefontainca spin ox a, from the Rev. 
J. Stainforth, Windermere. It was nearly four feet high, 
and very healthy and bushy ; the flowers are very much 
like those of the turn-down-tubed Amaryllis—the Cyr- 
tanthus kinds, brown crimson tubes with yellow ends, 
very handsome. A fine Labicliaa heterophylla from Mr. 
Carson. A collection of Begonias, and a white-flowerecl 
and woolly-white-leaved Salvia, from Mr. Williams, nur¬ 
seryman, Muswell Hill. Another collection of Begonias 
from Mr. Young. A white-flowered standard Rhodo¬ 
dendron, with deeply-spotted back petals from Mr. Stan- 
dish: it is called Minie. Pots and baskets of Mr. 
Halley’s variegated Geraniums. A miscellany of dwarf 
variegated plants from Mr. Wood, of Norwood. 
A collection of twelve Begonias and other new plants 
from Mr. Veitch. Eex, argentea and its varieties, as 
| Miranda, Madame Wagner, with amabilis, Lazula, Grif- \ 
I fithii, and others of that style. Clianthus Dampieri. ; 
| Ccjadhwi argyrites, the dwarfest and best of them with 
