THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, June 1, 1858. 
Eugene Duval will soon be the most favoured of all 
Pelargoniums with the ladies. Sanspareil is the next 
best that was there, and, indeed, Sanspareil is the best 
of all the spotted kinds. 
There was a marked improvement in the less size of 
| the stove and greenhouse plants and Azaleas ; and two 
of the best judges in England of such plants, who 
! were Judges there that day, told me not to lower my 
i voice against the vulgarity which was introduced by 
i Mrs. Lawrence and I)r. Lindley, against all the odds 
which could be brought against them, while Chiswick 
Garden stood without rivalship. Fuchsias were very 
good ; herbaceous Calceolarias the same ; Ferns and 
Lycopods better than the average run, because not so 
i large as some few will have them. Fine-lea-ved plants 
! not so good as usual. Orchids very even and very 
j good. Everlastings, or Helichrysums, alias Aphelexis, 
j very numerous, and magnificently bloomed ; Heaths 
\ very good, good, and indifferent, and not at all even. 
| Cavendishii and Albertini will soon be as big as Por¬ 
tugal Laurels. 
Among the miscellaneous and odds and ends were 
some really very good things, and very few inferior 
plants ; one Farfugium grande, and a great number of 
seedling Geraniums, but nothing out of the common 
among them. Among new plants were some valuable 
kinds, chiefly from Messrs. Veitch and Son, and the 
Judges were very liberal, by giving two first prizes to 
old plants in place of new ones. I booked six plants 
of one of the kinds, Cupressus Laivsonii and one of 
the next Cyanophyllum magnificum, in the volume 
before the last one of The Cottage Gardener. But 
it is downright good policy not to be, or not to appear 
to be, stingy, in these things, although critics cannot 
conscientiously pass off a plant as new, round London, 
if it was exhibited there the year before, because 
foreign amateurs and nurserymen scan our reports 
before they come to our markets. 
The first prize, of £25, for a collection of twenty 
stove and greenhouse plants, was awarded to Mr. 
Whitebread, gardener to H. Colyer, Esq., Dartford, 
and I would disqualify Mr. Colyer and his gardener 
for bad spelling. It is going back, to give prizes to 
people who cannot spell the names of their own plants, 
i The first plant over the prize card was spelt Genes- 
j thylis, which was a double mistake; the plant was a 
Jledaroma, and the spelling ought to have been Gene- 
iyllis. I did not look farther for accuracy. The 
plants were splendid. Dipladenia crassinoda, the only 
one there ; Gompholobium barbigerum, Pultencea sti- 
pularis, Eriostemons, Polygalas, Chorozemas , Erica 
Cavendishii and elegans, Ixora coccinea and Javanica, 
Azalea variegata and Conqueror, Allamanda cathar- 
tica, Pimelea Hendersonii, , Acropliyllum venosum, 
Gompholobium polymorphum, and Epacris miniata, 
were remarkably well bloomed. 
The next prize, of £15, was given to Mr. Dods, gar¬ 
dener to Sir John Cathcart, Bart. Azalea variegata, 
in this collection, was the best bloomed plant at the 
Show ; this is a Chinese seedling, which we have not 
yet been able to eclipse. Blue Lechenaultia, Erica 
Cavendishii, tricolor, Wilsonii, and depresses, Pimelea 
\ spectabilis, Adenandra fragrans, Eriostemons. Aphe¬ 
lexis, Chorozemas, Azaleas, and so forth. 
The third prize, of £10, for these collections, was 
won by Mr. Green, gardener to Sir E. Antrobus, Bart. 
His best plants were— Franciscea calycina, Tetra- 
theca ericcefolia, Acropliyllum venosum. Eriostemons, 
1 Heaths, and Azaleas, made up the bulk of the rest. 
And a fourth prize, of £7, was given to Mr. Barter, 
| gardener to A. Basset, Esq., Stamford Hill, whose 
best plants were Azalea coronata and variegata, 
Epacris, Chorozemas, Eriosteutons, Polygalas, Azaleas, 
: and Erica Cavendishii. 
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An extra prize, for twenty stove and greenhouse 
plants, was given to Mr. Cutbush, of Barnet, and Mr. 
Page, gardener to W. Leaf, Esq. Both collections 
very good. Mr. Page had Hedaroma tulipifera, Fran¬ 
ciscea confertifiora, Ixora coccinea, Medinilla mag- 
nijica, and Tremandra verticillata, among his best; 
and Mr. Cutbush, Pimelea spectabilis, Aphelexis mac- 
rantha purpurea, three Eriostemons, Erica Hartnelli, 
and Statice Holdfordi. 
The collections of twelve 'and six stove and green¬ 
house ran in the same style of names. Mr. Rhodes had 
Clerodendrum Kcempferi, in twelves. Mr. Hamp had 
Meyenia erecta, also in twelves. Mr. Epps had Rliyn- 
chospermumjasminoides, in ditto. In sixes, Air. Carson 
had Rhododendron formosum or Gibsonii. Mr. Chilman 
had Boronia Drummondi. Mr. Laybank had the only 
Lechenaultia formosa there. 
In twenty stove and greenhouse plants, with or 
without bloom, five or six competitors appear; but 
the kinds differed not from the old lists. Palms, 
Cycas, Crotons, Cissus, Platycerium, Rerberis Bealei 
(five feet high), from the Messrs. Jackson ; Farfugium 
grande, in Mr. Rhodes’ collection. One thing in the 
Messrs. Jackson’s deserve attention: the plant which 
went all along as Philodendron and Pothos, &c., 
pertusum, is called Monstera deliciosa, a revival by Dr. 
Hooker very likely ; but there is a Monstera pertusa 
in the AYest Indies, which the Indians use medicinally 
in cases of dropsy. A very good specimen of Sanse- 
viera zeylanica, in Mr. Cutbush’s collection, was 
called javanica, probably by mistake : the same plant 
was named zebrina in another lot. 
In Orchids, the first prize for twenty kinds (from 
Amateurs) was awarded to Mr. Gedney, gardener to 
Mr. Ellis, Hoddesden, Herts. He had a new plant of 
Cattleya citrina and superba, each with three blooms, 
Dendrobium nobile, macrophyllum, and, Devonianum 
with Yandas, Aerides, Phalsenopsis, and all in very 
good, sizable, healthy style of growth. Mr. AVooley, 
gardener to J. B. Iler, Esq., had the next prize for 
twenty. His rarest were Gongora truncata and Lcelia 
flora, with nine spikes of bloom. Mr. Ileele had the 
third large collection. The Messrs. Jackson had the 
last prize for nurserymen’s collection of fifteen kinds: 
they had Lcelia grandis, Lycaste gigantea, and the 
best kind of Lycaste Skinneri, Saccolabium retusum, 
Phams Wallichii, Trichopilia coccinea, Dendrobium 
densiflorum, with Yandas, Aerides, and others. 
Mr. Carson had the first prize for twelve : his best 
were— Acropliyllum giganteum, with nine spikes, 
Vanda teres, Dendrobium fimbriatum and nobile, 
Cattleya Mossice, Burlingtonia fragrans. Mr. Clark 
second in twelve: his best were— Cattleya Skinneri 
and Mossice, Dendrobium nobile, Dalhousianum and 
tortilis, fimbriatum, and fimbriatum cucullatum, with 
Phalcenopsis grandifiora. Mr. Morris was third: his 
rarest was a very large pale Cattleya. 
For collections of six Orchids, Mr. Green was first, 
with Dendmobium densiflorum and nobile, Cattlyea 
Skinneri, Aerides crispum, Oncidium ampliatum major, 
and two other Orchids. Mr. Dods had the second 
prize in this class, with Lycaste Barringtonice (which 
is of breed of gigantea), Phalcenopsis grandifiora, 
Dendrobium densiflorum album, which looks like a 
variety of Farmeri. 
For ten Azaleas, Air. Carson was first, with magni¬ 
ficent plants of j Broughtonii, speciosissima, (double red), 
yellow China, lateritia, in one mass of bloom ; trium- 
plians ditto ; exquisita and variegata. Mr. Page 
second, with neat, small plants of Apollo, Perryana, 
Duke of Devonshire, all red; and exquisita, Iveryana, 
and niagnifica, best light ones. 
Collections of six Azaleas were numerous ; but the 
kinds were not different from the above. The two 
