. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. to, owing principally to the lack ofquality of the exhibits in some of the principal , for instance, which help so much to giveeffect to an early summer exhibition, were poor, withthe exception of those sent from Mr. C. Turner,of .Slough. The Pelargoniums in the amateursglasses were very poor ndeed, and the stove andgreenhouse flowering plants were far below what wehad become accustomed to see. On the other hand,there were many plants of first-class merit. The col-lections and groups o
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. to, owing principally to the lack ofquality of the exhibits in some of the principal , for instance, which help so much to giveeffect to an early summer exhibition, were poor, withthe exception of those sent from Mr. C. Turner,of .Slough. The Pelargoniums in the amateursglasses were very poor ndeed, and the stove andgreenhouse flowering plants were far below what wehad become accustomed to see. On the other hand,there were many plants of first-class merit. The col-lections and groups of Roses from Slough andCheshunt were deserving of all praise, and Mr. B. ., of Ilolloway, fully maintained his well-earned reputation. Stove and Greenhouse Flowering Plants.— & Son, Kingston, gained the ist prize in thenurserymens class lor nine. The Darwinia fuchsioideswas a well-trained and finely-flowered specimen ;Pimelea Ilendersoni, a fine plant, well flowered ;the centre plant, of Darwinia tulipifera, was alsogood and well flowered. The remaining plants. 11G. 125.—SARRACENIA CUELSOM. (SEE P. 722.) recommendation is, Soil not too stiff nor too light butheavily manured, and keep the growing crops clean,not omitting the fruit trees. Robert Smith, KenwardGardens, Spalding, Kent, June \. The Weather.—June has come in with a bitingnorth-east wind—more like December than the shade and shelter the thermometer is barely50°, but in exposed positions and in the teeth of thewind, one might take it to be at freezing-point. I seeby the morning papers you had a quarter of an inch ofrain in London : we had none, and to-day we havescarcely had any, though it has threatened and eventried to rain several times. The two things desideratednow are thorough soaking rains and genial warmweather afterwards. Unless favoured with these soon,the cold and the drought threaten to prove as disas-trous to horticulture as the sunless sappy summer oflast year : bu
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