The Florist, fruitist, and garden miscellany Volume 1 - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt: ...with various cut flowers and some miscellaneous living plants. Messrs. Weeks and Co. of Chelsea, besides a collection of Geraniums, &c. exhibit various garden articles, such as ornamental iron chairs, vases for plants, and a model of a conservatory; also a leaf of the Victoria regia, said to be grown in the open air at Chelsea. Near this space is a fountain, around which the two last-named persons have arranged a quantity of plants to resemble flower-borders in the open air. Messrs. Weeks also have a stand of cut flowers. So also has Mrs. Dennis from King's Road, besides living plants. Mr. Bragg from Slough has a collection of Pansies in pots, and a box or two of cut blooms, with a stand of various soft-wooded greenhouse plants. Mr. Clark of Streatham is also one of the exhibitors. At the period of our visit his collection was composed mostly of Heaths, Azaleas, and a few Roses in bloom, with some other plants. Still passing onward, we arrive at the fine groups of noble Palms exhibited by Messrs. Loddiges of Hackney: they add much to the beauty of the arrangement. We are now at the magnificent crystal fountain erected by Messrs. Osier. Beyond and near the south entrance are the plants belonging to Messrs. Knight and Perry, King's Road. Two beautiful specimens of Araucaria excelsa occupy conspicuous places on either side of the entrance. Near them, and in the middle of the transept, are the other plants, forming an oblong group. Here is the Cowrie Pine of New Zealand, Croton pictum, some pyramidal trained Bay-trees, Rhododendrons, Azaleas, and numerous other plants. TEA-ROSES. Thk Tea-Rose, on account of its beautiful tints and peculiar fragrance, is a general favourite; yet with amateur cultivators, who, like myself, reside within a few miles of the met...