Exhibition of the United Horticultural Society at Guildhall, 1865. The United Horticultural Society...was permitted by the Corporation of London to hold its fourth exhibition...with the praiseworthy object of obtaining funds for the relief of gardeners and nurserymen in calamity, old age, or sickness...The hardy chrysanthemum [sic], as might be expected at this season of the year, took the most prominent place amongst the flowers. The varieties exhibited seemed to be almost innumerable...There was a splendid collection, including twenty varieties of tree ferns...and lofty palms, and yuccas, and vigonias, and orchids, and aucuba japonica, all clustered up against the wall in such profusion as to make one almost fancy that he stood in the conservatory at Kew or the "Tropical Region" of the Crystal Palace...Amongst the fruits and edible roots, Mr, Graham showed no less than one hundred varieties of splendid apples; Messrs. Lane sent splendid hothouse grapes, pears, and pines; and Mr. Forsyth an extraordinary collection of gourds, upwards of 1000 in number, and containing nearly 500 varieties. Mr. Hibberd...exhibited some remarkably fine potatoes, thus completing a judicious mixture of the useful with the beautiful. From "Illustrated London News", 1865.