In our travels in Europe nothing in relation to gardening struck us more forcibly than the superiority of French, Belgium, and Dutch garden vegetables over those of England, and of the greater skill and economy of continental kitchen gardeners. We have heretofore alluded to this matter frequently, both in this journal and the Genesee Farmer. We find that the London Horticultural Society has turned its attention to this point, and now admits the display of kitchen garden produce at its monthly meetings in Regent street. The Gardeners' Chronicle remarks:

"The truth is, that for many years past - for more than a quarter of a century - the cultivation of esculent vegetables has been regarded as a branch of horticulture altogether inferior to that of flowers. No encouragement has been offered to the former at the great metropolitan shows; in country places esculents have been only looked for from the hands of peasants; and everything has been sacrificed to the showy but unsubstantial decorations of my lady's drawing-room. Not that we would undervalue the latter in the slightest particular; on the contrary, they richly deserve all the patronage they have received; for, after all, they represent the highest possible amount of horticultural skill, and pre-eminently contribute to the perfection of the art of garden-ing. They have become, too, like our race-horses and our prize cattle, the envy and amazement of all other nations, who in vain endeavor to rival us; so that it is not too much to call them symbols of Anglo-Saxon skill and energy. We have therefore uniformly given them all honor, and we shall never cease to do so.

" Bat we feel, with others, that in our eagerness to worship the beautiful we have too much forgotten the useful. Our gardens are like too many of our peasant schools; in our anxiety to disseminate learning, we forget to teach the arts which give people value as servants, or wives, or husbands. A girl is taught to read and write, but not to make a pudding or get up linen; a boy is pushed on in his cyphering, but can neither groom a horse nor wait at table. In like manner, a gardener is made proficient in getting up a 'specimen plant,' but knows nothing of a crop of Onions; he can grow an Orchid at Christmas, but a Lettuce then is beyond his skill.

"It is to put an end to this state of things that the new regulations of the Hor icultural Society have been especially framed; and we earnestly trust they will succeed. It has been painful to see to how low a pass kitchen gardening in private gardens has sometimes come; and how unconscious people are of their own condition. The contrast between British and foreign kitchen garden produce, as seen in Regent Street, has been unfavorable to us, all possible allowance having been made for climate. Let us hope that better times are coming, and that by degrees the porductions of our kitchen gardens will equal in excellence those of the fruit and flower garden. There are no finer Grapes in the world than the English; no country approaches us in decorative gardening. Why, then, can we not have Cabbages, and Lettuces, and Celery, roots of all sorts, and herbs of all sorts, equally worthy of Englishmen! Surely the country gardeners, who are roost concerned in this question, have the same energy as those of London; the spirit of emulation cannot but be as strong in the provinces as in the suburbs of a great metropolis; and we will not believe, till the experiment now in progress shall have failed, which will never happen, that a kitchen garden is the limbo to which all the blockheads of horticulture are specially consigned.

"On Tuesday, the 24th of May, medals are offered for the 'best collection of vegetables.' It concerns the honor of gardeners that these prizes shall be well contested. Another opportunity occurs on the 28th of June, and a third on the 26th July; and there are now offered, in addition to the Society's medals, two prizes, of three guineas and two guineas each, to the gardeners who, having exhibited English produce on each occasion, shall be found to stand highest at the end of the third meeting".

The Exhibition of the London Horticultural Society on the 14th of May last was one of the most brilliant that has ever been held there in the spring. We copy below what the Gardener' Chronicle says of it, and extract from the detailed account of objects exhibited the parts relating to Azaleas, Rhododendrons, Roses, and Pelargoniums - plants of the most general interest on this side of the water:

Azaleas

Azaleas nearly filled one side of a long tent; and as the plants were large and extremely well flowered, the effect of such a bank of floral beauty, of almost every tint and color, may well be conceived. Mrs. Lawrence sent twelve excellent plant?, consisting of Perryana, Gledstanesi, Rawsoni, Duke of Devonshire, Grenvilla, Double Red, variegata, macrantha purpurea, sinensis, Broughtoni, decora, and triumphant In the class of six varieties, Mr. Carson sent variegata, Double Red, lateritia, Smithi cocines, speciosissima, and Broughtoni. Messrs, Fraser had speci-osiseiraa, Minerva, sinensis, Smithi coceinea, Double Red, and violacea superba. Messrs. Lane produced punctata, lateritia, and variegata (united in one plant), mirabilis, picturata, Double Red, and speciosissima. Mr. Falconer, of Cheain, contributed magna, variegata, Bianca, Rawsoni, Falconeri, and lateritia; and Anally, Mr. Over sent praestantissima, Murray ana, the pale variety of sinensis, optima, carnea, and formosa elegans. Newer kinds in 8-inch pots were furnished by Messrs. Taylor, Rollisson, and Lane. The best of these were Iveryana, white, occasionally striped with pink; Grieswoodiana, impressa, a semi-double variety of magnifies, perfecta elegans, obbata, and Jenkinsoni superba; none of them, however, except Iveryana, could be said to equal either in shape or appearance, to such sorts as Perryana, or even older kinds than that.