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•we shall name them, and say nothing ahout those in the collections, or -we shall 

 make this report too dull and tedious, were it possible for anything to be dull in 

 connection with these lovely flowers. 



Messrs. Kehvay and Son's First Prize Tv^enty-four. — Mrs. Henslowe, Princess 

 Frederick William, Fulton, Napoleon TIL, Imp^-atrice, Arabella Goddard, Fclicien 

 David, Madame Basseville, Eurydice, La Quintinie, Moliere, Madame Adolphe 

 Brogniart, Etendard, Ulysse, McMahon, Meyerbeer, Mathilda de Landevoisin, Cas- 

 sandra, James Veitch, Norma, Le Dante, Le Poussin, Marina. 



Messrs. Dotcnie, Laird^ and Laing's Second Prize Twenty-four. — Anais, John 

 Waterer, Oscar, Stella, Janier, Etendard, La Favorite, Moliere, Eurydice, Fulton, 

 Seedling No. 1, Madame Furtado, Naomi, Madame Leroy, De Candolle, Le Dante, 

 Mathilda de Landevoisin, Meyerbeer, Madame Vilmorin, Seedling No. 3, Maria, 

 Moliere, Prince Frederick William, Seedling No. 2, Duchess de Poitou. 



Rev. S. S. Bomhrain's First Prize Tiventy-foicr (Amateurs'). — Mrs. Dom- 

 brain, Madame Perier, Le Poussin, Galilee, Eurydice, Lord Byron, Penelope, 

 Charles Dickens, Moliere, Stella, Mozart, Eugene Scribe, Lord Raglan, Sir Joseph 

 Paxton, Princess Alice, Marie Dumontir, Belle Gabrielle, Edulia, Meyerbeer, Ste- 

 phenson, Due de Malakoff, La Fiancee, Semutamis. 



EoUyhocJcs. — The Rev. E. Hawk, Willingham Rectory, Gainsborough, took 

 first, both for twelves and twenty-fours, with stands in which every bloom could 

 be taken as a model of what a good Hollyhock ought to be. The varieties were as 

 under, the others being seedlings : — Exhibitor, Willingham Defiance, Charles Eyre, 

 Willingham Model, Octavia, Eldorado, Rose Amour, Gem Nonpareil, George Keith, 

 E. Speed, Queen of Yellows, Hercules, Ruby Queen, Mrs. Downie. All the seed- 

 lings were good, and several first-rate. 



Roses, as we have already said, were poor, both from amateurs and trade 

 growers. Messrs. Paul and Son, Cheshunt, Mr. G. Clark, Brixton Hill, and Mr. 

 Coppin, Croydon, in the trade ; and Mr. Exell, Maidstone, and IMr. Draycott, 

 Leicester, amongst amateurs, were the principal representative? of this lovely flower. 

 Asters of excellent quality were contributed by Mr. Sandford and Mr. Day, of 

 Walthamstow, and Mr. Reid, Sydenham Hill, 



Verbenas. — In the classes for twenty-four bunches, Mr. J. C. Perry first, with 

 splendid trusses of the xmder-mentioned in the most beautifully-fresh condition, 

 afibrding a striking contrast to those in some of the other stands : — Interesting, 

 Magnifica, James Birbeck, Startler, Richard Dean, Lilac King, Apollos, Madame 

 Hermann Stenger, Foxhunter, Kate, J. C. Ward, Rose Imperial, Annie, Monsieur 

 ToHteau, Mazeppa, Harry Law, Lord Leigh, Wonderful, Little Clara, Champion, 

 Seedling, Light Blue, Geant. Mr. Perry also staged a stand of seedling Verbenas. 

 The undermentioned magnificent varieties were awarded first-class certificates : — 

 Rev. Reynolds Sole, white, with fine crimson eye ; 3Irs. PocMn, fine deep rose, 

 shaded with violet ; Spot, fine large salmon-coloured flower, with bright reddish- 

 scarlet eye. Messrs. Downie, Laird, and Laing exhibited a stand of their Lady 

 Dix, a beautiful striped kind, in the way of Imperatrice Ehzabeth, but much 

 larger flowers, and finer in every respect. 



There were several good collections of twenty-four bunches of cut flowers of 

 Stove and Greenhouse Plants. Mr. Rhodes, Sydenham Park, first, with a grand 

 box, in which were good Dipladenias, Allamandas, Ericas, Orchids, Lilium auratum, 

 and Vallota purpurea. Mr. Woodward, gardener to Mrs. Torr, Ewell, second ; Mr. 

 Kemp, gardener to E. H. Beulatt, Esq., Maldon, third ; and Mr. Carr, gardener to 

 L. Hinds, Esq., Byfleet. Messrs. Downie, Laird, and Laing had a fine group of 

 plants adapted for sub-tropical gardening ; and Mr. Tanton, Nurseryman, Epsom, 

 a magnificent specimen of ;Mlamanda Hendersoni. 



The Fruit Department was all tliat could be desired. Good collections came 

 from Mr. Miles, Wycombe Abbey ; Mr. Kemp, Guildford ; and Mr. Miller, Coombe 

 Abbey, in which were fine Pines, Grapes, Peaches, Nectarines, Figs, and Cherries. 



Mr. G. Ward, Bishop's Stortfbrd ; Mr. Wright, Regent's Park; and Mr. Laing, 

 Tooting Common, were the principal prize-takers in the classes for Pines. 



Orapes were of average merit, with the exception of the prize-takers, which 

 were beautifully finished. For the best dish of black grapes, Mr. Meredith exhibited 

 huge bunches of Black Hamburghs, with fine, large, well-hamn^ered berries, but 

 scarcely up to the mark in colour. Mr. Miller's, which came in second, were not so 

 large in bunch or berry, but more highly finished in shape of bunch and colour. 



