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and Laing for another variety called Lady Dacres, with pale, salmon-coloured 

 flowers ; Invincible, a salmon rose, and Lady King, deep crimson, from Mr. 

 W. Chater, were commended. Messrs. E. Gr. Henderson and Sons showed, 

 amongst other variegated pelargoniums, two beautiful varieties of the tricolor 

 section, or those marked with a red zone or belt ; they were named Sunset 

 and Mrs. Pollock, and both received First-class Certificates. A Commendation 

 was given to a pink flowered silver-edged sort called Delicatnm, from the 

 same growers. Of dahlias the following were commended : — Maria Carter, 

 a white heavily rose-tipped flower ; Imperial, a fine amaranth ; Fair Maid of 

 Bath, a delicate purple-tipped white : all from Mr. Keynes ; and Charlotte 

 Dorling, a bright light purple-tipped sort from Mr. Turner. Messrs. Low 

 and Co., Clapton, showed a pretty new Ansectochilus called Bulleni, just 

 received from Borneo ; it had bronzy green leaves, marked with three distinct 

 coppery stripes, and was awarded a First-class Certificate ; as was a pretty 

 creeping fern from the same source, sent under the name of Arthrobotrya 

 articulata, but probably an undescribed species of Polybotrya. Another 

 First-class Certificate was granted to Pentstemon Lobbiauns, a pretty hardy 

 sub-shrubby species of neat myrtle-like habit, with remarkably short 

 gaping yellow flowers, shown by Messrs. Low. PoUia purpurea, a neat 

 purple-leaved stove herb, from Messrs. Low and Mr. Bull, received a Com- 

 mendation, as being a useful plant for small houses, in which it might be 

 employed for gi'ouping with leaves of other colours. 



Banbhey Hoetxculttjkal Society, August 27th. — The annual show of 

 this Society was held in Dr. Wise's picturesque grounds, which were thrown 

 open at one o'clock, and were thronged throughout the afternoon, the lovely 

 weather assisting in no small degree to increase the attendance, which included 

 many of the neighbouring gentry and clergy. The show of plants, flowers, 

 fruit, and vegetables, was beautiful in the extreme, particularly the flowers, 

 and the contributions were so numerous as to oblige the committee to have 

 an extra tent, and to increase the size of the others. The bands of the 

 Coldstream Guards and of the Third Oxon Eifle Corps played a popular 

 selection of music during the afternoon in exquisite style, and afforded very 

 great enjoyment to the company. The scene in the grounds was a very gay 

 one, and the public are very much indebted to Dr. Wise for his kindness in 

 allowing them to be used on such occasions. To his friends he and Mrs. Wise, 

 as usual, very liberally dispensed their hospitality, of which a numerous party 

 partook during the afternoon. The judges were — Mr. Bobinson, Bitchings 

 Park, Colnbrook, and Mr. C. Edmimds, of Chiswick House. In the evening 

 a concert was given in the Town Hall by the band of the Coldstream Guards. 

 Crystal Palace, Sept. 4th. — The autumn show attracted an immense 

 concourse of visitors, and the floral connoisseurs had but little occasion for 

 dissatisfaction. The show was altogether a good one, though the effects of 

 the long di'ought were visible in the thin condition of some of the hollyhock 

 spikes. Dahlias and roses were numerously shown, but there was not much 

 novelty among them deserving of note. The florists were more interested 

 in the gladioli, perhaps, than in any other class of flowers, and those shown 

 by Mr. Standish, of Bagshot, who took first prize, were evidently an advance 

 on the excellence already attained by him. Mr. Standish is the leader in 

 this department of cross-breeding, and deserves all the honours that have 

 been heaped upon him. The gladioli shown by Messrs. Youell, Paul, and 

 Cuttell, were, nevertheless, of high quality, and it is most satisfactory to 

 note the honourable competition in the improvement of this increasingly 

 popular autumn flower. To the miscellaneous public the dahlias were the 

 great feature of the scene. Mr. Keynes came first in forty-eights, Mr. 

 Kimberly second, Mr. Legge third. Mr. Keynes was also first in twenty- 

 fours, and Mr. Turner second. Among the amateurs, our old friend Mr. 

 Dodds, of Salisbury, was first with an exquisite set of twenty-four, among 

 which were several of his own seedlings, the Bev. C. Fellowes was second, 



