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Lady Hardinge he has done most beautifully, and jealously guards his speci- 

 mens with a polite request that people will not touch them. What a gem it 

 is, and how it justifies the oft-repeated assertion that John Salter never yet 

 sent out a bad flower. Others of peculiar beauty are Nonpareil, Annie Salter 

 (gold yellow), Fabius (a dashing orange salmon), Golden Queen of England 

 (a diificult flower to manage), Pio Nono, and Stellaris globosa. But as the 

 varieties are carefully tallied, there is the less need for an enumeration of 

 their names. The scattered groups of pompones in this garden are better 

 than we have seen there for several years past. Indeed, for three seasons in 

 succession, they were cut off by October frosts ; and this mild autumn 

 weather will, we hope, put Messrs. Broome and Dale in heart to return 

 to the open-ground culture of this charming flower to as great an extent 

 as the space of ground, and other opportunities at their command, enable 

 them. 



Royal Horticttlttjral Society, Nov. 6th and 7th. — The grand 

 exhibition by the Royal Horticultural Society, was held just a week too 

 soon for the full display of the flowers peculiar to the season. This fact, 

 however, was not apparent to the general mass of sight-seers, and even the 

 critical observers of the relative excellences of the productions had few causes 

 for complaint. The conservatory was made wonderfully gay, and all the 

 details peculiar to the occasion being arranged under cover, the desperate 

 rain and wind on Wednesday did not much interfere with the enjoyment 

 of the large number of persons whom the feie brought together. On 

 Thursday the attendance was much larger, owing to the improvement of 

 the weather, which was as mild and sunny as April, and a large number 

 of gardeners availed themselves of the one shilling admission. The 

 chrysanthemums were generally well grown, and preference was given to 

 plants trained in the fashion of pyramids, a form which is fast suj^erseding 

 the watch-glass form introduced by Mi*. Holland, and adopted for many 

 years past at all the leading shows. All the good old-established varieties 

 were well shown, but Bob, and a few of the later kinds, were not full out. 

 Some little interest was excited by the appearance of Mr. Turner as a 

 competitor with chrysanthemums — a sort of compensatory process for his 

 absence in the Dahlia Show. Mr. Turner took first prizes in the Nur- 

 serymen's Classes for six large flowers and six pompones. The Amateurs' 

 Classes were well filled, the first prizes for six plants, and three plants 

 (large), were taken by Mr. Ward, of Tottenham, one of the ablest sustainers 

 of the Stoke Newington Shows. In Pompones, Mr. Hutt, another of the 

 Stoke Newington heroes, came first. For six standards and six new varieties, 

 Mr. Forsyth, of Stoke Newington, was first. The other prizes were shared 

 between Messrs. South, Slade, James, Hope, Cattell, and Bird, three of 

 these being of the old school of Newington growers. Fruit was abun- 

 dantly shown, and among the most attractive samples were some gigantic, 

 coarse-looking pears from Algeria. Respecting the quality of these, we 

 are not at present prepared to offer an opinion ; they looked fit, first to 

 astonish the natives, and then to feed the pigs with. Some specimens of 

 home prepared Normandy pippins and stewed pears were of much greater 

 interest, and we obtained particulars of the mode of preparation, which we 

 shall place before our readers shortly. Grapes, melons, pines, oranges, and 

 orchard fruits were generally excellent, and all were shown on white Miuton 

 ware, which gave uniformity to the arrangement, and displayed the excel- 

 lence of the fruits to advantay e. The following is the prize list : Fruit. — 

 Collection (fruiterers only) — Mr. Lewis Solomon, Covent Garden Market, 

 4:1. Collection (private growers) — Mr. A. Henderson, Trentham Hall Gardens, 

 Stafford, Gl. ; and Mr. G. Tillyard, gardener to J. Kelk, Esq., Stanmore, 

 equal, 4^. Pines, three distinct kinds. — Mr. Thomas Page, gardener to W. 

 Leaf, Esq., Park Hill, Streatham, 4,1. Single — Mr. J. Floud, gardener to 

 H. Fothergill, Esq., Glamorgan, 21. 10s. Grapes, white Muscat, basket of 



