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NOTES ON RECENT EXHIBITIONS. 



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UEJNG- the past two months, the attention of the 

 horticultural public has been pretty well occupied 

 i with exhibitions of chrysanthemums and fruits. 

 Mf( Mr. Salter's display has been magnificent, and 

 1^/fi 1 ^) crow( 5s of visitors have enjoyed the pleasure of in- 

 f^iy%%m \ specting his numerous novelties, some of which are 

 -PaMT of the highest excellence. The best of the metro- 

 politan exhibitions was that at the Agricultural 

 Hall, and the worsb was at South Kensington. 

 Stoke Newington, Brixton, Kennington, Camden 

 Town, the Tower Hamlets, and other districts of the 

 metropolis, have had their several displays, and everywhere full justice 

 has been done to the noblest of autumnal flowers. At Birmingham, 

 Liverpool, and Bristol, have been the best provincial shows. 



It is impossible here to enumerate the names of persons who have 

 taken a prominent position in the recent exhibitions, but we must make 

 exception in favour of one whose performances have been a matter of 

 astonishment to chrysanthemum cultivators everywhere. Mr. Eorsyth, 

 of Brunswick Nursery, Stoke Newington, has everywhere shown the 

 best nurserymen's collections. At the Hoyal Horticultural he put up 

 thirty-seven magnificent specimens, and took all the first prizes. At 

 Stoke Newington, Islington, Kennington, and elsewhere, scores of 

 plants and hundreds of cut blooms from this ubiquitous exhibitor were 

 to be seen, and all the while he had a grand display in his show r -house 

 at home, which filled Stoke Newington with delight, making a sensation 

 in a district where the chrysanthemum has gained its principal renown. 

 Considering now all the points of interest in the recent exhibitions, it 

 seems right to say that, among the novelties, Mr. Salter's Venus is the 

 best, aud is certainly fated to take the lead next year at all the 

 exhibitions. Next to that, perhaps, his Golden Ball will be most in 

 request ; for while it is a superbly incurved flower, the colouring more 



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