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tee, medium size, good form, white 

 faintly striped and flaked pale red, 

 gecond-rate. Mr. Marnock, a bold 

 red, good form. Flag of Truce, well 

 worth showing with new varieties, 

 though it has made its character, and 

 needs only time to be received with 

 favour everywhere. Galatea, medium 

 size, smooth, paper-like in texture, 

 colour strong salmon-red, in the way 

 of Perfecta elegans. This variety has 

 a close habit of growth, naturally 

 forming a dense bush, and flowering 

 with extravagant profusion. It will 

 be a valuable decorative variety. 

 Beatrice, medium size, smooth, good 

 form, colour clear pale salmon-pink, 

 habit apparently weak. Prince of 

 Orange, line strong orange-red, pretty 

 well known as a fine azalea. Oracle, 

 medium size, smooth, campanulate, 

 paper-like substance, colour clear 

 lively pure pink, with slight carmine 

 blotch, very compact habit of growth, 

 and blooming in a sheet of colour ; a 

 fine variety. Clapham Beauty, one 

 shade deeper in colour than Oracle, 

 and apparently not so good ; but it 

 was placed so far back, I could not 

 see it fairly. Richard Cobden, large, 

 smooth, petals pointed, colour rosy- 

 crimson ; bold and handsome. Ma- 

 culata, medium size, poiuted petals, 

 flower pinched up ; showy, but not 

 good. 



Pelargoniums. — The six fancies 

 from Mr. Weir, gardener to Mrs. 

 Hodson, the Elms, Hampstead, were 

 the best in the tent, better conside- 

 rably than Mr. Turner's, and better 

 considerably than the average of the 

 best pelargoniums seen at this time 

 of year. They were of full exhibition 

 size, low, dense, convex, solid, and 

 symmetrical, and an even sheet of 

 bloom all over. The varieties were 

 Carminatum, Queen of Roses, Jenny 

 Lind, Acme, Celestial, Attraction. 

 Mr. Wiggins sent leggy plants well 

 bloomed, Empress Eugenie, Roseum, 

 Princess Matliilde, Pline, magnificent 

 for colour ; Beadsman, Regina for- 

 mosa. Mr. C. Turner was first in 

 the nurserymen's class with a fine lot 

 which, however, were by no means 

 equal to Mr. Weir's, being rather 

 long-legged and loose ; the varieties 

 were Pescatorei, Amazon, Beacon, 



Desdemona, William Bull, Sir Colin 

 Campbell. 



Auriculas. — Mr. C. Turner put 

 up the best collection of six ; they 

 were in beautiful condition, the trusses 

 large, the pips well developed, with 

 no evidences of having been furced on 

 by stimulants, and the characters 

 true ; the varieties were Strong's 

 Sir Isaac Newton, Headly's George 

 Lightbody, Turner's Negro, Turner's 

 Mr. Marnock, Spalding's Bessie Bell, 

 Chapman's Sophia ; the body colour 

 of this is a lovely tone of violet when 

 true, as it was in this case, and very 

 fiuely done. Mr. Turner sent also a 

 collection of thirty, making a pretty 

 little exhibition of themselves. They 

 were Taylor's Glory, Faulkner's Ne 

 Plus Ultra, Popple a ell's Conqueror, 

 Lightbody 's Meteor Flag, Barlow's 

 Morning Star, Howard's Lord Nel- 

 son, Turner's Unexpected, Turner's 

 Ensign, Smith's Lycurgu*, Olliver's 

 Lovely Ann, Seedling, lively maroon 

 self, a truss of twelve pips, rather 

 rough, but of good size and pure 

 paste ; Lightbody 's Meteor Flag, 

 several plants with two trusses each ; 

 Turner's Webster, Dickson's Duke 

 of Cambridge, Lightb >dy's Fair 

 Maid; this is an attractive variety, 

 being excessively white, but it is very 

 deficient in form, and a difficult va- 

 riety to manage ; none but first-class 

 growers can make anything of it ; 

 Headley's Stapleford Hero, Gairn's 

 Model, Waterhouse's Conqueror of 

 Europe, Headley's Splendour, Chap- 

 man's Maria, Read's Miss Giddings, 

 Lightbody 's Countess of Dunmore, 

 Martin's Mrs. Sturrock, Fletcher's Ne 

 Plus Ultra, Dickson's Duke of Cam- 

 bridge, Lee's Bright Venus, Warris's 

 Union, two trusses, one of nine pips, 

 the other seven. Mr. James Butcher, 

 of South Street, Camberwell, sent the 

 best lot in the amateur class ; Bright 

 Phoebus, Hudson's Apollo, Martin's 

 Mrs. Sturrock, Smith's Waterloo, 

 Clark's Mary, a fine grey edge, not 

 much known; Chapman's Maria. Mr. 

 James, gardener to W. F. Watson, Esq., 

 Isleworth, second, with Bright Venus, 

 Bright Phoebus, Chapman's Sophia, 

 Meteor Flag, Warris's Union, two 

 trusses with fourteen pips in all ; and 

 fine ; Lancashire Hero, not out. 



