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THE FLOEAL WOULD AND GAEDEN GUIDE. 



Alfred de Rothschild, Baronne Pre- 

 vost, Beauty of Waltham, Caroline 

 de Sansal, Centifolia Rosea, Charles 

 Lefebvre, Colonel Cambriels, Comte 

 de Nanteuil, Comtesse Chabrilland, 

 Due de Rohan, Duchesse de Moray, 

 Duchesse d'Orleans, Francois Lac- 

 harme, General Jacqueminot, Gloire 

 de Santhenay, Jean Bart, Jean Gou- 

 jon, John Hopper, Jules Margottin, 

 Lafontaine, Le Rhone, Louise Dar- 

 zins, Louise Peyronny, Madame 

 Charles Wood, Madame de Camba- 

 ceres, Madame Domage, Madame 

 Clemence Joigneaux, Mrs. Rivers, 



Madame Victor Verdier, Monsieur 

 Montigny, Paul de la Meilleray, 

 Pavilion de Pregny, Prince C. de 

 Rohan, Princess of Wales, Senateur 

 Vaisse, Souvenir de Leveson Gower, 

 Souvenir de Comte Cavour (Margot- 

 tins), Triomphe de Caen, Vicomte 

 Vigier, Victor Verdier. 



Bourbons. — Baron Gonella, Cathe- 

 rine Guillot, Rev. H. Dombrain, 

 Souvenir de la Malmaison, Victor 

 Emmanuel. 



Chinas. — Mrs. Bosanquet, T. 

 Gloire de Dijon, Madame Falcot. 

 Homerton. W. D. Peiob. 



THE GUILDHALL FRUIT AND FLOWER SHOW. 



The United Horticultural Society 

 has wound up its first year in a bril- 

 liant manner by means of a grand 

 exhibition of plants, flowers, and 

 fruits, which took place in the Guild- 

 hall of the City of London on the 

 14th and 15th of November. The 

 Corporation generously granted the 

 use of the hall for the purpose, and 

 the Lord Mayor, accompanied by the 

 Lady Mayoress, and the Sheriffs and 

 their ladies, and attended by the mace- 

 bearer and sword-bearer, opened the 

 show in state. The attendance on 

 both days was so great that the hall 

 was densely crowded during the whole 

 period of the exhibition. As the whole 

 of the surplus moneys in the posses- 

 sion of this society are required by 

 the rules to be handed over at the end 

 of the year to the benevolent fund, 

 the success of the exhibition at Guild- 

 hall is especially gratifying. 



The exhibition comprised a variety 

 of subjects, and amongst them fine 

 foliaged plants occupied an important 

 place. Messrs. Low and Co. sent a 

 collection of tree ferns, which were 

 placed around the hall at intervals, 

 and produced a grand effect. Mr. 

 B. S. Williams, of Holloway; Mr. 

 Prestoe, of Victoria Park ; Mr. Bull, 

 of Chelsea ; Messrs. E. G. Henderson, 

 of St. John's Wood ; William Mar- 

 shall, Esq., the President of the So- 

 ciety, and others, contributed magni- 



ficent collections of palms, ferns, 

 orchids, and various rare and beauti- 

 ful plants of a costly description. 

 Conspicuous amongst miscellaneous 

 objects were the following : — Produc- 

 tions in artificial stone by Messrs. 

 Rosher and Co. ; ground vineries by 

 Mr. Wells ; mowing-machines and 

 other implements, from Messrs. 

 Green ; a beautiful collection of fern 

 cases, filled with ferns, from Messrs. 

 Barr and Sugden ; and a similar col- 

 lection from Messrs. Carter and Co. ; 

 a great collection of gourds, and a 

 collection of ornamental grasses from 

 Messrs. Sutton and Sons ; a remark- 

 able collection of gourds, one thousand 

 in number, from Mr. Young, gardener 

 to R. Barclay, Esq., Highgate ; a 

 collection of thirty varieties of ivies, 

 from Mr. Shirley Hibberd, and from 

 the same a collection of sixty-four 

 varieties of potatoes. Mr. Howard, 

 gardener to J. Brande, Esq., showed 

 some bouquets of such exquisite con- 

 struction that they were surrounded 

 during the whole time of the show 

 by crowds of admirers. 



Cheysanthemums were shown in 

 plenty ; cut blooms were tolerably 

 numerous, and occupied portions of 

 the central tables. Anemone-flowered 

 sorts were shown by Messrs. James, 

 George, Forsyth, Rowe, Howe, and 

 Cox. Among them were Queen 

 Marguerite, Empress, Gluck, George 



