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Sand, Fleurde Marie, Louis Bonamy, 

 Mrs. Pe tiers, Princess Marguerite, 

 Madame Godereau, St. Margaret, 

 Prince of Anemones, Marguerite de 

 Wildemar, and Antonius, the last a 

 very handsome yellow variety. 



Large-flowered varieties came from 

 Messrs. Forsyth, James, Morgan, 

 Wheldal, Delvalle, liowe, Howe, 

 Drain, Parker, Slade, Ward, Mox- 

 ham, and Heale. Among the different 

 kinds were beautiful blooms of Jardin 

 des Plantes, which still stands at the 

 head of bright yellows ; White Globe, 

 large and fine ; Beverley, Empress of 

 India, Prince, and Princess of Wales, 

 Venus, Sam Weller, Mr. Brunlees, 

 Rev. Joshua Dix, General Slade, 

 Prince Alfred, Pio INono, Beauty, 

 Novelty, Nil Desperandum, Anto- 

 nelli, General Bainbrigge,Lady Hard- 

 ing, Doctor Brock, Robert James, 

 Nonpareil, Orange Perfection, St. 

 Patrick, Marechal Duroc, Golden 

 Ball, Lady St. Clair, Queen of Eng- 

 land, Pearl, King of Denmark, The- 

 mis, Plutus, Mrs. Holborn, Golden 

 Eagle, Abb6 Passaglia, Cherub, Oliver 

 Cromwell, Duke of Wellington, 

 Anaxo, Hercules, Madame Lebois, 

 Imogene, Eve, Princess Louis of 

 Hesse, Lucidum, Mrs. Haliburton, 

 Dr. Maclean, Little Harry, Lord 

 Ranelagh, and Donald Beaton. 



Plants of Chrysanthemums were 

 contributed by Messrs. Forsyth, 

 Rowe, George, Crute, and Delvalle. 

 These were all highly interesting ex- 

 hibitions, the plants being both well 

 grown and. flowered. Among them 

 were some cleverly-managed stand- 

 ards, both of large and small-flowered 

 varieties, the skilful introduction of 

 which into the different collections 

 served to break up that uniformity of 



appearance in them of which some 

 have been heard to complain. 



Fruit was an important feature 

 of the show. Messrs. Page, Howard, 

 Young, and Sparrow exhibited pine- 

 apples of fine quality, the first-named 

 rearing a smooth-leaved Cayenne, 

 weighing ten pounds. Messrs. Lane 

 and Son put up grand bunches of 

 Barbarossa grapes, and fine samples 

 of other grapes were shown by Mr. 

 Tillery and others. There were 

 several long tables filled with apples 

 and pears. Principal among the ex- 

 hibitors of these were Messrs. Newton, 

 K bodes, Turner, Parsons, Williams, 

 Mclndoe, Richbill. Watson, Keller, 

 Baker, August, Beasley, and Morti- 

 more. Among the table varieties of 

 apples were good fruit of Fearn's 

 Pippin, Cox's Orange Pippin, Golden 

 Reinette, Wadhurst Pippin, Downton, 

 Scarlet and Braddick's Nonpareils, 

 Franklin's Golden Pippin, Holland 

 Pippin, Sam Young, Margil, Cornish 

 Gillifiower, Court of Wick, Court 

 Pendu Plat, Adams's Pearmain, and 

 King of Pippins. Kitchen sorts 

 comprised, among others, Blenheim 

 Orange, Reinette du Canada, Alfris- 

 ton, Gloria Mundi, Emperor Alex- 

 ander, and Wellington. 



Among the dessert pears were 

 highly-coloured fruit of Forelle or 

 Trout Pear, Beurre Diel, Glou Mor- 

 ceau, Easter Beurre, Van Mons Leon 

 le Clerc, Beurre Ranee, Swan's Egg, 

 Duchess d'Angouleme, Knight's Mon- 

 arch, Urbaniste, Beurre Clairgeau, 

 and Chaumontel. Among varieties 

 for culinary purposes were Catillac 

 and Uvedale's St. Germain. Other 

 fruit consisted of Quinces, Medlars, 

 and Cox's Late Red and Blue Im- 

 peratrice Plums. 



ORNAMENTAL GRASSES. 



I have long been waiting an oppor- 

 tunity to say a word about orna- 

 mental grasse*, in order to bring up 

 the notes on the subject, to the pre- 

 sent time, as during the past few 

 years several fine grasses have been 

 'introduced to cultivation, and it has 



been one of my hobbies to grow and 

 prove all I could lay hands on. In 

 former papers on this subject, various 

 beautiful grasses have been recom- 

 mended, and some advices have been 

 offered on the best modes of cultivat- 

 ing them. I should like now to super- 



