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windows is a verandah, which, together with the walls, is orna- 

 mented with creepers and appropriate plants ; among the latter, not 

 the least remarkable were two Pelargoniums of the scarlet class, 

 called Pink and Scarlet Nosegay, — two valuable sorts for this kind 

 of decoration. On the lawn in front of the house we remarked a 

 series of beds on grass, which then (middle of June) were just 

 coming into beaut5^ In addition to these attractions there were a 

 number of large specimen Fuchsias and plants in vase:>, altogether 

 forming a coup d'ceil of the most interesting description. The glass- 

 houses contained stove and greenhouse plants, and some of them a 

 beautiful crop of grapes, with which Air. Frost has always been 

 very successful at our great Metropolitan Exhibitions. A small 

 square summer-house, filled with Chinese curiosities, and an aviary, 

 conclude our notice of one of the most interesting of English 

 gardens. 



FLORAL EXHIBITIONS. 



National Carnation and Picotee Society, July 28, — The meet- 

 ing of this Society for the present season was held at Norwich, and 

 was a very successful one. The awards were as follow : 



Dealers, 12 dissimilar varieties of Carnations : 1st, Mr. Turner, 

 Slough, with Morgan May (Puxley), C. B., Bardolph, Lorenzo, 

 Christopher Sly, Flora's Garland, Owen Glendow^er, Admiral Cur- 

 zon. Lord Milton, Bolingbroke, Falconbridge, General Monk, and 

 Prince Albert (Hale) ; 2d, Mr. Bragg of Slough, with Harriet, Bar- 

 dolph, Sarah Payne, Fireball, Lord Rancliffe, Twyford Perfection, 

 Lady Ely, Admiral Curzon, Prince Albert, Flora's (Garland, Duncan, 

 and Lord Milton. A third collection was exhibited by Messrs. 

 Youell of Yarmouth, in which were good blooms of South London, 

 Sarah Payne, Twyford Perfection, &c. 12 white-ground Picotees : 

 1st, Mr. Turner, Slough, with Julia, Mrs. Norman, Miss Puxley, 

 Ophelia, Prince of Wales, Marianne, Bridesmaid, Duke of Rutland, 

 Christabel, Venus, Mrs. Barnard, and Lady Macbeth ; 2d, Messrs. 

 Youell, with Heroine, Seedhng, Cornelius, Lady H. Moore, Gem, 

 Lady Smith, Alfred, Isabella, Vespasian, Juliet, Venus, and Lady A. 

 Peel ; 3d, Mr. Bragg. 



Private growers, 9 Carnations : 1st, M. May, Esq., Sonning, with 

 King John (R. F.), Owen Glendower, Friar Laurence (R. F.), Bar- 

 dolph, Bertram, Christopher Sly (S. F.), Jacques (P. F.), Cromwell 

 (S. F.), and Hamlet; 2d, C. P. Lochner, Esq., with Lord Rancliffe, 

 Flora's Garland, William IV., Prince de Nassau, Bolingbroke, Ariel, 

 Sarah Payne, Lovely Ann, and Lord Milton ; 3d, Rev. C. Fellowes, 

 with Prince Albert (Hale), Princess Royal, Justice Shallow, Sarah 

 Payne, Owen Glendower, Prince Arthur, Virginia, Brutus, and Sir 

 Joshua Reynolds ; 4th, Mr. J. Edwards, Holloway, with Prince Al- 

 bert (Hale), Prince Albert (Puxley), Flora's Garland, Sarah Payne, 

 Justice Shallow, Admiral Curzon, Queen Victoria, Lady Gardiner, 

 and Lord Milton. Rev. J. Burroughes, J. J. Colman, Esq., and Mr. 



