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is periodically distributed the transactions, which contain an enume- 

 ration of every subject, and by whom submitted, at each meeting, 

 together with the description and character of every flower of value, 

 according to the classification of the awards furnished by the Board 

 of Censors." Such a report now lies before us, being Part III. (16 

 pages), and from which we extract the awards made during the past 

 six months of the present season — that is to say, from Alarch 25 to 

 August 5, both inclusive. Not the least valuable feature is, that by 

 giving an enumeration of all, careful selections can even be formed 

 irrespective of those more valuable subjects certificated by the So- 

 ciety ; and this alone is a recommendation and guarantee of import- 

 ance sufficient to recompense all for the outlay of an annual guinea 

 in the support of a body the want of which had been incessantly 

 urged by every well-wisher to the cause of Floriculture. 



March 25th, 1852. — Censors : Messrs. Andrew Henderson, C. 

 Lidgard, and T. Appleby. A first-class certificate to Pansy, Sir J. 

 Cathcart : colour deep yellow ground, with bronzy maroon, well-formed 

 and very uniform, broad margin of same shade, as are the upper petals; 

 edges and surface smooth ; round ; eye bold, solid, and well dis- 

 played in side as well as lower petals — from Mr. C. Turner, Royal 

 Nursery, Slough. Censors : Messrs. Henderson, Lidgard, and Ap- 

 pleby (see Florist for August 1852). A label of commendation to 

 Cineraria, Purity : colour white self, with light purple disc ; petals 

 cupped; size scarcely medium — from Mr. J. Dobson, Woodlands 

 Nursery, Isleworth. Ditto to Cineraria, Julia : colour white, on 

 close examination very faintly tipped with light purple ; disc same ; 

 habit good; size medium; free; slightly reflexed — from Mr. C. P. 

 Lochner, Warwick House, Paddington. 



April 8th, 1852. — Censors: Messrs. T. Moore, Lochner, Hamp, 

 Holmes, and Robinson. A first-class certificate to Camellia, Countess 

 of Ellesmere : form first-rate ; petals broad and cupped ; colour blush 

 white, faintly striped with pale rose; foliage broad — from Messrs. 

 Jackson and Son, Nurserymen, Kingston. Censors : Messrs. Moore, 

 Hamp, and Holmes (see Florist for May 1850). A certificate of 

 merit to Cineraria, Rosalind : colour white, narrowly margined with 

 bluish purple ; disc grey ; habit good ; form good ; petal broad — 

 from Messrs. E. G. Henderson and Son, Wellington-Road Nursery, 

 St. John's Wood. Censors : Messrs. Lochner, Holmes, and Robinson. 



May IZth, 1852. — Censors: Messrs. Lochner, Bragg, Appleby, 

 W. Ivery, Lidgard, Cook, W. Paul, J. Dobson, and Stains. A first- 

 class certificate to Erica, Jasminiflora rubra : of excellent habit ; extra 

 long tube ; colour rosy red; trusses large — from Mr. W. J. Epps, 

 Bower Nursery, Maidstone. Censors : Messrs. Appleby, Cook, and 

 W. Paul. Ditto to Erica, Tricolor Ep])sii : tube short and stout ; 

 trusses large ; habit good ; colour scarlet, shading into white, and 

 very glossy — from Mr. W. J. Ep])s, Bower Nursery, Maidstone. 

 Censors : Messrs. Appleby, Cook, and W. Paul. Ditto to Pansy, 

 Fearless : colour chrome-yellow ground, margined with very dark 

 purple maroon ; of good form and substance ; eye solid and well dis- 

 played ; edges smooth, and texture of surface fine ; an improvement 



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