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many blush varieties in proportion to other colours. A bloom of 

 Plutus was admitted to be the finest specimen in the entire exhi- 

 bition ; it is an incurved yellow, very full, and a perfectly symmetrical 

 half ball. The three silver cups were won by Mr. Holmes for six 

 plants, Mr. Taylor for twenty-four cut blooms, and by Mr. Scruby 

 for twelve cut specimens. 



Mr. Ivery of Peckham sent a collection of Pompons, which 

 were well flowered and good variety, including several new kinds. 



Class I. — Specimen plants: 1st, Mr. Scruby, with Defiance; 

 2d, Mr. Bundel, with Madame Poggi. The first was a large plant, 

 with fine foliage, but rather loose, with indifferent flowers. 



Class II. — Six plants: 1st, (the cup) Mr. Holmes, Madame 

 Cammerson, Christine, Annie Salter, Pilot, Defiance, Mount Etna ; 

 2d, Mr. Scruby ; 3d, Mr. Elliott. 



Class III. — Pompons in six varieties: 1st, Mr. Holmes, Le 

 Jongleur, La Fiancee, Eliza Meillez, Modelle, Pompon d'or, Henri 

 Chauviere ; 2d, Mr. Argent ; 3d, Mr. G. Smith. 



Cut blooms, twenty-four: 1st, (the cup) Mr. Taylor, King, 

 Queen of England, Guillaume Tell, Beauty, Defiance, Themis, Nell 

 Gwynne, Lysias, Nonpareil, Goliath, Two-coloured incurved, Plutus, 

 Rosa Mystica, Duke, Dupont de I'Eure. The remainder were du- 

 phcates, which are allowed ; 2d, Mr. Shields ; 3d, Mr. Scruby ; 

 4th, Mr. ElUott; 5th, Mr. James ; 6th, Mr. E. Saunderson. 



Twelve blooms : 1st (silver cup), Mr. Scruby, Beauty, Pms IX., 

 Dupont de FEure, Annie Salter, Rosa Mystica, Duke, King, Rabe- 

 lais, Queen of England, Plutus, Nonpareil, Christine ; 2d, Mr. 

 Taylor ; 3d, Mr. Bundel ; 4th, Mr. G. Smith ; 5th, Mr. Saunderson ; 

 6th, Mr. Elliott; 7th, Mr. Hutton; 8th, Mr. Holmes. 



Six blooms : 1st, Mr. Taylor, Beauty, Goliath, King, Plutus, 

 Nonpareil, Dupont de I'Eure ; 2d, Mr. Hutton ; 3d, Mr. James ; 

 4th, Mr. Holmes ; 5th, Mr. T. WiUiams ; 6th, Mr. Elliott ; 7th, 

 Mr. E. Saunderson ; Sth, Mr. Scruby ; 9th, Mr. Kirby. 



Maiden growers, six blooms : 1st, Mr. Algar, Nonpareil, Goliath, 

 King, Plutus, Beauty, Dupont de I'Eure ; 2d, Mr. Farrier ; 3d, Mr. 

 G. Hutton; 4th, Mr. Monk. 



New flowers : 1st, Mr. Taylor, Miss Kate, Nell Gwynne, For- 

 tune ; 2d, Mr. James. In this class there was nothing of interest. 



Anemone-flowered : 1st, Mr. Scruby, Fleur de Marie, Gluck, 

 Nancy de Jermet, Margaret d'Anjou, Deborah, Sulphurea ; 2d, 

 Mr. G. Smith. 



