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Leotard, and Lady Carrington : a similar award for Bright Star, a 

 very good and effective silver-edged variegated variety; and for White 

 Clove, The Bride, with large and very full creamy-white flowers. Mr 

 William Paul received a first-class certificate for silver-edged Pelar- 

 gonium Waltham Bride, in the style of growth of Flower of the Day, 

 and producing pure white flowers ; Mr Harman, Denham, for variegated 

 Ivy-leaved Pelargonium Mr Lambert, in the way of Duke of Edinburgh, 

 but with more yellow in the variegation ; Mr J. W. Winsett, Chelsea, 

 for hybrid Ivy-leaved Pelargonium Willsii rosea, with flowers of a fine 

 hue of rose, smooth, and quite as circular in shape as those of the ordi- 

 nary zonal kinds ; and Mr Sidney Ford, The Gardens, St Leonard's 

 Lodge, Horsham, for Gem of the Season, a robust-growing Ivy-leaved 

 variety, with round smooth flowers of a pale salmon-pink hue. 



The following plants, representing the second degree of excellence, 

 have been awarded second-class certificates : Odontoglossum Reichen- 

 heimii, a species with chocolate-spotted sepals and petals, and a rosy 

 lip white towards the tip ; and a dwarf Sarracenia somewhat resem- 

 bling S. flava, but with less dilated pitchers and an erect lid, both 

 from Messrs Veitch & Sons : Rhododendron Beauty from Messrs J. 

 Standish & Co., Ascot, a charming hardy variety, producing fine stiff 

 trusses, and rosy pink flowers of excellent form marked with a white 

 bar on each lobe, and with buff spots on the upper one ; Azalea Reine 

 Marie Henriette, pale pink, with narrow margin of white, the upper 

 segments heavily marked with pale scarlet, a fine and bold flower, but 

 somewhat rough-looking, from Mr C. Turner, Slough ; Zonal Pelar- 

 gonium Lord Stanley, with vivid crimson flowers, from Messrs F. & 

 A. Smith, Dulwich; and Pelargonium Pollie, one of the large-flower- 

 ing class, having rich crimson flowers heavily overlaid with dark and 

 rich dark top petals, dwarf-growing, and very free blooming ; one of 

 Mr Fosters' new flowers, and also exhibited by Mr C. Turner. 



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Nothing beats good gravel walks. They look better than any other 

 when well kept, and " look " is not the least important consideration 

 in a garden. They entail an amount of keeping, however, which could 

 generally be well dispensed with, not to speak of the fact that gravel is 

 not to be had in many parts of England except at an extravagant price. 

 This is the case with ourselves, the nearest approach to gravel we can 

 procure being a kind of shale out of the coal-pits, which, after being 

 burnt and broken up, is of a light brick colour, assuming, after exposure 

 to the weather, a more subdued and respectable grey tint, suiting pretty 



