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trade when we can do so with justice to all parties, as in the present 

 case. 



GREAT SHOW OF CARNATIONS AND PICOTEES. 



Mr. Turner, desirous of promoting an agreeable intercourse 

 amongst his brother exhibitors, advertised an exhibition of the above 

 beautiful flowers, to be held in his grounds on July the 24th, on 

 which day we proceeded to Slough. It is not often that we have 

 such thorough enjoyment as we shared this day, in common with 

 every one present, and it was with great reluctance we were obliged 

 to leave at an early hour. The large glass erection above alluded to 

 was filled with pots of Carnations and Picotees, admirably arranged 

 for their examination ; and a wonderful display they made. There 

 were present the first cultivators and exhibitors of the day ; and all 

 agreed that such a sight had never been witnessed before. But what 

 pleased us even more than the flowers, was the excellent spirit which 

 was present, convincing us that it requires but a more frequent and 

 friendly association in this way entirely to banish those miserable 

 jealousies which have unhappily been too much fostered by some who 

 have misused for evil an instrument which should have been consi- 

 dered as entrusted to them for a far nobler purpose. But let that 

 pass, — ours be the task, in a humble way, to promote, as far as pos- 

 sible, the spread of more generous sentiments. Every thing that has 

 this tendency shall have our hearty assistance ; and we hope next 

 season to promote a meeting of the same kind in our own grounds. 



The Carnations and Picotees exhibited for competition were large 

 and fresh. The following are the awards. 



Carnations. Amateurs. Twelve dissimilar blooms. 



1st, Morgan May, Esq., Sonning, for May's Shylock, do. Antonio, do. Fal- 

 staff, do. Lorenzo, do. Romeo, do. Justice Shallow, do. Percy, do. Bardolph, 

 do. Ariel, Beauty of Woodhouse, Puxley's Prince Albert, P. P. B., do. S. B. — 

 2d, Mr. Newhall, Woolwich : Hero of Middlesex, Ariel, True Briton, Sealey's 

 Princess Royal, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Lord Rancliffe, Bright Phoebus, Mr. Ban- 

 ton, Lovely Ann, Georgiana, Squire Meynell, Princess. — 3d, Mr. J. Edwards, 

 Holloway : Duke of York, William Peiin, Prince Albert, Lady of the Lake, 

 Sarah Payne, Prince Arthur, Dr. Solander, Georgiana, Harriet, True Briton, 

 Flora's Garland, Lord Morpeth. 



Open Class. — 1st, Mr. Norman, Woolwich : Hardwick's Firebrand, Flora's 

 Garland, Squire Meynell, Hale's Prince Albert, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Royal 

 Chancellor, Vivid, May's Edgar, Lord Rancliffe, Sarah Payne, Simpson's Queen, 

 Splendid. — 2d, Mr. Ward, Woolwich : Flora's Garland, Squire Meynell, Bright 

 Phoebus, Georgiana, Rainbow, Ariel, Lord Milton, Hale's Albert, Beauty of 

 Brighouse, Puxley's Albert, Brutus, John Wright. — 3d, Mr. Willmer, Sunbury : 

 Flora's Garland, Brutus, Rainbow, Duke of York, Huntsman, Duke of Bedford, 

 Squire Trow, Count Pauline, Beauty of Woodhouse, Marquis of Chandos, Sarah 

 Payne, Admiral Curzon. 



Picotees. Amateurs. Twelve dissimilar blooms. 



1st, Morgan May, Esq., for May's Portia, do. Ann Page, do. Beatrice, 

 do. Constance, do. Miranda, do. Juliet, do. Audrey, Mrs. Barnard, Mrs. Bevan, 

 Isabella, Enchantress, Princess Royal.— 2d, Mr. J. Edwards: Sebastian, Princess 



