THE FLORIST. 195 



Mr. Hoyle exhibited his Prince of Orange, which received the 

 silver medal at the Royal Botanical Society's exhibition, Regent's 

 Park, last month, for its high colour ; also his Christabel and Satis- 

 faction, which were awarded similar prizes at the same place and 

 time. The first is an orange-scarlet flower of good size, good 

 breadth of petals ; but wanting in intensity of blotch, which prevents 

 the flower from producing that striking effect which would otherwise 

 be the case from its very high colour. It is thin, but possesses great 

 refinement and evenness of colour, — a characteristic of this gentle- 

 man's productions. 



Christabel is a fair, delicate, wax-like flower, fine broad bottom 

 petals, of a flesh colour delicately tinged with orange. The upper 

 petals have a dark rich blotch, shading off very evenly into an orange 

 ground edged with rosy lilac. The feather in the eye gives a little 

 poverty to the general appearance of this pretty flower. 



Satisfaction, a very good-shaped middle-coloured flower, but not 

 distinct enough in other respects to require further notice. 



Many other varieties were exhibited ; some had better have been 

 absent, whilst a number of others possessed very considerable amount 

 of merit ; but we shall not enter into them here. It is the place 

 flowers take in the exhibition-stands which must be considered the 

 great test of their value in the eyes of those readers of The Florist who 

 cultivate the Pelargonium, and such will not be displeased at our 

 bidding them make a note of Hoyle's Crusader, which appeared on 

 this occasion, and which will be found in every first-rate collection 

 in 1850, unless we are mistaken. 



We ought not to pass away without a line or two in praise of 

 the efforts of others to give a general interest to this exhibition by 

 the contribution of other flowers and plants to adorn the tents. 

 Amongst them we found our friends Edwards and Tyso with Pansies, 

 Pinks, and Ranunculuses, — the latter capital. Turner too was there, 

 and Mr. Bragg, who, by the by, at his inn at Slough, provided our 

 inward man with most comfortable and abundant refreshment, which 

 we regretted to find so small a circle partake of. There was not 

 upon this occasion so much interchange of opinion upon the points 

 forming a perfect Pelargonium as we had hoped ; but there was a 

 most agreeable and friendly spirit, in which money was again freely 

 subscribed towards a similar object ; time and place to be settled as 

 way may open. A statement of the subscriptions and disbursements 

 will appear on our cover. 



THE OPEN TULIP-SHOW, YORK. 



On May the 29th this long -anticipated event took place; and cer- 

 tainly, considering the season, a greater number and better flowers 

 were brought together than we expected. It was apparent, however, 

 that very many new and fine sorts had been so seriously injured as 

 to be without the pale of censorship. 



