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had some Iiaudsome Begonias, the best of which were Queen of England, Prince of 

 Wales, Princess Alice, Minnie, and Water Witch. Erom the neighbourhood of Win- 

 dermere, Mr. Binder sent a good specimen of the Holly-like Desfontainea spinosa, 

 well fiu'uished with bright crimson flowers tipped with orange yellow. The orange 

 scarlet Embothrium coccineum, in great beauty, may also be reckoned among the 

 meritorious novelties. 



The Exhibition of the Royal Botanic Society, on the loth, was in no way remark- 

 able for novelties or subjects of special interest, though as a f(.'te, every way worthy of 

 commendation. We saw many of the same plants we had admired at the Crystal 

 Palace, as is always the ca3e, the specimens travelling from place to place, and often 

 taking a succession of prizes, which make a goodly amount by the close of the season, 

 for the reward of skilful and persevering competitors. 



Death of Me. Lovell. — We deeply regret to have to announce the demise of 

 Mr. Lovell, the eminent landscape-gardener, of Bagshot, at the early age of thirty- 

 seven. He died on the 30th of May last, of tubercular peritonitis. Mr. Lovell was 

 the son of a gardener to Lord Yivian, and being brought up to his father's craft, he 

 became manager of the grounds of the late Marchioness of Hastings, at Efford House, 

 near Lymingtou. When he left EfFord, he located himself at Bagshot, and became a 

 coadjutor of Mr. Standish in the designing and planting of grounds, his excellent taste 

 in landscape rendering him eminently qualified for such undertakings. He was a 

 contributor to the Journal of the Horticultural Societi/, and to various gardening 

 periodicals ; indeed, he was engaged in writing a series of papers on designs for villa 

 gardens, in the columns of the Gardener s Chronicle, when death called him to his last 

 account, in the very flower of his strength and manhood. 



The following were the principal pi-izes awarded at the National Rose Show, 

 June 23 :— 



Class A. — 1. Paul and Sou, Cheshunt. 2. Mr. E. P. Francis, Hertford. 



Class B.— 1. Equal. Mr. Tiley, Bath ; Mr. Cant, Colchester. 2. Mr, Turner, 

 Slough. 



Class C. — 1. Messrs. Eraser. 2. Mr. Laing, Twickenham. 



Class D. — 1. Mr. May, gardener to C. M. Worthington, Esq., Caversham 

 Priory, Reading. 2. Mr. Hollingsworth, Maidstone. 



Class E. — 1. Mr. Moffat, gardener to Viscount Maynard, Easter Lodge, Dun- 

 mow, Essex. 2. Mr. Thomas Blake, Ware, Herts. 



Class F.— 1. Mr. May, gardener to C. M. Worthington, Esq., Caversham Priory, 

 Reading. 2. Mr. Plester, gardener, Elsenham Hall. 



Class Ct.— 1. W. Cant, Esq., Colchester. 2. Mr. Thomas Mallett, Nottingham. 



Class H.— 1. W. Cant, Esq., Colchester. 2. Mr. Thomas Walker, Oxford. 



Class I. — 1. Paul and Son, Cheshunt. 2. Mr.E. P. Eranois, Hertford, 



SPEEGULA PILIFERA. 



BY SHIRLEY HIBBEBD. 



I HAD fully determined not to say a single ; wonderful excellencies, and a pinch of that 

 word about Spergula pilifera until I could 1 seed was sown at once in a pan, and put 

 tell the whole stoiy from beginning to j into the Waltonian case, which I was then 

 end ; but I have discovered the truth of '. using to ti-y my plan of heating it with 

 the adage, that we cannot have our own ' candles. This was my haste to get it up, 

 way in everything ; for inquiries come so j that I might see a sample of it. In a 

 thick and fast, that I must fain inform my | week or two afterwards, the remainder of 

 friends, through the Eloral World, I the seed was sown in pans, and put on a 

 what we have done with the Spergula at ! back shelf, with a square of glass over 

 Newington. I must have been among the \ each. Knowing the plant to be an alp- 

 very first who put in pi-actice the old saw, ; ine, I filled the seed pans with a mixture 

 "Nothing venture nothing have," in re- j of fine loam, silver-sand, and some sweep- 

 gard to this new material for making j ings of peat and rotten dung run through 

 Turkey carpets, for I had seed of it from j a sieve, and the seed being as fine as dust, 

 Messrs. E. G, Henderson within a few : I mixed it with some of the finest of the 

 days after their first announcement of its compost, and strewed it thinly on the 



