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Frazer's collection, although containing many of these varieties, was 

 deficient in clearness and brightness of colour, so apparent in the first 

 and second collections. Mr. Gaines exhibited a collection, consisting of 

 French and other varieties, some of them quite unknown to us, and 

 possibly new, but we did wot recognise any good varieties among them. 

 In the amateurs' class for six Pelargoniums, I\Ir. Nye, gardener to 

 E. Foster, Esq., Clewer Manor, near Wmdsor, was first with very fine 

 plants, covered with flowers of good quality ; 2nd, ]\Ir. Wiggins, gar- 

 dener to E. Beck, Esq., Isleworth. Others exhibited in this class, but 

 we were unable to take notes of them. 



For twelve Fancy Pelargoniums : 1st, Mr. Charles Turner, with 

 Empress of France, Electra, Madame Sontag, Delicatum, Celestial, 

 Mary Hovvitt, Lady Hume Campbell, a superb plant of Jenny Lind, 

 Queen of Roses, Cloth of Silver, Conspicuum, and Richard Cobden. 

 These plants exhibited the peculiar qualities characteristic of the Slough 

 collections ; 2nd, Messrs. J. and I. Frazer, with Advancer, Delicatum, 

 Madame Sontag, Princess Alice Maude, Formosissimum, Princess Marie 

 Galitzin, Miss Sheppard, Jenny Lind, Argus, Floribunda, Celestial, and 

 Gaiety; 3rd, Messrs. Cutbush & Son, Highgate ; 4th, Messrs. Dob- 

 son & Son. 



For six Fancy Pelargoniums ; 1st, Mr. Winsor, gardener at Kidde- 

 pore Hall, Hampstead, with Magnifica, Duchesse d'Aumale, Fairy 

 Queen, Berrier, Electra, and Princess Alice Maude, all fine plants and 

 well flowered. Mr. Bousie was a good second, with Delicatum, Per- 

 fection, Princess Marie Galitzin, with a superb head of fine bloom ; 

 Triumphant, a well-flowered plant of Formosissimum, and Richard 

 Cobden. Mr. Weir, of Hampstead, had six well-grown plants, but 

 not sufficiently in bloom, excepting Jenny Lind, which was a very fine 

 plant, and there was not sufficient variety in this collection. ]\Ir. Car- 

 rigan's collection had evidently been grown too freely, and was in con- 

 sequence very deficient of bloom. Mr. Joseph Monk, Cranbrook Park, 

 Ilford, sent six wretched-looking plants that would not have found a 

 ready purchaser in Covent-garden market. IMr. Lambert's were 

 nicely grown plants, but not sufficiently in bloom. There were also 

 four other exhibitors in this class. 



In the classes for newly introduced plants were exhibited Begonia 

 splendida, with large crimson leaves, and the Hedaroma tulipiferum, to 

 which a second prize was awarded ; both plants came from Mr. Epps, 

 nurseryman, Maidstone. The judges, however, seem to have made a 

 mistake in awarding a prize to the Hedaroma, as the schedule states 

 that " no plant will be considered new that has been shown at the 

 metropolitan exhibitions in a previous season," while examples of 

 Hedaroma tulipifera have been frequently exhibited. Mr. Miellez, of 

 Lille, sent a new Gesneraceous plant, of no great beauty, with pale 

 Gesnera-like flowers ; and Messrs. Standish & Noble sent Azalea 

 amoena floribunda and A. amcena grandiflora. Messrs. A. Paul & 

 Son had a new Bourbon Rose, Bacchus, of good form, colour pale rose. 

 From Messrs. Veitch & Son came the beautiful Ouvirandra fenestralis, 

 or Lattice Plant, and a plant of the Sundew (Drosera dichotoma), two 

 of the most interesting plants in the exhibition. The same firm also 



