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classes. The undermentioned varieties were staged in the several stands in splendid 

 condition : — Prince de Porcia, Clotilde, Pierre Notting, Lselia, Le Rhone, Comtesse 

 de Chabrilland, Antoine Ducher, Devoniensis, Dr. Andry, La France, Madame C. 

 Joigneaux, Duchesse d'Orleans, Marechal Vaillant, Madame de St. Denis, Expo- 

 sition de Brie, Niphetos, Marie Bauman, Madlle. Marguerite Dombrain, John 

 Hopper, Marguerite de St. Amand, Imperatrice Charlotte, Madame Fillion, Rev. H. 

 Dombrain, La Fontaine, Anna de Diesbach, Duke of Edinburgh, Monsieur Noman, 

 Marie Bernardin, Souvenir d'Elise, Marie Rady, Duchesse de Caylus, Gloire de 

 Vitry, Pitord, Madame Furtado, Victor Verdier, Madame Ganrobert, Alfred Colomb, 

 Baroness Rothschild, Marie Luiset, Comtesse Jaucourt, Charles Lefebvre, Madame 

 Willermoz, Camille Bernardin, Marechal Niel, Xavier Olibo, Centifolia Rosea, 

 Princess Mary of Cambridge, Senateur Vaisse, Michel Bennett, Jean Cherpin, 

 Mademoiselle Therese Levet, Beauty of Waltham, Model of Perfection, Thorin, 

 Achille Gonod, Frederic Bihorel, Triomphe de Rennes, Francois Louvat, Souvenir 

 d'un Ami, Horace Vernet, Madame Grondier, Leopold Hausberg, Madame Charles 

 Wood, Madame Victor Verdier, Alice Dureau, Olivier Delhomme, Abel Grand, 

 Francois Touvay, Madame Boll, Felix Genero. The above selection includes all 

 the new varieties worth recording, both as pot plants and cut blooms. 



Royal Botanic Society's Second Summer Show, June 30 and July 1. — 

 The exhibition on the above-mentioned dates was iu every way a grand finale to a 

 successful season. The cold weather of June had enabled exhibitors to show stove 

 and greenhouse plants, pelargoniums, and other showy subjects, in a fresh condition 

 for the time of year. Therefore these, in combination with the banks of fine foliage 

 plants and ferns, produced a magnificent display. The group of orchids from Mr. 

 Archer, gardener to A. Turner, Esq., Leicester, were certainly the best that has 

 been exhibited for many years past, and reflected the highest credit upon bis skill. 

 The stove and greenhouse plants of Mr. Chapman, gardener to J. Spode, Esq., 

 Bugely, occupied a position analogous to that of Mr. Archer in the orchids, whilst 

 Mr. Fairbairn, gardener to the Duke of Northumberland, Sion House, was the 

 champion in the classes devoted to plants with ornamental leafage, staging fine palms, 

 Alocasias, Anthuriums, and the grandest examples of Maranta rosea-picta, and 

 Thamnopteris nidus ever exhibited. Mr. Baines presented his fine specimen Sar- 

 racenias, in splendid condition. Fruit was a leading feature of the exhibition. 

 The collection from Mr. Miller, Coombe Abbey, was really magnificent. The 

 grapes were plentiful and good ; Mr. Henderson, Cole Orton Hall, first for Black 

 Hamburghs, large in berry and beautifully coloured ; Mr. Cole, Ealing Park, first 

 for Buckland Sweetwater, with superbly-finished examples ; and Mr. Bannerman, 

 first for Black Prince. Mr. Ward, Bishop Stortford, staged the best pines, and Mr. 

 Jack, Battle Abbey, and Mr. Miller, tlie best Peaches and Nectarines. 



The Rose Shows at Birmingham and Hereford have been decided successes, in 

 every sense of the term, and go a long way to prove the great love which all classes 

 have for the Queen of Flowers. The Birmingham show was the most extensive 

 affair of the kind that has ever taken place. 



The Hamburgh International Horticultural Exhibition promises to be 

 remarkably successful. The Queen has graciously signified her intention to offer a 

 silver cup for the best specimen of grapes exhibited at the September Exhibition. 

 The Society for the Cultivation of the Rose in Brie-Comte-Robert will send 10,000 

 cut roses, besides large entries of Gladioli, Roses, and Dahlias from other exhi- 

 bitors. 



The Royal Horticultural Society's Show of Carnations and Picotees on 

 the 6th ult. was well attended, and the stands of magnificent blooms staged by the 

 growers of these beautiful flowers, were sufficient to prove that the growers of good 

 old florists are by no means extinct, or that the general public have forgotten 

 them. 



The Royal Horticultural Society's Show at Manchester, in connection 

 with the Royal Agricultural Society's great annual meeting, was a failure in almost 

 every sense ; the result of a complication of blunders by the council, who in this 

 case attained to perfection in the art of " how not to do it." 



Meteorological Fact. — It is worthy of notice that, on the 21st of December 

 last (the shortest day), and on the 21st of June last (the longest day), the reading 

 of the thermometer in both instances was — lowest temperature in previous night 

 — 54° ; rain. 



