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are not desirable, because they are seldom remarkable for produc- 

 tiveness, and it is much better to have two fruit twelve inches in 

 length than one eighteen inches. For a companion to Turner's 

 Prolific, Masters's Prolific, a most excellent and free-bearing white- 

 spined variety, can be highly recommended. Indeed, it is such a 

 good cropper that a very small amount of frame or house-room will 

 suffice to maintain a regular supply throughout the season. 



The most important contributions to the exhibition of the Royal 

 Botanic Society, held April 12 and 13, were the Pot Roses, green- 

 house Azaleas and Cinerarias, and hardy Herbaceous plants. The 

 competition in the classes for roses was remarkably spirited, although 

 the number of exhibitors was not large. The two leading trade 

 exhibitors were Mr. C. Turner, Slough, and Messrs. Paul and Sons, 

 Cheshunt, whose collections were very evenly matched ; but there 

 can be no doubt that the first prize was most deservedly awarded 

 to the collection from Mr. Turner. As a guide to rose-growers, it 

 will be well to give the names of the varieties shown in the two 

 collections, which, it is hardly necessary to say, are first-rate for pot- 

 culture. The collection staged by Mr. Turner comprised examples 

 of Anna Alexieff, Miss Ingram, Marie Baumann, Souvenir d'un Ami, 

 Marechal Vaillant, La France, Celine Forrestier, Victor Verdier, 

 Princess Mary of Cambridge. The varieties in the Cheshunt collec- 

 tion were Madame Victor Verdier, Madame de St. Joseph, Dr. Andry, 

 Charles Lefebvre, Souvenir d'Elise, John Hopper, Horace Vernet, 

 Juno, and Marechal Niel. The leading amateur exhibitors of roses 

 were Mr. Baxter, gardener to C. Keiser, Esq., Broxbourne, and Mr. 

 James, gardener to W. F. "Watson, Esq., Isleworth, who were first 

 and second respectively in the class for six, with well-grown examples 

 of the leading kinds. 



Spring-flowering hardy herbaceous plants are so beautiful when 

 grown in pots under glass, and require so little skill to manage 

 them properly, that it will be useful to many to mention that the 

 splendid collection with which Mr. Ware carried off the first prize, 

 consisted of Spiraea japonica, Dielytra spectabilis,- Polemonium 

 reptans, Polvgouatum multiflorum, Triteleia uniflora, Primula cor- 

 tusoides amcena lilncina, P. cortusoides intermedia ; the common 

 and striped-leaved Lily of the Valley, the fern-leaved Preony, and 

 Cheiranthus luteus fl. pi., a very fine double yellow Wallflower. Cinera- 

 rias, with but one exception, were far from first-rate. The principal 

 exception was the collection from Mr. James, who staged a group 

 of most beautiful and well-flowered specimens. Several new plants 

 were shown, the most interesting of them being Cyclamen persicum 

 Snovjlake, a fine large-leaved variety with large pure white flowers, 

 from Mr. Goddard, gardener to H. Little, Es-q., Cambridge Park, 

 Twickenham ; Tillandsia argentea, an interesting epiphytal species 

 with silvery leaves, and Euterpe antioqtiensis, a very graceful-grow- 

 ing palm with pinnate fronds, from Messrs. Rolli?son and Son ; 

 Amaryllis hybrida gujantea, a very beautiful variety with medium- 

 sized flowers, of a delicate blush colour, most beautifully painted 

 rich rosy carmine, from Mr. B. S. Williams, Upper Holloway ; Acer 

 pohjmorphum pahnatifidum, a very beautiful maple with leaves 



