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flavour in the opinion of the judges were Bailey's Green-fleshed and 

 the Bromham Hall. Of scarlet-fleshed sorts the best was one called 

 Scarlet Gem, a small kind from Mr. Tegg, gardener to Baron Hambro', 

 at Boehampton. 



Of Figs, Mr. Snow, gardener to Earl de Grey, sent a beautiful dish 

 of the Brown Turkey, large and finely ripened. Some good fruit of this 

 kind also came from Mr. Frost and Mr. Richards of Tadcaster. 



Of Cherries, by far the best were two dishes, one of Black Circassian, 

 the other Elton, from Mr. Henderson, gardener to the Duke of Suther- 

 land at Trentham. These we were informed had been grown in 

 the kind of glass structure known as the "Trentham case," and were 

 certainly very fine. Others came from Mr. Ferguson, of Stowe. 



Plums were shown by Mr. Ingram, gardener to J. J. Blandy, Esq., 

 who sent good fruit of Denyer's Victoria. 



Strawberries were not remarkable either for quantity or excellence. 

 The best were dishes of Sir Charles Napier, British Queen, and Keens' 

 Seedling from Mr. Smith, of Twickenham. Mr. Clarke, of Twickenham, 

 and Mr. Stoddart, of Colchester, also both had good fruit of the kinds 

 just named. 



Among miscellaneous exhibitions we noticed a bunch of unripe 

 Bananas and some very good Cucumbers. 



CAMELLIAS. 



In your April number, Mr. Kite asked a question about Camellias, 

 which appears to be only indirectly answered in the " leading article " 

 of the next month, as the question itself is not there alluded to. The 

 variety figured is very beautiful, but it is not new, as it occurs in a list 

 I made with great care six years ago, for practical purposes, and which 

 1 append to these remarks, as an additional answer to the above 

 question. In an eminent grower's catalogue of that year, the name 

 was spelt with two slight differences from your orthography of it, but 

 those differences made the name beyond question a Flemish one, which, 

 however, might have been given it in Belgium, though the plant were 

 raised in Italy; just as Wood's Duchess of Norfolk Rose is of French 

 origin, though it has an English name. 



As my purposes were not carried out, and a long period has since 

 intervened, my list must, in some degree, be obsolete ; and, therefore, 

 I shall be as much obliged as your April querist if you or some expe- 

 rienced correspondent would revise and correct it, and bring it down to 

 the present time. Mr. Kite's list appears, as far as it goes, to be a 

 good one, but it omits what I think the most perfect of Camellias, and 

 the only white that surpasses the old Double White or Alba Plena, 

 namely Montironi. This variety may have too little depth for some, 

 for it lies most evenly flat; but its exquisite form, its perfect imbrication, 

 and the semi-transparent ethereal white of its complexion, render it 

 more like a carved ivory brooch than a real living flower ; and as the 

 plant blooms very freely, and is of hardy constitution, though of stiff 



