AUGUST. 



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Of Apricots only one dish was shown. They came from Mr. 

 Cameron, gardener to the Duke of Richmond at Goodwood. 



Figs : Brown Turkey and Lee's Perpetual were contributed by 

 Messrs. Page, Snow, Ruffet, Hutt, and Bousie. We also noticed a 

 dish of the Violet Fig, the fruit of which was nearly black. 



Cherries came from Messrs. Bousie, Wood, Snow, and Widdowson. 

 The sorts were Elton, May and Late Duke, and Morello. 



Strawberries were furnished by Messrs. Bailey, Sage, Turner, 

 Kimberley, and Tillyard. Among the sorts were Bicton White, 

 British Queen, Myatt's Eleanor and Surprise, Admiral Dundas, Sir 

 C. Napier, Stirling Castle Pine, Carolina Superb, Filbert Pine, Crimson 

 Queen (large deeply-furrowed late kind), Adair (a large dark kind), 

 and Nimrod. Of seedlings the best was Oscar, the merits of which 

 may now be considered established. It is certainly the best flavoured 

 of large kinds, and being a great cropper must soon find a place in 

 every garden. This was shown by Mr. Turner, of Slough. 



Melons were numerous. The best, however, were Scarlet Gem and 

 Orion, the latter green-fleshed. The former has been successful at 

 every show this season. 



Of Apples a dish of the variety called French Crab was again exhi- 

 bited, still in an excellent state of preservation. 



Miscellaneous collections of fruit came from Messrs. Turnbull, 

 Dawson, Thomas, Ruffet, and Davies, the names being put down in 

 the order in which the prizes were awarded. In the first lot were 

 Pine Apples, Strawberries, West's St. Peters and Muscat Grapes, 

 Royal George Peaches and Elruge Nectarines, Bousie's Incomparable 

 Melon, a handsomely netted sort ; Violet Figs and May Duke Cherries. 

 The second group consisted of Providence and Queen Pine Apples, 

 Black Hamburgh and Chasselas Musque Grapes, Myatt's Surprise and 

 Sir Harry Strawberries, Melons, Royal George Peaches, and Violet 

 Hative Nectarines and Cherries. In the third lot were Queen Pines, 

 Muscadine and Black Hamburgh Grapes, British Queen Strawberries, 

 Violet Hative and Royal George Peaches, and Golden Perfection Melon. 

 In the other two collections were Queen Pines, Black Hamburgh 

 Grapes, Peaches, Nectarines, Strawberries, and Cherries. 



REV. MR. RADCLYFFE'S ROSES 

 The following particulars of a visit, which I made by invitation to Mr. 

 Radclyffe's residence at Rushton Rectory, one of the most enthusiastic 

 and extensive Rose amateurs in this country, may not peihaps be 

 uninteresting. 



In your June number of this year you will observe that my 

 approaching visit to the rectory was mentioned, and, as I have been 

 for many years an ardent admirer and cultivator of the Queen of 

 flowers, I hailed with gladness the birth of the day which was to bear 

 me to the south-west. After a wearisome journey of above three 

 hundred miles, lightened however by the pleasure which I enjoyed by 



