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varieties : — 1st, Mr. Turner, with Surpriser, Topsy, Mrs. Willis, 

 Duchesse de Brabant, Miss Ward, Mrs. Sladden, Butterfly, Admiration, 

 Jonas, Mrs. Hansard, Elizabeth, Attraction, Gloire de Kain, Triomphe 

 de Roubaix, Marvel, Empereur de Maroc, Pigeon, Kossuth, Semiramis, 

 Phaeton, Miss Herbert, Miss Weyland, Jenny Lind, Baron Alderson ; 

 2nd, Mr. Legge, with Marvel, Triomphe de Roubaix, Vasci de Gama, 

 Didon, Empereur de Maroc, Duchess of Kent, Princess Charlotte, 

 Topsy, Emma, Henrich, Leader, Uncle Tom, Pigeon, Flower of the 

 Day, Lady Granville, (Eillet Grandissima, Maid of Lodi, Forget- 

 me-not, Reine des Beiges, Admiration, Lady CuUum, Gloire de Kain, 

 Wonderful ; 3rd, Mr. Perry ; 4th, Mr. Allen. 



Seedlings were abundant, and, on the whole, good. We will enu- 

 merate the most prominent among them. First-class certificates were 

 awarded to Lord Palmerston (Holmes), a fine, bold, dark scarlet flower, 

 which will gladden the hearts of the suburban florists ; to Bessie 

 (Turner), bright yellow, shown and described in 1854 ; to Lollipop 

 (Holmes), also exhibited last season; to Yellow Beauty (Turner), which 

 displays a tightness and compactness of centre not hitherto attained by 

 any flower of its class ; to Miss'Burdett Coutts (Turner), dehcatefawn 

 colour, wdth good, firm, and well- arranged petals : this will be, in all 

 probability, the most popular flower of the season ; lastly, to Enchantress 

 (Alexander), a. large fancy variety, which may be described as Gloire 

 de Kain multiplied by two. A second-class certificate was awarded to 

 Shaded Model (Turner), of a colour which is difficult to describe, and 

 possessing good sterling and useful properties. Other seedlings were 

 exhibited, some of which are destined probably to become favourites, 

 but which, from want of condition, immaturity of bloom, or other causes, 

 were debarred from receiving those honours to which they may with 

 confidence aspire at no distant period. Among these we may notice 

 Mrs. Wheeler, dark scarlet, whose light cannot long be hidden ; Grand 

 Sultan (Turner), a very promising maroon ; Chameleon (Rawhngs), 

 yellow faintly tipped with cherry ; Lord Raglan (Keynes), an orange 

 buff variety ; Corsair (Turner), one of the Napier order ; and Florence 

 Nightingale (Dodds), which will probably prove more constantly tipped 

 than Laura Lavington, to which it bears a striking likeness. Yet 

 other seedHngs there were, which, possessing no peculiar merit, demand 

 no particular comment. We are pleased to add that the show was well 

 attended on both days. 



VINE CULTURE. 



So' much has been done and written on the Vine since the days of 

 Noah to the present time, that the subject may well seem exhausted ; 

 yet in the present exigences of this useful fruit, the experience of any 

 one who has successfully cultivated it in any new or peculiar manner 

 may not be unwelcome. 



I will first state what I have done, then my reasons for so doing. 



I have Vines planted along each side of a span-roofed Vinery, six 



