200 THE FLORIST. 



Dr. Daubeny, and Lord Valentia ; 2d, iMr. Bragg. Certificates of 

 merit to J. Edwards, E^q , and Mr. Keynes. 



Picotees. — 1st prize to Mr. C. Turner, for Mary, Constance, 

 Marris's Seedling Mary, Sylph, Heroine, Ne-plus-ultra, Juno, Ge- 

 neral Jackson, Beauty,' Prince Albert, and Duchess of Sutherland ; 

 2d, to Mr. Newhall. ' 



Carnations. — 1st, to Mr. Willraer ; 2d, to Mr. Newhall. 



Pansies were shewn, and two prizes awarded ; but in July there 

 is neither beauty nor interest attached to them. 



Seedling Florists Flowers. — Pinks: Sappho (12 blooms), shewn 

 by Mr. Turner, was very evenly laced, smooth on the edges, good 

 size, and, we should say, a constant variety. Huntsman, by the 

 same grower, very smooth, stout petal, laced with rosy purple. Both 

 had certificates. Picotees, Dodwell's Mary, light red edge : large 

 fine variety, of good substance ; Fellowes's Prince Arthur, medium 

 purple edge, good white, full flower, without bars or spots of any 

 kind. In Carnations there was a very good rose -flake called May's 

 Romeo. There was a large display of seedHng fancy Pelargoniums, 

 of various degrees of m.erit ; but great sameness pervaded the majo- 

 rity of them. The judges did not risk an opinion by selecting any 

 for certificates. A pretty light seedling Fuchsia, named Banks' Ex- 

 pansion, possessed fair properties, being of good habit, stout, and 

 having the colours strongly contrasted. 



At Chiswick there was a brilliant assemblage of Orchids, stove 

 and greenhouse plants, and Cape Heaths ; but as they consisted in 

 a great measure of the kinds enumerated in the foregoing pages, we 

 need not repeat their names here. At both shows cut Roses were 

 abundant and fine ; but especially so at Chiswick, where we remarked 

 noble displays of that most charmingof all Roses, Geant des Batailles, 

 and capital boxes of our old friends Baron Prevost and Devoniensi«. 



Single Specimens consisted of Rhododendron javanicum, a charm- 

 ing greenhouse species, from Messrs. Veitch ; Kalosanthes coccinea, 

 from Messrs. Frazer ; a huge plant of Stephanotis floribunda, and 

 a beautiful Ixora javanica, from Mr. May, gardener to Mrs. Law- 

 rence ; the magnificent Lisianthus RusseUianus from Mr. Green, 

 mentioned in another page ; Erica Parmentieri rosea from Mr. Den- 

 nett ; E. ferruginea, from Mr. Epps ; Pleroma elegans, a most beau- 

 tiful hardy greenhouse plant, with round, purple, convolvulus-hke 

 flowers, from Mr. Ivison, gardener to the Duchess Dowager of 

 Northumberland ; plants of Kalosanthes from Mr. Cole ; and Ste- 

 phanotis floribunda from Mr. Bruce. 



New Plants. — Those to which prizes v/ere awarded were, Ixora 

 salicifoUa (see New Plants in another page) from Messrs. Veitch ; an 

 Acineta, like Barkeri, from Messrs. Lane ; and Cattleya Mossite alba, 

 from Mr. Ivison ; the yellow-flowered Luxembourgia speciosa was 

 produced by Messrs. RoUisson ; but on account of its having been 

 shown in the garden in former years, it was not awarded a prize 

 though it deserved one, for it is really pretty. 



New hardy Evergreens consisted of Ceanothus papillosus, cune- 

 atus, dentatus, rigidus, and integerrimus ; Berberis Leschenaultii, 

 Myrica californica, Laurus regalis, the Californian Evergreen Plum 



