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Captain Cook, Fillbasket ; Nimrod, pronounced by good authorities to 

 be a valuable variety, with a firm dry skin, so that it will bear pack- 

 ing well ; and Prince of Wales (Ingram's) used for the principal crops 

 at the Royal Gardens at Frogmore. 



Among A^eic Annuals, Leptosiphon luteum, a hardy species, with 

 yellow flowers, claims especial notice, as it is an exceedingly pretty 

 annual ; so also does Linum granditlorum rubrum (or L. grandiflorum 

 coccineum, of some) with its deep rose-coloured flowers. There is also a 

 batch of new Delphiniums called Annieum! Woodsi, Weltoni album !! 

 Bronzeum!!! &c. &c., some of which have double flowers; and a 

 Dahlia ]\Iaculatifolia, which is described as a " Magnificent hybrid," 

 (between other hybrids of course) and to be a " grand acquisition," 

 with a "striking and handsome appearance!" Can imagination go 

 further? 



As the season progresses, we shall turn our attention to the nume- 

 rous new plants, and new florists' flowers especially, that have been 

 very recently introduced. There are a great many new Verbenas, 

 both Continental and English varieties. Fuchsias, Pelargoniums, &c. 

 &c., about which we shall have occasion to speak shortly. 



THE GARDENERS' ROYAL BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION. 



This excellent Institution holds its eleventh Annual Dinner at the 

 London Tavern, Bishopsgate Street, on IMonday, June 12th, when 

 Thomas Grissell, Esq., has consented to preside. 



This Institution has especial claims on all those who are interested 

 in gardening pursuits, inasmuch as its sole object is the support of aged 

 and indigent gardeners and their widows, by means of an annual pen- 

 sion ; and the increasing number of candidates at each election shows 

 how eagerly it is sought after by most deserving applicants ; deserving, 

 not only on account of the good character they have borne, but because 

 they are reduced to the lowest state of poverty, none being eligible who 

 receive relief in any other way. A large number is now enjoying 

 this pension, and we have witnessed the joy it has afforded a worn-out 

 and broken-do\\m gardener, when he has been told of the successful 

 termination of a contest, by which 1 e has become entitled to a pension, 

 — small though it be, — of sixteen pounds a-year. Not many years 

 since, one worthy old gardener was a candidate, and contested an 

 election, and would have stood for a second contest, but in the mean- 

 time he was elected a pensioner on a wealthy charitable foundation ; 

 but grateful to the Gardeners' Benevolent Institution, he became, and 

 continues, an annual subscriber of one guinea, and his son, a life sub- 

 scriber of ten guineas. This and other circumstances connected with 

 the Institution, show us how many a heart the Society has gladdened, 

 and we most earnestly recommend it to the notice of our readers. The 

 Committee gladly acknowledge donations of any amount, and, however 

 small, they would be acceptable and gladly received by Mr. E. R. 



