SEPTEMBER. 263 



Field ^Marshal and Hale's Mr. Weedon are two useful evenly-laced 

 flowers. Turner's Richard Andrews is a large weU-laced flower, and 

 may be termed a broad petalled "^Vhipper-in, as it resembles that 

 variety, but has a \nder and smoother petal. Duke of Devonshire is a 

 flower with a smooth well- shaped petal, as full as Great Britain, 

 and, hke that variety, has rather too many petals, but its size can be 

 reduced by leaving plenty of buds. Looker's John Stevens and JuHet 

 are promising flowers, the former a dark purple, and the latter a hght 

 purple laced variety; also Mr. Hoyle and Mr. Hobbs, red laced 

 flowers of good average quahty, and good exhibition flowers. Norman's 

 Napoleon is very dark laced, a striking flower with a large bold petal, 

 but is rather tlmi. Colchester Cardinal has proved a fine flower, with 

 first-rate properties, ha\'ing a very smooth stout petal. 



Of older varieties ^laclean's Criterion stands at the head ; it has been 

 very fine this season, and fuller than it is often seen. Bragg's Jupiter 

 has been verj^ fine, and President and Purple Perfection have been 

 shown good. Optima, Ada, Kate, Mrs. Wolf, Sarah, Lord Charles 

 Wellesley, Arthur, Beauty of Salt Hill, Constance, Esther, Sappho, 

 Lola Montes, Richard Smith, Titus, Lord Valentia, Perfection, and 

 Hurlstone's Fanny, have all been exhibited in very good condition, and 

 are generaDy very good flowers. We have seen a few yearlings that 

 possess excellent properties, but refi*ain fi-om enumerating them until 

 another season has confirmed their being dissimilar, and desirable new 

 varieties, as they appear at first to be. Some of the best flowers we 

 have had were produced fi-om plants wintered in small pots and planted 

 out in spring, and, considering the small space they occupy during the 

 ■\\'inter, and there being no risk of losing them should the season be 

 unfavourable, this plan should be more generally adopted. 



POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Our readers will have observed, by an advertisement in our last 

 number, that the Pomological Society is now fairly started. Since 

 then offices have been taken at the house of the Botanical Society of 

 London, No. 20, Bedford-street, Covent- garden, where the business of 

 the society vdVi in future be transacted. It is understoc»d that a show 

 of fi-uits will take place in September, to be followed by others at suit- 

 able times for forming an opinion on the merits of the fruit sent to the 

 Society for exhibition. 



That the Pomological Society is eventually to become one of the 

 most really useftil institutions of the day, no one, who has given any 

 consideration to the imperfect knowledge of the best fi-uits now per- 

 vading country districts, can for a moment doubt ; nor yet, when we 

 look at the imsatisfactory tribunal under the sanction of whose awards 

 new fruits, be they good or indifferent, are yearly being thrust upon 

 the public. To name a case in point, we may advert to the 

 new Strawberries of the year. Here we see, in the first place. Patter- 



