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(Hoyle) ; 6th, Mr. T. Eyre, Unexpected. Light Edged Rose : 1st, 

 Mr. Oswald, Mrs. Barnard ; 2d, Mr. Taylor, Mrs. Barnard, 3d, Messrs. 

 Schofield, Mrs. Barnard ; 4th and 5th, Mr. Dodwell, No. 39 ; 6th, 

 Mr. Taylor, Mrs. Barnard. Yellow Picotees : 1st, Mr. W. Smith, 

 Conrad; 2d, Mr. Turner, Conrad; 3d, Mr. Turner, Aurora; 4th, 

 Mr. Turner, Seedling (Hoyle) ; 5th Mr. Holland, TAmiable. 



Premier Carnation, selected from the entire exhibition, ' Mr. C. 

 Turner, with Holland's Mr. Ainsworth. Premier Picotee, selected 

 from the whole exhibition, Mr. Steward, with Mrs. Barnard. 



The display of Hollyhocks, also open to all England, was very fine, 

 much better than could have been expected at so early a period. It is 

 somewhat remarkable that the Carnations and Picotees should be so 

 exceedingly late, and the Hollyhocks more early than usual. The two 

 causes certainly combined to make the exhibition a very excellent one. 

 The principal competitors with Hollyhocks, were INIessrs. Bircham, of 

 Hedenham, Norfolk; C. Turner, of Slough; W. Chater, of Saffron 

 Walden ; A. Paul and Son, of Cheshunt ; and J. J. Colman, Esq., of 

 Stoke Holy Cross, Norwich. For seven spikes, Mr. Bircham was 1st, 

 with Eugenia, Walden Gem, Charles Baron, Omer Pacha, Pourpre de 

 Tyre, Princess AKce, and Unique ; 2d, Mr. W. Chater. There were 

 more competitors in the cut blooms, the competition being so close that 

 Mr. C. Turner and Mr. Bircham were adjudged to be equal, and were 

 awarded equal first prizes accordingly. 



In Mr. Bircham's spikes, we noticed his Omer Pacha, a new variety, 

 as being particularly fine, pale straw colour with chocolate at the base ; 

 also Princess Alice, cream coloured, a very good flower. Of other kinds 

 we noticed good, Pourpre de Tyre, Eva, Hedenham Rival, Unique, 

 Eugenia, Yellow Model, General Bem, Napoleon, Charles Turner, 

 P'ehcia, Hope, Orestes, Rose of England, Sir David Wedderburn 

 improved, and Duchess of Sutherland. 



It was decided that the meeting of the National Carnation and 

 Picotee Society for 1855 should be held at Oxford, in connexion with 

 the summer show of the Royal Oxfordshire Horticultural Society ; and 

 from the liberal manner in which the above Society is managed, as well 

 as from the number of enthusiastic florists in and near Oxford, we fully 

 expect that the meeting of 1855 will equal, if not surpass, any of its 

 predecessors. 



The most interesting ceremony afler dinner was the presentation of 

 a testimonial to the able and indefatigable honorary secretaries — Mr. 

 E. S. Dodwell and Mr. Bayley, viz., a purse containing sixty-five 

 sovereigns to Mr. Dodwell. The purse was accompanied by a scroll, 

 beautifully executed, containing the foUomng inscription : — " To mark 

 their sense of the disinterested efforts to advance the progress of Floricul- 

 ture, their esteem for his private character, and their appreciation of 

 his zealous and untiring labour, on behalf of the Midland Horticultural 

 Society, this scroll and a purse of sixty-five sovereigns, the produce of a 

 voluntary subscription, were presented to Mr. Ephraim Syms Dodwell, 

 by the Committee, many subscribers, and an influential portion of 

 British florists, at the Annual I\Ieeting of the National Carnation and 

 Picotee Society, held at Derby, August, 8th, 1854." Mr. Bayley's was 

 a similar scroll, and a purse containing tliirty-seven sovereigns. 



