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vyill comlDine their efforts. Tbe result will be a combination of flower and fruit 

 show and bazaar, the hall and the several chambers being severally apportioned to 

 the two objects — namely, groups of plants, flowers, and fruits, interspersed with a few 

 elegant stalls for the sale of fancy articles. The public will be admitted to the whole 

 by one payment, which will probably be half-a-crown each the first day, and a 

 shilling each for the two subsequent days. There will be no restriction of space for 

 the horticultural display, as several of the most beautiful chambers have been granted 

 by the Corporation for the purpose, and it is anticipated that this will be even more 

 attractive than the splendid show of last year. 



At the usual monthly meeting held on October 8, Mr. Marshall, the president, in 

 the chair, some interesting subjects were exhibited. l\Ir. Wilson, the president's 

 gardener, brought a beautiful example of Odontoglossum Cervantesi .roseum, which 

 has wrinkled pseudo-bulbs, and flowers with equal segments, the colours of the 

 flowers a warm shade of rose. This was considered a valuable acquisition, but no 

 certificate was awarded it. From the same a flue variety of Odontoglossum grande, 

 the flowers larger and richer in colour than the ordinary type. Also a pretty 

 Trichopilia witb white flowers. Mr. Groom, of Ipswich, presented portraits of two 

 new English-raised roses — namely, Mrs. Ward, a robusc-habited variety with large 

 globular flowers, and shell petals in the way of Souvenir de la Reine d'Angleterre, 

 but deeper in colour and with more symmetry ; and Mrs. John Berners, a neat, 

 medium-sized flower, beautifully jjut together, the colour rich rose with deep red 

 shades. Both these are from the seed-bed of Mr. Ward, the raiser of John Hopper. 

 Mr. Hibberd contributed a specimen of Sedum Sieboldii, a fine old hardy plant 

 which requires to be grown in a cool greenhouse to bring out its beauty. Tlie plant 

 measured over nine feet in circumference, and had ninety-sis umbels of rosy-pink 

 flowers. From tbe same, some samples of beets ; the best for proportion, in fact the 

 handsomest, was Dewar's Short-top, but this was of a light colour when cut. The 

 Pine-apple beet was a neat small root of excellent colour, and Lindley's beet was 

 good. Wheeler's extra fine beet was the ugliest, and especially ill-formed at the 

 crown, making too much head and too little root. 



TO COEEESPONDENTS. 



Vabiegated Geraniums for Exhibition. — Marlborough. — As you wish to 

 exhibit, ;)0u had better procure from the nurserymen good-sized plants (say in 

 48-sized pots), that have been grown a season, and cut down ; select them of uniform 

 size, as under favourable treatment their growth will be pretty uniform. When 

 you have got them, pot them, if they require it, into a mixture of equal parts leaf- 

 mould, peat, and light loam, and enough silver sand to render the soil free and open. 

 Be particular about the drainage, as this class of plants are very impatient of 

 stagnant moisture. When potted, put them on a shelf in the greenhouse, quite 

 close to the glass ; in this position tliey will be making growth all the winter. The 

 pots in which you place them for their final shift, must be regulated by the rules of 

 the society in connection with which you exhibit. They will require this final shift 

 about the middle of March. This time use pounded bones for drainage, the plants 

 will feed upon them all the summer, and will be very much assisted by them in the 

 development of their beautiful tintiugs. As the plants jirogress in growth, tie the 

 branches out regularly, and by the middle of summer you will have plants worth 

 ooking at. 



DI.■^EAhED Rose-Leaves. — G. a. S. — Tour rose-leaves look as though they had 

 been taken from the weakest shoots of plants that have grown vigorously, and taken 

 into the vigorous shoots all the nutriment the roots could supply, leaving the weaker 

 shoots in a I'eeble state, ready to succumb, by the attacks ol' insects, mildew, or any 

 other evil influence with which they come in contact. If this is the case with your 

 roses, remove at once all the weak shoots, that so all the vigour of the plants may 

 be given to those strong shoots that will give you good flowers next year. Great 

 numbers of roses, grown under the most favourable conditions, have this 

 season lost their leaves in consequence of the continued dull, damp, sunless weather 

 of the last two months. As a proof, roses grown under glass, and comparatively 

 dry, retain their foliage in full vigour. 



