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require renewal, for -which purpose a sufficient number of shoots to replace those 

 to be cut away are retained at the time of disbudding. The soil is dug up 

 annually in spring, and manured every three years. The trees are also well 

 watered several times during the summer. M. 



NEW FLOEISTS' FLOWERS. 



>T a great gathering like the Eoyal Horticultural Society's Exhibition at 

 Manchester, on August 19, and five following days, it was only natural to 

 look for a large contribution of new Florists' Flowers. They were there, 

 sure enough, but very little of really good quality. A First-Class Certifi- 

 cate was awarded to Messrs. Downie, Laird, and Laing for gold and bronze zonal 

 Pelargonium Imperatrice Eugenie, a finely-coloured variety, with a golden leaf- 

 ground, and regular reddish-chocolate zone. The same award was made to Mr. 

 Charles Turner for his fine new Picotees — Admiration, a remarkably heavy rosy- 

 purple-edged flower of the finest quality and fullest substance, the petals large, 

 stout, and regularly marked ; and Miss Turner, a medium light rose-edged flower, 

 pure in the ground, and evenly marked. Mr. C. J. Perry, Castle Bromwich, 

 Birmingham, had a stand of fine new Verbenas ; of these Rising Sun and Butterfly 

 received First-Class Certificates ; the former is a remarkably striking flower, being 

 of a glowing salmon-red ground colour, with small light eye surrounded by a rich 

 deep maroon ring, and of fine substance and form ; the latter is of a warm flesh- 

 colour, with a striking crimson ring round a pale eye. This variety is also large 

 in size, and of great beauty. 



At the meeting of the Floral Committee at South Kensington, on August 3, 

 Mr. Perry received First-Class Certificates for Verbena P. H. Vertegans, a deep- 

 shaded purple, novel and fine ; for Rev. Joshua Dix, blush, with a deep rose 

 centre, also good ; for Thomas Hyatt, clear glowing red, shaded heavily with dark 

 around a pale eye ; and for Joseph Sanders, bright deep red, with a showy lemon 

 eye. All these are very fine, and decided acquisitions. Mr. W. Chater, Saffron 

 "Walden, was fortunate enough to obtain five First-Class Certificates for new 

 Hollyhocks, the following being the varieties : — Carus Chater, dark crimson, 

 flowers large and very full ; Constance, pale flesh, very fine ; Leah, a shaded 

 yellow flower, of good size and full substance ; Junta, pale flesh-colour, tinted 

 with soft pink ; and Walden Queen, pale rose, a fine exhibition flower. 



A somewhat distinct and well-coloured variegated zonal Pelargonium, named 

 Macbeth, from Messrs. Bell and Thorpe, Stratford-on-Avon, received a First- 

 Class Certificate, and similar awards were made to the following bedding 

 Pelargoniums : Sydney Dunstan, a handsome nosegay variety, with large trusses 

 of brilliant scarlet flowers, from Mr. J. George, Putney Heath ; Claudius, another 

 nosegay variety, with immense trusses of pale rosy-pink flowers, in the way of 

 Amy Hogg ; Soleil, also a nosegay, with showy trusses of pale bright scarlet 



