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as equal to any similar fete ; and was, in truth, a gathering of all 

 England to do honour to the liberal and spirited invite of our Sussex 

 neighbours, under the superintendence of Mr. E. Spary of the 

 Queen's Graperies, aided by a most influential and zealous com- 

 mittee ; and highly were they rewarded, for as a legitimate display 

 of garden produce it will ever be considered as a triumph ; and 

 meeting, as it did, so fair a share of public patronage, may, we opine, 

 argue favourably for a series each year, and be held as one of the 

 necessary adjuncts to a Brighton season. The band of the First 

 Life Guards under Mr. Waddell, enlivened the scene, otherwise gay, 

 during the afternoons of each day, and was as attractive as usual; a 

 local band also aided at intervals. 



The receipts we learn amounted to a trifle less than 500/., while 

 the prizes awarded rather exceeded half that sum ; it is expected 

 that after the expenses have been liquidated, the two exhibitions 

 will realise a profit of 100/., which sum, more or less, is to be handed 

 over to the funds of the County Hospital ; such a philanthropic re- 

 solve cannot but enlist the sympathies of all benevolently inclined. 

 There was but one regret, and that the absence of Mr. Turner from 

 the scene of action, who, by severe indisposition, was held so far 

 north as Edinburgh. 



Although rather exceeding our usual bounds, we cannot refrain 

 from giving in extenso the general awards; the censors being, for 

 Fruits, Messrs. Keynes, Sheppard, and Solomons ; for Dahlias by 

 amateurs, Messrs. Neville, Sealey, and Black ; for Dahlias and 

 Hollyhocks by dealers, Messrs. Robinson, Cook, and Perry; for 

 Stove and Greenhouse collections, cut flowers, Orchids, &c. Messrs. 

 Ivison and Edwards. 



Orchids : 1st, Messrs. Rollisson and Son, the best of whose being 

 Dendrobium formosum, Cattleya Aclandia?, Miltonia spectabilis, and 

 Burlingtonia venusta ; 2d, Mr. Cole, his best were Vanda tricolor, 

 Cattleya Harrisonii, and Oncidium lanceanum. Stove and Greenhouse 

 collections: 1st, Mr. Cole : Dipladenia crassinoda (very fine), Erica 

 retorta, Ixora salicifolia (a plant ill adapted to tell in a collection), 

 Erica infundibuliformis, Pleroma elegans ; 2d, Mr. Over : Dipladenia 

 splendens and crassinoda, Allamanda grandiflora, and a nice Lesch- 

 enaultia ; 3d, Messrs. Rollisson and Son : Ixora alba (fine), Clero- 

 dendron Ksempferi, and Pleroma elegans : we have but given the 

 best of each group. From the same establishment came a nice 

 Nepenthes Hookerii, with a well-varied collection of variegated or 

 foliage plants, Cissus discolor, being prominent. Ericas: 1st, Mr. 

 Cole ; 2d, Mr. E. A. Hamp, the leading plants being Cerinthoides 

 coronata, Savilleana, Retorta splendens, Ewerana, Clowesiana, Re- 

 torta major, and Infundibuliformis. Fuchsias: eight collections 

 were staged; 1st, Mr. Knight: Princess, Gem of the Season, Pearl 

 of England, Prince Arthur, Don Giovanni, Bianca, Voltigeur, and 

 Clapton Hero ; 2d, Mr. Parsons : Princeps, Fair Rosamond, Magni- 

 fica, Psyche, Pendula, Lady Dartmouth, Comte de Beaulieu, Splendi- 

 dissima ; three other collections were rewarded. 



Of specimen plants a dozen were staged: 1st, Mr. Cole; 2d, 



