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sort are perfectly ridicnlons. The first-prize Arancaria imbncata 

 from M. Jean Verschaffelt is a very beautiful specimen, from 10 to 

 12 feet in height. Little need be said of the other kinds of Arancaria— 

 excelsa, Cnnninghamii, Cookii, Sec. cicept that they are very ordinary 

 plants. Messrs. Barron carrv oS the first honours for Thajopsis dola- 

 l.rata with very fine plants. 'No notice, however, seems to have been 

 taken of the new varieties of Abies Donglasii exhibited by Messrs. 

 Barron, -which have received numerous first-class certificates in Eng- 

 land. In Conifers the competition was more spirited than in any 

 other section. We cannot, however, say much for the justice of the 

 awards in many instances, or the judgment of the Judges. Favour- 

 itism seems to have been stronglv present. 



A very fine group of fifty varieties of Hollies are contribnted by 

 Messrs. Krelage & Sons, Haarlem, Holland. Standard Eoses are 

 largely shown.^and in good condition in numerous groups by Herr 

 Harms, nurseryman, Hamburg. A great quantity of standard Bay 

 trees, and Oranges and Pomegranates in tubs are also shown, which 

 kwk well arranged in lines along the walks. There is, however, 

 nothing very remarkable amongst them. The Orange trees are as a 

 mle rather' interior. Some pretty groups of standard Fuchsias are 

 also shown by Herr Harms ; the 'plants about 5 feet in height, with 

 good heads of flowers in fine condition. The splendid way in which 

 these were cultivated, although we hate standards, pleased us much. 

 Ornamental trees and shrubs are contributed principally by Herr 

 Jurgens, of Nienstadten. and amongst them are some fine specimens. 

 They do not show, however, to much advantage. 



Prizes were also offered for the finest groups of omamental-foliaged 

 plants. The prize lot, which is shown by A. F. Brockenberg, Ham- 

 kurg, consists chiefly of Cannas, Ricinus, Draccenas, Wigandias, Sec, 

 the plants themselves are good enough, the arrangement, however — the 

 effect produced — is not good. The same may be said of the com- 

 petition for the best arranged flower beds. The designs are elaborate 

 enough, yet there is no harmony, too much variety, and little taste. 

 A few simple articles well used would have produced a better effect 

 than anything here shown. We must just except some scroll leaf- 

 work in front of the plant honse traced out and shaded off with 

 coloured gravel and glass, and little dots of Sempervivum caUfomicum 

 and Echeveria secnnda. That is extremely pretty and chaste. Some 

 pretty patches of grottoes and rockwork are also displayed, which, 

 towever, it is altogether impossible to describe. 

 FRUIT. 

 The gold cnp given by Her Majesty the Queen 'returns to England 

 to grace the already bountifully bedecked tables of Mr. Meredith. 

 Mr. Meredith exhibits for this honour several lots — 1st, three very 

 large, but rather ugly, bunches of Mrs. Pince's BHck Muscat. They 

 appear scarcely ripe, and are not fully coloured. 2ndly, three bunches 

 of Frankenthal, which are magnificent. In his collection, besides 

 these, are good examples of Black Hamburgh, Lady Downe's, Black 

 Prince, Muscat Hamburgh, Trentham Black, Muscat of Alexandria, 

 and Bnckland Sweetwater, all very excellent examples of good cultiva- 

 tion. Mr. Thomson, of Dalkeith, competes with a stand of three 

 remarkable bunches — Muscat of Alexandria, .Ij lbs. ; Chasselas Na- 

 poleon, 4 lbs., one of the best models of bunches we have ever seen ; 

 Black Hamburgh, 3J lbs., scarcely up in colour. These, however, had 

 the misfortune to be somewhat damaged (we believe after their arrival), 

 which told against them. Judging them as three specimen bunches they 

 are decidedly in advance of those of Mr. Meredith. This exhibition 

 was awarded'a gold medal. Herr Wesselboeft, of Flottbeck, Holstein, 

 exhibits a pictty stand, having the bunches suspended thereon. His 

 specimens of Alicante, Black Hamburgh, Trebbiano, llaisin de Cala- 

 bre, Muscat of Alexandria, &c., although very good, and displaying 

 considerable merit, can in no way compare with the English compe- 

 titors. They were awarded a cup given by the Duke of Mecklenburg, 

 imi upon what grounds it would be difficult to tell. 



Mr. Thomson exhibits a small bunch of the new Golden Champion, 

 wliich very deservedly was awarded a gold medal as a new variety. It 

 is amusing to observe with what astonishment these English Grapes 

 are viewed by the visitors to the Show, mixed as it is with a consider- 

 able amount of jealousy. 



For the three best Black Grapes, Mr. Meredith, who competed, was 

 disqualified on account of having been awarded the cup, and the first 

 prize, therefore, went to Herr Heimendinger, a fruiterer in Ham- 

 burg. In the class, however, for the best White Grapes, Mr. Mere- 

 dith has been awarded the first prize, although his exhibitions here are 

 open to exactly the same objection as in the former. 



From the gardens of the Duke of Augustenburg, Flottbeck, Holstein, 

 come a good assortment of Grapes ; the bunches are small, and many 

 of them only half -ripe. A very pretty little lot of the small black wine 

 Grapes, Chateau Lafitte, Chateau Larose, Chateau Gascours, Arc, 

 are also shown, but we cannot learn the exhibitor's name. From the 

 Horticultural Society of Lower Tyrol, Austria, come upwards of 

 seventy varieties of Grapes. These are under number, however, so that 

 no names can be ascertained. There are some large bunches amongst 

 them. Messrs. Demouilles, horticultenrs, Toulouse, France, exhibit 

 a vast variety of fruits ; eighty-four of Grapes, quite ripe, neatly 

 packed in little boxes for export, as we see them in the shop windows. 

 The various varieties of Chasselas have the prettiest and sweetest 

 look. St. Antoine, a round black sort, looks well, as also Aramnn, a 

 sort much cultivated in the South of France. Diamant Tranbe, 

 Marocain Noir, Muscat iiomain, &c., all look very tempting. There 



are, besides these, a great number of other exhibitions of Grape, which, 

 however, have no particular merit. 



Pine Apples are well shown. The fruits, although none of them of 

 enormous size, are all above the medium, beautifully swelled, and 

 juicy. The varieties are chiefly Ripley Queen and Prickly Cayenne. 

 The fruits, however, are of a much thicker and broader character 

 than ours, not nearly so tapering. The prize lots of three cut fruit 

 came from H. Fichtner, Breslau, and Oswald Hnbner, of Breslau ; 

 the best fruit in pots from C. Delpeich, Lucbau, Schleswig. 



Peaches do not form a very interesting feature. M. Lept re fils, the 

 great Peach-cultivator of Montreuil, however, sends some fair fruit — 

 twenty-four varieties of Peaches, and six of Nectarines, the best 

 amongst which are Heine des Vergers, Gain de Montreuil, Tardive 

 Lepcre, Grosso Mignonne, and Belle Beauce. A few good fruits of 

 Stanwick Nectarine are also amongst them. This variety is named 

 Standish's Nectarine. It seems to be nearly always wrongly named. 

 The Peach crop on the Continent seems just to have been as great a 

 failure as in this country. 



Melons are largely shown, and amongst them some very splendid 

 fruit. The first-pri'ze lot of six came from Messrs. F. W. Friso- 

 nette & Sous, Nurserymen, Copenhagen, amongst which we find onr 

 own favourites, Beechwood and Bromham Hall. Herr Heimendinger, 

 fruiterer, obtains a medal for a collection of North American and 

 other Water Melons, which are to be found very frequently exposed 

 for sale in the shop windows. 



Fruit trees in pots are contributed largely and well. Apples, es- 

 pecially, are so well grown, the trees so healthy, the fruit so large and 

 fine. Some examples of Calville Blanche are exceedingly large and 

 beautiful, with a fine bright flush on their cheeks, that would make 

 the month of a Rivers water to see them. The worthy President 

 himself. Syndic Dr. Merck, shows his skill here. M. Wesselboeft has 

 also a fine lot. Senator Goddeffrey, of Holstein, and W. Schwab and 

 Sons, nurserymen, Darmstadt, show so well here, that it is diflicult 

 to say which is best. The Apple trees are for the most part small, 

 not more than 2 feet in height, in lOinch pots, and are beanng on an 

 average from eight to twelve very fine fruit. The Pear trees are 

 larger" and bearing some two dozen fruits each. The beauty of these 

 trees is this— that every fruit is a marked specimen, and never do we 

 recollect having seen them finer. , 



Messrs. Croux et Fils, horticultenrs, Avenay, Liz-Sceaux, Seine, 

 France, exhibit an enormous collection of fruits of all sorts. Apples 

 amount to 150 varieties, and amongst them are some most magnificent 

 examples. The best wasEibston Pippin ; Alexander ; Wormsley Pippin, 

 Mcnagcre, a fine large sort ; Reinette du Canada, Calville Blanche, with 

 a pretty rosy cheek ; Lord Suffield, altered here, however, to Lady 

 Snflield, Gooseberry, Pepin d'Or, like our Sturmur ; Prince of Wales, 

 a variety entirely new to us ; Calville Impcriale, a pretty, large, smooth, 

 white sort; Cox's Pomona Sainte Barbe seemed to be our Mere de 

 Menage; and Beauty of Kent was named Herefordshire Pearmain. 

 The collection of Pears consisted ot 320 sorts, amongst which were 

 some exceedingly beautiful specimens. We noted especially Beurre 

 de Montgeron, a very beantifnl, highly-coloured sort ; Beurre Spence, 

 which is evidently our Flemish Beauty— a Pear about which there 

 always has been a lot of confusion, Thompson's, Glou Mor^eau, 

 Beurre Clairgeau, Beurre Bachelier, Duchesse d'Angoukme, Beurre 

 Hardy, Louise Bonne, Senateur Reveil, a new and fine-looHng sort ; 

 Madame Treyve, De Tongrcs, Doyenne dn Comice, etc. M.M. Croux 

 further exhibit fifty varieties of Grapes, thirty of Plums, Peaches, &c., 

 amonost which, however, there is nothing at all worthy of notice. 



Messrs. Jamain et Durand, nurserymen, Bonrg-la-Reme, France, 

 also stage an enormous variety of Apples, Pears, Plums, &c The 

 Apples and Pears are many of them exceedmgly fine. 01 the former, 

 we may mention Reinette g'rise, Pomme Suisse, Calville Blanche, very 

 large- Frankoter Romainc, a very large, green, kitchen variety; 

 Riviere a handsome Pearmain-shaped fruit ; Calville des Femmes, a 

 very large green sort ; Belle Dubois, our Gloria Mundi, &o. Ot Pears, 

 we noticed Draconon, a large sort in the way of Easter Beurre, Beurre 

 Hardy, Louise Bonne of Jersey, Beurre Sterckmans, General lodtle- 

 ben, a fine-looking Pear, and Josiphine de Malines. Knight's Monarch, 

 Urbaniste, and Thompson's were here wrongly named. 



Another very large collection of Apples and Pears came from 

 Messrs. Martin Miiller, nurserymen, of Strasbourg, France. Many 

 of these consieted of our EngU'sh varieties, the names ot which were 

 in veiy numerous instances misplaced and entirely wrong. 



General Consul Ed. Lade, Villa Mauressas, Hesse, Prussia, ex- 

 hibited a very fine collection of Apples and Pears, Grapes, N uts, &c. 

 Amon"st the Apples we noted the following very fine — viz.. Bar- 

 chard's Reinette, Lelienr, a large pale sort ; Hausmutterchen, a very 

 handsome variety, in shape like Emperor Alexander, but quite dis- 

 tinct ; Chai-lamowsky, pretty ; Lansrton's Landergleichen, a very pretty 

 medium-sized fmit. Amongst the Pears were good esanaples ot 

 Williams' Bon Chretien, Doyi-nn^ .lamin. Doyenne du Comice, «c., 

 and a dish of Bigarreau Mauresses Cherries, a very smaU hard sort oi 

 but little merit. 



From the Horticultural Society, Bazen, Lower Tyi-ol, Austria, come 

 a very magniflcent assortment of Apples and Pears, which being unaer 

 number however, and not named, could not be noticed. A good many 

 fruits of the Madura aurantiaca, or Osage Orange, are also in tbis lot. 

 Messrs. Demouilles, hortionlteurs, Toulouse, exhibit seventy-e.ght 

 varieties of Apples, amongst which were splendid specimens of Reinette 



