middle or end of April to December. It will be found very useful 

 to those who have but little time to propagate, and little room 

 to winter bedding plants, as it can be kept without either labour, 

 protection, or care. The treatment I have given it is this :— I 

 leave it in the ground through the winter undisturbed, in the 

 same place where it grew the previous summer. Then, in the 

 month of May, when the bedding plants are being planted out, 

 T take it up and divide it into as many pieces as there are 

 sprouts to each stool, and plant it where it is intended to 

 remain. The points of the shoots are pinched off once or twice 

 during the season, and no furtlier care is required until the 



There was besides a considerable display of varieties of Florists' 

 flowers, among which the following received awards ; — 



Hollyhock Stanstead Hival:— from Messrs. Downik Laird 

 & Laing, Sydenham and Edinburgli. A fitie salmon-rose, with 

 large flowers, full, and entirely without pockets. It received a 

 First-Class Certificate. 



Hollyhock George Keith :— from Messrs. Downir Laird & 

 Laing. a full large light crimson, awarded a Fikst-Class 



liollyhock Joshtia Clark: — from Mr. W. Chater. Saffron 

 Walden. A fine light crimson of excellent properties, which was 

 awarded a First-Class Certificate. 



Hollyhock Lady H. St. Clair :— from Messrs. Downie Laird 

 & Laing. A fine large blush, which was Commended. 



Dahlia Cygnet :— from Mr. Turnkr, F.R.H.S,, Slough. A 

 rather small flower, but regularly built, of a deep blush, paler 

 in the undeveloped centre. This was Commended. 



Dahlia Una :— from Mr. Turner. A blush-white tipped with 

 rosy-purple, of good general outline, but rather sunk at the eye. 



Dahlia Bob Eidley :— from Mr. Turner. A maroon crimson, 

 full and of fair outline, but rather rough. Commended. 



Dahlia Minnie Dodds : — from Mr. Dodds, Salisbury. A 

 shaded rosy-lilac, paler at the base of the florets, of medium size 

 and depth, rather deficient in the centre. Commended. 



Dahlia L'Etoile:— from Mr. Keynes, F.R.H.S., Salisbury. 

 A white striped distinctly with purple ; rather large in the florets, 

 but Commended as a decorative variety. 



Fuchsia Hugh Mollon [Mollon] :— from Messi-s. Veitch & Son, 



