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Ranunculuses. 

 In stands of '12 distinct varieties. 



Private Growers. 



M. Mr. Betteridge, Abingdon ; for nice blooms of Rival, Hippolita, Melange 

 <les Beanies, Beauty, Brenda, Ponceau pourpre, Nomias, Queen Mab, Cedo 

 Nulli, La Blauchisseuse, Oidet d'Anvers, and Naxara. 



2nd. Mr. Airzee, City Road, London, for Edgar (Tyso), Mirabelle (Aust), 

 Milo (Aust), Felix (Tyso), Attractor (Tyso), Lucia (Kilgom), Dr. Franklin, 

 Emancipator (Lightbody), Dr. Gardner (Lightbody), Rob Roy, Emperor, and 

 Harold. 



In stands of 24 distinct varieties. 



Nurserymen. 



Messrs. Tyso and Son, of Wallingford, were the only exhibitors ; their 

 blooms, however, were very fine, and attracted much attention : the extreme 

 delicacy of colour and symmetrical shape in some of the varieties were indeed 

 beautiful. 



The stand comprised Apollo, Belle Agreeable, Sou, Financier, Burns, Gloria, 

 Mirabelle, Niobe, Passe Cour de France, Philocles, Princess Royal, Queen 

 Victoria, Alexis, Arbitrator, Attractor, Cathcart, Champion, Dilecius, Edgar, 

 Glennete, Wilson's No. 5, Vendome, Victor, Tippoo Saib, and Nonsuch. 



In addition to the preceding, Messrs. Tyso and Son exhibited a stand of 100 

 blooms, not for competition ; amongst which we particularly admired Ada, 

 Albinus, Saladin, Orlando, Amadis. Basilica, Comptroller, Creon, Laureate, 

 .Tubal, Grand Roman, Imbert, Herbert, Gippins, Felix, Flaminius, Arbrisseau, 

 Bishop Van Lima, Delphinium, Fete Nocturne, Marquis ol Hertford. Louisette, 

 Horatio, Hercules, Henrietta, Comtesse de Plaisance, Condorcet, Melpomene, 

 Nestor, Rosney, Semiramis, Oressus, Overwinnaar, Roi des Renoncules, Rosney, 

 Sir Sydney Smith, Sophia, and Temeraire. 



CLASS II. 



All persons competing without restriction. 



Stove or Greenhouse Plants. 



In collections of 40 different varieties. 



1st. Mr. Barnes, Bromley. This group was an extraordinary production, and 

 was allowed, by every cultivator who saw it, to be one of the best specimens of 

 horticultural skill ever produced at the show. Among the most remarkable 

 plants was a dense thicket of Phcenocoma prolifera, 2 feet in height, and about 

 4 feet in diameter, the branches hiding the pot, and profusely covered with 

 flowers; closely allied to this genus were two magnificent plants of Aphelexis 

 humili*, about 18 inches in height, and 3 feet in diameter, and densely clothed 

 with bloom, which, on this occasion, owing to the brightness of the day, ex- 

 panded beautifully; A. sesamoides formed a perfect cone ; and there was also a 

 small but very admirable specimen of A. grandiflora purpurea. Of the genus 

 Clerodendrum there were several plants, all remarkable specimens ; C. panicu- 

 latum had a spike ol flowers 3 feet in height, and 4 feet in circumference at the 

 base, and the extreme circumference was nearly 20 feet. A fine plant of Ixora 

 rosea was very much admired, as were also two admirable dwarf and compact 

 specimens of I. grandiflora. Not less remarkable were two immense bushes of 

 Pimelea decuisata and Epacris grandiHora, in admirable bloom. There were 

 also fine plants of Polygala cordifolia, Statice macrophylla, Dillwynia pungens, 

 and Stephauotis floribunda ; the latter on a flat circular trellis, well bloomed ; 



