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2nd Prize, 1/., Mr. N. Gaines, nurseryman, Battersea, for fine bushy plants, 

 2^ feet high by 2 feet across, of Favourite (Gaines), a rather pretty little flower, 

 after way of Venus Victrix ; Duke of Wellington, Vesta, Coccinea Vera 

 (Smith's), Goldfinch (Harrison's), Reflexa, Coronet, Madonna (Harrison's), 

 Cassandra, a good light flower ; Priam, Britannia, and Monarch. 



Extra Prize, Mr. Kendal, nurseryman, Stoke Newington, for Goldfinch 

 (Harrison's), Stanwelliana, Coronet, Young May Morn, pretty ; Robusta, Vesta, 

 Erecta elegans, Gigantea, with some immense blooms; Ohandleri, Globosa 

 grandiflora, Defiance, and Venus Victrix. 



Extra Prize, Mr. Robinson, gardener to J. Simpson, Esq., Pimlico, for Vesta 

 (Smith's), Goldfinch (Harrison's), Iveryana, Queen (Pawley's), pretty ; For- 

 mosa elegans, Chandlerii, Hope (Barnes's), Exoniensis, Eppsii, Modesta, Venus 

 Victrix, and Coronet. 



Cinerarias. 



In collections of 4 distinct iwieties, groicn in No. 12 sized pots. 



Nurserymen and Private Groicers. 



1st Prize, 1/., Messrs. Lane and Son, Berkhampstead, for Laverstonia, fine ; 

 Eclipse, Diana, and Splendens. 



2nd Prize, 10«., Mr. Gaines, Battersea, for Matilda, General Tom Thumb, 

 Britannia, and Compacta. 



Extra Prize, Messrs. Henderson, Edgeware-road, Paddington, for Fanny 

 Elsler, Beauty of Wortham, white, with a slight pink tip, pretty; Washington, 

 and Enchantress Superb. 



CLASS IV. 

 Cut Flowers. 

 In this class the competition was principally confined to the 

 Pansies, the collections of which contained some fine blooms, espe- 

 cially those of Messrs. Brown of Slough, and Turner of Chalvey ; 

 to the'former'of which the first prize was given, although there were 

 no names of the varieties attached, and the 10th rule of the Society 

 should, therefore, have excluded them. We hope the Society will in 

 future direct the judges strictly to enforce this rule in all cases, 

 however meritorious the productions may otherwise be, because the 

 mere information of the name of a successful competitor is of no 

 value whatever to that portion of the public who have not attended 

 the show ; and those persons who are present feel mortified instead 

 of gratified in seeing the flower of a fine variety, which they would 

 like to possess, without a chance of knowing its name. In results of 

 this nature we may readily see the reason why the interest and use- 

 fulness of some Floral Societies, who permitted such exhibitions, so 



soon ceased. 



Pansies. 



In stands of 36 varieties. 



Nurserymen and Private Growers. 



2nd Prize, 10*., Mr. Turner, florist, Cha'.vey. — We observed some excellent 

 Mourns of these fine varieties : Purple Perfection, Rubicon, Hannibal, Eclipse, 

 Curiun, extra ; Malibran, Regulator, Triumph, and Pizarro. 



