270 CULTURE OF THE CHILIAN ALSTROEMERIA. 



5th Prize, Mr. Fozzard, with Essex Bride, Cleopatra, Beeswing, Gloria Muudi, 

 Emperor of the Whites, and Alice Hawthorn. 



6th Prize, Mr. J. Edwards, Holloway, with Essex Primrose, Beeswing, Cleo- 

 patra, Gloria Mundi, Essex Scarlet, and Sylph. 



Two other competitors. 



CLASS VI. 



VARIEGATED VARIETIES. 



1 2 Blooms : open to all. 



1st Prize, Mr. Girling, Stowmarket. with Vicomte Ressequier, Harlequin, 

 Purpurea Alha, Superb, La Vouge, Madame Chauviere, Madame Wallner, 

 Madame Beverche, Surprise, Monsieur Jane Wallner, Nouveau Protea, Zeitgeish, 

 and Archduke Frederick. 



2nd Prize, Mr. Gaines, Battersea, with Vicomte Ressequier, Madame Wall- 

 ner, Harlequin, Oakley, Surprise, Illuminator, Allia Purpurea. Tricolor, (Harri- 

 son's,) M>iid of Lodi, Striata, Monsieur Wallner, Madame Schauenfield, and 

 Queen of England. 



2nd Prize, Mr. Bragg, Slough, with Vicomte Ressequier, Nihil, Harlequin, 

 Miss Watson, Alba Purpurea, Superb, Madame Mortier Bavais, Striata, Sur- 

 prise, Madame Millez, Louisa, Madame Chauviere, and Alba Purpurea. 



Three other competitors. 



CLASS VII. 



VARIEGATED VARIETIES. 



6 Blooms: for Amateurs. 



1st Prize, Mr. Ford, with Nihil, Oakley, Surprise, Harlequin, Miss Watson, 

 Purpurea Alba, Superb, and Queen. 



2nd Prize, Mr. Shepherd, with Archduke, Nihil, Madame Bavais, Miss Wat- 

 son, Oakley Surprise, and La Vogue. 



The eighth and ninth classes comprise Seedlings of 1844 and 1845, 

 our notes upon which being copious, want of room obliges us to defer 

 them until our next number. 



In addition to the Dahlias, some Fuchsias, Heartseases, and Ver- 

 benas were exhibited, and several prizes awarded. 



ARTICLE III. 



CULTURE OF THE CHILIAN ALSTROEMERIA. 



BY MR. l.OUIS VAN HOUTTE, OF GHENT. 



Nothing whatever presents more ornament to our gardens, during a 

 great portion of the year, than this beautiful production, whose flowers 

 are at once so numerous and so splendid ; and yet nothing can be 

 more easy than its culture and multiplication. The thousand varied, 

 but always charming tints, which tinge the corollas of these Alstrce- 

 merias, present a difficulty in establishing a just horticultural nomen- 

 clature for them, as, like their brilliant rivals the Calceolarias, they 

 would defy on that point the most rigid examination. One may 

 affirm without exaggeration that all are beautiful, and one may also 

 infer that they will soon become as popular as the Wallflower, the 

 Mignonette, the Carnation, &c. ; in fact, cut for nosegays, to grace 



