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appearance ; truss large, individual flowers rather small, but of fair 
shape. 
Brive (Barker).—White, changing to blush as the flowers die off; 
trusses and flowers of medium size ; segments of corolla well rounded 
and even. 
Ducuess or NorTHUMBERLAND (Barker).—Peach colour; large 
size; segments of corolla broad, stout, and very smooth; a large 
trusser, and generally well arranged. 
Unron Jack (Ivery).—Purple with a ray of crimson around a light 
eye; truss compact, flowers small, and segments not rounded enough. 
Apparently a compact grower, remarkable for its peculiar contrast of 
colours, and more a flower for the garden than show. 
Eyrsricut (Barker).—Bright rose with a red eye; truss large, 
good substance, and better than the average form. 
Miss Tuoroip (Barker).—Delicate lilac; a large bold-looking 
flower. 
Roya Pourrie (Young).—Bright deep purple ;- much after the 
way of Emma, upon which it appears an improvement. 
HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITIONS: 
THEIR INFLUENCE ON GARDENING, 
BY MR. CHITTY, STAMFORD HILL. 
Wirutn the last few years many circumstances have contributed to 
raise the art of gardening to its present elevation, both as to the cha- 
racter of its productions and the high estimation in which it is held by 
almost all classes. The establishment of Horticultural Societies, and 
the exhibitions usually held in connexion with them, have, perhaps, 
imparted the most powerful stimulus to the art; and the now 
numerous gardening periodicals contribute not only to the maintenance 
of a steady attachment to the pursuit, but to feed an increased and yet 
inereasing desire to possess larger collections of plants, and to excel in 
their culture. The present race of gardeners, both amateurs and 
practical men, may congratulate themselves that, in the great variety 
of publications now offered to their notice, they have the opportunity 
of selecting according as their precise wants may require. Among the 
most useful of these may be reckoned the FLoricULTURAL CABINET, 
not only on account of the practical nature of the matter that usually 
occupies its pages, but also because of its wide dissemination among 
the younger branches of the fraternity of gardeners, and the consequent 
influence its contents must have upon their future practice. It is in 
consideration of this latter circumstance that I wish to offer, through 
the medium of the Casrner, such remarks as have occurred to me 
from time to time on the relation horticultural exhibitions bear to 
gardening in general; and though many of the subjoined remarks may 
be found trite and common-place, yet they may not be altogether 
useless, since it is only by the persevering application of the most 
common-place means that success in this, or, indeed, in almost any 
other, pursuit is attained. 
