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Baronne Provost, Miellez, Devoniensis, Emperor, Probus, Celine, 

 Souvenir, d'un Ami, Marie de Champlouis ; 2nd prize, Mr. Francis, 

 of Hertford, for Fulgens, Minette, Madame Laffay, Coupe de Hebe, 

 Trioniplie de Laqueue, Blairii, Las Cases, Mrs. Elliott, Daphne, 

 Mirabile, Aubernon, Captain Sissolet. 



For Twenty-five varieties of Cut Roses, Mr. Terrj^ gardener 

 to Lady Puller, 1st prize, for some fine clean blooms; also 1st prize for 

 Cut Yellow Roses — the yellows were, Harrisonii Single, Ditto Double, 

 Persian Yellow, Banksia, Williams' Yellow, Comtesse de Cazes. 



Yellow Roses exhibited by Messrs. Lane in pots were Queen 

 Victoria, Persian Yellow, Pellonia, Smith's Yellow, Viscomtesse de 

 Cazes, Harrisonii. Yellow Roae«, Francis's, were Double Yellow, 

 Harrisonii, Elise Sauvage, Le Pactole, Pauline Plantier, Viscomtesse 

 de Cazes. 



In collections of 20 Stove and Greenhouse Plants, the first 

 prize was awarded to Mr. May, gardener to Mrs. Lawrence, of Ealino- 

 Park, for a group, beautifully bloomed, and, M'ith perhaps two excep- 

 tions, exhibiting the very best cultivation. At the back stood an 

 enormous Epacris grandiflora (not the same plant which was exiiibited 

 in May), well furnished with foliage and blossoms to tiie very pot; 

 supporting it on one side was an immense Polygala acuminata, quite a 

 mass of purple flowers, and on the other, an equally fine Coleonenia 

 rubrum. In front were Ixora coccinea, richly ornamented with noble 

 heads of scarlet flowers ; the purple blossomed variety of Aphelexis 

 macrantlia, the best of all tlie Everlastings ; a pyramidal Eriostemon 

 buxifolium, a well-flowered Pimelea spectabilis, at least 4 feet across 

 and as much in height ; Erica Bergiana, 3 feet high and as much 

 through, covered with small round rosy-purple blossoms ; tlie clear 

 yellow Allamanda grandiflora, the blossoms of which suffered much 

 from exposure, the plant having been brought out of a close warm 

 house ; Epacris miniata, by far the most brilliant of the genus ; a 

 beautiful blue Lesclienaultia, and a plant of the red varietv, formiu"- 

 quite a globe of flowers ; a capital bush of the rosy-pink Pimelea 

 Hendersoni, a yellow Cape Heath, the fragrant Adenandra, a small 

 Chorozema ovata, loosely supported on a few sticks so as to form a 

 well-flowered little bush ; the sweet-scented Sphenoloma ijracilis 

 Franciscea acuminata, and Azalea variegata. The second prize was 

 awarded to Mr. Cole, gardener to H. Collyer, Esq., of Dartford for 

 evenly grown plants, approaching so closely tlie perfection of those 

 from Ealing Park that when they were first staged in the morning some 

 persons imagined that tliey would be placed first. At the top was an 

 Allamanda Schottii, with bright yellow blossoms, nearly 6 inches 

 across, and in front an excellent Stephanotis floribunda, also beautiful 

 plants of Dipladenia crassinoda, Pimelea Hendersoni, Ixora coccinea 

 and crocata, Gledstane's Azalea, a large spreading Pimelea decussata, 

 the Box-leaved Eriostemon, not very thickly flowered ; two capital 

 Everlastings, a good plant of the red-blossomed Leschenaultia, the 

 beautifid Echites splendens, with six open flowers on it ; Spiienotoma 

 gracilis, Chironia glutinosa, Chorozema Ilenclimanni, Crowea saliona, 

 a good plant, but insuflSciently in bloom ; the sliowy Clerodendrou 

 squamatum, and a Cape Heath, A third collection was contributed 



