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ditto. 3. Ditto, ditto. 4. Ditto, ditto. 5. Prince of Wales, Mr. 

 Parkinson. 6. Lady Dartmouth, Mr. Dodwell. 



Light-edged Red: 1. Gem, Mr. Dodwell. 2. Mary, ditto. 3. Ditto, 

 ditto. 4. Seedling (Mrs. Wood), Mr. Merryweather. 5. Ditto (70), 

 Mr. Dodwell. 6. Gem, ditto. 



Heavy-edged Purple : 1 . Alfred (Dodwell), Mr. Dodwell. 2. Ditto, 

 ditto. 3. Ditto, ditto. 4. Duke of Rutland (Hollyoake), ditto. 5. 

 Alfred (Dodwell), ditto. 6. Duke of Rutland (Hollyoake), ditto. 



Light-edged Purple : 1. Juliet, Mr. Dodwell. 2. Seedling (Lady 

 Franklin), Mr. Merryweather. 3. Enchantress, Mr. Dodwell. 4. 

 Loiina, Mr. Bayley. 5. Delicata, Mr. Dodwell. 6. Ditto, ditto. 



Heavy-edged Rose: 1. Princess Royal, Mr. Buswell. 2. Queen, 

 Mr. Dodwell. 3. Venus, ditto. 4. Miss Rosa, ditto. 5. Venus, 

 ditto. 6. Queen, Mr. Bayley. 



Light-edged Rose: 1. Mrs. Barnard, Mr. Dodwell. 2. Ditto, Mr 

 Buswell. 3. Ditto, Mr. Dodwell. 4. Ditto, ditto. 5. Ditto, Mr. 

 Bayley. 6. Sophia, Mr. Buswell. 



Besides the above, there were five Prizes given for the best twelve 

 Carnations of any class, and the best six also. For Picotees, too, there 

 were five Prizes for the best twelve, and the best six of any class. 

 These collections contained superb flowers of all the best kinds. The 

 following were very fine : — 



Carnations. — Scarlet Bizarres: Admiral Curzon, True Briton, 

 Broughton's Sir R. Peel, Elliott's Duke of Sutherland, and Lord 

 Rancliffe. 



Crimson Bizarres: Lord Milton, Duncan, Owen Glendower, Gla- 

 diator, Dodwell's Othello, Puxley's Jenny Lind, and General Monk, 

 most beautiful. 



Pink and Purple Bizarres : Sarah Payne, Princess, Lady of the 

 Lake, and Twyford Perfection. This is a pretty class of flowers. 



Purple Flakes : Squire Trow, Squire Meynell, Premier, Beauty of 

 Wood house, and Lord Byron. 



Rose Flakes : Flora's Garland, Lady Ely, Ariel, Lorenzo, May's 

 King John (a first-rate seedling), Lovely Ann, and Madame Sontag, a 

 most superb flower in all respects. 



Scarlet Flakes : Justice Shallow, Hero of Middlesex, Lydia, Cradley 

 Pet, and William the Fourth. 



Picotees. — Scarlet or Rose-edged: Headley's Venus, Marris's Vic- 

 toria Regina (a superb kind). Marris's Grace Darling, Miss Rosa, 

 Princess Royal, Green's Queen Victoria, and Mrs. Barnard : this was 

 very fine. 



Purple-edged: In heavy edges Dodwell's Alfred was pre-eminent; 

 Hollyoake's Duke of Rutland, very superb, which in a full centre sur- 

 passes Alfred. In light edges May's Ophelia is especially beautiful in 

 all respects ; also May's Juliet is a superb flower. 



Red edges : "Heavy edge, May's Sebastian, a fine variety ; Marris's 

 Prince of Wales, very fine ; Lady Dartmouth, very pretty ; and Robin- 

 son's Elizabeth, very large and strikingly showy ; Fellow's Julia 

 Romeo, a fine flower, a seedling not yet sent out. 



Some other superb varieties of Carnations and Picotees were fine, 





