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Victoria, Princess Royal, Mrs. Shelley, Lady Cooper, Essex Triumph, 

 Perpetual Grand, Sir R. Sale, Competitor, Eclipse, Prince of Wales, Pre- 

 sident of the West, Miss Abbott, King- of the West, Mrs. J. Richardson, 

 Hero of Stonhenge, Indispensable, White Defiance, Admiral Stopford, 

 Widnall's Queen, Bedford Surprise and Rose Unique. — To Mr. Holmes. 



The following are the results of Class showmg. 



Floricultural Society. — Best white tipped purple Miranda; white tipped 

 with pink, Ansell's Queen ; dark, Essex Triumph ; Lilac, Essex Bride 

 (seedling) ; Crimson, Sir R. Sale ; Purple, Brown's Blue Bonnet ; rose, 

 Mitchell's Mrs. Kelley ; Scarlet, Thompson's Vivid ; yellow-tipped , Hud- 

 son's Princess Royal ; yellow, Dodd's Prince of Wales; orange, Nil. 



Surrey Florist's Society. — Best lohite, Empress of the Whites ; Self, 

 Essex Triumph ; yellow, Dodd's Prince of Wales ; ivhite tip or blush. 

 Princess Royal. 



A careful inspection of the flowers in the prize stands above enumerated, 

 will convey a better idea of their merits than any attempt of ours to single 

 out and repeat them here. The same varieties that have taken prizes are 

 our most noted kinds here, and such as have been most admired at our 

 exhibitions the past autumn. 



Last spring a prize of £10 was offered for the best two blooms of the 

 best white, the flowers to be exhibited at three several meetings ; and the 

 one which was pronounced the best of the three, to be awarded the prize. 

 The first exhibition for this contest took place before the Royal South 

 London Floricultural Society, Sept. 19th. The prize was awarded to 

 Bianca. These were the smallest blooms exhibited, but were the only 

 two flowers that were quite perfect in the centre : Mr. Bragg's Antago- 

 nist, which carried off" the prize of 5 guineas, offered by Mr. Wildman last 

 year, was exhibited, but both blooms were defective in this respect. 



The second contest took place at the great Salt Hill Dahlia Show, 

 Sept. 22d, when the prize was awarded to Bragg's Antagonist. 



The third and last contest was at the Dahlia Exhibition of the Floricul- 

 tural Society, Sept. 26, when the prize was decided again in favor of 

 Bragg's Antagonist. 



Bragg's Antagonist may therefore now be considered as the finest white 

 variety in cultivation. Probably the new seedling of Mr. Keynes, Emma 

 Noke, may be ranked next to it, it even having taken a prize as the best 

 white, over Antagonist. Bianca is occasionally a superb flower, but its 

 lateness and uncertainty detract greatly from its value. 



Seedlings. — The seedlings of 1843 appear to be vmusually poor. A 

 great number that were sent to the Floricultural Society for inspection, 

 were so inferior, that they were not reported on at all. 



The principal exhibitions of seedlings were, as usual, at Salt Hill, and 

 before the Floricultural Society. The following are the reports ; — 



Salt Hill. — Seedlings of 1842. Four blooms. — 1, Mr. Spary for Lady 

 Antrobus, white and lavender ; 2d, Mr. Brown, Lady St. Maur, white 

 tipped; 3, Mr. Brown, Rembrandt, dark ; 4, Mr. Turville, Champion of 

 Essex, vivid scarlet. Seedlings of 1842. One bloom : — 1, Messrs. 

 Heale, Emperor of the Whites ; 2, Mr. Proctor, Nonpareil ; 3, Mr. 

 Whale, Duchess of St. Albans ; 4, Mr. Headly, Meteor. 



Floricultural Society. — Oct. 3d. — Several dahlias were placed on the 

 table for exhibition. Twelve blooms of a very pretty dahlia, of a peculiar 

 rose color, named Espartero, from Mr. Bragg, of Sloug-h ; it -was pro- 



