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made the other we could not learn. Had reading gardeners been the principal 

 exhibitors of these georginas, we are persuaded that what we have before said 

 on the subject of classification would not have been lost on them ; but prac- 

 tical men, we shall be told, are not to be taught their business by books, or 

 bookmakers. So much the worse for them. Among the plants exhibited, 

 was a very fine specimen of Anigozanthos rufa, from the Swan River, from 

 seed sent to Robert Mangles, Esq., by Sir James Stirling, sown in August, 

 1833. It is a half-hardy hagmodoraceous plant, with leaves like an iris, 

 about 2 ft. high ; a free grower and flowerer, and likely to ripen abundance of 

 seeds. Its tubular corollas are of a dark crimson colour, running at the base 

 into a deep velvet-like bluish green, which gives the whole a parrot-like 

 aspect, and harmonisies well with the trees and paroquets of Australia. A 

 beautiful silver-leaved Quercus /Hex was exhibited by Mr. Veitch. A dried 

 specimen of a new hardy climber, Physianthus undulatus, which flowers from 

 August to winter, was shown us, and, when plants can be obtained in the 

 nurseries, it will probably be found as great an acquisition as Lophospermum, or 

 Calampelis. Among the fine specimens of old plants were Oncidium papilio 

 (of which we recently received a drawing and dried specimen from Dr. 

 Hamilton at Plymouth), a very handsome Brugmansza suaveolens, numerous 

 fuschias, &c. Among the fruits were very fine melons, pine-apples and grapes. 

 Among the articles shown incidentally was an improved orange tub of slate, 

 which we shall hereafter figure and describe. The following prizes were 

 awarded : — 



The gold Banksian medal : 1. To Mr. C. Dowding, gardener to Lady Clarke, 

 for miscellaneous fruit ; 2. To Mr. Redding, gardener to Mrs. Marryat, F.H.S., 

 for miscellaneous plants; 3. To Mr. C. Brown, F.H.S., for a collection of 

 100 georginas; 4. To Mr. Glenny, F.H.S., for a collection of 100 georginas. 



The large silver medal: 1. To Mr. Atlee, gardener to T. Farmer, Esq., 

 F.H.S., for grapes; 2. To Mr. R. Buck of Blackheath, F.H.S., for Muscat 

 grapes; 3. To Mr. Fletcher, gardener to George Smith, Esq., for a queen 

 pine ; 4. To Mr. William Bridden, gardener to Mrs. Myddelton Biddulph, for 

 a New Providence pine ; 5. To Mr. J. Loudon, gardener to Samuel Gurney, 

 Esq., F.H.S., for green-fleshed melons ; 6. To Mr. William Lindsay, gardener 

 to the Duke of Devonshire, F.H.S., for Gansel's bergamot pears; 7. To 

 Mr. Jarvis, of Turnham Green, for beurree Diel pears ; 8. To Mr. Joseph 

 Kirke, F.H.S., for a collection of apples; 9. To Mr. Upright of Morden, for 

 miscellaneous plants; 10. To Mr. George Mills, F.H.S., for miscellaneous 

 plants; 11. To Messrs. Rollison of Tooting, for Epidendron cuspidatum ; 12. 

 To Mr. Stephen Hooker, F.H.S., for China and perpetual roses; 13. To 

 Messrs. Rollison, for miscellaneous roses; 14. To Mr. Widnall of Cambridge, 

 for a collection of 100 georginas; 15. To Mr. Gaines of Surrey Lane, Bat- 

 tersea, for a collection of 100 georginas; 16. To Mr. C. Brown of Slough, 

 F.H.S., for a collection of 25 georginas; 17. To Mr. Widnall of Cambridge, 

 for a collection of 25 georginas. 



The silver Banksian medal : 1. To Mr. Clews, F.H.S., for black Hamburgh 

 grapes; 2. To Mr. Spong, gardener to Robert Gordon, Esq. M.P. F.H.S., 

 for melons; 3. To Mr. Jarvis of Turnham Green, for apples; 4. To Mr. 

 Boone, gardener to S. Warner, Esq. F.H.S., for citrons; 5. To Mr. CuthilL 

 gardener to Lawrence Sullivan, Esq. F.H.S., for cucumbers; 6. To George 

 Robins, Esq. F.H.S., for Yucca «loifolia; 7. To Mr. Spence, gardener to R. 

 Durant, Esq. F.H.S., for Brugmansia arborea ; 8. To Mr. Mountjoy of Ealing, 

 for heartsease; 9. To Mr. C.Brown of Slough, F.H.S., for miscellaneous 

 heartsease; 10. To Mr. Rivers of Sawbridgeworth, for China asters ; 11. To 

 Mr. Brewer of Cambridge, for seedling georginas; 12.' To Mr. Henderson, 

 gardener to Captain Foster, F.H.S., for seedling georginas; 13. To Mr. 

 Wilner of Sunbury, for 25 varieties of georgina; 14. To Mr. Molier of 

 Fifield, Berks, for 25 varieties of georgina; 15. To Mr. Catleugh of Hans 

 Street, Sloane Street, for a collection of 100 georgina pots. 



