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THE GARDENERS’ 
and Geo. Rudd, white-edge Agnes: au selfs Heroine and Mrs. 
Potts. Mr. T. E. HEN WOOD 
There were several K. e ah four plants. Mr. J. 
SARGENT, Cobham, Surrey, was dopr a with very fine 
examples of Green-edge The Rev. F. D, Horner 8 28 edge 
Rachel, White- edge Acme, salt” Her eroine, Me. C LLIPS, 
ir ma Potts sli, differin ng 
e pairs of Auriculas, Mr. 
ng again Ist with Fear Lanea aion Hero; 
Rachel; Mr. SMITH was 2nd, with Green-edge 
lf 
ere staged, and — 
ANDE RS, 
„Ist, Mr. COLLINS, with 
fine; 2nd, Jur. tE R 1 
. DOUGLAS, wi cme, 
LAS, gr. to Mrs. Whitbourn, Great 
& good dark minti 2nd, Mr. 
Ot collections of fifty Auriculas, 
number of five, Mr. J. DOUGLAS bein placed Ist 
eral coll rieti 
NDERS was 2nd, also witha ee grou ip. 
AURICULAS. 
The Alpine varieties were also bright and Lammy and being 
earlier to flower than the show types, were seen i 
ith twelve e ee Paria, 
was Ist, with aul. of me ing, the s 
being Little Gem, Mrs. Gorton, 1 a Fly, Mrs. Martin 
Smith, Clara Dot, Sophie, the others Pie thal a all highly 
refined; 2nd, Mr. J. DOUGLAS, wit ole, very fine and 
s i 
Charles Turner, e at Hole, anda * 5 ; r- Mr 
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Phillips, showing a sey eal of refinemeat ; 
3 BENNETT- Pe POR with 3 Nellie Hi 3 
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from Mr, C, PHILLIPS hillips. 
The best white centred alpin ne was Winnifred, from * aes 
collection 
2nd, Mr. 0. PHILLIPS, with M rs. Barnett. 
and ies was 2nd ee rare P 
POLYANTHUS, GOLD-LACE 
The _Fepresentatives ol this type, sive on ‘this occasion, 
of improvement as far as the south i is con rned. and the un- 
named seedlings which constituted the bulk were poor i 
quality. 
The best six came from Mr. ere Balham; Mr. = 
DEAN being 2nd, With three plants, Mr. J. DOUGLAS w 
Ist; and Me R. DEAN 2nd, In the class 5 one e only — 
as made. It may be sems of 
properties which —— up 
Fancy 1 AND l 
These. as is usual 1 whic 
are needed in order to impart some life to t mewhat 
sombre show Auriculas. were several co ollections of 
GLAS 
bloomed, and seldom 
Two baskets of Primr 
Mr. J. Dover 
was placed Ist, and Mr. R AN 2nd, It is perhaps * 
egret hat the rer, ma previous el. 
between Polyanthus and Primrose is not more strictly observed 
in this class. 
5 SPECIES OF PRIMULA 
UGLAS was sos only exhibitor of twelve pans 
pots of these, but the ion w: very good one. hough 
the representative of Pa Sieboldi i var. Inctainte aval veld pai 
heat th 
also had japonica, obconica; verticillata (very fi fine), floribunda 
Auricula denticulata, in termedia, Forbesii (v — a distinct, and i 
be decora, an 
te class f rhs group of species and varieties 
arran 
The class for six 
rsery ee ue induce some whos are a, in 
tions. 
the ese plants to 
ECIAL PRIZES FOR NEW AURICU 
Most of mA pat were pois be but as 1 5 as could be 
aoa awards were ma ade only to the selfs. The Rev. 
oe le, was Ist, with Favourite, a 
superb flower, of a dee 252 sh- -plum colour, fine tube and 
aste, the pit stout, and beautifully . A 2nd priz 
Mr, HILLIPS for dar elf 9 
V. 
0 
Mr. C. PH r the name of A. R. Brown's Golden 
n with 3 a black groan shaded to bright fitch . 
J. J. Keen’s spe or 150 seedling show 
GLAS, Who had 
ty a seedling grey- 
Peri, nee a i alte? variety, 
N ame 
The uricu a4 was George Lightbody, grey-edge, 
shown by v Mr. oaiue gr. to Mrs. KYRKE-PENSON, Denham, 
Luilow. 
of miscellaneous ost eee oe a JAMES 
VEITCH & Sons, Chelsea, had several baskets of Me. G. 
Wilson's strain of blue Primro fre stn, gr. to Sir 
EVOR LA rd Lodge, —— of Fancy Poly- 
TT-Poß had a pretty 
erie t of the old blue 
name was not 
anthus and Primroses; Mr. J. 
basket of plants of “the same; ank 
Polyanthus was staged by an exhibitor whose 
ed. 
stat 
Fruit Committee. 
Present: T. F. Rivers, Esq., chairman; cect 3, G. Rey- 
nol. f es „H. Balderson, Geo. ak. * Hudson, 
A. Dean Wright, Dr. R. Hogg, Geo 
. Sage. 
w. — 
Banyard, s. "iei, _ G. H. Sag 
GEO. WXTHES, gr. to Earl Percy, Syon House, Brent- 
pense ibited a nice dish of Sharpe’s Wee Potatos, which 
h oe uced in ten weeks from time of planting. 2 
a bundle of purple Seakale from the sti ground, and so; 
Foster's Seedling Grapes, each of which was 3 
ended. 
r. W. Farr, gr. to ANDREW RS, Esq., Spring Grove, 
8 obtained a eee ee for his re to 
ropper, n 
Messrs. B. Upper . Holloway, London, N 
2 * e Kaz a a French nn and A. t. HENDER- 
Mr. eads), 
g arees Melons, mse arad 
to the Horticultural College, 
9 a al Sovereign and Sir 
dey 
of Radishes came from Messrs, 
Fos — ek sine seed merchan Readin, ng. These were 
tion in the open grou 
of pean varieties, fa may be ne of some very short- 
topped ov: red oured Turnip-roots, 
and * 2 pee red Fre: mak i and English ag Py 
abou! n point. of size, Sutton’s Crimson for sane. 
Their a toring and 3 reing also round -· rooted wit 
sma. ps. A so-called Fern-leaved Tur 
it vere ay Karey if poe 5 table wi 
as itis warf. The Radishes ip 
h very 
Arg Radish was shown; 
ha 
neral c 
ee chiefly the latter. 
ith white 
sisted of i and Turni erae 
Their Hearting Kale is apparently a 
of M 
plant and pods of a * Kidney — ae as pee a 
and 
to send it to Ohiewick fo pin 
send i iswick for trial, The Apple Burfield v — ain 
shown by Mr. ro 9 MITH, A a des: eee 
expressed mmittee to the coo king oe of 
this “omnia athe useful and er aair variety. 
Primula at s 
Fi the afternoon a Conference on Primulas and 
Auriculas was held 3 the — of eee 
: osTeR, Secretary, F. R. S., who in open- 
ing the proceedings behint Pam t the Conference 
had been arranged with a Ray 2 F the 
result, (1) by procuring new 
regions which had not mat et, bots ee 
practising most successful culture that could be 
adopted, (3) from assisting Nature by t 
man in the of hybridisation, by the hand of 
CHRONICLE. 
e of 
re three 3 of obtaining this 
rem 
[Aram 27, 1895, 
Pr a od Hosters ane a Wn; for 
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mon Prim 52 be i 
PoR 
Primulan,” the chairman vei vant rem 
the fae py it as 
Wee a E a poy s 1 nist, and as» 
always most reads to impart inform ation, 5 r 
from his pont nowledge, was 80 freq ue — A 
from him — 
r. Baker's Lecture. 
In commencing his a Mr. BAKER said that the i 3 
conference on Primulas under the auspices of the Rojal 
Horticultural Society was held in 1886, and the amount d 
rk that had in i 
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piai in the stem jo species there 
as but one cae Or aad of vascular tissue, pia 2 
however, did not attach m value to internal i 
for 8 of dd tion. i 
In two 5 good works on Prim — i 
Germ Dr. ji 
wied. in Pax, of Berlin, one of the 
tic Botany in Ge 
graph of the genus, Pe bien “dead jra 
whioh were 
mbe 
tw wenty arranged by Dr. 
numerous periodicals in nti ihe Peren e ye ten j 
had been published. 
into cultivation, N 
Ps, Auriculate, © Cap 
to each other. 
likely to come 
delicate. * 10th, and 11th grou 
Fari 
vane six ams alsc 
—— migh e 15th group, Barbate! 
and 
macrocarpa, iucludes seven species; 17th group, 
type P. obtusi dolls, and ten pecies. 
and if 
tial yet be 
r) had to W. 
hould, as a first step, adopt the 
given to known mem 
Paper by 
Mr. SELFE LEO; 
ture, cation, Exhibitionand No 
Classi 
by 2 that the European 
seen under cultiv. ation to a smallextent, 
