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THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE 
wards of Merit. 
Odontoglossum aac ining from 8 F. Sander 
Odontoglossum peiopapetalon albens, from Mesers. F. Sander 
& Co. 
Masdevallia Sandee Red, from Mens. 1 Sander & Co. 
Yoleus aaa ep from Messrs. F. Sander & Co. 
anensis, 2 ashes F. —. 4 & Co. 
of X z, from M ee Sander & Co. 
rs, F. Sander & Co. 
zegonia aria 
ay Co. 
zonerila Mrs, H. et Walters, from Messrs. Sander & Co, 
ttleya ce Ash worth, from Mr. E. Ash worth. 
A large Gold Medal w ed to Messrs, F. SANDER & Co., 
of St. T E new bad vars rare plants, Orchid Gold Medals 
to Messre. Joun LAING & Sons, London, for 
— Aer, SUTTON & Sons, r Reading, for Gloxinias, 
Calceolari ; Messr ons * ter hiss he of Saw- 
— — started’ and Momia. s & Sons, of 
Shrewsbury, for press cat and floral —— 
R EXHIBIT 
The ie hues brenne kge called th e 3 presented 
was not the 
collections 5 
in po e pots, 
For general purposes this is a move in the right direction, 
altho h ala 4 ae? 
Rihi 
den E Viola, and the variety Pilrig Park still hoige its 
owna whites.. The fancies were a 7 apes be j 
— M n = Son, Bedale, * 0 
cut herbaceous an r flowers, in w ch Poppi es a * Pyre- 
thrums — $ aR ruby and pay —— being show 
quantities were much ad mired 
Messrs, JONES & soss, Shrewsbury, exhibited some excel- 
lent wreaths, cross iria. ond a few Goodyear 
bouquets, which, when we Fee h good flowers, from 
their pre and drapery of pbs and Smilax and 
ribbons well. The Cypripeds as grouped here in this way 
looked rope go 
Mrs. H | Wellington, who has taken many gold 
medals rie 3 eto ni ised leav owers, had an excellent 
e 
assortment. Her manipulation of the appendages and pitchers 
i notable 
of Nepenthes, as represented in group, are very le. 
roups.—In the groups, Miss LORD, Ashton-on-Mersey, 
made 2 = far the nt arti best in every way. 
ve was m pieces of rockwork abutting here 
and spain now il now falling, effectively covered w 
sphagnum, making it look istic. It was made up 
Palms, Kentias inating, with Alocasia Veitchi, Anthu- 
riums in variety, the telling Gladiolus-flowered a 
several good pieces abundantly-flowered of bium densi- 
fi + with undulati filled up with Caladium argyrites, 
Caleeolarias, Cro’ x eus, ike, but yet too 
lustrous as locasia, but as soft as a Nettle. The C. 
here were we loured and effective, and the Ferns, Isolepis, 
and Palms, and mixed flowering-plants grouped well together, 
Mr. B „ = 
D RARE PLA at 
Messrs ee S as r the best. ir ch 
werein n Sonerilas, with multitudinous spots, varying in forma 
d 
tion of leaf — AOA an round, They had also a pretty 
ed Golde 
duces a stout spike, with large orange-scarlet 
flowers habt, a So F + B 2h 
disappearance = ne. 5 2 of byegone times, 
W. 
Pees aia 12.34. 1 2. a +h 
flowers were developed. We noticed Duchess of 
the still useful al Kai 
of Cambridge, rapi g Everestianum, Ewart 
Gladstone, Lady pan —.— George Hardy, and many 
Messrs. SUTTON & Sons, Reading, had a 
choice assortment 
Gloxinias and herbaceous Calceolarias. The strain in these 
was excellent, and the habit so dwarf and the leaves so 
that can rival esty, and the leayes are so 
ev. sn cupanlons, so — the ‘Sides of the 
and phy kep substance, 
Adoration 
Scarlet is very —— and s 80 
to the Calceolarias, 
good, Golden Nugget, as its name implies, is like ropes of 
2 so thickly set is the frait on the plants; Earliest of 
the Peas exhibited in S. inch pots by firm ; are posi- 
tively as fine as the “strain in the garden, 
and the pods „and beautiful sea green; 
Empress of I. dia and Favourite two striking varieties. 
Messrs, JOHN G & Sox. of Forest Hill, London, S. E., 
had al set in one of the grass 
circles in the centre d The i ement in the 
seedlings of genus is very marked. Baron C, de Hirsch, 
Laing, and lati 
* 
Ri s rgest best Nectari 
Cardinal is also excellent. The exhibit well merited the Gold 
ed p 
e anes a 
and samples of the fruit of Cycas 
ety, according to Chairman at dinner, is about 
to — 22000, to help £190 et: which was subscribed by Lord 
DERBY, as stated on p. 716; another £100 by a donor whose 
name is not given, and Mr, STATTER also promises a subscrip- 
tion, 
SOUTHAMPTON HORTICULTURAL. 
together a variety 
one of thie: v shows held at 
2 th an eh ge a marke 
the mixed 
Na ting Wa a 
effect. 
on- 
d oe as did 
nts which competing 
rranged lien regard to general 
The principal group-class was that in which a gas 
98 square feet had to be covered. 
WIIIS, Florist, W 
tition 
had an effective e group of 
ety, consisting of 8 
thrums in de the pretty yellowish 
Cypripedium pube cens, Thalictru esculenta, 
nice effective blue, as well as the po Arms Campanu * the 
double scarlet Geum, erias, Centaureas in varied 
„Chester, 
us plants in much varie 
— 
had a fine lot of the naked - 
ethrums, Heuchera san- 
Poppy, quantities of Py: 
Aster Alpinus, Lychnis flos-cuculi flore-pleno, 
tiful well worthy of general 
plants of 
Te-chenaulti biloba—which for an indigo tint has never been 
surpassed in 
Mr. J. FORBES, Hawick, neg Ah a tony 
The „ to curl up the 
flowers of Violas; still, those P y fresh- 
looking. We liked for distinctness he. bronze and gf ota 
and harmoniously disposed over of 4 — 
species of Ferns, Mr. Peel’s plants were beautif — 855 flow 
and included fine Oncidium sphacelatum and Cattle, 
mpton, was easi 
— did “hima much credit. 
Mrs, KING keanan — Valley Nurseries, was 2nd. 
PLANTS. 
Mr. E. Carr, gr. to W. A. GILLETT, Esq., Fair Oak Lodge, 
ke, was Ist for six specimen Caladi ums, six Begonias, 
P ums, Roses, Spiræas, and Palms 
ive classes, 
chi stinet f. tu especially 
fine were those by Mr. OC , especially the of 
Millonia vexillaria, toglossum — 0 i 
O. crispum, and O. Pescatorei, sphacelatum, Lelia 
purpurata, E, vitellinum 3 Cattleya Mendeli, 
and Cypripedium hi 
_ The Bi T NURSERY Co. and | Mr. wins showed -n 
5 
WERS, 5 
Dr. SEATON, Rutlan ge, Bitterne, was the y 
Ist prize for twelve cut blooms 2 
2 pene h t 
dis muta ay. For twelve Maye distinct, Mi ii 
Shirley, was an easy 1 7 with i 
vases; 2nd, . WE 
by M 
VEGETAR: 
Vegetables were remarkab 
mongst 
Hall, with, amongst others, capital” ers W 
otatos, Early Mila rnips, od of 
Of non- r jects, which numeron 
should e of a pea ge colt on of 
and shrubs tiy 951 * well as N 
Mr. RS, Red Lodge nee of ae 
grand tap 15 der deere aud pin alpine plants in 
2 * 13 being disp t 
of Aquilegias, Pinks, including Ernest 
po Py mei deat) Lae fs sely flowered in pots, shoy 
nurseryman, grea “ied eng ð 
display. “a 
oy 
— fit . 
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gate amount, well as the di „ of 
The districts indicated by number in the f 
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6 5 + | 103 o ＋ 12/7 364) 6— bis 
7 6 + | 116 o ＋ St 30, 1— pe 
8| 4 + | 107 o — 43+ 887 1 — ejr 
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10| 3 + | 102 o — 91/41950 aver} TE 
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of the walk; bet towards its close it be" = 
and thunderstorms w ere experienced in 
id, S. i . 
ties, — bf n weet: 
el Islands.’ The range <i 
was very large, es rade at the i 
