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a 
fice t ought therefore to be exercised in selecting 
jad most suitable pan for pod inside of the building. 
and flower: iga rally 
o ar- 
eee 
igh a 
successful collection consisted = iantum = 
, Pteris argyræa, Gymnogram ee chea 
Dicksonia antarctica, D. squarrosa, Alsophila excelsa, 
a nd C. dealba r. Jobso 
to W. H. Ston q., Havant, ood ii wii Awe. 
ion almost or quite equal iè Mr. Gilbert’ They 
-were most of th nye r plants, and at a cursory 
a 
sane might have been considered even superior to 
the cup lot. Messrs, Balchin & Nell, of Brighton, 
Mr, C 
J. Ashbury, M.P. for B 
ury, on, wa the 
best collection of thirty-six varieties ot C “Glad. 
Right 
good collection, but his spikes wer 
ars “p, the ea 
or poser S sa ioue 
ge epee not wily 
s, and wen x frat and vegetables. 
ood, 
ey were utterly ineffect hey w n 
lines, the lines themselves, and the spikes in 
m too c together ; but the worst 
feature about them was the spikes of the three 
r set up, but the ‘ites: were all past their 
prime: 
sa hlthough wr _cups brought out no great competi- 
series of small 
hee 
4 Sitte for kiritahi ed 
one would a all the talent a bond county to 
come The Pelargoniums show 
have eee if ever, been 1 
formed the most g and 
ae 
Byes 
he first d open to 
all England, ently, four Zonal, not scarlet, four 
scarlet, and four double-flowered. 
rav for his Zonals and scarlets, Mr. 
n and Mr. H. Hemsley contributed the next 
in Gilet of merit. 
Before leaving g tent where the Pelargoniums 
stove and greenhouse plants, 
His 
a 
aA 7 means so good as formerly. Mr. 
, that tick the Ist Ameir were the 
fe 
r Ke ook Ist prizes for both 
shows (orty-cight varieties) = og s (twenty-four 
es) ; and Mr, Seale exhibited 
stands Ther o some good 
no prizes. I 
eynes, gaining Ist prizes in both 
; ny iro se in pren and Ag, although 
iie 
—they were supe- 
! ‘shows produced a year or 
In the miscellaneous class pe wre two things in 
dese 
the marquee deserving of me —Mr. H. Hems 
ley’s improved tree and white fee fet E p nette, 
and Mr. almer’s patent syringe plunge, a prac- 
tical appliance that must come into gene: 
Returning to the Pavilion rooms the first t thing to 
strike us in A the class for table decorations were the 
stands filled by Mrs. Seale, of Sevenoaks, than which 
J > ben eaaa + > A 
se Miss Kenward, of Lewes, gained the Ist prize 
in the class open to amateurs only, with a set of e 
eig deservit the hon The remaining exhibi 
these classes were 1 sib e or less deficient, ‘ad 
notably | so the stand = pa the jadees awarded the 
2d prize in aa amateurs’ clas 
Roses sters an s] llki of cut flowers were 
all voipi Toe and considering the battering 
the apra rs had experienced, the show was up 
to the average. In Roses, Mr. Knig sht, of Hailsham ; 
shee, “Mitchell, Piltdown; Mr. Š Sevenoaks ; 
a s. Woollard, Cooksbridge, were the chief 
exhibitor 4 he etition in as ve 
ry 
no ything approaching a 
doubtless, to the cause alread 
h 
me For French tasseled, twenty-four varie- 
es, the successful ak ek ig Mr. Betteridge, 
emsley, a chin ell ; 
i n 
Gettin quilled, Mr. Betteridge, prise fd vera 
Mr. Laking from Sa oe ae place, an 1 
of Lewes. ny good t thin: aes in other 
classes of plants a ete “et flowers: of the latter, ee 
stands exhibited A -k Fowler, Mr, Gilbert, 
bson, 
were oenibited, “alot up to the old 
rd oy the Rev. C. H. Hales, to whom the 
Ist prizes in both divisions were awarded. 
e have left little space to fruit, which was un- 
e collections of 
th 
uted a Saad plant, as a 
o a good example 
"Peaches are always 
pon a rigl ton, Sa tata competition was so strong 
the various exhibits so near in quality that all 
deserve mention ; the list of names alone would 
cupy m pace, 
fa conclusion, a A large, profusely flowered 
ea glabra, Fotis by Messrs. 
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promises a 
d lease of prosperity to the Society. (From a 
C edeki it). 
Preston Horticultural : 
: Sepi. g and 10,—The 
autumn show of 
this Society eee place in the 
spacious rooms of the Corn Exchange and - 
large glass-covered area which they su mrii 
far as affording ample space for the quantity of 
plants, fruits, cut flowers, and ables sei 
together, room for visitors 
with comfort, few buildings in the kingdom are 
bettët adapted. But there exists the usual objec- 
tions to m exhibitions, in the of dust, 
and t effective ap ce of plants 
individually, rete “inseparable from owie in 
a building, how well adapted it may be 
a tag ered i ize of 
the different subjects exhibited 
ng influe of the buil 
was superior to any the Society has pre- 
ine a good one, all the 
being well repre- 
Pelargoniums made quite 
just to the day, with Suficient 
foliage. Fruit was shown aantities 
exotic and hard: ne bund: and 
ery fine, especi cats, which had the thorough 
finish of colour about the goon seen ; the Black 
bur. ince were als 
Hamburghs, Alicante, and Black P 
splendid. Culinary vegetables were in such quantities 
nd condition as growers in the parched-up southern 
ason, 
well done and tg at Apae ` as seen from 
he galleries that ound the central area of the 
busing. “The wid ie. of the e arrangements were well 
and 
tbyth 
their goresen secretary, Mr. Troughton, whose 
— ve She, he 
and abilities en the most 
ap hemo 
ton, po which go so far to insure 
no ordinary i 
a feature, Wt yom Bo flowered ‘ 
a E ccioaitadh exhibi- 
ear Preston, was Ist, with a very fine lot, comprisi 
Allamanda 
ifi 
G. flabellata, equally fine ; Croton undulatum, 
revoluta, and a grand plnnt of Dasylirion rem 
r. J. Smith, gr to T. Wilki 
2d, with a smaller but Sia re group, i in which 
was a well done Erica Fai 
fera, two very good Croton, Vetit pey Had sii 
in finer céhdition than these 
d 
ass, 
show 
wich required an equal number 
of flowering and 
foliage plants — they ing six flowering and four 
foliage ; an extra prize was rded them. In this 
group were good plants of the best variety of Anthu 
um aa well-flowered large Cro 
saligna a most useful autumn plant either for 
exhibition or r decorative persian’ a fine Phcenocoma, 
and ac of good Palms, 
Six t foliage plants: Mr, Thoruber rst, most notice- 
ve amongst which was a well-grown n large Gleichenia 
ivestita, Cocos Weddellian ants and 
; 2d, a E. Payne, gr. to J. edhe; Esq., 
Fulwood v with a well-done, i a 
2 
go 
aee d the best pot of Dionæa muscipula ever seen ; 
s shown msa a large bell-glass, and was a most 
baicoi plan kais G. & W. Yates were 3d. 
Twelve ae a s plants: a ‘Sapa 
again Ist. i cigs a splendid example 
Nepenthes Hookerii, some 6 feet high and 2 feet 
pent 1g 
through, beautifally’ farnished with pitchers of the 
highest possible colour ; the new Croton majesticum, 
one of the very best of ‘the genus ; Vriesia reticulata, 
osa, thi 
had 
others, in fine ‘condition, Agave filifera, 
Yue ucca oa filamentosa variegata. 
D me Ist, Mr. Thoruber, with a not 
erta sb mn: ec ~ which were 
Gleichenia ae an B ta æ, such a plant 
as is seldom seen of the beni PChellanth ne — 
and Davall ap epi. S eet across; 2d, 
Beaton, gr. to Colonel Behall who hte a res 
grown ‘even group. 
Four stove and greenhouse plants: rst, Mr. E. 
eee? with a _ Dipladenia amabilis, Allamanda 
ottii, and ‘ large and finely- 
flowered. This plant is not so muc as it 
be, ha place to things not 
ly cultivation, 2d, Mr. R. 
Wilban o J. Brown, Esq., Preston, In this 
collectio a well-flowered Brugmansia 
Knighti, which, when finely shown, as this was, is 
s were, as usual at the North na 
and — 
Tacuba, with = K a nigel grown 
Twelve st, Thoruber, his 
plants being fresh at ¢ distinct in character—a condi. 
tion not always met with in groups of hardy Ferns, 
that often eee bee many of one genus to give them 
their wonted in Mr. Beaton, with smaller, 
but nice anaes euin plants. 
Zonal Pelargoniums were sh 
peria p recom both ast 
ork be ponia panine chet a = 
Pe Toos were tag well Gooe; at large, bit ue 
een’ 
Cut flowe 3. 4 3 grp 
large quantiti ies, forming a very importan got ee 
the show, especially the Gladioli. 
oughton, fro was Ist wi 
eee: i a 
ae Ee een Gladioli : 
2d, oughton ; these two collections were so 
evenly Balanced that i it took very close inspection to 
determ welve Gladioli: 1st, 
ll his oppo- 
