722 THE 
GARDENERS" CHRONICLE 
[DECEMBER 5, 1874, 
maxi y à pre rm 
white, and blotched B purple at the base, 
and a cordate z with a blotch of lemon-yellow on 
disc. A First-class Contificn te had been awarded 
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to the Re KON » Whitchurch Rectory, 
aaa for this plant in September last, E 
e, showed Physianthus ns varie- 
pom dull-looking ae variegated cool greenhouse 
plant, in the xy os of Cobzea scandens. Messrs, E. G. 
Henderson & 
with crimson. Votes 
* also given to Messrs, Standish & Co. re a Sig £ 
Poinsettias, and to Mr. Smith, nurseryman, Ealing 
Dean, for a 1 collection of a good strain of Cycla- 
i G B » gr. to Lady Hume Campbell, 
High Grove, Pinner, again ens on- 
they had ae og during the year; and a 
vote of thanks to dew > conbhicied ihe oi opera- 
tions of the pdt th for 1874, 
FRUIT nf mer —A. Smee, Esq, F.R.S., in 
the chair, There was a good isinen at this meet- 
ing, being the last for 1874, though very few subjects 
e fi idikia è 
sent up from the Society’s garden at Chiswick a col- 
auzseryaonn, Bowden; Cheah; aiT 3 
n ls en, ire, came specimens of a 
Celery under the name of eg Red, 
i identical with icester Red.: Mr. 
Woodbridge, gr. to the Duke of N. Northumberland, 
Syon House, Eisai showed some ripe fruits of 
Musa rege for whic he was AE a vote of 
thanks. Mr. Bennett, gr. to the of Salisbury, 
Hatfield, Takibin ne nie: of Suttons Improved 
Syon House Cu was considered by 
many to be similar to Masters? Prolife. From Messrs, 
Carter &Co, and cee Cutbush & Sons came samples 
varieties of Onions; and Messrs, Veitch 
& Sons their Self-protecting Broccoli. The 
p e Chai th 
the best new fruit and new vegetable respectively, 
ring the year, 
son’s handsome new white Grape, Mrs, Pearson ; and 
Messrs. Villmorin’s Seville Longpod Bean, a son early 
variety with wonderfully long pods, and a great acqui- 
sition. The de eath of Me Daniel Nash, a much- 
hea ipe AT POMONA —— 
: Dec. 1 —3.—A show owers, 
plants, sok fi | frait, that te taken ev chery by ee 
= i ys, at 
proprietor, Mr. Jame Reilly, the char erof the | 
been thoroug changed, a 
pine for sbcaak recreation among the lower middle. 
1e evenings, no do abe it as 
in another aga building we nn this startling | take note of this. The general B 
exhibition of plan ee nd fru the exhibition was entru sted to to Mr, T pmet i 
t there should be y lipett fing idea amongst | of the Belfast Botan nic Garden, whose 
readers of the Gardeners’ "Chi tntde that the Pomona | scape gardener is well 
en is it formerly was, ay well to say | would be expected, the coup- il was 
that last Sunday week Divine Service was conducted turesque, The judges o mme 
in the sot dining-hall (a third immense apartment), Mg and gathered fruit were 
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and that the Dean of Manchester preached there to a - Williams, Mr. Harrison 
congregation of 1600 People. Moral leverage is clearly >x De erby, and Mr, Selwood, gr, 
an aim of Mr, Reilly’s, by io fat cattle ae uoe Westminster, Eaton Hall. 
herë reference to it or the reverse, y not It remains only here to sa that thi 
redeem a place all at once Ton old date. ‘but the | exhibition, set on foot bya i i 
circumstance S at all events one not lightly to be philanthropic purposes—h 
mse 
passed over. risk, paying all the charges, and giving £500} 
The first announcement of this tis pecs: on besides, all out of his own pock t—deserves 
exhibition came out about two month: Many | and does rank pe sym amongst the 
deemed it visionary, others asked what Pomotik oul Rosticalttieal events of the year, It is all y, 
want with flower shows, acer y that it is never too | societies and bodies of shareholders, 
late to mend. The fulfilm of the promise that a | outside subscribers, to arrange for such 
show should be held has n t oe een complete but these single-handed achievements are far more 
as regards exhibiting and contributions there has posi- | mendable. Mr. Reilly is not a professio 
tively been quite a tri e schedule consisted ither, e is iness a chair-maker. 
of fifty-eigh’ ses, coveri cus chairs, of particular kinds, than an 
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plants ; evergreens also, berried plants, Ferns, | the day ee m Pomona Gardens became the scene 3 
bouquets, skeletonised leaves, hanging baskets, par- | of mae abou : 
lour flower-stands, &c, ; also every kind of fruit which 
l ] ; will be easily understood from the ext, the 
it was likely could be sent in good condition, The exhibition, it i 3 —— to he oe than note pe 
nse was liberal, er from all parts of the coun- principal features and productions shown, 
try more than one hun ibitors came up, includ- themums, as mi osed 
ing Mr. Williams of Holloway; Mes t h aoe app Betis: 
Lucombe, Pi Co., of Exeter ; several others from | n-e past t oa S ae See large-flowered 
he South, and many of the leadi g local growers—the | with a good even lot grown in a natu 
a ber entries co "hir exceed- | out more traini ' ecessary to sup 
ing 2 in wh arious objects were | Th ers were not much thinned, but 
dis ptiyed to view consists of no less than 45, ari z 
feet of floor Tt Nadel by pillars and Woe effect. For four large-flowered 
is di a 
five e great = itudinal avenues, the middle one es Favre Copeland was Ist. a z e id 
stituting a kind of nave, while on either hand are a : care aie 
ae of erem s. The length of the avenues is 72 | & Aint ee, Lee agit shag oe 
rom 9 yards to 18 yards, J. Liester took the coveted i i T 
and the height | is about 60 feet. ese figures will 
Draczenas, the Tree Ferns, the Conifers, and other Ee. Eason, ph eae ames sta I 
tall and imposing ehh oe latter of which | pij; Rowe, with a lot Hii aei to the last 
came flocking in like another am Wood, and of i 
course had their fine are off to consummate 
se 
man; ers of o tterns, held th 
ornamental foliage plants of smaller stature, and the 
innumerable flowering end berried plants, conspicuous 
among w ere Crotons in anm variety, dwarf 
Pal (£ hoc genus =e Eric Boronias, 
vardias (both white and pink), peiie rye carlet Ixoras, 
very even ; h 
Pers — in its fresh autumn garb, 
thro an autumn as w 
pitchers “when strong, 
good condition, as also Anthurium Scherz 
ae pedium insigne ; Palms and Fe 
Twelve ha xé Coniferous plants : There were 
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class, especially in the 
popular as ever; but the quality of the recreation has 
greatly ponies, aed convincing proof of 
the “reer and on fide desire and nesta para * Se 
Reilly see everything aoe as regards reputation 
: kaa ae is to be found in the fact of his hazing 
100,000, a vast Agricultural Hall, in wi 
May there was a magnificent Horse " Shows th 
finest, perhaps, ever seen in the North of England, or 
anywhere ; and in which 
was an immense fat cattle and im mplement sh ow, 
so astonishing in its quality and in the abundance of 
ts, as to be second only to eles periodical 
agricultural soci The gates 
. have scarcely seen the egress of the last fat com eee 
of greenhouse Palms : Bata i 
Victoria Nursery, an 
eshire. 
For the best collection of a and foliage 
plants Mrs. Cole & Sons were Ist with a very g00° 
sg fine Palms, t4 
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paii ek rate aiena “ahaa maje 
the heals of the plants rig no in can accrue to sesk Sa of 1 
them. The temperature of the hall is is also well kept i 
i of 
bk ages tt keer is excellent, so that there is ee 
ittle or nothing to eared from the exposure of the T i ir. B S 
plants to h wo standard Bays: ist, Mr. B. 
what might elsew ere prove a destructive 2d, Messrs, Lucombe, Pince & Co. 
itors wh : 5 > Aiens 
posed to show at Pomona nae tn ae: coal Pat e> Standing in different positions i 
