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JOUENAL OF HOETICULTUEE AND COTTAGE GABDENEE. 



[ January 13, 1863: 



principal prizes ! Now, the advancement of horticulture must 

 bs quite foreign to this Society's views, otherwise such a display 

 would have never occurred. 



At another Show nearer home, in which my noble employer 

 takes a most lively interest, and to which he desired me to send 

 all I possibly could to male the Exhibition as attractive as 

 possible, I forwarded a rather extensive collection of both 

 plants and fruit, naturally expecting that I should be allowed 

 to compete in all the fruit classes ; but I was doomed to dis- 

 apointment in only being allowed to take one prize in a class : 

 however inferior any dish or collection might be, that actually i 

 ■was awarded the second prize, in comparison to those against 

 them. I consider this a most obnoxious rule, and the sooner it 

 is expuuged from the Society's schedule the better for its j 

 interests. 



This same Society had a rule to the effect that all prize fruit 

 was to be the property of the Society when the Exhibition 

 closed ; but what gardener, I should like to know, would venture 

 to exhibit his employer's produce with such an outrageous rule as 

 this in force ? "Why not claim all the prize plants ? the Com- 

 mittee would then be able to furnish their greenhouses eco- 

 nomically. The worthy Secretary of this Society does not 

 consider the gardener in the leaBt entitled to the puny awards in 

 the shape of prizes ; but forwards them all to the gardener's 

 employer, thus leaving the exhibitor no alternative but to pay all 

 the expenses out of his own pocket, which is no trifle when 

 some of the exhibitors have to convey their plants a long distance 

 by water, and be from home three days and nights. I wonder 

 how you southerners would endure such mismanagement as 

 this. — A Pbachcai Gabdekeb, Ireland. 



BEATON'S GOOD-GKACIOTTS DOUBLE BEDDING PANSY. 



The long-lost DoablePurplePansy has been frequently alluded 

 to in our columns, and was figured and described in the " Elorist 

 and Pomologist" of December last; but that our readers may 

 form a correct idea of this highly ornamental plant, we have 

 now the pleasure of giving them a representation of its appear- 

 ance. The stock of this plant is in the hands of Messrs. Carter 

 and Co., of Holborn, who have given it the name of Beaton's 



Good-Gracious Double Bedding Pussy, by which appellation we- 

 trust it will become as generally &nown as it deserves. The- 

 outer or guard petals of the flowers are about the size of a good 

 Pansy, and the inner gradually diminish towards- the centre, 

 for min g a double flower. There can be no question tha* it will 

 form a valuable plant for beds and borders, more especially a3 

 we understand that it has proved a psafese bloomer. 



