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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



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arranged with Mr. Turner's invariable good taste as regards 

 colour. They consisted of Rosy Circle, rosy pink ; Vesta, 

 white ; Prince Jerome, deep salmon, with crimson spots ; Ivery- 

 ana, a beautiful compact maBS of bloom ; Perfection, bright rose 

 with crimson spots ; Holfordi, rosy purple ; Standard of Per- 

 fection, bright rose ; Criterion, Gem, Roi Leopold, and Sinensis, 

 rich deep yellow. His other collection consisted of some of the 

 above sorts, with the addition of Due de Nassau, rosy purple ; 

 Duchess of Nassau ; Rosalie ; Trotteriana, very tine ; Model ; 

 Admiration, white, striped with crimson ; General Williams, 

 salmon rose ; and Chekoni, orange scarlet, very fine. Messrs. 

 Lane & Son, of Great Berkhampstead, had likewise a good 

 collection ; among which were Conspicua purpurea, with very 

 large flowers of a lilac purple, with crimson spots ; Juliana, 

 salmon scarlet, with crimson spots ; fine plants of Roi Leopold 

 and Pravstantissima, rosy salmon ; and Chelsoni. 



Altogether the Azaleas, exclusive of Mr. Turner's collection at 

 the far end of the room, occupied 25 yards of stage ; and they 

 formed the grand feature of the Show. 



In Roses, which will be specially commented on by another 

 hand, Mr. Turner had the first prize for sis in pots, which were 

 General Jacqueminot, Tictor Verdier, Baronne Prevost, Coupe 

 d'Hebe, Souvenir de la Malmaison, very fine ; and Tea Souvenir 

 d'un Ami. Mr. TV. Paul was second with Cardinal Patrizzi, 

 Madame Damaizin ; Anna AlexiefF and Madame Boll, both very 

 fine ; and Teas Souvenir d'un Ami, and Madame Willermoz. 

 Messrs. Paul & Son, who came in third, had Charles Lawson, 

 with large and very fine blooms ; Paul Ricaut and President 

 being also well worthy of note. 



In the open Class, 6, for four Roses in pots, Mr. Turner had 

 President ; Queen of Denmark ; Comtesse de Chabrillant, very 

 fine, as, indeed, it generally is ; and Comte de Cavour, which 

 is much in the way of General Jacqueminot, but larger and 

 deeper in colour. Messrs. Paul & Son had also a very good 

 four, of which General Jacqueminot and Victor Verdier were 

 the finest. 



Messrs. Lane & Son exhibited in the Miscellaneous Class twelve 

 Roses in pots, among which were Louise Margottin, a beautiful 

 delicate pale rose; Turenne, glowing colour but loose; and 

 President Lincoln, deep velvety red, a good deal in the way of 

 Senateur A'aisse. 



Cinerarias made a tolerable show, though there were not so 

 many exhibitors as might have been expected in the case of a 

 plant so useful for conservatory decoration, and of which their 

 culture is so well understood. The specimens exhibited were, 

 however, very creditable. The first prize in sixes was awarded 

 to Mr. Lamb, gardener to Captain Cahill, of Southall, for Adam 

 Bede, vivid purplish-rose and covered with a profusion of 

 flowers ; Queen Victoria, rosy crimson with white ring ; Lady 

 Seymour, white, deep blue edge ; Mrs. Livingstone, rosy purple 

 with white ring ; Zingaree ; and Loveliness. The second prize 

 was awarded to Mr. P. Lamb, for Blue Bonnet, Lady Seymour, 

 Admiration, Pilot, and Masterpiece ; and third prizes to Mr. 

 Holland, gardener to R. Peak, Esq., Islcworth ; and Mr. Turner, 

 of Slough. 



Prizes were offered for greenhouse Acacias, but they did not 

 induce competitors to come forward, although several good 

 specimens were shown among the miscellaneous collections. 

 With regard to Auriculas, Polyanthuses, and Pansies, their 

 return to the exhibition tables seemed to give satisfaction to a 

 considerable portion of the visitors, judging from the interest with 

 which the flowers were examined ; and the feeling expressed in 

 the remark which one old lady made in our hearing, " Well, I 

 am glad to see these old flowers back again," was probably very 

 generally shared. The principal exhibitors of these flowers were 

 Messrs. Turner, Butcher, James, and Holland ; but it is unne- 

 cessary to enter into detail here, as the merits of the different 

 objects exhibited will be amply discussed in another column. 



Of Cyclamens, those from Mr. Holland, of Isleworth, were 

 remarkably fine both as regards the size and colour of the 

 flowers ; the varieties, however, were unnamed. To these the 

 first prize was awarded ; and an extra one was given to Mr. 

 James, gardener to W. Watkins, Esq., for herbaceous Calceo- 

 larias, of which he showed several fine varieties. 



Miscellaneous collections of stove and greenhouse plants came 

 from Messrs. Veitch ; J. & C. Lee, of Hammersmith ; Bull, of 

 Chelsea ; E. & A. Smith ; and Cutbush, of Barnet. In Messrs. 

 Veitch's collection were two Acacias, grandis and Drummondi, 

 the latter a fine specimen plant ; Rhododendron jasminiflo- 

 rum ; also Sesterianum with large and beautiful white flowers ; . 



several Azaleas; Hedaroma tulipiferum ; Eriostemons; Tetratheca 

 erica;folia, a very handsome specimen covered with bloom; 

 Dendrobium densiflorum album, with several fine spikes of 

 bloom ; .Erides virens ; and Anthurium Scherzerianum, the 

 brilliant scarlet spathe of which always calls to mind the ancient 

 Roman standard. For this collection the first prize was awarded. 



Messrs. Lee, who bad a second prize, likewise exhibited an 

 excellent collection, among which were a fine specimen Epacria 

 miniata ; Azalea Leeana, a handsome plant with large white 

 flowers ; Broughtoni ; Bnd several other fine Azaleas ; Erios- 

 temons; Heaths; Saccolabium retusum, with a beautiful raceme 

 a foot long; and JErides roseum, with two good spikes of its 

 pretty rose-coloured flowers. 



Mr. Bull likewise contributed an excellent collection, consist- 

 ing almost exclusively of foliage plants, such as Pandanus elegan- 

 tissimus, Gleichenias, &c, noticed on previous occasions. 



The collection of Messrs. F. & A. Smith was composed of 

 foliage plants as Cyanophyllum and Alocasia ; some Azaleas, 

 Eriostemons, Erica afEnis, &e. ; and that of Mr. Cutbush, of 

 Barnet, was chiefly made up of Azaleas, with Tetratheca erica;folia, 

 but nothing equal to Messrs. Veitch's plant of the same kind, an 

 Aphelexis, an Eriostemon, and one or two other plants. 



Of other objects not coming within the scope of the schedule, 

 S. Glendinning & Sons sent two trees of Fortune's rose-flowered 

 Peach, a highly ornamental double variety, brought some years 

 ago from the north of China. Mr. Bull exhibited the same 

 groups of Geraniums and Petunias as shown at the Regent's 

 Park on the previous Saturday ; while Messrs. E. G. Henderson 

 and Co. brought forward a group of perennial plants for flower- 

 garden decoration, among which were Sunset and Mrs. Pollock 

 Geraniums ; white-foliaged plants, as Centaurea candidissima ; 

 a variegated Daisy called Aucubgefolia, the leaves of which were 

 prettily variegated with yellow, as in the Aucuba japonica, and 

 which would make a pretty edging plant ; also Govenia albicans, 

 with ornamental yellow flowers, and a variegated form of Arabi3 

 alpina. Hyacinths were shown in good condition by Messrs. 

 Cutbush and Mr. Carr, of Highgate, the former having also six 

 showy varieties of Amaryllis ; Hardy Ferns by Messrs. Ivery 

 and Son ; and six fine pans of Lycopods by Mr. Higgs. A fine 

 mass of the mauve bracts of Bougainvillaea glabra came from 

 Mr. Daniels, gardener to the Rev. C. Ruck Keene, Henley, and 

 speciosa in small pots from Mr. Turner, of Slough, and Mr. Bull. 

 Lastly, there were boxes of beautiful cut Roses of all the leading 

 kinds from Mr. W. Paul, and Messrs. Paul & Son. 



A bbilliant day, an excellent collection of flowers, and a 

 goodly company, conspired to make this the most successful of 

 the Spring Shows. But (why always these " buts " where the 

 Royal Horticultural Society is concerned ?) there were some 

 drawbacks. In the first place the tout ensemble of the Show 

 was completely spoiled by the flowers being separated in two 

 of the corridors, or diuing-galleries ; for, as it had been wisely 

 determined not to put the plants down both sides of the room, 

 and thus to allow more ample sweep for the crinolines, this of 

 necessity led to the separation of the flowers, and spoiled the 

 appearance of the Exhibition. And, then, no precaution had 

 been taken to wet the floors, either the previous night, or the 

 morning of the Exhibition ; and the consequence was that a 

 cloud of dust, which would not have disgraced Rotten Row, was 

 continually kept in circulation by the sweep of the ample 

 dresses of the ladies. Over and over again I heard ladies say, 

 looking into the room, " Dear me, what a dust ! " and uncon- 

 teutedly leave. One cannot but ask why, as the Society must 

 ultimately look to its exhibitions for a good portion of its funds, 

 they should seem to have only a secondary place in the arrange- 

 ments of the Council. The arrangements for these Spring Shows 

 have been a series of makeshifts, and so every one has felt them 

 to be. 



And now to our special matter — the florists' flowers. 

 Auriculas we were rejoiced to see are once more becoming 

 popular. I have done my little best to make them so ; and 

 although, owing to the wretched arrangements of the South 

 Eastern Railway, my own plants which arrived in London at 

 noon on Tuesday were not delivered till nearly four and twenty 

 hours afterwards — too late for the Show, I was myself unable to 

 compete. I none the less rejoiced to see that several " new 

 hands" too, although old growers, had come forward this time, 

 and that there is every probability ere long of this beautiful 

 Bpring flower resuming its old position around the metropolis. 



