CXiv PROCEEDINGS OE THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Bearer, International Kidney, and Early London Cauliflower, in 

 addition to the stipulated varieties. 



The prizes offered by Messrs. "Webber and Co., fruiterers, Covent 

 Garden, for the best packed boxes of fruit, to consist of one box of 

 Grapes, one of Peaches, and one of Strawberries, were obtained by 

 Mr. TV. Crump, gardener to the Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim 

 Palace, "Woodstock, and Mr. "Wallis, gardener to the Rev. "Walter 

 Sneyd, Keele Hall, Newcastle, Staffordshire, in the order named, 

 both with yery careful examples of packing, the fruit having arrived 

 in excellent condition. 



THE PELARGONIUM SOCIETY SHOW. 



The display of Pelargoniums was extremely good, all sections 

 being well represented. Show, Fancy, and Zonal varieties were 

 staged in considerable numbers, the competition in several of the 

 classes being close. The new varieties were also especially fine, 

 many of exceptional merit being exhibited. The schedule enumerated 

 twenty-three classes, the first eight being devoted to new varieties 

 not yet in commerce, and each class was in three divisions, a single 

 prize being offered in each. From nine to nineteen were appropriated 

 to specimens, and the remaining four classes to cut blooms. 



The following were the chief exhibits in the classes for new 

 Pelargoniums: — Show Varieties. — No prize was awarded in Class 

 1. In Class 2a, for three distinct Show varieties, Mr. C. Turner, 

 The Royal Nurseries, Slough, was awarded the first prize. His 

 varieties were Hector (Poster), symmetrical flower, bright salmon 

 lower petals, very dark upper, with a lighter margin, and clear white 

 eye ; Maid of Perth (Poster), very fine flowers, rosy lower petals, 

 distinct white centre, and very dark upper with narrow margin ; 

 Mountain of Light (Poster), flowers of moderate size, bright scarlet, 

 and dark blotch in upper petals. In Division B, for two specimens, 

 Henry Little, Esq., Hillington Place (gardener, Mr. G. "Wiggin), 

 was first with Euth Little and Formosa, both of Jackson's raising; 

 the former of a clear rosy colour, and the latter with creamy lower 

 petals, the upper petals in each being very dark. In Division C, for 

 one variety, the Rev. A. Matthews, Gumley, Market Harborough, 



