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Of Violas thero was but one collection of twelve sprays, which came 

 from Mr. T. Parker, Kynaston Lodge, Harrow Weald. 



In competition for the special prizes offered for Tulips by the 

 trustees of the Turner Memorial Fund, there were three collections, 

 and Mr. Samuel Barlow, J. P., Stakehill House, Castleton, Manchester, 

 was placed first, with about eighty blooms, having some of a highly 

 refined character. 



Messrs. Barr & Son, King Street, Covent Garden, W.C., had a large 

 collection of cut flowers, including Peonies, Anenomes, Aquilegias, 

 Pyrethrums, Dielytra spectabilis, &c. 



Messrs. H. Cannell & Sons, nursurymen, Swanley, had a number 

 of bunches of bedding Violas. 



Messrs. Kelway & Son, nurserymen, Langport, had twenty-three 

 boxes of cut flowers of Paeonies, Delphiniums, Pyrethrums (double and 

 single), Iris, and cut flowers of hardy plants; a very fine lot, and a 

 most valuable contribution to the exhibition. 



Mr. Charles Turner, Koyal Nursery, Slough, had some new large- 

 flowering Pelargoniums. 



In the open class for twenty-five Calceolarias Messrs. James Carter 

 & Co., seed merchants, Holborn, and Messrs. H. Cannell & Sons ex- 

 hibited very fine collections, the plants admirably grown and bloomed, 

 and the flowers of fine quality. 



Fruit. — Collections of Apples were the chief features here. Messrs. 

 G. Bunyard & Co., Maidstone, staged about fifty dishes of well-kept 

 clean fruits. Belle Pontoise, Paul's Winter Hawthornden, Tibbet's 

 Incomparable, Cellini, Annie Elizabeth, Bismarck, Lord Derby, Lane's 

 Prince Albert, Wellington, Calville Kouge, and Smart's Prince Arthur 

 were in the finest condition. 



A somewhat similar lot of about thirty dishes was sent by Messrs. 

 J. Cheal & Sons, Lowfield Nurseries, Crawley, Sussex, the best-con- 

 ditioned samples being seen in Ottershaw Pippin, Annie Elizabeth, 

 Hanwell Souring, Prince Albert, Stunner Pippin, and Shepherd's 

 Pearmain. 



Mr. G. W. Cummins, gardener to A. H. Smee, Esq., The Grange, 

 Wallington, Surrey, also had a collection of Apples, which were in a 

 remarkably fine state. Wellington, Lane's Prince Albert, Kibston 

 Pippin, Winter Colmar, and Bismarck may be named. In all about 

 twenty dishes were in this collection. 



Mr. F. W. Hume Dick, Esq., Thames Ditton House, Thames 

 Ditton (gardener, Mr. W. Palmer), had a Melon named Thames 

 Ditton Hero, a red-fleshed variety with thick skin; and half-a-dozen 

 good-looking examples of Whillans' Seedling Melon were exhibited by 

 Mr. Whillans, gardener to the Duke of Marlborough, Woodstock. It 

 is a large fruit, yellow-netted and white-fleshed. Mr. C. Turner, Ptoyal 

 Nurseries, Slough, sent fruit of Lockie's Perfection Cucumber. 



Market Classes. — Mr. W. Iceton, Granard Gardens, Boeharnptom 



