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Coming Events. 



Bedale Rose Show, June 28. 



Braintree Horticultural Society, June 8 and 9. 



Brentwood Horticultural Society, July 14. 



CANTERBURY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, June 29. 



Society, 



July 6. 



Chelmsford and Essex Horticultural 

 Ealing Horticultural Society, July 6. 

 Ei/i ham Rose Show, June 30. 



Farninc.ham Rose and Horticultural Society, July 6. 



Gloucester Rose Show, June 30. 



Harrow Horticultural Society, July 5. 



Hereford and West of England Rose Society, July 5. 



Hklenshurgh Rose Show, July 14. 



HjTCHIN Horticultural Society, July 6. 



Isle of Wight Rose Show, at Carisbrooke, June 16. 



King's Somberne Horticultural Society, August 10. 



Leeds Flower Show and Gala, June 28, 29, and 30. 



Maidstone Rose Club, July 13. 



New Brighton Rose Society, July 16. 



Norwich Horticultural Society, June 30. 



Reigate Rose Show, July 6. 



Ryde Rose Show, June 23. 



Sincur Rose Show, June 21. 



Swansea Flower Show, August 25. 



Tibshelf Horticultural Society, June 26. 



Tunbridge Wells Horticultural Society, July 6. 



Ulverston Rose Show, July 8. 



Windsor Rcse Society, June 25. 



Woodbridge Horticultural Society, July 7. 



Fancy Tomatos.— A tomato grower, even on the largest scale, is scarcely 

 human if he has net the desire to try something new, on however small a scale. 

 Then, if he is an eater of tomatos, he will also desire to taste something out of the 

 common. The yellow tomatos we have grown for years, and have had a moderate 

 amount of success with all of them. This time we are growing one sent as Golden 



-a good grower, fair setter, and with fruit above the usual size, of which I 

 enclose you a bunch. These, though not strictly on the market, sell freely at the 

 shops. Growing side by side with other red varieties, I see little difference in the 

 matter of weight crops under the same conditions. Peach Blow is also doing 

 equally well, and very pleasing is its shade of colour, tut I have not yet tasted 

 it. These two varieties are planted out in narrow borders with vines. — Stephen 

 Castle, F.R.H.S., Bottesford Vineries % Notts. 



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AUCTION. 



id Established Orchids, Protheroe and Morris's rooms. 



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moderate 



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Covent Garden. 



Trade is somewhat quiet after the holidays but the 

 vegetables meet a fair demand at moderate prices 

 Fruit.— Tasmanian apples, 8s. to 16s. per* 

 3s. 6d. per case; Jersey, is. 3d to 2s. 

 oranges, i^s. to 2cr. per case ; JafiU 9s to 



per pine; bananas, & to 9 s per bunch ; goose Dsrnes * M 

 sieve; French cherries, 5 s. 6d. to 7s. per half-Meve- ^t, 3 

 per gallon basket ; Fren:h apricots, is. 6d. to 25.^ per box 



1? lowers, — Arums, 3s. to 4s.- y 



gardenias 



3s. to 



is. 6d. to 4s. ; and tuberoses, is. to 

 cuneatum, 4s. to 8s. ; marguerites, 

 tulips, 3s. to 6s ; mignonette, 2s. 

 wallflowers, 2s. to 3s. ; polyanthuses an 

 and violets, 9d. to 3s. 6d. per dozen b 

 to 6s. ; lily of the valley, 6d. to is. 



goniuics, 4d. to 6d. per dozen sprays; bouvardial^T^ScT-' whi^iiL Md 

 per bunch. ^' wnile Ulac » 3s. to «. 



Vegetables. 



3s. 6d. to 4s 6d 

 cwt. ; English spring 



o J°st barries, 3 s. 6d to^H * *? * 

 half-sieve; -jU^^Rj* 

 _ 0 as. per box. ' w « «o 3*. 



is. 



m - j 0dont oglossu] 

 6d. per dozen blooms; 

 2S. to 4s. 5 narciss, various, 



Adiantuia 



ticb , azaieas, ba. to q1 • ctp n k^ M 1 



white gbdbU,. «.%' ! ?fa^ 



English tomatos, 6d. to 9 d. J arsey, 5 d. to 



— t,— .wuOTtws, u U . tu 9U. jersey, eel. to 6d nor is • r~ 

 per case, iod. to is. 4d. Der trav • Favnti^n ^-X *V %t ^^y. 

 ing, „. 6d. to « ed/per^fcJS^pSS S £j £ 



n Tod • nnc Uttii^ A ™ £L.\ ^ ' y a * l O 4S. Dpt 



parsley, is. 6d. to is. «jd. ; mint, 4 s. per dozen bunches ; mushrooms, 6s fo 8° J 

 12 lb.; green peas. as. 3 d. to as. 9 d. per flat; French beans, 3 d to 4 d 



broad beans, as ner flat : Cannrv nntotnc *^ — ' A . lu *t u " P 6 * 



broad beans, 4 s per ^flat ; Canary potatos, 103. to 12s. per cwt.*; Lisbon rounds i 

 to 6s. per box ; Malta round, 8s. to 10s. per cwt. wma*. 



Borough Potato Markets 



New potatos arrive in laTger quantities, and are cheapening ; owing to the 

 stocks ol old these maintain their prices. Old -Dunbars, 130s to 1403 -VaoS 

 Magnums, 120s. to 130s.; Bruce, M*in-crop, Sutton's Regents, Reading ; Giants aS 

 Saxons, nos. to 120s. per ton; Belgians and Germans, 5s. to 53. 6i p»r W 

 New— Maltese rounds, 7s. to 8s. ; Teneriffe kidneys, 8s. to 9s.; Su M i 1 0 1 h t i 

 12s. ; Jerseys, 13s. to 14s. per cwt. ; Lisbon rounds, 53. to 5s. 3d. per tot. ' 



Contents. 



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Answers to Correspondents 

 Auriculas at Bracknell... 



Coming Events . 



Exhibitions and Meetings : — 



County of Gloucester and Cheltenham 

 Horticultural Society 



Royal Botanic Society of Manchester 

 Gardening Engagements 

 Gosford House Gardens 

 Markets 



Notes of the Week : — 



Discomforts of Flower Shows 

 Orchids 



Commercial Asparagus Culture 



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Mem ries of Bruges 



New Plants, Flowers, and Fruit 

 The Great Temple Show 

 The Water Garden 

 The Weather ... 

 Tree Pyruses 

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