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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 



Mount Street, Berkeley Square. On this occasion Mr, May had to succumb to Mr. Whitbread, 

 in the Class for fifteen Stove and Greenhouse Plants ; Mr. B. Peed being third. In the 

 Nurserymen's Class for twelve varieties, Messrs. J. & J. Fraser were first ; Mr. 0. Bhodes 

 second ; and Mr. Cutbush, of Barnet, third. With nine varieties, Mr. Chilman was first, 

 Mr. Green second, and Mr. Kaile, of Bipley, third. With six varieties the competition was 

 very close, Mr. A. Ingram, gardener to J. J. Blandy, Esq., Beading, and Mr. Page, gardener 

 to W. Leaf, Esq., Streatham, were equal first; and Mr. J. Tegg, Boehampton, second. It 

 was tbe old acquaintances of former occasions— Polygalas, Vincas, some gorgeous Allamandas, 

 two or three fine examples of Pleroma elegans, Stephanotis floribimda, Ixoras, Azaleas, Erica 

 Cavendishi, some fine Pimeleas, and, in one instance, a weU-grown and flowered plant of 

 Leptodactylon califomicum. Orchids were in good condition, and are noticed in the report 

 of the Begent's Park Exhibition of a later date. A very fine collection of handsome-foliage d 

 plants came from Mr. Hamilton, Arle Court Gardens, Cheltenham ; Mr. -Smith, Sion House ; 

 Mr. Hutt, and Messrs. T. J ackson & Son also furnished the same. Mr. Whitbread, Dartford, 

 was first in the Amateurs' Class for nine Azaleas ; Mr. Turner, Slough, in that for Nursery- 

 men ; Mr. May, and Messrs. Veitch & Son, were second. Composed of varieties that have 

 appeared before, but not near so Ml of flowers. In the class for six new varieties, Messrs. 

 Ivery & Son had Variegata superba and Etoile du Gand, variegated kinds ; Harlequin and 

 Flower of the Day, whites, striped with carmine ; Kinghorni, a superb salmon rose, spotted 

 with carmine on the upper segment ; and Leopold the First, a large semi-double rosy pink. 

 Mr. Turner, who was first, had Chameleon, producing pure wbite, striped, bright rosy scarlet, 

 and variegated flowers ; Magnet, a glowing salmon rose ; Hinghorni, Etoile du Gand, much 

 finer than Messrs. Ivery's ; President de Cloyes, a handsome variegated kind ) and Comte de 

 Hainault. Messrs. Lane & Son, and W. Paul, had Bosesinpots, but not so good as formerly. 

 Cape Heaths came from the same exhibitors as before. Mr. B. S. Williams had a collection 

 of Exotic Ferns ; and collections of Anoectochils came from Messrs. Harbott, Yeitch & Son, 

 B. S. Williams, and Ingram. Messrs. Turner, Dobson, and Fraser were respectively first, 

 second, and third, with, twelve Pelargoniums. Mr. T. Bailey, of Shardeloes, with nine 

 varieties; the second and third prizes being withheld. With six Fancy kinds, Mr. Turner- 

 was first, Messrs. Dobson & Son second, and Mr. T. Bailey thud. With nine Spotted or 

 French kinds, Mr. Turner was first with Osiris, Mr. Marnock, Conspicuum, Guillaume 

 Severyns, Bertie, Bracelet, Beadsman, and Bembrandt. Messrs. Dobson & Son were second, 

 with Mr. Hoyle, Peacock, Wm. Bull, Macbeth, Sanspariel, Madame Furtado, Scaramouch, 

 Distinction, and Conspicuum. A very largo number of seedling florists' flowers and new 

 plants were produced. Of seedling Pelargoniums, Mr. Wiggins had Canopus, Ardens, 

 Agamemnon ; Mallbrook, a very novel, salmon, rose flower ; Bosicrucian, a bright showy 

 crimson ; Eurydice, Begina Formosa ; Bellatrix, deep salmon rose, a very strong exhibition 

 flower ; and Caliban, a very fine crimson-spotted variety. Mr. Turner had Conflagration, a 

 very showy vivid scarlet ; Lord Palmerston, a leviathan flower, but not so deep coloured ; 

 Pericles, a carmine streaked blush ; and Beacon, deep rose suffused with purple, dark top 

 petals, and broad fiery margin. Mr. Macintosh, of Hammersmith, had a vigorous-growing 

 yet dwarf and compact Scarlet Geranium, Adeleine Patti, with vivid orange scarlet flowers, 

 good truss and fine form, and to all appearance well adapted for pot-culture. Mr. Bousie, of 

 Stoke Park, and Mr. Burley, Limpsfield, had groups of showy Calceolarias; Mr. Tyso, 

 Wallingford, a collection of Banunculuses ; and there were also some beautiful seedling Bho- 

 dodendrons from Mr. Noble, of Bagshot. Messrs. Veitch & Son, Bull, Standish, &c, furnished 

 groups of new plants ; from the former was a very attractive Nolana, called laneeolata, 

 having large deep blue flowers, with white throat ; and three pans of Miniums cupreus, 

 bright orange scarlet, very dwarf and hardy, from Chili. The conservatory contained a very 

 great novelty— a basket of blossoms of Cheirostemon platanoides, the Mexican "Hand-plant," 

 so called because its great green cup-shaped flowers produced from their centre what seems 

 to be a gory arm and hand, out of the palm of which protrudes a crimson stiletto. It is to 

 be feared that the arcades wiU never satisfactorily answer for the purpose of exhibition, unless 

 the weather is very warm and the atmosphere serene ; or else unless the arches can be closed 

 when required with some light-admitting agent that will exclude the cold blasts that worked 

 sad havoc among some of the stove plants on this occasion, while the older flowers of the 

 Pelargoniums were freely scattered about. Even in the conservatory, faultless as it appeared 

 in regard to the arrangement, and extremely beautiful in its effect — even here the height of 

 the temperature seemed to be telling on many of the subjects. At any rate it was a fine 

 show, and drew together a large assembly. 



Boyatj Botanic Society, June 18. — This was another of those fine exhibitions that are 

 inalienable from the Regent's Park. The weather was good excepting a shower towards the 

 close of the day, and the company very large. Stove and greenhouse plants were identical 

 with those at South Kensington. Mr. Whitbread maintained his ascendancy over Mr. May 

 with sixteen varieties ; and Messrs. Fraser, and Cutbush, of Barnet, were first and second 



