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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE, 
HOETICULTUEAL AEEAIES. 
OYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. — Exhibition of Dahlias 
AND Astek.*!, September 3.— Prizes were offered for Dahlias, Asters, 
and Liliums, and tlie majority of the classes were well filled. The 
only exhibitor of six specimens of Lilium lancifolium was Mr. Baines, 
gardener, Southgate House, Southgate, who staged magnificent exam- 
ples of the best varieties of tliis well-known and popular species. The plants were 
of an immense size, superbly flowered, and the blooms unusually good in quality. 
Two classes were provided for Dahlias, one for twenty-tour, open to amateur and 
trade growers, and the other for twelve, open to amateurs only. In the first- 
mentioned class, Mr. C. Turner, Slough, was first with blooms of unusually high 
quality. The varieties of which the stand consisted were Rev. J. B. Camm, 
Monarch, Arbitration, Mr. Dix, Mrs. Saunders, Crimson King, Annie Neville, 
Egyptian Prince, Pioneer, Alexander Cramond, H. G, Quilter, Duke of Edinburgh, 
Flag of Truce, Toison d’Or, Incomparable, Charlotte Dorling, John Standish, 
Victory, Lady Gladys Herbert, Julia Wyatt, William Keynes, J. Neville Keynes, 
Prince Arthur, and Ovid. The first prize for twelve blooms was awarded to Mr. 
Burfitt, gardener to R P. Taylor, Esq., Brixton. The competition for Asters was 
very spirited. In the class open for twenty, Mr. Rowe, The Rookery, Roehampton, 
was first. In a similar class for amateurs, Mr. R. Anderson, 21, Blyth Street, 
Bethnal Green Road, was first, with finely-developed and well-finished flowers. 
International Fruit Show' at Manchester, September 3, 4, 5, 6. — This 
exhibition was, we are glad to say, most successful in every respect. The various 
productions filled three great structures. The principal display of fruit was in the 
old exhibition building, which is admirably adapted for the purpose. A fine mixture 
of plants and flowers was arranged in the picturesque tent originally designed by 
Mr. Findlay for the Whitsun exhibition. Here grass mounds and banks, and gravel 
walks, and a grand background of palms, tree-ferns, and other of the more massive 
conservatory subjects, gave full effect to the plentiful display of colour. It was the 
fairyland of this particular show. A third tent was erected for the occasion, and 
this, in its way, was a model tent. It was about 200 feet long and 60 feet wide, 
with broad central stage and bioad side stages for plants, and abundant room 
between for the visitors. There was not a pole ir tie, bar or beam, visible in this 
tent, and the canvas fell in beautiful parabolic curves. The various contributions 
were thus distributed into three great groups, the result being three distinct and 
splendid scenes in the most proper sense of the vyord horticultural, and from another 
point of view eminently attractive and delightful to the unprofessional eye. As 
the entries numbered over 2400, it was needful to prepare a considerable extent of 
house-room. In the evening of the first day, the Earl of Derby presided at a 
splendid banquet in the Hulme Town Hall, which was well attended in response to 
the invitations issued by the Council of the Manchester Botanical and Horticultural 
Society. The following evening, Mr. Shirley' Hibberd presided in the same building 
at a dinner of horticulturists, wliich W'as attended by upwards of 200 of the leading 
members of the profession resident in various parts ot the United Kingdom. The 
Manchester Botanical Society, under whose auspices the exhibition was held, will 
gain about £700 ; but, better still, there is a probability of Lord Derby’s suggestion 
being carried out — namely, the clearing off the debt by subscription amongst the 
members, and his Lordship has set a noble example in putting his name down 
for £100. 
Crystal Palace Fruit Show, September 6 and 8. — The exhibition of Fruit, 
Gladioli, and Table Decorations at the Crystal Palace on these dates was of an 
exceedingly satisfactory character. The prizes were by no means liberal, but they 
were judiciously allotted, and the result was a capital display of Pines, Grapes, 
Melons, and outdoor fruit generally. As evidence of the spirited manner in which 
the prizes were contested, it may be mentioned that in some of the classes there 
were as many as thirty entries, and all the fruit of more or less excellence. 
Gladioli made a splendid display of colour round the bank of trees employed to 
intercept the view of the table about half-way up the nave. In the great open 
class for thirty-six spikes, Messrs. Kelway and Son, Langport, were first with a 
