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choice stove and greenhouse plants, with which Mr. Reece won the silver 
cup presented to those who win the greatest number of prizes at the 
local show.— SUBUBBANIST. 
EARLY AURICULA SHOWS. 
The Ipswich Journal has recently been publishing extracts from its 
early numbers. I forward one, which may have some interest for 
Auricula growers. If there any earlier record of an Auricula show ? 
“1744:. The annual Show of Ariculas {sic) (The Prize to be a Half¬ 
pint Silver Mug) will be at the House of Samuel Healey at the Half 
contrasts strongly with the light central stripe. It is a handsome]effective 
variety, and is especially useful for associating with the dark-coloured 
forms of the Leopoldi type. 
NATIONAL AURICULA SOCIETY. 
SOUTHERN SECTION.— April 22nd. 
In the opinion of some of the most experienced Auricula growers this 
Exhibition was the best that has been yet held, both in numbers and quality. 
It is true that some of the southern collections showed the signs of age 
rather too markedly, and on the other hand several of the northern exhibits 
Fig. 79 .—Amaryllis Alcyone. 
Moon in Bury St. Edmunds, on Thursday the 19th of this instant, April, 
where all Lovers of Flowers are desired to dine with the Stewards at 
one o’clock. Lawrence Wright,) c . , „ 
Thomas Mokes, j Stemards - 
—Duckwing. 
AMARYLLIS ALCYONE. 
The woodcut (fig. 79 ), shows another type of Amaryllis from Messrs- 
Yeitch’s collection, which like those previously given is representative of 
a group of varieties similarly marked, hut differing in size and form of 
flower and depth of colour. The flower is well proportioned ; the petals 
are broad, rounded, and rich, but delicate crimson in colour, which 
were correspondingly undeveloped, in a few cases the flowers w T ere scarcely 
expanded. All were, however, distinguished by a most vigorous health* 
which in a few extreme instances almost verged on coarseness, but with these 
exceptions the leading collections of flowers were of a most refined character* 
clean, the colours and paste well defined, and the general symmetry and sub¬ 
stance most satisfactory — a convincing proof of the increasing interest 
taken in Auriculas was afforded by the increased number of exhibitors* 
chiefly amateurs, who contributed plants that had evidently been carefully 
tended, but which could not take rank with the productions of the veterans 
in Auricula culture. 
The Show was held in the conservatory at South Kensington, and tables 
on both sides for one-half the length were fully occupied with the plants 
entered, the other portion of the building being filled with the groups and 
miscellaneous plants shown before the Floral Committee of the Royal 
Horticultural Society. These united attractions induced a large number of 
