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THE FLORIST. 
EXHIBITION OF HYACINTHS, &c., AT EDINBURGH. 
An exhibition of Hyacinths on a very large scale took place at the 
Music Hall, Edinburgh, on Tuesday, March 10th, and was attended 
with the most complete and gratifying success. Never before, in our 
opinion, was such a display of Hyacinths brought together in Britain 
for competition, and to our horticultural friends of Edinburgh justly 
belongs the credit of this novel, but most successful, effort of showing 
what the Hyacinth really is when well managed. The very numerous 
specimens of well-grown Hyacinths call forth our highest commendations, 
and it is but justice to our northern friends to confess that in the culture 
of the Hyacinth they are certainly g'uite up to the mark, and that the 
southern growers may learn a lesson from them. 
In the class for 18 Hyacinths, in pots, grown by nurserymen, six 
collections were staged. Messrs. James Dickson and Sons were firt, 
with *Nimrod, single light porcelain blue, with fine close spike; 
Voltaire, single white ; Emicus, single blue; *Miss Ainsworth, French 
white, shaded with blush, close spike : a fine variety; Orondates, 
single blue ; Triomphe Blandina, single white ; Charles Dickens, single 
blue ; *Grandeur a MerveiUe, single pale blush, fine; *Grand Lilas, 
light porcelain blue, fine; Grand Vedette, single white ; *Laurens Koster, 
double purplish blue, fine ; *Alba superbissima, single white, very 
fine ; Porcelain Sceptre, single light porcelain blue ; *Norma, single pale 
flesh, with light rose stripes, very fine; *Prince Albert, single velvety 
black : the finest specimen of this sort we ever saw; *Lord Wellington, 
double rose, a most beautiful variety ; Prince of Waterloo, double white ; 
and Lord Wellington, single pale rose, with deep rose stripe. Messrs. 
Cutbush and Son, of Highgate, near London, were second, with *Mary 
Stuart, single white, very fine ; Robert Steiger, single striped light red ; 
Waterloo, double red, but not well coloured; Norma; *Baron Von 
Tuyll, dark single porcelain blue, fine; *Queen Victoria, deep blush, 
with deep pink stripes: a fine variety ; * Nimrod ; * Grandeur a 
MerveiUe; *Mrs. Beecher Stowe, very similar to Queen Victoria in 
colour, with fine close spike ; *Cavaignac, single pale blush, with deep 
blush stripes, close spike, and a handsome variety ; Bloksberg, double 
light blue ; Tour d’Auvergne, double white ; Porcelain Sceptre ; Grand 
Lilas ; *Solfaterre, single bright carmine, very fine ; *La Joyeuse, single 
shaded light rose, very fine ; *Circe, sing e shaded carmine and blush, 
fine; and *Lord Wellington, very fine. Mr. Charles Alexander, of 
West Register Street, was third, with some fine plants, among which 
Queen of the Netherlands, single white, a splendid variety, with large 
finely formed pips, and close spike; Garrick, double deep shaded 
porcelain blue; and Meerlandsch Gloire, single shaded rosy blush, a 
very fine variety: deserved especial notice. ]\Ir. T. H. Douglas, 
nurseryman, Rosebank, was fourth, with some fine plants. 
It will not be out of place here to make a few remarks on the 
collections exhibited. The judges had an arduous task to perform, as 
the collections were of rare merit, and did not admit of an immediate 
decision, as is often the case with other flowers, and they were a 
