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whom it was suggested and carried out; for, without reducing the 
amount of table room, greater^facilities were afforded for a continuous 
promenade, thus wholly avoiding much of that inconvenience and 
crowding which the confined space of the room seemed to enforce. We 
cannot but set the general collection of blooms and plants as a little 
below the quality of former years. If the blooms were not quite so 
large as we have seen them, they were of excellent quality. Yet we 
felt the loss of the Weatherill Pompones, and the Taylor and Sanderson 
collections of cut blooms ; these, which have for some seasons past played 
most conspicuous parts in the general awards, were not now forth¬ 
coming, to the great loss of the society. But the advent of a new 
plant exhibitor, Mr. Holland, of Hounslow, must be received as 
auguring well -for the future, and his success—that of first prize, a 
noble cup, for 6 Pompones—must have been a cheering reward for the 
necessary toil in cultivating his specimens. His plants of Bob and 
Brilliant were really fine; not so his Comte Achille Vigier, which, 
even at its best, is of a mixed and ill-defined colour, unworthy the 
attention of a grower of taste. 
That the show was well furnished may be gathered from the awards, 
prizes being given to two-thirds of the exhibitors in each class, and 
extended to 6 prizes for 24 blooms, 9 prizes for 12 blooms, 8 prizes 
for 6 blooms, 3 prizes for 6 Anemone blooms, 3 prizes for Anemone 
Pompone blooms, 3 prizes for maiden growers (6 blooms), 4 prizes for 
6 plants of Pompones, 2 prizes for 6 plants of the large-flowering 
kinds, with prizes to specimen plants—a total of 40 prizes—were thus 
adjudicated, whose value in the aggregate was something over £80. 
The four principal prizes were silver cups, costing £23. Of visitors 
there were exceeding 1000 ; and, as usual, not a few from the most 
distant parts of the kingdom. 
The awards were as follows :—Best 6 plants, Mr. Argent, with 
Albin, Defiance, Christine, General Havelock, Vesta, and Unknown; 
2nd, Mr. James, Vesta, Albin, Christine, Mount Etna, Plutus, Pilot; 
the collection shown by Mr. Scruby was also very meritorious. Best 
single specimen, Mr. James, with Annie Salter ; 2nd, Mr. Argent, with 
Madame Camerson. Best 6 plants, Pompones, Mr. Holland, with 
Comte Achille Vigier, Brilliant, Pluie d’Or, Cedo Nulli, Bob, Duruflet; 
2nd, Mr. A. Wortley, with St. Thais, Cedo Nulli, Requiqui, Drine 
Drine, Brilliant, Duruflet; 3rd, Mr. Scruby, with Duruflet, Drine 
Drine, Trophe, Helena, Madame Roussellon, Bob, Graziella ; the other 
collections were, for the most part, formed of varieties similar to the 
foregoing. Best 24 blooms, Mr. A. Wortley, with Themis, Plutus, 
Aregina, Beauty, Annie Salter, Lycias, Goliath, Nonpareil, Madame 
Miellez, Arista, Pio Nono, Dupont de I’Eure, Hermione, Rosa Mystica, 
Madame Audrey, Racine, Versailles Defiance, Elizabeth, Stella 
Globosa, Miss Kate, Stafford, Marquis de Melleville, L’Esenir, Yellow 
Formosum; 2nd, Mr. Bird, with Anaxo, Aregina, King, Themis, 
Trilby, Goliath, Queen of England. Maiden Growers: 1st, Mr. 
Peasgood; 2nd, Mr. Worth; 3rd, Mr. Glover. Best 6 Anemone 
blooms, Mr. A. Wortley, with Madame Godereau, King of Anemones, 
Gluck, Marguerite d’Anjou, Fleur de Marie, Nancy de Sermet ; 
