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from insects. If spider appears, sulphur is the best remedy ; green or black-fly 
may be kept down by fumigation, and quick-lime applied to the parts affected 
soon stops canker. 
Having touched upon the principal points of culture, I will conclude with a 
few remarks on the varieties best adapted for giving a good supply of superior 
fruit. If two or three small compartments can be kept going for succession, one 
or two kinds which ripen nearly together will be sufficient, but where one house 
only is used, then early and late kinds should be planted, to prolong the season. 
Gilbert's Victory of Bath^ Eastnor Castle^ and Cox's Golden Gem succeed each 
other in the order of ripening. Bead's Scarlet and Turner's Scarlet Gem have 
not yet been surpassed in their class. Coulston Basset^ the old Egyptian^ A. F. 
Barron^ and Beecliwood are sterling late kinds, and well adapted for crossing for 
new varieties.— W. Coleman, Eastnor Castle Gardens. 
THE NATIONAL CARNATION AND PICOTEE SOCIETY’S 
NORTHERN SHOW. 
@ HIS fourth and final exhibition for the present season took place at the 
Drill Hall, Peel Park, Bradford, on August 22nd and 23rd, and proved 
f a worthy finale to a very interesting series of shows. Late, however, 
as was the date, it was too early, in this most unpropitious of all un- 
propitious seasons, for man}^ of the growers of the hill districts of the North, 
and entirely so for the cultivators of Newcastle and its neighbourhood, who 
failed to produce even a solitary specimen. Of the collections from which 
contributions were received, many had suffered grievously from the untoward 
weather preceding the day of the show, and thus the show itself was shorn of the 
proportions which had been expected ; but though of less extent than the 
generality of displays of the Carnation and Picotee in the North, the quality 
of the specimens produced more than compensated for this comparative paucity 
of number. Mr. Simonite, indeed, the popular and affectionate “ Ben ” of his 
fellows and familiars, fairly surpassed himself, and never did the writer see a 
finer collection of twelve Carnations than that produced by him, and which so 
worthily obtained the first place. Ten of the twelve blooms were simply per¬ 
fect, specimens alike of good growth and artistic management, never to be for¬ 
gotten by eyes permitted to feast upon their beauties ; whilst Mr. Lord, Mr. 
Rudd, Mr. Bower, and some other contributors showed well, following closely 
upon his heels. 
In Carnations, Mr. Simonite’s Samuel Cooper, S.B., a new variety in the way 
of Admiral Curzon, but, as seen, even superior to that glorious old variety, was 
by unanimous acclaim selected as the premier bloom of the whole exhibition; 
whilst in Picotees, a similar honour went to Mr. Lord for a fine specimen of his 
Zerlina, purple edge, a lovely flower of the highest properties and of exquisite 
purity. 
First-class certificates were awarded to Mr. Lord, of Todmorden, for his rose- 
edged Picotee, Miss Horner, a variety in the style of Edith Dombrain, but with a 
