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the meeting of the Floral Committee on the 19th of May, as fine a lot of 
fancy Pelargoniums as could well be imagined came from Mr. Turner, and 
they were as much deserving of notice for their variation as for their 
excellent qualities. First-class certificates were awarded to East Lynne, 
Leotard, Fanny Gair, and Princess Tech. East Lynne is a pleasing deep 
rose-coloured flower, the top petals darker, and with a pale edging to the 
flower ; Leotard is of a rosy carmine shade, deeper on the top petals, shown 
on this occasion in fine conditon ; and Fanny Gair is a very pretty light 
flower, free-blooming and showy. All these were shown as yearlings in 
18G7. Quite new w T as Princess Tech, a charming light flower, the lower 
petals slightly blotched with pale rosy carmine, the upper petals violet 
rose, with white margin. This will make a good exhibition kind. A very 
fine large-flowered variety, also from Mr. Turner, received the same award. 
It is one of those soft, yet glowing deep salinony-carmine flowers, of which 
Foster’s Emperor w T as an excellent representative last year. It is named 
Troubadour, and was also raised by Mr. Foster. The flowers are large, 
smooth, and finely formed, the trusses quite effective. Magnet, a fine 
market and decorative kind, with vivid crimson flowers and dark top petals, 
received the same award as a valuable decorative sort. It came from 
Messrs. Dobson & Son, Islewortli. 
Messrs. F. & A. Smith received a first-class certificate for Azalea Sir 
Robert Napier. It is one of the deepest coloured flowers that have yet been 
produced, being of a deep red hue, and not without life in it. Like the 
deeper-coloured Pelargoniums of a few years ago, colour will have to be 
considered before form, though in this last respect the new variety seems 
better favoured than that richly coloured flower of a couple of years ago, 
called Stella. Schizanthus pinnatus splendens, a fine violet-coloured variety 
with black centre, was shown by Mr. Green, gardener to W. W. Saunders, 
Esq., of Keigate, and received a first-class certificate. It has been obtained 
by careful selection, and it serves to show how much the forms of many of our 
common annuals are being changed by subjection to a like process. Mr. 
Salter produced a stand of his handsome double Pyrethrmns at South Ken¬ 
sington on the 19th ult. Freedom and continuity of bloom characterise 
many of them, and they will be certain to rise in popular estimation as 
decorative plants. R. D. 
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INE APPLES are now imported to this country from the Azores. 
The fruit is not only large and of excellent quality, but is conveyed 
in a fresh and perfect state. The first batch brought into Liverpool 
in the pots in which the plants had been grown, was so fine, that the 
lot upwards of fifty, was sold wholesale to one purchaser, at 30s. each. Since then 
smaller lots have been sent to Liverpool and Hull, the last consignment realising, 
