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THE FLOIIIST AND P0M0L0G1ST. 
At the First Great Show, for Fine* foliagcd 
Plants, £25 are offered by the Duke of Buc- 
cleuch, and £15 by the Society—in all £40; 
for Stove and Greenhouse Plants, £77; for 
Orchids, £92; for Azaleas, £72, including a 
special prize of £5 from J. W. Kelk, Esq., for 
three plants, in six-inch pots, suitable for the 
dinner table; for Rhododendrons, £9; for 
Roses in pots, £60, including £5 from Mr. 
Kelk for three plants in six-inch pots, suitable 
for the dinner table; Heaths, £10; Pelar¬ 
goniums, £53 ; Pansies, £5 ; Sarracenias and 
other Pitcher-plants, £10 offered by Lady 
Dorothy Nevill, of Dangstein; the best ar¬ 
ranged groups of Plants for a small Conserva¬ 
tory, £20 ; Miscellaneous, £4 10s.; Groups of 
Flowers and Fruits, arranged for the dinner 
table, three prizes, by Sir Wentworth Dilke, 
£20. Total, £472 10s. 
At the Rose Show, a sum of nearly £140 is 
offered, of which W. Wilson Saunders, Esq., 
the Secretary, gives £6 for Hybrid Perpetuals, 
Tea, and Noisette varieties. At the Second 
Great Show for Stove and Greenhouse Plants, 
£67 are given; for Orchids, £74; Fine- 
foliaged Plants, Ferns and Lycopods, £60; 
Pelargoniums, £81; Fuchsias, £20 ; Florist’s 
Flowers, £28 10s.; other objects, including 
two prizes offered by Mr. Saunders, £27 10s.; 
fruit, £133 15s. Total, upwards of £490. 
In addition to the above, Mr. Bateman has 
placed at the disposal of the Society £20 for a 
gold challenge medal, or the same amount in 
money, for the exhibitor who may this year 
and the next obtain the highest number of 
marks, according to a fixed scale, for Or¬ 
chids at the meetings of the Floral Committee ; 
and Mr. Blandy offers a prize of £10 at the 
Strawberry Fete, the arrangements for which 
and the International Fruit Show are not yet 
completed. Botanical collections from each 
separate county of the United Kingdom are 
to be encouraged by medals according to their 
merit. 
Ada aurantiaca.— This extremely rare New 
Grenada Orchid has flowered at Knypersley, 
the seat of J. Bateman, Esq., a gentleman 
well known as a lover of horticulture, an 
enthusiastic cultivator of Orchids, and the 
author of a splendid work on the subject. 
The leaves are prettily mottled; and the 
flowe rs, which are apricot-coloured, are borne 
on flower stems a foot or more in height. 
Cocoa-nut Thee. —The plant of this which 
has fruited at Syon has a stem 2 feet in cir¬ 
cumference, and fifteen leaves each 6 feet 
long. The natural habitat of the Cocoa-nut 
being near the sea, Mr. Smith gave it an 
occasional application of salt. 
Mr. Fleming, of Trentham, now the stew¬ 
ard of the Duke of Sutherland at Trentham, 
has been presented with a silver tea and coffee 
service by the gardeners who were formerly 
his pupils. 
The "Walnut is extensively cultivated in 
the department of Isere (France), and es¬ 
pecially in the valley of that river, where it 
is almost the only tree which is planted by 
the sides of the public roads. In some places 
it is even grown in the fields and plantations, 
notwithstanding the injury which it does to 
the crops. At one time all the Walnut trees 
were raised from seed, and the varieties were 
consequently very numerous, for the tree never 
reproduces itself exactly from seed; and it is 
only within the last century that the best and 
most productive varieties were increased by 
grafting, and even this proceeding was long 
confined to a few villages where it was first 
practised. The varieties are divided into 
those cultivated for the sake of the oil and 
those adapted for the dessert, the latter being- 
larger, finer in appearance, and better in taste. 
They also afford oil, but not so abundantly 
nor of so good quality as the kinds grown for 
that purpose. The varieties most cultivated 
for the production of oil are the Saint Jean 
and Chaberte. The former is so called on 
account of its not pushing till June, after the 
spring frosts are over; hence it is a certain 
bearer. The nut is middle-sized, as broad as 
it is long, somewhat square in form, and the 
shell deeply and roughly channelled. The 
Chaberte takes its name from its raiser, and 
its origin dates nearly a century back. It is 
small, long, the shell not so rough as that of 
the preceding, is very productive, and yields 
an abundance of oil, and that of the best 
quality. It pushes as late as the Saint Jean, 
and is everywhere superseding it. Of the 
dessert kinds the principal are the following : 
—Mayette — Large and long, flattened at the 
base next the footstalk, and tapering to the 
opposite extremity, deeply and rather coarsely 
furrowed, and always having prominent pro¬ 
jections at the base, near the suture. Parisi - 
enne .—This neither comes from Paris, nor has 
it in all probability ever been there. It is 
large, long, almost as broad at the bottom as 
at the top, the shell more finely and regularly 
channelled than the other kinds. Franquctte. 
—Raised about sixty years ago by a person 
named Franquet; large, very long, some¬ 
what pointed, channelling, well marked with 
deep hollows along the sutures, which ap¬ 
pear as if pinched together. These three 
varieties are very fruitful, for they all start 
late in the season, but the most productive is 
the Mayette. 
Walnuts are seldom worked in the nursery 
quarters, this being generally done when they 
are finally planted, and often wdien they have 
reached a considerable size ; they then push 
more vigorously. Grafting, however, is per¬ 
formed at all ages, the methods being cleft 
and crown-grafting and flute-budding. When 
the last-named mode is adopted, and the tree 
is old, it is cut over in the previous year, in 
order to make it send up shoots fit for work¬ 
ing; but if either cleft or crown-grafting is 
