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and bold, white, with a slight tint of mauve on the exterior of the petals. It was 
deservedly awarded a First-Class Certificate ; as also was Gloxinia Alice, shown 
by Messrs. Rollisson and the Messrs. Veitch and Sons ; it is a very fine drooping- 
flowered kind, the lobes rich plum-purple, the throat sulphur-white. 
Mr. C. Turner, who was remarkably strong with new Pelargoniums, received 
First-Class Certificates for the following large-flowered varieties; — May Day 
(Foster), Syren (Foster), Iron Diihe (Foster), Charlemagne (Foster), Admiration 
(Foster), and Duke of Edinburgh (Foster). These, in accordance with a usual 
custom, will be noticed more in detail by and by, when the list of new varieties 
is completed. The following older kinds, shown on this occasion, should be 
noted for their rich beauty :— Troubadour (Foster), Heirloom (Hoyle), Maid of 
Honour (Foster), Envoy (Hoyle), Example (Hoyle), Bonnie Charlie (Hoyle), and 
Corsair (Foster).—R. D. 
GARDEN GOSSIP. 
@ HE past month or six weeks has been, as usual, a special season of 
Exhibitions. The Royal Horticultural Society, the Royal Botanic Society, 
f and the Crystal Palace Company have, in the Metropolis, respectively held 
their great shows with more or less success. That of the former society, on 
the 8th lilt., was one of the best London shows of late years, though lacking in effect, from the 
unsuitable buildings in which it was held. In the country, the great shows at Manchester, 
Leeds, and York have been most successfully carried out, though not with the result of eclipsing 
the London shows, as some country sci-ibos would have us believe. Then we have had a Special 
Show of a somewhat novel character, in Mr. William Paul’s Garden of Pot Roses at the Ciystal 
Palace, an exhibition to which the resources of the Waltham Cross establishment have been 
devoted, instead of being diverted by exhibitions for competition. The garden con'idor at the 
Crystal Palace, which overlooks the beautiful grounds, has seldom been utilized for a better 
purpose, and Mr. Paul, who has long been known as one of the foremost of the great champion 
growers, has in this exhibition well maintained his honour and reputation. The Roses were 
principally an-anged in one long bank, broken up at intervals, and relieved by being judiciously 
intermixed Avith garden Ivies in pots, pretty standard specimens of the Acer Negundo 
variegatum, the Golden Oak, and other pictorial trees, and edged with a belt of Pyrethinmi 
Golden Feather, or Enonymus radicans variegata, the latter alternating with neat specimens of 
tricolor and zonal Pelargoniums, &c. Mr. Anthony Waterer, of Knaphill, and the Messrs. 
Waterer, of Bagshot, have held their usual shows of American plants, at South Kensington and 
the Regent’s Park respectively ; and though, from the nature of the season, they have been 
somewhat inferior to fonner exhibitions, yet they always rank amongst the most gorgeous 
floral displays of the season. 
-^MONG tbe new books wbicb have recently appeared, is a small, nicely 
got-np volume on Mushroom culture, by Mr. Robinson, to which we may pro¬ 
bably return. Its object is to extend the cultivation of this useful and nutritious 
esculent, and hence not only are the various processes of cultivation fully explained, but the 
wholesome kinds are neatly figured. The text throughout is amply illustrated. 
- She prize essays on Cottage and Window Gardening., to which Mr. 
Hubbard’s prizes were awarded, have been published by the Royal Horticultural 
Society, and are sold in packets for distribution, at a low price. Mr. Badger’s 
essay on Cottage, Gardening is exceedingly well adapted for the object in view, being remark¬ 
ably simple in style, and intensely practical in matter, points to which Mr. Hubbard rightly 
attached gi’eat importance. Mr. Buttery’s contribution on Window Gardening is marked by 
