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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ November, 
gonium Miss Goring, of good liabit, and nicely coloured, a good, briglit-looking 
variety, from the same exhibitors, received a similar award. A Second-Class 
Certificate was awarded to Variegated Ivy-Leaved Pelargonium Golden Queen, 
a strong-growing sort, the leaves edged with yellow, distinct, and promising to 
be useful; this came from Mr. J. Parker, Victoria Nursery, Eugby. 
The following Dahlias received First-Class Certificates :— Monarch (Eawlings), 
a grand flower, of a rich deep velvety maroon ground, regularly tipped with fiery 
crimson ; fine florets, substance, and outline. Yellow Standard (Parker), a large 
and somewhat rough yellow flower, quite unworthy the award as shown. A 
Second-Class Certificate to Prince Imperial (Perry), of a dull orange colour, the 
centre flushed with rose; the flowers had got some injury in the journey, and 
looked rough. 
Mr. William Paul had a beautiful collection of Tea Roses in pots, exquisitely 
flowered. This was the third time these plants had produced blooms this season. 
Talk of perpetual roses, nothing in the way of bloom could be more perpetual 
than this! They were well grown, beautifully flowered, and so fresh and charm¬ 
ing that they took one back to spring, notwithstanding it was a dull, cold, 
autumnal day.—R. D. 
GARDEN GOSSIP. 
promoters of the Fungus Show at South Kensington on October 5 are 
doing good service by their annual attempt to familiarize the public eye 
with the appearance of the most prevalent edible kinds of Fungi as 
compared with those which possess poisonous properties. There can be 
no doubt that a very great quantity of good wholesome food in the shape of Fungi is annually 
wasted, because of the uncertainty which people in general feel as to the possibility of 
distinguishing the good from the bad, the wholesome from the deleterious. The “ mycologists 
tell us,” remarks the Gardeners' Chronicle, “ and we implicitly believe them, that tons of 
valuable Fungi waste their nutritious qualities in the untrodden woods from want of sufficient 
knowledge on the part of those to whom a substantial meal of any kind would be a boon. No 
doubt this is much to be lamented, but we must own ourselves sceptical as to any alteration in 
this state of things being effected, till gardeners have found out what to cultivate, and how to 
grow them. We appreciate the delicacy of the Giant Puff Ball, we relish the Yegetable 
Beefsteak, we delight in Champignons, Morels, Truffles, and some others—when we can get 
them ; but we have no faith in their ever being anything but casual delicacies, very good on 
emergencies, but useless, so far as food is concerned, till they can be as much under the 
dominion of the gardener’s art, as is the common Mushroom.” Three collections were shown. 
In that from Mr. English, the following edible kinds were included:— Agaricus arvensis, the 
Horse Mushroom ; Marasmius Oreades, the Champignon; Agaricus rachodes and procerus; 
Boletus scaber; Hydnurn repandum, and others. Mr. Worthington G. Smith’s edible kinds 
included Agaricus procerus, the Parasol Agaric ; Agaricus erubescens, Lactarius deJiciosus, 
Boletus scaber and edulis; Fisfulina liepatica, the Beefsteak Fungus; A. panther inus, A. 
prunulus, A, grammopodius, &c. Mr. Hoyle, of Reading, showed among edible kinds, Agaricus 
nebularis. Russula heterophylla, Agaricus arvensis, A. rnelleus (shown in other collections among 
the poisonous kinds), Cantharellus aurantiacus, Ilelvella esculenta, Morchella esculenta, Lactarius 
deliciosus, and others. 
- 3It was reported at a meeting of' subscribers to tbe Veitch Memorial 
that tbe amount of subscriptions bad readied tbe sum of £1,012 12s. 9d ; tbat 
tbe expenses of advertising, postage, &c., bad been £121 14s. 5d., leaving a nett 
