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THE FLORIST. 
PLANTS FOR EXHIBITION. 
There appears room for a new class of cultivated plants in our 
exhibitions—that of trained climbing plants, which, if artistically 
carried out under good cultivation would prove an interesting feature, and 
one which in some degree would break into the mixed stove and green¬ 
house class, by showing the plants under a new form, interesting in 
itself, and under which the plants might assume a great variety of 
outline, through the agency of the different shaped trellises employed. 
When it is considered that a number of shov/y plants are necessarily 
excluded from the tables of our exhibitions, solely through the difficulty 
of training them so as to harmonise with other specimens, the managers 
of exhibitions should make them into a class by themselves, stipulating 
that the gracefulness in their outline, and natural style of training, 
should have weight with the judges, just as much as the mere value 
of the plant or its merit as regards cultivation. We might then expect 
to see the different species of Bignonia, Brachysema, Hardenbergia, 
Lapageria, Passiflora, &c., among greenhouse plants ; and Allamandas, 
Ipomoeas, Hoy a, Jasminum, Echites, Dipladenia, and Combretum 
exhibited in something like their natural form, instead of being tied 
into balloons and globes, as now generally seen. I am of opinion that 
if a class was formed, with prizes for the best 12 or 6 climbing plants, 
something both tasteful and novel would result in a very short time. 
Iris. 
SCOTTISH PANSY SOCIETY. 
The Seventeenth Annual Competition of this flourishing Society was 
held in the Experimental Gardens, Edinburgh, on Saturday, the 22nd 
of June. The Exhibition, as a whole, was a very successful one, 
a great improvement being observable in the quality of the blooms 
produced. 
The following is a list of the successful competitors, with the names 
of the first and second prizes in each class, which will give a very 
correct idea of the best blooms shown on this occasion. 
Nurserymen’s prize for 24 dissimilar blooms; 1st, Messrs. Downie, 
Laird, and Laing, West Coates, Edinburgh, with Mrs. Laird, Eclat, 
Great Northern, Mr. T. Graham, Duchess of Wellington, Colonel 
Wyndham, Francis Low, Mary Lamb, Nepaulese Chief, Cherub, Miss 
Williamson, Miss Carnegie, Ladyburn Beauty, Perfection, Lady Lucy 
Dundas, Lord Clyde, Rev. H. Doiiibrain, Lord Cardigan, Royal 
Standard, Charles Watson, Mrs. Downie, Countess of Rosslyn, C. M. 
R. Ramsay, Fair Maid; 2d, Robertson, Paul, & Co., Paisley, with A. 
M'Keith, Cupid, Bruce, Maid of Bath, Rev. H. Dombrain, Mary 
Lamb, Lord Clyde, Prince Imperial, Nymph, Jessie, James Peddie, 
Earl of Derby, Miss Carnegie, Reine Blanche, Alex. M‘Nab, Saturn, 
Seraph, Cherub, L. Desdemona, Perfection, Othello, Annie Wood, 
Lavinia, Wallace ; 3d, Mrs. Carstairs, Warriston Lodge, Edinburgh ; 
4th, Messrs. Dickson & Co., Edinburgh. 
