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his own seedlings, eclipsed anything we have seen among conti¬ 
nental varieties in brilliancy as well as perfectness of form and 
delicacy of marking ; some of those exhibited equalled the rich 
shades of crimson, violet, and lake belonging, as we thought, only 
to some species of Orchids ; but, as we hear one of the most 
striking of Mr. Standish’s batch of seedlings is to be figured in 
your present Number, your readers will judge of the beauty of 
the class generally by your Mr. Andrews’s accurate representation. 
Messrs. Youell, Paul, of Cheshunt, and Cattell were also con¬ 
tributors in this class. Mr. Perry’s Verbenas were superb, and 
fully maintained his position as a grower and raiser of these 
“ Everybody’s flowers,” as we heard them called. The season was 
too late to have Phloxes in perfection, and those exhibited were 
not very first-rate. 
Fruit was well represented in some classes, in others not so. 
Pines as a class were inferior; the heaviest Queen, d^lbs., is 
nothing very remarkable for September, and the best in the black 
class was a Jamaica, not quite so heavy. There were some other 
middling fruits of both Queens and Jamaica, and a curious looking 
Cayenne Pine, from the base of which spread an entire circle of 
small well-shaped fruit, each surmounted by a crown; below these 
were a second cluster of sprouts, each with its fruit, forming 
altogether a novelty in the Pine way, and bearing about the same 
relation to an ordinary Pine as the Brussels-sprout does to the 
Savoy. 
Several good collections were exhibited in the Class of Eight 
Dishes. Mr. Henderson, of Trentham, had a fine pine and grapes, 
including Muscat, Lady Downes, and Hamburg ; splendid peaches 
and good nectarines, evidently from under glass ; melons and 
cherries. The second prize was given to Mr. Tillyard, who had 
three bunches of the finest Muscat grapes in the Exhibition in his 
collection, and also a good pine, fine plums, peaches, cherries, and 
melon. A third collection was furnished by Mr. Young, of 
Havant. In collection of Six Dishes, Mr. Henderson was again 
first, with fruit very similar to the above ; Mr. Dawson, of 
Panshanger, second, and Mr. Page, third,—all of which were 
meritorious as regards the fruit they contained, and were noticeable 
for the absence of every thing below par, in an exhibition sense. 
If we could not conscientiously praise the pine class, we can safely 
do so with the grapes ; more magnificent Hamburg grapes, than 
the two dishes shown by Mr. Meredith, of Garston, could scai-cely 
be provided : so good did they appear by 'comparison with their 
competitors that we observed the judges withheld the second 
prize, marking thereby their great superiority over the rest in the 
same class. Mr. Meredith exhibited also some superb Muscats, 
but owing to the berries being somewhat discoloured, they had 
only a second prize ; Mr. Frost winning with very fine clean 
grown bunches, 
In the Market Gardener’s Class Messrs. Meredith and Harrison 
Avere placed equal, first, for 12 lbs. Hamburgs. After our ob- 
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