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The principal prize, the Royal Horticultural 
Society’s 25-guinea cup for 20 stove and 
greenhouse plants, was awarded to Messrs. 
Lee, of Hammersmith, who competed for it 
with Mr. Baines, gardener to H. L. Micholls, 
Esq., Bowdon, near Manchester. In this 
latter collection were two such plants of Sar- 
racenia as were probably never before seen— 
one, S. purpurea, a dense mass 3 feet over, 
and with enormous pitchers; and the other, 
S. flava, fully a yard high, with the mouth of 
the pitchers 3J inches across, and the broad 
leafy lid 4^ inches. Mr. Baines also showed 
a beautiful group of Sarracenias in addition 
to those in his large collection. It consisted 
of S. Drummondii alba, nearly 5 feet high, 
with the lid of the pitcher mottled with white 
and wavy at the margin; two plants of S. flava, 
4 feet high, with the lid ovate and plane; 
S. rubra, 1 foot high, with a red-veined, ovate 
plane lid; S. variolaris, with the upper part 
of the tube mottled with white, and the head 
recurved like a parrot’s bill; and S. purpurea, 
very highly coloured. They formed a group 
such as is rarely seen at exhibitions. Orchids 
formed the weak point of the show, very few 
being staged. The £20 and £7 7s. cups 
offered by the ladies of Bury were not even 
competed for. Ferns formed a considerable 
feature, but consisting rather of creditably 
grown plants than of rare species. Some 
effective groups of Palms and of Dracaenas 
were also set up. Fuchsias, together with 
Pelargoniums of all kinds, were abundant 
and good. The Bury silver cup for Fuchsias 
and the special Pelargonium prize were won 
by Mr. D. T. Fish. 
Among Variegated Pelargoniums Messrs. 
Saltmarsh & Sons, Chelmsford, were most suc¬ 
cessful with some very pretty and compact 
plants—viz., Argus, Mrs. Pollock, Countess, 
Sunset, Culford Beauty, and Variegated Quad- 
ricolor. The prize for six new Variegated 
Pelargoniums was also won by Messrs. Salt- 
marsh & Son with Lady Cullum, Bird of 
Paradise, Sunrise, Meteor, Snowstorm, and 
Crown Jewel. Mr. Grieve was the winner of 
the County cup for 12 seedling variegated 
Pelargoniums of 1866-67. He staged two 
collections, mostly yearlings, some of which 
were only just breaking into character. The 
sorts in the winning collection were Fanny 
Newham, Bride of Dandelot, Victor Galbraith, 
Lizzie Paget, Black Adder, Hiawatha, Isa¬ 
bella Clay (very fine), Clemmy, Eva Fish (dis¬ 
tinct), Rothley, Allanton, and Victoria Regina. 
One of the most novel features (alluded 
to above), was presented by a class of Bed¬ 
ding plants, for which the Suffolk gar¬ 
deners’ cup was offered. It was taken by 
Mr. Grieve, who showed 48 boxes of well- 
grown plants, each kind occupying a small, 
square box, of about a foot square. Another 
good feature was presented in the class for 
cut flowers, of 24 Hardy Herbaceous plants, 
which when shown in good-sized neat bunches 
are showy and effective. Mr. Gilbert, St. Mar¬ 
garet’s Nursery, Ipswich, was placed first. 
In the various groups were handsome forms of 
Alstromeria, Lilium testaceum, Asclepias sy- 
riaca, the double-flowered white Campanula 
persicifolia, Coronilla iberica and varia, and 
the rarely seen Brodieea congesta—all fine old 
things, not half enough grown. Mr. Brown 
had a group of the old-fashioned Gladioli, 
which was much admired. An interesting 
group of New Plants was shown by Messrs. 
Veitch & Sons, of Chelsea, consisting of San- 
chezia nobilis variegata, Croton irregulare, in- 
terruptum, and maximum, A nthurium Scher- 
zerianum, a splendid plant of Todea (Lepto- 
pteris) superba, Acalypha tricolor, Vcrschaf- 
feltia splendida, Echites rubro-venosa, Abu- 
tilon Thompsoni, Maranta Veitchii, Nierem- 
bergia rivularis, and Coleus Veitchii. Another 
group from the same firm included the new 
hybrid Alocasia intermedia, Retinospora fili- 
fera, the fern-like R. plumosa ; Begonia 
Veitchii, Vanda Bensoni, Adiantum concinnum 
latum, Alocasia Jenningsii, the Indian species 
with dark segments on green ground ; Dra¬ 
caena Moorei, and D. regina. These having 
already received the first-class certificates of 
the Floral Committee, were now collectively 
awarded a special certificate. Mr. Standish, 
of Ascot, exhibited Retinospora filifera, and 
Mr. Bull, of Chelsea, Dalechampia Roezliana 
rosea. Messrs. J. & C. Lee had a fine specimen 
of Ouvirandra fenestralis. 
Fruit was good and tolerably abundant. 
The most remarkable was a sample of three 
bunches of Black Hamburgh, which took the 
Stowmarket medal, shown by Mr. Meads, 
gardener to Raikes Currie, Esq., Minley 
Manor, Farnborough, Hants. These were 
large, irregular bunches of fine berries, pretty 
well coloured, and weighed together 26| lbs. 
The cup offered by the Gardeners' Chronicle 
for a collection of fruit and vegetables was 
won by Mr. Pottle, gardener at Bealing’s 
Grove, Woodbridge ; and the special prizes 
given by the Journal of Horticulture were 
respectively won by Mr. Carmichael, gardener 
at Sandringham, and by Mr. Blair, gardener 
at Shrubland Park. 
The show of implements was not extensive, 
but some very good articles were produced in 
several of the classes, especially among garden 
seats, engines, suction pumps, lawn mowers, 
and models of greenhouses. Among garden 
seats Messrs. J. B. Brown & Co., of London, 
had some iron-framed chairs, remarkable for 
their excellence of design both as to the 
model or general outline, and as to the orna¬ 
mental details ; the seats were somewhat 
hollowed, and consisted of wooden bars. One 
especially, of the Nasturtium pattern, which 
was certificated, was of great beauty and ex¬ 
cellence, and was subsequently purchased for 
Sandringham. The most important conser¬ 
vatory models were those shown by Messrs. 
Sanders Frewer & Co., of Bury St. Edmunds, 
