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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
during the present year. In the garden of 
Mr. MacLeod, Dalvey, near Forres, a plant 
has produced six stems from one root, the 
tallest being upwards of 8 feet high. One 
stem bears 19, one 18, one 16, one 8, one 
9, and one 4 flowers, making in all 74, the 
flowers all fully expanded, and some of them 
measuring 10 inches across. A plant grown 
in the garden of Mr. A. Turner, Bowbridge, 
Leicester, has already won notoriety. This 
year it is grown in a 20-inch pot, and has 
four stems, the highest of which is 9 feet 
6 inches high, and has nineteen flowers; the 
second is 8 feet 6 inches high, divided at top 
into two parts, on which there is the extra¬ 
ordinary number of sixty-six flowers; the 
other two stems are 4 feet and 2 feet 6 inches 
high respectively, and bear one flower each— 
making a total of eighty-seven flowers. The 
largest flower measures about 1 foot in dia¬ 
meter, and is on the highest stem. A still 
finer plant has been grown in the garden at 
Melchet Park, Romsey, where a bulb has pro¬ 
duced two stems, 8£ feet high, one of them 
divided; these bear 109 flowers, while a 
small shoot from the base bears 4 more, 
making 104 flowers. At Finedon Hall, on 
a smaller plant, grown in a five-inch pot, a 
bloom is recorded as having measured ex¬ 
actly 14 inches in diameter. 
Grouping op Zonal Pelargoniums.— 
Many suggestions have been made for group¬ 
ing these plants, which now present such 
great variety that some classification is neces¬ 
sary. The most simple and intelligible, be¬ 
cause well contrasted arrangement, is that 
proposed in the Gardeners ’ Chronicle , in 
which the term Zonal is preferred on account of 
the preponderance of zonate sorts, as a general 
designation for the whole series once called 
“ Scarlet Geraniums.” This subdivides into 
the following sections:— Green Zonals (Horse¬ 
shoe), as in Madame Yaucher; Golden 
Zonals (Gold and Bronze Zonal), as in Beauty 
of Oulton; Marbled Zonals , as in Sheen 
Rival; Variegated Zonals (Tricolors, &c.), 
including the subsections of Golden, as in 
Mrs. Pollock, and Silver as in Italia IJnita; 
Variegated Marginates, also including the 
subsections, Golden as in Golden Chain, and 
Silver as in Bijou; Green Concolors , as in 
Tom Thumb, and Golden Concolors as in 
Jason. 
Manchester Exhibition of 1868.—The 
Manchester Botanical and Horticultural 
Society has decided to hold another great Ex¬ 
hibition next year, in its gardens at Old 
Trafford, during the Whitsun week, nearly 
the whole of the Guarantors of the National 
Show of the present year having consented 
to renew their Guarantee for another year. 
It is intended to offer about £1000 in prizes. 
Gardeners’ Examinations. — We have 
(page 25), mentioned the names of those 
young gardeners who gained Certificates at 
the 1866 examinations of the Society of Arts 
and Royal Horticultural Society, and we now 
supplement that information by recording 
the names of those who gained certificates at 
the examinations already held during the 
present year 
Society of Arts, April. 
Flori¬ 
culture. 
Fruit and 
Vegetable 
Culture. 
J. M. Henrv, Richmond 
2 
2 
J. C. Higgs, Southampton .. 
3 
1 
A. Jamieson, Richmond 
2 
2 
R. L. Keenan, Richmond 
2 
R. C. Kingston, Richmond .. 
1 
2 
T. Paul, Slough. 
3 
3 
W. P. Roberts, Bromley 
1 
G. Stanton, Slough .. 
# 0 
1 
A. Stormont, Richmond 
2 
F. Thomson, Richmond 
2 
2 
Royal Horticultural Society, 
July. 
W. Spinks, Chiswick .. 
1 
2 
B. Wynne, Chiswick .. 
1 
Ext. 2 
W. Stewart, Chiswick.. 
3 
J. M’Ardle, Chiswick .. 
2 
F. Hardesty, Chiswick 
2 
3 
F. M. Burbidge, Chiswick .. 
1 
2 
J. Williamson, Battersea 
2 
•• 
Besides the foregoing Certificates, the fol¬ 
lowing prizes were gained :— 
J. C. Higgs : Soc. of Arts’ 1st prize, Fr. and 
Yeg. culture. R.H.S. 1st prize, ditto. 
R. L. Keenan : R.H.S. 2nd prize, Botany. 
R. C. Kingston: Soc. of Arts’ 1st prize for 
Botany and for Floriculture. R.H.S. 1st 
prize for Botany and for Floriculture. Gar¬ 
deners' 1 Chronicle prize. 
W. P. Roberts: Soc. of Arts’ 2nd prize, 
Floriculture. R.H.S. 2nd prize, Floricul¬ 
ture. 
G. Stanton: Soc. of Arts’ 2nd prize, Fr. and 
Yeg. culture. R.H.S. 2nd prize, Fr. and Yeg. 
culture. 
The preparation for these examinations is 
in itself so advantageous to young gardeners, 
that we urge upon them the importance of 
turning their attention seriously to the matter. 
The benefit resulting is far beyond the mere 
value of the Certificate obtained, though 
even that is not to be despised. 
Nierembergia frutescens. — This very 
interesting new species was introduced to 
Europe about four years since, from the Andes 
of Chili, by M. Germain, an enthusiastic 
French naturalist, and having stood three 
winters at Bordeaux without any protection, 
will probably prove nearly, if not quite, 
hardy in this country. It is perfectly distinct 
from any species hitherto cultivated, or intro¬ 
duced. It attains a height of from 12 to 
18 inches, when raised from seed and allowed 
to assume its natural form, but when struck 
from cuttings it will flower freely in a small 
state. Its habit is erect, but it only requires 
proper pinching in to make it as bushy as 
can be desired; it has neat linear foliage, and 
the flowers are white tinged with violet, the 
throat being yellow with deep violet rays, so 
