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eye, and broadly-margined with white ; very pretty and distinct; Salmon Beauty 
(Laing), salmon, much flushed with orange, good form ; Edith (Laing), pale 
salmon, reticulated with white, very pretty and novel; Mr. Collier (Collier), very 
pale salmon, orange blotches, narrow white margin, very fine pip, and good truss ; 
Acme (F. and A. Smith), delicate salmon, bold carmine centre, very fine pip and 
truss; Desdemona (Bailey), soft salmon, very chaste and pretty; Ellen Douglas 
(Kingsbury), salmon, much flushed with orange all over the petals, very fine 
form ; and Lizzie llefford (Hefford), clear salmon centre, with slight lines of the 
same radiating towards the white margin, very pretty and distinct. Mr. Pear¬ 
son’s newer salmon varieties were not present on this occasion, but I may have 
something to say about them later on. Forest Hill Nosegay (Laing), clear 
salmon-red, very showy, and distinct, must not be passed over, as it is very 
effective as a pot-plant. 
Of thoroughly fine white flowers we have yet a paucity. The best produced 
on this occasion were White Clipper ; Snowdon , very fine in colour; Woman in 
White (Postans), slightly creamy white ; Snow (PostansJ, pure white ; and N. 
D. de Beaunarck , flowers of good substance, but very slightly tinged with flesh ; 
Remus (Paul), white, with pale carmine blotches round the eye ; and Alice 
Spencer (Hibberd), something in the same way, but white, might fittingly be 
included among the whites. 
There are certain varieties having rosy-salmon and cerise flowers that may be 
appropriately grouped by themselves, because of their undoubted distinctness of 
character. They are King of Roses (George), rose, dashed with cerise, very 
distinct, but wanting in quality of the flower ; Circulator (George), cerise, form 
good, novel in character; Caven Fox (George), orange-cerise, very distinct and 
fine ; Charles Burrows (Pearson), cerise, much flushed with orange, distinct and 
fine.— Bichard Dean, Ealing , W. 
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MONGST the meetings and exhibitions of the autumn season, the Inter¬ 
national Fruit and Flower Show of the Royal Caledonian Horticultural 
Society , held in Edinburgh, on September 15 and 1G, takes the first place. 
As a display of finely-grown Grapes, it was marvellous, the two immense 
cluetors represented at p. 245 being among the exhibits. In the other classes Mr. Hunter of 
Lambton Castle, and Mr. Johnston of Glamis Castle, exhibited wonderfully fine examples of the 
principal sorts in cultivation. Indeed, it was, on the whole, probably the finest display of 
fruit ever brought together in tho United Kingdom. Peaches were remarkable for size and 
colour, and some grand specimens came from Mr. Braund, Courtown House, Wexford. 
Nectarines, Apricots, and Plums furnished an average display, while Pears and Apples were 
both numerous and of good quality. There was in addition a good display of plants, notably 
some fine groups of novelties and rarities from Messrs. Yeitch and Sons, and Mr. Williams. 
- £Tiie Fungus Meetings at Perth and at Hereford have this season been 
remarkably successful, and there can be no doubt that they prove to be very 
enjoyable to those who at all understand the subject. A number of gentlemen 
•who devote moro or less attention to the study of cryptogamic botany—fungology in par¬ 
ticular—assemble at an appointed time, and some three or four days are given up to excur¬ 
sions for collecting the fungi of the neighbourhood, tho rest of the timo being taken up in 
arranging the collections for public exhibition, in holding meetings for the reading of papers 
on this branch of botanical science, and in genial gatherings, not omitting a public dinner, in 
which various edible fungi naturally form part of tho menu. Some of these are of excellent 
quality, but for want of generally diffused knowledge of their good qualities are suffered to 
run to waste. Coprinus comatus , for example, has a most delicately agreeable flavour; and 
comatus-soup is sometimes one of the dishes devoured at these fungus forays. 
