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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
Slough, liad the following seedlings :—Commander, golden buff; Commodore, 
orange shaded with red; and Lady Gerald Wellesley, a light ground flower, 
with a rosy purple edging. The dry hot weather that so recently prevailed 
has seriously marred the appearance of the seedling Dahlias this autumn. A 
very interesting group of bouquet Dahlias came from Mr. Turner, and they 
appeared to be a great advance on what has hitherto been seen of these. The 
flowers were models of symmetry, and the colours remarkably varied, and very 
showy. Of deep crimson and purple shades there were Little Mistress, Prince 
of Liliput, and King of Purples; and Burning Coal, golden ground colour, 
edged deeply with fiery crimson, a very striking variety. Of bright scarlet 
colours there were Little Wonder; Little Julius, D. Webb, and Northlight ; 
Glowworm, bright orange scarlet; Everard, fawn suffused with orange; Mr. 
Koch, golden buff; and of shades of rose and lilac. Little Love, and some 
seedlings unnamed. A special certificate was awarded to these. One variety 
was selected for the highest award, to wit, a first-class certificate—namely, 
Little Beauty, golden buff, edged with fiery crimson, very free and striking. A 
huge basket of the new Solanum capsicastrum hybridum was shown by Mr. 
Macintosh, of Hammersmith, it is the result of a cross between S. capsicastrum 
and S. pseudo-capsicum, its height and size of foliage are a stage between the 
two, and it will be a good ornamental conservatory plant. The handsome 
Nerine Fothergilli was produced by Messrs. Paul k Son; its bright scarlet 
blossoms make it a capital conservatory plant at this season of the year. 
Messrs. Downie, Laird, & Laing had a pan of Alternanthera species, a very 
dwarf hardy variegated edging plant, the foliage being brownish green and red. 
Excellent boxes of cut Boses came from Mr. Turner and Messrs. Paul k Son, 
a special certificate being awarded to each exhibition. Among Mr. Turner’s 
flowers were remarkably good examples, when the season of the year is 
remembered, of the new French Tea-scented Rose Marechal Neil, which pleased 
me vastly; also of the same division Souvenir d’un Ami, Gloire de Dijon, 
Madame Yillermoz, and Devoniensis; Bourbon, Souvenir de Malmaison; 
Noisette, Celine Forestier; and Hybrid Perpetuals, Victor Verdier, Jules Mar- 
gottin, Charles Lefebvre, Madame C. Wood, Lord Raglan, Madame C. Crapelet, 
Comte de Nanteuil, La Ville de St. Denis, and Due de Cazes. Messrs. Paul and 
Son had their new Hybrid Perpetual Princess Mary of Cambridge, not in good 
condition certainly, but w T hich I think will take the front rank among Roses ; 
Madame C. d’Offay, a beautiful flower, similar in build and colour to Senateur 
Vaisse, but brighter ; Marechal Vaillant, Madame Boll, Maurice Bernardin, Lord 
Clyde, Vainqueur de Goliath, John Hopper, Jean Touvais, Auguste Mie, 
Madame Victor Verdier, and Charlemagne ; Bourbon Baron Gonella, and 
Catherine Guillot; Tea Gloire de Dijon; and Noisette Lamarque. Mr. Turner 
had a single bloom of a seedling Hybrid Perpetual, Princess of Wales, colour rosy 
crimson, and not sufficiently developed to judge of its merits. Mr. C. Southby, 
of Clapham, had a dwarf-growing Cineraria maritima, named nana, the foliage 
of which appears to be smaller and more compact. A very handsome Kidney 
Potato greatly resembling the Fluke in appearance, and named Freedom, was 
shown by Mr. William Hand, it is said to be a very valuable late variety. 
At the Fruit Committee there was a competition with three dishes of dessert 
Apples ; Mr. Earley, gardener to F. Pryor, Esq., of Digs well, being first with 
Ribston and Cox’s Orange Pippins, and Sam Young. Mr. Earley also had 
another lot consisting of fine Fearn’s Pippin, Golden Winter Pearmain, and 
Sam Young. Second, Mr. John Cox, of Redleaf, with Ribston and Cox’s 
Orange Pippins, and Pitmaston Nonpareil. These were finer fruit than Mr. 
Earley’s, but were inferior to his in flavour. Mr. John McLaren, of Er- 
dington Park, Bedford, had very fine Ribston Pippins, and Melon, and 
