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THE ELOEIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
Chrysanthemums Gloria Mundi, brilliant golden yellow, beautifully incurved, 
high centre, and very fine form; and Golden Ball, deep golden amber, large 
and full, a fine incurved variety. Second-class certificates were also awarded 
to Mr. Salter for Golden Beverley, bright canary yellow, finely incurved, a sport 
from the white “ Beverley ” ; and for Hereward, a beautifully incurved flower, 
colour rosy crimson, the backs of the petals having a silvery hue. Besides 
these Mr. Salter had White Trevenna, a variety with neatly formed flowers, 
a sport from the pink “ Trevenna ; ” and Prince of Anemones, a large Anemone- 
flowered variety of good form, colour dull pinkish rose. Messrs. Downie, 
Laird & Laing had the blooms of Chrysanthemum Striped Queen of England, 
a variety which appears to sport very freely. 
R. D. 
JASMINUM SAMBAC FLORE PLENO. 
This forms a most desirable object when planted against the back wall of 
a stove or the pillar of a warm conservatory, and it blooms more or less all the 
season—in fact, when properly managed, it is seldom without blossom, and the 
delicious fragrance of its pearly-white flowers is almost too powerful when the 
house is closed. We spur it in, taking care to preserve as much young wood 
as is convenient, without overcrowding the plant. As soon as one crop of 
bloom is over, we partially cut back ; at the same time other parts of the plant 
are in bloom. It requires an abundance of moisture from syringing, watering, 
&c., being somewhat liable to the attacks of red spider. Its only drawback is 
that it sheds its bloom too quickly when cut, otherwise it would be a most 
delicious flower for bouquets. 
Wrotham Park. John Eddington. 
UNITED HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
A meeting of this Society was held in the Guildhall of the City of London, 
on the 14th and 15th of November. This announcement is really startling. 
Fancy, a flower show in the City of London in the month of November! 
Singular enough in itself, but how much more so to be held in the ancient 
Guildhall of the City ! What next ? A reform meeting in St. Paul’s Cathe¬ 
dral? The Christy’s Minstrels in the Royal Exchange ? Or a match of football 
in Westminster Hall? On the sharp, keen, yet dull morning of the first day 
of the Show, I passed into the noble civic hall of the foremost city of the 
world, grateful that its chief magistrate had given up the City’s great feasting- 
house to such a purpose : that there, in the very centre of “ London’s rich 
and famous town”—in the midst of the mighty torrent of 
“ That fierce tide that steals 
Through the City’s long and sinuous veins ”— 
the citizens could go in from out of its rush and swell, and look upon the pro¬ 
ductions of gardens, once forming the suburbs of their business centre, but 
now almost daily receding farther and farther from the heart of the great hive 
of industry. Crowds flocked to see this rare City spectacle, and put gladness 
into the hearts of its promoters; for to what grander object could they devote 
their surplus—a large one, it is to be hoped—than to that of succouring the 
sick, and smoothing the pillow and relieving the- heart of the distressed one ? 
“ Who dricth up a single tear, hath more 
Of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.” 
On entering the Hall, I found the last touch being given to the arrange- 
