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form ; Ariel (Fellowes), Desdemona (Fellowes), two free flowering 
light varieties, the former very fine in form; Lady Canning (Hoyle) 
is a large warm rose; Leviathan, a large purple ; Echo (Fraser), dark. 
Excelsior, a very fine flower, appeared to be overlooked by the Judges. 
Two Fancies were much admired, Formosum (Turner), and Beauty 
(Turner), both remarkable for their fine form and purity of marking. 
There were some pretty things of a miscellaneous character :—-a 
new variegated Geranium named picturatum; a light kind for pots or 
beds named Larkfield Rival; and a new continental Petunia from Mr. 
Turner, named Madame L’Hullier, purple, edged with white. Mr. 
Turner also sent some new French Pelargoniums, for which a prize 
was awarded. We also noticed a double white Petunia, and some 
striped kinds, a white corolla’d Fuchsia, and a lilac and white striped 
Verbena. These came from Messrs. Henderson, Pine-apple Place, 
and from Mr. Smith, of Hornsey. 
Mr. Tyso, of Wallingford, sent two boxes of finely-bloomed Ranun¬ 
culuses, and we also observed some boxes of Pansies. 
We must reserve our notice of the Implements exhibited for a 
detailed report hereafter. There was a great variety of heafing appa¬ 
ratus on the ground, many of decided merit, and some certainly not 
worth setting up, as regards their economy, if we are to take Dr. Arnott’s 
opinion of them. The public will never obtain a true comnarative 
estimate of the respective value of hot-water boilers until a fair trial 
has been made of each under equal conditions. A trial, however, such 
as would establish their true character, can only be carried out when a 
large establishment exists for their trial. 
The second great floral exhibition this season, held under the auspices 
of the Crystal Palace Company, took place on the 16th ult., and, 
considering the intense heat of the weather, was well attended. 
Falling, as it did, so soon after the great exhibition at Chiswick, the 
plants, as a matter of course, were very much the same as were present 
on that occasion. 
In large collections of Stove and Greenhouse Plants, Mr. Dods, 
gardener to Sir J. Cathcart, Bart., beat Mr. Whitbread, gardener to 
H. Collyer, Esq., of Dartford. Both exhibitions consisted of fine 
plants; but this time Mr. Dods’s plants were in better condition as 
regards freshness and brilliancy of flower than those of Mr. Collyer. 
Mr. Green and others also showed good collections. 
Azaleas were evidently past their best. Some, however, from 
Messrs. Green and Carson, were still brilliantly in flower. Mr. Ivery 
had pretty small plants of his new rosy pink kind called Gem. 
Tall Cacti from Mr. Green, and Mr. Bunn, gardener to J. R. Scott, 
Esq., of Hornsey, were also very showy. Epiphyllum speciosum 
coccineum and E. speciosum grandiflorum, two fine kinds, are well 
worthy of notice; the former has small glowing crimson blossoms, and 
the latter flowers of a brilliant pink colour. 
Among Orchids was nothing new. They were, however, again 
produced in excellent condition, apparently rather improved than other¬ 
wise by the hot weather we have been experiencing. 
