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Tulips and Crocuses were also shown in considerable quantities, Messrs. 
Cutbush taking here, as in Hyacinths, first place. 
Some fine promising seedling Cinerarias were exhibited, especially 
Purity by Mr. Tillery, of Welbeck, and Sunbeam by the Messrs. Smith, 
of Dulwich; the 'former pure white, the latter white with broad scarlet- 
mauve margins. 
On Wednesday, March 18th, another show was held in the same place, 
and under more favourable auspices. The morning promised to be fine, but 
about eleven o’clock a dense fog brought by the cold north-east wind 
from the Essex marshes completely obscured the atmosphere, dulling all 
the flowers, making it almost impossible to distinguish colours, and add¬ 
ing still further degrees of cold to already a cold morning; at one, how¬ 
ever, it cleared off, and a large company, including her Royal Highness the 
Princess of Denmark and others of the Royal Family, honoured the show 
with their presence. Of this show the prominent features were again 
the Hyacinths, and the principal competitors, Messrs. Cutbush and Paul, 
were in full force, the latter gentleman occupying the first place in the 
three classes; their collections of 100 pots were excellently grown, and 
elicited the warm approbation of all who saw them, while the collections 
of eighteen w r ere those on which evidently the skill and perseverance 
of the exhibitors had been most expended. Especially interesting was 
Mr. Cutbush’s lot of six new and distinct varieties, inasmuch as they 
were quite new kinds, hitherto unknown in England. They were Rouge 
eclatante, bright and semi-double; Fair Maid of Denmark, fine large 
white; San Francisco, double yellow, a deeper shade than Ida, and a fine 
close spike; Prince of Orange, a peculiar striped pink, the stripe being a 
darker shade of carmine; Feruk Khan, a dark blue, with darker stripe of 
the same colour; and Maria Theresa, pink, with dark stripe : they are all 
quite new, and of course too expensive for general growth. Again, were 
noble blooms of Macaulay, Solfaterre, Reine de Jacinthes, and other fine 
sorts exhibited. The show was avowedly a Camellia show, but owing to the 
unfavourable character of last year, and the difficulty of obtaining ripe 
wood, they have bloomed very badly this season ; and hence the display 
was not so fine as might have been expected from the prize offered—<£10. 
Mr. Salter and Mr. Yeitch exhibited good plants, and Mr. Standish 
(not for competition) fine plants of Sarah Frost and Duchesse de Bern, 
two of the best Camellias grown, the shape being exquisite. 
There were two interesting boxes of Roses, contributed by the Messrs. 
Paul, of Cheshunt and Waltham Cross; those in the latter gentleman’s 
collection being especially so, containing many of the new varieties of 
last season, promising to be far better, many of them, than was antici¬ 
pated last year. Eugene Lebrun, a dark rose, was good. Olivier De- 
Ihomme is a well-shaped bright flower. Emile Dulac is a good pink, and 
La Brillante well deserves its name. Robert Fortune is a very peculiar 
and fine rose; in shape it is almost globular, and in colour very fresh 
