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following:— Foxhunter, Magnificent, Rugby Hero (very fine), Snowflake, 
Geant des Batailles, Apollo, Firefly, Grand Eastern, La Gloire, Mrs. 
Harrison, Nemesis, Decorator, Venus, Julie, Miss Field, Auricula, Lord 
Raglan, Mrs. Moore, Kate, Rainbow, Mrs. Pennington, Kenilworth, and 
Countess of Aylesford. Mr. Perkins, of Coventry, was third, with some 
fine blooms, including liis own Lord Leigh, an excellent scarlet. In Pan¬ 
sies Messrs. Downie, Laird, and Laing were first, with a good box of 
blooms; and they bad, moreover, a large number of fancy Pansies, 
among which were Mr. Nethercote (dark claret), with a light edge round 
the five petals, and Earl of Rosslyn, a curious reddish-claret flower. 
Amongst novelties Mr. Standish exhibited his new Japanese Clematis, 
which we hope to figure, and Mr. Bull some of his new seedling Mimulus, 
the result of a cross between Mimulus cupreus and Gaiety. There were 
also many other novelties, but our space forbids us to notice them. We 
may congratulate the Crystal Palace Company on having secured a most 
admirable display, and on being favoured with a fine day, and its neces¬ 
sary consequence, a large attendance; and every attention was given by 
Mr. Houghton, the indefatigable secretary of the flower shows. 
CATALOGUES. 
Messrs. E. G. Henderson and Sons, Spring List of Soft-Wooded, Bedding, 
and other Plants, 1863. Wellington Road Nursery, St. John’s Wood . 
Messrs. F. A. Smith’s Catalogue of New Flowers, etc. 
The Wellington Hoad IN ursery has been so long celebrated for the 
enterprise with which it introduces novelties amongst us, whether of 
home or foreign growth, that this annual catalogue is looked for with 
no ordinary curiosity. This year it sustains its well-deserved character, 
and many valuable things are announced; many of these we have our¬ 
selves seen, others have obtained favourable notices at our great exhibi¬ 
tions, while the character of the raisers of others leads us to form a 
favourable idea of their productions. We have here Mr. Grieve’s new 
Geraniums, Mr. Edmunds’s Verbenas, and Mr. Banks’s Fuchsias, amongst 
a host of other productions. 
Messrs. Smith’s Catalogue contains a vast number of novelties, both 
of their own and other cultivators, and may be regarded as a compre¬ 
hensive list of most of the productions of value that are appearing during 
the present season. 
CALENDAR OE OPERATIONS.—JUNE. 
Greenhouse .—There is little to be added to or altered in the instruc¬ 
tions given for last month. Greenfly is the great enemy to be guarded 
against, and frequent fumigations ought to be adopted; “ Prevention is 
better than cure” is always a safe rule to follow, and we would strongly 
urge it to be done even where no insects are seen. Primula, Cineraria, 
