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White Surrey, and Miss Holford. For Fancy Pelargoniums, in six 
varieties, Mr. Gaines shewed the following finely bloomed sorts:— 
Queen Victoria, La Belle d’Afrique, Anais, Ytolinski, Ibrahim Pasha, 
and Yeatmaneanum grandiflorum. 
Calceolarias. —This portion of the exhibition was made more 
attractive than usual, from a decided improvement in the varieties 
shewn. Mr. Kinghorn’s collection deserves especial notice in this 
respect, as it consisted of fine and well-selected sorts.—In the Ama¬ 
teurs' Class, the 1st prize was obtained by Mr. Kinghorn, gardener 
to the Earl of Kilmorey, for Van Tromp, Chieftain, Lady Blantyre, 
Perfection, Conrad, and Amelia; 2d, to Mr. Stanly, gardener to H. 
Berens, Esq., for Chancellor, Beauty, Lord Hardinge, Duke of Al¬ 
bany, Fair Maid of Kent, and Beauty Supreme. In the class for 
Nurserymen, Mr. Gaines was the only exhibitor. The sorts were. 
Van Tromp, Chieftain, Refulgens, Constellation, Glossy, and Hero. 
Pinks were exhibited in pans of 24 distinct varieties. In the 
Amateurs' Class, the 1st prize was awarded to Mr. R. Ellis, of Wool¬ 
wich, who shewed the following sorts : Heartstone’s Prince Albert, 
Hodges’ Gem, Miss Jean, Masterpiece, Ellis’s No. 5, Runkell’s Queen, 
Melona, Ellis’s Beauty, Edward Bennet, Robin, Alpha, Lord 
Brougham, Prima Donna, Norman’s Henry Steers, Smith’s Diana, 
Lady Flora Hastings, Duke of Marlborough, King of Purples, Ellis’s 
Henry, 16, and Hero, Legg’s Prince Albert, Carr’s Harriet, Tur¬ 
ner’s Beauty; 2d, to Mr. J. Halliday, for Beauty of Bath, Turner’s 
Beauty, Lady Flora Hastings, Church’s Navigator, Jenny Lind, Ed¬ 
ward Bennet, Jones’s Huntsman, Hodges’ Gem, Rubens, Parker’s 
Emma, Heartstone’s Prince Albert, Kerr’s Harriet, Prima Donna, 
Alpha, Holmes’s Coronation, Hodges’ Melona, Heartstone’s Cray 
Beauty, Legg’s Albert, Bunkell’s Queen, Gay Lad, Willmer’s Eliza¬ 
beth, Meade’s Susanna, Kerr’s Harriet, Cousens’ Ellen, and Lord 
Brougham.—In the Nurserymen's Class, Mr. Turner, of Chalvey, ob¬ 
tained the 1st prize; his stand contained Parker’s Jenny Lind, Hen- 
brey’s Queen, Turner’s Beauty, Kerr’s Harriet, Turner’s Morning 
Star, Heartstone’s Prince Albert, Young’s Twyford Rival, Smith’s 
Oxoniensis, Meade’s Lady Dartmouth, Kirtland’s Gay Lad, Young’s 
H. H., John Bull, Marris’s Lucretia, Young’s Lady Mildmay, Neville’s 
John Dickson, Walters’ Mrs. Fry, Henbrey’s Rubens, White’s War¬ 
den, Hillyer’s British Queen, Bell’s Benjamin, Parker’s Beauty of 
Bath, Kirtland’s Prince Albert, Hodges’ Melona, and Meade’s Black- 
heath Rival; 2d, Messrs. Norman, Woolwich, for Norman’s Merry 
Monarch, Parker’s Jenny Lind, Smith’s Goliath and Diana, Henbrey’s 
Rubens, Ellridge’s Prima Donna, Hodges’ Melona, Ellis's Mary, Par¬ 
ker’s Beauty of Bath, Kerr’s Harriet, Hale’s Queen of England, Pin- 
der’s Lady Hallowell, Lockwood’s Duchess of Marlborough, Will¬ 
mer’s Prince of Wales, Hodges’ Gem, Parker’s Lady Flora Hastings, 
Stow’s Elizabeth, Harris’s King of Purples, Neville’s John Dickson, 
Locker’s Jane Sarah, Colcutt’s Ovid, Campbell’s Lady Harrington, 
Kirtland’s Beatrice, Norman’s Henry Creed. 
Seedlings. —There were several seedlings brought for exhibi¬ 
tion for which the society does not offer prizes. Among these, a few 
