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THE FLORIST. 
THE HAMMERSMITH PANSY SOCIETY’S ANNUAL 
EXHIBITION. 
This meeting took place as usual at the Thatched House on May 
the 3d. Few exhibitors attended, a circumstance attributed to the 
short notice they had before the meeting took place : the collections 
produced were, however, very superior in quality ; better perhaps 
than any brought forward during the season. 
Amateurs— Class 1.—Dissimilar varieties, twenty-four blooms. 
First prize: J. Edwards, Esq. Wace Cottage, Holloway, for Thomson’s 
Constellation, Hooper’s Blooming Girl and Mary Jane, Hall’s Rain¬ 
bow, Thomson’s Queen of Iver, Turner’s Reliance, Thomson’s Duchess 
of Rutland, Turner’s Achilles, Hooper’s Lady Sale, Collison’s Perseus, 
Turner’s Potentate, Bell’s Climax, Hooper’s Great Britain, Virgil, 
and Wonderful, Thomson’s Shakspeare, Bell’s Lady Lacon, Youell’s 
Supreme, Hooper’s Bellissima and Duke of Wellington, Cook’s Joan 
of Arc, Blooper’s Nonsuch and Attraction, Turner’s Dr. Hawtrey. 
Second Prize: Mr. Over, Streatham, for Hall’s Rainbow, Turner’s 
Optimus, Hooper’s Lady Sale, Youell’s Supreme, Thomson’s Try- 
phosa, Cook’s White Sergeant, Bell’s Climax, Hunt’s Eliza, Thom¬ 
son’s Zabdi, Hooper’s Duke of Wellington and Blooming Girl, 
Thomson’s Cossack, Meteor, Madonna, Cyprus, Duchess of Rutland, 
and Rainbow, Hooper’s Virgil, Thomson’s Excellent,-Bragg’s Goliath, 
Major’s Lord Morpeth, Thomson’s Hero, Collison’s Perseus, and 
Earl Stanhope. Third Prize: J. Hunt, Esq. Cresses Farm, High 
Wycombe, for Hooper’s Blooming Girl, Thomson’s Constellation, 
Cook’s Black Bess, Major's Lady Peel, Hooper’s Lady Sale, Thom¬ 
son’s Excellent, Hunt’s Hamlet and Eliza, Hooper’s Mary Jane, 
Turner’s Reliance, Cook’s White Sergeant, Turner’s Optimus, King’s 
Exquisite, Cook’s Victory, Bragg’s Clara and Duchess of Norfolk, 
Turner’s Othello, Thomson’s Zabdi, Hooper’s Nonsuch, Thomson’s 
Duchess of Rutland, Jenny Lind (unknown), Hale’s Matilda, Thom¬ 
son's Tryphosa, Hore’s Superb. 
Florists— - Class 2d. — Dissimilar varieties, thirty-six blooms. 
Messrs. Bragg and Co., Slough, and Mr. Thomson, Iver, w r ere 
rewarded equally ; Messrs. Bragg and Co. had Hooper’s Great 
Britain, Thomson’s Almanzor, Collison’s Perseus, Thomson’s Duchess 
of Rutland, Bell’s Duke of Norfolk, Hooper’s Blooming Girl, Turner’s 
Reliance, Hooper’s Lady Sale, Thomson’s Constellation, Hore’s Su¬ 
perb, Thomson’s Eclipse, Bragg’s Colossus, Hooper’s Mary Jane and 
Matilda, Thomson’s Excellent, Ophir (unknown), Bragg’s Charm, 
King’s Exquisite, Thomson’s Zabdi, Bragg’s Goliath, Youell’s Su¬ 
preme and Grand Sultan, Turner’s Optimus, Blooper’s Hector, 
Bragg’s Celeste and Duchess of Norfolk, Gossett’s Lord Hardinge, 
Thomson’s Candidate, Hunt’s Eliza, Bell’s Aurora, Hooper’s Gloria 
Mundi, King’s Pre-eminent, Thomson’s Euclid, Brown’s Arethusa, 
Unknown, Bell’s Climax. — Air. Thomson had his Pre-eminent and 
Almanzor, Youell’s Supreme, Hooper’s Great Britain, Mary Jane, and 
Blooming Girl, Thomson’s AVarrior, Hunt’s Eliza, Thomson’s Try- 
