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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[June 6 
1st and 2nd Prizes for Providence Pines were awarded 
to Mr. Davis, gardener to Lord Boston; weight, 8 It). 4 oz., 
and 8 lb. 5 oz. _ . , „ 
3rd Prize to Mr. Snow, gardener to Earl de Grey; 
weight, 7 lb. 8 oz. 
market GARDENERS. 
1st Prize to Mr. Davis, Oak Hill, Barnet, for a Providence 
Pine ; 7 ». 2 oz. 
Grapes .—Heaviest hunch, Mr. Fleming, gardener to the 
Duke of Sutherland; Black Hamburgh ; 1 lb. 74 oz. 
Mr. Davis, Oak Hill, for ditto; 2 lb. 3 oz. 
Melons (the heaviest and the best-flavoured) 
1st Prize to Mr. Fleming, for a hybrid green flesh. 
ripples and Pears of the previous year:—• 
1st Prize to Mr. Snow. These were excellent—fresh, 
large, and good; especially tho pears. 
Cherries in dishes:— 
1st Prize to Mr. Ingram ; 2nd Prize to Mr. Fleming ; 
both fine well-ripened fruit. 
For Strawberries (both in pots and in dishes), the 
1st Prize to Mr. Snow. 
TIRYDAIL SHIPPEN VINERY. 
Scale four feet to an inch. 
This combination of the cow-house and vinery has already 
been prominently noticed by us at page 10 of the present 
volume, and we shall now only add the explanatory references 
to the above drawing. 
a The ventilator, extending the whole length of the 
house. 
c Iron bars instead of purlieus. 
d Sliding ventilators in back wall. 
e Stone shelf for strawberries 
/ Shelf for pot-vines. 
y Water-trough. 
h Feeding-trough, made of flag-stones set on edge, 
i Hurdle false-floor for the cows to rest on, 
k Concrete floor. 
I Drain of iron open guttering. 
m Vine border. 
n Drainage of the border. 
EXTRACTS FROM CORRESPONDENCE. 
Passion-flowers.— I take blame to myself for not having 
sooner replied to Mr. Errington’s request about the Passion¬ 
flower (see vol. iii., page 343). After the appearance of 
the older Tacsoma, about twenty years since, I had a 
strong pull at these passion-flowers, with a view to effect a 
cross between any of them and the Tacsonia, but I did not 
succeed. However, I gained some insight into then' eco¬ 
nomy, which enables me to answer Mr. Errington. Botan¬ 
ist^, as far as I am aware of, have not put much stress on 
the arrangement of the seed organs in these flowers, which 
stand alone in the division of plants to which they belong— 
in the disposition of their stamens and pistils—the Irids, 
or Ixia tribe, being the only parallel to them in the other 
grand division of the vegetable kingdom ; and it will be re¬ 
membered that I mentioned last year, that the chief feature 
by which Irids were distinguished from neighbouring fa¬ 
milies was the ungallant position of the stamens standing 
up with their backs turned to the fairer sex—the pistils; 
and in my hurry I then fell into a mistake, by saying that 
the Irids alone, among flowers, were so unmanfully dis¬ 
posed. But here, among all the passion-flowers I examined, 
the same phenomena occurs, and even more markedly than 
in the irids; for in the passion-flower both sexes “ look 
asklent and unco skeigh," or, in plain words, the males not 
only turn their backs on the virgins, but the latter pay them 
in their own coin by looking in a different direction; and if 
all this is not a phenomenon, what shall we call it? Those 
who have little acquaintance with the inside arrangement of 
these flowers will, perhaps, understand it better from the 
following description. In the centre of a Passion-flower a 
column is set up without a pedestal, and afterwards a pair 
of pedestals, one above the other, are added, and placed 
against the bottom of the column. From the upper pedestal 
fine full grown men generally, but sometimes only four of 
