THE COTTAGE GARDENER. [July 4. 
of them, in our opinion, was never seen at any previous exhi j 
bition. 
PELARGONIUMS IN EIGHT INCH POTS.-AMATEURS. 
1st Prize to Mr. Cock, Chiswick, for a collection of twelve 
i new and distinct varieties. 
I Forget-me-not, Star, Centurion, Salamander, Mars, Pearl, Orion, 
' Ilosumund, Sikh, Cruenta, Gulielma , and Orandiflora. 
| 2nd Prize to Mr. Black, gardener to E. Foster, Esq., of 
I Windsor, for 
I Alderman, Lamartine, Lai hi Rookh, Armida improved, Norah, Victory, 
I Constance, Gipsy Pride, Alonzo, Ariel, Narcissus, and Conspicuum. 
I These were all Mr. Foster’s own raising, and were in beautiful order. 
.‘Ird Prize to Mr. Staines and to Mr. Robinson; the 
I judges not being able to say which was best. Mr. Staines 
j showed 
Marion, Lamartine, Negress, Forget-me-not, Pearl, Victory, Orion, 
Rosamund, Star, Alonzo, Lulla Roolch, and Norah. 
Mr. Robinson had 
Gulielma, Star, Forget-me-not, Chimborazo, Pearl, Orion, Negress, 
Gustuvus, Sundown, llosetta. Superb, Cassandra, and Sir Walter 
Raleigh. 
NURSERYMEN. 
1st Prize to Mr. Dobson, gardener to E. Beck, Esq., for 
Symmetry, Star, Emily, Emilia, Relicatissima, Governor, Rosa, 
Mont Blanc, Agatha, Centurion, Sarah, and Cuyp. 
2nd Prize to Mr. Bragg, of the Star Nursery, Slough, for 
Princess, Centurion, Phyllis, Marion, Conspicuum, Lallu Rookh, 
Corregio, Norah, Narcissus, Gulielma, Bertha, and Pearl. 
3rd Prize to Mr. Gaines, of Battersea, for 
Centurion, Adonis, Nobilissima, Negress, Sikh, Model, Grandiflora, 
Mrs. Beck, The Nun, Gulielma, Crusader, and Grenadier. 
FANCY PET.ARG 0NIUMS.-AMATEURS. 
1st Prize to Mr. Robinson, Pimlico. He had this time 
Anais, Bouquet-tout-fait, Statuiska, Jenny Lind, Empress, and 
Magnifica. 
2nd Prize to Mr. Staines, for 
Yeatmanniana grandiflora. Queen, Statuiska , Madame Meillez, Jehu 
superb, and Bouquet-tout-fait. 
NURSERYMEN. 
No first prize awarded. 
2nd Prize to Mr. Ambrose, for 
Reine de Francois, Formosa, Magnifica, Jenny Lind, Fairy Queen, 
Picturuta. 
3rd Prize to Mr. Henderson, St. John’s Wood, who had 
Queen Victoria, Anais, Amelin, Alboni, Mrs. Loudon, and Fairy Queen . 
And another 3 rd Prize to Mr. Gaines, for 
Anais, Reine de Francois, Gem, Rosetta, Priam, and Orestes. 
ROSES IN POTS. 
The show of these beautiful flowers was certainly better 
here than at Chiswick. 
AMATEURS. 
1st Prize to Mr. Terry, gardener to Lady Puller, for 
Barr one Prevost , Souvenir de Malmaison, Brcnnus, Rosetta, Madame 
Hardy, Robin Hood, Coup d’Hebe, and Comtesse Mole. 
2nd Prize to Mr. Roser, gardener to H. Bradbury, Esq., 
Streatham, for 
La Reine, Miss Glegg, Beauty of Billiard, Durhess of Buccleugh, 
Marquess, Rosetta, La Dauphine, Mrs. Elliott, and Eugene Beauharnais. 
NURSERYMEN. 
1st Prize to Messrs. Lane, of Berkhampstead, for 
Devoniensis, Cuvier, Souvenir de Malmaison, Paul Perras, Miss Glegg, 
Great Western, Madame Plantier, Chenedolle, Comtesse Mole, Souvenir 
d’ Ami, and Meillez. 
2nd Prize to Messrs. Paul, of Cheshunt, for 
Duke of Cambridge, Barrone Prevost , Madame Nevurd, Charles 
Duval , Mrs. Bosanquet, Leopold de Beaufremont, Belle Maria, Wm. 
Jesse, Niplietos, Madame Laff'uy, Paul Perras, and Augustin Mouchelet. 
YELLOW ROSES IN POTS. 
1st Prize to Messrs. Lane, for 
Pellonia, Persian Yellow, Queen Victoria, Clara Wendall, Harrisonii, 
Smith’s Yellow, Viscomtesse de Cazes, and Lea’s Yellow. 
2nd Prize to Messrs. Francis, for 
Persian Yellow, Smith’s Yellow, La Pactole, Viscomtesse de Cazes, 
Pauline Plantier, and Harrisonii. 
COLLECTIONS OF SIX CALCEOLARIAS. 
1st Prize to Messrs. Henderson, of Pine-npple Place, for 
Parkmount Beauty, Incumara, Umbrosa coronata, Laura, and Lc 
splendens. 
2nd Prize to Mr. Calleugh, gardener to Mrs. Griffiths, 
Avenue Road, for 
Curreglwyd, Lord Fullarton, Athliste , Catherine, Earl of Rosslyn , and 
Marion. 
3rd Prize to Mr. Franklin, gardener to Mrs. Lawrence, 
Ealing Park, for 
Isabella, Queen Victoria, Elegense, Earl of Rosslyn, Earl of Dal- 
housie, and Lord of Islay. 
TANSIES. 
1st Prize to Mr. Turner, Slough, for 
Lucy Neal , Queen of England, Ophelia, Marchioness of Lothian l Seed¬ 
ling), Constellation, Climax, Viceroy (Seedling), Goliath, Mrs. Beck, 
Sambo, Bellona , Mr. Beck, Garratt's Seedling, Addison, Lord Hardinge, 
Thisbe, Supreme, White Sergeant, Milton, and Jenny Lind. 
SEEDLINGS. 
Certificates of Merit were awarded to Mr. Beck’s Pelar¬ 
gonium named Incomparable ; a splendid scarlet ground ; 
| I,he upper petals with a dark blotch on each, well defined, 
and edged round broadly with the ground colour. To Mr. 
Smith, for his Fuchsia named Illimitable ; a fine fight 
variety, the tube and sepals blush white, and the corolla of 
the brightest scarlet; the sepals reflex boldly, showing off to 
great advantage the fine scarlet corolla. To Mr. Bragg, for 
a Pansy, named Joseph Hunt; a large promising variety. To 
Mr. Ayres, Blackheath, for a seedling Fancy Pelargonium, 
named Formosissima. To Mr. Ambrose, for another named 
Prince Arthur. To Messrs. Henderson, Pine-apple Place, 
for a Calceolaria named Mrs. Stanley ; yellow ground, 
beautifully and distinctly marked with crimson. To Mr. 
Epps, Maidstone, for his new Erica named Erica tricolor 
Eppsii. 
FRUIT. 
There was a tolerable display of fruit, of considerable 
excellence; but we have no room to notice even the winners’ 
names. 
victoria regia. 
Mr. Prison, gardener to tlie Duchess Dowager of Northum¬ 
berland, Syon House, sent again a flower and two leaves of 
the far-famed Victoria regia , for which an extra prize was 
awarded. 
EXTRACTS FROM CORRESPONDENCE. 
Ranunculuses : Self-manuring, &c.— A bed of ranun¬ 
culuses was the sole extravagance in which my father in¬ 
dulged in his garden, though every thing in it—from these 
choice pets to the untended lilies of the valley which car¬ 
peted a shady corner under a hedge, and from his grape 
vine, which he pruned himself, to his savoys and parsley— 
was a delight and luxury to him. My father lias rested 
many years from his labours, and with him the home and 
garden in which we delighted have passed away from us; 
hut long even before that the ranunculus roots had been 
destroyed by an accident while out of the ground, and were 
deemed too costly to be replaced. 
Though never without a garden of my own, or an eye for 
my neighbours' beds and borders, I happen not to have seen 
a ranunculus from that time till this year, when half-a-dozen 
blooms kindly sent me by a friend have redeemed the race 
from my childish recollections, which were by no means very 
favourable to them; moreover, they have drawn exclamations 
of admiration from sundry friends who have, ordinarily, no 
eyes for flowers. 
I know nothing of what should be the properties of a good 
ranunculus, but I am quite sure that my six blooms would 
he pronounced to he execrably bad by a florist; nevertheless 
these—and much worse than these—would he an ornament 
to any garden, and the pride of many such as mine ; and 
as I look at them I cannot help thinking of the hundreds 
and hundreds of roots raised as seedlings, condemned, and 
thrown away, because they do not possess the qualifications 
needful to perfection. An edging (even of single ones) 
would he beautiful round one of my beds ; hut the cost of 
any quantity of those advertised is quite beyond my means. 
Why should not Mr. Tyso, and other great growers—not only 
of ranunculus, but other florist's flowers—sell those of no 
value, to put out singly into the market, by the pound or hun¬ 
dred, at a price sufficient to remunerate them for all trouble 
expended on them, and for the loss of the manure they would 
produce when thrown on the rubbish-heap ; this would 
enable the cottager almost, and certainly thousands of ama¬ 
teurs, to share in otherwise forbidden pleasures. I am far 
