SUPPLEMENTARY NUMBER. 
was E. Elegans, in most robust health, and covered 
with its rosy blossoms. Also, a good plant of that 
line heath, E. aristata major. 
The Third Prize (silver gilt medal) to Mr. Cole, 
gardener to H. Collyer, Esq., of Dartford. This was 
a collection of fifteen nicely-grown young plants. 
The best amongst them was a fine specimen of E. 
aristata major. 
Cape Heaths (Nurserymen’s Prizes).—The First 
(gold Knightian medal) was won by Messrs. Rollin- 
son, of Tooting. They had a large densely-flowered 
specimen of E. Willmorei, 4 ft. high, 4 ft. diameter. 
Second Prize (gold Banksian medal) Messrs. Veitch, 
of Exeter, a fine collection of well-grown and densely- 
flowered plants. 
Third Prize (silver gilt medal) to Mr. Pamplin, of 
Hornsey. 
Cape Heaths (Collections of Nine).—Prize (silver 
gilt medal) to Mr. Taylor, gardener to J. Costar, 
Esq., of Streatham. This was a neat, well-grown 
collection. 
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Single Specimens. —The large silver medal was 
awarded to Messrs. Fairburn, nurserymen, of Clap- 
ham, for an immense plant of Erica Cavendishii. 
The Second to Mr. Brun, for a well-bloomed E. mu- 
tahilis. 
STOVE AND GREENHOUSE PLANTS. 
Stove and Greenhouse Plants (in Collection of 
thirty). When we reached the tent generally devoted 
to these large collections, which are considered the 
highest in the scale of merit, we were taken by sur¬ 
prise on finding, among those that obtained the first 
gold medal, many plants which were as familiar to us 
as our school dictionary; and of others, we covdd only 
make out that we had seen them somewhere on for¬ 
mer occasions. But on further inquiry, we learned 
that a revolution— botanical or horticultural, we know 
not which to call it,—had taken place since the great 
competition in July last, in consequence of which we 
are now enabled to explain a certain rule, which is a 
fixed law, and very properly, at Chiswick, but would 
not hold good in the country, not even in Ireland or 
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Mrs. Lawrence’s Miscellaneous Collection of Stove and Greenhouse Plants. 
Scotland ; and from an intimate acquaintance with 
this subject for many years, we are sure, if'we succeed 
in making our remarks clearly understood, it will not 
he the least useful part of our report. 
The London Horticultural Society, in offering their 
liberal prizes, as rewards for the best efforts in gar¬ 
dening throughout the whole country, have resolved, 
many years since, that it was perfectly lawful for any 
person to compete for these prizes with plants not of 
his own growing; or, in other words, that you may, 
at any time previous to an exhibition-day, buy as 
many plants as are requisite to make up a collection, 
and enter them for competition in your own name; 
and if the award of the judges is in your favour, you 
are entitled to the gold medal, and the Society is 
satisfied; and for this reason, that the stimulus for 
superior cultivation is just as much applied in this 
instance, and perhaps more so, as if you had grown 
the same plants from seed. Take for instance Messrs. 
Fraser, some of the best plant-growers in this country, 
and if they are not so ambitious for medals as for 
money, and choose to ask Mrs, Lawrence a sum of 
