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Puxley’s Prince Albert, Beauty of Woodhouse, Kay’s 
Majestic, Ely's Lady Ely, Young’s Earl Grey, Hale’s 
Prince Albert, Lady of tbe Lake, Wilmer’s Conquer¬ 
ing' Hero, Addenbrook’s Lydia, Calcutt’s Juba, Ward’s 
Sarali Payne, Holmes’s Count Pauline, Ely’s Regu¬ 
lar, Milwood’s Premier, Berrenger’s Earl Spencer, 
Ely’s King of Scarlets, Calcutt’s Brutus, Village 
Maid, Hale’s Sir H. Smith, and Berrenger’s Premier. 
2nd prize, to Mr. Norman, of Woolwich, for Puxley’s 
Prince Albert, Hughes’s Sir J. Reynold’s, Wilmer’s 
Frederick, Squire’s Defiance, Ely's Mrs. Burkhill, 
Hepworth’s Hector, Calcutt’s Brutus, Willmer'sMrs. 
Moore, Hale’s Prince Albert, Halliday’s Queen of 
Purples, Wildman’s Buonaparte, Hepworth’s Vivid, 
Ely’s Sir R. Hill, Halliday’s Lord Rancliflfe, Simp¬ 
son’s Queen, Holmes’s Count Pauline, Brookes’ 
Flora’s Garland, Smith’s Princess Royal, Kay’s Pri¬ 
mus, Turner’s William Penn, Cartwright’s Rainbow, 
Jackson’s King of Purples, Easum’s Admiral Curzon, 
and Ely’s Lady Ely. 
Picotees. —1st prize, to Mr. Norman, for Nor¬ 
man’s Prince of Whales, Crask’s Prince Albert, Bur- 
rough’s Mrs. Bevan, Norman’s Daphne, Mathew’s 
Ne plus ultra, Norman’s Pride, Elkinson’s Lord 
Chands, Garratt’s Lady Dacre, Burrougli’s Duke 
of Newcastle, Barnard’s Mrs. Barnard, Sharp’s 
L’elegans, Ely’s Emperor, Wilmer’s Prince Royal, 
Norman’s Miss Hardinge, Burrough’s Morgiana, 
Norman’s Lord Nelson, Costar’s William Cohbett, 
Shaw’s Beauty, Garratt’s Red-edged, May’s Portia, 
Norman’s Prince Alfred, Kirtland’s Miss Annesley, 
Garratt’s Seedling, and Norman’s Elizabeth. 2nd 
prize, to Mr. W r ard, of Woolwich, for Marr’s Prince 
Albert, Hardstone’s Sarah, Hardstone’s Purple Per¬ 
fection, Cray’s Beauty, Lady Chesterfield, Sharp’s 
Agitator, Miss Desborough, Giddin’s Vespasian, Mrs. 
Bevan, Norwich Rival, Ward’s 156, Duke of New¬ 
castle, Crask’s Prince Albert, Princess Augusta, Nor¬ 
man’s Beauty, Wildman’s Isabella, Barnard’s Mrs. 
Barnard, Mathew’s Enchantress, Kirtland’s Queen, 
Sharp’s L'elegans, Ward’s No. 2, Lady Dacre, Cook’s 
President, and Seedling of 1848. 
Pinks. —-1st prize, to Mr. Norman, for Turner’s 
Mrs. Edwards, Young’s Lord J. Russell, Ward’s 
Great Britain, Maclean’s Narborough, Buck, Hyl- 
yar’s Goliali, Norman’s Lord Hardinge, Kirtland’s 
Prince Albei’t, Unsworth’s Omega, Maclean’s Cap¬ 
tain Tyson, Bragg’s George Glenny, Kirtland’s Lord 
Valentia, Gay Lad, Hale’s Queen of England, Har¬ 
ris’s King of Purples, Kirtland’s Beatrice, Smith’s 
Whipper-in, Church’s Queen, Smith’s Diana, Costar’s 
Surprised, Harriet, Hooper’s Pride, Wilmer’s Laura, 
Duke of Marlborough, Young’s Double X. 
V T e shall conclude our Report next week. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
To ali, our Readers. —We are always gratified by receiving 
letters from you, but pray put your questions briefly; a page of note- 
paper would contain half-a-dozen questions if put without unneces¬ 
sary accompaniments. Time, remember, is valuable, and much of it 
is lost in reading what is not relative. 
Melons (William T .).—Your plants will not be as vigorous as 
they ought if each does not produce you in succession four melons ; 
if they are a small-fruited variety, each ought to yield you six. All 
depends, however, upon the health of your plants ; if they are weak, 
you must be contented with half the above numbers. Remember, 
also, that much depends upon your judgment in thinning the fruit. 
Hand Seed-Dibblkr (An Admiring Subscriber ).—If, when in 
London, you visit Messrs. Deane, Dray, and Deane, Swan-lane, you 
will be able to see for yourself Dr. Newington’s, Jesse Ross’s, and 
Mr. Nicholl’s dibblers, each of which deliver the seed at the time 
they make the holes ; you will see there also, probably, hand-barrow 
drills. We have never tried any of these machines. 
Apricots Dropping {Immediate ).-—Although you will have been 
visited with rain before you receive this answer, yet we recommend 
you to remove three inches of the surface soil within a circle of about 
six feet round the stems of the trees ; put into the bason thus formed 
some wet mulch, or long stable-dung, and then return over it the 
soil; if very dry weather returns, give a liberal soaking of water over 
the mulch three times a week. 
Camellia Propagation (A Beginner). —You ask which are best 
for this purpose, “ cuttings or slips.” If by the latter you mean 
shoots torn from the branch so as to have a heel of the old wood and 
bark attached to them, then wc reply slips are best, for though they 
root more slowly, yet they more frequently succeed than cuttings of 
the double varieties; both, however, are very liable to fail. The best 
mode of propagating the double camellias is by grafting. If you 
persist in trying slips or cuttings you cannot do better than follow 
the directions for rooting the cuttings of the single kind, given by 
Messrs. Chandler, the extensive cultivators of this flower at their 
Vauxhall nursery. They say:—Take the cuttings in July and August, 
or as soon as the young shoots arc sufficiently ripe at the base; cut 
them smoothly over with a sharp knife at a joint, and divest them of 
one or two leaves at the bottom, and then plant firmly about two 
inches deep in pots half-filled with compost, and the upper half with 
fine white sand. The cuttings are then well watered, and the pots 
plunged in a tan-bed, which gives out a gentle warmth, and kept 
closely shaded for three or four months, by which time short fibres, 
or a callus from which they afterwards diverge, are produced. 
Bouquets (Ibid). —We shall return to this subject, and shall be 
glad of any suggestions from our readers. 
Manure round Trees (A. ’A .).-—Mulch lying on the surface of 
the soil near the stems of trees will not cause them to canker. The 
neatest mode, and the most moisture-retaining, is to place it just 
within the surface, as recommended above for apricots. 
Lucerne (W. P. D.). —Yours being more than a foot high may be 
cut, and a second time when it attains the same heighth ; the best 
time is just when the flower is visible. After this year you may cut it 
six times annually. 
Strawberry Plants (J. 31. 31.), —Write to Mr. Appleby; he 
will do w'hat you require. 
Rilott’s Elour-bali. Potato (T. Fletcher). — Can any one 
inform us whether this variety has pink eyes ? 
Gardeners’ Dictionary (IK. IT,).—You can obtain it, at the 
price named, of our publishers. 
Magnolia not Flowering (Alpha), —The most common cause 
of this is that the soil is not sufficiently dry and well drained; another 
cause is its being overshadowed with trees. 
Out-door Grates (Ibid). —Against your south wall plant a Royal 
Muscadine (white) and a Black Hamburgh, or, if living in a northern 
county, an Early Black July. You will find full information relative 
to them in our first, volume. You can have a trellis on your slate 
roof ; we should prefer an iron net, which you may have for about 
(id. per square yard, and training the vines to it by means of narrow 
strips of thin lead. 
Mossy Lawn (A Parson’s Wife). —We fear that your soil requires 
draining, and, if so, no surface application will benefit you; drainage 
will be your only remedy. As an experiment, pare off, by means of a 
turfing-iron, an inch depth from a square yard ; if the grass springs 
up again upon this pared piece, do the whole the same, and keep it 
well rolled. 
Moss as a Covering (An Admirer of Alpines). — We are not 
aware of this ever being salted, or dipped in brine, before being used 
as a covering to the surface; \ye should think it would destroy the 
moss, but if not it would certainly keep slugs from harbouring in it. 
Have any of our readers used salted moss? To some plants the rain 
filtering through it would be fatal. We are obliged by your sugges¬ 
tions about the flower shows. 
Orange and Citron Trees (J. J.). —You will find, at p. 92 , a 
notice of the insect which, probably, infests these, and at p. 111 ! the 
soil which will suit them. They do not require much water, and are 
losing their leaves, probably, from being kept in air that is too dry 
for them. 
Mushroom Bed (Ibid). —You may make it now. You can buy 
spawn at any large seedsman’s in London. Sunshine does not injure 
cucumbers and melons; they should be shaded from it at mid-day 
during very hot weather. Frogs will not eat woodlice. 
Horse-radish in Asparagus Bed (J. S. L .).—One huge root 
of this is deeply imbedded in your asparagus bed, and you have in 
vain endeavoured to kill it by constant cutting and salting.—If we 
were in your predicament we should at once dig it out, taking care 
to excavate down to the very bottom of its tap-root, and leaving 
behind the least possible amount of the side-roots; we should then 
return the soil of the bed, and replant the vacancy made with three- 
year old asparagus next April. A straggling plant or two of the 
horse-radish would probably come up next year, but these could be 
kept down by constant cutting deeply within the soil as soon as a 
leaf appeared above the surface. Never apologize for troubling us ; 
we are always ready to tell all we know to those who require the in¬ 
formation we possess. 
Horse-Dung (B. S. P .).—This, when thoroughly decayed, is a 
good manure for flower-borders. When fresh, it contains so much of 
ammonia that it is too stimulating for them before they bloom, 
causing them to run too much to leaf. 
Lilium longieolium (L. ().). —This, the long-leaved lily, is the 
name of the flower of which you sent us a specimen from Mr. Young’s 
garden at Taunton. Mr. Weaver, gardener to the Warden of Win¬ 
chester College, has paid some attention to this flower, and tells us 
that he planted some bulbs out in the open ground two years ago, 
but they have not yet flowered in that situation. He also keeps one 
or two in pots in a cold frame, to winter ; and one pot in the green¬ 
house. The one in the greenhouse flowered a month or five weeks 
ago, and was 18 or 20 inches in heighth. One of the plants from the 
cold frame is now in flower, and about 15 inches in heighth. The other 
has not yet flowered. It is, properly, a greenhouse plant. When the 
stems have died away in autumn is the time for moving the hulbs. 
They require a rich light loam. 
