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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ May, 
Lancashire Hero (Lancashire), Apollo (Hudson), 
Lycurgus (Smith), Complete (Sykes), Master Hole 
(Turner), Lovely Ann (Oliver), Charles J. Perry 
(Turner), Alderman Wisbey (Headly), Robert Trail 
(Lightbody), Sophia Dumaresque(Lightbody), Topsy 
(Kay), Beauty (Trail), Complete (Sykes), Lord 
of Lome (Campbell), Colonel Champneys (Turner), 
Lord Clyde (Lightbody), Admiral Napier (Camp, 
bell), Metropolitan (Spalding), General Neill (Trail), 
True Briton (Hepworth), Lady Richardson (Gairn), 
Ellen Lancaster (Pohlman), Mrs. Smith (Smith), 
John Waterston (Cunningham), Britannia (Smith), 
Meteor Flag (Lightbody), Mrs. Campbell (Cunning, 
ham), Confidence (Campbell), and one or two good 
seedlings. 
Class K. 12 Alpine Auriculas. —1st prize to Mr. 
Turner, for Mr. Dodwell, John Ball, Unique, 
Napoleon III., Slough Rival, Mrs. Thomson, Queen 
Victoria, Miss Frowd, Beatrice, King of the 
Belgians, Selina, and Dolly Varden, all of his own 
raising; 2nd, Mr. James Douglas, for Spangle 
(Turner), Miss Reid, Prince (Douglas), Florence 
(Douglas), Beatrice, Minnie (Turner), Queen 
(Douglas), Bronze Queen (Turner), Selina, Neatness 
(Gorton), Diadem (Gorton), and a seedling; 3rd, 
Samuel Barlow, Esq., for Edgar (Turner), 
Nimrod (Turner), Conspicua, Elcho (Turner), Etna 
(Turner), Dazzle, Bronze Queen, Mercury (Turner), 
Tenniel, Diadem, and Mauve Queen; 4th, J. T. D. 
Llewelyn, Esq., for Nimrod (Turner), Tenniel 
(Turner), Cupid (Turner), Spangle (Turner), Dolly 
Varden (Turner), Topaz (Turner), Selina, King of 
the Belgians (Turner), a fine dark seedling named 
Gwendoline, and three other unnamed seedlings. 
Class L. 6 Alpine Auriculas. —1st prize to Mr. 
Turner, ' for Troubadour (Turner), Sensation 
(Turner), Queen Victoria (Turner), Mercury 
(Turner), King of the Belgians, and Slough 
Rival; 2nd, Mr. James Douglas, for Bronze 
Queen, Beatrice, Neatness, Dolly Varden, Silvia 
(Douglas), and a seedling; 3rd, S. Barlow, Esq., 
for Ovid, Beatrice, Conspicua, Mercury, Diadem, 
Brilliant; 4th, Mr. R. Dean, for Mercury, 
Diadem, Shaded Mercury, Elcho, Bronze Queen, 
and Dolly Varden; 5th, J. T. D. Llewelyn, Esq., for 
Diamond, Gwendoline, King of Crimsons, Sydney, 
and two seedlings. 
Class M. 1 Alpine Auricula. —1st prize to 
Mr. Turner, for Miss Taplin; 2nd, Mr. Turner, for 
Mariner; 3rd, Mr. R. Dean, for Captivation; 4th, 
Mr. Janies Douglas, for Alexander Meiklejolm; 
5th, Mr. Turner, for King of the Belgians; 6th, Mr. 
Turner, for Unique. 
The premier Auricula selected from amongst 
the whole of the plants shown was George Light¬ 
body, a beautiful truss of nine pips, shown by the 
Rev. F. D. Horner. 
Class N. 6 Polyanthuses. —1st prize to Mr. R. 
Dean, Ealing, for six Gold-laced varieties, Exile; 
Lancer, Formosa, George IV., Earl of Lincoln, and 
President; 2nd, S. Barlow, Esq., for Cheshire 
Favourite, Exile, George IV., President, Lancer, 
and a seedling; 3rd, Mr. John Beswick, Middleton ; 
and 4th, Mr. James Douglas, in whose collections 
the same varieties were represented. 
Class O. 2 Polyanthuses. —1st prize to Mr. J. 
Bcswick, for Cheshire Favourite and Exile; 2nd, 
S. Barlow, Esq., for Cheshire Favourite and 
President; 3rd, Mr. W. Brownhill, Sale, for 
Cheshire Favourite and Exile; and 4th, Mr. R. 
Dean, for Cheshire Favourite and Cox’s Regent. 
Class P. 1 Polyanthus.— Mr. Brownhill was 1st, 
2nd, and 5th; S. Barlow, Esq., 3rd and 4th, and Mr. 
Beswick 6th, all showing Cheshire Favourite. 
Certificates were awarded to Mr. Douglas, of 
Loxford Hall, for a remarkably fiuo grey-edged 
seedling, the result of a cross between George Light¬ 
body and Robert Trail; and for alpine varieties named 
Mrs. Meiklejolm, Queen, and Barlow’s Annie; to 
Mr. Turner, for white-edged Auricula Omega, and 
for alpines, National and Mariner; to Mr. R. Dean, 
for Polyanthus Sovereign, a fine golden self fancy ; 
and Polyanthus Lustrous, a striking flower, deep 
maroon in colour, with a rich golden centre ; to Mr. 
T. S. Ware, Tottenham, for a good deep yellow 
Polyanthus Golden Eagle; and to Mr. H. Hooper, 
for Pansy Fred. Perkins. 
VILLA GARDENING FOR MAY. 
OppF March sustained to a great extent its 
(Si fa traditional character for bluster and 
oDQ rough winds, April has also vindicated 
its claim to be regarded as the month for 
showers, for we have had a succession of in¬ 
vigorating rainfalls that have done much good 
service to garden crops. Happily there is 
reason to believe that the snow and frosts 
which ushered in the month of April have not 
proved so destructive to fruit crops as was feared 
in the first instance. 
Greenhouse. —Plenty of plants are now 
available for the decoration of the greenhouse. 
Zonal Pelargoniums, late-planted Polyanthus, 
Narcissus, Cinerarias; Dielytra spectabilis, a 
capital plant for the Villa Gardener’s green¬ 
house, because it is a clean plant, not becoming 
infested with green-fly ; Deutzia gracilis, Hoteia 
japonica , have been gay for a few weeks past, 
and are holding on yet, and being succeeded 
by Fuchsias, from cut-down plants of last year ; 
Azaleas, Primula cortusoides amcena, and its 
varieties; large-flowered and fancy Pelargo¬ 
niums, Lord Lyons, Forcing Pinks, &c., are 
already in bloom, or coming on to supply the 
places of those which are fading. In the fore¬ 
going list will be found the names of things 
that can be managed with comparative ease by 
a Villa Gardener who has limited accommoda¬ 
tion. They are satisfying plants also—they 
give good heads of bloom, and are therefore 
just the things requisite for the amateur’s 
greenhouse. In the case of a greenhouse ex¬ 
posed to the sun, attention must be given to 
watering, as plants that have filled their pots 
with roots soon become dry when the heat 
of the sun is at all fierce. Wind soon dries 
the soil in pots also, and if the leaves flag for 
a brief period, they wither, and spoil the 
appearance of the plants. A gentle syringing 
in the morning, and again in the evening when 
the sun is declining, will be found very bene¬ 
ficial ; also it is a good plan to keep the floor 
of the house cool and moist by means of re¬ 
peated sprinklings. Green-fly must be well 
looked after; they increase rapidly during 
warm weather. 
The class of plants generally recommended 
