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THE FLOEIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
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fire from ever going quite out. It is a list of tire 
prizes given at a Polyantlius Show, held at the 
residence of Mr. T. Lancashire, Gardener’s 
Arms, Sandy Lane, near Middleton :— 
Polyanthuses in pairs. —1st prize, John Beswick, 
for Lord Lincoln and Exile ; 2nd, Robert Dyson, for 
Cheshire Favourite and Exile; 3rd, John Goodier, for 
Cheshire Favourite and Exile4th, Ben Lund, for 
Ohe.shire Favourite and Exile ; 5th, Adam Oldham, 
for Cheshire Favourite and Black Prince; 6th, 
Edward Shepley, for Lancer and Exile ; 7th, Samuel 
Barlow, for President and Exile; 8th, Moses Part¬ 
ington, for Lord Lincoln and Cheshire Favourite; 
9th, James Pletcher, for Black Prince and William 
IV.; 10th, Edward Gaskill, for President and a seed¬ 
ling. 
Polyanthus, hark grounds. —Premier prize, John 
Beswick, for Lord Lincoln; 1st prize, John Beswick, 
for Exile; 2nd, John Beswick, for Lord Lincoln; 
3rd, John Bes-svick, for Formosa ; 4th, Robert Dyson, 
for Chesliire Favourite; 5th, Robert Dyson, for Rev. 
F. D. Horner; 6th, Robert Dyson, for Black Prince. 
Polyanthus, red grounds. —Premier prize, Robert 
Dyson, for George IV.; 1st prize, John Beswick, for 
William IV.; 2nd, John Beswick, for George IV.; 
3rd, John Beswick, for Prince of Orange; 4th, Adam 
Oldham, for President ; 5th, Robert Dyson, for 
Telegraph ; 6th, John Beswick, for Napoleon. 
Polyanthus, seedlings. —1st prize, Robert Dyson; 
2nd, James Fletcher; 3rd, Mr. Edward Schofield; 
4th, James Pletcher. The names of the vai’ieties are 
not reported. 
The Judges were Mr. Robert Lord, of Todmorden; 
and Mr. Ralph Southern, of Bolton. — Thomas 
Lancashire. 
GARDEN GOSSIP. 
« HE Exhibition of the Royal National 
Tulip Society, on June 5th, will take 
place at the Manchester Botanical Gar¬ 
dens, under the presidency of S. Barlow, Esq., who is 
also the Honorary Secretary. The schedule, which is 
now issued and may be had of Mr. Barlow, comprises 
13 classes, besides which Certificates of Merit will be 
awarded for rectified Seedlings. The prizes are 
numerous — from four to eight in each of the 
classes for stands. The highest prize amongst rec¬ 
tified Tulips (Class 1) is £5, or a cup, for 12 dissimi¬ 
lar blooms, two feathered and two flamed in each 
class ; and the lowest is 5s. The principal prize for 
Breeder Tulips is £1 5s., for six dissimilar blooms, 
two of each class. There are 10 prizes in each divi¬ 
sion of the class, for single blooms. Separate prizes 
of small amount are offered for the best feathered, 
flowered, and breeder Tulips respectively in the 
whole show. Prepared labels for marking the 
flowers, which it is imperative should be used, will 
be supplied to exhibitors, on demand, a week before 
the show, by the Secretary, and these labels must be 
placed on the stands in front of the flowers they repre¬ 
sent. The judges are to be selected from amongst 
persons who are not exhibitors, and are to be in¬ 
structed to adopt as the basis of their decisions the 
following points ;—Purity, correct marking, sym¬ 
metry in form, uniformity in size, and perfect dis¬ 
similarity. There will be dinner on the day of the 
show at 2 p.m., when the business of the Society, 
and the exhibition of 1880, will bo considered. 
— tlie Show of the Royal Hoeticul- 
TUBAL Society of Ibeland, on April 17th, the 
following prizes were awarded for Aueiculas : 
—9 ]plmits, distinct: 1st, Rev. Frederick Tymons, 
A.M., Baskin Hill, Drnnicondra (Mr. M'Keogh, 
gardener), for Richard Headley, Mrs. Smith, 
Sharpe’s Mr. Lane, Duke of Wellington, Conqueror 
of Europe, Stapleford Hero, Robert Trail, Turner’s 
C. J. Perry, and Blackbird; 2nd, Richard Chaloner, 
Esq., D.L., Kingsfort, Moynalty, county Meath (Mr. 
Tanham, gardener); 3rd, Francis Wni. Leland, Esq. 
6 plants, distinct; 1st, Rev. Frederick Tymons, with 
Metropolitan, Vulcan, Robert Trail, Regular, Black¬ 
bird, and Trail’s Anna; 2nd, Francis Wm. Leland, 
Esq.; 3rd, Richard Chaloner, Esq., D.L. 
— ©HE white-edged Seedling Aueicula 
Acme, shown by Mr. J. Booth, florist, Failsworth, 
Manchester, in the class for six varieties, at the 
exhibition of the Northern Auricula Society, at Man¬ 
chester, and to which a First-class Certificate was 
awarded, is one of the seedlings raised by Mr. John 
Read, formerly of Market Rasen, and now of Lincoln. 
It was named Acme by a jury of leading cultivators, 
being considered to possess excellent properties, one 
of the most striking being its almost perfect form. 
It will be distributed in due course by Mr. Booth. 
— ^ftee a period of over forty years’ 
active labour, Mr. Maenock now purposes re¬ 
tiring from the profession of a Landscape 
Gardener, of which he has been one of the leading 
ornaments, and a most successful and tasteful ex¬ 
ponent. The Botanic Gardens of Sheffield and the 
Regent’s Park were early examples of his genius in 
the art of laying-out grounds. Mr. Marnook’s style 
was essentially ornate, yet marked by breadth and 
variety. He will take with him, on retiring from 
active life, the respect and good wishes of ail those 
who knew him. Mr. J. F. Moston will succeed to his 
practice. 
— |loTiNG the Effects of the Wintee on 
Caenations and Picotees, Mr. Dodwell writes 
that never before have we had a winter so de¬ 
structive to these plants in subm-ban gardens. Not 
one plant which failed to get well upon its legs, and 
fully prepared for its winter’s sleep before the last 
week of October, survives. Caught by the great 
depression of temperature in early autumn, the sap 
never appears to have become set (or inspissated) ; 
and though throughout the winter months the plants 
retained their verdure, and gave promise of vigorous 
life with the returning spring, yet lacking the warmth 
of spring, rot gradually set in at the heel, and one 
after another they succumbed. “ Usually,” he adds, 
“ I have few plants with which I trouble to ‘ coddle’ 
during late autumn, but last year I was fortunate 
enough to bloom a number of promising seedlings, 
and to the produce of these I naturally gave special 
attention. In an ordinary season, or in an open 
situation such as I had at Derby, I should have saved 
every plant; but long-continued cold, combined with 
dirt and damp, deplete and destroy in a degree 
pitiable to witness. Prior to my experience here, I 
never knew seedling Carnations and Picotees succumb 
to cold ; indeed, I do not as yet know that cold alone 
can kill them; but though naturally they are as 
hardy as couch-grass, cold and damp ^combined are 
so insidious and so destructive that upwards of 700 
plants died under their influence. Last year I cut 
my first bloom from the seedling beds on May 12, 
but such is the difference in the character of the 
seasons that, judging from present appearaoes, we 
shall not see a flower this year earlier than July. 
