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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST 
it for two years, Messrs. Haage & Schmidt 
state that the double flowers are so constantly 
reproduced that not more than 10 per cent 
of the seedlings come single. The double 
variety is more vigorous than the single, and 
in the flowers the black disk of the latter has 
entirely disappeared. The flowers are an inch 
or more in diameter, double to the centre, 
and of a uniform bright yellow. It is stated 
that they are of longer continuance than in 
the single form, and that they are also pro¬ 
duced in greater profusion. The plant is 
recommended as producing a fine effect as a 
dwarf bed or edging. 
Mu. J. Gould Yeitch having returned 
from Australia and the South Seas, we have 
much pleasure in stating that he and his 
brother, Mr. Harry J. Yeitch, have been ad¬ 
mitted into partnership with their father, and 
the business of the Boyal Exotic Nursery, 
Chelsea, and Coombe Wood establishment, 
will now be carried on under the designation 
of James Yeitch & Sons. 
International Horticultural Exhibi¬ 
tion and Botanical Congress. —Influential 
Local Committees in conjunction with this 
undertaking have been established in England 
at Sleaford, Bristol, Oxford, Warrington, Not¬ 
tingham, Derby, Leamington, Hereford, Hert¬ 
ford, and Doncaster ; in Scotland for the west, 
south, and north of that country respectively; 
and in Ireland for Dublin and Belfast. Hon¬ 
orary Local Secretaries have likewise tend¬ 
ered their services at Manchester, Taunton, 
Ascot, Chester, Bradford, Ipswich, Chelms¬ 
ford, Coventry, Bedditch, Leicester, Hunting¬ 
don, Chepstow, and in Jersey. Some of the 
above Committees have raised considerable 
sums—thus, that for Glasgow and the west of 
Scotland has contributed £127 3s.; Doncas¬ 
ter, £50 8s. ; Bristol, <£18 18s.; Ascot, 
£14 14s. ; Warrington, £24 3s. ; Chelms¬ 
ford, £63; Coventry, £26 5s.; Manchester, 
£31 10s.; Oxford, £5 5s.; Derby, £21 Is. ; 
Belfast, £36 15s.; Hertford, £10 10s.; Elgin 
and North of Scotland, £25 4s. The Com¬ 
mittee of the Botanical Congress, to be held 
under the presidency of Professor Alphonse 
de Candolle, now comprises the names of 
James Bateman, Professor Babington, W. 
Baxter, J. J. Bennett, Kev. M. J. Berkeley, 
Professor Bentley, W. Carruthers, Professor 
Daubeny, Charles Darwin, Dr. Hogg, W. 
Masters, J. McNab, A. G. More, Dr. Moore, 
T. Moore, J. Miers, W. Paul, Dr. Prior, J. 
G. Yeitch, Dr. Welwitsch, Dr. Wight, and 
James Yates; and papers have been promised 
by Mr. J. E. Howmrd, Dr. F. Mueller, Pro¬ 
fessor E. Morren, Professor Lecoq, Mr. W. 
G. Smith, Dr. Seemann, Dr. Masters, M. Yan 
Hulle, Mr. Tuffen West, Dr. Moore, Mr. A. 
G. More, Mr. James Anderson, and others. 
It may be of interest to add that the Bight 
Hon. the Lord Mayor has appointed six of 
the Corporation to assist in making the ar¬ 
rangements for the grand banquet to be held 
at the Guildhall on May 22nd. 
Mr. William Paul’s Show of Spring 
Flowers is held this year, as last, at the 
Boyal Horticultural Society’s Gardens, South 
Kensington. It was opened to the public on 
the 21st, and will continue till the 3rd of this 
month. It is a charming and effective ex¬ 
hibition, most tastefully arranged, and the 
flowers individually are of the highest merit, 
as may well be supposed, since many of them 
are those with which Mr. Paul has been so 
successful at the spring shows. 
Messrs. Cutbush’s Spring Show has been 
held this year at the Crystal Palace instead of 
at the Highgate Nurseries as heretofore. It 
continued from the 17th to the 31st of March, 
during which time it offered a most attractive 
display. It occupied a double row of tabling 
300 feet in length, and consisted of somewhat 
less than 900 pots of Hyacinths, Tulips, and 
miscellaneous flowering plants, the whole 
covered with a new canvas awning, similar to 
that used at the Bose Show, and with such 
good effect in showing off the colours of 
flowers to the best advantage. Messrs. Cut- 
bush’s exhibition, it is scarcely necessary to 
add, was of great excellence. 
New Varieties of Diantiius. —An account 
of two new varieties of Dianthus is given by 
M. Carriere in “ L’Horticulteur Frangais; ” 
one is named Madame C. Petit, the other 
Dianthus Quetierii, after their raiser. 
Madame C. Petit was obtained by fertilising 
the Clove Carnation with the pollen of Dian¬ 
thus Ileddewigii, and resembles the male 
parent in the character and colour of the 
flowers, and the female in its habit of growth. 
The flower-stems are from 15 to 20 inches 
high, erect, and stiff; and the flowers velvety, 
dark reddish crimson, the edges of the petals 
irregularly toothed. It is described as being 
a great acquisition, being not only perfectly 
hardy, but always in flower till its blooming is 
arrested by frost. Dianthus Quetierii is 
stated to have been raised from Dianthus 
Heddewigi and Dianthus hybridus multi - 
fiorus. It is described as being very dwarf, 
the leaves about 4 inches in length and a 
quarter of an inch in breadth, the flower- 
stems barely 8 inches high. The flowers are 
very double, dark reddish crimson, and pro¬ 
duced in such long succession that the plant 
may almost be said to be perpetual-flowering. 
From its low growth it is particularly well 
adapted for edgings ; and the foliage forms a 
fine green carpet, which serves to set off the 
deep colour of the flowers. 
OBITUARY. 
Mr. Francis Dickson, of the firm of Messrs. 
F. & A. Dickson, of 106, Eastgate Street, 
Chester, died at the Upton Nurseries on the 
3rd of March, in his 73rd year, having been 
born at Edinburgh on the 25th of December, 
1793. He was the youngest son of the 
