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» THE ELOEIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
It was said to be a seedling from Purple King. Mr. Turner had some seedling 
Dahlias, to the following of which second-class certificates were awarded :— 
Lord Lyon, crimson, heavily edged with purple, a very telling show flower; 
Valentine, pale lilac, tipped with rosy purple ; and Flambeau, one of the most 
distinct and striking flowers ever seen, ground colour pale orange, heavily 
tipped with fiery crimson, a good show flower ; another seedling was Starlight, 
yellow ground, slightly tipped with crimson maroon. Of older kinds, Mr. 
Turner had excellent blooms of Artemus Ward, Fair Imogene, very delicate; 
Leah, Charlotte Dorling, very fine ; Arrah-na-Pogne, Master of Arts, Le 
Domino Noir, Freemason, Lord Derby, Epaulette, Purity, and Peeress. From 
Mr. Rawlings, of Bethnal Green, came Aurora, a veined rosy lilac flower, to 
which a second-class certificate was awarded, and John Sladden, a dark crimson 
flower of medium size. Mr. Pope, of Chelsea, had Mrs. Pope, delicate ground 
colour, edged with rosy purple, a little open at the centre, but promising to be 
much better, and Mirella, light yellow. Mr. Collier, of Bethnal Green, had 
Salmon King, pale salmon on a yellowish ground. Mr. Bragg, of Slough, had 
Warner, large, dark scarlet; Commodore, salmon scarlet, veined; and Mrs. 
Gerald Wellesley, light ground, heavily edged with rosy purple, awarded a 
second-class certificate; also Garibaldi, a large and coarse pale orange flower, 
veined with orange scarlet. While noticing the flowers shown by Mr. Pope, 
I omitted to notice Gem, a Fancy variety, to which a first-class certificate was 
awarded ; it is a crimson ground flower, edged with white, small, but very 
pretty. Second-class certificates were awarded to Mr. Burgess, of Chelsea, 
for Mrs. Burgess, a sort of violet-shaded crimson, a flower difficult to describe, 
and to Mr. G. Wheeler, of Warminster, for Vanguard, maroon, tinged in the 
centre with violet. Mr. Eckford, of Coleshill Gardens, had some seedling 
Verbenas and Dahlias, but there was nothing worthy of notice among them. 
Mr. Mann, of Brentwood, had some tricolor-leaved Pelargoniums of very good 
qualities ; and from Mr. Anderson, of Meadow Bank, Glasgow, came cut flowers 
of various Orchids. 
Some bunches of Grapes from the Society’s gardens were produced at the 
meeting of the Fruit Committee—viz., Frankenthal, Black, Dutch, and Mill 
Hill Hamburghs, and Buckland Sweetwater. Messrs. W. Cutbusli & Son 
exhibited specimens of Nuneham Park and White Spanish Onions, grown at 
Nuneham Park, the latter being very much smaller than the new variety ; and 
from Messrs. J. Wrench & Sons, London Bridge, came examples of the follow¬ 
ing sorts of Onions—Rocca, a pale form of the Flat Tripoli from Naples, Santa 
Anna, and St. Jorge, two varieties from Madeira, similar in character to the 
globular form of the Large Madeira, and red and deep red forms of the Italian 
Tripoli. R. D. 
HOLME PARK LETTUCE. 
Yotie, correspondent “E. W.” (page 173), asks for information regarding 
this Lettuce. It has been grown here for several years, and is much esteemed 
as a summer variety. The Holme Park and Paris White Cos are the only two 
Cos Lettuces that I grow for summer supply. They are both excellent in 
every respect, being large, crisp, sweet, and not requiring to be tied up ; but 
of the two the Holme Park stands the longer in dry weather before running to 
seed. This property, I need scarcely say, renders it a very valuable sort for 
such a season of drought as we have experienced here this summer. On the 
7th of June a quantity of the two varieties named was planted on ridges 
between Celery trenches; and the Holme Park is now (August 9th) > in excel¬ 
lent order for use, having large solid white hearts, while a great many plants 
