1884.] 
THE NATIONAL AUKICULA SOCIETY. 
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days ago, states : —“I must admit that last 
year I was rather disappointed with them” 
(varieties of P. Sieboldii), “ but after a good 
winter’s rest they have come up with from 
four to six stems in a pot, each carrying grand 
heads of flowers—and very large flowers too. 
They are very elegant in their habit, and 
bright ih colour.” If this hopefulness actu¬ 
ated others, and they would wait for the 
results of another season, not neglecting their 
plants meanwhile, they would be much better 
satisfied with them. All of them are very 
pleasant spring flowers, grown with ease, and 
delightfully satisfying.—R. Dean, Ealing, W. 
THE NATIONAL AURICULA 
SOCIETY. 
'■ ■' SOUTHERN SECTION. 
f HE annual exhibition of this Society 
was held in the Conservatory of the 
Royal Horticultural-! Society at South 
Kensington, on April 22, and was 
in every way successful, the display being 
good and abundant, and the competition 
spirited ; while it was generally admitted that 
there was an evident advance apparent in the 
qualities of the flowers shown, seedlings of 
high quality and possessing vigorous con¬ 
stitutions, infusing as it were new blood 
amongst the cultivated varieties. 
The Seedlings brought forward on this occa¬ 
sion contained some choice varieties, which 
cannot fail to carry forward the improvement 
just referred to. We notice these first:— 
Green-edged. —The 1st prize in this class 
was awarded to Rev. F. 1). Horner (Simonite), 
shown by Rev. F. D. Horner, Lowfiehls, Bur- 
ton-in-Lonsdale, Carnforth; it has a very 
perfect green edge, without spot, black ground 
colour, and a slightly angular paste, but is 
nevertheless a good all-round flower; 2nd, 
Horner’s Kestrel, by the same grower, a very 
neat flower, with good green, rather faulty in 
outline, black ground colour, dense paste, and 
circular pale tube. 
fGREY-EDGED.—Ist prize to Rev. F. D. 
Horner, for Merlin (Simonite), an improved 
form of Ajax, the edge a good greenish-grey, 
black ground colour, perfect paste and pale 
tube; 2nd, Mr. J. Douglas, gardener to F. 
Whitbourn, Esq., Great Gearies, Ilford, for 
^grmwn (Douglas'), a flower with good sil¬ 
very grey edge, rather lacking in ground colour, 
which is black, and having a good tube. 
White-edged. —1st, Rev. F. D. Horner, 
for Magpie (Horner), a very symmetrical 
flower, with pure white edge, black ground 
colour, white paste, and pure yellow tube ; 
2ndj Rev. F. D. Horner, with Miranda (Horner), 
which, as shown, was rather rough and irregu¬ 
lar in outline. 
Selfs. —1st prize, Rev. F. D. Horner, for 
Mrs. Horner (Horner), a violet self of the 
finest form, with beautifully flat rose-leaved 
segments, a charming flower ; 2nd, Rev. F. D. 
Horner, with Enchantress (Horner), a pale 
violet self, with rather thin paste and pale 
tube. 
Alpines, of the gold-centred type.—1st, 
Mr. C. Turner, with Unique (Turner), a large 
flower of first-rate properties, maroon shading 
off to dull red, and having a good golden 
yellow centre; 2nd, Mr. J. Douglas, with J. 
H. Laing (Douglas), a very bright reddish 
maroon shading off to crimson, the centre a 
rich yellow. Of the pale-centred type—1st, 
Mr. Turner, with Rainbow (Turner), maroon- 
purple shading off to pale purple, a very 
refined flower with creamy centre; 2nd, Mr. 
Turner, with Placida (Turner), reddish maroon 
shading off to dull red. 
Gold-laced Polyanthus. —In the black- 
ground section—1st, W. Brockbank, Esq., 
Didsbury, with John of Gaunt (Brockbank), a 
large showy flower beautiful laced, but sadly 
deficient in the symmetry of the lacing ; 2nd, 
W. Brockbank, Esq., with an unnamed seed¬ 
ling of no great merit. In the red-ground 
section, Mr. Brockbank had a 1st prize for 
Lord Derby (Brockbank), a fine flower of the 
Exile stamp. 
Besides the prizes above noted. First-class 
Certificates were awarded to the Rev. F. D. 
Horner for the Auriculas Merlin, Magpie, and 
Mrs. Horner. 
The following is a list of the awards made 
in the several classes ;— 
Show Auriculas. 
Class A. 12 dlssimilai —Veitch Memorial Prize 
and Medal, Rev. P. D. Horner, with Miranda 
(Horner), George Lightbody (Headly), Moonlight 
(Horner), Heroine (Horner), John Simonite (Walker), 
Monarch (Horner), Mrs. Horner (Horner), Col. 
Taylor (Leigh), Magpie (Horner), Mrs. Douglas 
(Simonite), P. D. Horner (Simonite), Mars (Horner). 
1st, Mr.' Douglas, Oreaf'Gearies, Ilford, with Mar- 
mion (Douglas), Smiling Beauty (Heap), Juqibp 
