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THE NATIONAL CARNATION AND PICOTEE SOCIETY. 
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exhibited from Great Gearies. The flowers 
are of good form, the petals being nicely 
rounded and smooth on the edge, and the 
colour pinkish crimson on a good white 
ground; this variety obtained the first prize 
in its class and was honoured with a First-class 
Certificate. Crimson Kmg (Dodwell) obtained 
a First-class Certificate, and the second prize 
in the same class. It is quite distinct in its 
blackish purple and rich crimson flakes ; as 
shown the flowers are but medium-sized; 
exhibited by Mr. Douglas. Mr. Dodwell had 
some good scarlet flakes, and Mr. Douglas 
a good rose flake named Miss Helen Lodge, 
which were not brought before the judges 
at all, owing to the visitors crowding in and 
interfering with the work. 
Mr. Charles Turner, of Slough, exhibited 
some exceedingly good new Picotees, raised 
by the Kev. Charles Fellowes, of Shotesham 
Eectory, Norwich. Juliet received the first 
prize in the light purple class ; it is a large 
flower with a distinct bright purple edge, and 
a clear good white. Duchess is an extra fine 
variety classed with the heavy scarlet edges, 
and is a larger and better flower than Con¬ 
stance Heron by the same raiser; this received 
a first prize in its class, and also a First-class 
Certificate. It has an even well-defined edge, 
and a good white. Maude is a distinct and 
remarkably fine light rose edge ; it obtained 
the first prize and a First-class Certificate in 
its class; the edge is well defined, the petals 
pure white, and of fine form. Orlando is 
another very promising flower in this section. 
There are some really good new Picotees 
in the hands of the raisers in the “north 
countrie.” Mr. Simonite exhibited a very 
fine wire edge red Picotee at Manchester, 
raised by Mr. Horner, but it was past its best. 
Mr. Horner has also raised a very fine “gos¬ 
samer-edged ” rose Picotee. We know what 
Mr. Horner undertakes he always does well, 
and if he goes in as a raiser of Picotees we 
may expect something unique. 
The Border Carnations are now held in 
great estimation, and they can be well left in 
the hands of Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, 
of Chelsea, who seem to have taken them 
under their special protection in their town 
nursery at Chelsea. They exhibited a remark¬ 
able selection of new varieties, and obtained 
First-class Certificates for the following :— 
Mrs. Glen, the best of the primrose-coloured 
kinds, having broad well-formed petals. Miss 
Mary Anderson is also in advance of any of 
the yellow kinds, and would have obtained a 
certificate but for the fact that Mrs. Glen was 
thought the better variety. Harvester well 
deserved the First-class Certificate it obtained, 
and will probably be the most popular of all. 
It is of the same colour as Florence, buff or 
apricot-coloured, and smooth on the edges, 
whereas Florence is fringed. Celia, delicate 
rose pink, and John Barnet, deep pink, are the 
best flowers in those colours. The Messrs. 
Yeitch also obtained a First-class Certificate 
for a very distinct rose-coloured Dink, named 
Piose Perfection, a large handful of its sweetly 
perfumed flowers being exhibited. — J. 
Douglas, Ilford. 
THE NATIONAL CAENATION AND 
PICOTEE SOCIETY. 
Northern Section. 
f^N the 12th ult., twenty-one days after 
the exhibition of the Southern Section 
of the Society, on July 22nd, the 
Northern meeting was held under the 
auspices of the Council of the Eoyal Botanical 
and Horticultural Society of Manchester in 
the noble Town Hall of that city. The in¬ 
terval well illustrates the variable period of 
flowering of these summer-blooming plants, 
though two exhibitions fail to bring the growths 
of all interested into focus on the days as now 
chosen, and at least a third exhibition should be 
organised. The date as hitherto chosen for 
the south, is suitable for the London district 
and some thirty or forty miles to the north; 
and the. second week of August will, with 
usual seasonal conditions, meet the needs of 
the growers from the hill districts of Lanca¬ 
shire and Yorkshire ; but this leaves a large 
area, commencing in the south and east with 
Oxford and Cambridge, and continuing through 
the Midlands to South Yorkshire and York, 
and west and south of Manchester, where the 
bloom culminates mid-way between the dates 
of the Southern and Northern exhibitions 
respectively, and where consequently the lovers 
of the flower realise, save in kn exceptional 
year, the unhappy condition expressed in the 
old saw of being “between two towns at 
