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cobalt-blue, with good petal, and pure white 
paste. Dora is remarkable for beautiful 
foliage ; the edge is blue, with a mauve tint, 
and it has good paste. Selina is a good maroon- 
coloured flower, with round, dense paste, and 
large pips. There are two good crimson seifs, 
which are certainly improvements on Duke of 
Argyll and Lord of Lome , one of them having 
green foliage. Mr. Peter Campbell told me 
that he had been for many years trying to 
obtain such a variety, but it has been reserved 
to Mr. Horner to accomplish it; a good crim¬ 
son with green foliage would be a great hit. 
Sunshine is a good yellow self, with a clear 
yellow edge, and good circular paste. 
These are only a few of the really good 
varieties that have been sorted out from a mass 
of seedlings. There are, of course, many dis¬ 
appointments, for promising varieties turn out 
to be inconstant, and the per-centage of really 
good flowers, from the very best hybridised 
seeds, is very small; but by patient perseverance 
on the right lines, anyone may obtain like re¬ 
sults to those to be seen at Kirkby Malzeard. 
There is very greatly enhanced enjoyment to 
be obtained from the raising of seedlings, and 
an ample field for the rising generation to 
carry on the work so well begun long, long 
ago.—J. Douglas, Ijoxford , Ilford. 
THE SEA EAGLE PEACH. 
[Plate 538.] 
UR thanks are due to Mr. Stevens, of 
Trentham Hall Gardens, for the speci¬ 
mens of this fine and little known 
Peach which are here represented. It was 
raised by Mr. Rivers, of Sawbridgeworth, from 
the Early Silver Peach, and was distributed by 
him some years since, but has not been much 
heard of in public till within the last year or 
two, when its great merits seem to have won for 
it—slowly, but not the less surely—the appro¬ 
bation of practical fruit-growers. Mr. Stevens 
informs us that the example figured in the 
accompanying illustration, was but a fair speci¬ 
men of this grand late-fruiting Peach. “The 
tree,” he adds, “ belongs to the large-flowered 
section, and is of remarkably good habit, being 
vigorous and sturdy in its growth. It has 
glossy, deep-green foliage, which is furnished 
with glands. It is a very hardy variety, and 
can endure without injury, when in flower, 
more frost than any other Peach of my acquaint¬ 
ance ; and on this account alone, it will be much 
planted when better known. 
“ The fruit is very large, and rich in colour 
both outside and inside. It ripens in our 
Staffordshire climate from the middle of Sep¬ 
tember to the middle of October ; and when, at 
that season, such good old sorts as Barrington, 
Walburton Admirable, Late Admirable, Desse 
Tardive, &c., are light, woolly, and dry, the 
Sea Eagle will be found heavy, rich, juicy, and 
piquant in flavour. 
“ The variety was raised by the late Mr. 
Thomas Rivers, of Sawbridgeworth, who has 
left such a distinct mark of his skill and judg¬ 
ment upon both our hardy and tender fruits ; 
and it was distributed by that gentleman some 
twelve years since or more in his 4 Bird Series ’ 
of Peaches. In my estimation, it is the best 
of all late Peaches.”—Z. Stevens, Trentham 
Gardens. 
NATIONAL AURICULA SHOW. 
SOUTHERN SECTION. 
HE Exhibition of this branch of the 
National Auricula Society took place 
in the garden of the Royal Horti¬ 
cultural Society, at South Kensington, on 
April 19tli; and, considering the unfavourable 
weather of the past few weeks, may be re¬ 
garded as a successful one, though the bloom 
generally was not equal to that of last year. 
We are glad to notice that the interest which 
has been excited by the efforts of this Society 
in the South of England has not decreased, 
since there were a goodly number of exhibitors, 
as on former occasions, and a large attendance 
of visitors, some of which were probably 
attracted by the fact that the Rev. F. D. 
Horner— -primus of Auricula-fanciers : may he 
live to become Primate !—was to deliver a 
lecture on these old-fashioned florist favourites. 
This Lecture will be found in extenso at p. 65, 
and will, we are sure, be read with much 
interest by a large circle of the admirers of 
the Auricula. 
The following is a list of the awards, and of 
the varieties exhibited in the several groups 
Auriculas. 
Class A. 12 dissimilar. —1st, the Rev. F. D. Horner, 
Kirkby Malzeard, Ripon, with Lancashire Hero 
(Lancashire), C. J. Perry (Turner), Erebus (Horner), 
a grey-edged seedling (Horner), Ringdove (Horner), 
John Sitnonite (Walker), Heroine (Horner), Intrepid 
(Horner), George Lightbody (Headly), Frank 
Simonite (Simonite), Ajax (Horner), and Snowdrift 
(Horner). 2nd, Mr. Douglas, gardener to F. Whit- 
bourn, Esq., Loxford Hall, Ilford, with Smiling 
Beauty (Hea 2 i), C. J. Perry, Lancashire Hero ; Mabel 
