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Mr. Pohlman, with a Seedling. 1st, Mr. Beswick, 
with Conspicua. 2nd, Mr. Gorton, with Beatrice. 
3rd, Mr. Booth, with a Seedling. 4th, Mr. S. Bar- 
low, with Lord Elcho; 5th, with Little Annie. 
Fancy Auriculas. — Glass Q. 12 dissimilar .—• 
1st, Mr. S. Barlow. 2nd and 3rd, Mr. W. Bolton. 
Gold-laced Polyanthuses. 
Class M. Black-grounds : 3 dissimilar. —1st, Mr. 
J. Beswick, with Congleton Queen, Lancashire Hero, 
and a Seedling. 2nd, Mr. S. Barlow, with Exile, 
President, and John Bright. 3rd, Mr. W. Brock- 
bank, with Exile, Lancashire Hero, and Cheshire 
Favourite. 4th, Mr. W. Bolton, with Exile, Lanca¬ 
shire Hero, and Cheshire Favourite. 5th, Mr. T. 
Mellor, with Exile, Lancashire Hero, and Cheshire 
Favourite. 
Class N. Red-grounds : 3 dissimilar. —1st, Mr. J. 
Beswick, with Lancer, George IV., and an unknown 
variety. 2nd, Mr. S. Barlow, with Sunrise, Firefly, 
and Walsall Seedling. 3rd, Mr. Brockbank, with 
Prince Regent, George IV., and William IV. 4th, 
Mr. W. Bolton, with Lord Lincoln, George IV., and 
an unknown variety. 
Class O. Singles : black-grounds. —Premium, Mr. 
Brownhill, Sale, with Cheshire Favourite. 1st, Mr. 
Beswick, with Cheshire Favourite; 2nd, with 
Lancashire Hero. 3rd, Mr. Shepley, with President; 
4th, with Exile; 5th, with Rev. F. D. Horner. 
6th, Mr. S. Barlow, with a Seedling; 7th, with John 
Bright. 
Class P. Singles : red-grounds. —Premium, Mr. 
S. Barlow, with Sunrise, very fine; 1st, with Sunrise ; 
5tli, with Walsall Seedling; 6th, with Firefly. 2nd, 
Mr. Shepley, with William IV. 3rd, Mr. Beswick, 
with George IV.; 7th, with an unknown variety. 
4th, Mr. Geggie, with Prince Regent. 
Fancy Polyanthuses. — Class R. 12 dissimilar. 
■ —1st, Mr. W. Brownhill, Sale. 
Primroses. — Class S. 12 dissimilar. —1st, Mr. 
Wm. Brockbank. 
The Premier Auricula was Trail’s Prince of 
Greens, exhibited in the first prize six by Mr. 
J. Booth, of Failsworth. — F. D. Horner, 
Kir kbg Malzeard , Ripon. 
TWO GOOD CUCUMBERS. 
URING the past fifteen years I have 
grown a good many varieties of 
Cucumber, but for general purposes I 
have come to the conclusion that Telegraph 
and Tender and True are the most reliable 
varieties, when obtained true to name—which 
can generally be done by procuring the seeds 
from a respectable seedsman. Telegraph has, 
as is well known, been before the public for 
many years, and for general purposes is hard 
to beat. It has a strong constitution, is a free 
bearer, and is suitable both for summer and 
winter growth. From two plants, grown on 
the extension system, we have had a fair supply 
during the whole of the past winter, which, to 
say the least, has been a trying one for 
cucumbers. Tender and True , when true, is a 
splendid variety for exhibition purposes, and 
is, moreover, very well adapted fo.r pit and 
frame growth, where there are means for 
supplying artificial heat when required, which 
is a property that some of the large exhibition 
varieties do not possess. For the last three 
years we have grown a number of plants in 
pits, and the quantity of fine, handsome fruit 
we have annually cut from them has been 
immense. 
In penning these notes, I have no wish 
to say anything against any of the many 
new varieties that are annually sent out. Still, 
I would suggest to your amateur readers 
generally the desirability of their sticking to a 
really good sort, until it fails them, in 
preference to relying on any of the so-called 
new varieties, which, in many cases, more¬ 
over, have but the novelty of name to recom¬ 
mend them.—H. J. 0., Grimston. 
USEFUL SLUGS. 
HE useful slug ( Testacella haliotoidea) 
occurs in great abundance at Shire- 
newton. My garden is full of it, and 
I found it also in a grass field between Shire- 
newton and Itton Court. I found several in 
the act of swallowing worms; they eat them 
whole, and I have seen one half hanging out 
of their mouth whilst the remainder was swal¬ 
lowed. I also caught one eating a slug {Avion 
empiricorum ) ; these they eat by bits. I filled 
a large pot with stones and soil, and placed it 
on a brick above a pan of water, to see what 
these slugs would eat. I put in twenty-five 
specimens of Testacella , and with them twenty- 
five worms and twenty-five slugs of Arion 
empiricorum and Limax agrestis. In forty- 
eight hours I turned them all out of the pot, 
to examine their condition. All the worms 
had been eaten, and all the slugs, a small por¬ 
tion of one only being found. There were only 
fifteen Testacellas in the pot, but I afterwards 
found seven under the pan of water; so that 
ten must have swum across and escaped. I 
have turned a hundred specimens into my 
fernery, which is some distance from the 
garden ; and I also turned a hundred into one 
of my vineries, and they are doing well. On 
one night I had a hunt, and in one particular 
portion of the garden I found above one hundred 
specimens of Testacella , and amongst them only 
five other slugs. In another portion of the 
garden I found only five Testacellas, and here 
there were hundreds of other slugs. I only 
know of another locality, close to Bath, where 
this slug is found.—E. J. Lowe, Highjield 
House, Nottingham. 
