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Class 16. 18 zonal varieties, in 6-inch pots .— 
H. Little, Esq., was 1st, with vigorously-grown 
plants, furnished with finely - developed trusses, 
amongst which the best were Evening Star, of the 
rose-coloured varieties ; Marshal McMahon, Sophie 
Birkin, and Polly King, salmon ; Golden Glory, 
Lord Mayo, ltosa Little, and Mrs. Bennett, scarlet; 
Ivanhoe, fine red, with immense trusses. Mr. 
Meadmore, Romford, was 2nd ; and Mrs. Lermitte, 
3rd. Mrs. Leavers, Czarina, North Star, Mrs. 
Wright, Circulator, M. de Lesseps, and Cleopatra, 
were also conspicuous vai’ieties. 
Class 17. 9 Double-flowered Zonal Varieties, 
Specimens. —These had never been seen so finely 
developed at any previous exhibition ; they were 
superbly grown and grandly bloomed. Mrs. 
Lermitte was 1st, with Fascination, Pioneer, Pro¬ 
gress, Madame Thibaut, Gorgeous, F. V. Raspail, 
Lively, Enchanting, and Devotion. G. Simpson, 
Esq., Reigate (Mr. King, gr.), was 2nd, and Mr. 
Meadmore 3rd. 
Class 18. 18 Double-flowered Zonal Varieties, 
in 6-inch pots. —G. Simpson, Esq., was 1st, with a 
very fine group, amongst the best of which were 
Amazone, Richard Serpell, Mrs. Paine, Paul Bert, 
Madame Thibaut, Roi des Violettes, Louis Buchner, 
Master Charlie, Emile de Girardin, Thomas Harper, 
Horace de Choiseul, and Mons. Geleiu Lowagie. 
Mrs. Lermitte was 2nd, and Mr. Meadmore 3rd. 
Class 19. 9 Ivy-leaved Varieties, including 
doubles. —H. Little, Esq., was 1st, withanicely-grovvn 
collection of pyramidally-trained plants, all double- 
flowered sorts, some of the most striking being 
Gloire d’Orleans, Perle,^ A. F. Barron, Sarah 
Bernhardt, Madame Emile Galle, M. Dubus, 
Sylphide, Madame H. Barat, and Lemoine’s seed¬ 
ling, 29. M. V. Lemoine was 2nd, with a group 
containing Dr. Broca, Astre, Anna Pfitzer, and 
others. 
The Pelargonium Society’s First-class Certi¬ 
ficate was awarded to the following novelties 
in the several groups :— 
Show Varieties. — The Abbott (Foster), of good 
habit, truss large, flowers large, and of grand 
form ; the upper petals dark maroon, lower petals 
crimson, with dark reddish-maroon markings and 
white eye ; distinct and effective. Mr. Turner. 
Duke of Albany (Foster), dwarf, flowers large, the 
upper petals shaded maroon, the lower petals salmon- 
pink with white centre. Mr. Turner. Christabel 
(Beck), a very fine and distinct variety of the Snow¬ 
flake type ; flowers very large, white, with reddish- 
maroon blotch, very free-flowering, the plant of ex¬ 
cellent habit, a fine exhibition variety. Mr. Little. 
Britomart (Beck), a very dwarf and free-flowering 
variety, the flowers being also of good form, bright 
orange-scarlet, the top petals maroon with bright 
red edge. Mr. Little. Superb (Beck), glowing 
crimson-scarlet, with rich maroon top petals edged 
with crimson ; a dwarf and free-flowering plant, 
with large stout highly-finished flowers. Mr. Little. 
Magnet, already noted. Mr. Little. There were 
some other really good flowers in this class, which 
were not considered sufficiently meritorious for 
certificates, viz., Monarch (Foster), a grand flower, 
of good shape and large size, dark crimson and 
maroon with white centre ; Florence (Foster), 
Chivalrous (Foster), and Letitia (Matthews); all 
possessed of considerable merit. 
Decorative Varieties. — Metallica (Hayes), 
flowers rosy-red, with darker blotch on upper 
petals, very fine. Messrs. J. and J. Hayes. Mr • 
Ashby (Hayes), already noticed. Messrs. J. and J. 
Hayes, Annie Hemsley (Hemsley) already noticed. 
Mr. Little. Although quite distinct in character 
from the above, Lemoine’s new varieties must be 
included in this section; they are dwarf in habit 
and wonderfully floriferous :— Lucy Lemoine (Le¬ 
moine), a charming variety, producing a large head 
of bloom; the flowers large, pure white, with 
occasionally a faint streak of purplish-rose in the 
upper petals. Mr. Little. Belle de Jour (Lemoine), 
exhibited from the Royal Horticultural Gardens at 
Chiswick, a splendid novelty; the flowers pure 
white, semi-double, each having about twelve petals ; 
it will be very useful for bouquet-making and other 
decorative purposes. M. Lemoine, Nancy, France. 
Zonal Varieties. —Although no awards were 
made in the zonal section, some very fine flowers 
were staged. Mr. Little’s flowers were really 
good ; Emily Little is a distinct rosy shade of pink; 
Venus is another and brighter cerise shade of pink. 
Messrs. J. R. Pearson and Sons, of Chilwell, ex¬ 
hibited a very fine group of their own seedlings, 
zonals, which were really well grown and flowered, 
and deservedly received the Highly Commended 
label of the judges. Vetis, scarlet; Constance, 
pinkish-rose, immense trusses, and well-formed 
flowers; Dr. Orton, deep crimson; Eurydice, rose, 
fine dwarf habit; Cypris, clear deep rose; Mrs. 
Sturt, rose; Mrs. Gordon, scarlet, white eye. Mrs. 
Jas. Gibson, salmon ; and Edith, light scarlet, were 
all good and distinct varieties. 
The following additional First-class Certificates 
to seedlings were awarded by the Pelargonium 
Society, on the meeting day preceding and following 
those of the show :—On June 14 : to Robert Fortune, 
a double-flowered carmine, ivy-leaved; to Lemoine, 
No. 29, a double-flowered satiny-pink, ivy-leaved; to 
Charles Darwin, a double-flowered intense carmine- 
crimson zonal, all raised by M. Lemoine, and grown 
for him at Chiswick. On July 12 : to Lemoine, 76, 
a pretty pink frilled decorative variety; to Madame 
Harmat, a double blush-white decorative variety ; 
to Mont Blanc, a double-flowered, ivy-leaved sort, 
with blush-white flowers, the whitest yet exhibited ; 
and to Henri Canned, a very rich deep crimson 
double-flowered zonal, distinct in character and 
fine in quality.—T. M. 
THE CARNATION. 
MR. SHIRLEY HIBBERD’S LECTURE. 
S MONGST the attractions on the occa¬ 
sion of the National Carnation and 
Picotee Society’s Exhibition, held in 
the Council-room of the Eoyal Horticultural 
Society on July 19th, was the following lecture 
on the Carnation, delivered by Mr. Hibberd 
“ The Carnation is the true Gilloflower, and one of 
the oldest of all flowers when regarded as a subject 
of the florist’s care. When we turn to the old books, 
we find Gilloflowers and Violets innumerable. The 
Stock is a Violet, and so is the Lily of the Valley. 
Amongst the Gilloflowers we find the Wallflower, 
Stock, and Rocket, besides the Clove, the Pink, and 
the Sweet William—which was often called Sweet 
John—and our flower of to-day, the Carnation. If 
you will turn to Parkinson’s Paradisus, yon will find 
at p. 318 a chapter headed ‘ Carnations,’ and therein 
is a list of nineteen named varieties. At p. 310 is a 
list of thirty ‘ Gilloflowers.’ The arrangement of 
the flowers in two classes by Parkinson has no 
scientific value, because it depended chiefly on 
the relative sizes of the flowers; the largest, as 
a rule, were Carnations, and the smaller were 
