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THE FLORIST’S JOURNAL 
August 3. Birmingham Annual Gooseberry and Flower Show. 
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Flower Prizes awarded :— 
CARNATIONS. 
Premier Prize...Rob Roy, Mr. Fletcher. 
Scarlet Bizarres...l. Game Boy, Mr. Job Pullen ; 2. Duke of Devonshire, ditto ; 3. Wil¬ 
liam the Fourth, Mr. Fletcher ; 4. Kinfare Hero, ditto. 
Scarlet Flakes...8. Booth’s Conquest, Mr. Fletcher; 2. Addenbrooke’s Lydia, ditto ; 
3. Festival, ditto; 4. Madame Marie, Mr. Job Pullen. 
Crimson Bizarres...l. Lucretia, Mr. Job Pullen ; 2. Lord Eldon, ditto; 3. Rainbow, Mr. 
Britten ; 4. Wakefield’s Paul Pry, ditto. 
Purple Flakes... 1. Elliott’s British Queen, Mr. Flindell: 2. Lady Hewley, Mr. Fletcher; 
3. ’Squire Clarke, ditto; 4. Turner’s Princess Charlotte, Mr. Abraham Pullen. 
Pink Flakes...1. Duchess of Gloucester, Mr. Job Pullen; 2. Queen of England, ditto; 
3. Lady Grey, Mr. Fletcher; 4. Plant’s Lady Hood, Mr. Flindell. 
PICOTEES. 
Premier Prize...Pullen’s Incomparable, Mr. Flindell. 
Purple-edged...1. Seedling, Mr. Fletcher; 2. Pullen’s Incomparable, Mr. Britten; 3. 
Pullen’s Lady Peel, Mr. Flindell; 4. Amelia, Mr. Fletcher. 
Red-edged...1. Seedling, Mr. Britten ; 2. Ruby, Mr. Abraham Pullen ; 3. Fair Flora, Mr. 
Job Pullen; 4. Prince George, Mr. Fletcher. 
DAHLIAS. 
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Premier Prize...Seedling, Mr. Coudrey. 
1. Springfield Rival, Mr. Coudrey; 2. Topaz, Mr. Job Pullen; 3. Marquis of Lothian, 
Mr. J. Rodway; 4. Rival Sussex, Mr. Coudrey; 5. Mungo Park, Mr. Beach; 6. Sir Henry 
Fletcher, Mr. Beach; 7. Purple Globe, Mr. J. Rodway. 
August 4. Horticultural Society of London. 
The greatest novelty shown was a new species of Cobea; this genus has been hitherto 
seen in only one species, the Cobea scandens, a well-known and very pretty climber; the 
species exhibited on the present occasion is a native of Mexico, with flowers of a pale 
yellow, also a climber, and called C. Stipularis. A very beautiful specimen of Miltonia 
spectabilis, perhaps one of the very best species of Orchidaceae, was shown by Mr. W. Dean, 
gardener to S. Rucker, Esq., r.H.s. 
Mrs. Lawrence had a collection, containing a very fine specimen of Peristeria elata, 
which has received the name of the Holy Ghost plant, from the distinct resemblance to a 
dove presented by the internal part of the flower : the plant shown had several spikes of 
bloom five to six feet high: Peristeria maculata, Maxillaria Rollisoni, two plants of a new 
variety of Gongora ; two equally fine specimens of Oncidium Lanceanum, Acropera Loddi- 
gesii, Zygopetalum maxillare, Bifrenaria atropurpurea, Mahernia pinnata, Ixora coccinea, 
Clerodendron paniculatum, and Melastoma malobatlirium; also single specimens of Statice 
foliosa, and Silene laciniata, 
Mr. Redding, gardener to Mrs. Marryatt, brought a collection of noble specimens of 
Russellia juncea, Gongora sp., Oncidium luridum, Epipactus palustris, Pelargonium tri¬ 
color, Crinum spectabile, and Tristanea nerifolia. 
Mr. Pamplin, Hornsey-road, a collection of Heaths, consisting of the following varieties, 
Inflata, Inflata alba, Jasminiflora, Exirnia, Bandona, Ampullacea, Swainsonia, Ovata, Am- 
pullacea vittata, Clusiana, and one or two seedlings, the whole of them well grown and 
blooming freely. 
Mr. Pratt, gardener to W. Harrison, Esq. Cheshunt, exhibited a fine plant of Enca 
Eweriana, about six feet high ; also Pimelea hispida, Gesneria splendens, and Erica am¬ 
pullacea. 
Mr. Dean, gardener to J. Bateman, Esq., had blooms of Stanhopea Wardi, Acropera 
Loddigessii, and some other orchidea. 
Mr. Young, nurseryman, Epsom, exhibited a new and handsome species of Gloxinia, 
with bright red flowers. 
Messrs. Colley and Hill, Hammersmith, two new Pelargoniums, called Cleopatra and Ajax. 
From the Society’s garden were Trichopilia tortilis, Galeandra Baueri, Silene lacineata, 
Gasteria conspurcata, Chironia frutescens, Portulaca Thellusonii, and some others. 
Mr. Gundry, gardener to S. Painter, Esq., of Richmond, exhibited four Queen Pineapples'. 
Mr. Moffatt, gardener to the Duke of Newcastle, a collection of grapes, containing Black 
Frontignac, Alicant, Black Hambro’, &c. 
Mr. Chapman, of Vauxhall, a dish of Dutch sweet water grapes. 
The Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert, f.h.s., Erica ampullaceoides, and Loasa Portlandica, a 
species nearly allied to L. lateritia, but said to be more hardy, having lived through the 
winter in the conservatory while the latter perished by its side. 
Capt. Neville, of Jersey, sent a Pelargonium, which he considers a decidedly new species; 
it is, however, very inferior to most of the older sorts. 
Prizes awarded...The large silver medal to Mrs. Lawrence, for her collection. Knightian 
medals to Mr. Pamplin, for Heaths; to Mr.Young, for Gloxinia n. sp.. and to Mr.W. Dean, 
for Miltonia spectabilis. Banksian medals to Mr. Pratt, for Erica Eweriana, and to Mr. 
Moffat, for grapes. 
