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THE FLORIST’S JOURNAL. 
Best China Rose...Mr. Palfreyman. 
Best Scarlet Geranium...Mr. Palfreyman. 
Best Lilac ditto...H. Wheat, Esq. 
Best Pemelia...!. and 2. Mr. Palfreyman. 
Best Rose ditto... 1. Mr. Palfreyman. 2. H. Wheat, Esq. 
Best Fuchsia... 1. and 2. Mr. Palfreyman. 
Best Bouquet of Cut Flowers...H. "Wheat, Esq. 
Best Herbaceous Plants...Mr. Alsebrook. 
Best Display of Cut Hardy Flowers...Messrs. Green and Woollin, to whom the work called 
“ The Botanic Garden,” was awarded. 
CARNATIONS. 
Scarlet Bizarres...Premier, Don John, Mr. Broadbent. 1. Leader, Mr. Senior. 2. Duke 
of Leeds, ditto. 3. Jolly Dragoon, Mr. Yeardley. 4. Prince Albert, Mr. Archer. 5. Dun 
John, Mr. Senior. 6. Chief Ranger, Mr. Yeardley. 
Crimson or Pink Bizarres...Premier, King Alfred, Mr. Archer. 1. William Caxton, 
Messrs. Green and Woollin. 2. Dr. Young, Mr. Archer. 3. Faul Pry, ditto. 4. Dr. 
Young, ditto. 5. Duke of Kent, ditto. 6. Duke of Bedford, Mr Sykes. 
Scarlet Flakes...Premier, Marquis of Granby, Mr. Senior. 1. Ditto, Mr. Yeardley. 2. 
W 7 illiam the Fourth, Mr. Senior. 3. Lady Jenkins, Messrs. Vessey and Bagshaw. 4. 
Leader, Mr. Yeardley. 5. Red Rover, Mr Archer. 6. Washington, ditto. 
Pink or Rose Flakes...Premier, Lady Hood, Mr. Senior. 1 Duchess of Devonshire, 
Mr. Archer. 2. Lady Hood, Mr. Senior. 3. Mountaineer, Mr. Archer. 4. Queen of 
England, Mr. Yeardley. 5. Lady Milton, Mr. Archer. 6. Beauty of Rochdale, ditto. 
Purple Flakes...Premier, British Queen, Mr. Archer. 1. Invincible, ditto. 2. Lady 
Margaret, Mr. Broadbent. 3. Charlotte, Mr. Archer. 4. British Queen, Mr. Yeardley. 
5. Bellerophon, Mr. Archer. 6. Wellington, ditto. 
TICOTTEES. 
Purple Heavy-edged...Premier, Mr. Archer, Seedling, named Invincible. 1. Lady Talbot, 
Mr. Archer. 2. Dr. Horner, ditto. 3. Blue Bell, Messrs Green and Woollin. 4. Major 
Healey, ditto. 5. Princess Victoria, Mr. Archer. 6. Cleopatra, ditto. 
Purple Light-edged...Premier, Blue Bell, Mr. Rodgers. 1. Victoria, Mr. Broadbent. 
2. Miss Emma, ditto. 3. Seedling, Mr. Muscroft. 4. Miss Emma, ditto. 5. Unknown, 
Mr. Yeardley. 6. Ditto, Messrs. Green and YVoollin. 
Red Heavy-edged...Premier, Mrs. Horner, Mr. Yeardley. 1. Mark Antony, Mr. Archer. 
2. Lady Talbot, Mr. Sykes. 3. King of French, Mr. Senior. 4. Lady Talbot, ditto. 5. 
Derby Willow, Messrs. Green and Woollin. 6. Miss Ann, Mr. Archer. 
Red Light-edged...Premier, Criterion, Mr. Rodgers. 1. Mrs. Horner, Messrs Vessey 
and Bagshaw. 2. Lady Talbot, Mr. Muscroft. 3. Miss Bacon, Mr. Archer. 4. Unknown, 
Mr. Yeardley. 5. Seedling, Mr. Muscroft. 6. Ditto, ditto. 
DAHLIAS. 
Best White-edged...Beauty of the Plain, Messrs. Vessey and Bagshaw. 1. and 2. Solman, 
Girling’s Nonpareil, Mr. Lindley. 
Best Lilac...Mr. Muscroft. 1. and 2. Yellow, Messrs. Vessey and Bagshaw. 
Best Purple...Messrs. Vessey and Bagshaw. 
Best Crimson...1. Seedling, 1841, Mr. Lindley. 2. Mr. Rodgers. 3. Rival Sussex, 
Messrs. Vessey and Bagshaw. 
Best Dark...Mr. Lindley. 
August 12. Practical Floral and Horticultural Society of Ire¬ 
land. —The Autumnal Exhibition of this Society was held in the Portobello 
Zoological Garden. The prizes were awarded as follows :— 
PRIVATE GARDENS. 
Stove Plants...1. P. Nolon, Esq. (gardener, Mr. Thomas Maher,) for Hedychium Gard- 
nerianum, Ceropegia elegans, Cerbera frutioosa, Lisianthus Russellianus, Ixora coccinea, 
and Ardisia serrulata. 2. Hon. Colonel Wingfield, Cork Abbey, (gardener, Mr. J. C. Hum-, 
phrys.) 
Greenhouse Plants, best 6...Mr. Humphrys, as above, for Helichrysum proliferum, 
Boronia serrulata, Melaleuca fimbriata, Frankenia pauciflora, Statice arborea, Diplacus 
puniceus. 
Pelargoniums, best 6 Dark...Manners M'Kay, Esq. Dundrum, (gardener, Mr. P. Hynes,) 
for Prince George, Mervilliana, Hyder Ali, Desdemona, Olympicum, and Champion of 
Devon. 
For the best 6 Light...1. Mr. Hynes, as above, for Joan of Arc, Lowndes’s Perfection, 
Jewess, Queen Dowager, Frima Donna, and Gem. 2. Rev. C. Woolsey, Sandy-mount. 
Best 6 Mixed...J. Jameson, Esq. Drumcondra, (gardener, Mr. J. Collins.) Mr Jame¬ 
son’s, and, indeed, the whole of the Pelargoniums, were remarkably well grown ; we regret 
not having taken a note of the kinds, whhh contained some of the very best in cultivation. 
Ericas, best 6...1. Mr. Thomas Maher, for Erica Hartnelli, oblata, vestita fulgens, 
ampullacea, ampullacea rubra, and gemmifera. 2. Mr. Humphrys. 
