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NURSERYMEN, FLORISTS, &C. 
Best collection of Pelargoniums, 12 varieties, 1st. Large Silver Medal, 
Mr. Catleugh, for Compte de Paris, Ovid, Magna Charta, Orange Boven, 
Discount, Sylph, Jewess, Life-Guardsman, Climax, Coronation, Erectum, 
and Victory. 2d. ditto. Middle Silver Medal. Mr. Gaines, for Louis 
Quatorze, Matilda, Lady Palmer, Raphael, Climax, Lady E. Bulteel, 
Emperor, Exquisite, Delicata, Sylph, Diademetum Rubescens, and Grand 
Duke, best collection of Ericas, 9 varieties. Middle Silver Medal, Mr. Jack- 
son. Best 12 Tulips, 4 of each kind, Large Silver Medal, Mr. Wilmer. 
2d. Middle Silver Medal, Mr. Lawrence. Best 50 varieties of Pansies, Middle 
Silver Medal, Mr. Thompson. 2d v Small Silver Medal, Mr. King. 
OPEN TO ALL CLASSES. 
Best specimen plants of 4 distinct genera. Large Silver Medal, M. Bruce, 
for Ixora Coceinea, Fuschia Corymbiflora, Coleonema Rubra, and Elichrysum 
bundle, best single specimen of any genera. 1st. Middle Silver Medal, 
Mr. Atlee, for Boronia pinnata, 2d. Small Silver Medal, Mr. Bruce, for 
Azalea Gledstoniana, best seedling Pansy, 4 blooms. Small Silver Medal, 
Mr. King. 
Mr. Gaines exhibited four seedling Pelargoniums, which were 
much admired; they were called, Lady Sale, Amulet, Emperor, 
Superb, and Prince of Wales. Mr. Curtis’s Collection of 
Ericas contained Hybrida, Suaveolens, Odora rosea, Perspicua, 
Hartnelli, and Vestita Alba. Another collection shown by 
Mr. Strong contained five plants of Depressa, Campanulata, 
Thunbergia, Mundula, Vestita Alba, and Sulphurea ; they were 
recommended for a prize. 
THE FLORIST’S LETTER-BOX. 
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FLORIST’S JOURNAL. 
Have any of your subscribers reported to you the comparative 
merits of charcoal mixed with the usual compost lor growing 
succulents in? If so, please to inform me in your next Letter¬ 
box the results which attended their experiments. 
Not having any fir charcoal, I used the ashes from oak cop¬ 
pice wood last autumn, and cannot report favorably upon the 
result, as evidenced by the plants this spring. Ihe plants ex¬ 
perimented upon were crassula coccinea, cactus truncatus, and 
