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Wales, Prince Albert (Marris), Miss Rosa, Seedling (Hudson), Seedling (Haines), Proconsul; 5th, Mr. Merrywether, for Miss Rosa, Mrs. Wood (Merrywether), Lady Franklin (Merrywether), Lady Sale (Ely), Seedling 35.

Southern Picotees: 1st, Mr. Turner, for Mrs. Barnard, Juliet (May), Cleopatra (May), Green's Queen, Viola (May), Lorina (Burroughes); 2d, Mr. Merrywether, for President, Delicata (Holliday), Jessica (May), Princess Royal (Willmer), Mrs. Barnard, Green's Queen; 3d, Mr. Dodwell, for Green's Queen, Juliet, Mrs. Barnard, Lorina, Venus (Headley), Gem (Youell); 4th, Mr. Bragg, for Gem, Lady Harriet Moore, Princess Royal, Juliet, Venus, Jenny Lind; 5th, Mr. Bayley, for Isabella, Mrs. Barnard, Juliet, Lorina, Venus, Princess Alice (Wood).

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Single Blooms in Classes. Scarlet Bizarres : 1st, Admiral Curzon, Mr. Buswell; 2d, ditto, Mr. Haines; 3d, ditto, Messrs. Scholefield; 4th, Seedling. Crimson Bizarres: 1st, Jenny Lind, Mr. Turner; 2d, ditto, ditto; 2d, ditto, ditto; 4th, Black Diamond, Mr. Haines. Pink Bizarres: 1st, Prince Albert, Mr. Bragg. (The paucity of blooms in this class prevented any further award.)__ Purple Flakes 1st, Squire Meynell, Mr. Buswell; 2d, Lord Byron, ditto; 3d, Premier, Mr. Barringer; 4th, Squire Meynell, Mr. Haines. Scarlet Flakes: 1st, Duke of Devonshire, Mr. Barringer; 2d, ditto, ditto; 3d, ditto, ditto; 4th, ditto, ditto. Rose Flakes: 1st, Lady Ely, Mr. Haines; 2d, ditto, ditto; 3d, Princess Royal, Mr. Turner; 4th, Flora's Garland, Mr. Haines. Heavy Red-edged Picotees 1st, Picnic, Mr. Harrison; 2d, Isabella, Mr. Haines; 3d, Picnic, Mr. Harrison; 4th, King James, Messrs. Scholefield. Light Red: 1st, Seedling 70, Mr. Dodwell; 2d, Paymaster, Mr. Harrison; 3d, Gem, Mr. Buswell; 4th, ditto, Mr. Barringer. Heavy Purple 1st, 2d, 3d, Alfred, Mr. Dodwell. Light Purple: 1st, Leader, Mr. Barringer; 2d, Leader, ditto; 3d, Juliet, Mr. Turner ; 4th, ditto, Mr. Dodwell. Heavy Rose: 1st, Green's Queen, Mr. Turner; 2d, ditto, Mr. Dodwell; 3d, Venus, Mr. Turner; 4th, Victoria Regina, ditto. Light Rose: 1st, Mrs. Barnard, Mr. Dodwell; 2d, ditto, ditto; 3d, ditto, ditto.

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The premier prizes were awarded to Mr. Turner, of the Royal Nursery, Slough, for his stand of Southern Carnations, six magnificent specimens; and to his stand of Northern Picotees, also displaying the highest skill in cultivation, combined with the rarest quality. First-class certificates were awarded to Mr. Turner, for Puxley's Jenny Lind, C.B., decidedly the finest of its class; to Mr. Barringer, for his seedling scarlet flake, Duke of Devonshire; to Mr. Wood, for Robinson's Elizabeth (heavy red Picotee), a flower of fine properties, well margined with bright red, and extra fine in the white or ground-colour; and to Mr. Dodwell, for Alfred (heavy purple), a variety which has obtained a number of awards altogether unprecedented.

An immense number of seedlings was produced. Those especially calling for notice were Marris's Grace Darling, Countess Howe, Victoria Regina, and Hollyoake's Duke of Rutland (exhibited by

Mr. Turner), all of first-class quality, and such as will hereafter be seen in every leading stand. Harrison's Picnic, as shewn, was too small to make a first-class flower; high cultivation may, however, remedy this.

CHINESE DAHLIAS.

SOME thirty or forty years since, before Mr. Chater's time, Chinese Hollyhocks took well-merited precedence of all other Hollyhocks. Now I see by the advertisements of Messrs. Turner, Youell, and others, that Chinese Chrysanthemums of a foot high are to elbow their somewhat intractable predecessors out of the greenhouse into the borders. And truly there are few flowers that need dwarfing so much as those. But is it that these diminutive species are really natives of the Celestial Empire? Or is it not rather that the national epithet has come to be identified with any duodecimo edition of an ordinary plant, from the singular power that most singular of people have from time immemorial exercised over forest and orchard trees? I myself once succeeded, by the bye, in obtaining an appletree with four full-grown ripe apples on it, though it was only about as many inches high. That, however, died before the next season. But to return. Why should we not have Chinese Dahlias? It may interest some of your readers to know that I have accidentally found there is no difficulty in having plants to flower, and very tolerably in character too, when the blossom is many times the size of the whole plant.

About six weeks ago, when thinning the shoots of my Dahlias, I thought I might as well strike one of each, as, if they did not flower this season, they might make a duplicate collection of tubers for some friend. By putting them in a cold frame till the callus was formed, and then subjecting them to heat, they readily rooted; and there they are still in sixties, from one to three inches high, with the pots full of roots, and waiting to be planted out. But two of them when taken had buds formed, which I did not cut off; and now I wish I had taken none but such as had buds; for I think it would have attracted notice, even at Worton Cottage, on a Wednesday, to see on the table a bloom of Captain Warner or of George Clayton, if not exactly fit for a specimen bloom at an exhibition, yet still in very fair condition, on plants respectively 1 and 2 inches high. Probably I am now too late; but I have in consequence just taken off several tops with buds where they could be spared, simply for the sake of the curiosity; and if they come to any thing worth notice, I will inform you.

August 13th.

IOTA.

ROYAL SOUTH-LONDON FLORICULTURAL SOCIETY.

July 23.-This Society held its fourth exhibition for the season in the Surrey Zoological Gardens. The afternoon was unfavourable, and there was but a thin attendance. Carnations and Picotees were good, and shewn in great numbers. The competition in some of the classes was spirited, requiring very close scrutiny on the part of the judges to distinguish the winning stands. The following is a list of the awards.

Picotees. Amateurs, 12 blooms: 1st, M. May, Esq., for Cleopatra (May), Ophelia (May), Isabella (Wildman), Prince Albert (Marris), Ernestine (Turner), Prince of Wales (Marris), Juliet (May), Portia (May), Viola (May), King James (Headley), Mrs. Barnard (Barnard), Bianca (May); 2d, C. Lockner, Esq., for Goliath, Lady H. Moore, Mrs. Trahar, Gem, Hon. E. Annesley, Queen Victoria, Mrs. Barnard, Isabella, Juliet, Venus, Amy, and Formosa; 3d, Mr. Reeves, for Fanny, Augusta, Queen Victoria, Mrs. Bevan, Princess Royal, Enchantress, Lord Douro, Isabella, Regina (Cox), Cornelius, Mrs. Barnard, and President; 4th, J. Edwards, Esq., for Lord Hardinge, Mrs. Bevan, Prince Albert, Princess Royal, Lady Alice Peel, Miss Edwards, Duke of Newcastle, Mrs. Barnard, King James, Regina, Enchantress, and Venus; 5th, Mr. Ellis, for Princess Augusta of Cambridge, Princess Royal, Privateer, Gem, Duchess of Cambridge, Regina, Beauty (Burroughes), Jenny Lind, Juliet, Delicata, King James, and President.

Nurserymen: 1st, Mr. C. Turner, for Prince of Wales (Marris), Prince Albert (Marris), Gem (Youell), Lorina (Burroughes), Cleopatra (May), Goliath, Mrs. Barnard (Barnard), Princess Royal (Willmer), Venus (Headley), Queen Victoria (Green), Juliet (May), and Mary (Dodwell); 2d, Mr. Norman, for Mrs. Norman, James II., Mrs. B. Norman, Lord Nelson, Delicata, Duke of Newcastle, Mrs. Barnard, Venus, Lady Dacre, Prince of Wales, King of Purples, and Gem; 3d, Mr. Ward, for Mrs. Bevan, Princess Royal, Prince Albert, Duchess of Bedford, L'Elegante, Juliet, Gem, Lorina, Mrs. Barnard, Venus, Regina, and Delicata; 4th, Mr. Bragg, for Gem, Sebastian, Lady Dacre, Prince of Wales, Hon. E. Annesley, Smilax, Queen Victoria (Green), Lady Alice Peel, Mrs. Barnard, Juliet, Enchantress, and Venus; 5th, Mr. Keynes, and an extra prize was awarded to Mr. Willmer.

Carnations. Amateurs, 12 blooms: 1st, Mr. Reeves, for Princess Royal, Rainbow, Brutus, Prince Albert, Grenadier, Flora's Garland, Defiance (Sharp), Paul Pry, Wm. Cobbett, Mary Ann, Georgiana, and Conquering Hero; 2d, M. May, Esq., for Bardolph (May), Coriolanus (May), Antonio (May), Somerset (May), Duncan (May), Lorenzo (May), Beauty of Woodhouse (Mansley), Falconbridge (May), Queen Victoria (Simpson), Romeo (May), Bolingbroke (May), and Justice Shallow (May); 3d, Mr. Edwards, for Prince Albert (Hale), Hotspur, Rainbow, Lady of the Lake, Solander, Harriet, Sarah Payne, Beauty of Woodhouse, Lydia, True Briton,

Flora's Garland, and Admiral Curzon; 4th, Mr. Ellis, for Ariel, William IV., Flora's Garland, Chance, Georgiana, Squire Meynell, Prince Albert, Hero of Middlesex, Lord Pollington, Beauty of Brighouse, Lady Gardner, and Harriet; 5th, Mr. Newhall, for Prince Albert, Flora's Garland, Lord Byron, Georgiana, Dido, Beauty of Woodhouse, Pauline, Lovely Ann, Princess, Regular, and Beauty of Brighouse.

Nurserymen: 1st, Mr. C. Turner, for Admiral Curzon (Easom), Flora's Garland (Brooks), Princess Royal (Puxley), Brutus (Colcutt), Antonio (May), Duncan (May), Bardolph (May), Justice Shallow (May), Beauty of Woodhouse (Mansley), Perfection (Puxley), Ariel (May), and Queen (Puxley). An equal 1st prize was awarded to Mr. Ward, for Princess Royal, Prince Albert, Lord Rancliffe, Flora's Garland, Georgiana, Lady Gardner, Squire Meynell, Vivid, Admiral Curzon, Sir Harry Smith, Squire Trow, and Queen of Roses; 2d, Mr. Norman, for Dido, Rainbow, Queen Victoria, True Briton, Queen, Duke of Sutherland, Squire Meynell, Flora's Garland, Vivid, Count Pauline, Admiral Curzon, and Harriet; 3d, Mr. Bragg, for Brutus, Lady of the Lake, Duke of York, Prince Arthur, Flora's Garland, Lord Rancliffe, Beauty of Woodhouse, Ariel, Mrs. Barnard, Splendid, Count Pauline, and Sarah Payne; 4th, Mr. Keynes; 5th, Mr. Willmer.

Class-shewing Specimen Blooms. 20 prizes out of the 22 offered were awarded to Mr. Turner of Slough; Mr. Ward and Mr. Norman having each one. We shall content ourselves with naming the successful flowers. Some of the blooms in this class were very fine specimens, particularly May's Justice Shallow, in Carnations; a scarlet flake of the finest quality, having petals of great substance, very smooth on the edges, and full size.

Carnations. Scarlet Bizarre: 1st, Puxley's Howard; 2d, Puxley's Emperor. Crimson Bizarre: 1st, Lord Milton. Pink Bizarre : 1st, Henry Kirke White; 2d, Twyford Perfection. Purple Flake : 1st, Puxley's Perfection. Scarlet Flake: 1st, May's Justice Shallow; 2d, May's Seedling. Rose Flake: 1st, Flora's Garland; 2d, May's Romeo.

Picotees. Heavy Rose: 1st, Headley's Venus; 2d, Marris's Victoria Regina. Light Rose: 1st, Mrs. Barnard; 2d, Marris's Countess Howe. Heavy Purple: 1st, Dodwell's Mary; 2d, May's Viola. Light Purple: 1st, Lorina; 2d, Prince Albert (Marris). Heavy Red: 1st, Mrs. Norman (Norman); 2d, Marris's Prince of Wales.

Seedlings. Mr. Norman received a certificate for Mrs. Norman, heavy red Picotee; the edging in which is broad, and laid on very solid and firmly; white good; petal of fine substance and shape; not only the best of its class, but one of the best Picotees in cultivation. A certificate was awarded to Mr. Bragg's Duke of Wellington, scarlet bizarre, but for what reason we could not discover, for there are at least a score far superior flowers in this class already. A certificate was also awarded to his Princess Alice, a small neat yellow Picotee.

ON FLORAL TASTES, AND THEIR RESULTS.

NO. VI.

THE religious is the noblest style of man. To hold communion with our Creator, and to refer every thing we do to his will and pleasure, is to make the closest approximation to present happiness, and to promote most effectually the highest ends of our whole being. If we state that the love and the culture of flowers tend to this most desirable accomplishment, we believe we take up an impregnable position; for we have already seen that these beauties of nature are evidently intended to attract our notice and win our regard. They constitute, indeed, the illustrations of the great volume of natural religion, which no revelation is intended to close, but rather to explain and confirm its contents. They consequently have an important bearing on man's spiritual and religious nature, and can only be neglected as means of the highest instruction by the ignorant and fanatical.

The divorce between natural and revealed religion was unknown to the divine Founder of Christianity and his immediate followers, although it has been proclaimed and acted upon too much in succeeding times. There is a glory of the sun, and of the moon, and of the stars, although they have different degrees of brightness; and there is divine teaching in a flower as a terrestrial instrument, although its accents are less commanding and authoritative than those of celestial ones. There is an alluring and persuasive force in the various objects of the floral world, demanding assent to the great truths which their construction and uses more than obscurely hint at. We are thus surrounded by monitors to correct our errors, and by stimulants to arouse us to duty; and although, through our natural obduracy, the impressions they make may be slight, they exert an influence notwithstanding. Even to the passive spirit they imperceptibly convey valuable instruction, more perhaps than we are in the habit of supposing to be the case; how effective, then, must be the doctrines they teach to the heart which is ready to listen to them with filial reverence as to the counsels of a father and a friend!

In the biographies of many pious persons allusion is made to the aid they have gained in their arduous course by meditations among the beauties of nature. Such cases are too numerous to allow of our mentioning names, and we will merely refer to the constant reference to rural scenes and floral associations in the Holy Scriptures. From the time when " the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley" supplied emblems to Solomon, to the modern writer who makes "the herb called Heartsease" the symbol of a contented and humble spirit, there has been a constant succession of prophets and divines and private Christians, who have been refined and encouraged and elevated by these simple means. We feel sure we are uttering the experience of many of our readers when we say, that a humble flower can teach faith and submission and childlike confidence; and that through all

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