The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-23 00:00:00

Botanic Society.

The third and last of the course of early spring
flower shows of this society was held on Saturday
in their grounds at Regent's-park. For the time of
the year the show, though not unusually large, was
eminently beautiful, and some of the specimens
brought together were equal to any ever exhibited
in the great displays of the full spring. They were
arranged partly in the society's grand conservatory
and in a large marquee erected near it, and the ex-
quisite taste and skill with which the various plants
and flowering shrubs were grouped and so arranged
as to set off their various colours and excellencies
cannot be overpraised. The eye was almost dazzled
by the immense variety of carefully blended tints,
and the air was heavy with the fragrance of their
bloom. The great charm of the collection was its
magnificent display of roses. Some of these, con-
sidering the earliness, and, we may add, the unusual
severity of an English spring, were really wonderful
specimens of successful floriculture. It would be
difficult even to summarise the names and merits of
the many kinds shown. Suffice it to say, therefore,
that they ranged in colour from white to pink, from
pink to scarlet, and from scarlet to almost black.
One called the Tea-scented President was a magnfi-
cent white flower, and attracted a great deal of at-
tention. There was also, as might be expected at
this time, a fine collection of stovehouse dwarf rho-
dodendrons, some of which were literally covered,
and their foliage hidden by masses of bloom. The
soft looking flowers of the pelargonium, too, were
very nne, though altogether not equal to the magni-
ficent plants of this class which, like the azaleas,
are exhibited in their greatest perfection at the-May
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been brought all the way from the Azores in the
most perfect condition, and as the product of a plant
which had been grown in England and transplanted
to the Azores. Some very fine and rare exotics
were shown in the class devoted to " Miscellane-
ous," and there was an excellent display of plants
of variegated foliage, the delicate and beautiful
colours of the leaves of which enabled them to vie
in hue even with the flowers around them. There
were also excellent collections of auriculas and mice°.
larias, and the size and beauty of the heartseases ei-
hibited attracted the greatest admiration. The wea
ther was all that could be wished for for the display,
and the gardens, in the first light green of their
spring foliage, looked beautiful.
The following prizes were awarded :
Six Roses (Amateurs).-2d prize, Mr. J. James, gardener
to Mr. F. Watson, Isloworth.
Six Roses (Nurserymen).-Ist, Mr. C. Turner ; 2d,
Messrs. Paul and Son, Cheshunt, Herts.
Three new Roses-Ist, Mr. C. Turner ; 2d, Messrs. Paul
and Son.
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Twenty-four Roses-Ist, Messrs. Paul and Son.
Boxes of Roses.-Ist, Messrs. Paul and Son.
Six Pelargoniums (Amateurs).-Ist, Mr. J. Wiggins,
gardener to Mr. W. Beck, Worton Cottage, Isleworth.

Six Pelargoniums (Nurserymen).-Ist, Mr. D. Clark,
Hounslow.

Six Auriculas (Amateurs) —lst, Mr. J. James, gardener;
2d, Mr. E. Paine, Kentish-town.

Six Auriculas (Nurserymen).-Ist, Mr. C. Turner.
Twenty-four Pansies.-Ist, Mr. J. James, gardener ; 2d,
Mr. H. Hooper, Bath.

Six Miscellaneous Plants.-Ist, Mr. B. Williams, Hollo-
way; 2d, Mr. J. Wheeler, gardener to Sit F dsmid
Bart., Regent's-park.
Miscellaneous—Silver medal to Messrs. H. Lane and
Sons for rhododendrons ; do. to Messrs. H. Lane and. Sons
for roses ; and do. to Mr. C. Turner for roses.

THE REAL BLOT IN THE BILL, the Spectator
wittily declares to have been the immense demand it made
on the trustfulness of the house, which was asked to make
a transfer of power without information as to its extent or
the persons to whom it was to be transferred. Nothing in
the debate has altered our conviction that this was an
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