Mr Wildsmith had good Schoolmaster Potatoes, Improved Reading Onions, Exhibition Sprouts, and Snowball Turnips. About the same number competed for Messrs Dicksons' & Robinson's prizes, the best collection of twelve kinds being staged by Mr G. Summers, Mr 0. Arbrell occupying second position. For the Messrs Webbs' prizes, the same number again competed. The best collection of six kinds was staged by Mr Crump, and Mr R. Milner secured the second prize. There were classes for single dishes of all kinds of vegetables, but these call for no particular mention. The best out of eleven collections of twenty-four varieties of Potatoes was staged by Mr Miller, Hampstead Park, Newbury; Mr D. Lumsden, Bloxholm Hall, followed; and the third prize was awarded to Mr W. Kerr, Dumfries. Mr Miller was also first for eighteen kinds, Mr M'Kinlay being placed second. There were about forty collections of twelve varieties of Potatoes staged, the best coming from Mr R. Gilbert, Burghley, Mr Wildsmith being placed second, and Mr Ross, Welford, Newbury, third.

The judges in each instance gave the preference to medium-sized and generally even tubers.

Large specimen plants were not extensively shown, prizes being offered more for collections arranged for effect, and new and rare kinds. Messrs E. Cole & Sons secured the premier prize for twenty specimen foliage and flowering plants, Mr Tudgey staging a collection but slightly inferior. The Dipladenias, Ixoras, Allamandas, Ericas, and Lapagerias, were noteworthy in these collections. The groups of plants arranged for effect were particularly attractive, both nurserymens' and amateurs' classes being well filled. In the former, five firms were represented, all meriting the prizes awarded, a fifth prize being given. The group arranged by Messrs R. P. Ker & Sons, which secured the premier award, was very tastefully arranged, and included many well-grown choice plants. Messrs E. Cole & Sons were awarded the second prize. In the amateurs' class Mr G. Smith, Stretford, secured premier honours for a very tasteful arrangement; Mr C. Paul, Bowdon, following very closely. Orchids were not extensively shown, and were not remarkably good. Mr B. S. Williams, Holloway, exhibited the best group in the nurserymens' class, his most noteworthy specimens being the Oncidium macranthum, Saccolabium Blumeii. Cattleya crispa, Laelia elegans Turnerii, Dendrobium Pierardi, and Vanda suavis.

Mr J. Hill, Temperley, staged the best group in the amateurs' class; Mr Perry, Penpole, Bristol, and Dr Ainsworth, Broughton, taking the remaining prizes. Crotons were quite a feature in the show, the many well-grown and comparatively novel varieties attracting much attention. Most conspicuous was the premier prize group, staged by Messrs Ireland & Thomson, Edinburgh. This included grand plants of C. Princess of Wales, Etna, fasciatus, Weismanni, angustifolius, Disraeli, majesticus, interruptus aureus, pictus, and Queen Victoria. Mr B. S. Williams and Mr Cypher followed with remarkably attractive groups. Messrs Ker & Sons' Dracaenas, consisting of beautifully grown plants of picta, Hendersoni, amabilis salmonea, Gladstonei, Bausei, speciosa, regina, recurva, and Goldieana, secured that firm the premier prize; Mr B. S. Williams and Messrs Ireland & Thomson following with specimens but slightly inferior to the foregoing. The best Palms in the nurserymens' class, staged by Mr B. S. Williams, consisted of Kentia australis, Geonoma Seemanni, Cocos Weddelliana, Chamaerops Fortunei, C. humilis, and Kentia Belmoreana; Messrs Cypher and James Dickson & Co. following with well-grown specimens.

The principal exhibitors of Palms among amateurs were Messrs Lingard, Hammond, and Tudgey. Ferns were also extensively and creditably shown. Messrs B. S. Williams, R. P. Ker & Sons, and J. Cypher, were the principal exhibitors of new plants; the former being first for both twelve and six varieties, and also for a single plant in flower, staging in the latter instance Angraecum amabile, a very sweet-scented, neat-growing Orchid. In the corresponding class for a new fine-foliage plant not in commerce, Messrs Ireland & Thomson took first place with the remarkably showy Croton Thomsonii; Mr B. S. Williams following with Asplenium horridum. Messrs Veitch & Sons, Chelsea, also exhibited a considerable number of novelties, but not for competition, to several of which certificates were awarded. Three of the most generally attractive of these were the specimens of the hybrid Rhododendron Duchess of Connaught, Ixora Westii, and Asparagus plumosus nanus. Several certificates were also awarded to Mr B. S. Williams for new plants, and similar awards to Messrs Ireland & Thomson for Croton Thomsonii; and to Mr J. Anderson, for Cattleya gigas superba. For the Veitch Memorial prizes for single plants the competition was not very keen.

The best specimen Orchid (not made up) was the Saccolabium Blumei majus, bearing two spikes of flowers, staged by Mr Roberts, Gunnersbury. A beautifully flowered specimen of Dipladenia hybrida won Mr Tudgey the prize for the best stove-plant in flower; and the same exhibitor was also successful with an Erica as the best greenhouse plant in flower. In the former class F. Tagart, Esq., Bristol, staged a grandly flowered specimen of Eucharis amazonica, carrying upwards of one hundred spikes of blooms. Mr R. Tyldesley, Worsley, had the prize for best collection of hardy Ferns, and W. Brockbank, Dids-bury, that for fifty herbaceous and Alpine plants.

Near to the exhibition house and tents were arranged the competing collections of Conifers and Japanese plants, and these were both attractive and instructive to the numerous visitors. Messrs J. Standish & Co., Ascot; John Waterer, Bagshot; Paul & Son, Cheshunt; and Caldwell & Sons, Knutsford, were the principal prize-winners in this section.

Among the miscellaneous exhibits the splendid group of Dracaenas and other choice plants arranged by the General Horticultural Company was most conspicuous, both on account of the beauty of arrangement and the quality of the plants employed. Messrs Veitch, B. S. Williams, and Cutbush & Son, High-gate, all arranged very attractive groups of choice plants. MM. Chantrier freres, Mortefontaine, France, and Messrs Ireland & Thomson, contributed grand collections of Crotons; and from Messrs Paul & Son, Cheshunt, came a very pleasing group of Tea Roses in pots. Messrs Cannell & Sons staged a collection of cut flowers, such as Verbenas, Asters, Pelargoniums, and Dahlias; and from Messrs J. Dobbie & Co., Rothesay, Bute, came a fine collection of Pansy blooms. Messrs Fisher, Son, & Libray, Sheffield, exhibited greenhouse Rhododendrons and other choice plants; and Messrs Birkenhead, Sale, Manchester, a grand assortment of Ferns. In addition to the foregoing, there were classes for a great variety of cut-flowers, table-decorations, and bouquets, and prizes were also given for cut Roses by the National Rose Society and the National Carnation and Picotee Society. In every instance the competition was good, and the quality of the exhibits satisfactory.

Implements were largely exhibited, but the situation and weather completely marred this section. Gold medals were awarded Mr J. Bramham for his Allerton Priory boiler; to Messrs Richardson & Co., Darlington, for a greenhouse suitable for a smoky district; to Mesrs Halliday & Co., Middleton, for a collection of boilers and houses; to Messrs Foster & Pearson for a greenhouse constructed on a light principle, etc. Messrs D. Low & Sons, Edinburgh and Manchester, put up several good substantial houses, as also did the Messrs M'Kenzie & Moncur, of Edinburgh and Glasgow; and there were many other exhibits deserving of mention, but which must, for reasons already given, be passed over. A Southern Correspondent.