. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. grown for this climate. Inthe class for fruit a good deal of competition wasshown, Captain Ross securing 1st prize for Iume-lows : they were two beautiful, thin-skinned, well-flavoured fruits. E. , Esq., was awarded the 1stprize for Plantains, for a tine sample of the var. Coleus, Begonias, &c., of enormous dimen-sions and well coloured. The Ferns were beyonddescription, consisting of masses of Adian-tum, notably A. amabile, 7 feet through ; also acrested variety of Nephrolepis davallioides, of
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. grown for this climate. Inthe class for fruit a good deal of competition wasshown, Captain Ross securing 1st prize for Iume-lows : they were two beautiful, thin-skinned, well-flavoured fruits. E. , Esq., was awarded the 1stprize for Plantains, for a tine sample of the var. Coleus, Begonias, &c., of enormous dimen-sions and well coloured. The Ferns were beyonddescription, consisting of masses of Adian-tum, notably A. amabile, 7 feet through ; also acrested variety of Nephrolepis davallioides, of whichthere were three plants still larger, and enormousTree Ferns. Rare Caladiums and (ine-floweredRoses, with others too numerous to mention, madeup a lot of plants, forcibly reminding one of thespecimens that used to be exhibited in London andthe provinces by Baines, Cole, and others ; and toomuch praise cannot be given to Mr. , headgardener to II. II., for the very effective way inwhich he arranged the collection, under the personaldirection of II. II. himself. The Honourable. Fig. 50.—ABIES VEiTCiiii : drvnch with co^<ES, NAT. size; bracts, sc\le3, and seeds, maun, twice; transverse section OF leaf, maun, ten times, (see p. 275.) and six Ferns; and the writer of the Strai/sTunes report remarks with reference to them :^ Perhaps in no place in the East is so much attentionpaid to the cultivation of Ierns as in Singapore, andJt IS a gratifying fact that a very great desire is spring-ing up amongst the residents here to learn the namesand all particulars regarding this beautiful class ofplants. The display on this occasion could not havebeen surpassed in any metropolitan show, and afterthree years experience of exhibitions at RegentsPark, the Crystal Palace, and other places in London,the writer is bound to confess that nothing he hasever seen there could surpass the grand collection dis-played here. It is interesting to read further on thatthere is a Mr. Miles at S
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