258 THE FLORIST. 



Peel, Yellow Superb, Sir F. Bathurst, Mr, Palmer, Victor Boheira, 

 Seraph, Miss Chaplin, Black Prince, Admiral, Essex Triumph, Queen 

 of the West, and Fame. 



12 Fancies: 1st, Mr. Turner, with Miss Compton, Jeannette, 

 Highland Chief, Elizabeth, Mrs. Hansard, Dulcinee, Nonsuch, Fly- 

 ing Dutchman, Rainbow, Miss Weyland, Kingfisher, and Gaspe- 

 rine ; 2d, Mr. Bragg, with One-in-the-ring, Flying Dutchman, Keep- 

 sake, Highland Chief, Miss Pope, Kingfisher, Lady Cullum, Gaspe- 

 rine, Madame Wachy, Forget-me-not, Lady Grenville, Mrs. Hansard. 

 First-class certificates were granted to Una (Keynes), a bold white, 

 which has been very successfully shewn during the season; Malvina, 

 (Turner), mottled lake and white ; Morning Star (Turner), brilliant 

 scarlet orange ; Miss Mathews (Bragg), remarkably bright, full, 

 deep, and bold, in every qualification an improvement on Lady Gren- 

 ville, a variety it much resembles : Flora M'lvor (Keynes), was 

 shewn; Miss Ward (Turner), Absolum (Cook), golden buff. 



Hollyhocks : 1st, Mr. Dyson, with Magnum Bonum, Bella Donna, 

 Rosy Queen, Queen, Sulphurea, Lady Smith, Subram, Rosea gran- 

 diflora, Enchantress, Rosea, Albo, Caroline, and Model of Perfection ; 

 2d, Mr. Holder, 12 spikes, mostly seedlings of considerable promise, 

 were set up by Mr. Bragg. 



Pansies were contributed in good condition by Mr. Bragg and 

 Mr. Turner, 



NOTES FROM THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW, 



AND OF NEW OR RARE PLANTS 

 FIGURED IN CONTEMPORARY PERIODICALS. 



Nymphea elegans. a very pretty flowering aquatic herb, a native of Mexico. 

 It is cultivated at Kew in the tropical aquarium, but may probably be found to 

 suit an out-door one during summer, as many of the species will do with much 

 less heat than is generally given them, if placed beyond the reach of frost during 

 winter. The leaves are floating, six inches long, and four or five broad, with the 

 upper surface dark green, and purple beneath ; the flowers are nearly the size of 

 the common N. alba ; they rise about a foot above the water, are of a yellowish 

 white tinged with purple blue, and very fragrant. It was raised at Kew last 

 year from seed. It has been well figured in the Botanical Magazine for 

 September. 



Pentstemon cyanthus. a hardy herbaceous plant, attaining the height of 

 about two feet, and flowering freely in May and June. The blossoms form dense 

 spikes, a foot or more long, on the upper part of the stems, and are of a very 

 bright clear azure blue. It is a native of the upper valleys of the Platte river, 

 in the Rock}^ Mountains, and has been raised from imported seed and brought 

 into notice l)y Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., of Exeter. It is said to be of a 

 rather tender constitution, but its bright blue colour renders it a very desirable 

 addition to our hardy flowering plants. 



Sarcopodium Lobbii, var. Hexshalli. A dwarf-growing stove Orchid, closely 

 allied to a Bolbophyllum. Pseudo-bulbs smooth, with a solitary leaf on the 

 apex, and a scape arising from the base, bearing a solitary flower about three 

 inches across, of a yellowish bufl" faintly streaked with brownish purple. It 

 Avas imported by Messrs. Rollisson of Tooting from Java, through their collector 

 Mr. Henshall. These last two are figured in the Magazine of Botany for 

 September. 



Tritoma lvaria. This truly beautiful flowering hardy herbaceous plant is 



