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Gladiolus: Mrs. Willmore, first-class certificate; Josephine, cer- 

 tificate of merit ; Wellington, ditto ; Atro-roseus, label of commenda- 

 tion ; National, ditto ; Psittacinus superbus, ditto. 



Hollyhock : Swansdown, first-class certificate ; King of Roses, cer- 

 tificate of merit ; Rosamond, ditto ; King of Yellows, label of com- 

 mendation; Joan of Arc, ditto ; Magnet, ditto ; Meteor, ditto ; Safra- 

 not, ditto. 



Mule Pink (without name), label of commendation. 



Pansy : Kossuth, certificate of merit ; Pandora, ditto ; Swansdown, 

 ditto ; No. 2, label of commendation. 



Pelargonium : Advancer (fancy), first-class certificate; Elise, ditto; 

 Formosissimum (fancy), ditto ; Ganymede, ditto ; Optimum, ditto; 

 Magnet, ditto; Mountain of Light (variegated), ditto ; Arethusa, cer- 

 tificate of merit ; Ariadne, ditto; Caliban (fancy), ditto ; Chieftain, 

 ditto; Enchantress, ditto; Gipsy Queen (fancy), ditto; Mirandum 

 (fancy), ditto; Purple Standard, ditto; Richard Cobden (fancy), 

 ditto; Rubens, ditto ; Attraction, label of commendation ; Beauty of 

 St. John's Wood (fancy), ditto ; Fireball (fancy), ditto ; First of May, 

 ditto ; Herald, ditto ; Incomparable, ditto ; Lady Emma (fancy), ditto ; 

 Queen of the Fancies (fancy), ditto. 



Phlox Drummondii : Mayii variegata, label of commendation. 



Picotee : Christabel, certificate of merit ; Duke of Rutland, ditto ; 

 Mary, ditto ; Victoria Regina, ditto ; Ophelia, label of commendation ; 

 Prince Arthur, ditto. 



Pink: Optima, first-class certificate. 



Potentilla : Alpha, label of commendation. 



Rhododendron : Superbissimum, certificate of merit. 



Rose : Queen Victoria, first-class certificate ; Robert Burns, ditto. 



Tulip : Juliet, label of commendation. 



Verbena : National, certificate of merit ; Orlando, ditto ; Purple 

 rival, ditto ; Eliza Cook, label of commendation ; Koh-i-noor, ditto. 



The characteristics of the above flowers have, for the most part, 

 been given in our reports of the meetings at the time. We have 

 therefore only now to observe, that the Society has been pre-eminently 

 supported by seedling-raisers, the subjects submitted during the six 

 months numbering many hundreds. 



NOTES FROM THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KE^V, 



AXD OF NEW OR RARE PLANTS 

 FIGURED IN CONTEMPORARY PERIODICALS. 



Browallia Jamesom. a rather erect straggling-growing soft-wooded warm 

 greenhouse shrub, attaining the height of four or six feet in its native country, 

 having glossy ovate leaves, with a terminal corymbose panicle of large rather 

 showy yellow flowers. This species was introduced from New Grenada by 

 Messrs. Veitch about two years ago. 



Epidendrum verrlcosum. a very fragrant handsome Orchid, and one of 

 the most beautiful of all the Epidendrums. It bears a branching panicle of lilac 

 and white flowers. It is easily known from its congeners by the flower-stalk and 



