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major, an old plant, having been flowered by Messrs Loddiges some 

 twenty-five years ago, but still rare, and having deep-shaded orange 

 flowers. 



Subsequently to this, Messrs Veitch & Sons received a first-class cer- 

 tificate for Alocassia Sedeni, a hybrid between A. metallica and A. Lowi, 

 raised at the Chelsea Nurseries by Mr Dominy, and partaking a good 

 deal of the character of the latter kind. Messrs Carter & Co., Holborn, 

 received like awards for two handsome and strong-growing Ferns — 

 viz., Gymnogramma chrysophylla maxima, a golden form of noble free 

 growth ; and Gymnogramma calom.elanos maxima, a silver form, as 

 free and handsome in growth as the foregoing : and W. Wilson Saun- 

 ders, Esq., a similar award for a beautiful new species of a Grenadan 

 Acineta, with large, waxy, clear yellow flowers, having an enclosed red- 

 dish-brown lip. 



Turning away from these valuable but generally uninteresting 

 plants, as far as the ordinary lovers of flowers are concerned, it is pleas- 

 ant to turn to something having more popular, and at the same time 

 charming, aspects of beauty. Foremost must be placed Clematis Lady 

 Londesborough, another of Mr C. Noble's new varieties, and producing 

 large showy flowers of a pale lilac tint. A first-class certificate was 

 awarded to this, and also to a new variety of the lanuginosa type, 

 named Excelsior, producing double flowers, the exterior florets being 

 of a bluish-mauve hue, with a flame of brown along each, and the 

 centre of the flower a tuft of small mauve-coloured florets, which came 

 from Mr Thomas Cripps, Tunbridge Wells. The same award was 

 made to Pillar Rose Prince Leopold, the exterior of the flowers dark 

 flushed with purple, the centre bright crimson, from Mr William Paul, 

 and scarcely worth the award made to it ; to Climbing Rose Duchesso 

 de Mecklenburg, with pale salmon rose-coloured flowers, and pro- 

 mising to be very useful, from J. H. Arkright, Esq., Hampton 

 Court, Leominster ; to Hybrid Perpetual Rose Miss Ingram, the flowers 

 full and nicely expanded, and of a delicate blush white, with a tinge 

 of deep blush in the centre ; and to Hybrid Perpetual Rose Mons. 

 Woolfield, bright pink suffused with rose in the centre, flowers full and 

 very beautiful, both from Mr C. Turner, Slough, who also received the 

 same award for Azalea George Eyles, soft pale salmon red, with bold 

 and showy stout well-formed flowers. Mr Turner also received first- 

 class certificates for the following large-flowering Pelargoniums of Mr 

 Foster's raising — viz., Maid of Honour, Corsair, Her Majesty, and 

 Pretender, all very fine ; Sultana, Agrippa, Heroine, Herald, and 

 Admiration : G. W. Hoyle, Esq., Reading, for Bonnie Charlie, Gratu- 

 lation, and Holkar. The same award was also made to Mr Turner for 

 the following splendid fancy Pelargoniums : Marmion, East Lynne, 



