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noble and elegant appearance. It was subsequently awarded a first- 

 class certificate under the name of C. indivisa latifolia. A similar 

 award was made to Messrs Earron & Son, Borrowash Nurseries, 

 Derby, for Abies Douglassi acutifolia, with a very distinct character. 



On the occasion of these great shows, it is the custom of the Council 

 to delegate to the Floral Committee the power of recommending speci- 

 men plants, evidencing meritorious culture, for special certificates, or 

 the higher award of silver medals. On this occasion silver medals 

 were awarded to Mr W. E. Dixon, I^orwood nursery, Beverley, for a 

 splendid mass of Ansectochilus Lowii. To Mrs E. Cole & Sons, 

 Withington, Manchester, for Ixora Colei, a new white variety, of 

 which a good specimen was shown in fine flower ; and to a noble mass 

 of Alocassia Jenningsii, from Mr Stevenson, Lark Hill, Timperley. 



There was the usual abundance of new florists' flowers, though but 

 few of them were of first-class excellence. A first-class certificate was 

 awarded to Messrs Downie, Lau'd, & Laing for gold and bronze 

 Pelargonium, Imperatrice Eugenie, a finely-marked variety of robust 

 habit, having a strongly-marked reddish chocolate zone on a golden 

 leaf- ground. Mr Charles Turner, Slough, received first-class certi- 

 ficates for Picotees Admiration and Miss Turner, the former a heavy 

 rosy-purple edged flower of the finest quality and fullest substance, 

 the petals large and stout, and regularly marked; the latter a medium 

 light rose-edged flower, full and finely marked. Mr C. J. Perry, The 

 Cedars, Castle Bromwich, Birmingham, who contributed some splendid 

 cut Verbenas, received first-class certificates for the following : — Rising 

 Sun, glowing salmon-red, with small white eye surrounded by a rich 

 deep maroon ring ; and Butterfly, warm flesh-colour, with a striking 

 crimson ring round a pale eye. 



The termination of the large shows leaves only the bi-monthly 

 meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society as the occasions when 

 new plants can be produced. At the meeting on August 3d, first- 

 class certificates were awarded to two subjects in a group of very inter- 

 esting plants staged by Mr Green, gardener to W. Wilson Saunders, 

 Esq., Reigate — viz., Trichotosia ferox, and a Dieffenbachia species from 

 Brazil. "The former was perhaps the most interesting subject shown 

 at the meeting, the whole of the stem and leaves, which are of a dark- 

 green colour, being covered with stiff brown hairs ; while the flowers, 

 which are small, and of a pale violet or brownish colour, with a streak 

 of orange down the lip, are produced in longish, pendulous, zigzag 

 spikes, which give to the plant a very graceful appearance." The 

 Dieffenbachia had large dark-green leaves, and is distinct in character. 

 Mr Pilch er, gardener to S. Rucker, Esq., Wandsworth, received a first- 

 class certificate for a very fine specimen of Haemanthus cinnabarinus, 



