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having a large and showy umbel of orange-coloured flowers. Calamus 

 intermedins, a very graceful Palm, with feathery foliage, received a 

 first-class certificate : and a species of Odontoglossum, named Schlie- 

 perianum, with large pale-greenish yellow flowers, received a second- 

 class certificate. Both of these came from Mr AVilliam Bull, Chelsea, 

 London. A first-class certificate was awarded to Mr T. Howlett, of 

 Oxford, for Athyrium Filix-fsemina Kallothria, a remarkably fine 

 variety of the Lady Pern, and so delicate in the pinnules as to re- 

 semble a Todea. 



Pirst-class certificates were awarded to Mr William Chater, Saffron 

 "Walden, for the following Hollyhocks : Constance, pale flesh ; Wal- 

 den Queen, pale rose ; Carus Chater, dark crimson ; Leah, tinted 

 yellow ; and Juno, flesh-coloured, tinted with blush. Mr C. J. Perry 

 received first-class certificates for the following Verbenas : R. H. Ver- 

 tegans, bright purple, with large dark centre ; Rev. J. Dix, pale flesh- 

 colour, with dark rose eye ; Thomas Hyatt, a dark magenta Self; and 

 Joseph Sanders, rich deep scarlet, with lemon eye. Messrs Bell & 

 Thorpe, Stratford-on-Avon, received a first-class certificate for varie- 

 gated zonal Pelargonium Macbeth, a finely-marked variety with a 

 good golden leaf-margin ; also for Petunia Beauty, a single variety, 

 with flowers of a pale lilac ground-colour, with purple throat and veins, 

 and of fine texture. Mr H. Tirebuck, Luton, received the same award 

 for a dark pink bedding Pelargonium, named Gustave de Rothschild ; 

 habit dwarf, and very promising as a bedder. Also to Mr Eckford, 

 gardener to Earl Radnor, Coleshill, Berks, for zonal Pelargonium 

 Coleshill, a bright scarlet-flowering variety of fine quality. Mr George 

 Smith, Tollington Nursery, Hornsey, also received first-class certificates 

 for two handsome nosegay Pelargoniums, named Claudius and Soleil, 

 the former in the way of Amy Hogg, but with immense trusses of 

 flowers ; the latter having bold and showy trusses of bright scarlet 

 flowers. The same award was made to a handsome nosegay named 

 Sydney Dunstan, with large trusses of brilliant scarlet flowers. This 

 was exhibited by Mr J. George, gardener to Miss l!^icholson. Putney 

 Heath, who was also the raiser of the two varieties exhibited by Mr 

 George Smith. R. D. 



NOTES ON HARDY HERBACEOUS PLANTS. 



Primula. — This is a very beautiful and interesting group of hardy 

 border and rock plants, which in bygone years was much admired 

 and extensively cultivated in this country, but latterly it has been 

 entirely neglected, at least in the gardens of the rich. It is rather 



