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NATIONAL FLORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Aug. 21. — Mr. E. Spary in the chair. First-class Certificate to 

 Fancy Dahlia Carnation. Form and general outline good ; petals 

 smooth and stout ; colour, white ground with narrow stripes of purple ; 

 a fine exhibition variety and highly commendable for its purity of 

 colour. From Mr. J. Keynes, Salisbury. — First-class Certificate to 

 Fancy Dahlia Conqueror. Form and outline good ; stout ; colour 

 reddish blush ground, striped and spotted with dark purplish crimson. 

 From Mr. J. Keynes, Salisbury. — Certificate of Merit to Fancy Dahlia 

 Charles Perry. Form medium ; size large, with good compact centre ; 

 colour reddish rosy ground flaked and striped with crimson ; a showy 

 variety. From Mr. J. Keynes, Salisbury. — Certificate of Merit to 

 Fancy Dahlia Tam o'Shanter. Form of petal, outline, and centre 

 each good ; colour blush purple ground, striped purplish crimson. 

 From Mr. Dodds, Salisbury. — Label of Commendation to Scarlet 

 Pelargonium Kentish Hero. Habit dwarf, with average truss, flowers 

 of medium form, colour bright orange scarlet with small white centre. 

 From Mr. S. Johnson, Dover. 



Sept. 4. — G. Holmes, Esq., in the chair. First-class Certificate to 

 Verbena Magnet. Truss of medium size, with a fair average number 

 of pips, which are of good form and of stout substance ; colour rosy 

 carmine of a new shade. From Mr. Weatherill, Hornsey-road. — First 

 class Certificate to Dahlia Lady Popham. Form good, size medium, 

 and for a light flower very stout ; colour blush white ground, with very 

 slight purple tip ; a decided advance in the light flower class. From 

 Mr. C. Turner, Slough. — First class Certificate to Dahlia Royal Scarlet. 

 Form good, size full, substance stout, colour bright crimson scarlet ; a 

 flower with great depth, good centre, and smooth petals. From Mr. 

 Keynes, Salisbury. — Certificate of Merit to Dahlia Duke of Devonshire. 

 Form good, size fuU, substance average, colour rosy lilac shading to 

 white at base of petal ; arrangement of petal, depth and outline quite 

 first-rate, wanting solidity and finish at centre. From Mr. W. Dodds, 

 Salisbury. The following w^ere also exhibited : — Dahlias : Lord Car- 

 digan, of average size and full outline ; colour dull red. Margaret, 

 above medium size and tolerably well formed, with cupped incurved 

 florets, but the eye sunk ; coppery yellow, from the eye being suffused 

 with red, the latter colour more evident at the back, the whole strongly 

 flaked, streaked, and mottled with crimson. Edward, a large flower, 

 but flat on the face. Rowland, exceedingly gay, rather below medium 

 size, with finely cupped and well arranged petals, white heavily tipped 

 with bright rosy purple. Duchess of Beaufort, a good light ^ flower, 

 scarcely of medium size ; outline and petals good ; blush white with 

 tips of dense purple. Fenella, a pretty light variety ; size medium, 

 compact, well formed, and cupped ; blush white tipped with purple, 

 which is faint and mottley, producing the appearance of lilac tips. 

 Alliance, a dark Carnation-striped variety ; medium size and average 

 form : ground colour white, suffused with purple crimson, marked with 

 ,broad flakes and narrower stripes and specks of dark purple crimson, 



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