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The floiicultural records of tlie past year show that no less than eleven 

 varieties of Show Pelargoniums were awarded First-Class Certificates. Alphabeti- 

 cally arranged, the list of certificated flowers runs as follows : — Blue Boy (Foster), 

 pale purple lower petals, rich glossy dark top petals ; a fine and distinct variety. 

 Constance (Foster), delicate salmon-pink, with dark top petals, margined with 

 orange ; very fine. Duchess of Cambridge (Foster), very bright pale red, crimson 

 top petals, with a very dark blotch ; a fine glow of colour. Duchess (Foster), 

 orange-carmine lower petals, glossy dark top petals ; very fine quality. Grande 

 Monarqne (Foster), salmon-rose lower petals flushed with orange, dark top petals ; 

 large and bold. Protector (Foster), pale rose lower petals, with dark veins, dark 

 top petals ; very fine. Red Gauntlet (Drewry), bright pale red, with blood-crim- 

 son top petals, and large dark blotch ; very showy. Ruth (Foster), soft rose, with 

 dark upper petals ; a fine and distinct variety. Scottish Chieftain (Foster), ■ 

 orange-carmine lower petals, witli dark stains, dark top petals and white throat ; 

 extra fine. Sunraij (Turner), very bright pale red, flowers small, but freely pro- 

 duced ; an exceedingly showy variety, and a fine decorative plant. Triomphe de 

 St. Mated (Turner), bright red, darker on the top petals, and veined with dark ; 

 a very useful decorative variety. Queen Victoria (Bull) must also be commended 

 as a fine, free-blooming decorative variety, having crisped petals ; the ground- 

 colour is bright vermilion, the petals being fimbriate and margined with pure 

 white, and the upper ones blotched with maroon ; it produces very large bold 

 ti'usses, and will be well adapted for market work and decorative purposes generally. 



To the section of Fancy or Ladies' Pelargoniums additions of first-class value 

 are only made at rare intervals. One fine^ variety, The Shah (Turner), received a 

 First-Class Certificate during the past summer. It is a charming maroon-red 

 flower, with a bold white throat, of fine form, and very distinct in character. — 

 R. Dean, Ealing. 



DENDEOBIUM CHRYSOTIS. 



Xtj AM pleased to see Mr. Douglas's remarks with regard to this free-flowering 

 (jjS Dendrobc. Although sent out under the above name, and also described 

 ^Q) as such in the Gardeners^ Chronicle and Florist, Dr. Hooker considers it 

 ^ to be a species discovered by himself so long ago as 1848, in Sikkim, and 

 named D. Iloolcerianian by the late Dr. Lindley. [But in this opinion Professor 

 Reichenbach, who described it, does not concur. — Ed.] There are two or three 

 forms of the plant in cultivation, and this is easily to be accounted for, as it seeds 

 very freely in its native habitats. One form bears from three to four flowers on 

 a short spike, the individual blooms being large and brightly coloured. Another 

 form bears as many as nine or ten smaller flowers on a much longer spike, and 

 the flowers are of a pale yellow colour, similar to that shown in Dr. Hooker's 

 figure in the Botanical Jfagazine (t. G013). In habit the plant is quite distinct, 

 its pseudobulbs, when denuded of foliage, being similar to those of a strong- 

 growing D. McCarthice. The plant flowers at different periods of the year, and 



