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awarded the medal offered for the best scarlet variety, with a medium 

 sized but very bright flower named Amazon. Mr. Nye also received a 

 certificate for Prince of Wales, a large stout flower, with clear white 

 centre, rich dark maroon spot on the top petals, lower petals deep rose. 

 A similar award was made to G. W. Hoyle, Esq., Reading, for Clotilde, 

 a large purple flower, with dark top petals, and white centre. Mr. 

 Turner received a certificate for a seedling fancy named Prima Donna, 

 white and purple, a smooth round flower, quite new in colour, Mr. 

 H alley, Blackheath, sent Phlox Pearl, fur which a certificate was given. 

 Mr. Parker, Dalston, sent a box of Ranunculuses, good-sized flowers, 

 but poor in variety. A prize was awarded them. 



Stove and greenhouse plants were contributed in very fine condition 

 for the time of year, and in such quantities as gave the upper banks of 

 the exhibition ground a rich and glowing appearance. The best came 

 from Mr. May, gardener to H. Colyer, Esq. ; but Mr. Frost, gardener 

 to E. L. Betts, Esq., Mr. Barter, Mr. Green, and others, also showed 

 weU in their respective classes. Orchids were not so good as we have 

 seen them. By far the best collections of them came from Mr. Mylam, 

 gardener to G. Reed, Esq. In this group the plants were beautifully 

 grown and well flowered. Messrs. Veitch also had some fine specimens, 

 and Mr. Gedney showed a magnificent example of the White Butterfly 

 plant, called Phalsenopsis grandiflora. Cape Heaths were shown by 

 the usual growers of them ; they were plentiful and well varied, many 

 of the autumn-flowering kinds differing greatly from one another, not 

 only in habit of plant, size, and shape of flower, but also in colour. 

 They therefore received more than usual attention. Roses this time 

 were all shown in a cut state. They were produced by the usual 

 exhibitors, \\Tith the exception of the Messrs. Lane, who did not show ; 

 and, considering the hot weather we have had, they were in good con- 

 dition. Of novelty there was little. Messrs. Veitch again showed their 

 fine hybrid Rhododendron Princess Royal, a new continental Achimenes 

 with lilac flowers, yellow in the eye and streaked with purple,^named 

 Ambrose Verschaftelt ; also the shrubby Phlox, named Leptodactylon 

 californicum. One or two other plants were also shown as new ; but 

 the above were the most remarkable. Of single specimens, Messrs. 

 Veitch exhibited a fine bush of Pleroma elegans, whose showy violet 

 blossoms are more persistent than those of the plants in the Order to 

 which it belongs. The same firm likewise furnished Ixora Lobbi, a fine 

 species, with handsome foliage and rich salmon-coloured flowers. Of 

 Ferns there was an interesting but not large display. The most impor- 

 tant were three groups of exotic species contributed by Dr. Young, 

 Messrs. Rollisson, and Mr. Gedney. The first-named, which was the 

 finest collection, contained the very rare Gymnogramma lanata, and 

 very finely grown plants of the following : Asplenium Belangeri, 

 Marattia cicutaefoha, Cheilanthes lendigera, Nephrolepis davalhoides, 

 Cibotium Schiedianum, and Platycerium grande. In Messrs. Rolhsson's 

 group there were Drynaria coronans, Platycerium grande, Davallia 

 tenuifolia, Asplenium Belangeri, and a very elegant Fern obtained from 

 the Jardin des Plantes under the name of Caenopteris foeniculacea. Mr. 

 Gedney 's group, though of commoner kinds, was composed of remark- 



