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superior, althougli the whole list comprises what may be termed good 

 show-flowers. 



♦Annie Salter, bright golden yellow, 

 reflexed. 



Aristides, yellow and orange. 

 ♦Beauty, blush, fine. 



Campestroni, purple, large, incurved. 

 •Christopher Columbus, bronze. 



Christine, large light pink. 



Cyclops, fa^vn. 



Crysipe, rosy purple. 

 ♦Defiance, fine incurved white. 



Duke, blush. 

 *Dupont de I'Eure, carmine, very fine. 



Fortune, orange red. 

 ♦Formosum, pale yellow. 

 ♦Golden Cluster, fine golden yellow. 



Goliath, sulphur, fine, incurved. 



Hercules, fine orange. 

 ♦King, peach, fine. 



Leon Laquay, lilac. 

 ♦Lycius, bronze. 



Madame Corbay, rosy white. 



Miss Kate, silvery lilac. 

 ♦Nonpareil, rosy purple, very fine. 



Hackney. 



Phidias, light rose. 

 *Pio Nono, red, tipped with gold. 

 ♦Plutus, pale yellow, extra fine. 

 ♦Queen of England, large incurved 

 blush, extra. 



Rabelais, carmine. 



Rebecca, rose. 

 ♦Rosa mystica, light rose, fine. 



Sydenham, red. 

 ♦Themis, rose, extra fine. 

 ♦Two-coloured incurved, orange and 

 red. 



Versailles Defiance, lilac. 

 ♦Vesta, best white. 



Warden, buft". 



Six best Anemone-Jlowered. 

 Fleur de Marie, white, extra. 

 Gluck, bright orange. 

 Madame Godereau, sulphur. 

 Marguerite d'Anjou, bufF. 

 Marguerite d'York, yellow. 

 Sulphurea pallida, sulphur. 



W. Holmes. 



[The above remarks respecting the different classes of Chrysan- 

 themums are perfectly correct and well-timed. We therefore trust 

 that some of our correspondents interested in the matter will give us 

 their opinion on the subject — Ed. ] 



MEMORANDA FEOM KEW. 



Hexacentris thunbergia coccinea. This handsome evergreen hot- 

 house twiner is one of those which develope their flowers during 

 winter. Although it grows and flowers freely when cultivated as a 

 pot plant, producing flowers even in a small state, yet if it is allowed 

 sufficient pot and head room, it will attain a large size, and then 

 becomes a beautiful ornament for a hothouse. An example of it, 

 planted out in the great Palm-house here, is trained against a trellis 

 near the glass, where it covers a space of 20 feet by 15, and is at 

 present very gay with flowers, and has been for a month past, and 

 in all probability it mil remain in beauty for a month to come ; its 

 flowers are borne in pendulous racemes a foot long, and are of a 

 scarlet and orange colour. It is a native of the East Indies, and is an 

 old plant in gardens. 



Certradenia divaricata. Three species of this genus are at 

 present cultivated in our stoves ; they are all dwarf evergreen 

 shrubs of a neat, close, compact habit, with smallish leaves and light- 



