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Dipladenia boliviensis forms a compact climbing glabrous shrub, with, slender 

 stems, oblong acuminate smooth leaves of two or three inches long, subterminal or 

 axillary racemes of three or four flowers, which are almost salver-shaped, smaller 

 than in D. crassinoda, and of a pearly white colour, with a golden yellow throat, 

 The plant is of very free-flowering habit, and will therefore be an acquisition. 

 It is a summer flowerer. 



We owe its introduction, as that of so many other choice novelties, to the 

 Messrs. Veitch and Sons, of Chelsea, who obtained it from Bolivia through their 

 collector, Mr. Pearce. It flowered for the first time in June, 18G8, when it was 

 exhibited, and gained the Eoyal Horticultural Society's Prize Medal as the finest 

 new plant shown in flower. M. 



NEW FLORISTS' FLOWERS. 



MEETING of the Floral Committee was held at Chiswick on the 10th of 

 August, for the purpose of examining the Bedding Pelargoniums, some few 

 *&& of which were Certificated. The Moor, Plulus, and Rev. W. F. lladchjffe in 

 e> the gold and bronze-zonal section were severally awarded First-Class Certifi- 

 cates. The Moor, which promises to be a finer bedder, is very effective, from its 

 clear colours, a bright yellow-green, with a clear dark chestnut zone ; but the 

 leaves are somewhat lobed, which is its chief fault. Plutus is inferior to because 

 greener than The Moor, which it otherwise a good deal resembles. The Eev ."W. 

 F. Eadclyffe is remarkable for its free compact habit, and for the endurance of 

 its bright yellow-green colour, the leaves being marked with a narrow vandyked 

 zone of clear chestnut-red. The variegated zonals comprised some promising- 

 looking sorts, but they were scarcely sufficiently grown. A First-Class Certificate 

 was given to Amy Richards, a most effective bedding variety of the Mrs. Pollock 

 style, raised at Chiswick, remarkable for its bold vigorous growth, and its large, 

 flat, highly-coloured leaves, both growth and colouring being far superior to the 

 older variety growing beside it. A First-Class Certificate was also given to Sir R. 

 Napier, a very dark-zoned variety of this group, remarkable for its distinctness. 

 In the silver variegated group a First-Class Certificate was given to Miss Kings- 

 bury, a most telling scarlet-flowered variety, of dense compact habit, and 

 having a broad white margin to the leaves, which are of average flatness. A 

 First-Class Certificate was given to William Underwood, a variety which would 

 no doubt have received the award much earlier, had it been sent at an earlier 

 date for trial ; it is a free-growing and very floriferous sort, with dark-zoned 

 leaves, and close trusses of good-sized fair-shaped orange-scarlet flowers of a very 

 effective character. First-Class Certificates were given to Advancer (Bull's), and 

 Rose of Lee, both of the rpse-pink group. The former is a dwarf green-leaved 

 free-blooming sort, with pure self-coloured bright rosy-pink flowers, and showing 

 every disposition to be a good dwarf bedder ; the latter, a vigorous, compact, and 

 erect-growing sort, with faintly-zoned leaves, and dense trusses of small flowers 



