236 THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. [October, 



of the colour of those of Madame Barre, elevated on long stout footstalks, bright 

 rcse-pink, with white base to the top petals. Fausta, a bright rosy lake, and 

 Claude Lorraine, a deep magenta, two strikingly beautiful colours, but only just 

 coming into bloom, were greatly admired. 



The meeting of the Floral Committee at South Kensington on the 17th ult. 

 added a few interesting novelties. Foremost were some Gladioli, from Messrs. 

 Kelway and Sons, Langport. Cherub, a pale buff with crimson feather ; 

 Medina, creamy white with crimson flame, and lightly barred with rose at the 

 edges ; and Accius, white slightly barred with purple, and having a broad dash 

 of purple on the lower petals, all obtained First-Class Certificates ; while Free- 

 mason, a rosy carmine, with a buff-coloured flame, gained a Second-Class award. 

 Some fine new Verbenas came from Mr. Perry, Castle Bromwich, and Mr. Eckford, 

 Coleshill. The former had Ada King, a very large round, slightly cupped, white, 

 with faint zone of pink near the eye ; and Thomas Lawden, a large, well-formed, 

 rosy-pink, with crimson eye. The latter had Harry Eckford, a deep crimson, 

 with fiat bluntly oblong lobes, and a large white eye ; Eclipse, a rich crimson- 

 scarlet self ; and Lady Anne Speirs, a large, finely-formed, and entirely novel 

 variety, with rosy-pink centre, and a broadish well-defined white margin. All 

 these were awarded First-Class Certificates. Messrs. Downie, Laird, and Laing, 

 Sydenham, received Certificates for two Pelargoniums, Lady Hawley, a semi-nose- 

 gay, with good trusses of orange-scarlet flowers, and faintly-zoned leaves ; and 

 Stanstead Rival, a zonal, with compact bold trusses of well-shaped flowers of a 

 deep scarlet, just perceptibly flushed with a tint rose, lying like a bloom upon 

 the surface of the petals. 



A good blue-flowered bedding plant — one that is surer and more reliable 

 than any of the purple-coloured Verbenas — has at length appeared in Ageratum 

 Imperial Dwarf, a capital dwarf, compact, and free-flowering variety, exhibited 

 by Mr. W. Chater, Saffron Walden, and to which a First-Class Certificate was 

 awarded. This is, no doubt, one of the best new bedding plants of the season. 

 It is of robust compact habit, 8 in. to 10 in. high, bearing a profusion of large 

 flower-heads of a deep coerulcan blue. 



At the meeting on the 7th of September, some fine Seedling Dahlias were 

 brought forward. Mr. C. Turner, Slough, was awarded First-Class Certificates for 

 Toison d'Or, a bright yellow self flower of fine form and substance ; and for 

 Harvard, lilac rose, also a self flower, of a pleasing hue of colour and good 

 outline. Mr. George Bawlings, Bomford, received a First-Class Certificate for 

 Aristides, purplish-crimson, shaded with dark, a flower of fine shape, full sub- 

 stance, and high centre ; and the same award was made Mr. G. Parker, Wink- 

 field, for Queen of Yelloivs, a large bright orange-yellow flower of good substance ; 

 also to Mr. Burgess, Chelsea, for William Lund, a deep crimson-maroon flower 

 of good properties. Mr. Eckford obtained at this meeting a First-Class Certificate 

 for Verbena Countess of Radnor, bluish-lilac, well marked in the centre with 



