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Henri de Bloxart (?), pale salmon- 

 rose; Queen of England, one of the 

 fine old scarlet horseshoe varieties ; 

 Tintoret, Princess of Prussia, M.lle 

 Matthew Vincent (?). Can anybody 

 put these names to rights P they are 

 printed as written by Mr. Carter, and 

 the responsibility of their accuracy is 

 his, not mine. 



Fuchsias were very fresh, and 

 generally well out. Mr. Turner had 

 a nice lot, consisting of Madame Cor- 

 nelissen, Rose of Castile, Schiller, 

 Smith's Conspicua (cpiite a favourite 

 this season), Comet, a hue bold dark 

 flower; Miunie Banks, somewhat in- 

 effective through a certain mdecisive- 

 nes* of colour, but free and nicely 

 habited, and in this case very well 

 done. Mr. Bartholomew, gardener to 

 the late It. Marshall, Esq., had ahne, 

 fresh, well-bloomed halt-dozen, very 

 badly placed, so that it was impossible 

 to see their beauty to advantage ; 

 they were, Prince Imperial, White 

 Lady, Rose of Castile, Prince of 

 Orange, fine; Schiller, Tristram Shan- 

 dy, still one of the best. Messrs. 

 Hayes, of Edmonton, put up some 

 nice small plants in good condition: 

 amongst them were Lord Elgin, fine ; 

 Senator, noticeable for its long tubu- 

 lar corolla. 



Miscellaneous. — Messrs. Veitch 

 made a sensation by sending a small 

 forest of Lilium auratum, the grand- 

 est of all known lilies, excepting only 

 the Victoria regia, and a lily too that 

 everybody can grow. It is a curious 

 illustration of tne fallibilities of bo- 

 tanical nomenclature, that Sir W. 

 Hooker named this species at its first 

 introduction to the country, Lilium 

 unifiora, supposing it to produce but 

 one tlower at a time, but here was a 

 sample amongst Messrs. Veitch's 

 plants with eight blooms, and all of 

 them superb. Among otuer novelties 

 from Messrs. Veitcn occurred the 

 lovely Ogmnogramma Pearcii, JBran- 

 themum Cooper ii and tuberculatum, 

 also a fine Eranthemum with richly 

 variegated leaves, a new Lomaria 

 with n&rd once-piunated trouds, Dra- 

 cena Cooperi, a variegated Camellia 

 Japonica, a green-leaved Aucuba 

 called longijiora, the pretty lietino- 



spora squarrosa, and a few other inte- 

 resting plants. Mr. Baines, gardener 

 to H. Micholl, Esq., Bowden, Che- 

 shire, sent a few interesting subjects 

 in addition to his stove and green- 

 house plants. The best amongst his 

 curiosities was an 18-inch pan of 

 Dioncea muscipula, or Venus's Fly- 

 trap, in a gloriously fresh and vigor- 

 ous condition. It must be said, how- 

 ever, that the pan consisted of plants 

 in small pots packed close together, 

 with moss for surfacing to hide the 

 pots. Equally interesting was an 

 18-inch pan of Sarracenia purpurea, 

 the plants grown in the pan, and in 

 fine condition as to freshness, and the 

 pan closely covered with short green 

 pitchers. Mr. Townsend, St. Mary's 

 Nursery, had three new varieties of 

 Clematis lanuginosa, namely violacea, 

 rich purple, like a large edition of 

 Pleroma elegans ; atropurpurea, 

 brownish-purple, rather loose ; venosa, 

 small, slaty purple, and pretty. 



Scottish Pansy Society, June 

 8. — The twentieth annual com- 

 petition of this society took place 

 in the City Hall, Glasgow. Owing 

 to the severe frosts which occurred a 

 few weeks previously, the number of 

 exhibitors was not so great as usual. 

 Nevertheless, the exhibition was well 

 worth seeing. Messrs. Downie, Laird, 

 and Laing, of Edinburgh and London, 

 were successful in carrying off the 

 prize for the best bloom in the room, 

 with Lavinia (white ground) ; and it 

 was really a fine bloom, pure, smooth, 

 and well shaped — almost everything 

 in fact that is wanted in a pansy. 

 Mr. MNab, of Inglis Green, near 

 Edinburgh, obtained a certificate of 

 merit for a yellow-ground seedling 

 named John Downie, a well-propor- 

 tioned flower of good substance, belt- 

 iug somewhat like C. W. R. Ramsay, 

 blotch dense and well defined; a 

 most distinct variety. Miss E. Coch- 

 ran (white ground) was shown in 

 good style in several standi. Perfec- 

 tion (yellow ground) and George 

 Wilson (yellow ground) stood out 

 prominently from their compeers. 

 Frauds Low (yellow ground) was also 

 very fine. Selfs were fairly repre- 

 sented by Alexander M'Nab and Miss 



