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Messrs Laing & Co., Forest Hill, contributed a group of Caladiums 

 and Tuberous Begonias. Among the former Alfred Bleu, Mithridates, 

 and Princess Teck were especially remarkable for the size and bright 

 colour of the leaves, but the Committee wished to see the varieties 

 again, as they were scarcely developed enough to judge of their respec- 

 tive merits. Three beautiful Begonias were exhibited, all scarlet — 

 one named Scarlet Gem ; another, Mr Alfred Brassy, with broad petals 

 of a very bright tint and neat habit ; and the third Begonia Davisi 

 fiore-pleno superba, which was deservedly certificated, and is referred 

 to elsewhere. A Coleus named Mrs Baxter with crimson leaves 

 margined with green was shown by the same firm. Colonel Trevor 

 Clarke, Welton Place, Daventry, showed a hybrid Elisena bearing 

 two white Pancratium-like flowers on a scape 2^ feet high. It was 

 referred to the Scientific Committee. Mr Croucher, gardener to 

 J. T. Peacock, Esq., Sudbury House, Hammersmith, sent a plant 

 of Masdevallia Harryana, a very fine variety, the flowers about 2 

 inches in diameter and rich in colour. Messrs James Carter & Co., 

 High Holborn, sent a pretty double Primrose, and plants of what 

 they termed " a new hybrid Marguerite Chrysanthemum Prince 

 Rudolph's Bride," with white flowers very like C. frutescens, but 

 apparently rather more compact in habit and bearing light green 

 pinnatifid foliage. Mr R. Dean exhibited specimens of his new 

 dwarf Red Wallflower, very dark in colour and excellent in habit. 

 The strain was commended. A dwarf double yellow variety with 

 small bright-coloured but full flowers was also noticeable. Mr G. 

 Bethell, Sudbourn Hall, Wickham Market, staged plants of a white 

 variegated Spiderwort named Tradescantia argentea, and some seed- 

 ling Coleuses ; one, Mrs Baines, neat, mottled, with crimson green and 

 yellow — and Mrs Bethell, with a rosy centre and green and yellow 

 margin. Mr Harrison Weir, Weirleigh, Brenchley, Kent, sent pretty 

 dark -ground, gold-laced Polyanthuses, named respectively Heart's 

 Delight, Triumph, and Goldfinch. Mr James Kelman, Chingford, 

 Essex, exhibited plants of a dwarf Musk with yellow crimson-spotted 

 flowers. Mr Edward Bland, Cranbourn Court, Winkfield, Berks, 

 staged a plant of seedling Anthurium Schertzerianum with brightly 

 coloured spathes 4 or 5 inches long. Mr J. Copley Far, Headingley, 

 near Leeds, was accorded a vote of thanks for a Tropaeolum, said to be 

 a seedling from Ball of Fire, which it greatly resembled, but the flowers 

 were perhaps a little larger. Messrs Rivers & Son of Sawbridge- 

 worth contributed trusses of two seedling Zonal Pelargoniums, both 

 with shades of pink with full double flowers ; and the Royal Horti- 

 cultural Society exhibited specimens of the pretty purplish blue 

 Tropseolum azureum, and the elegant Onychium auratum from the 

 gardens at Chiswick. 



In the conservatory the principal group was from Mr B. S. Williams, 

 LTpper Holloway, which comprised an abundance of choice Orchids and 



