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class certificate was awarded for it on account of its earliness. Specimens of 

 Early Favourite Plum were also sent by the same firm from a tree in a pot 

 which had been placed in a house on March the 27th. A vote of thanks was 

 accorded. Messrs J. Veitch & Sons, Chelsea, exhibited some extremely large 

 stems of Stott's Monarch Rhubarb ; and Mr J. F. Wilkinson, gardener to 

 Viscount Gage, Lewes, sent a seedling Melon. From Chiswick fruits of Noire 

 Precoce de Strass Cherry were sent, the variety being said to be very prolific. 



Floral Committee. — J. M'Intosh, Esq., in the chair. Messrs J. Veitch & 

 Sons, Chelsea, had a group of new and choice plants of considerable interest, 

 including the following : A white form of Azalea Souvenir de Prince Albert, 

 very free and of good habit ; Lilium Krameri, a neat species with pale pink- 

 tinted flowers ; Heliconia aureo-striata, having neat ovate leaves veined with 

 yellow; Carnation Lady Musgrave, a handsome variety, bearing large, full, 

 deep scarlet flowers ; Cypripedium selligerum majus, a remarkably fine variety 

 with flowers of great size, the upper sepal being particularly broad ; Calantbe 

 Textori, a pretty species with white flowers, the lip blotched in the centre 

 with orange-red ; Epidendrum falcatum, a curious Orchid, with white three- 

 lobed labellum and narrow yellowish sepals and petals ; Hydrangea Mariesi, a 

 fine form, with large globular heads of lavender-blue flowers ; Pratia angulata, 

 a hardy plant, also known as Lobelia litoralis, of prostrate habit, with diminu- 

 tive leaves and abundant white flowers ; Spergula pilifera aurea, a form of 

 Spurrey with yellow leaves ; several Masdevallias, including M. coccinea and 

 M. ignea, the latter especially bright ; Cattleya Wagneri, a white-flowered 

 form, resembling C. Mossise ; C Mossise alba ; and a group of Tuberous 

 Begonias, chiefly seedlings raised from B. Davisi, very free in flowering, and 

 including some rich shades of scarlet. B. gigas and B. Mrs Gilbert were two 

 varieties of the ordinary type, with very large well-formed flowers — the former 

 orange-scarlet, and the latter of a deeper colour. 



A vote of thanks was accorded to Messrs H. Cannell & Son, Swanley, Kent, 

 for eight stands of double Pyrethrums, comprising forty varieties, including 

 many of great excellence. Some of the most noteworthy were Lizzie Macfar- 

 lane, white ; Maximum plenum, bright pink ; Progress, rich crimson ; Mrs Dix, 

 neat pink ; Rose Marguerite, fine rose ; N, Twardy, full neat flower, rosy 

 crimson; Wilhelm, good pink; Madame Billiard, neat white ; Anemoniflorum 

 sanguineum, very bright crimson ; Multiflorum, rosy crimson ; Boule de Neige, 

 pure white; and Amphitrite, bright rose. Some fine varieties of Foxglove 

 were also shown. 



Messrs John Laing & Co., Forest Hill, had a fine collection of Caladiums 

 and Tuberous Begonias. The best of the former were candidum, similar in 

 marking to argyrites, but much larger ; Madame Lemoinier, with broad hand- 

 some lemon -red in the centre, and pale green round the edge; and Mithridate, 

 described below. Among the Begonias Mrs Robert Whyte, scarlet, was note- 

 worthy for the great size of the flowers ; Captain Lambert, similarly large, 

 but more brilliant in colour ; and Exoniensis, a remarkably handsome variety, 

 with extraordinarily large orange-scarlet flowers. A stand of blooms was also 

 contributed of a great variety of colours, from pure white through yellow, buflf, 

 orange, and scarlet ; some rose tints also being represented. A vote of thanks 

 was accorded to Mr J. Crouoher, gardener to J. Peacock, Esq., Sudbury 

 House, Hammersmith, for a plant of Odontoglossum crispum variety deli- 

 catum, the flowers of good size, white faintly tinged with purple. A plant 

 of a variety of Cattleya Mossise named aurosum was sent by the same ex- 

 hibitor. Mr James, The Castle Nursery, Lower Norwood, sent a plant of 



