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Williams ; and to Gongora portentosa, a new pink-and-yellow flowered 

 species, from W. Wilson Saunders, Esq. 



In the way of hardy ornamental plants, Messrs Veitch & Sons 

 received a first-class certificate for a fine deep copper-coloured-leaved 

 variety of the sticky Alder, named Alnus glutinosa rubronorva, very 

 handsome, and likely to become highly useful. 



Of flowering plants, first-class certificates were awarded to Hydrangea 

 stellata flore-pleno, a small-growing and double-flowered species, with 

 pale-green and rose-coloured leaves, from Messrs Paul & Son ; to 

 Clematis Sylph, white, very slightly tinted on the outside of the petals 

 with mauve, a fine early -blooming variety from Messrs T. Cripps 

 & Son ; to Gloxinia Alice, with plum-purple lobes and pale sulphur 

 throat, a very fine deep-coloured variety, from Messrs Rollisson k Son ; 

 to Azalea Roi d'Hollande, from Mr C. Turner, with large deep crimson- 

 scarlet flowers, very showy, and of fine colour; to Mr E. Shenton, 

 Biggleswade, for a white early-forcing Pink, named Flower of Eden ; 

 to Mr H. Cannell, Woolwich, for a bright deep-pink-coloured Pelar- 

 gonium named Master Christine, with the habit of the old Christine, 

 and very free of bloom ; and to the following charming plants, 

 from Mr William Thompson of Ipswich — viz., Brodiaea coccinea (?), 

 with magenta crimson flowers and a green tip, not unlike those of a 

 Correa; Cyclobothra pulchella, a half-hardy Liliaceous plant from 

 California, with curious yellow flowers, but by no means new, having 

 been introduced in 1832 ; Delphinium nudicaule, a hardy perennial, 

 nearly allied to D. cardinale, but said to be more certain, and bearing 

 spikes of bright orange-red flowers, — this was raised from seeds sent to 

 Mr William Thompson from California ; and to Leptosiphon roseus, a 

 hardy Californian annual, exceedingly dwarf, and bearing numbers of 

 charming rose-coloured flowers. This is a great acquisition, and will 

 no doubt become very popular. 



The following fine show Pelargoniums of Mr Foster's raising have 

 received first-class certificates : May Day, Syren, Iron Duke, Charle- 

 magne, and Admiration; also Duke of Edinburgh (Hoyle), a fine 

 painted flower ; — all exhibited by Mr Turner. These will be noticed 

 more fully by-and-by. 



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Crystal Palace, Sydenham, May 21.— "A grand Show" was the general 

 comment made on this fine Exhibition, and it was well deserved. The collections 

 of stove and greenhouse plants were very fine, and, as a matter of course, much 

 admired. Mr Baines, gardener to H. L. Micholls, Esq., formerly of Manchester, 



