JULY 7, 1859. 



the Members present, to such of the subjects exhibited before 

 them as may be thought deserving thereof. 



XIII. All new plants flowered in the Society's garden are to 

 be submitted to the Floral Committee, for its opinion on their 



XIV. All packages of plants or flowers must be delivered 

 carriage free, and must be forwarded at the risk of the sender. 

 The subjects, whether plants or cut flowers, will be delivered up 

 at the close of the Meeting to the owners thereof, or to such 

 persons as may be duly authorised to receive them. If left, it 

 will be at the entire risk of the senders. 



XV. The Committee will hold the power of examining with 

 all necessary minuteness the subjects submitted for its opiaion. 



XVI. Exhibitors of soedling florists' flowers, and others, will 

 facilitate the working of the Committee by the production of 



i references. 



The following miscellaneous Plants and Flowers were then 

 examined : — 



Pteris argyrsBa :— from Messrs. Veitch & Son, of Exeter 

 and Chelsea. This new fern proved to be a most beautiful 

 object of an entirely distinct character, being the first well-marked 

 variegated fern introduced to cultivation. The Committee unani- 

 mously awarded it a First Class Certificate of Merit, as 

 being an entirely novel and exceedingly ornamental plant. It 

 has been introduced from Central India. Habit vigorous ; fronds 

 5 ft. long, including the stout stipes, which is scaly below, and 

 occupies about half of the entire length; ovate in outline, 

 about two and a half feet wide at the base ; pedately bipinnatifid, 

 the two lower pairs of pinnae usually, sometimes the third also, 

 having a posterior basal branch ; segments of the pinnse obtusely 

 linear subfalcate, IJ in. long, somewhat wavy, spinulose on the 

 upper rachis, the terminal one caudate. The peculiar beauty of 

 the fern is owing to the base of each segment, for a quarter of an 

 inch or more of its length, being of i. silver-grey colour, so as to 

 produce a broad silvery stripe about three-quarters of an inch 

 in breadth down the centre of each of the pinnse and of their 



