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as a desirable popular addition to a class of plants uow deservedly 

 coming into favour, on account of the remarkable elegance of 

 their inflorescence. 



Nigella Mspanica, new dark purple, and new white : — from 

 Messrs. Carter & Co. These varieties were both large-flowered. 

 The purple kind is especially deserving of notice as a fine showy 

 annual ; the flowers are of a dark violet purple, shaded with 



New Orange French Marigold : — from Messrs. Carter & Co. 

 A very showy variety ; the flowers of a rich clear orange. It was 

 much admired. 



Yellow Tom Thumb Nasturtium :— from Messrs. Carter 

 & Co. This variety has the dwarf compact habit of the kind 

 known as Tom Thumb, and produces, like it, a profusion of flowers, 

 which are here of a clear golden yellow. A new Bronze 

 Nasturtium, shown with this, was remarkable for the curious 

 livid colour of its dingy flowers. 



Capt. Clarke's Blue-edged Sweet Pea :— from Messrs. Carteb 

 & Co. A light coloured pink-and-white Sweet Pea, faintly 

 mottled and margined with blue. 



Messrs. Carter also showed Linaria speciosa, a new dark 

 kind, deeper in colour than the old variety; a new lilac 

 Schizanthus gracilis ; a new rose-coloured Lobelia gracilis, 

 which is the same as that called L. Lindleyana on the continent ; 

 and the showy Dianthus sinensis Heddewigii. 



Mr. G, M'Intosh, of Hammersmith, showed four kinds of 

 Lantana, a finely-bloomed Plumbago capensis, and Gomphocarpus 

 fruticosus, called salicifolius, a fine old greenhouse shrub, bearing 

 a profusion of its drooping umbels of white Asclepiadaceous 

 flowers. 



The remainder of the subjects exhibited consisted of Seedling 

 Florists' Flowers, of which the following received awards : — 



HoUyhock, Leonora :— from Mr. W. Chater, Safi^ron Walden. 

 FiRsT-CLASs Certificate of Merit ; a bold well-filled flower, 

 with fine guard petals ; mottled rose, shaded with fawn colour. 



Hollyhock, Brunette :— from Messrs. Paul & Son, Cheshunt. 

 FiRST-CtAss Certificate of Merit ; a large, full, bold variety ; 

 dark crimson, remarkable for the smoothness of its petals. 



Hollyhock, Perfection : — from Messrs. Paul & Son. Com- 

 mended ; mottled pale lilic ; rather small, but very globular, the 

 guard petals small. 



HoUyhock, Harriet —from Mr. W. Chater. Commended ; 



