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general resemblance to each other, but were slightly different in 

 their markings, was due to the skill and perseverance of Mr. 

 DoMiNY, the very intelligent foreman employed by Messrs. Veitch 

 & Son, at their Exeter nursery. The flowers were freely pro- 

 duced, blush-coloured, shghtly suffused with the olive-green, and 

 showing the spotting of C. gratiulosa in the sepals and petals, 

 having, moreover, its richly- veined purple lip, but varied in the 

 amount of colouring and marking in the different plants. Those 

 numbered 1 and 4 were specially Commended, as being the most 

 beautiful, the others, however, being but very slightly different 

 from them. 



Odontoglossum Uroskinneri {Ldndley) : — from Messrs. Veitch 

 & Son. An elegant species, having something of the general 

 character and aspect, and quite the habit of O. hictoniense, but 

 larger-flowered, quite distinct as a garden plant, and a much finer 

 species. The flowers grow along the upper part of a tallish erect 

 scape ; the sepals keeled, the upper ones short, obovate, the lower 

 ones longer : the petals broad, oblong, somewhat wavy, all pale 

 green, blotched with brown ; lip nearly circular in outline, broadly 

 cordate and frilled, blush-white, thickly dotted with pale purple. 

 Dr. Lindley, by whom it has been named, suspects that it, like 

 many other reputed species of orchids, may be a wild or natural 

 mule, and may have resulted from a cross between O. hictoniense, 

 and some such species as O. Cervantesii, or 0. Rossii. It was 

 Commended as an ornamental plant, well deserving of culti- 

 vation. It varies in colour in the wild plants. 



Begonia Dominiana :— from Messrs. Veitch & Son. This 

 handsome plant appeared to be too closely like that called B. 

 Marshallii, noticed at page 55, to be kept distinct. It was remark- 

 able for the breadth of the silvery space on the surface of the 

 leaf, which rendered very distinct the dark green star of the central 

 veins, and the green silver-dotted border. It is one of the 

 handsomer in a group of dwarf variegated kinds originating from 

 B. Rex, in which the forms appear endless, but the majority of 

 them wanting in distinctness of character. 



Messrs. Veitch also had some blooms of Double Petunias, not 

 in good condition ; among which, however, one named Mauve 

 appeared to be rather distinct in colour. 



Yellow Tom Thumb Nasturtium :— from Messrs. Carter 

 & Co., High Holborn. The habit of this plant, shown by the 

 entire plants exhibited, was quite dwarf and compact, and the 

 flowers were of a golden-yellow. It was Commended as hkely to 



