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be a useful flower-garden and bedding plant. — Messrs. Carter, 

 also exhibited a white Nigella hispanica. La Superbe and Emperor 

 Asters, and Leviathan Sunflower. 



Mr. Elphinstone, gardener at Flixton Hall, Suffolk, showed 

 several kinds of seedling Tydaeas, or Achimenes : — Fair Helen, 

 Conspicua, Formosa, Gem, Sanguinea alba, and Tricolor; 

 they consisted of upright-growing plants, with spotted, rosy-lake 

 and scarlet flowers, in various tints, all individually handsome, but 

 not considered sufficiently distinct from those previously in cultiva- 

 tion, in a family where seedlings are raised with so much facility. 



Mr. T. Breeze, of Starston, Norfolk, sent a collection of cut 

 blooms, of a new race of fancy Gloxinias, in which the flowers 

 were marked with pencilled or feathered blotchy stripings of an 

 entirely novel character. No award could be made to these, in the 

 absence of the plants, but the flowers were greatly admired. The 

 following were pronounced the most desirable from the appearance 

 of the cut blooms: — ^Violacea; large pale lavender, purple about 

 the throat, marked with feathery and blotchy streaks of white ; 

 Rainbow ; similar in colour to Violacea, but rather smaller, and 

 more decidedly striped ; Mrs. Bowyer ; rosy salmon, with bright 

 carmine about the throat, and white feathery streaks on the 

 surface ; Lady Conyngham ; erect-flowered, rosy-salmon, larger 

 and darker than Mrs. Bowyer, and more distinctly blotch-striped. 

 Lillian Mary ; a soft lilac blue with white throat and pencilled 

 surface, was also very handsome. The others were: Esther, 

 Florenza, Hosy-Gem, Borealis, St. Cloud, Snow-flake, and 

 Evening Star. 



Among the exhibitions in the more established classes of Flo- 

 rist's flowers, the following subjects were selected for reward : — 



Dahlia, Lady Douglass Pennant : — from Mr. Keynes. 

 First-Class Certificate of Merit ; large, deep, finely moulded 

 and even, but rather depressed in the centre ; primrose-yellow. 



Dahlia, WiUiam Dodds:— from Mr. Keynes. First-Class 

 Certificate of Merit; large, deep, and well built, with a 

 close high centre ; deep golden yellow. 



Dahlia, Eev. Joshua Dix:— from Mr. Ketoes. Commended ; 

 a fancy flower of large size and good outline, with a prominent 

 high centre ; blush, striped and spotted with dark crimson. 



Dahlia, Sir George Douglass :— from Mr. W. Dodds, Salis- 

 bury. Commended as a very effective and ornamental variety 

 for the flower-garden, of moderate properties ; colour, orange- 

 yellow tipped with bright red. 



