74 REPORTS OF THE FLORAL COMMITTEE, 



— From Mr. W. Adcock, gardener to H. S. Turnkr, Esq., 

 Actou: Verbena, Acton Star; dark purple, too near Sir J. 

 Outram. From Dr. Sankey, Hanwell : Verbena— Juno and 

 Apollo, varieties of fine quality, but too much iucurv^ed ; also 

 Verbena, Mars, showing its adaptation to out-door culture. — 

 From Mr. Elphinstone, Flixton Hall : Verbena— Purple Prince, 

 Spectabilis, Violacea superba, Nobilissima, Lady Adair, Mrs. 

 Ward, Captivation, Eeine des Fleurs, Flixtoniensis, Eeine 

 Blanche, Grandis, Beauty Supreme. One truss only being shown 

 of each, no award could be made, but the following were selected 

 as varieties of much promise : — Lady Adair, salmon rose, with 

 light eye ; Eeine des Fleurs, light crimson, with yellow eye ; 

 Flixtoniensis, very bright purplish rose, lemon eye ; Beauty 

 Supreme, bright rose, yellow eye.— From Mr. Hallt : Lilium 

 lancifolium rubrom floribundum, and album floribundum, ac- 

 companied by a memorandum stating that they had for three years, 

 from the time of the first blooming, produced thick full heads of 

 flower, with a tendency to fasciated growth of the stems ; the 

 flowers were not in any way superior. 



August i25.— The Rev. Joshua Dix in the Chair. 



The exhibitions on this occasion consisted wholly of Florist's 

 flowers, of which the major part were Dahlias. The awards 

 made were the following : — 



^ Dahlia, Flower of the Day :— from Mr. C. Tubner, Slough. 

 "erit; a high built and evenly 

 excellent properties ; pure white ; much 

 J Mrs. "Wellesley Pigott, but of a purer white. 



Dahlia, Apollo :— from Mr. Turner. First-Class Certifi- 

 cate OF Merit ; a dense, well-formed, and remarkably 

 trical variety of the fancy class 

 regularly tipped with white. 



Dahlia, Mrs. WeUesley Pigott:— from Mr. J. Keynes, Salis- 

 bury. First-Class Certificate of Merit ; a neatly-cupped and 

 even well-filled flower, of excellent properties; white, slightly 

 tinged with yellow at the base of the florets. 



'^ '" ' >m Mr. Keynes. First-Class 



full size, close, with full high centre ; 



ie peach-blossom or deep flesh-colour. 



Dahlia, Neville Keynes :— from Mr. Keynes. Commended, 

 a flower likely to prove constant and useful ; even outline, 



Lh tolerably full centre ; buff yellow, tipped with pale purple. 



