DECEMBER 8, 185 9. l-Ji 



Pelargonium Novelty :— Moderately vigorous in habit ; leaves 

 roundish, scarcely lobed, slightly horse-shoe- marked; flowers 

 circular, medium-sized, the petals salmou-colour passing into 

 white in their upper half. The colours were somewhat indistinct, 

 but being novel in their arrangement, it was considered pro- 

 mising as a new variety, which might become the parent of a 

 distinct type of colouring. It was thought, however, that it should 

 be again produced in the more natural season for the blooming of 

 this class of plants, before its merit was determined. 



Pelargonium Advance :— Of vigorous habit ; leaves lobed, and 

 horse-shoe-marked ; flowers large, with very broad petals forming 

 a circle of remarkably even outline ; the colour a bright salmon- 

 rose or cerise scarlet, with the two colours apparent. It was thought 

 that while it was evidently a variety of fine form, and everyway 

 highly promising, no correct estimate of its merit could be formed 

 from late unseasonable blooms, such as the plant now furnished, 



Sonerila margaritacea alba :— The variety so called, of this 

 beautiful dwarf stove plant ; it has the white blotches on the 

 leaves larger and more distinct than in the other forms, all of 

 which are of ornamental character. 



Spigelia senea : — A dwarf stove plant, furnished with broadish 

 ovate acute leaves, of which the veins are bright green, and the 

 rest of the surface of a rich deep brown, giving a bronzy cast to 

 the foliage ; the flowers are small white, trurapet-shaped with 

 a long narrow tube, and are arranged in upright secund spikes, 

 which are freely produced on the dwarf neat-habited plants. 



December 8th. — The Rev, Joshua Dix, in the chair. 

 Some very interesting plants were exhibited on this occasion, 



Calanthe Veitchii {Lindley) :— from Messrs. Veitch & Son, 

 Exeter and Chelsea. This beautiful hybrid production, proved 

 to be the most remarkable and ornamental of the cross-bred 

 plants which have been obtained in this family. It was raised 

 hy Mr. DoMiNT, the foreman at Messrs. Veitcii's Exeter Nursery, 

 from the beautiful rose-coloured Indian Limatodis rosea, fertilised 

 with the crimson-spotted Calanthe vestita. Tlie result of this cross 

 was the production of a plant combining the habit of the Calanthe, 

 with the rich rose-colour of the Limatodis. In the mass exhibited, 

 consisting of several seedling plants, there were to be observed 

 several variations in the intensitvof colouring, and also a diversity 



