MARCH 8, 



was awarded a First-Class Certificate of Merit, on account 

 of its general good properties. The florets were broad, flat, and 

 well-formed, rosy-purple, white at the base, so as to form a dis- 

 tinct broadish white ring or zone around the well-proportioned 

 dark gray disc or centre. 



Cineraria Handel :— from Mr. Turner. This was a rich bright 

 purple-crimson self, with fine broad smooth florets, and a dwarf 

 but vigorous and free-blooming habit. It was Commended on 

 account of its fine colour. 



Cineraria Amazon :— from Messrs. F. & A. Smith, Dulwich. 

 This was Commended as a useful and attractive variety, of vigorous 

 habit, and adapted for decorative purposes ; the flower-heads were 

 large, the florets deep rosy-purple, with a clear white base, and a 

 dark disc of medium size. 



The following subjects were also produced : — 

 Violet, Harmau's Neapolitan:— from Mr. E. Harman, Den- 

 ham, near Uxbridge. This was exhibited as a large-flowered 

 variety, but was not shown in a condition superior to well-grown 

 examples of the old Neapolitan Violet. 



Azalea, Sir J. Outram :— from Mr, Turner. A small plant, 

 with the flowers hardly in a perfect condition, but remarkable for 

 their fine colour, a rich bright carmine-red, thickly spotted on the 

 upper segment. 



Azalea, a new white variety, shown without name ::— from 

 M. Margottin, nurseryman, Bourg la Reine, Paris. The flowers 

 were of tolerable form, but inferior to other white varieties. 



Camellia, Madame Langelier :— from Messrs. J. & C. Lee, 

 nurserymen, Hammersmith. A variety of fine habit, free-bloom- 

 ing, and producing large blossoms, which, however, in the rather 

 over-blown floWer exhibited were not considered perfect in form, 

 nor sufficiently attractive in colour ; the flower was upwards of 

 four inches in diameter, full, the petals imbricated and reflexed, 

 of a de«p pink or pale rose-colour. 



Epacris, Queen Victoria :— from Messrs. Veitch & Son. A 

 good white variety, but the plant exhibited was rather past its best, 

 and this, together with the protrusion of the dark anthers produced 

 an apparent want of purity as a white flower ; the flowers were 

 campanulate, and the habit in every way desirable, being densely 

 branched, and freely producing the short close spikes of flowers. 



Cinerarias :— from Mr. Turner : Inrline, a fine bold flower, 

 rosy purple, the centre or disc dark gray, and surrounded by a 

 narrow ring of white ; the disc was well-proportioned, and the 



