168 REPORTS OP THE FLORAL COMMITTEE. 



florets smooth and well-formed. Vincent Wallace, a good, dark 

 rose-purple self-coloured variety, of dwarf and free blooming habit. 

 Godfrey, another rose-purple self, -with a grayish-purple disc. 

 MademoiseUe Parepa, a dark rose-purple, having a dark disc 

 surrounded by a white ring, showy, but the florets somewhat 

 notched.— From Messrs. F. & A. Smith : Eosy Morn, lilac 

 purple, with white ring and gray disc. Gem, deep rose-purple, 

 with narrow white ring aromid the gray disc, the florets reflexing 

 and becoming open and starry in age. Mammoth, large flowers, 

 deep rosy-purple, the lower half of the florets white, forming a 

 broad ring around the dark disc: these three were showy varieties 

 for decoration. Blue Bonnet, deep blue, whitish towards the disc. 

 Sultana, dark purple having a crimson shade, white next the disc. 

 Duchess of Sutherland, large, white, tipped with rose-purple. 



From Messrs. E. G. Henderson & Son, of St. John's Wood :— 



Gardenia citriodora: one of the most useful of recently-intro- 

 duced winter-flowering stove shrubs. The plants form dwarf 

 evergreen bushes, and are loaded with white blossoms in clusters 

 from the axils of the leaves ; the flowers have the fragrance of 

 orange-blossoms, for which they form admirable substitutes. 



Cyclamen persicum : a collection of twelve varieties of these 

 beautiful spring-flowering greenhouse perennials. These were pro- 

 duced for the purpose of showing the interesting variations in 

 colour to be obtained from seed, and the improvement to be efi'ected 

 in this way in the form of the flowers. Amongst those exhi- 

 bited, the most remarkable for merit in this respect were;— 

 porpureum, fine deep lilac-rose or rose-purple, with- broad obtuse 

 segments; grandifloram, fine blush white, with broad obtuse 

 segments, and rich crimson markuigs at the base; rubrum 

 coccmeum, fine bright rose-colour, with crimson markings; 

 marginatum purpureum, whitish, with broad obtuse segments, 

 tipped with blush, the base marked with purple. 



Hebecllniumaurantiacum: this plant produces zinnia-like 

 flowers of a rich clear vermilion orange, and when in blossom is 

 peculiarly attractive ; it proves very useful as a winter bloomer, 

 and the flowers, being long-stalked and of a striking colour, are 

 at that season especially valuable in bouquets. It has the demerit 

 of being of rather loose straggling habit. 



Camellia Mammoth: a fine showy variety, of American origin ; 

 flowers very large, with two or three series of remarkably broad, 

 smooth, deep crimson petals, sparingly blotched with white, and 

 having a close anemone-formed centre. 



