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awarded a Piest-Class Certificate as a valuable decorative 

 plant. It exhibited the same dwarf habit as on the previous 

 occasion, as well as the same freeness in producing its flowers, a 

 truss being developed with almost every leaf; the flowers were a 

 bright salmon colour, large for the size of the plant, of good shape, 

 and forming tolerable trusses ; the leaves marked with a broad 

 zone of dark brown within a narrow even edge of green. 



Auricula Volunteer :— from Mr. Turner, of Slough. This 

 was a variety of vigorous growth, and bore fine trusses of 

 deep mulberry-purple self-coloured flowers, which were large, 

 bold, and flat, with a pure even and well-proportioned ' paste.' 

 It was awarded a First Class Certificate. 



Tydaea formosa :— from Messrs. Parker & Williams, of 

 HoUoway. This was Commended as a handsome and improved 

 variety. It was stated to have been the result of a cross between 

 the varieties named Princess Charlotte and Leopard, and was 

 free-flowering and comparatively dwarf in habit, as well as an 

 almost continuous bloomer : the plant exhibited having been, it 

 was stated, in a blooming state since last October. The leaves 

 were ovate, moderate sized, hairy. The flower tubes were about 

 an inch and a half long, very villous, ventricose below, crimson- 

 scarlet, while the limb nearly as much in diameter, was deep 

 lake or purplish-rose, elegantly and evenly spotted with crimson ; 

 several flowers were produced from the axils of each leaf, the 

 pedicels becoming branched once or twice, and flowering in Sue- 

 Cineraria Duke of Cambridge :~from Mr. Turner. A dwarf 

 free, compact-blooming, ■ rich self-coloured variety, the flower- 

 heads of a deep bright purplish-crimson, of moderate size, the 

 florets being broad and even. Commended as a useful addition 

 to the class of crimson selfs. 



Cineraria Constancy:— from Mr. Turner. An elegant and 

 showy variety, of diffuse branching habit, forming a spreading 

 open mass of large, high-coloured, attractive flower-heads, the 

 florets of which were deep rosy-purple in the upper half, the 

 lower part white, forming a broad zone around the purple disc. 

 Commended as an effective kind for decorative purposes. 



Variegated Pelargoniums : —from Messrs. E. G. Hendersok 

 & SoN,*of St. John's Wood. This was an interesting collection 

 consisting of small plants of 10 silver and gold-edged, and 3 

 horse-shoe-leaved sorts ; and a Special Certificate was given 

 to them. The collection comprised :— Sunset, a new kind, with 



