ground, this was said to appear to be the most hardy, not a leaf 

 having been injured, It bore a profusion of small bright rosy- 

 purple flowers, about 1^ inch in expansion and the same in length, 

 of firm substance, with rounded lobes ; and these, though small, 

 were of good form, and very attractive in appearence. It is a fine 

 addition to hardy flowering shrubs, in which character of hardi- 



-from Mr. Standish. A fine variety 

 of the catawbiense section, having large elliptic oblong-acute 

 leaves, and bold trusses of numerous large flowers, the segments 

 of which were even, roundish in outline, blush-white, stained on 

 the upper segment with a bold and very effective olive-tinted 

 yellow blotch. The plant was stated to have been taken from the 

 open ground. It was Commended. 



Aquilegia vulgaris, var. caryophylloides : — from Messrs. 

 Carter & Co., Holborn. This was a very pretty double-flowered 

 variety of the common Columbine ; the flowers were white, 

 variously striped with reddish-crimson, and here and there with 

 reddish purple, producing an effective variegation. It was stated to 

 have been selected out of a bed of mixed colours, and to have 

 been proved to come true from seed. It was also stated to be 

 quite distinct in the seed, which is of a light green, instead of 

 being black as is usually the case. The variety was considered 

 distinct and handsome, and was Gommekded. 



Besides these, the following subjects were examined : — 

 Laxton's Hybrid Dia^thus :— from Mr. T. Laxton, Stamford, 

 This was stated to have been raised by crossing the double 

 Chinese Pink with the Sweet William. "It partakes of the 

 character of the former in its period of blooming, and in the size 

 and markings of the blooms, and resembles the latter in its 

 foliage and style of growth. Its dowers are produced the first 

 year from seed ; it is as hardy and enduring as its parents, and 

 is produced freely from seeds or from cuttings, but does not always 

 come true from seeds." The plant, as shown from the open ground, 

 was dwarfish, with openly-branched erect flower-stems, not yet in 

 bloom. In a pot and forwarded in a greenhouse it was about 

 2 feet high, erect, branched repeatedly, the ultimate branches 

 producing solitary flowers. The flowers were about li inch in 

 expansion; and in the plants exhibited were of a deep crimson 

 or rich rose-purple, deeper coloured towards the eye. It was 



