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Williams, Hollo way. . A dwarf- habited, free-growing variety, 

 with flattish leaves, broadly margined with creamy white, and 

 producing bright scarlet flowers. It was Commended for its 

 excellent habit, combined with other good properties. 



Pelargonium {stveet-scented) Madame Csillag :— from Mr. 

 Bragg, Slough. A small-growing variety in the way of Delica- 

 turn, of neat habit, and flowering freely. The small leaves are 

 shallowly three-lobed, and faintly lemon-scented ; the flowers 

 small, rosy-lilac, having on the upper petals a small spot of 

 white, and another of deep rose close above the pencilled lines. 

 It was Commended. 



Other flowers exhibited in this class were : — 



Fuchsias :— from E. Banks, Esq. : lord John Russell, a short, 

 broad-sepaled, red and violet variety, with a large expanded 

 corolla ; Prince Arthur, similar to the last, but larger in the 

 sepals : these were both showy well-proportioned flowers, and, 

 like all Mr. Banks's varieties, had the base of the petals streaked 

 with red. Ccerulea, red and violet, smaller than the foregoing. 

 Frank Vine, a free-blooming variety, having the corolla of the 

 same novel reddish slate-colour as Garibaldi, but less expanded ; 

 the flowers were, however, of finer texture. Constance Banks, 

 white, with rose-coloured corolla. Purity, white, with purplish 

 rose corolla. Snowdrop, a short swollen-tubed white, with rosy- 

 lilac corolla. 



Sweet Williams :— from Mr. Bragg. A selection of 36 of 

 those known as Mr. Hunt's or the High Wycombe varieties, 

 v?hich are remarkable for the smoothness of their flowers and 

 their finely contrasted colours. 



"Variegated Pelargoniums : — from Mr. Barter, gardener to 

 T. J. Lenox, Esq., Hammersmith : Morning Star and Pearl, 

 two silver-variegated kinds ; and Cloth of Gold, a flat-leaved 

 sort, with broad golden edge : all seedlings of 1860. 



Fancy Pelargoniums :— from Mr. Gell, gardener to the Eakl 

 OP Yarborough, Ventnor : Countess of Yarborough, and Lady 

 Sophia Pelham, both inferior varieties. 



Pelargonium [zonale] Princess of Prussia : — from Mrs. 

 Conway, Earl's Court. This was again exhibited, and confirmed 

 the judgment passed at the former meeting. It is a fine light 

 scarlet of the Compactum habit, with large well-developed flower- 

 heads, and will form a very useful decorative plant, especially for 



