268 EEPOETS OP THE FLORAL COMMITTEE, 



Verbena Pink Perfection :— from Mr. G. Smith. A showy 

 variety, with large trusses of flowers of a bright lively pink 

 colour, marked round the eye with rosy-scarlet. It was Com- 

 mended as a desirable addition to the varieties of this colour, and 

 likely to be useful both for exhibition purposes and for borders. 



Picotee ftueen of Picotees :— from Mr. Keynes, Salisbury. 

 A large well-formed flower, with a very faint edge of light rose or 

 pink, in the way of Mrs. Barnard, on which it was stated to be an 

 improvement. It was Commended. 



Picotee Conntess of Derby :— from Mr. Kevnes. A novel 

 variety of the mottled-purple fancy class, the surface pounced 

 over with rosy-purple, and having a few bars or streaks of the 

 same colour. The flowers were large and full, and it was Com- 

 mended as a useful decorative plant, and a flue pot variety. 



Picotee Favorita .-—from Mr. Tuknee. A bold, heavy, red- 

 edged flower, showy but somewhat rough. It was Commended 

 for its colour. 



Picotee (yelloiv) Empress of Indi,^ :— from Mr. Bragg. A 

 neat sulphur-yellow variety, with light edge of deep red. Com- 

 mended as a good variety in this class. 



Picotee {yellow) Garibaldi :— from Mr. Bragg. This which 

 was a yellow-ground flower, heavily edged with dull dark-red, was 

 Commended. Mr. Bragg exhibited several other varieties of 

 this class, which were considered desirable for general cultivation 

 on account of the vigorous constitution they possessed. They 

 were of different shades of yellow, variously edged with red. 



Besides the foregoing there were exhibited :— 

 Fuclisias :— from Mr. G. Smith : Novelty, a free-blooming 

 variety, with red sepals and purple corolla, striped in the way of 

 Lord Cbjde.—From Mr. J. Roberts, gardener to the Earl of 

 Charleville, Tullamore, Ireland: Captain Alfred Bury, a 

 double-flowered variety, inferior to Sir Colin Campbell. — From 

 Messrs. Hates, Edmonton : Magnnm Bonum and Pagoda, two 

 large-flowered red and purple varieties. 



Carnations :— from Mr. Mooslet, Kennington : Isabella, a 

 prettily marked rose flake. Annie, a scarlet flake.— From Mr. 

 Keynes : Conqueror, a crimson bizarre. Peter Young, a fine 

 deep-coloured purple flake ; and Poor Sam, a very fine ro e flake, 

 with broad petals, one of the best-coloured flowers in its class : 

 these were severally pronounced to be varieties of evident merit, 

 but no award could be made as only one bloom of each 



