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Saponaria calabrica var. roseo-alba :— from Messrs. Caktek 

 & Co., Holborn, A free-flowering variety, with blush-white 

 flowers, and forming a pretty contrast with the deep rose variety 

 for rock-work or the flower-border. It was now shown in a better 

 condition than at the last meeting, and was Commended as being 

 useful for the above-named object. 



Calendula ofBcinalls fl.-pleno: — from Mr. J. B. Whiting, 

 the Deepdene, Dorking. This was a remarkably fine strain of 

 the Common Pot Marigold, with rich orange-coloured flower- 

 heads of large size, and so full of ligulate florets, as to leave 

 little or no disk. They were exceedingly showy and well adapted 

 for the flower garden, on which account they were Commended. 



Besides the above there were submitted for opinion : — 

 Hunnemania fumariaBfolia :— from Messrs. Carter & Co. 

 A fine half-hardy perennial, allied to Eschscholtzia, having similar 

 fiuely-cut foliage, and producing bright yellow poppy-like flowers. 

 It is a desirable plant, with the general habit of Eschscholtzia, 

 and adapted for similar purposes ; but though introduced long 



(Enothera Drammondii nana albida :— from LI essrs. Carter 

 & Co. This plant had downy lyrately pinnatifid leaves, and 

 large sulphur-yellow flowers, in which the edges of the petals were 

 paler than the other parts. 



Achimenes Deanii :— from Mr. W. Dean, Bradford, Shipley, 

 Yorkshire. A robust but compact-habited and free-blooming 

 variety, with well-formed purple flowers, resembling Chelsoni in 

 colour. The leaves were broadly oval, sharply toothed, deep green, 

 red behind, and the flowers were of average size, reddish-purple, 

 paler and speckled at the throat. Though a good and useful kind, 



different from others in cultivation. It appears to resemble 

 most closely the variety called Boothii, but is rather lighter- 

 coloured and somewhat more spotted in the throat. 



NemopMlaatomaria, var. oculata :~from Mr. W. Thompson, 

 Ipswich. A very pretty variety of Nemophila, in whicli the 

 flowers, of a greyish- blue, with a black spot at the base of each 

 petal, resembled a good deal those of Roella ciliata. Mr. 

 Thompson stated that this new variety, raised by Sir. BuRniDGR 

 of Colchester, had been produced from the plant known as N. ato- 

 viaria ccelestis, a pale blue spotted-flowered variety, with which it 

 agrees in everything but the well-defined black markings of the 



