FLOKAL COMMITT 



— From Mr. Keynes : Fancy ftueen, a light purple, striped 

 with maroon, and faintly tipped with white. — From Mr. DoDDs : 

 Mary Lander, white suffused witli purple, and striped and 

 flecked with crimson-purple. Mrs. Doads, a single flower, of the 

 variety recorded at p. 272.— From Mr. G. Raw'lings: Juno, Peri, 

 Miss Jones, and Joy, all described at p. 274. The latter, a very 

 pretty flower, of neat outline, still retained the showy and 

 attractive character for "which it had been previously com- 

 mended.— From Mr. T. GooDWLx, Hoklgate, York : Constance, 

 salmony-bufF; Eiflsman, shaded red ; St. Albans, rose-colour ; 

 all flowers of average properties. 



Kose John Hopper : — from Mr. 11. Waed, the Eosery, 

 Ipswich. A seedling hybrid perpetual raised from Madame 

 Vidot, crossed by Jules Margottin. It was stated to have flowered 

 for the first time last June, and that it continued to produce its 

 flowers abundantly, blooming from every little shoot, though not 

 so perfect as in the earlier part of the season. It was also de- 

 scribed as a variety of vigorous habit suitable for pillars, and to 

 bear dark green foliage and large full double flowers. Those 

 exhibited were of medium size, of good form, and of a vivid rosy- 

 carmine. It was regarded as a very promising flower, which 

 should be grown and exhibited again at a more favourable 



Fuchsias:— from Messrs. F. & A. Smith, Dulwich. Grandis, 

 Striata, Splendens, and Gem, all red-flowered varieties. 



Horse-shoe Pelargoniums :— from Messrs. F. & A.Smith: 

 Rosalind, a dark horse-shoe leaved sort, with flowers of a cerise- 

 scarlet, in small trusses. Meteor, a vigorous-habited dark 

 horse-shoe leaved variety, the flowers scarlet with a white eye, 

 in branching trusses. — From Messrs. E. G. Henderson & Sox, 

 St. John's Wood : Henri de Beaudot, a variety with distinctly 

 marked foliage, and whitish flowers, having a deep salmon-coloui'ed 

 centre, and forming a very pretty kind for pot culture. 



Balsams :— from Messrs. F. & A. Smith. A collection of 

 twelve small but neatly grown plants of various colours, princi- 

 pally scarlet. 



Verbena Standard of England:— from Mr. Stanley, Lee. 

 A large-flowered purple, of indifferent form, marked around the 

 eye with a white ring, which disappears in the older flowers. 



Bouvardia Hogarth ;— from Messrs. E, G. Henderson & 

 Son. This is one of a series of very handsome hybrid sorts, bred 



