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deep scarlet, with a small lemon-coloured eye, and were produced 

 in close compact trusses. The variety was described as " a good 

 bedding sort, being of close habit, blooming in profusion, pro- 

 ducing moderate-sized foliage, and flowering in small compact 

 trusses almost as round as a ball." It was thought to be probably 

 a good variety for the purpose indicated, but no opinion on this 

 point could be formed from cut specimens, especially at so late 

 a period of the season. 



Gladiolus ; —from Messrs. Youell & Co., Great Yarmouth. 

 Bunches of the flower-spikes of BrencJileyensis, and of a collection 

 of other well-known named varieties, consisting of Prince Alfred, 

 Madame Paillet, Fanny Bouquet, Madame Haywin, Galanthe, 

 Edith, Aristotle, Ophir, Adonis, Penelope, Mazeppa, Hebe, and 

 Imperatrice. 



The following plants and flowers were produced : — 

 Celosia aurea :— from Mr. Tuknee, Slough. This, though 

 not a new plant, is by no means so generally known as it deserves 

 to be. A very finely-grown bush, nearly a yard high, and as 

 much in diameter, laden with golden plumes, was exhibited on 

 this occasion, and was awarded a Special Certificate as an 

 example of good cultivation, very well illustrating the beauty of 

 the plant under proper treatment. It is a common species in 

 India, where it is called Huldee Moonja ; and is an annual, 

 with soft pithy stems of a very pale green, branching freely 

 from the base, and clothed with long elliptic lance-shaped leaves, 

 which are wavy at the margins and attenuated at the point. 

 The branches all terminate in large pyramidal compound heads 

 <^f small coloured bracts, having the appearance of golden 

 plumes. All the divisions of the twice-branched inflorescence 

 are elongated into little tail-like points. A few colourless perfect 



sisting of small narrow golden-yellow pointed bracts, convolutely 

 twisted around the coloured axis. Tbe inflorescence is very 

 durable, continuing in beauty for two or three months, if the 

 plants are kept in a situation where the stems and leaves are 



