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unaffected by cold moisture. It is, under good cultivation, an 

 invaluable plant for autumnal decorative uses. 



Chrysanthemum Lady Hardinge :— from Mr. Salter, Ver- 

 sailles Nursery, Hammersmith. This was a tall-growing large- 

 ilowered variety, of excellent properties, the flowers on the not 

 specially cultivated seedling plant being about three inches across, 

 almost globular from the high crown of close incurved florets. 

 The colour was a light rose, paler at the back of the florets, and 

 in the younger stage somewhat yellowish at the tips. It was 

 considered worthy a First-Class Certificate, being a useful 

 acquisition among show flowers. This and the other varieties 

 exhibited by Mr. Salter, were seedlings of 1859. 



Chrysanthemum Little Harry:— from Mr. Salter. This, 

 which was one of the large-flowered section, was remarliable for its 

 dwarfish and free-blooming character, for which properties it was 

 CoiiMENDED. The flowers were of a shaded orange-yellow, deeper 

 at the centre, rather flat in form, but they were not fully opened. 

 It was, however, very showy, and from its excellent habit, hkely to 

 prove a useful decorative sort. 



Statice profusa :— from Messrs. Parker & Williams, Hol- 

 loway. This »ew form of Statice was stated to be a hybrid raised 

 between S. Holfordi and S. puherula. It is in habit intermediate 

 between the parents, subshrubby, furnished with longish moderate- 

 sized spatulate leaves, and numerous branched flower-stems, 

 which bear an abundance of flowers much like those of the allied 

 kinds, the calyx being of a bluish purple, and the corolla white. 

 The merit of this new kind consists in its moderate growth, 

 and its quality of continuous blooming, the established plants 

 producing a constant succession of flower-stems, and the young 

 plants flowering Avhen of very smaU size. It was stated that the 

 specimens exhibited, which were large masses nearly two feet high 

 and wide, had not been out of flower for the last fifteen mouths. 

 It was Commended as a useful greenhouse plant of a very 

 interesting family, the award being specially made on the ground 

 of its perpetual blooming habit. 



The remaining exhibitions were as follows : 



Taxus baccata, var. erecta :— from Mr. Rivers, Sawbridge- 

 worth. This was a variety obtained on the Continent a few 

 years since under the above name, which has been also given to 

 a variety said to be a seedling, exhibited in September last by 



