29S KEPOETS OP THE FEUIT COMMITTEE, 



Skimmia japonica :— from Mr. C. Noble, Bagshot. A fine 

 group of young plants of this very ornamental, hardy, evergreen 

 siirub, loaded with coral-coloured berries. 



Cotoneaster Symondsii :— from Mr. Stan dish, Bagshot. A 

 very elegant and little known hardy evergreen shrub, of erect 

 habit, furnished with elliptic leaves, larger than, but resembling, 

 those of huxifolia. The plants, at this season of the year, are 

 loaded with large orange-scarlet berries, which render them ex- 

 ceedingly ornamental. 



New Zealand Ferns :_from Messrs. J. & C Lee, Hammer- 

 smith. A group containing several interesting forms of hardy 

 greenhouse Ferns, among which young undeveloped plants of 

 Pohjitichum vestitum, var. venustum, were particularly elegant. 



Calceolaria, augustifolia globosa -.—from Mr. Buhley, nur- 

 seryman, Limpsfield. This was a variety of dwarf, bushy habit, 

 and a free-flowerer : the flowers with a large, inflated lower lip, 

 nearly globose, pale yellow. The plants were much injured by 

 carriage, and it was recommended that they should be shown 



Variegated Plants:— from Mr. Salter. These consisted of 

 Garanium macrorrhizan, fol. var., in which the variegations 

 were yellowish; Fuchsia corymbiflora, fol. var., with whitish 

 markings; Veronica Chamsedrys, fol. var,, pulcherrima, prettily 

 silver-variegated ; and Apium graveolans, fol. var., a variegated 

 dwarf kind of Celery. 



Chrysanthemums :— from Mr. Salter : Rifleman, a large 

 flowered chestnut-red, the flower-heads thin and flat. Jessie, a 



XLVIII. EEPOETS OF THE FEUIT COM- 

 MITTEE. 



{Continued from p. 283.) 

 September 20, 1860. Mr. C. Edmonds, F.H.S., in the Chair 

 ^ The Committee on this occasion met at the Garden 



Chiswick, and proceeded to examine such of the Grapes in t! 



Inm-e ^'"^.'•^/^Y^'®^®. *" ^ "P® condition. The following we 



BlussardKoir:-This grape was found to b« mn.h mnr*, n, 



this season than last, almost 



every lateral producing 



