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LXI.— REPORTS OF THE FLORAL COMMITTEE. 



{Continued from p. 400.) 



March 12, 1861.— The Rev. Joshua Dix in the Chair. 

 The following donations were announced : — 

 Messrs. Cartek & Co., High Holborn — 5'2 sorts of Annuals, 

 various ; 1^ varieties of Camellia-flowered Balsam, 10 varie- 



Mrs. Hen FEEY— Seeds from Natal. 



Lady MuRCHisoN, F.R.H.S.— Seeds of an Australian plant. 



Messrs. Paekeb & Williams, Hollo way — 5 sorts of Annual 



Flower Seeds. 

 Mr. W. Thompson, Ipswich— 14 sorts of Annual Flower Seeds. 

 Mr. C. Turner, F.R.H.S., Slough— 15 sorts of Annual Flower 



The subjects exhibited on this occasion were as follows :— 

 Agathea coelestis, fol. variegatis :— from Mr. Bull, nursery- 

 man, King's Road, Chelsea. This was a dwarf-habited, and dis- 

 tinctly variegated variety of the well-known Agathea ccelestis, and 

 was adjudged to be a valuable plant for flower-garden beds. Jt 

 was awarded a First-Class Certificate. 



rsecox : — from Mr. J. Davis, LarlcBeld 

 near Liverpool. This was a new hybrid 

 Rhododendron, which had been forwarded for exhibition on 

 February 12th, but had not been delivered in time for the 

 meeting. The plant was stated to be a hybrid, raised from H. 

 atrovirens, crossed with R. ciliatim, and had every appearance 

 of having been obtained in this way. It formed a dwarf erect 

 openly-branched shrub, of a couple of feet in height, with slender 

 twigs leafy at the end. The leaves were small, trom one to 

 nearly two inches long, oblong-oval acute, deep green, rugosely 

 veined, and sparingly ciliated. The flowers grew in small ter- 

 minal heads of two or three together, and were of a light rosy- 



shallow expanded 



