with appressed hairs. The flowers were comparatively large, onm 

 yellow, with the keel brownish-red. It is individually a hanclso 

 plant, but in general character much like other species aires 

 in cultivation. 



Erica Imperatrix :— from Messrs. Veitch & Son, Exeter £ 

 Chelsea. This was one of the late Mr. Story's seedlings, 

 was of the aristata class, and had large flesh-coloured flow 

 deeply coloured at the throat, the limb segments' large blu 





pale in colour to be effective, the pallid 



colour, however, yielding variety in a collectic__. 



Variegated Begonias : — from Mr. Veitch : Schiileri, a 

 silvery-leaved sort, of dwarf habit, the leaves having a small 

 central green star, and a narrow speckled green edge. Its recom- 

 mendation is the small size to which it grows. — From Mr, Bull : 

 Count Alfred de Limminghe, a distinct and handsome variety, 

 having the olive-green ground colour of the centre and margin 

 almost covered with crowded uniform silvery dots, the rest of the 

 surface forming a clear silvery zone. Madame Guntzberger, small 

 and distinct, with angular-lobed olive-green leaves, dotted all over 

 with spots of white. Charles Enke, pretty with somewhat angular- 

 toothed leaves, dark purplish-red in the centre, and having a narrow 

 edge of the same colour, with a broad intervening space of bright 

 green, marked with numerous distinct silvery dots. Enchess de 

 Brabant, with leaves having a dark brownish centre, surrounded 

 by a broken silvery zone, exterior to which is a green zone, and 

 a brownish edge. Funckii, small, in the way of amabiUs, olive- 

 green, with creamy zone, and angular-toothed olive edge. Mine 

 d' Argent, apparently small-growing, almost wholly silvered, red 

 beneath. Madame TMbaut, large, with brown central ray and 

 edge, the rest green blotched with silvery patches, so as to become 

 almost vittate. Princess Charlotte, in tlie way of Marshallii. 

 Fortnnei, with the centre brownish-red running out along the 

 veins, the same colour forming a narrow even edge, the rest of 

 the surface of a soft velvety-looking green, no white. 



Azaleas :— from Mr. Green, F.R.H.S., gardener to Sir E. 

 Antkobus, Bart., F.R.H.S., Cheam : Magenta, rose colour, 

 without spots, the segments wavy. Gertrnde Elliot, salmon-icd 

 without spots, and wavy. 



Of Florists' flowers, the exhibitions were :— 



Pelargonitim, Herald of Spring :— from Mr. TunNEn, A 



