574 REPORTS OF THE FLORAL COMMITTEE, 



The following were the subjects of e: 



Pimelea elegans : — from Messrs. Vettch & Son, Exeter and 

 Chelsea. An elegant greenhouse evergreen shrub, with opposite 

 rather large ovate-lanceolate leaves, and globular heads of white 

 flowers, which were ornamented by projecting conspicuous orange- 

 coloured anthers. It was awarded a First-Class Certificate. 



Petunia inimitabilis fl. pleno : — from Messrs. Vbitch. Tliis 

 was a continental variety, imported last season, and now for the 

 first time exhibited in bloom. The habit was dwarf and bushy, the 

 foliage neat, and the flowers large, double, sweet-scented, purple, 

 variously blotched aud marked with white. The variety was one 

 of a very ornamental character, and being a valuable decorative 

 plant, it was awarded a First-Class Certificate. 



Cineraria rosea plena :— from Mr. A. Kendall, florist. Stoke 

 Newingtou. This was one of tlie Tom Thumb varieties hereafter 

 mentioned. Its flower-heads were small, of the bright rosy 

 crimson common among Cinerarias, many of them full-double, 

 the disk florets having assumed the ligulate form ; others semi- 

 double from the florets being partially changed. It was Com- 

 :\rENDED, as an advance towards a class of double-flowered varieties, 

 and as being an elegant decorative plant, especially adapted for 

 the ornamentation of small flower vases, and for other similar 

 objects. Mr. Kendall stated that it had been obtained from a 

 semi-double one raised last year, and that he had succeeded in 

 rearing from the same parent another plant, now out of blossom, 

 in which every flower-head was perfectly double. 



Pelargonium Mrs. Ponsonby Moore:— from Messrs. Veitch. 

 This dwarf-habited free-flowering variety was Commended as an 

 attractive decorative variety. The blossoms were abundantly 

 produced, rather small, of a bright lively rose-crimson colour, 

 with very dark blotches on each petal, those of the two upper ones 

 being largest. It was exhibited as a hybrid bedding variety, in 

 which capacity the Committee could not form any opinion as to 

 its merits, but it was regarded as at least a very useful decorative 

 pot plant. 



The remaining exhibitions consisted of the following subjects :— 



Pansies :— from Messrs Downie, Laird, & Laing, Edinburgh 

 and Sydenham. A collection of cut blooms of 30 varieties, for 

 which a Special Certificate was awarded. 



Mew Conifers :— -from Messrs. Veitch. Young seedlings of the 

 following species introduced from Japan by Mr. J. G. Veitch 



