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Chrysanthemum regale : —from Mr. Newton, gardener to the 

 Lord Chief Baron Pollock, F.R.H.S., Hounslow. A dwarf bushy- 

 habited free-flowering plant, with finely cut leaves, and double 

 creamy-white flower heads, two inches across. It is a half-hardy 

 plant, resembling, except in dwarfishness, the double varieties of 

 C. coronarium, and is much cultivated on the Continent ; it was 

 also stated to be an excellent plant for town gardens, or for 

 window cultivation. 



Tydsea insignis:— from Mr. Williams, Paradise Nursery, 

 Hollo way. A free-flowering and showy variety, with large-sized 

 and richly coloured blossoms, of which the tube was orange- 

 scarlet and hairy, and the limb deep crimson, marked with dark 

 bars and spots arranged in radiating lines. The leaves were 

 green, ovate, acuminated, and serrated. It was stated to be an 

 almost perpetual bloomer. The Committee requested that it 

 might be sent to a subsequent meeting, along with some of the 

 other crimson-flowered sorts, for comparison. 



Rhododendrons :— from Mr. Standish, Bagshot: Countess 

 de Morella, a variety with large compact trusses of a lovely soft 

 rose-colour, of the most delicate hue, the flowers having wavy 

 edges ; The Saxon, rich carmine, in compact trusses of mode- 

 rate size. These were both hardy hybrids, and exceedingly fine 

 varieties, but in the absence of others for comparison, no opinion 

 could be formed as to their being suflBciently distinct to merit an 



Gloxinias .-—from Messrs, Milxe & Co., Vauxball ; General 

 Garibaldi and Mestonii, two fine erect-flowered varieties, with 

 white tube and violet-purple throat, the latter having the purple 

 rather more extended over the limb, and being the finer as to 

 form ; also, Lady Willoughby and Countess of Derby, two 

 erect-flowered kinds, with white tube and rosy-carmine throat; 

 both large-flowered and handsome, but the latter the more 

 coloured of the two and better shaped, the spreading lobes being 

 nearly parallel at the edges. They were all excellent varieties, 

 and very handsome, but presenting no feature of novelty. — From 

 Mr. Gates, F.R.H.S., gardener to LordLKicH, Stoneleigh Abbey, 

 Kenil worth : Princess Beatrice, a white erect-flowered sort, 

 'with red throat, and of inferior quality. 



Campy lobotrys pyrophylla : — from Messrs. Veitch & Son. 

 A stove perennial, recently introduced by Mr. Linden. It has 

 reddish olive-tinted leaves, clothed with red hairs; they are 

 oblong-obovate in form, of moderate size, and narrowing to the 



