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of free, elegant habit with long spreading bright-red sepals, and 

 a double white corolla, marked with red streaks at the base. 

 Though an elegant variety, it was not thought superior to other 

 double-flowered varieties with white corollas already in culti- 



Verbena Fireball: — from Mr, Eckfoed. This was appa- 

 rently a fine-habited variety, and bore good trusses of bright 

 scarlet flowers. 



Pelargonium (zonale) :— from Mr. Stkvenson, gardener at 

 Lambtou Castle. This was an unnamed seedhng, of which cut 

 blooms only were shown. It was in the way of Paul Labbe, and 

 was not thought equal to that variety ; the truss was, however, 

 good. 



Nemophila discoidalis marginata alba: — from Mr. Mel- 

 ville, gardener at Dalmeny Park. In this variety the black 

 centre of the flowers was broadly and distinctly edged with white, ' 

 forming a pretty contrast ; but the flowers were, as in the parent, 

 rather too small in size to be effective. 



Tropaeolums : — from Mr. Melville : Perfection, a deep 

 crimson showy variety ; Splendens, a paler bright orange-crimson. 

 They were both stated to be short-jointed moderate growers, fit 

 either for a bed when pegged down, or for training to a rafter. 

 The former variety had richly-coloured flowers, but no opinion as 

 to the usefulness of the varieties could be formed from cut blooms. 



Pelargoniums :— from Mr. Berry, gardener to T. J. Agar 

 RoBARTS, Esq., Lanhydrock, Bodmin. These were cut blooms 

 of several unnamed seedlings of 1860, all of them very inferior 

 to the kinds now usually grown. 



Gloxinias. — A collection of these plants was sent from the 

 Garden for the decoration of the Council room. 



June 2 5f A.— John Jacki 



, Begonias, and Pelar- 

 goniums sent from the Garden for the decoration of the Council 

 room, the following subjects were brought under examination : — 

 Dracaena ferrea variegata :— from the Garden of the Society. 

 This had, at first sight, the appearance of D. terminalis, being, 

 like it, variegated with a bright rosy red ; but differed in having 

 broader and stifFer leaves, in fact resembling D. ferrea in all but 

 the rich colouring of its foliage. It was presented to the Garden 



