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(Continued fr(mi p. 621,) 

 July 9, 1861.— TA^Eev. Joshua Dix, F.RH.S., in the Chair. 



The following presentations were announced : — 

 Mr. G. Claeke, F.R.H.S., 12 plants of Victor Emmanuel, 



scarlet Pelargonium. 

 Mr. Hadley, 3 plants of Tropseolum. 



The plants on this occasion exhibited were as follows :— 



Delphinium alopecuroides :— from Mr. G. Wheeler, War- 

 minster, This was awarded a First-Class Certificate, The 

 specimens shown were scarcely more than two feet in length, and 

 were stated to have been cut within three inches of the ground. 

 The stems were furnished in the lower part with palmatifidly- 

 lobed leaves, having incised segments and a ciliated margin, and 

 they were terminated by a flower spike or raceme slightly branched 

 below, and upwards of a foot in length, densely crowded with 

 small double flowers of a bright blue colour, paler and reddish- 

 tinted towards the centre of the petals. It is a most desirable 

 and very ornamental hardy herbaceous perennial. 



Clarkia pulchella flore-pleno :— from Messrs. Carter & Co , 

 Holborn. This was a handsome variety of the deep rosy colour 

 of the better forms of this well-known species, but having three 

 or four whorls of petals developed, so as to form a tolerably full 

 double flower. It was a very showy plant in its class, and was 

 awarded a First-Class Certificate. 



Verbena Foxlmiiter: — from John Miller, Esq., Upway, 

 Dorchester. A seedling, stated to be of robust habit, of which 

 some cut trusses from an unprotected plant in the open ground 

 were exhibited. The flowers were very large, an inch or more 

 in diameter, of good form, and of a bright rich scarlet, with yellow 

 eye. It was altogether a remarkably brilliant and attractive kind, 

 and was awarded a First-Class Certificate, 



Hypolepis distans: — from Mr. W. Dean, Bradford. This 

 was Commended as an elegant green-house basket Fern. It was 

 furnished with a free growing creeping rhizome, and smooth 

 slender ovate-lanceolate bipinnate fronds, attaining a foot or a foot 



