Two or three exhibitions of Moss Eosea were contributed, but they were 



not good. The best among them are stUl the Crested and Common class. 



Class XIV. 18 Tea-Scented Roses ; Single Trusses. (0»ct.) 



No Award given. 



Class XV, Decorated Basket or Vase of Roses. (O/jm.) 



No Competition. 



Class XVI. Miscellaneous. — Of roses in small pots Mr. Turner 



showed an attractive collection, to which an award was made. 



In addition to the disijlay of Roses, which formed the leading 

 feature of the exhibition, there were several groups of ornamental- 

 leaved and gay-flowered plants which gave interest and variety 

 to the scene. These were contributed by some of the leading 

 nurserymen and florists, to whom the thanks of the Society 



The largest contributors of the miscellaneous groups now 

 referred to were Messrs, Veitch & Son, of Chelsea and Exeter, 

 by whom the central stage in the conservatory was filled with a 

 very tastefully arranged collection of decorative-leaved plants, 

 which were prettily edged with a close line of the deep blue 

 Lobelia Erinus speciosa. The group consisted of Palms ; Cordy- 

 lines and Dracaenas, including the fine C. indivisa and C. Banksii 

 ei-ythrorachis ; Alocasia metallica, Caladimn Chantinii, and other 

 handsome araceous plants ; with Araucarias, Variegated Begonias, 

 AniBctochili, &c., a few Gloxinias, and a vase filled with the pretty 

 new dwarf Stenogaster conclnna, which had obtained a medal at 

 the June exhibition. Most of these plants, and of those forming 

 another group from the same establishment, were set up in 

 ornamented terra-cotta stands, or in handsome bowls and vases 

 of rare china. The latter group contained, besides the new 

 2Iaranta ornata, very fair specimens of M. vittata and Caladium 

 Wightii; a young Cyanophyllum 7nagnificum, one of the finest 

 plants of Pteris tricolor which have been yet exhibited ; several 

 plants of the handsome double-flowered Petunia called inimita- 

 hilis jiore-pleno ; a very pretty species of Primula, and a showy 

 dwarf Calandrinia, resembling umhellata : both the latter from 

 South Chili, and both commended by the Floral Committee 

 at its meeting on the 0th inst. There were with the foregoing 

 several other miscellaneous ornamental plants. Messrs. Veitcu 

 also contributed three Wardian cases very tastefully filled with 

 living plants. 



Another group came from Messrs. Henderson & Co., Pine- 

 Apple Place. This consisted of fine-foliaged plants, and included 

 a good example of the purple-leaved Japanese Maple, Acer 



