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compact, free-flowering habit, suitable either for beds, or for 

 ^bbons, or for patches in the borders ; and being also equally well 

 suited for pot-culture as "window plants, or for the greenhouse. 

 \ Various other Tropaeolums were sown, but tliey were not con- 

 stant like the foregoing. Solfenao ^niMagehta from M. Vilmorin, 

 the former a yellow with deep crimson spots, and the latter a 

 bright scarlet, both runners, were among the best. Brilliant 



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also yielded one or two fine scarlets, but of coarse habit. 



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Viola tricolor maxima nigra . ' . . Van Houtte. 



An annual form of Pansy, with small dark maroon-purple flowei's, 

 totally eclipsed by tho varieties of this flower in common culti- 

 vation in this country. - 



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Zinnia anrea. * . 



Stn : Zinnia nova . . . / , Thompson. 

 . Sanvitalta sp» Mexico . . • Haage. 



Though but a few plants 8f this were reared, it promised to 

 become a pretty, and was certainly a distinct, annual for border 

 cultivation. The plants formed a spreading branching tuft about 

 a foot high ; the opposite hairy leaves were sessile, ovate-lanceolate, 

 or ovate, with the points lengthened out. The flower-heads were 

 tei'minal on the branches, the ray spreading out so as to measure 

 about an inch and a half across, and formed of a single row of 

 short broad crowded obovate florets of a rich orange-yellow, the 

 dark orange-coloured disk being moderately prominent. It did 

 not come into flower till late in the season. 



Zinnia elegans flore-pleno . . , Carter & Co. 



The plants of this desirable novelty, grown at Chiswick, proved 

 to have for the most part rosy-violet coloured flower-heads, com- 

 paratively few of which were double, the bulk of the plants 

 yielding only semi-double heads. When in its best state, it was 

 in every way deserving of recommendation. 



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VIII. REPOETS OF THE FLOEAL COMMITTEE. 



{Contimed from Vol /., p. 722.) 



Iremnher 10, l^^l.~The Eev. Joshua Dix in the Chair. 



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A report on the Annuals grown at Chiswick during the past 



season, prepared by the Secbetary, was approted. (See p. 7S.) 



