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rather long-tubed large campanulate flowers, pure white, with a 

 lemon stain towards the base, and having a bold firm character. 

 It was awarded a First-class Certificate, 



Aralia leptopliylla : — from Messrs. Veitch & Son, Exeter 

 and Chelsea. A slender erect-growing but not lanky stove shrub, 

 with very elegant foliage, awarded a Fiust-Class Certificate. 

 The leaves were long-stalked, formed of about 8 pahnately dis- 

 posed long linear-lanceolate stalked leaflets, and the whole plant 



was very graceful in character, 



Grevillea Hillii: — from Messrs. Veitoh & Son, A fine con- 

 servatory shrub, with large leaves, very much resembling the 

 fronds of some Phlebodium, or Pleopeltis ; they were deeply pin- 

 natifid, with a few long segments nearly an inch wide, connected 

 by a leafy wing to the midrib, which wing was continued par- 

 tially down the stalk. It is a Moreton Bay plant. Awarded a 

 FiHST-CrAss Certificatk for its foliage as a conservatory shrub. 



Azalea Due d'Aremberg : — from Messrs. F. & A. Smith, 



Dulwich. A very beautiful Indian azalea, awarded a First- 

 Class Certificate. The flowers were of good form, firm, the 

 colour salmon-pink, with a broad disthict white margin, the pink 

 slightly striped with carmine, and the base of the upper segments 

 just below the sinus spotted with deep rose red. This proved to 

 be a very pleasing addition to the varieties previously known, 

 alike desirable ia form and in colouring. 



Cineraria lord Elgin;— from Mr. James, gardener to W. F. 

 Watson, Esq., Isleworth. A fine self-coloured soft rosy or 

 Magenta-coloured variety, very effective as a decorative plant, 

 besides having good properties. It has proved constantly good, 

 both this season and the last ; and was now awarded a Second- 

 Class Certificate. 



^ Rhododendron McNaMi :— from Mr. Bousie. A hybrid from 

 U. ciliatum, crossed with R, EdgworthiL This was not so fine a 

 variety as the E. Princess Alice, exhibited on March 19th, and 

 which was bred from the same parents. It was, however, CoM- 

 MEKDED, aa being a handsome plant, dwarfish in habit, with 

 smooth elliptic leaves, and large blush-white rather crumpled 

 shortly campanulate flowers. 



Primula prsenitens {fimhiata Jlore^plmo) the Fairy :— fropi 



Messrs. F. & A. Smith, Dulwich. A dwarf-habited and very 

 double sport of the fine double flesh-coloured Chinese Primrose 

 noticed previously, under the name oidelicata. 



Gineraria earminata variegata;— from Messrs. F. & A. 



