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ment was deferred till autumn, in order that its '^ perpetual " 

 character might be tested. 



Berberis aquifolium, var.: — from Messrs. G. Jackman & 

 Son, Woking. This was a seedling selected several years since, 

 which has since retained a peculiar dwarf habit, and produces 

 leaves with much-narrowed rigid wavy leaflets. It formed a 

 distinct and curious addition to the list of hardy shrubs. 



Cinerarias :— from Messrs. F. & A. Smith, Dulwich: Cadet, 



a dwarf rich deep crimson, with a scarcely apparent white ring 

 round the disk, a variety of good properties ; also Mrs. Bouci- 

 cault. Gauntlet, Prince Alfred, Sir Tt, Peel, Royal Blue, and 

 Rose of England. Messrs. Smith also showed an inferior scarlet 

 TUppeastrunij called The Cardinal, 



April i. — Interval. 



A cut spray of a hybrid Rhododendrou came from Isaac 

 Anderson Henry, Esq., of Edinburgh, accompanied by the 

 following memorandum addressed to Mr. Murray : — ■ 



"I beg to enclose a sprig of a hybrid Rhododendron, an interesting and 

 difficult cross between i?. glaucum (Sikkim sp.), which bore the seed, and £, 

 formosuvi, a Kumaon species. I enclose in the same case, a sprig of the 

 female parent, to show the stride made in the progeny from that parent in 

 respect to size and beauty of flower." 



The specimen sent liad tlie leaves crowded towards tlie end of 

 the shoot, and they were rather bluntly oblong, apiculate, dull 

 opaque gre'en above, paler beneath and somewhat rusty, both 

 surfaces being lepidote, as in the parent. The flowers were cam- 

 panulate, two inches in diameter, and about an inch and a half 

 long, deep blush inside, densely spotted towards the base of the 

 upper segments, and of a deep but not bright rose externally ; 

 ten stamens. Compared with its mother, the Howers were 

 fully twice as large, and much more deeply coloured ; and the 

 leaves were broader and blunter, more opaque, and rusty instead 

 of silvery beneath. 



April 22. — John Jackson Biandy, Esq., in the Chair. 



Polygonatnm oppositifoliunl, var. albo-vittatum :— from Mr. 



gxANDTSH, Bagshot. This was a beautiful striped-leaved Japanese 

 form of Solomon's Seal, introduced by Mr. Foktune. The plant 

 shown, as yet weak from its recent importation, was about a foot 



