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From Mr. Hopkins, Brentford : — 



Dahlias: Co^//Z£^, light red ; Magnet^ orange-red; Earl of jl/arc/;, rosy- 

 purple. 



From Mr. Rawlings, Bethnal Green : — 



Dahlia The Beau, blush, crowded with mai'oon- crimson stripes ; J/rf. 

 ffogg, white, tipped with deep rose. 



From Mr, Keynks, Sahsbury : 



Dahlias : Lord Wiltshire, large, crimson ; Scarlet Geui^ light scarlet, of 

 average size* 



Tropceolum DoddsH, deep crimson. 



From Mr. G. Smith, Hornsey-road : — 



Pelargonium (variegated) iJa^^/me?, white edged^ with pink zone^ and 

 light scarlet flowers. 



From Mr. Earlet, Gardener to F. Pryob^ Esq.,Digswell House, AVelwyn : — 

 AthyHum Filix-fcemina, var. inforrae, a curious variety, with narrow 

 fronds, and irregularly erose depauperated and confluent pinuse. 



From Messrs. Paul & Sow, Cheshunt : — 



Hollyhocks: Mrs, Paidj deep fiesh-colour; kosca 2^urj>Hreay claret. 



From Mr. W. Chater, Saffron Walden : — 



HollyhocTcs : Morning Star^ large full, light crimson scarlet; Ovaii' 

 dissima and Incomjparalle , salmony-buff; Lady Paxton, creamy 

 white ; Competitor^ reddish purple ; Memnon SurpasSy crimson ; 

 Rosea magnijica^ deep pink ; Lady Palmer start , bright rose; Pj-incess, 

 rosy-purple; C7i?*^5oZ/^e, buff yellow; and two seedlings^ one red, with 

 buff tips, the other blush, with bright red tips. 



Fuchsia nmgnifloray a large loose double red. 



Tropccoluvis : Crimson King, deep crimson ; King of Scarlets and Mars, 

 scarlet. 



Zinnia aurea, a dwarf bushy free-flowering annual, with bright orange- 

 yellow flowers, sometimes grown under the name of Sanritalia 

 meocicana. 



From Mr. Bull :— 



Begonia malabarlca^ with spotted leaves like argyrostignuL 



Petunia Madame Panson, white edged. 



Uraria picta, a tropical African shrub, with pinnate leaves, the leaSeta 



of which were linear lanceolate, and blotched with yellow-gi'een down 



the midrib. 

 Yerbena The Clipper, light red. 



Prom Messrs, Veitch & So>' :— 



Liliuni aurutum, still in fine bloom. 



Alocasia albo-violacea, a large green-leaved Arad, rarely blotched with 

 white, the leaf stalks purplish -tinted, with a whitish margin; it had 

 formerly been shown under the name of Xantkosoma maculata. 



Phyllagathis rotund ifoliaj already awarded a First Class Certificate. The 

 present was the finest specimen which has been shown before the 

 Committee, and fully maintained the award previously made. The 

 stem was short, the leaves smooth clear deep metallic green, strongly 

 ribbed, and veined behind with red ; the leaves were roundish ovate, 

 and measured seventeen inches in length by thirteen and a half 



inches across. 

 Oralis Boiveana^ imported from Japan, 



