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Acnrmenes JfJauve (^neen, cut blooms m great beauty; it liad already 



received a first-class award. 

 AUophila radens var. 



From Messrs. Low & Co. :— 



Caladium Loicii, awarded a first-class ceiiilficate at the last meeting. 

 It was copiously exhibitedj and appears to be a plant of very free 

 habit, as well as very handsome. , . 



Sojierila up., a stove herb with oval fleshy leaves, and bright rose- 

 coloured three-petaled flowers ; imported from Moulmein. 

 ■ Petimias: Venus, w^hite/with rosy star; Magnet, rose, with white 

 edge: both single ; delicaia, rosy-lilac and white; Yoltinteer, rose and 

 w^hite : both double. 



From Mr. Bull : 



Biota triangiifarls, a flat branched plant, with the branches dispoyed 

 triangularly ; very promising, but quite immature. 



Caladium ILnrlii, from Para, a white spotted sort, with the centre 

 greyish tinged with red. 



Lomaria minoi\ in a somewhat crisped condition; 



La&irea sp., from Brazil, a biT>inuate fern, described as being 

 arborescent habit. 



Petunia Romola, white, with slight purple star. 



Beffonia Secretaire Morren, silvery, flushed with pur^^le. 



From Mr. Wemyss, Kelso : 



Perdstemon Beaut)/, a dwarf, rosy-crimson bedding variety. 



From Mr, Barker, Godalming; — 



Tropmolums : a collection of 24 named ^^conservatory" varieties, and 

 12 *' bedding*' varieties, of the merit of which no opinion could be 

 formed from the cut blooms. 



From Mr. Cullingfopd, Woodbridge : — 



Verhenas : Lachj Rcndlesham, Lieiit.-Col. Schrieher, Scarlet Gem ^ Annie , 

 Bu/ie of Camhridge, single trusses, out of condition. 



From Mr. Turner, Slough : — 



Dahlia Charlotte Boiling, which continued to prove a good second- 

 class flower. 



Prom Mr. Smith, Homsey Eoad r — 



Lobelia alho-cceruJea, a pale form of marniorata. 



From Messrs. Dowxte, Laiud, & Laing : — 



Pentstemons : Dulris, light purple, with striped throat ; CUo, light shaded 

 purple, striped throat; Brilliant, large deep crimson scarlet, with 

 striped red throat ; Coccinea alba, deep crimson scarlet, with well- 

 defined white throat : all handsome and meritorious sorts, but pre- 

 senting no remarkable features. With them was a collection of 

 older Pentstemons and of Bomponc Daldias. 



JDelphini am hicolor graiidiforwrny noticed previously. 



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From Mr. Hallt, Blackheath : — 



Pelargoniums: Adonis and Albino, ih.e former a vigorous horse-shoe- 

 leaved sort, with well- formed scarlet flowers — exhibited, however, 

 on this occasion, with loose flowers dropped into the truss. They 

 were accompanied by the following memoranda: — '* 1 send for the 

 inspection of the Committee two plants of a seedling orange-scarlet 

 horse-shoe Pelargonium, which, from its perfect shape, I have named 

 Adonis. I sent a few plants of it to Chiswick in the spring, for 



