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flower ; the bulb, leaves, and shape of buds being nearer the 
seed parent. It has also the scent of the seed parent. The 
flowers are more numerous than in the seed parent, and the stem 
taller, being over 4 ft. on the tallest plant. The spikes sent have 
been grown in the open without protection. They are from 
one seed-pod, but differ somewhat in colour, markings, and 
colour of pollen-grains. 
PASSIFLORA 
P. KEwENSIS=P. Raddiana x P. cawrulea. Exhibited by the Royal 
Gardens, Kew. 
-PELARGONIUM 
P. ‘ Henry Jacopy, Var.’ —Mr. Chas. E. Pearson, of Chilwell, Notts, 
sent a white variegated sport from P.‘ Henry Jacoby.’ This was 
very interesting, because the original ‘ Henry Jacoby’ was the 
offspring of seed from a parent which had been crossed with 
white and variegated Pelargoniums with a view to raising new 
ornamental foliaged varieties. As is well known, ‘ Henry 
Jacoby’ has a very dark-green leaf, and was raised more than 
thirty years ago, and now, after existing and being propagated 
for so long, the variegation endeavoured to be produced by the 
hybridising thirty years ago suddenly becomes apparent. The 
influence of the pollen parent had lain dormant thirty years. A 
similar sport occurred some few years ago, but was too delicate 
to rear. 
‘TACSONIA. 
T. MOLLISSIMA SPLENDENS = TJ. mollissima 2 x T. Smytheana 2. 
Raised by Mr. W. Smythe, Basing Park; exhibited by Mr. 
W. Smythe, Alton, Hants. Crossed 1891. The flowers are of 
much the same colour, but larger, and the plant is a much 
freer grower and distinctly more floriferous, producing flowers 
in great abundance. : 
T. SmyrHEANA = 7’. mollissima? xT. manicatag. Raised by Mr. 
W. Smythe, Basing Park; exhibited by Mr. W. Smythe, Alton, 
Hants. Crossed, 1889. The colour is a bright scarlet, with a 
funnel-shaped tube of good length. 4 in. long. The flowers 
stand out conspicuously from the foliage, instead of having the 
‘drooping habit of the seed parent. 
VARIOUS HYBRIDS, 
Sent by the Rev. C. Wottey Don, M.A., V.M.H., Edge Hall, 
Malpas, Cheshire. 
I send a few out of many accidental (spontaneous) hybrids of hardy 
plants which have appeared in my garden in the last ten years. I haye 
sent, where I have been able, flowers of the supposed parents. 
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