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dendron. Trusses large, flowers well shaped, bluish white, the top 

 petal richly dotted with dark crimson spots. It was named K. superb- 

 issimum album. 



Messrs. Standish and Noble sent an Azalea Indica, named Vittata, 

 the merits of which were novelty in colour, being of a creamy white 

 with purple stripes. 



The above were all the seedlings the censors thought worthy of 

 notice : and this is as it ought to be ; unless seedling flowers are deci- 

 dedly superior to the older varieties, it is an imposition upon the public 

 to send them out as new and improved varieties. The censors at this 

 meeting were determined not to notice any inferior varieties merely 

 because they were new; and this principle, we hope, will be carried 

 out to the fullest extent. 



Messrs. Veitch, of Exeter, sent a fine cut sample of their Fuchsia 

 spectabilis ; also a cut specimen of Rhododendron jasminiflora ; a 

 tolerable seedling Camellia, named Storeyii, its fault being having the 

 petals too much pointed. 



Upon the whole this is a good beginning of the Society, and we 

 trust it will act up to its professed principles, and thus become a vehicle 

 for proclaiming to the public really good seedling flowers. 



The second meeting of the Society was held on April 24th. Cine- 

 rarias, Auriculas, Pansies, and Rhododendrons were the principal 

 flowers shown. Certificates of Merit were awarded by the censors to 

 the following : — 



A Pelargonium, named Chieftain, exhibited by Mr. Hoyle, of 

 Reading. 



A fancy Pelargonium, named Formosissimum, by Mr. Ayres, of 

 Blackheath. 



A Cineraria, Alba magna, by Mr. Smith, of Hornsey-road. 



An Auricula, Beauty of Bath, by Mr. Griffin, of Weston-road, Bath. 



A Cineraria, Margaret d'Anjou, by Mr. E. G. Henderson, Welling- 

 ton-road, St. John's Wood. 



The following kinds were commended by the censors : — 



A Cineraria, Model of Perfection, by Mr. Ayres, of Blackheath. 



A Pelargonium, First of May, by Mr. Turner, of Slough. 



A Cineraria, Beauty, by Mr. Ivery, of Peckham. 



The next meeting will be held on May 8th. 



Pansies — The usual mode of showing these blossoms has lately 

 been much objected to. The process of pressing a flower flat to the 

 surface of the stand has misled parties, who formed a favourable opinion 

 of certain flowers by what they saw of the specimens so shown ; and 

 when the flowers were seen growing, instead of the even-face quality, 

 they were wavy and crumpled. Now it would be much preferable to 

 exhibit the plants in certain fixed-sized pots, and each plant to have 

 three or four blossoms. This method would place all exhibitors upon 

 an equality, and the flowers be seen in their real character. There 

 would be but little trouble to convey a dozen pots to a meeting ; and I 

 am certain that there are not more than twelve varieties which approach 

 any thing near to perfection in form that have hitherto been brought 

 to the exhibition* in and around London. — Pensee. 



