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ton, Seraph, Magnificent, Mrs. Seldon, Earl of Clarendon, General 

 Faucher, Sir F. Bathurst, Yellow Superb, Essex Triumph, Gem, Bees- 

 wing, Miss Chaplin, Fearless, Snowflake, Mr. Seldon, Nonpareil, 

 Madame Gouberls, Mr. Herbert, Princess Radziville, Frederick Jerome, 

 Sir Robert Peel, and Negro. 3rd, Mr. Barnes, with Magnificent, 

 Princess Louisa, R. Cobden, Fearless, Grenadier, Earl of Clarendon, 

 Ambassador, General Faucher, Mr. Seldon, Mr. Palmer, Fame, Miss 

 Chaplin, Seraph, Yellow Superb, Negro, Duke of "Wellington, Queen 

 of the East, Summit of Perfection, George Glenny, Uranus, Mrs. 

 Williams, Thames Bank Hero, Charles Turner, and Sir F. Bathurst. 

 4th, Mr. Bragg. 5th, Mr. Drummond. 6th, Mr. Legg. Nursery- 

 men, twelve Fancies : 1st Prize, C. Turner, with Empereur de Maroc, 

 Rachael, Elizabeth, Mrs. Willis, Pretty Polly, Mrs. Hansard, Lady 

 Grenville, Jeaunette, Mrs. Labouchere, Jenny Lind, Gasparino, and 

 Floral Beauty. 2nd, Mr. Keynes, with Princess Charlotte, Comic, 

 Lady Grenville, Conspicua, Mrs. Hansard, Madame Wachy, Striata 

 perfecta, Empereur de Maroc, Rainbow, Admiration, Jenny Lind, and 

 Flying Dutchman. In class showing, seedlings, the best Dahlia was 

 Dr. Frampton (Rawlings) ; the best fancy. Laura Lavington (Keynes); 

 the best Fuchsia, Nil Desperandum ; the best Hollyhock, King of Roses 

 (Bragg); the best Verbena, National ; 2nd, Koh-i-noor; 3rd, Orlando. 

 Gladioluses. — This lovely tribe of flowers are great favourites of 

 mine ; and I was much pleased to see the descriptive particulars of 

 many new varieties in the last .year's volume of your Magazine. This 

 year, however, I have not observed any notice of other new ones ; and 

 being much pleased with a very select collection of well-grown beautiful 

 varieties which were shown at the Horticultural Society's last exhibi- 

 tion, held in the Chiswick Gardens, I send the names and description 

 of each, with a hope it may be of use to persons desirous of improving 

 their collections of this beautiful flower: — 



Rex Rubrorum, well-expanded dark crimson. 



Princeps, large waxy blush, handsomely striped. 



Spectabile, light rose, shaded pink. 



Candida, blush, shaded rose. 



Punctata, lilac, curiously spotted. 



Pulcherrima, bright pink, white stripe. 



Sir Jiobert Peel, lilac, with rose stripe. 



Elegans, fine rose, with distinct white stripe. 



Albus, French white, striped. 



Conspicua, very rich salmon, novel. 



Striata, warm pink, striped and shaded. 

 The above, I was informed, are early-blooming varieties, and the 

 following are of the habit of G. ramosas, and have much larger and 

 more brilliant colours ; most of them are new hybrids : — 



Insignis, a well-known deep rosy-crimson flower. 



Robin Hood, rich rose, white stripe. 



Fauni/ Elsler, fine rose, handsomely striped. 



Rising Sun, glowing orange-scarlet. 



Abd el Kadcr, very bright scarlet, white stripe. 

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