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exhibited Queen Victoria, Anais, Ibrahim Pacha, Sidonia, Lady Rivers, 

 and Maid of Anjou ; tlie second from Mr. Ambrose, wlio showed Lady 

 Flora, John improved, Lady Elvers, Queen Victoria, La Belle 

 Africaine, and Yeatmannia grandiflora. 



Seedlings. 



Madame Grisi (Fancy Class), the upper petals a rich velvet maroon ; 

 the lower ones are a similar colour, with a ligliter margin, and one- 

 third of the base of each petal is pure white, wiiicii forms a strikingly 

 distinct eye. It is very handsome, and a charming variety. 



Picta (Fancy), a liglit flower, with fine rose spot on the upper petals, 

 in the way of Queen Victoria. 



Madame Julian (Fancy), a light flower, also in the way of Queen 

 Victoria. 



Jenny Lind (Fancy). This is in the way of Anais, M'hich has upper 

 petals a rich rosy crimson, margined with white, and a purple blotch 

 in the centre of eacli ; the lower petals same colour, with a broader 

 white margin, and a ligiit centre. 



Curiosa, in the way of Anais too. 



Orpheus, Ambrose's, (Fancy), a dark-feathered flower, very fine and 

 handsome. 



Jehu improved (Fancy), a very dark crimson velvet, distinct and 

 handsome. 



Yeatmanniana grandiflora, an improvement on the old variety, a 

 salmon rose, with white. 



Ibraham Pacha (Fancy), in the way of Anais, but not equal to it. 



Crusader (Hoyle's), a rich brilliant red, with very dark blotch on 

 each of tlie upper petals; a very superb variety, of first-rate quality. 



Christabel, a ruby-pink, with a very distinct white centre ; first-rate. 



Flamingo, a ruby-red, with very dark blotch on upper petals ; first- 

 rate. 



Belle of the Village, ruby-crimson. 



Superlative, a deep flesh colour, with rich crimson spots on upper 

 petals ; first-rate. 



Brilliant (Topping's), a bright scarlet-red, and first-rate. 



Salamander (Gaines's), a brigiit red, and superb flower ; first-rate. 



Clown (Dobson's), pink, with a very distinct crimson spot upon 

 each of the lower petals, centre of flower white ; pretty. 



Mr. Whomes, gardener to E. Foster, Esq., exhibited Orion, Ariel, 

 Lucretia, Pericles, Ondine, Marion, pink, with very clear wlute centre ; 

 these were of first-rate excellence in form, substance, and colours. 

 Clarinda, Minerva, and Bertha are very fine second-rate flowers. 

 Armida and Ardens, good. 



Centurion (Dobson's), rose, with a dark spot on each of the lower 

 petals ; very handsome. 



Cavalier, a rich red ; very good. 



Cruenta, a smootli red ; very good. 



Delicatissima and Dorcas (Beck's), both very good varieties. 



Avenger (Thurtell's), a very first rate flower. 



Pretender (Tliurtell's), also first-rate. 



King of the Purples (Gaines's), first-rate. 



