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received a first-class certificate : it was shown in fine condition, the flowers nicely 

 expanded, and of a delicate blush-white, with a tinge of deep blush in the cen- 

 tre. Fancy Pansy Magpie, from Mr. Hooper of Bath, represented as a bedding 

 kind, has large flowers of a bright purple ground, blotched and margined with 

 pure white ; it is certainly novel in character, the flowers large and of good 

 shape and substance. 



The special prize and pelargonium show at South Kensington, on the 22d 

 inst., was the means of bringing together a goodly number of new florists' flow- 

 ers, in addition to the new variegated pelargoniums. Mr. Mann of Brentwood 

 brought a batch of fine zonale pelargoniums, which quite maintained his reputa- 

 tion as a raiser of new kinds ; and the floral committee acted with great dis- 

 cretion in only awarding certificates to flowers of undoubted superiority. First- 

 class certificates were awarded to Duchess of Abercorn, of Mr. Mann's batch, 

 a flower of a rosy-salmon hue, shaded witli orange on the upper petals, large, 

 circular, well-shaped flowers, nearly an inch and a half in diameter, dark zonate 

 foliage ; and to Illuminator, rich bright orange-scarlet, large, and very showy, 

 and having dark zonate foliage and good habit. Other good flowers in this group 

 were Lady Hope, pale salmon ; Charmer, salmon-rose ; Ariosto, bright orange- 

 scarlet ; Christabel, pale salmon, sliaded violet ; Lord Stanley, bright crimson ; 

 Challenger, salmon ; Prince Teck, a fine scarlet variety, of a brighter hue than 

 Lord Derby ; Prima Donna, orange-salmon and rose, large and showy ; Princess 

 Teck, pale salmon, with light centre ; Beauty of Brentwood, salmon-rose, a fine 

 flower; Pandora, salmon scarlet, flushed with orange; and Ambition, orange- 

 scarlet, very fine. Mr. Groom showed Mrs. Sach, white, tinted with pink about 

 the centre. Mr. Thomas Laxton, Stamford, had a batch of promising bright 

 flowers, the best being Sophia Clapton, salmon-rose, shaded with violet, large 

 and showy ; Consequence, deep orange, very briglit ; Imprimis, orange-crimson, 

 showy and striking ; Vivid, in the way of Sophia Clapton, but darker ; and Nisi 

 Prius, vivid orange-crimson, with dark zonate foliage. First-class certificates 

 were awarded to tlie following double-flowering pelargoniums : Wiiliehn I'fitzer, 

 with large and full-fringed flowers, full ami of good shape, and liaving a dwarf, 

 compact iiabit of growth ; and Marie Lemoine, flowers large and full, and of 

 a soft pale pink, haljit good, a promising variety for pot-culture. The same 

 award was made to Mr. Harman, Denliam, for a variegated ivy-leaf pelargonium, 

 named Mr. Lambert, a great deal in the way of Duke of Edinburgh, but with 

 more yellow in the variegation ; habit robust and variegation good. The same 

 award was made to ivy-leaf pelargonium Willsii rosea, one of the best of Mr. 

 Wills's new hybrids, yielding flowers of a fine hue of rose, smooth, and quite as 

 circular in sliape as tliose of the ordinary zonale kinds. Mr. Turner contributed 

 some new pelargoniums similar to those described above, and first-class certifi- 

 cates were awarded to Heroine (Foster), shown in fine condition ; and to fancy 

 pelargoniums Excelsior and Agrippa, described above. The same award was 

 made to Mr. William Paul for a silver-edged pelargonium named Walthani Bride, 

 the mode of growth somewhat resembling that of Flower of the Day, and pro- 

 ducing pure white flowers ; habit good. 



Some gold and bronze and zonale pelargoniums were furnished by Mr. J. K. 



