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the best silver tricolors, — Eva Fish, Excellent and Mrs. Glutton ; 

 and of golden. Achievement, Peter Grieve and Miss Goring. Mr. 

 Gray also showed the Emperor of Brazil, a fine bronze variety, of 

 a beautiful compact growth and excellent habit, with a deep hand- 

 some zone ; and a magnificent zonale geranium, Lady C. Kennedy, — 

 one of the best specimen plants ever shown. The flowers "are of 

 an intense bright scarlet, in the way of Jean Sisley, but very much, 

 better ; it is one of the best scarlet geraniums ever sent out. 



E. S. Rand, Jr., showed Vanda tricolor, with three spikes of 

 flowers, which are of a pale yellow, spotted with crimson, lip pur- 

 ple, striped with white, and lasting a long time in perfection. It 

 was a magnificent plant, and undoubtedly the best single specimen 

 orchid ever' exhibited. C. M. Atkinson exhibited a very hand- 

 someljr trained plant of Chorozema Lawrenciana, a native of new 

 Holland, and one of the most beautiful greenhouse plants. James 

 Comley showed a fine collection of tricolor geraniums of silver 

 and bronze varieties, and two pots of Silene pendula compacta. 

 There were also bouquets and baskets of flowers from James 

 McTear, Mrs. Wood, Mrs. Joyce and Mrs. Gill. 



April 18. 



Jackson Dawson exhibited a plant of Lilium OMratum with a 

 spike of eighteen flowers from one bulb. E. S. Rand, Jr., ex- 

 hibited Dendrohium Gambridgeanum, a native of India ; the plant 

 shown is the flrst one in this country. This species was obtained 

 by Mr. Such, of South Amboy, N. J., at a cost of sixty guineas ; 

 this plant is an offset from Mr. Such's. The habit is drooping and 

 the flowers are produced on the young growth ; the sepals and 

 petals are of a bright orange ; the lip has a crimson blotch in the 

 centre. Also from Mr. Rand, Dendrohium infmidihulum moul- 

 meinense, a species of great beauty, resembling D. formosum in 

 habit and growth of flower, but far surpassing it in size and pro- 

 fusion of bloom. From William Gray, Jr., Betinispora filiforme 

 pendula fol. var., a rare evergreen from Japan ; this is the first 

 plant that has been exhibited, and no other plant is known in the 

 country. There was also a good display of bouquets, baskets of 

 flowers and cut flowers by various contributors. 



