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ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The Floral Committee, at a Meeting held at Chiswick on the 19th 

 of August, awarded Certificates to the following varieties of bed- 

 ding Pelargoniums, these "being either absolute novelties or sorts 

 which had not previously been tried out of doors at Chiswick : — 



First-Class Certificates. 



Madame Martha Vincent, free blooming good white, the white 

 a little tinted and the flowers in good trusses. 



Purity, free and bearing good trusses, the flowers pure white. 

 This and the foregoing are the two best of the many white- 

 flowered sorts in the collection, the first having slightly the ad- 

 vantage in freeness and size of truss, and the latter in pureness 

 of colour. 



Madame Werle, free blooming, fine shape, white, with deli- 

 cately tinted rosy-pink eye ; leaf zoned. 



Fairy Queen, a free and useful sort, with bright rosy-crimson 

 flowers and lobed leaves. 



Dr. Hogg, very showy, a seminosegay with large broad petals 

 of a rosy-crimson hue, the lower petals, especially in some stages, 

 being more strongly suffused with rose. 



Pebecca, a seminosegay, with zoned leaves and fine trusses of 

 large rosy-red flowers, having glowing upper petals. 



Crystal Palace Gem, a large, red, and very showy flower with 

 small white eye, something in the way of Eoi d'ltalie, and with 

 dark-zoned leaves. 



Warrior, a strong growing sort, with plain green leaves and 

 large trusses of finely shaped bright scarlet flowers. 



Sambo, dwarf compact habit and faintly zoned leaves ; the 

 flowers rather small but of a very rich crimson-scarlet. 



Lady Constance Grosvenor, a very effective flower, and probably 

 the best, as far as yet developed, of the present season; the 

 leaves are of a peculiarly lively green and elegantly marked with 

 a dark zone, and the flowers (of the Nosegay class) are of a 

 very bright scarlet and produced in large trusses : it is a decided 

 beat upon Cy bister. 



Violet Hill Nosegay, which had formerly been voted a Second- 

 class Certificate, was now given a First ; it is remarkably dwarf 

 and compact, with a full head of salmon-red flowers, and has 

 lobed leaves ; and if a continuous bloomer, will make a pretty 

 edging variety. 



