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ties of oak-leaved Pelargoniums, raised from Rollisson's Unique ; 

 they were decided improvements, in point of colour, on the parent 

 variety. The flowers of the former, named Crimson King, were of 

 a bright and yet deep rosy-crimson colour ; those of the latter, 

 named Constellation, were of larger size, of a vivid rosy-crimson 

 shade, suffused with violet. When well grown, these two varie- 

 ties will be great acquisitions in point of colour. Mr. W. Lee, 

 of Hammersmith, produced a dwarf-growing Lobelia, of the Erinus 

 section, named Lee's Dwarf Blue, the habit of which is very 

 short and dense, like L. pumila elegans, and having a profusion 

 of azure-blue flowers, with a small white spot on the centre of the 

 flowers. It promises to be a most effective bedder. 



July 2. — This was the great Rose Show, on which occasion the 

 blooms were numerous, and shown in excellent condition, con- 

 sidering the unfavourable weather to which they had been sub- 

 jected. We can only record here some of the more strikingly 

 beautiful flowers in the several collections. The following were 

 particularly good : — Jules Margottin, Senateur Yaisse, Prince 

 Camille de Rohan, Maurice Bernardin, Pierre Notting, Souvenir 

 de la Malmaison, Comtesse de Chabrilliant, Madame Vidot, 

 General Jacqueminot, Madame Victor Verdier, Marechal Niel, 

 Soeur des Anges, John Hopper, Centifolia rosea, Baron A, de 

 Rothschild, Celine Forestier, Devoniensis, Alfred Colomb, Prince 

 de Porcia, Louise Magnan (white), Marie Baumann, Due de 

 Rohan, Grloire de Dijon, Duke of Edinburgh (dark shaded scarlet), 

 L'elegante (velvety dark red), Xavier Olibo, Beauty of Waltham, 

 Le Rhone, Charles Lawson, Niphetos, Charles Lefebvre, Queen 

 Victoria (one of the prettiest of the white Hybrid Perpetuals), 

 Triomphe de Rennes (a very beautiful yellow), Lord Macaulay, 

 Prince de Porcia, Madame Plantier (a free-blooming Hybrid 

 China), Comte Alphonse de Serenye (beautiful clear crimson), 

 Prince Henri des Pays-Bas (crimson, shaded with purple), Madame 

 Moreau (also beautiful in the bud state), Duchesse de Caylus 

 (very good), Grloire de Santenay, La Brillante (very bright) , Cloth 

 of Grold, L'Enfant Trouve, Comtesse deKergolay (fine deep crim- 

 son) Madame Hector Jacquin, Souvenir d'Elise Vardon, Madame 

 Bravy, Frangois Lacharme. Among the new Roses of 1864 or 

 1865, the most striking kinds were Marie Baumann and Alfred 

 Colomb (both very fine), Exposition de Brie, Mdlle. Marie Rady, 

 Pierre Notting, Madame Victor Verdier, Marguerite de St. 

 Amand, Mdlle. Marguerite Dombrain, Abel Grand, and Princess 



