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(Smith), distinct pure-yellow eye, remarkably well shouldered, 

 fine pips ; Earl Grosvenor (Lee), a very fine white-edged variety, 

 the ground-colour dark violet crimson, with pure white smooth 

 paste and greenish-yellow eye, fine pip and truss ; Lycurgus 

 (Smith), ground-colour bright claret-crimson, pips very bold and 

 striking ; Sir William Peel (Lightbody), fine and bold truss ; and 

 Star of Bethleham (Lightbody), eye good and well shouldered, 

 ground-colour purplish crimson, though somewhat running into 

 the green edge, a very distinct variety, possessing a great deal 

 of merit. Mr. Turner also produced Alpine Auriculas, so rich 

 and varied as to be well worthy a close inspection, especially 

 such as JSertJia, pure greenish-yellow paste, with dark-crimson 

 ground, distinctly margined on each segment of the pip with 

 pale violet ; and Novelty, having a pale-yellow paste, with a dark 

 blotch at the base of each segment, with broad margin of pale 

 violet, changing to buff with age. One of the most conspicuous 

 flowers was Landseer, the ground-colour of which was a bright 

 claret-crimson, with pale-yellow paste, somewhat rough, but 

 having large and showy trusses freely produced, and the habit 

 excellent. 



May 21. — This was a very magnificent show of the new class 

 of Variegated Zonale Pelargoniums. Among the novelties to which 

 Certificates were awarded were Sunshine, which has a yellow edge 

 and a showy flamed deep-crimson zone. This came from Messrs. 

 E. Gr. Henderson & Son. Mr. Wills, gardener at Huntroyde Park, 

 Burnley, had a very fine collection of new sorts, having for the 

 most part large bold leaves, broadly zoned with reddish brown. 

 Of these, Beauty of Ribbledale was very conspicuous, with its large 

 leaves having a showy vandyked reddish-bronze zone on a yellow 

 ground ; also Her Majesty, a vigorous-growing kind, of a yel- 

 lowish brown, with a very broad even deep-brown zone. Messrs. 

 G-araway & Co., of Bristol, had Mrs. Allen, which has nearly 

 circular leaves, with a narrow golden edge and a regular crimson 

 zone, which in the young leaves is very bright. Mr. Grieve had 

 a very fine collection, the gem of which was a variety called 

 Victoria Begina. Mr. Groom, of Ipswich, sent a beautiful tri- 

 color, named Lord Stanley ; and Messrs. Saltmarsh & Co. showed 

 Sunrise, the latter having a compact neat habit, and otherwise a 

 variety of first-class merit. Of other plants, Messrs. Yeitch& Sons 

 exhibited a fine collection, in which were Diclwrisandra wiosaica, 

 Draccenaregina, Adiantum concinnum latum, Maranta illustris, and 



