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Lindeni, Maranta illustris, and Bignonia ornata from Eio Negro, 

 the latter with broad lanceolate leaves, which when young are of 

 a bronzy hue, with a rosy variegation along the midrib, but which 

 become silvery in older foliage. Tor the best new plant shown 

 for the first time in flower, the Medal was won by Mr. Bull with 

 Dctlechampia Roezliana rosea. The scarlet-flowered Begonia boli- 

 viensis, from Messrs. Veitch, whose showy flowers differ both in 

 shape and colour from anything of the kind previously in culti- 

 vation, competed with it. The best new plant with ornamental 

 foliage was Messrs. Yeitch's Alocasia Jenningsii, from the East 

 Indies, a remarkably distinct and handsome plant, having nearly 

 heart-shaped bright-green leaves, marked with dark chocolate in 

 sections between the veins. Mr. "Bull showed Btychosperma 

 regale, a handsome East-Indian Palm. The best new garden 

 seedling was shown by Messrs. Veitch, in the form of a pretty 

 hybrid Cattleija. Of a more miscellaneous character were Epiden- 

 drum cnemidopliorum, contributed by Mr. Muir, gardener to Sir 

 P. de Malpas Grey Egerton, Bart., M.P. ; this had three spikes 

 of gracefully drooping flowers borne at the end of long slender 

 stems. Messrs. Low, of Clapton, exhibited a whole bank of the 

 beautiful Cattleya citrina, and a white variety of Odontoglossum 

 citrosmum. Messrs. Eollisson, of Tooting, produced a very pretty 

 Seedling Heath, Erica tintinnabula, a variety raised between odorata 

 and hiemalis. Messrs. Downie, Laird, and Laing sent Nosegay Pe- 

 largonium Bose Stella, a variety of great merit, which will be a 

 useful bedding-plant. Mr. William Paul sent a large collection 

 of seedling Zonale Nosegay Pelargoniums, among which Waltham 

 Nosegay and Br. Hogg were most conspicuous. Iberis carnosa, a 

 very dwarf plant for rockwork, came from Messrs. Backhouse, of 

 York. 



The Auricula bloom, so far as regards the London shows, 

 culminated at this exhibition. Mr. Turner staged a fine lot of 

 the show varieties, the trusses being generally of good average 

 size, the pips large, smooth, and clean. There w r ere a few flowers 

 among them of extra fine quality, such as Lancashire Hero 

 (Cheetham), the paste of which was very smooth, and the pips 

 large and stout ; Smiling Baauty (Heap), the dark ground-colour 

 of which was thrown up very strikingly ; Apollo (Hudson), very 

 fine ; Sophia (Chapman), ground-colour purplish violet, well de- 

 fined, and smooth white paste; Belisarius, green-edged variety, form- 

 ing a good pure truss, but the pip3 a little rough ; Great Eastern 



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