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velvet edge, smooth sulphur paste, bold and striking ; and Poten- 

 tate, bright maroon-crimson, yellow paste, large and striking pip. 

 "With a brighter ground-colour were : — Sparkler, glossy claret- 

 crimson, yellow paste, bright and striking ; Fredriha, dull maroon- 

 crimson, with bright yellow paste, bold and showy ; and Alfred 

 Mellon, dark-brown chocolate, with bright-yellow paste, pips 

 large. Another group had violet, lilac, and claret grounds, and 

 comprised, popularly speaking, some of the most striking flowers, 

 as Elsie, dark ground, margined with lilac, sulphur paste ; Con- 

 spicua, something like Elsie, but not so smooth ; and Pauline, one 

 of the very best, pale sulphur paste, circled by a velvety ring and 

 margined with violet, very pretty indeed. 



May 7. — Owing to the number and striking beauty of some of 

 the novelties produced on this occasion, this was an unusually in- 

 teresting exhibition, which was also well supported in other de- 

 partments. The day, too, was most brilliant. New plants con- 

 stituted the most important feature of the show. For the best 

 six sent out in 1865 and 1866, Messrs. Veitch and Sons were first, 

 with Primula cortusoides amcena, bearing rich magenta white-eyed 

 flowers as large as a florin ; the beautiful Maranta roseo-picta and 

 VeitcJiii, Verscliaffeltia splendida, Dieffenbacliia TVeirii, and Bego- 

 nia Pearcei, the latter with rich velvety dark- green leaves veined 

 with pale green. Mr. Bull was second, with Maranta roseo-picta, 

 Verscliaffeltia splendida, a beautiful Palm, the silvery- veined Fit- 

 tonia argyroneura, the rose-spotted Bertolonia guttata, Zainia vil- 

 losa, an elegant species, and Anthurium regale, resembling onagni- 

 ficum, with leaves of a bronzy-green colour prominently veined 

 with pale green. "With new plants of the present year, Messrs. 

 Veitch were again first, with Sancliezia nobilis variegata, a stove 

 Acanthad with large elliptic leaves having yellow bands radiating 

 from a yellow midrib ; Coleus VeitcJiii, with dark-chocolate leaves 

 edged with bright green ; the slender Panicum variegatum, also from 

 New Caledonia, with rose, white, and green foliage ; Dieffenbacliia 

 Pearcei; Ilypocyrta brevicalyx, from Ecuador, with nearly orbi- 

 cular silvery-veined leaves ; and Lomaria ciliata, from New Cale- 

 donia. Mr. Bull was second, with two Peruvian Dicliorisandras, 

 named D. mosaica, with dark-green leaves, lined transversely with 

 pale green and brownish purple on the underside, and D. undata, 

 with undulated dark-green leaves, ornamented longitudinally with 

 pale-green bands ; Agave macracantlia, with glaucous pale-green 

 leaves edged with bold brown spines ; the elegant Adiantum 



