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nium, Salmon King, a zonale variety, of second-class merit. 

 Messrs. E. Gr. Henderson furnished Crocus nudijlorus, violet purple, 

 and C. speciosus, bluish purple, now in flower ; together with a 

 collection of zonale Pelargoniums, illustrative of the way in which 

 they break into a variegated form. 



October 13. — C. Leach, Esq., of Clapham, showed a very interest- 

 ing group of Nerines, including the following sorts : — JST. undulata, 

 with small pink narrow-petal led flowers ; JV. humilis, also narrow- 

 petalled, but with larger and deeper pink flowers ; iV. Fothergillii, 

 with broader segments, deeper orange-red, with a darker centre to 

 each and plane margin ; JST. rosea, with broader petals of a deep 

 lake-rose and as large as Fothergillii ; N. corasca major, a pale 

 orange-red, large-flowered, and slightly wavy. These three have 

 broader leaves than those previously named, and blunt at the apex. 

 With the above was a seedling Nerine with broader segments 

 than humilis, but of the same colour and general character. These 

 Serines form a very desirable set of plants for autumn flowering. 



October 16. — Erom the Garden of the Society at Chiswick came 

 a fine collection of Zonale Pelargoniums, whose showy blossoms 

 even at this season make a small greenhouse in that establish- 

 ment quite brilliant. Fittonia {Franthemum) argyroneura, with 

 leaves beautifully veined with white, was shown by Mr. Bull, who 

 had also a pale yellow-flowered Gesnera called G. cliromatella, and 

 other plants, among which was Tillandsia argentea, an interesting 

 new Bromeliad, with round rush-like leaves, covered so thickly 

 over with short white hairs as to have the appearance of being 

 loaded with hoar frost. Mr. William Paul sent a bright scarlet 

 seedling Zonale Felargonium called Ossian, which is remarkable 

 not only for its compactness of growth, but also for the closeness 

 of its heads of bloom. Mr. Morgan, Torquay, exhibited a variety 

 of Scolopendrium vulgare, called Morganii, a beautiful crested kind 

 in the way of Cousensii, but larger. Messrs. Yeitch produced a 

 beautiful new Sarracenia, S. psittacina, with red-veined pale green 

 pitchers about 4 inches in length, spreading out horizontally from 

 a common centre, in the form of a star, all over the surface of the 

 pot in which the plant was growing. Mr. Leach again showed 

 his various beautiful examples of JSferine, one of the most showy 

 of which was 2V. corusca major, with light and peculiarly bright 

 orange-scarlet flowers. 



November 3. — A few well-managed Chrysanthemums were sent 

 by Mr. Eorsyth, of Stoke Newington, who exhibited six neat dwarf 



