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EOYAL HOETICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 



Messrs. Windebank and Kingsbury was not distinguishable from this. 1st 



class in 1865. 



Alice {Bull). Moderately vigorous ; leaves with dark zone ; flowers white, with 



large pink centre ; promising. 

 Dame Blanche (Barillet). Compact but vigorous, with dark zoned leaves and 



white flowers, with a blush eye ; distinct. 

 Fairy Queen ( Windebank and Kingsbury). Moderately vigorous ; leaves dark 



zoned ; flowers white, with a radiate salmon eye ; promising. 

 Madame Bruant (F. $ A. Smith). Moderately vigorous ; leaves with dark 



zone ; flowers deep salmon, with pale edges ; promising. 

 Matiiilde Moret (F. $ A. Smith). Moderately vigorous ; leaves with dark 



zone; flowers blush-white, with salmon eye; promising. 

 Medea ( Windebank and Kingsbury). Dwarf and compact ; leaves small, zonate ; 



flowers white, with small deep salmon-pink eye ; promising. 

 Miss Louisa Pyne ( Windebank and Kingsbury). Vigorous ; leaves with dark 



zone ; flowers white, with salmon eye ; promising. 

 The delicate blossoms of this group are more suited for indoor than for outdoor culture. 

 Hence some of the following, which were considered inferior, or superseded as outdoor plants, 

 might be desirable for culture under glass : — Ary Zang, Beauty, Bright Eye, Christabel, Fes- 

 toon, Francois Desbois, G-ae'tana, Henri de Beaudot, Juliette, Lady Hamilton, Le Prophete, 

 Loveliness, Madame Dufour, Madame G-auffier, Monseigneur Lavigerie, Madame Eudersdorff, 

 Madame Van Houtte, Mdlle. La Comtesse de Lircourt, Prineesse Mathilde, Queen of Beauties, 

 Vestal, and Victory. 



6. Flowers White. 



La Vestale ( Turner). Of moderately vigorous growth ; leaves marked with 



dull zone; flowers pure white, free, pure under glass, but suffused with 



blush outdoors. 1st class in 1868 as a pot-plant, being considered the best 



white for pot-culture. 

 Madame Martha Vincent ( ). Of vigorous growth, with dull zoned leaves, 



and blush-white flowers. 1st class in 1867. 

 Mdlle. Marie Mezard (Low). Moderately vigorous ; leaves zonate ; flowers 



white. 1st class in 1866. 

 Madame Vaucher (Low). Moderately vigorous ; leaves with dark zone ; flowers 



white. 1st class in 1865. 

 Purity (Bull). Of moderately vigorous growth ; leaves dull zoned ; flowers 



blush-white. 1st class in 1867. 

 White Perfection (J. F. Chater). Moderately vigorous, with dull zoned leaves 



and blush-white flowers. 1st class in 1864. 



Album compactum (Barillet). Moderately vigorous ; leaves lobed, wavy, with 



dull van dyked zone ; flowers white ; promising. 

 King of the Whites (E. G. Henderson). Moderately vigorous, with dark dull 



zoned leaves and white flowers ; promising. 

 Madame Barillet (Low). Moderately vigorous ,' leaves with a medium dark 



zone; flowers white ; promising. 

 Queen of the Whites (E. G. Henderson). Moderately vigorous ; leaves with 



dark zone ; flowers white ; promising. 

 Virgo Maria (Fraser). Moderately vigorous ; leaves with dark zone ; flowers 



white. On the whole this was probably the best of the whites in the present 



season. 



Wilhelmine Weick (W. Paul). Vigorous ; leaves dull zoned; flowers blush- 

 white ; distinct. 



Passed over: — Candidissimum, Emilie Vaucher, Lara, Madame Nardy, Snowball, White 

 Pearl, White Tom Thumb. 



(b). Flowers narrow er-_petctled (Nosegays). 



* True Nosegays. 



1. Flowers Scarlet or Crimson. 



Bayard (Pearyon). Dwarfish and free growing; leaves lobate, dull-zoned; 

 flowers crimson-scarlet in large trusses. 1st class in 1868 as a pot-plant. 



