EXTRACTS FROM PROCEEDINGS. 



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Miss Wimsett ( Wills). A free bloomer ; violet-blue with a white eye ; stands 

 both sun and rain better than most varieties of this colour. 



ANNUALS. 



Asters. — Of these beautiful autumnal flowers, which have been greatly im- 

 proved of late years, the following strains were grown. Boltze's, Dwarf Chry- 

 santhemum-flowered, New Dwarf French, and Newest Victoria were the most 

 desirable ; there were various colours of each : — 



Boltze's New Bouquet (Benary). 4 in. to 6 in. high; beautiful dwarf, free-flowering varieties. 

 Double Quilled (Stuart & Mein). 12 in. to 15 in. high ; roguey. 



Dwarf Chrysanthemum-flowered (Eenary). Dwarf and good. A similar strain came from 



Messrs. Stuart & Mein. 

 Dwarf Large Chrysanthemum-flowered (Mackintosh). Dwarf; very showy. 

 Globe-flowered (Mackintosh). A mixed series, containing both quilled and tasaelled sorts ; 



not very good. 



New Dwarf French (Carter). Dwarf growth, with small flower-heads and much-recurved 

 florets ; a very pretty type of Aster. 



New French Peony-flowered (Mackintosh). A very fine strain; flowers large and abundant. 



New Globe (Haage & Schmidt). 8 in. high ; very good miniature flowers. 



New Peony-flowered Perfection (Mackintosh). A good ordinary strain, not peony-flowered. 



New Tall Large Chrysanthemum-flowered (Mackintosh). Good; rather tall. 



Neicest Victoria (Mackintosh). Generally very perfect flowers. They were the best formed 

 in the whole series, and some of them models of symmetry and beauty. Mr. Benary and 

 Messrs. Haage & Schmidt sent under this name a strain very similar to the foregoing. 



Pyramidal Perfection (Benary). A good strain of large showy flowers. 



Quilled Globe (Stuart & Mein). Tall and straggling. 



Heine Marguerite (Stuart & Mein). Tall and straggling, with inferior flowers. 

 Victoria (Benary). 12 in. to 18 in. high; very handsome flowers. 



G-ilia laciniata {Carter). A dwarf, close-habited, Mexican species, producing a 

 profusion of dark-blue flowers in heads, in the way of those of G. capitata. 

 1st class in 1868. 



Sweet Pea & Black Invincible (Carter). A decided improvement on the old 

 Purple Sweet Pea, with large bold flowers, having a dark narrow standard 

 and deep purple wings. 1st class in 1868. 



Sweet Pea & Scarlet Invincible (Carter). A most attractive variety, with 

 abundant large showy flowers of a bright carmine colour, much finer than 

 in the common Scarlet Sweet Pea. 1st class in 1868. 



Trop^eolum King op Tom Thumbs (Carter). A dark-foliaged variety, with very 

 rich deep scarlet flowers. 1st class in 1868. 



Trop^eolum Tom Thumb cveruleum roseum (Carter). A free-flowering, dwarf- 

 tufted growing variety, with very distinct-looking flowers, of a pretty rose- 

 colour. 1st class in 1868. 



Floral Committee, April 6. — First-Class Certificates were 

 awarded to Lilium Thomsonianum, a curious Anthericum-like plant, 

 with long flaccid leaves, and narrow-petaled pinkish flowers, from 

 Gr. "Wilson, Esq., who had received the bulb from M. Leichtlin ; to 

 Agave JDe Smetiana, a dwarf- growing species remarkable for the pale 

 brown border and coarse irregularly curved spines on the margin of 

 its leaves, from Mr. Green, gardener to "W". W. Saunders, Esq. ; 

 to a Coelogyne, supposed to be ocellata, a pretty white-flowered 

 epiphyte, with the large patch of yellow on its lip bordered by a 

 thin red line, from Mr. Williams, of Holloway ; to Ficus eburnea, 

 a bold-looking plant, with large subcoriaceous shining green leaves, 

 marked by white ribs; to Cineraria Orb of Day, a rich crimson, 



