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Sons won the Silver Medal with Maranta tubispatha, Draccena 

 Macleayi, Croton maximum, Croton Hillianum, Draccena nigro- 

 rubra, and Davallia hemiptera ; and the Bronze Medal was awarded 

 to the same growers for Dieffenbachia Wallisii, Maranta princeps, 

 Maranta chimboracensis, Croton aucubcefolium, Darwinia (Hedaro- 

 ma) Jimbriata, and Todea (Leptopteris) Wilkesiana, the latter also 

 receiving a First-class Certificate. For the best new plant shown 

 for the first time in flower Messrs. Veitch received a Silver Flora 

 Medal and a First-class Certificate for Dendrobium Jamesianum, 

 a new nigro-hirsute species in the way of D. infundibulum ; while, 

 in the class for the best new ornamental-foliage plant shown for 

 the first time, Messrs. Veitch were again successful in winning 

 the Silver Flora Medal for Croton Dookerianum, a richly coloured 

 sort, with vandyked centre of bright yellow, and the Bronze 

 Medal for Draccena magnifica, a magnificent plant with broad red- 

 dish leaves, both these receiving in addition First-class Certi- 

 ficates. For the best garden seedling Messrs. Veitch took the 

 first prize (Silver Flora Medal) for Rhododendron Lady Polle, a 

 loose-trussed white-spotted flower ; and Mr. "Wimsett, Chelsea, 

 took the second prize (Bronze Medal) for Pelargonium Willsii 

 rosea, a new hybrid ivy-leaved variety, with handsome rose-coloured 

 flowers. First-class Certificates were awarded to the followiDg 

 new plants from Mr. Bull : — JEncephalartos grandis, Latania rubra 

 Acer polymorphism palmatifidum, Ptychosperma nobilis, Hyophorbe 

 Verschaffeltii, and Nothochlcena Candida, A similar award was 

 made to Mr. Mann, Brentwood, for Pelargonium Duchess of 

 Abercorn, a large circular rosy salmon zonal, and to Illuminator, 

 a rich bright orange scarlet ; also to Messrs. Standish and Co., 

 for Pelargonium JVilhelm Pfitzer and Marie Lemoine, two fine 

 new double-flowered zonals ; to Mr. Harman for Pelargonium Mrs. 

 Lambert, a robust variegated ivy-leaved variety ; to Mr. Turner 

 for Pelargonium Heroine, and Fancy Pelargoniums Excelsior and 

 Agrippa; to Mr. W. Paul, for Pelargonium Waltham Bride, a silver- 

 edged variety with fine white flowers ; to J. H. Arkwright, Esq., 

 Leicester, for Pose Duchesse de MecJclembourg, with pale rosy-tinted 

 salmony flowers ; and to Mr. Turner for H. P. Pose Mons. Wool- 

 Jield, a large full-flowering bright pink suflused with rose. 



