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with pale purple florets. A vote of thanks was accorded. Mr. G. 

 Wiggins, gardener to H. Little, Esq., Hillingdon Place, Uxbridge, 

 received a similar recognition for a collection of incurved, re- 

 flexed, and Pompone Chrysanthemum flowers, which were distin- 

 guished by their neat forms and good colours for such a late 

 period. Mr. J. Moorman, gardener to the Misses Christy, Coombe 

 Bank, Kingston, was also accorded a vote of thanks for a collec- 

 tion of twenty-four cut blooms of Chrysanthemums, several of 

 which were in good form. The best were Fulton, Madame Godilot, 

 The Mikado, Princess Teck, and Hero of Stoke Newington. Mr. 

 J. Osborn, gardener to H. J. Buchan, Esq., Southampton, was 

 awarded a first-class certificate for a pretty Orchid, Oncidium 

 Edwardi, which was bearing a panicle of small flowers with 

 recurved sepals and petals of a purple tinge. Mr. W. Miles, 

 "West Brighton Nursery, Cliftonville, very worthily obtained a 

 cultural commendation for a collection of plants of the Zonal 

 Pelargonium West Brighton Gem, very dwarf, compact, and pro- 

 fusely flowered. Mr. H. B. Smith, Ealing Dean Nursery, Ealing, 

 staged a very large collection of Cyclamens comprising about 170 

 plants, all in 48-size pots, vigorous, dwarf, even, and remarkably 

 well flowered. The collection included many good varieties, and 

 a first-class certificate was awarded for Baroness Burdett Coutts, 

 of which the flowers were pure white, large, of great substance ; 

 the peduncles stout, and foliage prettily marbled. Mr. Ollerhead, 

 gardener to Sir H. Peek, Bart., M.P., Wimbledon House, was 

 accorded a vote of thanks for a large group of Poinsettias, includ- 

 ing a variety named rosea that was exhibited with plants of 

 P. pulcherrima to show its distinct character. The bracts appear 

 smoother in outline and of a rosy scarlet tinge, which at a distance 

 has, however, a somewhat dull appearance. Messrs. T. Jackson 

 and Son, Kingston-on-Thames, sent a collection of new Japanese 

 Chrysanthemum flowers not in first-rate condition generally. A 

 first-class certificate was awarded for M. Lemoine, a flower of 

 somewhat reflexed character, the outer florets yellow and the inner 

 orange red. Mr. C. Noble, Bagshot, sent a flower spike of Lilium 

 giganteum of extraordinary dimensions; it measured 13 feet in 

 height and 11 inches in circumference at the lower portion, and 

 had borne twenty-two flowers. 



