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ployed to lighten it, and the margin was composed of Crocuses, 

 Scillas, and Iris reticulata in pots placed alternately. The general 

 effect was remarkably bright and pleasing. A silver Banksian 

 medal was deservedly awarded by the Committee for this handsome 

 exhibit. Mr. J. Aldous, florist, Gloucester Road, South Kensington, 

 obtained a similar award for a neat group of Palms, Ferns, Hyacinths, 

 and Lilies of the Valley. The two latter were remarkably good, 

 some spikes of white Hyacinths being unusually large, and bearing 

 good bells. The group would, however, have appeared better had 

 more brightly coloured flowering plants been employed in conjunc- 

 tion with the Lilies and Hyacinths. Mr. William Bull, Chelsea, 

 was adjudged a silver medal for a fine group of Orchids and choice 

 plants in excellent condition. The chaste and sweetly scented 

 Pilumna fragrans, the orange-coloured Ada aurantiaca, Odonto- 

 glossorns, Dendrobiums, Masdevallias, and Lycastes were all well 

 represented. Epacris onosmaeflora nivalis flore-pleno is a remark- 

 ably pretty double white variety, somewhat resembling in habit 

 Epacris purpurascens. Several new hybrid Rhododendrons of the 

 jasminiflorum-javinicum type were shown, including some with 

 very delicately tinted wax-like flowers. Oncidium Kramerianum 

 was bearing large and deeply coloured flowers, which resemble but 

 surpass the Butterfly Orchid, 0. Papilio. 



Mr. B. S. Williams, Upper Holloway, exhibited a group of 

 Cyclamens very well flowered, and some of good size and substance. 

 One variety, Brilliant, was noticeable for its brilliant crimson colour. 

 Several of the white varieties were also in vigorous health. A 

 bronze Banksian medal was awarded. Messrs. Barr and Sugden, 

 12, King Street, Covent Garden, staged a large group of Cyclamens, 

 comprising about 140 plants. They were all in 48-size pots, the 

 vigour and size of the plants being remarkable. The flowers were 

 noticeable for their great size and substance. Cut blooms of the 

 lovely Iris reticulata and its variety Krelagei, together with blooms 

 of Megaseap, were also shown. A silver Banksian medal was 

 awarded. Mr. John Wills, South Kensington, was awarded a 

 bronze Flora medal for a group of Dracaena terminalis alba, a very 

 useful plant for decorative purposes, and very clearly variegated. 

 The plants exhibited were in small pots, but in excellent health. 



