lviii PROCEEDINGS OE THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



rosy purple in the centre. A silver Banksian medal was awarded. 



Messrs. Osborn and Sons, Fulham, sent a collection of Azaleas, 

 Palms, Ferns, Anthuriums, Imantophyllums, and other stove and 

 greenhouse plants, which was honoured with a similar award to 

 the last mentioned group. Messrs. Barr and Sugden, Covent Garden, 

 staged an excellent collection of Narcissi comprising a very large 

 number of the best varieties and species, representing nearly all the 

 sections of the genus admirably. Mr. J. Walker, Thame, Oxon, 

 exhibited two boxes of Roses, one containing over thirty remark- 

 ably handsome blooms of Marechal Niel, and the other containing 

 very good examples of Belle Lyonnaise, Cheshunt Hybrid, Madame 

 Falcot, John Keynes, Lamarque, Madame Favart, Climbing 

 Devoniensis, Jules Margottin, Niphetos, and Comtesse d'Oxford. 

 A cultural commendation was deservedly awarded for these fine 

 blooms. 



Comparatively few plants were staged in the Council-room, and 

 nearly all of them were subsequently removed to the conservatory. 

 Mr. B. S. Williams, Upper Holloway, exhibited several plants for 

 certificates, which were granted for the following— Choisy a ter- 

 nata, a pretty evergreen Mexican shrub, that, although by no 

 means new, is not very common in gardens. The white fragrant 

 flowers are borne in terminal heads, the ternate leaves being 

 dark shining green ; and Coleus Mrs. Geo. Simpson, a very distinct 

 variety with extremely large leaves marked with maroon and 

 crimson. The Cranston Nursery Company, King's Acre, Hereford, 

 exhibited blooms of a seedling Tea Rose, dull rosy crimson in colour 

 but rather loose ; and a first-class certificate was awarded to them 

 for cut flowers of Hoya globulosa, an extremely pretty species with 

 dense globular heads of creamy white highly fragrant flowers. 

 G. F. Wilson, Esq., Weybridge, exhibited a seedling Primrose 

 named Herman Wilson, for which a first-class certificate was 

 granted. The flowers were large, of good form and rich purple in 

 colour, with a clearly defined yellow edge. A first-class certificate 

 was awarded to Mr. Walter Cobb, Silverdale Lodge, Sydenham, 

 for Odontoglossum polyxanthum, a pretty species, with pale yellow 

 sepals and petals spotted with brown, and a dull brown fringed 

 labelluai. Mr. H. Cannell, Swanley, sent cut blooms of Zonal 



