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Angraecum Scottianum had several flowers. The pretty shrub 

 Eucryphia pinnatifolia was also represented by flowering sprays. 

 Mr. J. Walker, Thame, Oxon, sent a number of flowers of 

 Dahlia?, large, of excellent form, and comprising some distinct and 

 handsome varieties. A vote of thanks was accorded. Mr. Charles 

 Turner, Slough, exhibited about eight dozen blooms of Carnations 

 and Piccotees in very fine condition, and including a lar^e number 

 of handsome varieties. A pale primrose-coloured self variety 

 named Lady llosebery was very attractive. 



From the Society's garden at Chiswick were sent a collection of 

 plants of Begonia ascotensis, some of which had been grown in- 

 doors and the others outside. The flowers of the latter were 

 rather darker in colour, and the leaves were smaller than the 

 others, but the plants were nearly equally floriferous. A large 

 group of handsome Tuberous Begonias was also contributed, the 

 flowers being very large and the colours bright ; also double Pe- 

 largoniums and Pentstemons. Messrs. Daniells Bros., Norwich, 

 sent flowers of Godetia Flag of Truce and Lady Albemarle, the 

 latter of a bright rosy crimson tinge, and the former white. The 

 General Horticultural Society stnt a collection of handsome Zinnia 

 blooms, very bright in colour and symmetrical in form. A vote 

 of thanks was accorded. Mr. R. Gray, gardener to the Earl of 

 Stanhope, Chevening Park, Kent, was accorded a vote of thanks 

 for blooms of seedling Begonias, very bright in colour. Mr. J. 

 King, gardener to G. SimpsoD, Esq., Wray Park, Reigate; and 

 Mr. A. Eckford, gardener to Dr. Sankey, Sandywell Park, Chel- 

 tanham, contributed a number of Begonias and Coleuses. Mr. Sol- 

 loway, Beaconsfield, Davenport, Stockport, sent flowers of a rich 

 purplish blue seedling Viola. Robert Warner, Esq., Broomfield, 

 Chelmsford, exhibited a plant of Cypripedium Warneri, a cross 

 between C. Schlimii and C. Sedeni ; the flower was of moderate 

 size of a rosy colour. 



Some extraordinary fine flowers of Lapageria ro^ea and alba 

 were exhibited by Titus Salt, Esq., Milner Field, Bingley, York- 

 shire (gardener Mr. C. Anderson). Not only were the individual 

 blooms ot great size and excellent form, but they were borne in 

 unusually large numbers j in some instances as many as a dozen 



