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EOTAL HOETICTJLTTJEAL SOCIETY. 
GENEEAL MEETING. 
J. Bateman, Esq., F.E.S., in the Chair. 
Mr. Berkeley called especial attention to Messrs. Veitch's 
cut flowers of SpircBa, especially >S'. sorUfolia, the foliage of which 
is most elegant, and S. Lindleyana, one of the most effective shrub- 
bery plants when well grown. 
He directed attention to a remarkable new variety of Lily of 
the Valley shown by Messrs. Standish, to whom a very large batch 
was forwarded by mistake from the Continent some months since ; 
but they refused to start : but having been placed in a cool frame 
they were now in perfection and very valuable. The variety has 
shorter, blunter, and more rigid leaves, and the flowers very sweet- 
scented. 
Amongst Mr. Saunders's plants was a rush-like plant with 
flowers resembling those of Statice, which proved on examination 
to be Watsonia plantaginea. 
A number of seedlings of Black Hamburgh crossed with 
Monukka, with a view to obtain a good stoneless grape, had been 
raised by Mr. Barron at Chiswick, amongst which it was hoped 
there might be some good varieties, as the seedlings partook of 
the Monukka character in their foliage. 
ELORAL COMMITTEE. 
ArarsT 2, 1871. 
A First-class Certificate was given to Mr. Guildford, gardener 
to R. Try on, Esq., for his new Coleus, half of the leaf being of a 
rich crimson, the other half a golden yellow ; it was a sport, but 
it does not appear of what peculiar variety. Mr. Laxton brought 
a dwarf double-flowered Pelargonium (Jewel) raised from Madame 
Rose Charmeaux, which also had a First-class Certificate. Similar 
awards were made to Mr. M. Young for Juniperus cJiinensis aurea, 
which bids fair to be constant ; to Messrs. Kelway for three new 
Gladioli, Hogarth, blush flamed with crimson. Blush, heavily 
flamed with crimson, and Pictus, with a dark maroon centre ; 
Messrs.Wood and Ingram for Picotee, delicate white, and. Second- 
class, Mrs. Ingram, white with crimson edge ; to Messrs. E. G. 
