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roxiphium Bouglasii, lately introduced by Mr. Saunders from the 
Sandwich Isles ; and to Mr, Goddard for Cyclamen persicum, 
Queen of the crimsons. 
A Special Certificate was awarded to Mr. B. S. Williams for 
improved hybrid Solanums ; also to Messrs. Jackson for Chrysan-- 
themums. 
Messrs. Standish gained the First Prize for berry -bearing 
Evergreens, and also hardy Evergreens of the Yew and Cypress 
type, amongst which was Taxus fastigiata aurea, which came up 
some ten or twelve years before in a batch of seedlings of Irish 
Tew. The First Prizes for Japanese and late-flowering Chrysan- 
themum were taken by Mr. E. Bowe, of Eoehampton ; the Second 
by Mr. Douglas. 
FEUIT COMMITTEE. 
A Special Certificate was awarded to Messrs, Lane for a collec- 
tion of G-rapes; and to Mr. G. Johnstone, Glamis Castle, for 
Cayenne Pines. 
A Eirst-class Certificate was given to Mr. W. Eobinson for a 
new winter Eadish from California, good specimens of which were 
sent from Chiswick by Mr. Barron. Mr. Trigg, of Hayling 
Island, sent thirteen Shallots which weighed 6 pounds 6 ounces ; 
and Messrs. Sutton the new Orange Naples Garlic. The Com- 
mittee desired that further examples might be submitted to them. 
The First Carter Prize was awarded to Mr. Pragnell, gardener 
to G. D. W. Digby, Esq., for a fine display of vegetables. 
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE. 
A. Geote, Esq., in the Chair. 
The Secretary read a letter from Mr. Anderson Henry relating 
to a new hybrid Begonia, which is given below *. Dr. Masters 
* " I have this season flowered a seedling Begonia, the produce of B. Pearcii 
XB. boliviensis again crossed with B. Veitchii, the seed-bearing parent being a 
hybrid of my own of 1869. Before operating upon it I divested the female 
flower^of two of the three lobes of its stigma, securing it from all other influ- 
ences save that oi B. Veitchii, as well after as before crossing. The produce of 
this double hybrid, double at least on one side, is a plant of almost specific di- 
stinctness, but bearing only female flowers— a dioecious plant, wholly unlike any 
