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EOYAL HORTICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 
Forest Hill Nosegay (Downie & Co.) ***. Remarkably free in 
growth, without the least coarseness ; leaves lobed and slightly 
zonate ; flowers very freely produced in large trusses, of a bright 
orange-tinted salmon shading off, the centre of the petals being 
paler, with a bluish flush ; very handsome. 
The following annotated sorts were selected as the best of the 
different shades of colour, the notes being made from the plants as 
grown under glass. The varieties considered to be the best of the 
respective shades of colour were selected to be retained in cultiva- 
tion, and the rest were discarded : — 
Salmon-coloured and ocellate sorts. 
Belle Esquimoise (Eraser). Very large flowers of fine shape ; 
white with pink centre ; extra good. 
Dr. NewJiam (E. G. Henderson). One of the marbled or fancy 
set ; habit spreading ; leaves with pale centre ; flowers abundant 
in neat trusses, of good shape, rosy-salmon ; good. 
Emily Licau (Bull). Leaves with dark zone ; flowers in compact 
trusses, neat, deep orange-tinted salmon ; good. 
Eugene Mezard (Yeitch). Leaves zoned ; flowers in compact 
moderate-sized trusses, salmon-pink with white eye ; good. 
Gloire de Corheny (Eraser). Leaves with dark zone ; flowers in 
long-stalked trusses, bright deep orange-salmon, pale at the 
edge ; good. 
Hogarth (Bull.) Leaves zoned; flowers in close trusses, of a deep 
orange-salmon colour ; good. 
Hortensia (Eraser). Leaves zonate ; flowers very freely produced, 
in large trusses, delicate pink with paler centre, not unlike a 
Hydrangea in appearance ; good. 
La Fontaine (Low). Leaves zonate ; flowers free, in neat trusses, 
deep salmon-orange ; good. 
Le Prophet (Eraser) . Of dwarfish habit ; the leaves zoned ; 
flowers pink with deep salmon eye ; good. 
Madame Van Houtte (E. & A. Smith). Leaves zonate ; flowers 
veiny blush, with a conspicuous ring of scarlet around the eye ; 
good. 
Mons. C. Rouillard (E. G. Henderson). Leaves zonate ; flowers 
flat, in neat trusses, finely- shaped, deep salmon with deeper 
eye; good. 
President Thiers (E. G. Henderson). Leaves zonate ; flowers 
large, in neat trusses, deep orange- salmon ; good. 
