REPOET ON PLANTS GROWN AT CHISWICK. 
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small and of a lilac-blue colour, but the great profusion in 
which they are produced renders the plant very attractive. 
The three marks awarded to it (indicated by the asterisks 
which follow the name, as in the other cases recorded below), 
are equivalent to a first-class certificate. 
Chieftain (Dicksons & Co.) The plant was of dwarf habit, 
and a free-grower and bloomer ; the colour of the flowers lilac- 
purple, with a rich dark eye. 
Dicksons' Golden Gem (Dicksons & Co.) A very bright 
yellow, with radiatiug eye. 
Dicksons^ King (Dicksons & Co.) A bold and free-blooming 
sort, well-marked and effective ; the colour is a lilac-purple or 
bluish-purple, with rich dark eye. 
DicJcsoris" Queen *^"^ (Dicksons and Co.) Of dwarf habit, and 
very free-blooming ; white, wilh dark eye. 
Imperial Blue Perfection ^^'^ (11. Dean). An efi'ective and free- 
blooming variety, in which the flowers are of a deep lilac-tinted 
blue. 
Lilly white Tom Thiml (E.. Dean). A neat-habited sort, and 
one of the earliest and most constant bloomers ; the flowers are 
white, with an eye of radiating lines. 
Miss Maiiland (Milligan & Kerr). A necit-habited plant, 
with the flowers white, and furnished with dark radiating 
lines spreading from the eye. 
Mulberry ^^'^^ (H. Dean). A neat-growing variety, and one of the 
earliest and freest to bloom ; in the way of Cliveden Purple ; the 
colour is a dark mulberry purple, very rich and effective. 
The Tory (Dicksons & Co.) Of compact habit and a free 
bloomer ; the flowers dark purple, with a rich dark eye. 
Tyrian Prince (R. Dean). A very free-blooming purple self, 
likely to be useful for bedding purposes. 
The Committee was of opinion that in a general way the value of 
a Eedding Pansy was in proportion to its earliness, since they are 
plants not much required during summer. The present collection, 
owing to the adverse season, was not inspected till the middle of July, 
which was considered to be too late to arrive at the true merits of 
the sorts, and it was noted that they should be examined about the 
first week in May. To this end the several approved varieties 
will be again grown, with a view to their being examined next 
spring. Some of the sorts, especially Blue Perfection, revived 
with the rain which followed on the visit of the Committee, and 
