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Master Christine (Veitch). This variety, which is not to 
be depended on as a bedder," makes a very fine pot plant. It is 
of dwarf dense habit, with small crenate green leaves, and bears 
numerous heads of dense bright rose-pink flowers having the 
base of the upper petals white. It has very much the habit of 
Mrs. Haliburton, but produces its flowers in denser trusses. 
Mrs. Halihurton (Kinghorn). A variety of dwarf dense 
habit, clothed with small crenate downy green leaves; the flowers 
are produced in very numerous trusses, and are small and of a 
bright rose colour. This is a very eff'ective variety. 
Mrs. Tate (Pearson). A variety of moderately vigorous 
spreading habit, with the green leaves scarcely zonate; the 
flowers are produced in good-sized close trusses, and are of a rich 
deep rose-pink with white base to the upper petals. The award 
was made as a pot plant. 
Mrs. Turner '^"-''^ (Pearson). This novelty is of vigorous and 
rather spreading habit ; the leaves are soft and pale green ; the 
flowers are borne in large trusses, and are nearly the colour of 
those of Amaranth, a pale violet-tinted rose or a purplish-rose, 
but much larger and finer in quality. It proved to be one of the 
best of the series for indoor purposes. 
Queen of Beauties (F. & A. Smith). A dwarf-habited variety, 
with dark-zoned leaves and finely-shaped flowers in moderate- 
sized trusses ; white, with a large bright salmon eye occupying 
nearly half the surface of the petals. It is a very handsome and 
attractive sort. 
Vanessa (F. Miles). This variety is too good to be passed over 
without remark, though by some inexplicable means it failed to 
obtain an award. It is a beautiful flower, and a decided improve- 
ment on the charming Yiolet Hill IS'osegay. The plant is of 
moderately "vigorous habit, with medium-sized leaves, having a 
dark green zone ; while the flowers come in bold trusses, and are 
of a salmon-pink colour shaded with orange-scarlet. 
White Swan 
Belle Esquemoise 
Tolly King 
President Thiers 
Forest Hill Nosegay 
had their certiflcates confirmed as pot 
plants. 
Trop^olums. 
T. compactum lutem (R. Dean). The plants of this variety 
form close compact tufts of a foot across and six or eight inches 
