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J une 14. — This was a special show for prizes offered by Fellows, 

 and, though not a gay exhibition, was one full of interest. 



The President's prize for the best nine plants sent out in 1865, 

 was won by Messrs. Veitch and Sons, whose collection contained: — 

 a very handsome plant of Verscliaffeltia splendida, a fine new Palm 

 from the Seychelles ; Dieffenhacliia Weirii, one of the novelties 

 introduced by the Society, remarkable for its prettily-marked 

 leaves, mottled with pale yellow green on a dark ground; the 

 very elegantly cut half-scandent Fern called Gymnogramma flexu- 

 osa ; the distinct Bertolonia pubescens, a dwarf plant with deep- 

 chocolate-coloured leaves edged with bright green ; Draccena 

 nigrescens, of Australasian origin, with coloured leaves in the way 

 of ferrea, but of a blackish purple hue ; with some others of less 

 importance. Mr. Bull had a collection of nearly equal merit, the 

 most prominent plants in which were : — Terminalia elegans, a Ma- 

 dagascan shrub, with trifoliate leaves, the oblong-lanceolate leaflets 

 of which have red midribs, and are elegantly veined ; Coprosma 

 Baueriana, a neat shrub, with obovate leaves clearly variegated 

 with creamy white ; Saurauja sarapigiensis, a large soft-leaved 

 stove shrub ; Cycas plumosa, having a single leaf, pinnated with 

 numerous long filiform segments, &c. 



The President's prize for the best nine plants sent out in 

 1804-65 brought three competitors. Mr. Williams had the best 

 collection, which contained : — Anthurium Scherzerianum, with its 

 rich scarlet spathes ; A. magnificum, with fine heart-shaped vel- 

 vety leaves, beautifully shaded and veined ; Calamus Imperatrice 

 Marie, a very graceful small Palm ; Blialcenopsis Liiddemanniania ; 

 and the variegated forms of Pampas Grass and New Zealand 

 Flax. In Messrs. Veitch' s group was Cypripedium Bearcei, a 

 new sedge-leaved species, with greenish tail-petaled flowers ; and 

 in that from Mr. Bull was the beautiful mottled-leaved Maranta 

 Van den Heclcei. 



Very good collections of Officinal Plants, Exotic Ferns, and 

 Bromeliads were shown in competition for the prizes respectively 

 offered for these subjects • but the cut Eoses were but of second- 

 ary merit. The ladies' indoor-plant prizes were well competed for, 

 the winning subjects being Mrs. Dombrain's Adiantum caneattcm, 

 grown in a sitting-room at Deal for two years ; Mrs. Marshall's 

 Davallia canariensis, grown in a sitting-room at Enfield for five 

 years ; and Miss Fisher's Davallia canariensis, grown in a sitting- 

 room in the City Road for nine years. Many of the other sub- 

 jects shown had apparently not been " grown" in a sitting-room, 



