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KOl'AL UOliTICULT UllAL SOCIETY. 



but merely "kept" therein for about the prescribed minimum 

 time (six weeks). 



June 19. — At this meeting Messrs. Veitch and Sons exhibited 

 the handsome golden-flowered Californian shrub called Frcmonlia 

 californica, a plant of which, since dead, the first raised in this 

 country, had been sold at a high price from the Society's garden 

 during the evil days through which it had passed. The species had 

 been reintroduced from the Rocky Mountains by Mr. Veitch, and 

 found to be quite hardy against a wall at Coombe Wood, Surrey. 

 Mr. Veitch also showed a beautiful new Adiantum (517), from 

 Peru, having stiff bipinnate fronds, the younger ones red, beauti- 

 fully contrasting with the green of those of more mature age, 

 together with Gloxinia Prince Teclc, a handsome variety. Mr. 

 Bull exhibited Athyrivm costale dissectum (a pretty bipinnate 

 Indian Fern, with finely cut segments), and Oplriopogon spicatv.m 

 argenteo-marglnatum, having the leaves edged with white. Messrs. 

 Osborn and Son produced good samples of Orchis maculata superba 

 (rather the rare O. latifolia, according to Mr. Symc), a plant found 

 in Ayrshire, and producing long dense spikes of handsomely 

 spotted purple flowers. Along with this, Messrs. Osborn had the 

 crested variety of Osmunda, called 0. regalis cristata. Froin Mr. 

 Bucker's garden came some interesting Orchids, and among them 

 three fine varieties of Cattleya labiata: — C. Wameri, with a very 

 rich purple and yellow lip ; C. Buclceri, with deep rosy sepals and 

 petals, and a very dark lip wholly rose-colour ; and C. Pilchcri, a 

 paler sort, with a pale lip marked by a wedge-shaped blotch of 

 purple. Aerides testaceum, a small-flowered species, with buff 

 sepals and rosy lip, came from the same garden. 



The principal display of seedling Pelargoniums took place on 

 this occasion, Mr. Turner being the chief exhibitor. Perfection, 

 (a rosy-pink, with white eye), Archbishop (a deep-rose, with 

 black tip and white eye), and Milton (a very large rose, with 

 spotted and veined lower petals, and dark spot with rosy margin 

 to the upper petals) were considered the best. Beauty of Windsor, 

 a very bright sort, with an orange dash over the rose tint, was 

 approved for its colour, as also was Negress, with an intense 

 dark blotch, and altogether very deeply coloured in a novel man- 

 ner. Of the Zonal race, Madame Werle (a smooth white, with 

 rosy eye) and Imperial (a finely formed bright scarlet), both from 

 Mr. Salter, were much approved ; while Lucy (a free-blooming 

 bright scarlet, with good trusses and marbled leaf), Glorious (a rich 

 scarlet), and Vandyke (with a yellowish leaf and dark bronzy zone, 



