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deep velvety crimson ; and Marechal Niel, the best yellow Tea- 

 Rose in cultivation. 



July 3. — A variety of interesting plants was on this occasion 

 shown by Messrs. Veitch and Sons, to whom no fewer than eight 

 First- Class Certificates were given. Lomaria ciliata, one of 

 these certificated subjects, is an elegant slender Tree Tern from 

 New Caledonia, and is remarkable for the long spiny teeth which 

 fringe the segments of its sterile fronds. With this were: — 

 Lomaria dura, a leathery but graceful-habited Chatham-Island 

 Fern ; Davallia alpina and D. parvula, two little gems amongst 

 hothouse creeping Ferns ; Nepenthes lanata, a rare and valuable 

 Pitcher plant ; Dipladenia amabilis, a new and improved variety 

 of this grand genus of stove-creepers, raised between D. crassinoda, 

 and D. splendens, and proving superior to either ; and Acalypha 

 tricolor, a New Hebrides plant, variegated in quite a novel way, 

 the leaves being flushed with a kind of coppery hue, and here and 

 there splashed and streaked with clear orange red. This appears 

 to be one of the numerous varieties of A. hispida, Burm. Messrs. 

 Yeitch also showed a pretty little creeping slender-stemmed 

 Nieremoergia, from Peru, with lilac flowers remarkable for the 

 long slender tube, which was subsequently named N. Veitchii. 

 The Dipladenia just mentioned was also sent, in the form of a 

 magnificent specimen, by Messrs. Backhouse and Son, by whom 

 the plant has been introduced to cultivation. Pelargonium 

 Nhnrod, a peculiar orange-scarlet variety of the zonal series, from 

 Mr. "Win. Paul, was considered highly meritorious. Of the 

 Tricolor zonate Pelargoniums, Mr. Watson showed two good and 

 distinct forms, namely Mrs. Dix, with scarlet, and Miss Watson, 

 with salmon-coloured flowers ; and Mr. Bartleman showed a 

 Nosegay Pelargonium called King of Nosegays, a very fine scar- 

 let-flowered sort. A new Caladium, called Napoleon III., was 

 sent by Messrs. E. Gr. Henderson and Son ; it has the leaves 

 prettily veined and stained with red. Mr. Brewer, gardener to 

 J. Terry, Esq., Fulham, produced a plant of IMium auratum, re- 

 markable for the close manner in which the fine head of flowers 

 was packed. 



July 17. — Conspicuous groups of interesting plants were sent to 

 this meeting by Mr. W. Bull, and by Messrs. Veitch and Sons. 

 Among those from the former were the following : — fine specimens 

 of a plant called Amorphopliallus grandis, each with a spreading 

 much-divided leaf on a mottled stalk some 5 feet in height ; the 

 true Latania rubra, a red- stalked Fan-Palm, from Madagascar ; the 



