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Award of Merit. 



To Aster Falconeri (votes, unanimous), from Messrs. Barr, n 

 King Street, Covent Garden. A useful hardy plant for the rock 

 garden. It grows about I foot high and produces large flowers, of 

 which the ray florets are violet -mauve and the disc golden yellow. 

 The leaves are lanceolate and sessile, and are covered with hairs. 



To Auricula ' William Smith ' (votes, 8 for), from Mr. J. Douglas, 

 Great Bookham. A fine green -edged variety, having a perfect pure 

 white paste, surrounded by a zone of dark brownish colour. The 

 individual flowers are large, and they are borne in a fine truss. 



To Begonia 1 Lena ' (votes, 10 for, 5 against), from Messrs. Black- 

 more and Langdon, Twerton-on-Avon, Bath. A beautiful carmine- 

 rose hybrid variety for growing in baskets. The flowers are semi- 

 double and have long pointed petals. They are very freely produced, 

 and hang down over the sides of the basket. The leaves are long 

 and narrow, and irregularly serrated. 



To Calceolaria 1 Clarefield Gem ' (votes, 12 for, 1 against), from 

 Mrs. Litkie (gr. Mr. Hulbert), Clarefield, Pinkneys Green. This 

 charming hybrid is the result of a cross between C. profusa type, 

 and the herbaceous Calceolaria. It has the tall growth and free- 

 branching habit which are characteristic of C. Clibranii, but the 

 flowers are larger and are borne more closely on the stem. The 

 pouch is circular, and has a yellow ground-colour, shaded with orange 

 and spotted with crimson. 



To Campanula Stevenii nana (votes, unanimous), from Mr. R. 

 Prichard, West Moors. -A lovely plant for the rockery, forming a 

 dense carpet of small linear leaves, above which arise the comparatively 

 large mauve flowers. The pedicels are very short, and rarely exceed 

 2 inches in length. The colour of the flowers is rather deeper than that 

 of the type, and the blossoms are very open. The plant is free-flower- 

 ing, quite hardy, and one of the first Campanulas to flower. (Fig. 145.) 



To Cytisus Andreanus prostratus (votes, 11 for), from Mr. L. R. 

 Russell, Richmond. A pendent form of this well-known shrub. 

 The flowers are large and yellow, with chestnut-red wings. The 

 specimen exhibited was shown as a weeping standard. 



To Lonicera tragophylla (votes, 9 for), from Messrs. J. Veitch, 

 Chelsea. A new Chinese species, of twining habit. The flowers are 

 deep lemon-yellow, and the corolla tube measures 2| inches long. 

 The leaves are elliptic, with pinkish midribs. The upper pair of 

 leaves are connate. 



To Pentstemon Davidsonii (votes, unanimous), from Mr. C. Elliott, 

 Stevenage. A very free-flowering hardy moraine plant, of prostrate 

 growth, from the Rocky Mountains. The flowers are deep rose, and 

 the tube measures about ij inch long. The leaves are small, round, 

 and serrate. 



To Roscoea cautlioides (votes, 11 for), from Messrs. Bees, Ltd., 

 Liverpool. A very pretty plant from China, which has proved hardy 

 in the nurseries of the exhibitors. The flowers are pale sulphur- 



