FLORAL COMMITTEE, MARCH 31. 



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To Viola gracilis (votes, unanimous), from Messrs. Wallace, Colchester. 

 A species from Greece, introduced early last century, but still very scarce 

 in gardens. The flowers are about an inch and a half across, deep violet 

 in colour, with a very small white eye and a long curved spur. The 

 leaves vary from oblong linear to spathulate and are almost entire. 

 Stipules leafy, pinnatifid. (Fig. 15.) 



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Fig. 15. — Viola gracilis. (The Garden.) 



Other Exhibits. 



Messrs. Barr, Covent Garden : alpines. 



Mr. Ben. Cant, Colchester : Rose ' White Dorothy.' 



Messrs. Clark, Dover : rock plants. 



Miss Dixon, Westergate : Violets. 



Mr. C. Foster, Reading : Sweet Peas. 



Mr. F. Galsworthy, Chertsey : floral studies. 



Messrs. Heath, Cheltenham : Pelargoniums. 



