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Chelsea. A new species from Brazil of dwarf spreading and 

 graceful habit, with long fronds and roundish deep green pinnae. 

 The barren fronds have whip-like extremities from which young 

 plants are produced. 



Award of Merit. 



To Lilac ' Senator Holland ' (votes, 14 for, 2 against), from 

 Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Burford (gr. Mr. Bain). A free 

 flowering variety with semi-double flowers. The colour in the 

 bud state being rosy-purple, and soft lilac when fully expanded. 



To Rhododendron ' Pink Pearl ' (votes, unanimous), from 

 Messrs. John Waterer, Bagshot. Flowers of great size, borne 

 in huge trusses ; colour bright rosy-pink, the upper petal spotted 

 with red. 



To Trollius napellifolius (votes, 13 for, 1 against), from 

 Messrs. Barr, Covent Garden. A variety with semi-double deep 

 golden yellow flowers. 



To Streptocarpus x achimeniflora (S. 1 Veitch's hybrid ' ^ S. 

 polyanthus $) (votes, 15 for, 1 against), from Messrs. J. Veitch, 

 Chelsea. Long tubed flowers, borne on stout many branched 

 scapes, colour mauve with a light centre. 



Other Exhibits. 



The Director, Royal Gardens, Kew, sent a collection of sprays 

 of trees and shrubs, including beautiful specimens of Rhodo- 

 dendron Kewense, R. Sminowi, R. Luscombei, Amelanchier 

 alnifolia, Cytisus purgans, C. Ardoini, and Pyrus Scheideckeri. 



Messrs. de Rothschild, Gunnersbury House, Acton (gr. Mr. 

 Hudson), staged Hymenocallis macrostephana. 



From the Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Wood- 

 stock (gr. Mr. Whillans), came magnificent plants of Carnation 

 ' Admiration,' under which name it received an Award of Merit 

 on June 9, 1896. (See Vol. xx., Part 1, page lxxxviii.) By 

 permission of the Council the name was now, at the request of 

 the Duke, changed to ' Duchess Consuelo.' 



Sir Weetman Pearson, Bart., M.P., Paddockhurst, Crawley 

 (gr. Mr. Capp), sent a group of Gloxinias, Ferns, and Zonal 

 Pelargoniums. 



R. I. Measures, Esq., Ladymead, Rogate (gr. Mr. Wooton), 

 exhibited a specimen of Phyllocactus speciosus grandiflorus. 



