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THE PLOEIST AND POMOLOGIST. 



Hollyhock George Keith. — August 13, Messrs. Downie, Laird, & Laing. — A large 

 and full light-crimson-flowered variety, of fine properties. 



Hollyhock Invincible. — August 27, Mr. W. Chater. — A showy variety of full even 

 form ; the colour is salmon rose. 



Hollyhock Invincible. — September 11, Mr. "W. Chater. — A salmon-coloured sort, of 

 good form and substance, and a very desirable flower. It had been previously commended. 



Hollyhock Joshua Clark.— August 13, Mr. W. Chater. — A fine light crimson variety 

 of excellent properties. 



Hollyhock Lady Dacres. — August 27, Mepsrs. Downie, Laird, & Laing. — A very 

 fine pale salmon or flesh colour, having large flowers of good form. 



Hollyhock Lady King. — August 27, Mr. W. Chater, Saffron Walden. — A full and 

 well-formed large deep crimson. 



Hollyhock Lady King. — September 11, Mr. W. Chater. — A fine crimson scarlet 

 variety of good properties. It has been previously commended. 



Hollyhock Lady H. St. Clair. — August 13, Messrs. Downie, Laird, & Laing, Syden- 

 ham and Edinburgh.— A fine blush variety. 



Hollyhock Ne Plus Ultra. — August 27, Mr. W. Chater. — A variety of good form, 

 and desirable in colour, which is a rosy purple lilac. 



Hollyhock Prince Imperial. — September 11, Mr. Bircham, Hendenham. — A very 

 deep claret, of average form, but the ground petals a little rough ; fine dense colour. 



Hollyhock Stanstead Rival. — August 13, Messrs. Downie, Laird, & Laing, 

 Sydenham and Edinburgh. — A finely formed salmon rose, full, and of large size, and 

 entirely without pockets. 



Lepanthes calodictyon.— October 8, Messrs. Osborn & Son. — A minute, but lovely 

 little stove Orchid, 2-3 inches high, with the ovate leaves beautifully veined with rich 

 olive brown on a pale green ground. 



Lomaria elongata. — November 12, Mr. Standish, Bagshot. — A very fine evergreen 

 New Zealand Fern, with bold, dark green pinnatifid leaves, and contracted fertile fronds, 

 the segments in both forms remarkably decurrent behind. 



Mutisia decurrens. — August 13, Messrs. Veitch & Son, Exeterand Chelsea. — A splendid 

 hardy evergreen Chilian climber, with simple narrowish-tendrilled leaves, decurrent behind, 

 so as to form a winged stem, and bearing large, intense orange Gazania-like flower-heads. 



Pelargonium (variegated) Delicata. — August 27, Messrs. E. G. Henderson & Son, 

 St. John's Wood. — A pretty silver- edged variety, having the leaves faintly pink-zoned ; the 

 flowers light rosy pink. 



Pelargonium (variegated) Mrs. Pollock. — August 27, Messrs. E. G. Henderson 

 and Son. — A very handsome variety, similar to the foregoing in general character, equally 

 bold in the marking, but rather deeper and less brilliant. 



Pelargonium (zonale) Portobello. — August 27, Mr. Richardson, gardener to Lady 

 Gerard, East Sheen. — A showy compact-habited variety, with a broad dark green zone-like 

 edge to the leaves, which are paler in the centre ; the flowers light orange scarlet, in bold, 

 well-elevated trusses. 



Pelargonium (variegated) Sunset. — August 27, Messrs. E. G. Henderson & Son, 

 St. John's Wood. — A beautiful tricolor variety, with flat leaves, green in the centre, 

 yellowish at the edge, and with a prominent and bright red zone, light red on the creamy 

 parts, and chocolate where overlying the green. The finest of this character yet seen. 



Pentstemon Lobbianus. — August 27, Messrs. Low & Co. — A very distinct hardy 

 perenniakof sub-shrubby Myrtle-like appearance, with twiggy stems, small, elliptic, shining 

 leaves, and very short-tubed gaping yellow flowers, quite dissimilar from those of the 

 species commonly grown. 



Pollia purpurea. — August 27, Messrs. Low & Co., Clapton ; and Mr. Bull, Chelsea.— 

 A neat dwarf stove herb, with broadly oblong-lanceolate, shining, bronzy purple foliage ; 

 red purple beneath, and having stems about a foot in height. 



Polybotrya Lowi. — August 27, Messrs. Low & Co., Clapton. — A fine scandent Fern, 

 shown as Arthrobotnja articulata. It has pinnate fronds of two forms ; some with small 

 pinnse obliquely ovate and crenated, developed only on one side of the winged rachis ; 

 others larger and equally pinnate with oblong-elongated pinnse. The fertile fronds are 

 not yet known. 



Retinospora pisieera. — September 11, Messrs. Veitch & Son, Exeter and Chelsea. — , 

 A fine evergreen Japanese Conifer, remarkably elegant, and a most desirable acquisition. 

 With it was shown R. obtusa, which had already obtained the highest award, as a fine new 

 evergreen tree, at the Society's grand exhibition. 



Sedum carneum variegatum.— September 11, Messrs. E. G. Henderson & Son, St. 

 John's Wood. — A dwarf herbaceous perennial, with short, trailing, succulent stems, and 

 glaucous green linear leaves edged with white; the flowers yellow. A good plant for 

 suspended baskets, of remarkably neat appearance. . .. 



