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but very pretty. The flower-heads arc very full and well-incurved, deep Indian red, with 

 golden backs. It is a very lively sort. 



Chrysanthemum Striped Queen. — November 6, Messrs. Downie, Laird, & Laing, 

 Sydenham and Edinburgh. — A blush white sport of Queen of England, the florets pencilled 

 with purple streaks. 



Convolvulus mauritanicus— August 13, Messrs. E. Q-. Henderson & Son, St. John's 

 Wood. — A pretty dwarf trailing herb, with small oblong-oval hairy leaves, and moderate- 

 sized pale greyish-blue flowers. It forms a good border or bedding plant in summer, and 

 is well suited for suspended baskets. 



Cyperus alternifolius variegatus. — October 8, Messrs. Veitch & Son, Exeter and 

 Chelsea ; and Mr. Bull, Chelsea. — A very graceful, dwarf, reedy stove plant, with both stems 

 and tbeir terminal drooping whorls of grassy leaves elegantly striped with white. 



Cyrtomium caryotideum.— September 24, from the garden of the Society. — A fine 

 hardy Indian and Chinese Fern, of bold appearance, having pinnate fronds with broad 

 serrated pinnae, the terminal one unequally lobed at the base, as in tho Caryota leaflet. 



Dahlia Black Prince. — September 11, Mr. Keynes. — A useful dark-shaded maroon, 

 of average size. 



Dahlia Bob Ridley. — August 13, Mr. C. Turner. — A full maroon crimson, of fair 

 outline, but rough. 



Dahlia Charlotte Dorling.— August 27, Mr. C. Turner.— White, heavily tipped and 

 shaded with bright light purple. 



Dahlia Countess of Portsmouth. — September 11, Mr. Bawlings. — A creamy white 

 tipped with bright rosy purple. A very pleasing variety. 



Dahlia Cygnet. — August 13, Mr. C. Turner, Slough.— A rather small, but well-formed 

 and regular ; deep blush, paler towards tho centre. 



Dahlia_ Delicata. — September 11, Mr. C. J. Perry, Birmingham. — A neat and compact 

 pleasing variety, of a rosy fawn colour. 



Dahlia l'Etoile. — August 13, Mr. Keynes, Salisbury. — A coarse, flat-formed, white 

 striped with purple, which could only have been rewarded as a border flower. 



Dahlia G-oldfinder. — September 11, Mr. Keynes. — A large chrome yellow, faintly 

 tipped at the back with salmony rose. 



Dahlia Handforth Hero. — September 11, Mr. J. Henshaw, Handforth, Manchester. 

 ■ — A neatly formed orange red. 



Dahlia Miss Henshaw. — October 8, Mr. Henshaw. — A full and tolerably well-formed 

 creamy white. 



Dahlia Imperial. — August 27, Mr. Keynes. — A large and well-formed amaranthine 

 purple. A yery useful colour. 



Dahlia Lord Derby. — September 11, Mr. Pope, Chelsea. — The finest variety produced 

 this season. It is a bright crimson purple, of full size, and very finely formed, and has 

 been so frequently exhibited that it must be a constant flower. 



Dahlia Maid of Bath. — August 27, Mr. Keynes. — A symmetrical and chaste-looking 

 white, faintly tipped with purple. 



Dahlia Maria Carter. — August 27, Mr. Keynes. — A white variety, heavily and gaily 

 tipped with light rosy purple or lake. It was rewarded for its bright colouring. 



Dahlia Minnie Dodds. — August 13, Mr. Dodds, Salisbury. — A pretty shaded rosy 

 lilac, paler at the base of the florets, of medium size and depth ; the centre rather low. 



Dahlia Mrs. Bush. — September 11, Mr. C. Turner. — A very pleasing bright rose. 



Dahlia Mrs. Bush. — September 24, Mr. C. Turner, Slough. — A first-class variety, 

 commended on a previous occasion. Colour, a bright light rose, very beautiful. 



Dahlia Model. — September 11, Mr. C. J. Perry, Birmingham. — A medium-sized 

 orange buff, of very fine form. 



Dahlia Reliance. — September 11, Mr. Bawlings, Bethnal Green. — A useful fancy 

 flower, blush with purple stripes. 



Dahlia Una. — August 13, Mr. C. Turner. — A blush white tipped with rosy purple ; 

 the general outline good, but the eye rather low. 



Dendrobium Lowi.— November 12, Messrs. Low & Co., Clapton. — A very handsome 

 stove epiphyte, the flowers of which are bu(F yellow, marked on the lip with bold crimson 

 lines, on which occur long, red, hairy fringes. 



Echeveria sp.— September 24, Mr. Wicks, gardener to W. Wilson Saunders, Esq. — 

 A handsome-looking succulent, not in flower, but having broad, obovate, apiculate, glaucous, 

 purpurescent leaves. 



Fuchsia Hugh Mollon. — August 13, Messrs. Veitch & Son, Exeter and Chelsea. — A 

 dwarf, vigorous, free-blooming, and showy decorative variety, with very large, pale pink, 

 long-tubed flowers, having a large reddish-purple corolla. A variety of distinct character. 



(To he continued.) 



