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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 



AWARDS OF THE FLORAL COMMITTEE OF THE ROYAL 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The awards made by this Committee during the former part of the past season were 

 recorded in the concluding pages of onr former series. We here resume the subject, and in 

 the following memorandum record the whole of the awards which have been made by the 

 Floral Committee since last J uly — a period, therefore, including the whole of the Hollyhock, 

 Dahlia, and Chrysanthemum seasons: — 



Agave Americana elegantissima. — November 12, Mr. Bull, Chelsea. — A very finely 

 marked variety of American Aloe, in which the leaves are green in the centre, with a broadly 

 variegated margin of creamy white, streaked with greyish- green. 



Alocasia macrorhiza variegata. — October 8, Messrs. Veitch & Son, Exeter and 

 Chelsea. — A large, bold-looking, and finely variegated stove perennial, subarboreous in habit ; 

 the leaves marked out with bold blotches and segments of creamy white, and mottled with 

 greyish-green. 



Alsophila clauca.— November 12, Messrs. Veitch & Son, Exeter and Chelsea. — An 

 elegant tree Fern from the Philippine Islands. Its large compound fronds glaucous beneath, 

 and the stem whitish with the scales that clothe the bases of the stipes. It is the same as 

 A, eontaminens. 



Antectochilus Bullenii. — August 27, Messrs. Low & Co., Clapton. — A fine Bomean 

 variegated stove Orchid, with the leaves ovate-lanceolate, dark bronzy green, marked with 

 three longitudinal bold distinct stripes of coppery red. 



ANiECTOCHii/us sp. — October 8, Messrs. Osborn & Son. — A very pretty dwarf variegated 

 stove Orchid, with ovate leaves of a deep bottle green, marked with numerous bright silvery- 

 lined angular spots. 



AngrjEGUM sesquipedale. — December 10, Messrs. Veitch & Son, Exeter and Chelsea,. — 

 A noble stove epiphyte, of Vanda-like habit, the distichous leaves glaucous, and the large, 

 white, fleshy, ivory-like flowers, having a slender, tail-like spur a foot or more in length. It 

 is from Madagascar, and was introduced by the Rev. W. Ellis. 



Athyrium filix-fcemina Erizellle. — Atigust 13, Mr. Bull, Chelsea. — A very remark- 

 able and beautiful variety of Lady Eern, the fronds of which are reduced to less than an 

 inch in breadth, and consist of small symmetrical fan-shaped pinme. It was found in 

 Ireland. 



Begonia sp. — November 12, Mr. Salter, Hammersmith.— A remarkable herbaceous 

 species from Santa Martha, with green, obscurely angular-lobed leaves, 24 inches in length 

 and 19 inches in breadth. 



Bougainvillaea glabra. — October 8, Mr. Daniels, gardener to the Rev. C. E. Ruck 

 Keene. — A very handsome autumn-blooming cool stove climber, more slender than B. speeiosa, 

 with smoother branches, smaller leaves, and rather open panicles of rosy coloured bracts. 

 It is hardier and more easily flowered than B. speciosa, which are its recommendations. 



Calamus australis. — October 8, Messrs. Veitch & Son, Exeter and Chelsea. — A pretty, 

 slender, erect, prickly- stemmed stove Palm with pinnated leaves, which are prickly along 

 the ribs and margins. 



Calceolaria suavis. — August 13, Messrs. Veitch & Son, Exeter and Chelsea. — A pretty 

 dwarf, herbaceous, Chilian Slipperwort, with light purple-spotted flowers, which are very 

 sweet-scented. 



Chrysanthemum Bessie. — November 6, Mr. Ingram, Erogmore. — A neat, full-flowered, 

 Indian red Pompon, shaded towards the outside of the head with rose, and near the centre 

 with yellow. 



Chrysanthemum Carissima.— November 6, Mr. Salter, Hammersmith. — A sulphury 

 white, with fine, broad, incurved florets, full and well incurved. It was hardly enough 

 developed. 



Chrysanthemum Carissima.— November 12, Mr. Salter. — A very excellent incurved 

 variety with broad florets sulphury white, with a faint streaky tint of rose. 



Chrysanthemum Duchess of Wellington. — November 12, Mr. Salter. — A fine light 

 rose, full, and evenly incurving. A very first-class flower. 



Chrysanthemum General Slade. — November 6, Mr. Salter, Hammersmith. — A full 

 incurved flower of a bright Indian red, with golden backs and yellow tips to the florets. The 

 best variety in its class. , 



Chrysanthemum Lady H. St. Clair. — November 6, Messrs. Downie, Laird, & Lamg, 

 Sydenham and Edinburgh. — A very finely formed and incurved variety of a creamy white — 

 the best white yet obtained. It is a sport from Queen of England. 



Chrysanthemum Madame Heine.— November 12, Mr. Bull, Chelsea. — A large-flowered 

 Pompon of free habit. The flower-heads full, pure white, and of a showy character. 



Chrysanthemum Sparkler.— November 12, Mr. Salter.— A small-flowered variety, 



