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Supreme, a rich dark self; Pansy Exquisite, white ground with broad belting of blue and 

 purple; and Fancy Pansy Feu do Joie, mulberry with large dark blotch— all from Mr. 

 Turner ; alsi Kerria japonica variegata, a single variety with variegated foliage and pale 

 yellow flowers ; and a double-flowering Cherry from Japan — both from Mr. Standish, of 

 Bagsaot. Besides these there were a Wallflower from F. T. G-rabam, Esq., of Cranford, with 

 large yellow blossoms ; from Mr. Bull a flowering plant of Urope.liuin Lindeni, a curious 

 plant, having long threads issuing from the base of the two segments forming the flower • 

 and lastly, from Mr. Daniels, gardener to the Rev. C. R. Keene, Swyncomb, near Henley-on- 

 Thames, there was a large vase filled with branches of Bougainvillaea glabra, beautifully 

 coloured, and very showy. 



Quo. 



ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



FLORAL COMMITTEE AWARDS, &C. 

 (Continued, from page 55.) 

 Rhododendron striatum formosissimum. — Mr. Standish : First-class Certificate 

 May 21. — A hardy variety, of dwarf habit; the flowers rosy scarlet, the upper segment 

 heavily spotted, the spots ranging more or less in lines. 



. Rhododendron Suwaroff. — Mr. Standish : Second-class Certificate, May 21. — A hardy 

 variety, with the flowers r03y carmine, faintly spotted on the upper segment, and of moderate 

 form. 



Rose John Hopper.— Mr. R. Ward, Ipswich: First-class Certificate, June 26. — A 

 strikingly brilliant English variety, stated to have been raised from Madame Vidot crossed 

 with Jules Margottin, and to be perfectly hardy, and a perpetual bloomer, flowering from 

 June to December, and bearing bunches of from ten to fifteen Roses. The flowers are full, 

 neatly formed, remarkably bright-looking, from the contrast between the rosy crimson centre 

 with the more rosy outer petals, and the lilac-tinted backs. 



_ Salisburia adiantitolia fol. variegatis.— Mr. Standish : Bronze Medal, July 2. — A 

 variety in which the leaves are rather freely striped with white. 



# Sarmienta repens.— Messrs. Yeitch & Son: Silver Knightian Medal, May 21.— A dwarf 

 trailing Chilian herb, suitable for growing in baskets. The leaves small, fleshy, oblong-convex ; 

 the flowers numerous, drooping, tubular, axillary, of a light scarlet, reminding one of those 

 of Mitraria coccinea, the tube of the corolla being much inflated about the middle, very much 

 constricted at the ba»e, and moderately so just beneath the limb. 



Serissa fg3tida marginata. — Mr. Bull : Bronze Medal, May 21. — A dwarf bushy, 

 greenhouse shrub, of neat habit, furnished with small opposite ovate-oblong leaves, which 

 have a distinct but narrow edge of creamy white, the base of the midrib being also of the 

 same colour. 



Sphcerogyne latifolia.— Messrs. Veitch and Son: Silver Knightian Medal, May 21. —A 

 fine stove shrub in the way of Cyanophyllum magnificum, but quite distinct ; the stem erect, and 

 both it and the stalks of the opposite leaves thickly clothed with stiff reversed brown hairs ; 

 the leaves are large, oval-acuminate, five-ribbed, with a rugose velvety surface, purplish 

 beneath where the ribs were hairy. 



Stenogastra multiflora. — Messrs. Yeitch & Son: Bronze Medal, May 21. — A pretty 

 dwarf-tufted stove herb larger than 8. concinna, with roundish-ovate crenate leaves, and 

 numerous flowers springing from the crowded axils of smaller leaves which clothe the short 

 erect stem, the flowers having a long slender tube and spreading oblique limb of a reddish - 

 lilac colour, becoming deeper in age. 



Swainsona violacea. — Messrs. E. G-. Henderson & Son, St. John's Wood i First-class 

 Certificate, May 6. — A handsome, half-climbing, greenhouse, Australian, herbaceous plant 

 with smooth stems, furnished with imparipinnate leaves, from whose axils come long spikes 

 of large violet-mauve pea-shaped flowers, 



Thujopsis EiETEYiRENS . — Messrs. Veitch & Son : Silver Knightian Medal, May 21. — 

 A beautiful new hardy Conifer, with flattened branches like those of some elegantly-formed 

 Lycopod ; the lateral leafscales somewhat falcate, and the dorsal ones shorter and obtuse, the 

 whole plant being of a lively green. 



Tilia ETJR0P7BA, FOL. argenteis. — Messrs. E. G. Henderson & Son : Second-class 

 Certificate, May 6.— A Silver Lime tree, with boldly-marked variegated foliage, marked 

 with a small, irregular, dark green disk, and broad creamy-white border. 



Verbena Lord Leigh. — Messrs. Perkins & Sons, Coventry: First-class Certificate, 

 June 11. — A very fine, handsome variety, remarkable for the large size of the crimson-scarlet 

 flowers, which had a bright yellow eye and were of good form, the trusses being large and 

 well-furnished. 



