DECEMBER. 



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AWARDS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY'S 

 FLORAL COMMITTEE. 



July 7th, 1863. 



Nemophila discoidalis auricul-Zevlora. — Mr. Melville, gardener, Dalmeny Park [C.]. 

 — A variety of N. discoidalis, with deep mulberry flowers, distinctly and evenly edged with 

 pure white. It was considered an improvement on the variety called elegans. Mr. Melville 

 describes it as heing of a dwarf spreading habit of growth, flowering very profusely, and 

 having a very showy appearance. 



Selaginella involvens.— Messrs. Veitch & Son, Exeter and Chelsea [F.C.C.].— This 

 had already received a second-class award at the July Show, but was considered worthy a 

 first-class certificate, which was consequently awarded to it. Mr. Veitch reported that this 

 plant (as well as the following) had been' known to withstand 15° of frost without the 

 slightest injury. The plant forms a small flat-spreading tuft, with something the character 

 of the species commonly called S. lepidophylla, but with the branches more openly branched. 



Selaginella involvens variegata. — Messrs. Veitch & Son [F.C.C.]. — A variety of the 

 foregoing, differing in having the branches and leaves slightly variegated with white. 



Verbena Mauve Queen. — Mr. C. J. Perry, The Cedars, Castle Bromwich [C.].— A 

 distinct and showy variety, with good trusses, the pips of a beautiful mauve lilac, with a 

 pale eye. 



July 21st. 



Achimenes Mooiiei.— Mr. A. Parsons, Welwyn [S.C.C.]. — A handsome decorative 

 variety, with moderately-large rosy-crimson flowers, slightly fringed at the edges. 



Calceolaria Bijou.— Mr. John Watson, St. Albans [F.C.C.].— This was a dwarf variety 

 somewhat resembling Prince of Orange in habit. The flowers were of a rich velvety deep 

 brown-red colour, produced in great abundance. On this account the plant was considered 

 likely to prove useful for bedding purposes. 



Helipterum Sandeordii.— Mr. W. Thompson, Ipswich [F.C.C.].— This was a dwarf 

 btishy yellow-flowered Everlasting, introduced last year by Mr. Thompson, from Chapman 

 River, West Australia. As a showy fi'ee-blooming hardy annual it promised to be a great 

 acquisition. The flower-heads were small, but produced in large masses. Seeds of it were 

 stated to have been first sent to this country by the late Mr. Drummond. Mr. Thompson 

 stated that it was constant, easy to grow, hardy, distinct from other annuals, and quite 

 effective in sunshine. 



. Hollyhock Alexander Shearer. — Messrs. Downie, Land, & Laing, Sydenham and 

 Edinburgh [F.C.C.].— This was a remarkably fine flower, large and very double, and of a 

 rich deep red colour. 



Picotee Lucy (Taylor).— Mr. Turner, Slough [F.C.C.].— A charming variety, with 

 finely- formed white petals, delicately pencilled with pale red at the edges. 



August Mh. 



Clematis Jackmanii.— Messrs. Jackman & Son, Woking [F.C.C.].— This was one of a 

 batch of seedlings raised by Messrs. Jackman, the result of a cross between C. lanuginosa 

 and 0. Uendersonii and C. viticella atrorubens, the first being the female parent. They were 

 lovely hardy climbers, with large flowers, which, in the present variety, were of a deep 

 bright violet, and consisted of a variable number of from four to six sepals. It was con- 

 sidered quite an acquisition. The plants flower from July onwards till the autumn. 



Clematis rubro-violacea. — Messrs. Jackman & Son [F.C.C.]. — This was from the 

 same batch of seedlings as the foregoing, and differed chiefly in its intense reddish- violet 

 flowers, which were remarkable for the rich velvety appearance of the surface of the sepals. 



Dahlia Alexandra. — Mr. C. J. Perry, Castle Bromwich [S.C.C.]. — A veiy pleasing- 

 flower, both in respect to colouring and form. The colour is white, delicately tipped with 

 lilac. 



Dahlia John Wyatt.— Mr. Keynes [S.C.C.].— A neatly- formed full flower, of a deep 

 rose purple. 



Hollyhock Cherub. — Mr. W. Chater, Saffron Walden [S.C.C.]. — A moderate- sized 

 full flower, of a salmon pink coloiu-. 



Hollyhock Mrs. M. Binning. — Messrs. Downie & Co. [F.C.C.]. — A fine deep rose, the 

 flowers large, full, and regularly built. 



Hollyhock U. B. Ullet. — Messrs. Downie, Laird, & Laing, Sydenham and Edinburgh 

 [F.C.C.]. — A fine large crimson, with the flowers full, even, and compact. 



Hymenostachys elegans. — Mr. Bull, Chelsea [F.C.C.]. — A handsome tropical Film- 

 Fern, with dimorphous pellucid fronds ; the sterile ones pinnatifid or pinnate, with the veins 

 anastomosing, and the fertile ones narrow linear-elongate, with the cup-like involucres sunk 

 side by side along both edges. 



