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THE FL01USX AND POMOLOGlSl'. 



Pelargonium Lady Cowpek.— Mr. Francis, Hertford [S.C'.C.].— A very dwarf compact 

 scarlet, with green leaves. 



Pelargonium (Nosegay) Stella Variegated.— Mr. Or. Smith, Hornsey Eoad [C.].— 

 A fine variety, having all the qualities of the beautiful variety from which it sported, except 

 the green foliage, which is replaced by leaves having a green centre, and a broad creamy edge. 



Picotee Exhibition. — Mr. B. Elkington, Buckingham [O.j. — A showy heavy-edged 

 red, pure and without bars, and likely to prove a flower of the useful class. 



August llt7i. 



Pelargonium Loud op the Isles. — Mr. G-. Smith, Hornsey Eoad [E.C.O.]. — A variety 

 of moderate vigour, with slightly zonate leaves, and rosy scarlet flowers of fine shape, large, 

 and in good bold trusses. 



August 25ih. 



Cyetanthus sanguineus. — Messrs. Backhouse & Son, York [E.C.C.]. — A beautiful 

 aniaryllidaceous plant, of which the bidbs that produced the plants exhibited had been 

 imported from Caffraria in the autumn of 1862. It was, however, originally introduced by 

 the same eminent nurserymen in 1846, and was presented, by them to the Society, in whose 

 Journal it was published by Dr. Lindley, under the name of Gastronema sanguineum. It 

 produces linear spathulate or lanceolate leaves, and short scapes 3 to 4 inches long, bearing a 

 large solitary funnel-shaped flower, of a bright orange red, with the perianth segments 

 recurved. Messrs. Backhouse remark that they are led to conclude the plant will prove 

 hardy, its habitat being closely analogous to that of Gladiolus psittacinus. 



Dahlia Anna Keynes. — Mr. Keynes [S.C.C.]. — A large, full, high flower, white, 

 delicately tipped with lilac. 



Dahlia Coronet. — Mr. Wheeler, Warminster [S.C.C.].— A full violet purple variety. 



Dahlia Crimson Perfection. — Mr. Legge [C.]. — A small deep ruby crimson. 



Dahlia Earl or Pembroke. — Mr. Keynes [F.C.C.]. — A high-built well-formed claret 

 purple. 



Dahlia Fanny Purchase. — Mr. Keynes, Salisbury [F.C.C.]. — A neatly-formed sym- 

 metrical bright yellow, likely to prove a very useful flower. 



Dahlia Formidable. — Mr. H. Legge [S.C.C.]. — Ked, tipped with white. 



Dahlia Nonsuch. — Mr. Legge [C.]. — A medium-sized golden amber, rather quilled. _ 



Dahlia Regularity. — Mr. Keynes [S.C.C.]. — A variable sort, blush white, heavily 

 striped with crimson, but sometimes much more slightly marked. 



Dahlia Surety.' — Mr. Keynes [S.C.C.]. — Shaded fawn colour. 



Dahlia Symmetry. — Mr. Wheeler [C.]. — A dark ruby red. 



Dahlia The Bride. — Mr. H. Legge, Edmonton [S.C.C.]. — A pale French white, tipped 

 at back with purple. 



Hollyhock Acme. — Mr. W. Chater, Saffron Walden [F.C.C.]. — Peach-coloured, fine. 



Hollyhock The Queen.— Messrs. Downie, Laird, & Laing, Sydenham and Edinburgh 

 [S.C.C.]. — A handsome variety, with blush white flowers. 



Hollyhock Volunteer. — Mr. Bird Porter, Copt Hall, Epping [S.C.C.].— Flowers dark 

 claret. 



Hollyhock Willingham Defiance. — The Bev. E. Hawke, Willingham Eectory, 

 Gainsborough [S.C.C.]. — Flowers bright rose. 



Lilium neilgherrense. — Messrs. Veitch & Son, Exeter and Chelsea [S.C.C.]. — An 

 Indian Lily, with one-flowered stems in the way of L. eximium, producing large, long-tubed, 

 horizontal "flowers of a yellowish or greenish-white, and very sweetly scented. 



Pelargonium (Variegated) Mrs. Benyon.— Messrs. E. G. Henderson & Son, St. John's 

 Wood [F.C.C.]. — A variety considered to be excellent for bedding purposes. It is in the 

 style of Mrs. Pollock, of dwarf, free, vigorous growth, with large effective foliage, and 

 flowering more abundantly than any other variegated variety except Brilliant. The flowers 

 are scarlet. The plant was accompanied by a group of seedling Pelargoniums. 



Vallota purpurea eximia. — Mr. Bull, Chelsea [Special]. — A group of three well- 

 managed plants of a fine variety of this very beautiful bulb, which was equal in merit to 

 the variety called major, but was said to differ in having a distinct pale centre. It is 

 remarkable for its dwarf and more compact habit. It is also much more free in flowering, 

 always throwing two or three spikes where the other throws but one. 



September 9th. 



Adiantum cardiochljenum. — Mr. Bull, [F.C.C.]. — One of the most beautiful of the 

 tender Maiden-hair Ferns, and tolerably well known in all good collections, but deserving of 

 universal introduction, and on this account (not having been before the Committee) it 

 received an award. The stipes are black and polished, and the fronds large, spreading, and 

 tripinnate, the pinnules being obtusely oblong, almost parallelogramoid, and elegantly 

 lobato-crenate. 



