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edges; Dolly Varden (Keynes), F.c.c., pale ground, slightly flaked with purplish 
crimson, very pretty, fine form and good substance ; Kate Haslam (Turner), 
F.c.c., very delicate violet-pink, novel and extremely pretty; Mrs. Saunders 
(Turner), F.c.c., a fancy variety having a clear yellow ground tipped with white, 
large and of fair outline ; Mrs. Waite (Turner), s.c.c., delicate blush-lilac, 
small, but very pretty ; William Laird (Keynes), s.c.c., pale violet, tinted with 
pink, fine florets and outline; and Marchioness of Lome (Keynes), s.c.c., pale 
orange ground, tipped with rosy-purple and lilac, somewhat flat. 
Scarcely less numerously represented were the new Dahlias at the meeting of 
the Royal Horticultural Society on the 20th of September. The following awards 
were made :— Mr. Waite (Turner), f.c.c. ; Mephistopheles (Turner), f.c.c., crimson, 
heavily shaded on the edges, good florets, and fair shape; Yellow Standard 
(Turner), f.c.c., soft deep yellow, fine florets, substance, and shape; Livonia 
(Turner), f.c.c., light purplish-peach, slightly tipped with white, fair substance 
and outline ; Ranunculus (Turner), s.c.c., bright purplish rose, very full substance 
and close high centre; Bucks Lass (Turner), s.c.c., a fancy variety of a creamy- 
yellow ground, slightly tipped with light brown and mauve ; Admiration 
(Cannel), f.c.c., a fancy variety also, pale buff, flaked and striped with purplish 
red, novel and distinct; John Batten (Parker), s.c.c., dark velvety maroon, small 
in size, and good substance; Mrs. Bennett (Rawlings), s.c.c., pale bright peach, 
a large full flower ; and Golden Beauty (Rawlings), s.c.c., a large bright yellow 
self of good shape and substance. 
Mr. H. Eckford staged a very fine lot of seedling Verbenas :— Mauve Queen 
(f.c.c.), pale lilac-mauve, with a large sulphur eye ; Lady Gertrude (f.c.c.), very 
pale lilac, with a rosy-mauve ring round a pale-lemon eye ; Lady Brayhrooke (f.c.c.), 
white, with carmine ring round the centre, very fine pip and truss ; Isa Brunton , 
plum-colour, tinted with blue, and large pale eye; and Sandy Gibson , of fine 
quality. A new climbing perpetual Rose named Princess Louise (f.c.c.), was 
exhibited by Mr. W. Knight, of Hailsham. It has a fine free-climbing growth, 
and is free-blooming, the flowers being of a clear blush-pink hue.—R. D. 
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HIS is a very desirable plant, both on account of the colour of the flowers, 
and also of its glaucous pointed foliage, which gives it quite a distinctive 
appearance among other greenhouse plants. When well grown it will 
amply repay the cultivator for his attentions. A young healthy plant in a 
3-in. or 5-in. pot should, early in August, be shifted into one a size larger, ample 
drainage with broken crocks being provided, and a layer of rough peat placed 
over the crocks. Use one-half good fibry peat broken up into small pieces, one- 
fourth good mellow loam, and one-fourth leaf-mould, to which add a sufficient 
quantity of silver-sand to make the whole porous, so that on watering, the 
superfluous water may pass freely through. Pot moderately firmly, and place 
