JANUARY. 
19 
Dahlia Fairy Queen.—M r. Alexander, Leyton [F.C.C.].—A variety of excellent form 
and full size, but dull in colour, being a creamy-blush, the florets tipped behind with purple, 
becoming much more flushed with rose when more mature. 
Dahlia Favourite (Felloives). —Mr. Turner [S.C.C.].—A large and showy bright purple. 
Dahlia Miss Herbert.—M r. Keynes [S.C.C.].—A medium-sized buff yellow variety, 
flushed at the back of the florets with purple. 
Dahlia Nonsuch.—M r. Legge, Edmonton [F.C.C.].—A full-sized buff yellow, suffused 
at the back with pale purple. It had previously been commended. 
Dahlia Willie Austin.—M r. Keynes, Salisbury [F.C.C.].—One of the best of the 
many amber-coloured or buff yellow varieties which have appeared this season, the blooms 
being of good size and full, and the colour a purer and more decided amber. 
Dianthus hybridus Marie Pare.—M essrs. E. G. Henderson & Son [S.C.C.].—A 
hybrid of the same character as the foregoing, with pure white flowers. 
Dianthus hybridus multiflorus.—M essrs. E. G. Henderson & Son [S.C.C.].—A very 
valuable decorative plant, a continental hybrid, hardy, and free-flowering, with green foliage 
(not glaucous), otherwise resembling that of the Carnation in character, and producing a 
profusion of corymbosely-branched flowering stems, bearing sweet-scented double flowers, 
which, when produced in-doors in spring, for which the plant is well adapted, are of a light 
purplish-rose colour; but when produced in the open air, where it flowers throughout the 
whole summer, are of a deep rose, changing to crimson, and have a very bright and showy 
appearance. It is a most valuable hardy plant, and one of good constitution. In the open 
air it grows a foot or 15 inches high. 
Dianthus hybridus striatiflorus.—M essrs. E. G. Henderson & Son [S.C.C].—A plant 
of the same habit as the preceding, with the flowers pink, flaked with rose crimson. 
Eranthemum sp.—M essrs. Yeitch & Son [S.C.C.].—A shrubby plant, well furnished 
with lance-shaped leaves, 4 or 5 inches long, and long-tubed white flowers, of which the 
segments were directed two upwards and three downwards, so as to form a two-cupped 
flower; they were white, the middle lower segment spotted with rose purple towards the 
base. 
Eranthemum tuberculatum.—M essrs. Yeitch & Son, Exeter and Chelsea [S.C.C.].—A 
slender, twiggy, dwarf shrub from New Caledonia, the branches clothed with small, ovate, 
repand, opposite leaves, and clothed with long-tubed white flowers, having a spreading star¬ 
shaped limb, the ovate-oblong segments of which were more than half an inch in length; 
the flowers were freely produced. The stems and branches had a curious warted appearance. 
Hollyhock Lord Clifden.—M essrs. Downie, Laird, & Laing [S.C.C.].—A full light 
rosy-crimson. 
Hollyhock Neatness.—M essrs. Downie, Laird, and Laing, Sydenham and Edinburgh. 
—A fine full deep crimson, with well-proportioned guard petals. 
Pelargonium Beauty.—M essrs. E. G. Henderson & Son, St. John’s Wood [F.C.C.].— 
A beautiful dark-zoned continental variety, the flowers of which were of large size, and 
remarkably fine shape, white, with the base of the petals bordered with pink. This, which 
will make a very attractive plant, was raised by the originator of Madame Yaucher. 
Pelargonium Princess of Wales.—M r. Wills, gardener to Sir P. M. De Grey Egerton, 
Oulton Park, Tarporley [S.C.C.].—A handsome variety, with darkly-zoned leaves, and a 
profusion of large well-formed flowers, which were of a bright salmon colour in the centre, 
and paler at the edges. It was a good useful free-flowering variety of the salmon-centred 
series, and was said to be good both in-doors and out. 
Pelargonium Yolcano.—M r. Wills [C.].—A vigorous-habited sort, with the leaves 
faintly pale zoned, producing freely good trusses of large bright scarlet flowers of a positive 
colour. It is a good conservatory plant. 
October 6th. 
Anemone japonica Honorine Jobert.—M essrs. E. G. Henderson &; Son, St. John’s 
Wood [S.C.C.].—This plant, which had been previously exhibited, and had received a com¬ 
mendation, was again produced in better condition, and was thought worthy of a higher 
award, as a vigorous, dwarf-habited, free-flowering, hardy, herbaceous plant, with large pure 
white blossoms. 
Dendrobium eburneum.—M essrs. Low & Co., Clapton [F.C.C.].—A very handsome 
epiphyte from Moulmein, though not exhibited in first-rate condition. It is one of the 
species with nigro-hirsute sheaths to the stems, and has oblong leaves, and short lateral 
racemes, here two-flowered. The flowers are pure white, with lanceolate plane sepals and 
petals, and a lanceolate lip, frilled at the edge, and having a pencilled blotch of deep orange 
colour at the base. When well established it will no doubt be a very ornamental plant. 
The flowers are fragrant, and in its native country remain for six weeks. 
November \0th. 
Chrysanthemum Late Yellow Dragon.—T he Society’s Garden, to which it had been 
