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ft. high, with whorled leaves, and a cluster of about eight small purplish-white 
flowers, with small maroon spots.— Messrs. Veitch 4" Sons: E.H.S., June 17. 
Meteoxylon filare [f.c.o.]. —A very elegant Palm, with a tall smooth stem, 
and pinnate spreading fronds, the petioles of which have distinct slender spines, 
and the narrow pinnae terminate in a long awn. It comes from Ceram.— Mr. W» 
Bull: B.H.S., Aug. h. 
Pelabgonium (double) Jean Alegatiere [f.g.c.].—A large-flowered double 
variety, the flowers lilac, with pink on the edges of the petals.— Mr. W. Paul : 
B.H.S., July 15. 
Pelargonium (tricolor) Dr. Masters [p.c.c.]. —A very bright-looking 
variety, of vigorous growth, the leaves being handsomely marked with green, clear 
yellow, and bronzy-scarlet.— Messrs. E. G. Henderson 4" Son: B.H.S., July 1. 
Pelargonium (zonal) Sir Q-aenet Wolbeley [f.c.o.]. —A zonal variety 
with large bright scarlet flowers of fine quality.— Mr. J. George : B.H.S., July 15. 
Eose (h.p.) John Stuart Mill [f.c.c.]. —A fine, full, rounded flower, of a 
dark rose-colour ; very promising.— Mr. C. Turner: B.B.S., June 24. 
Eose (h.p.) William Ingle [f.c.c.]. —A somewhat remarkable and novel 
flower, the pale lilac ground-colour being striped and blotched with white.— Mr. 
W. Ingle: B.B.S., June 24. 
Eose (h.p.) Sir Garnet Wolbeley [f.c.c.]. —A reputed seedling from 
Prince Camille de Bohan, with large, full, and finely formed deep rosy-crimson 
flowers.— Mr. J. Cranston: B.H.S., July 1. 
Eose (h.p.) Eoyal Standard [f.c.c.]. —A good, full, compact rose, of fine 
globular shape, and of a pleasing hue of a pinkish-rose.— Mr. C. Turner: B.H.S., 
July 15. 
SiLENE pendula floee-pleno [f.c.c.]. —A good double-flowered form of the 
well-known annual, with the flowers large and full, and of the brightest rose- 
colour.— Mr. B. Dean: B.H.S., July 1. 
SoNERiLA Hendersoni AND S. Hendersoni argentea [f.c.c.]. — Two forms, 
distinct in character, of a pretty dwarf stove Melastomaceous plant—the one 
having the leaves red beneath, and blotched with silvery-grey; the other with 
the surface of the leaf more freely, though not entirely, covered with silvery- 
grey.— Messrs. E. G. Henderson 4" Son, B.H.S., July 15. 
Tillandsia Zahnii [b.o.]. —A pallid, almost transparent-leaved Bromeliad, 
the leaves when young being deep amber veined with red, and afterwards of a rich 
scarlet, which becomes deeper with age; the flowers are panicled, rich golden- 
yellow.— Messrs. Veitch 4" Sons: B.B.S., June 24. 
Viola cobnuta Admiration [f.c.o.].—A fine variety, with large, well-formed 
purple-blue flowers.— Mr. B. S. Williams : B.B.S., June 24. 
ON BEDDING-OUT. 
HAVE somewhere read, in what is called in the North a song-ballad, as 
follows :— 
“ There was an old woman toasod up in a blanket. 
‘Old woman, old woman, old woman ! ’ says I, 
‘ What are you doing up there bo high ? ’ 
To sweep the cobwebs out of the sky; ' 
But ril be down again by and by.*^ 
Now, on seeing a large bed of the Mrs, Pollock Pel^gonlum of a bluntly coni- 
