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THE FLOlUST AND POMOLOGIST. 
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and more ovate, and the flowers of a deeper and more fiery colour than those of 
its mother, while the bushy, free-flowering, twiggy habit remained the same. 
The March meetings have been more prolific. We may credit the meeting of • 
March 2 with an elegant pinnate Palm, from Mr. Williams, called Dcemonorops 
Ijlumosus; a fine hybrid orchid, with French white flowers, and small amaranth 
spot on the lip, from Messrs. Veitch and Sons, called Lcelia Pilcheri alba ; and 
Agave cuspidata, a succulent, with oblong spathulate leaves terminating in a long 
red spine, from the garden of W. Wilson Saunders, Esq. The beautiful Hybrid 
Perpetual Rose, Marquise de Mortemart, one of last year’s batch of French 
Roses, was exhibited by Mr. Charles Turner, and was awarded a First-Class 
Certificate ; the flowers have a deep blush centre, while the exterior is of a pale 
pink, and they are full, and of a finely cupped shape. Its adaptability for 
forcing appeared to be as well assured as its fine qualities. 
The meeting of March 16 brought together some pretty novelties, in addition 
to the Hyacinths, Orchids, &c. The Messrs. Rollisson and Son, Tooting, received 
a First-Class Certificate for Epacris liyacintliijlora carminata, a very pretty, deep 
bright rosy pink, of compact growth, and having the flowers freely produced. 
Similar awards were made to Mr. B. S. Williams for Solarium Pseudo-Capsicum 
compactum, a really compact though vigorous hybrid form, which bore its highly 
coloured berries profusely; to Mr. C. Turner, for Pr'imula sinensis semi-duplex 
striata, a semi-double Variety, with stripes and very small spots of pale rose on 
a white ground ; and to Messrs. Veitch and Sons, for Rhododendron multijlorum, 
a dwarf white hybrid Rhododendron, very free flowering, and appearing well 
adapted for forcing; this had previously received a Second-Class Certificate when 
exhibited by its raiser, Mr. Davies, but was now shown in a much better condition. 
It is quite hardy, and has the merit of flowering readily with scarcely any forcing 
if taken up early, potted, and kept under glass. Mr. T. S. Ware, Hale Farm 
Nurseries, Tottenham, had Pink Mi'S. Pettifer^ a new forcing variety, white, with 
rosy-crimson blotches in the centre, small, but free-blooming, and very fragrant. 
Mr. Ware also exhibited pans of Scilla sibirica, S. bifolia, S. bifolia alba, and 
Saxifraga oppositifolia major, all charming spring-blooming plants, the last 
named quite a gem. Several other first-class plants shown at these several 
meetings are reserved for special notice.—R. D. 
GARDEN GOSSIP. 
^I^ROM the last issue of the Royal Horticultural Society’s Proceedings, we 
(l^ learn that the collection of Bedding Pelargoniums at Chiswick, which 
f comprised in 1869 about 850 varieties, had been reduced by discarding 
some 445 sorts which had either become superseded, were not adapted for 
outdoor culture, or were not required in consequence of their close resemblance to other but 
better ^ kinds. The following varieties obtained certificates during the season :— Vesta, 
Vesuvius, and Witham Underwood, in the class of scarlet zonals ; Clio, a rosy-scarlet zonal; 
Advance, a rosy-pink self; Beauty of Lee, a rose-pink zonal; Rev. }V. F. Radclyffe, The Moor, 
