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THE ELOBIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[OCTOBEK, 
are produced in a truss. When exhibited at South Kensington in October last, 
it gained a First-Class Certificate. 
The plant is very closely related to the B. longijloruin of Lindley, also a 
Bornean plant, gathered b}^ Mr. Hugh Low, and may possibly prove to be the 
same. According to Messrs. Veitch’s experience, it requires the heat of an inter¬ 
mediate stove. It should be mentioned that the name It. Lohhianum had pre¬ 
viously been given to a yellow-flowered Penang plant, which has been considered 
by some as a yellow-flowered variety of B. Brookecmuvi. —M. 
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THE NEW SHOW PELARGONIUMS OF THE YEAR. 
qT would seem that Messrs. Hoyle and Foster are as busy as ever in the 
work of improving the Pelargonium, and their efforts are well seconded by 
Mr. Wiggins, of Isleworth. The march of improvement goes on, each 
succeeding season furnishes its quota of progress, and year by year Ave sum 
up the results of the acceptable work of these worthy florists. 
The past season has produced some very fine floAA’ers, and the finest of these 
have each received that high aAvard the Floral Committee of the Eoyal Horti¬ 
cultural Society is ever Avilling to give to subjects of undoubted merit. These 
favoured flowers are as follows ;— Admiration (Foster), loAver petals pink, flushed 
with carmine, Avhite throat, dark blotch on the top petals, with fiery orange 
border, and a thin edge of pale pink ; a fine and pleasing flower, and good habit. 
Charlemagne (Foster), in the AA^ay of Mary Hoyle, but haAung a much deeper gloAV 
of colour ; loAver petals bright carmine, bold Avhite throat; small dark blotch on 
the top petals, lit up with a slight border of fiery orange, and a broad margin of 
carmine-rose ; fine form, good truss, and excellent habit. Duke of Edinhurgh 
(Hoyle), a very fine stained or painted flower; fiery rose, loAver petals heavily 
pencilled Avith dark lines ; dark top petals, Avith narrow margin of pink ; pip of 
fine form; good truss, free-blooming, and good habit. Iron Duke (Foster), 
orange-carmine loAver petals, AAuth a slight margin of pink ; pure AA^hite throat; 
dark top petals, broken into AAutli fiery rose, and narrow margin of rosy pink; 
fine form and substance. May Day (Foster), pure pink loAv^er petals, large and 
striking Avhite throat; very dark, almost black top petals, bordered Avith fiery red, 
and broad margin of pink ; very smooth and pretty, and good bold truss. Pollie 
(Foster), rich crimson, heavily overlaid Avith dark; rich, dark, top petals, dAvarf 
habit, and very free-blooming ; a fine dark flower. Lastly comes Syren (Foster), 
pink loAver petals, slightly marked and veined Avith orange-maroon, white throat ; 
a very smooth and pretty flower of extra fine quality. 
Of those neAV floAvers that did not receiA^e awards, the folloAving promised 
well:— Pretender (Foster), orange-red, a fine high-coloured flower ; Brigantine 
(Foster), pink, slightly flushed with rose, very free-blooming, and good habit ; 
Warrior (Foster), a fine and showy high-coloured flower ; Kingcraft (Foster), a 
showy painted floAver, but as shoAvn, a little undersized ; Sidtan (Foster), Auolet- 
