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several important novelties ; among them a few good new bedding foliage plants. 
Messrs. E. G. Henderson and Son received First-Class Certificates for Alternanthera 
magnijica, a good large-growing form of the well-known A. paronychioides, with 
plenty of orange-red about the foliage, which has been used with considerable 
effect this season by Mr. Gibson, at Battersea Park ; and for Thymus citrioclorus 
aureus, a golden-leaved Lemon Thyme, that keeps its colour well, and is a 
thoroughly good bedding plant. It is largely used by Mr. Vertegans in both,the 
summer and winter decoration of the Promenade Gardens at Great Malvern with 
excellent effect. In addition, Messrs. E. G. Henderson and Son received the same 
award for Cineraria aspleniifolia^ with silvery-grey leaves, that promises to be 
very useful in the flower garden. 
The new Gladiolus John Standish, shown by Mr. Douglas, of Loxford Hall, 
is a worthy memorial of that successful cultivator ; the flowers have a pale blush 
ground, and the throat is flamed with bright magenta ; of fine form, large size, 
and forming a grand exhibition spike, it joromises to become a leading flower 
when distributed; it was awarded a First-Class Certificate. Pelargonium Mrs. 
John Lee, of the gold and bronze section, is one of the brightest-looking and 
most promising shown this season ; it was exhibited by Messrs. J. and C. Lee ; 
the leaves are finely marked, and the habit just what is required in a bedding 
Pelargonium ; it also was awarded a First-Class Certificate. The same award 
was made to Verbena Peter William., one of Mr. Eckford’s fine seedlings ; the 
colour intense scarlet, with a large white eye, fine pip and truss. 
The following new Dahlias received First-Class Certificates :— Annie Hobbs., 
a good-looking white self, with fine floret and centre, promising to be very useful; 
from Mr. Hobbs, Easton, Bristol; Gem of the Season, claret rose, the tips of the 
petals gold, regarded as an improvement on Stafford’s Gem, shown by Mr. G. 
Harris, Orpington ; and Mary Keynes, a pretty flower, having a pale ground, 
heavily tipped with bright deep rose, from Mr. Keynes. Second-Class Certificates 
were awarded to Victory (Keynes), deep purple, flushed with purple ; James 
Cocker (Keynes), a large, somewhat flat and rather coarse deep shaded crimson 
flower ; and Flossy Williams (Keynes), blush, suffused with lilac and flaked with 
purple, a pretty and promising fancy. 
At the meeting of the Committee on October 5 (which was one of the most 
interesting meetings held during the year), some more novelties came into notice. 
The dwarf, silvery-leaved, compact-growing Senecio argenteus, from the Pyrenees, 
received a First-Class Certificate ; and a Second-Class Certificate was awarded to 
Aster longifolius var., a dwarfish, round-headed, densely-flowered Michaelmas 
Daisy, with flowers of a pinkish-lilac hue ; both these came from Messrs. Back¬ 
house and Son. Wigandia imperialis., exhibited by Messrs. E. G. Henderson and 
Son, and awarded a First-Class Certificate, is a fine companion to that noble 
sub-tropical plant, Wigandia caracasana, from which, however, it is sufficiently 
distinct in the shape of its leaves and their clothing. Variegated Zonal Pelar- 
