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THE FLORIST. 
Madame Boll, a fine light rose, coloured sort; Cineraria Lurline, a 
pretty and showy kind, rewarded last season, having the florets heavily 
tipped with deep rose, and a white ring around the dark disk; also, 
more or less closely resembling this in colour and general character. 
Fairy King, Fleur de Marie, Miss Franklin, Amber Witch, and Miss 
Eyles—the latter a pretty flower, selected for a certificate last season. 
Reynolds Hole, a bright crimson self, rewarded last season, showy but 
with somewhat ribbed florets ; Great Western, rosy self suffused with 
blue ; Eton Boy, crimson self; Maid of Astolat, white with dark disk, 
and slight tip of rosy-purple; also Auricula Volunteer, a fine dark 
maroon self rewarded last year ; and North Star, rough purple self. 
From Messrs. Dobson & Son, Isleworth : Cinerarias—Conqueror, a 
showy large bright rose-crimson self, with grey eye ; Meteor, bright 
rose self; and Admiration, one of the heavily rose-tipped class. From 
Mr. James, Isleworth: Cineraria, Lord Elgin, rewarded at the last 
meeting. From Messrs. W. Cutbush & Son, Highgate :—Cineraria, 
Miss Burdett Coutts, a purple tipped variety, inferior to Louise. 
From Messrs. F. & A. Smith, Dulwich : Cineraria Prima Donna, 
dark disk, and moderately heavy tip of bright rose; Criterion, dark 
disk, with slight purple tip; Lilacina, light lilac-tinted rose ; Orion, 
large, with small dark disk, and uneven tips of deep rose ; Perfecta, 
crimson self, very near Reynolds Hole; Geant des Batailles, good 
bright crimson self, rewarded last season ; Sanspareil, pucy-tinted rose 
with grey eye; Standard, grey eye, and heavy purple tips; also 
Pelargonium Snowdrop, an early forcing variety with white flowers in 
the way of Album multiflorum : and Pelargonium floribundum, rose 
colour, with feathery spot. 
April 24 . New Plants, &c. —Small Silver Medal to Miss Clark¬ 
son, Avenue Road, St. John’s Wood, for Athyrium Filix-foemina, var. 
Frizellise, a remarkably elegant and curious form of Lady Fern, in 
which the pinnee were reduced to small flabellate bodies resembling 
the pinnoe of Asplenium flabellifolium, thus forming a narrow linear 
frond. Bronze Medal to Mr. B. Williams, Paradise Nursery, LIollo- 
way, for Rhododendron Madame Wagner, a beautiful variety in which 
the flowers are white edged with bright rose-colour. Bronze Medal to 
Mr. W. Bull, Nurseryman, Chelsea, for Pteris rubro-nervia, an ele¬ 
gant free-growing Fern having a red midrib to the pedately pinnato- 
pinnatifid fronds. Certificate to Mr. Bull, for Erica “ mediterranea 
alba,” a very dwarf, white-flowered, hardy Heath, resembling E. 
carnea in habit. First Class Certificate to Mr. Turner, Slough, for 
Variegated Pelargonium Clara, a variety with w^ell-marked foliage 
having an orange-coloured zone and gold margin, the flowers of a deep 
bright scarlet, and well formed. First Class Certificate to Mr. Turner, 
for Pelargonium Herald of Spring, a horse-shoe-leaved variety with 
very large and finely-formed flowers of a lively orange-tinted cerise. 
First Class Certificate to Cineraria Miss Franklin, a variety with very 
large flower heads, which have heavily rosy-crimson tipped florets, and 
a clear ring of white around the dark disk; a variety of large size 
combined with good properties. First Class Certificate to Messrs. F. & 
A. Smith, Dulwich, for Cineraria Magnum Bonum, another large- 
