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blotched inwards with white, the young leaves being also fleshed 
with a rich orange tint. 
Fuchsia Mammoth. —June 25, Mr. G. Smith, Hornsey-road. 
—A flne habited variety, with very large double flowers, having 
bright red sepals and violet corolla. It is a very effective decorative 
plant. 
Lomaria ctcadifolia. —April 23, Messrs. J. and C. Lee, Ham¬ 
mersmith.—A flne bold pinnated fern, closely related to L. ma- 
gellanica, and, like it, producing two forms of fronds. It is hardy 
and evergreen, but worthy a place in any greenhouse collection. 
Lomaria fluviatilis. —April 23, Messrs. J. and C. Lee.—A 
fine New Zealand fern, with the evergreen sterile fronds dark 
green, with roundish pinme, similar to those of Platyloma rotundi- 
folium, the fertile pinnm being linear. An elegant cold greenhouse 
species. ^ 
Lomaria Fraseri. —May 28, Mr. Standish, Bagshot.—A 
slender dwarf tree fern, of remarkable beauty, and quite unique 
among Lomarias, having the sterile fronds bipinnatifid, with small 
oblong segments, and the fertile ones being of similar form. It is 
a hardy greenhouse plant, native of New Zealand. 
Osmanthus aquifolius VARiEGATUs NANUS. — June 11, Mr. 
Standish, Bagshot.—A dwarf Japanese shrub, with flat, deeply- 
toothed holly-like leaves, elegantly margined with white. 
Pelargonium (zonale) Herald of Spring. —April 23, Mr. 
C. Turner.—A variety of moderately-vigorous habit, the leaves 
broadly and heavily zoned, the flowers large, finely-shaped, of an 
orange cerise colour. 
Petunia inimitabilis flore-pleno. —May 14, Messrs. Veitch 
and Son, Chelsea.—A charming double-flowered variety of Petunia 
violacea, exceedingly well adapted for pot culture for decorative 
purposes, being of excellent habit, dwarf and stocky, and producing 
abundantly-close, well-shaped, double-flowers, variously blotched 
with large patches of white on a rosy-purple ground. 
Picotee Flower of the Day. —July 23, Mr. C. Turner, 
Slough.—A full-sized, heavy rose or scarlet-edged variety, of ex¬ 
cellent properties, probably the highest coloured of its class. 
Picotee^ rosy circle. —July 23, Mr. C. Turner, Slough.—A 
light rose-edged, constant and delicate, the marking forming an 
uniform wire edge. 
PiMELEA ELEGANS. —May 14, Messrs. Veitch & Sons, Chelsea.— 
A very elegant greenhouse hard-wooded shrub, producing freely 
large globular heads of white flowers, from which large orange- 
coloured anthers project. The contrast between the corollas and 
the anthers is charming. 
Pink Delicata. —June 25, Mr. C. Turner, Slough.—A large 
well-formed flower, heavily and evenly laced with a delicate purple, 
the blotches at the base of the limb being of a deeper purple. 
Pink Lady Eokeby.— June 25, Mr. W. Bragg, Slough. — A 
full petaled variety, evenly laced with purple. 
Polystichum vestitum venustum. —April 23, Messrs. J. & C. 
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