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de Smet and Vlaanderen. To Messrs. Edwards & Son, Nuthall, for Athyrium 
Filix-fcemina Edwardsii and Footii ; for Scolopendrium vulgare Edwardsii; and 
for Polystichum angulare diversilohum Padleyi. To Mr. W. Paul, Waltham 
Cross, for two beautiful Phloxes, with light-coloured flowers, named Con¬ 
queror and Beautiful, belonging to the summer-flowering group. To Mr. 
C. Turner, Slough, for Rose Miss Ingram, a very beautiful pale or flesh- 
coloured English variety, raised at Frogmore. 
To the Royal Horticultural Society’s Great Show, Bury St. Edmunds, 
held on July 15th, Mr. Turner of Slough, sent some seedling Carnations, 
for which first-class certificates were awarded—viz., True Blue, a very deep- 
coloured and smooth purple-flaked variety, an advance in point of colour 
on any flower in this division ; and Eccentric Jack, a somewhat novel-looking 
scarlet bizarre, flowers full and smooth. A similar award was made to 
Picotee Mrs. Fisher, a very beautiful light red-edged variety. Mr. Turner 
also received a second-class certificate for Carnation Anthony Dennis, a very 
large crimson bizarre, with an unusual degree of colour in it. Any one 
fond of monstrosities in the floral world would have exulted over an im¬ 
mense Fuchsia with double corolla, named Norfolk Giant, shown by Mr. 
J. Hill, of Norwich. The flowers were of enormous size, but coarse-looking, 
and almost formless in consequence; though it was awarded a label of 
commendation as a decorative kind. Mr. Mann, of Brentwood, had a basket 
of his rich-looking Zonal Pelargonium Lord Derby, very showy indeed when 
small blooming plants were grouped in this way. 
The Floral Committee meeting of August 6th, was famous for the pro¬ 
duction of Messrs. Jackman & Son’s beautiful new varieties of Clematis. I 
scarcely know what can he more beautiful and useful in the way of hardy 
outMoor climbers than these magnificent flowers. They exhibited a box of 
cut blooms, which contained the varieties they have already sent out— 
narhely, Jackmani, rubella, and Prince of Wales; also blooms of lanuginosa 
and the pure white lanuginosa Candida, and the following new kinds, all 
of which latter received first-class certificates:— Lady Bovill, pale greyish 
violet, a very striking, somewhat cupped, and very broad-petaled flower; 
Mrs. Bateman, light mauve, tinted with purple ; and Thomas Moore, a very 
large flower of a reddish purple hue, with ray-like centre of white staminal 
filaments. These are the more valuable as they extend the range of colours 
hitherto presented by these grand creepers. Some splendid Verbenas came 
from Mr. C. J. Perry, of Birmingham, who is well known as one of the first 
raisers of the day. First-class certificates were awarded to Miss Turner, white 
with pale rose centre, a fine and striking flower; J. C. Ward, pale purple, 
with a pale centre, hold and fine ; Thomas Harris, rich plum, with conspicuous 
white centre; Hercules, rich rosy carmine, with dark centre, both of fine 
quality; and to G. P. Tye, lighter in colour than Mrs. Turner, with a 
centre of a deeper colour, a flower of very fine form. 
Fuchsia Golden Leaf, from Messrs. E. G. Henderson & Son, was awarded 
a first-class certificate for its excellent properties as a bedding kind, the 
variegation of the foliage being very bright, and the growth remarkably 
compact and dwarf. The same award was made to Messrs. Henderson for 
Variegated Zonal Pelargonium Howarth Ashton, a variety quite distinct and 
good, a good deal of crimson appearing on the zone; also for Dianthus 
hybridus Napoleon III., a remarkably showy bright deep crimson variety. 
Fuchsia albo-coccinea, from the same, received a second-class certificate as 
a very novel form of this well-known flower, the corolla being dark violet 
crimson, the tube red, and the red sepals edged with white ; it will make a 
