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stance; Ruby Queen (Hawke), brilliant ruby, a fine variety; and Gem 
(Hawke), pale salmony red, also of fine quality. A second-class certificate 
was awarded to Walden Queen (Cliater), with large and full flowers of a 
delicate flesli colour. Queen of Yellows (Cliater), lias a good hue of colour, but 
the guard petals are too large and pale in colour. Whitby King (Cliater), 
is similar to, but not so good as Gem above noted; and Midnight (Chater), 
is a glossy dark maroon, almost black flower, but wanting substance. 
Some seedling Dahlias were shown by Messrs. Hopkins, Pope, and 
Keynes. The former had Excellent , orange maroon, a small but promising 
flower; Mr. Pope had Ruth , a heavy rosy purple-edged variety ; and of the 
new flowers shown by Mr. Keynes two received second-class certificates— 
namely, Mrs. Dodds and Caroline Tetterell, both a good deal in the same way, 
and yet distinct enough from each other—both light ground varieties, edged 
with rosy lilac, the blooms of good size, full, and with good centres. The 
following were also new seedling kinds, which no doubt Mr. Keynes will send 
again :— Miss Turner, a variety tipped with rosy purple ; Royal Purple , rosy 
purple ; Lady Derby, a dark purple, tipped with white; Snowball, white ; 
Emma Newman, pale primrose ; Duke of Edinburgh, a handsome shade of rosy 
violet; and the Ebon. Mr. Bouverie, orange buff. A Perpetual Picotee , 
named Ascot Yelloiv, from Mr. Standish, was a large and showy yellow- 
ground flower, edged with rosy red, the habit vigorous and free-flowering; 
it was awarded a first-class certificate. Verbena The Cure, from Mr. Eck- 
ford, Coleshill, Berks, got a similar award; it is a large and bold flower, 
the colour rosy purple, with a lively bright crimson centre, and promises 
to make an excellent exhibition variety. 
lxora crocata rutilans, from Messrs. E. G. Henderson & Son, well deserved 
the first-class certificate it received; it is of a deeper and much better 
colour than I. crocata, and has a very compact truss of flowers. I. crocata 
elegans is also a new kind, but not so good as the foregoing. Two very 
handsome Palms, from Mr. Bull, were awarded first-class certificates—viz., 
Calamus adspersus and C. javanica; the latter has the smaller, but yet the 
handsomer foliage. The same award was made to Mr. Bull for Alsophila 
Leichardtiana, from Australia, with shining green fronds, which promises to 
make a handsome tree Fern. A hybrid Nosegay Pelargonium, with large 
and handsome trusses of lively crimson flowers, named Magnum Bonum, 
came from Messrs. Downie, Laird, & Laing; the individual flowers, how¬ 
ever, were small and the petals narrow. Some good yearling Zonal 
Pelargoniums were shown by Mr. Bull, generally having stout and smooth 
flowers, and somewhat promising ; and Mr. Eckford had two very promising 
Variegated Zonal Pelargoniums —namely, Lady Folkestone, a golden, and Miss 
Annie, a silver variety. 
Dahlias formed the chief feature of the novelties brought before the 
Floral Committee on September 5th. First-class certificates were awarded to 
Hebe, a light ground flower, very evenly tipped with rosy lilac, outline and 
substance good, and altogether first-class, from Mr. G. Bawlings, Bomford ; 
also to Yelloiv Perfection, rich golden yellow, a large flower of fine quality, 
from Mr. Turner, Slough; to Sir Greville Smythe, bright orange red, the 
centre suffused with purple ; to Viceroy of Egypt, a fancy variety, a large but 
somewhat flat flower, suffused rosy lilac with crimson stripes ; to Leopardess , 
also a fancy, a flower of similar build, ground colour lilac, spotted and 
striped with bright crimson ; and to Lady Derby , a very pleasing flower that 
will be very useful for exhibition purposes, pale ground, heavily tipped with 
rosy lilac, all from Mr. Keynes, Salisbury. Second-class certificates were 
