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plete tlie circle. When well grown each, pip exceeds 2 in. in diameter, as may 
be seen by the accompanying copy of a photograph taken in November, at which 
season this and many other varieties are in the zenith of their splendour.—M. 
Pelargonium Denny’s Rienzi. 
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MONGST the novelties produced at the Royal Horticultural Society’s meet¬ 
ing on April 7, was Geonoma gracilis , from Mr. B. S. Williams, a slender 
palm, with finely-cut leaves, having a good deal of general resemblance to 
Cocos Weddelliana, and in regard to elegance of character, running that 
well-known favourite very closely. Mr. Williams received for it a First-class Certificate, as 
he did also for another palm, Martinezia erosa, a pinnate species, with broad erose-tipped 
segments, the stem and under-surface of the leaves bristling with dark-coloured slender spines. 
Messrs. Yeitch and Sons had a fine single red Hyacinth called Etna, one of those in which a 
few petaloid organs appear in the mouth of the flower-tube, but which are yet scarcely so 
much as semi-double ; it is a fine rosy-red, with the segments remarkably broad, smooth, 
and plane, the edges being somewhat paler; it had a First-class Certificate. Messrs. Yeitch 
also gained a similar award for Croton Disraeli, a very remarkable form of the Croton, in 
which the elongated leaf-blade is widened towards the apex, then suddenly contracted there, 
while the base is distinctly three-lobed ; it is handsomely marked with yellow ribs and veins. 
C. Lord Cairns is similar in form and marking, but inferior. They had also C. tortile , a 
twisted-leaved species in the way of spiralis, but dark-coloured ; C. variahile, a strong grower, 
with long narrow but irregular leaves, which come finely coloured ; and C. appendiculata, a 
