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yellow flower ; General Bainbrigge, orange amber with golden centre, a large 
and beautifully formed incurved flower; Jardin des Plantes, bright golden 
orange, splendid colour, and flowers finely incurved; Lady Slade, delicate lilac 
pink with blush centre, finely incurved; Lalla Rookh, dark ruby rose, a very 
close incurved flower; Lord Palmerston, amaranth, suffused with rose, and 
tipped with silvery blush, a distinct and finely incurved flower; Mulberry, 
dark mulberry, a small flower, but the colour very good, also incurved; Oliver 
Cromwell, dark chestnut, fine and incurved; Prince Alfred, a splendid flower, 
very large and full, colour rosy crimson, finely incurved ; Princess of Wales, 
pearly white, delicately tinted with rose, very large, of exquisite form, and 
finely incurved; and Sir Stafford Carey, dark brown chestnut with golden 
points, large, and very finely incurved. 
New Pompone flowers are represented only by Prince Victor, much darker 
and finer than Bob, the colour rich maroon; and the hybrid class by White 
Trevenna, a sport from the pink Trevenna, having neatly formed flowers of a 
pure white colour. The Anemone section has one new representative only— 
Prince of Anemones, a large flower of good form, colour pinkish rose. 
The following are very fine Pompone flowers—viz., Capella, dark red chest¬ 
nut with orange centre; Florence, dark cherry, very fine; and Miranda, a 
fringed bright rose flower, extra fine, and fragrant like the Violet; while many 
others are valuable either as border flowers or for conservatory decoration. 
I fear that the Japan flowers recently introduced by Mr. Fortune will 
scarcely become favourites with any of us. They are loose ungainly-looking 
things, and the colours are by no means attractive, and the less said about their 
form the better. They may possibly be by-and-by turned to account by the 
hybridiser; but as a class, unless there can be some very marked improvement 
made in them, they will soon be left stranded on the shores of the past. 
Quo. 
NOTES AT THE FLORAL AND FRUIT COMMITTEES. 
Dec. 5 th .—Thanks to Mr. Veitch, this meeting was made very interesting by 
a display of flowering Orchids and some other plants. Of the former there 
were the beautiful rose-flowered hybrid Calanthe Veitchii; Cattleya Dominiana, 
with handsome lilac flowers ; Dendrobium Tattonianum, and several beautiful 
varieties of Lycaste Skinneri. Of other plants not the least interesting were 
Thibaudia macrantha, “with large, waxy, pinkish flowers, barred crossways 
with crimson,” extremely novel; Rhododendron Princess Alexandra, with wax¬ 
like blossoms of a delicate flesh colour; a Sonerila margaritacea, with large 
white blotches on the leaves; Manettia micans, several specimens of which 
were in three-inch pots, in which they blossomed very freely, and it looked a 
valuable basket plant, as they were covered with bright scarlet blossoms; Erioc- 
nema marmorea, very beautifully marked; some half-standard Epiphyllums in 
variety, &c. Messrs. Lucombe, Pince & Co. received a first-class certificate for 
a very handsome variety of Polystichum angulare, called parvissimum, one of 
the most interesting things in the exhibition. A large collection of plants came 
from the Society’s garden, in which were various Cypripediums, Barkeria 
Skinneri, the charming little Sophronitis grandiflora, Lycaste Skinneri, a variety 
of Odontoglossum, sent home by Mr. Weir, the Society’s collector; Dracaenas, 
Crotons, Musa coccinea, Hibiscus Cooperi, and some dwarf, robust, and very 
healthy plants of Poinsettia pulcherrima, with heads of a beautiful vermilion 
scarlet hue. 
But very little was produced for the Fruit Committee. From Mr. Vair, 
gardener to Lady Dorothy Nevill, came a fruit of Monstera deliciosa, which 
