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so good as to be apparently worthy of certificates. A fine dark-coloured 
upright-growing Gloxinia, from Messrs. Yeitch & Sons, named Prince Teck, 
was greatly admired, and received a first-class certificate. Messrs. Downie, 
Laird, & Laing, had a pale violet-coloured bedding Pansy, named Imperial 
Blue, which greatly resembles a very showy-looking variety Mr. Fleming has 
been using this season at Cliveden, and glorious it looks in that wonderful 
spring flower garden. A first-class certificate was awarded to Mr. Turner for 
a fine seedling Pink, Princess of Wales, a heavily-laced flower of large size, 
and with plenty of substance. Lots of Zonale Pelargoniums were produced 
by Mr. Bull; variegated varieties by Messrs. Smith and E. G. Henderson & Co. 
To the latter firm was awarded a first-class certificate for Pink Stella, a rosy 
pink Nosegay variety; and the same award was made to Mr. Turner for Duchess 
of Sutherland, colour rosy-crimson puce, flushed with violet, medium trusses, 
but produced in great profusion, short stiff footstalks, and good habit, also a 
Nosegay variety. Some of the variegated kinds from Messrs. F. & A. Smith 
were very handsomely marked. 
Some fine seedling Pelargoniums came from Messrs. Foster, Hoyle, and Turner. 
First-class certificates were awarded to the following:—Perfection (Foster), 
rosy pink, pencilled with bright crimson, dark top petals with fiery margin and 
edging of pale pink, a delicate and beautiful flower, very free ; Archbishop 
(Hoyle), soft rose, with dark crimson top petals blotched with black, a large and 
finely-formed flower; and Milton (Foster), a large, stout, and well-formed flower, 
lower petals warm rose pencilled and blotched with crimson, dark top petals 
edged with rose, white throat. A second-class certificate was awarded to Beauty 
of Windsor (Foster), carmine rose pencilled with crimson, dark top petals, white 
throat, a good-sized flower. Negress was commended for its singular dark 
colour, and conspicuous white throat. Other good flowers were IShakspeare 
(Foster), lilac, pencilled and blotched with crimson, white centre, and very 
dark top petals. It is one of those stained flowers I hardly like, and one of 
the best yet seen. King of Flowers (Foster), is of a bright carmine shade 
faintly suffused with crimson, white throat surrounded with a purple glow, a 
medium-sized flower, of good form, and very free. Betrothed (Foster), is a 
large, stout, and well-formed flower, of a pleasing shade of rose, with dark top 
petals, very free ; Congress (Hoyle), bright carmine crimson, with dark top 
petals, margined with fiery crimson, white centre, very showy and novel; 
Gold Button (Hoyle), carmine, blotched with crimson, white throat, dark top 
petals margined with bright crimson ; and Mongini (Hoyle), rose, pencilled 
with crimson, dark top petals margined with rose, very free. 
Quo. 
THE TEMPERATURE OF WATER, AND ITS EFFECTS 
UPON PLANT-CULTIVATION. 
[The following is an abstract of an interesting paper on this subject pre¬ 
sented by Mr. Anderson, of Meadow Bank, near Glasgow, at the late Botanical 
Congress.] 
Cultivators in general are not over-zealous in taking cognisance of the 
relative temperature that exists between water and air in any given house, 
and yet upon such, in a great measure, depends the exuberance of the plants. 
Many scarcely recognise the importance of making adequate provision for 
water heated, at least, to the same temperature as the atmosphere. It is not 
sufficient to have cisterns dug out under the ground floor, and made water 
tight by the various methods in practice, to produce a temperature suffi¬ 
ciently high. Unless the hot-water pipes actually run through or under 
