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with a dull dark crimson; a collection of Asters, which shall have a special 
notice by-and-by ; other new plants were also produced by this firm. Messrs. 
E. G. Henderson & Son had a very handsome tricolor variegated Pelargonium, 
named Sophia Dumaresque, to which a first-class certificate was awarded. It 
was regarded as an improvement on Sunset. From the same source came a very 
good variety named Golden Ray; but as so many new kinds are now being * 
produced, the Committee grant certificates very sparingly indeed. From Mr. 
Cunningham, of Burton-on-Trent, came a variety of the Ivy-leaved Pelar¬ 
gonium, named L’Elegante, to which a first-class certificate was awarded. The 
leaves are distinctly edged with a creamy white, and the flowers are of a pale 
lilac colour. A collection of cut spikes of Gladioli was shown by Mr. Standish, 
of Ascot, and included the following, some of which were truly fine :—Paul 
Bedford, Rajah, Samuel Weymouth, Cymbelinc, The Ensign, Carminata, Prime 
Minister, Rev. J. Dix, Isa Craig, and J. W. Lane, all shades of scarlet and 
crimson; and Peter Simple, Lemonade, and Seraph, light varieties. Some of 
the very best of the light flowers were much feathered on the spikes, which 
detracts materially from their value as exhibition varieties. Mr. Mann, of 
Brentwood, had a good variety of tricolor-leaved Pelargonium Melona, to which 
a first-class certificate was awarded, and a bright scarlet Zonale variety named 
Mimas, to which was awarded a second-class certificate. To Mr. George, of 
Stamford Hill, was awarded a first-class certificate for Tropaeolum compactum 
King of Scarlets, in the style of Lobbianum elegans, of very free habit, and 
producing a profusion of bright orange scarlet flowers, shaded with crimson. 
A double Fuchsia, named King of the Doubles, came from Mr. Cannell, of 
Woolwich, having flowers of a great size. Mr. Keynes, of Salisbury, was 
awarded a first-class certificate for Dahlia Paradise Williams, a deep maroon 
crimson flower of fine form; and to the same were aAvarded second-class cer¬ 
tificates for Dahlias Gazelle., a large violet-shaded bronzy crimson; Vice- 
President, a bright amber-coloured variety; and Harriet Tetterell, a light 
ground variety, heavily tipped and flushed with purplish crimson. A first-class 
certificate was awarded to Mr. Eckford, The Gardens, Colesliill, for Verbena 
Coleshill, intense scarlet, with lemon eye, pips large and very showy; and the 
following varieties were also shown by Mr. Eckford:—Umpire, cerise crimson, 
large lemon eye, pips very large, good truss ; Mr. Varney, deep plum purple ; 
Triumph, deep rosy cerise, shaded with crimson, large white eye ; William 
Dobbs, dull crimson purple ; and Wee Davie, rosy crimson with white eye, 
small pips. 
At the meeting of the Fruit Committee were produced some Potatoes from 
Mr. Craddock, of Warwick;—viz., Alston Kidney, a large-sized good-looking 
white kind, and Melbourne Seedling, another Kidney, a good deal like the 
Alston, but stated not to be so productive.' From Mr. Short, of Heckfield 
Gardens, came examples of Red Astrachan Apples and Siberian Crabs. Messrs. 
Veitch & Sons sent a collection of Onions, comprising Nuneham Park, Reading, 
White Spanish, Lisbon, Welsh, Blood Red, Silver-skinned, White Nocera, 
Trebons, Danver’s Yellow, Strasburgh, White Globe, Brown Globe, and James’s 
Keeping. 
September 18 th .—At this meeting Mr. Turner produced a basketful of his 
beautiful new Nosegay Pelargonium Lady Constance Grosvenor, having nume¬ 
rous fine trusses of very bright orange-scarlet flowers. From the gardens of the 
Society came plants of Lantanas, Zonale Pelargoniums, Petunias, and some 
Orchids, among them a very handsome specimen of Odontoglossum grande. A 
first-class certificate was awarded to Mr. W. Cruikshanks, The Gardens, L.ang- 
leybury, Watford, for a very pretty striped Verbena, named Lady of Langley- 
bury. The flowers were lilac and white, the colours being very well defined. 
