Plate 451, 

 AZALEA— MRS. TURNER. 



At the Great Quinquennial Exhibition held at Grhent in the 

 spring of last year, a large number of" new Azaleas, as might 

 have been expected in that city of Azaleas and Camellias, were 

 sent in for exhibition, and as many English nurserymen were 

 there, it was equally natural to suppose that, considering their 

 enterprise and desire to cater for the rage for novelties wliicli 

 always possesses the horticultural world, some of them should 

 have passed into their possession. Amongst those who then 

 purchased some of these Belgian novelties was Mr. Charles 

 Turner, and the Azalea named Mrs. Turner, we are inclined to 

 tliink, is the finest of his acquisitions. 



Mrs. Turner, as will be seen Irom the figure, belongs to that 

 class of Azalea already represented by such flowers as Etoile de 

 Gand, Variegata, &c., but it is in advance of any yet in growth ; 

 there is not merely the substance of the petal to be considered, 

 but the extreme regularity which the bright pink marking takes 

 on the petal : it does not run off in flames and bars as in some 

 varieties, but is regular, scarcely varying in any one petal in 

 the flower, the edge of the pink marking being deeply serrated, 

 the margin of tlie flower pure white ; the upper petals are 

 deeply spotted with purplish crimson, which adds consider- 

 ably to the effectiveness of tlic flower. Altogether it may 

 be considered as a first-class variet}- ; the habit of tlie plant 



