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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



Mr. "Wiggins, gardener to Mr. Beck, 

 Isleworth : Purity, pale flesh, maroon 

 top. Prince of Orange, long petal, 

 orange- carmine, top veined, dark. 

 Rosy Circle, rose, white throat, dark 

 top. Othello, violet-crimson, dark 

 top, very promising. From Mr. Bull : 

 a fancy called Le Veseuve, rich lake, 

 overspread with maroon veins, mag- 

 nificent for colour and very free to 

 bloom. Decorator, a show kind, rosy- 

 lake, dark top and dark cloudy blotch. 

 From Mr. Turner : Silver Mantle, a 

 fancy which was shown last year. It 

 has a blush ground, with pale rosy 

 blotch, top soft rose. From the same : 

 Bevival, a lively fancy, cherry-car- 

 mine and blush; also Lady Boston, 

 rosy-carmine, white margin ; Clytie, 

 white, with washy pink spots. Zo- 

 nales were not largely shown. From 

 Mr. Hally, of Blackheath, a few tri- 

 colors — Sirius, small leaf, green disc, 

 creamy margin, fine carmine zone. 

 Princess of Wales, sulphur margin, 

 and red zone. James Sherman, pale 

 creamy margin and red zone. From 

 Messrs. F. and A. Smith : Conspicua, 

 a painted zonale, white, with salmon 

 eye. Criterion, of the old horseshoe 

 class, light scarlet flowers. Crystal 

 Palace Gem, this has a sulphur-tinted 

 leafage, and orange-scarlet flowers. 

 General Sherman, horseshoe leaves, 

 flowers lively salmon-scarlet. 



Miscellaneous and Novelties. — 

 Messrs. Veitch had a beautiful col- 

 lection of new and rare plants, fore- 

 most amongst which should be named 

 the fine Odontoglossum cordatum, 

 sepals and petals warm cinnamon, 

 blotched with dull green, lip whitish, 

 with cinnamon spots ; a very pretty 

 species, and one that will look fine in 

 a specimen state. Cypripedium 

 Pearcii, now pretty well known. Lep- 

 topteris superba, a remarkably fine 

 filmy fern, partaking largely of the 

 character of Todea pellucida, but 

 much more dense and rich in habit, 

 the beautiful fronds being faced with 

 bristle-like pinnules, giving it some- 

 what the appearance of the leaves of 

 tansy, but ten thousand times more 

 refined and delicate. Cephalotis fol- 

 licularis, a beautiful specimen, with 

 abundance of fine pitchers and one 

 spike of flowers rising, but why shown 



as a new plant there was no record to 

 tell. Dracama nigra, neat habit, dark 

 purplish bronze, almost black. An- 

 thurium scherzerianum, a fine pan of 

 this showy orontiad, covered all over 

 with its brilliant orange-scarlet spa- 

 dices. Several of the new Diffen- 

 bachias, the most attractive being 

 Barraquiniana, which has a stem like 

 polished iyory, r and leaves finely va- 

 riegated with white patches. Maranta 

 Veitchii, short broad leaves, richly 

 marked with crescentic bands of dark 

 green and grey-green, showing a per- 

 fectly geometric pattern in beautiful 

 shades of colour. Anthurium cordi- 

 folium — this will be a noble plant 

 when grown to its full dimensions ; 

 the leaf is one of the grandest of the 

 fine class to which it belongs. Mr. 

 Bull sent a large number of new 

 plants, amongst them a collection of 

 Aucubas, green and variegated, and 

 of both sexes, some bearing berries, 

 some remarkable for the magnificent 

 painting of their leaves. Wood-<ia 

 polystichoides Veitchianum, from Mr. 

 Bull, is a nice-looking fern, with 

 greyish-green fronds, the pinnules 

 like those of Blechum spicant, but 

 auricled on the superior margin. 

 Cissus amazonica, beautiful lanceolate 

 leaves, dark dull green, mottled grey. 

 Salvadora persica,the "mustard-tree" 

 of Scripture, a very unattractive 

 plant. Bougainvillea species, dull 

 purplish-red bracts ; not attractive. 

 Eleganus Japonicus albo variegatus, 

 one of Fortune's Japanese acquisi- 

 tions ; a very pretty shrub, greyish 

 amber and dark green. Cyanopliyl- 

 lum reticulatum, the leaf neatly reti- 

 culated, but not equal to magnificum. 

 Ligustrum ovalifolium variegatum, a 

 finely variegated form of this best of 

 the hardy privets. If it keeps its 

 colour true when planted out, it will 

 be a most beautiful shrub, but no va- 

 riegated privet has yet been known 

 to keep true for any length of time. 

 Sedum azoidea variegatum, a charm- 

 ing arborescent species with varie- 

 gated leaves. Sphcerogyne cinna- 

 momea, cinnamon-coloured stem and 

 brauches, and the leaves marked out 

 underneath with cinnamon midrib and 

 veins. Colonyction sanguineum, a 

 beautiful Cissus-like climber, leaf 



