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NEW PLANTS OF THE PAST MONTH. 



At the meeting of the Floral Committee on the 20th of April, a very 

 handsome and striking lot of Amaryllis, of the Hippeastrum group, 

 were staged by Mr Baxter, gardener to C. Keizer, Esq. of Broxbourne. 

 First-class certificates were awarded to the following : Madlle. Tietjens, 

 having a white bar down each segment, with carmine-red on either 

 side, passing off into carmine veins towards the edge ; Olga, pale rosy 

 red, with indistinct white central bar, and white edges ; and Alexan- 

 dra, bright carmine-red, with clear white edge, but wavy on the 

 edges. One named Duke of Edinburgh, of a deep crimson hue, but 

 somewhat narrow petaled, received a second-class certificate. There 

 was a nice freshness and novelty about these flowers, and they were 

 much admired, just as such glorious decorative j)lants deserve to be. 



Of Orchids, the following have received first-class certificates : 

 Vanda Denisoniana, with white flowers, tinted at the extremities with 

 sulphur, a very distinct and handsome species, from Messrs Veitch & 

 Sons. To a very fine spotted variety of Odontoglossum Alexandrse, 

 which was named Warneri, after Mr Robert Warner, Chelmsford, by 

 whom it was exhibited. It has the sepals stained with rose, and 

 marked with a few bold bronzy spots ; the petals broad, white, and 

 fringed, and the tip yellow at the base, white at the tip, and barred 

 across the middle with bronze. To Miltonia Virginalis, from Mr B. 

 S. Williams, a pretty white-flowered species, with a rosy-striped lip. 

 To a supposed new species of Brassia, but very handsome, and in the 

 way of B. Maculata, from Messrs Veitch & Sons ; and to flowering 

 specimens of Dendrobium Xanthophlebium and D. transparens, both 

 from Mr Sherratt, gardener to James Bateman, Esq., Biddulph 

 Grange, Congleton. 



Messrs Standish & Co., Bagshot, received a first-class certificate for 

 Struthiopteris Orientalis, a very handsome half-hardy Japanese Fern, 

 of bold and vigorous growth. Messrs Veitch & Sons also exhibited 

 that lovely creeping basket Fern, Davalia hemiptera, obtained by 

 them from Borneo some time since, and which had already been awarded 

 a first-class certificate. 



Messrs Standish & Co. also exhibited some promising and handsome 

 seedling Rhododendrons, one of which, named Madlle. Christine Nillsson, 

 white, the upper petals spotted with reddish brown, was very attractive ; 

 also a free-growing Acer, named Japonicum variegatum, thought to be 

 one of the platanoides section, the leaves fringed, and blotched with 

 white, but which was requested to be shown again ; and two new 

 double-flowering Pelargoniums — viz., Marie Lemoine, bright rose, and 

 Wilhelm Pfitzer, brilliant scarlet, the flowers large and full. 



