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WEW PLANTS OF THE PAST MONTH. 



During the months of May, June, and July, when the great shows are 

 held in addition to the bi-monthly meetings of the Floral Committee, 

 the rush of new plants is so great that it is difficult to preserve an 

 unbroken record. For instance, at the first great show of the Eoyal 

 Botanic Society sixty-four first-class certificates of merit were awarded 

 to new plants ; of these Mr W. Bull alone took twenty-seven, and 

 Messrs Veitch &; Sons nineteen. In addition, ten second-class certifi- 

 cates were also awarded. Nearly the whole of the subjects, however, 

 had already been noticed in the columns of the ' Gardener.' 



Of plants having undoubted claims to novelty and worth, the follow- 

 ing have received first-class certificates : Lselia purpurata alba, a variety 

 with pure white sepals and petals, and a lip faintly tinted and veined 

 with pale rose, and stained with yellow at the base ; to Vriesia Glazi- 

 ouana, a noble and massive-looking Bromeliad, with broad erect glossy 

 leaves recurved at the tip ; to Martinezia Lindeniana, a very distinct 

 Palm, with broad leaves split at the apex and jagged at the margin, 

 and supported on glaucous stalks, furnished with long slender spines 

 intertwined with shorter ones ; to Agave Yerschaffeltiana, a handsome 

 dwarf species, with short broad leaves irregularly edged with spines ; to 

 Begonia Sedeni, one of the new Japanese species, with salmon-carmine 

 flowers; to DavalliaMoorei, a beautiful Fern, with handsome and graceful 

 pale-green fronds ; to Croton Veitchii, very handsomely variegated with 

 creamy gold ; to Masdevallia coccinea, with high-coloured flowers ; and 

 to a fine variety of Miltonia spectabilis, the flowers broadly flaked with 

 pale rose, and coming into flower fully two months before Spectabilis; — 

 all these having been exhibited by Messrs Veitch & Sons of Chelsea. 



The same award was made to each of eight abnormal forms of Scolo- 

 pendriums, all varieties of vulgare, and exhibited by Mr E. J. Lowe, 

 F.R.S., Highfield, Nottingham. Mr Lowe has obtained many new 

 forms, and some of the above group are not the least curious and inter- 

 esting of them. The same award was made to Mr Lowe for three new 

 forms of Athyrium filix-foemina, named severally Piickeltsiae, Kallistron, 

 and Kalon ; and to Messrs Ivery k, Sons, Dorking, for Lastrea filix-mas 

 cristata crispa, a somewhat novel- and taking form. Mr J. H. Ley, 

 Croydon, received the same award for Adiantum excisum multifidum, 

 var. Leyii, a singular crested form of this dwarf-growing species. 



Mr B. S. Williams has received first-class certificates for Loelia mar- 

 ginata, a pale-flowered variety, with slight purple edges, but somewhat 

 wanting in massiveness ; for Littonia modesta, with orange-coloured 

 flowers ; and for Calamus ciliatis, a novel and elegant Palm. Messrs 

 Ptollisson & Son, Tooting, had a like award for Epidendrum vitellinum 



