326 THE GARDENER. [July 



had a fine bushy Pimelea spectabilis, and a handsome Theophrasta imperialis. Mr 

 Wheeler, gardener to Sir F. (loldsmid, Bart, M.P., Regent's Park, and Mr Wilkie, 

 also exhibited neat groups in this and the class for six flowering stove and green- 

 house plants, in which they were respectively first and second. 



The Silver Flora Medal for six new plants sent out in 1867 or 1868, was gained 

 by Messrs Veitch with Dendrobium Bensoniee, a beautiful Moulmein species 

 with white flowers, having an orange lip; Retinospora filicoides; Sanchezia nobilis 

 variegata, one of the most effective of variegated plants ; the true Vanda insignis, 

 not that which has hitherto passed under that name ; Dractena regina, a handsome 

 broad-leaved variegated kind ; and Alocasia Jenniugsii, a fine specimen, with the 

 black blotches contrasting beautifully with the green ground colour. The same 

 firm also took the Bronze Flora Medal, or second prize, with a beautiful pan of 

 Abutilon Thompsoni, Begonia Boliviensis, Nepenthes hybrida, Acalypha tricolor, 

 a fine addition to ornamental-foliaged plants, and of which a specimen was exhib- 

 ited in one collection of these at the last Regent's Park Show ; Phormium Colensoi 

 variegatum, with narrow leaves edged with white, becoming red at the base ; and 

 the pretty small-growing Davallia parvula. 



Messrs Veitch were again first and second for six new plants sent out in 1869. 

 Their first-prize collection consisted of Croton maximum, beautifully veined and 

 spotted with yellow, very handsome; Mai-anta tubispatha, very striking by its 

 small regularly -placed reddish chocolate blotches ; Davallia hemiptera, a charming 

 little dark green Fern ; Dractena Macleayi, with dark bronzy foliage ; D. nigro- 

 rubra, with red and bronze leaves ; and Croton Hillianum, with foliage richly 

 marked with orange and crimson. Messrs Veitch's second-prize collection con- 

 sisted of Darwinia fimbriata, with pleasing white flowers tinged with pink on the 

 outside of the bells — this received a second-class certificate, a first being given to 

 Leptopteris Wilksiana ; Dieffenbachia Wallisii, with a white band along the mid- 

 rib, and white markings ; Maranta princeps, and Chimboracensis, two handsomely- 

 marked kinds, especially the latter ; and Croton aucubsefolium, with the leaves 

 marked with small yellow blotches. 



Of a new plant shown for the first time in flower in Great Britain there was 

 only one exhibition, that of Messrs Veitch, who took the first prize, as well as a 

 first-class certificate from the Floral Committee, for Dendrobium Jamesianum, 

 •with large white and orange flowers, which, when it comes to be grown to a larger 

 size, will no doubt be a handsome addition to this highly ornamental genus. 



The first prize for a new ornamental-foliaged plant, shown for the first time in 

 Great Britain, was also taken by Messrs Veitch with Croton Hookeri, a magnifi- 

 cent plant from the iSTevv Hebrides, with the leaves of a most beautiful clear 

 yellow in the centre, edged with green. The second prize was likewise taken by 

 Messrs Veitch with Dracaena magnifica, from the Solomon Isles, with very broad 

 brownish-red leaves. Both the above plants received first-class certificates, as 

 also Canna Smithii, having yellow variegated leaves, from Mr Wimsett. Dracaena 

 albicans, from Messrs Veitch, in which the leaves are variegated with white, was 

 also shown in this class, but it was not equal to D. Regina ; also Alocasia Sedeni, 

 a hybrid raised between A. Lowii and A. metallica, having large handsome leaves 

 of a metallic greyish green on the upper side, and purplish crimson on the reverse. 

 A first-class certificate was awarded to the same firm for Dracaena Chelsoui, from 

 Banks Island, with bronze leaves edged with rich rosy red. 



Messrs Veitch were again first in the class for a new garden seedling in flower, 

 with Rhododendron Lady Rolle, a flower of fine outline, white tinged with blush, 

 with a blotch of cinnamon spots in the upper petals. Mr Wimsett was second 

 with Pelargonium Willsii rosea, one of the new hybrids between the Ivy-leaved 



