178 THE GARDENER. [April 



has recently exhibited two plants of the striped-leaved form of P. 

 Colensoi, an elegant plant with slender white -edged leaves. P. 

 Cookianum, as it is termed, proved to be a rigid-growing form of P. 

 tenax, -with a shorter and stifFer habit, and was named P. tenax 

 Veitchianum, the variegated form being further named Veitchianum 

 variegatiim, and was awarded a first-class certificate. These two forms 

 had been received by Messrs Veitch & Sons from the Botanic Gar- 

 dens, Hamburg, under the name of P. Cookianum. It is still thought 

 by some that it is, in both forms, simply P. tenax in a state of imma- 

 ture development. P. Cookianum, therefore, as a species, has now no 

 " local habitation, or a name." 



A first-class certificate was awarded to Mr W. Bull for Camellia La 

 Maeostosa, a variety with remarkably short rounded leaves, and bold 

 stout-looking cupped very broad-petaled flowers, of a carmine crimson, 

 slightly blotched with white. The same award was made to Messrs 

 Downie, Laird, & Laing for Coleus Baroness Rothschild, one of the 

 Royal Horticultural Society's last batch of seedlings. It is a fine and 

 handsome kind, with rich -looking leaves having a bronzy-purplish- 

 crimson surface and broad golden margin. It promises to be one of 

 the very best of the last new group. 



Some remarkably good things have lately been produced in Pri- 

 mulas. Mr B. S. Williams, Holloway, received a first-class certificate 

 for a magnificent strain of the single red kind, the flowers very large 

 and deeply coloured. It was not named, but was said to come true 

 from seed. A very distinct and novel form of the single white, named 

 Waltham White, came from Mr W. Paul, of Waltham Cross, and was 

 remarkable for the decided red colour of its leaf and flower-stalks, 

 while the flowers, of large size and handsomely fringed, were of the 

 finest and purest white, and the habit of growth vigorous. Messrs 

 Windebank and Kingsbury, of Southampton, sent a batch of their new 

 single and double kinds, the former of which had suffered much by 

 the journey. Of the latter, first-class certificates were awarded to Miss 

 Kingsbury, having large white flowers distinctly flaked with carmine ; 

 and to Snowflake, having large pure white flowers, very full, the leaf- 

 stalks tinted with red. It is a singular fact, but nevertheless true, that 

 all flaked flowers of the Primula Sinensis, as well as flowers of the purest 

 white, are always produced on plants having red, or tinted red, leaf- 

 stalks. In addition to these Primulas, Messrs F. & A. Smith, Dulwich, 

 had some double and curious single kinds ; and Mr Wiggins, of Isle- 

 worth, a very fine lot of single varieties, some of them very handsome. 



A first-class certificate was awarded to Messrs Paul & Son for a fine 

 Hybrid Perpetual Rose, named Duke of Edinburgh, of a deep brilliant 

 crimson colour, shaded with dark, the flowers full and finely cupped, 



