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characteristic qualities are obtained may have time to be formed with- 

 out being hurried, and the fruit consequently may attain its fullest 

 development of size, colour, and flavour. 



{To be continued.) 



ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY, REGENT'S PARK. 

 July 9. — This, the last meeting of this Society for the season, was a 

 most successful one. We do not remember to have seen plants exhi- 

 bited so fresh in July on any previous occasion. Fruit was also in 

 great abundance, and contained many excellent examples of superior 

 culture. 



The prizes were very generally awarded to the same exhibitors that 

 have been successful at the previous shows, which have been fully 

 reported by us : we shall, therefore, on this occasion^confine our remarks 

 principally to subjects not before exhibited. 



The Messrs. Veitch sent a very interesting collection of new plants, 

 conspicuous amongst which was the new scarlet Delphinium cardinale ; 

 four spikes of this handsome plant were sent : Gesnera Miellezi ; this 

 resembles an upright Gloxinia, with a creamy white tube, the top of 

 which is of a rosy lilac colour and very pretty : Eucharis amazonica, an 

 Amaryllidaceous plant, shown before as E. grandiflora ; it has beautiful 

 white flowers, which are large in size and very showy. The I\Iessrs. 

 Veitch also exhibited flowering plants of Leptodactylon californicum, 

 Philesia buxifolia, and Sonerila margaritacea : these last named have 

 been made familiar to our readers by our artist, Mr. Andrews. 

 Messrs. Veitch also sent a plant of the beautiful shrub Desfontania 

 spinosa (in flower), a new Burlingtonia, cut specimens of the pretty 

 Rhododendron Princess Royal, and a plant of Topping's light Pelar- 

 gonium Clarissa, described in our last number. 



The most remarkable new f)lant in the entire exhibition was Clematis 

 lanuginosa pallida, a noble specimen with numeious flowers, from 

 Messrs. Standish and Noble, Bagshot. This was figured by us in 

 1854. The same firm also sent 12 blooms of a new Hybrid Perpetual 

 Rose named Victor Trouillard, being of the rich deep shade of colour of 

 the old Tuscany, but like Geant des Batailles, from which it was raised, 

 the colour soon fades. It is very dissimilar to existing varieties, 

 particularly of the Hybrid Perpetual class. Mr. Glendinning, of the 

 Chiswick Nursery, sent plants of Abies Ktempferi, and other new 

 plants, both in and out of bloom ; the most conspicuous among the 

 former were Erica Spenceriana, and Mandirola Roezli, a plant resem- 

 bling a Gesnera in habit ; as exhibited, it was dull in colour — a shaded 

 lilac. Mr. Taylor, of Streatham, sent a small but well-bloomed plant of 

 his new striped Azalea striata formosissima, which is an excellent variety. 



Verbenas were shown in a cut state by Mr. G. Smith, Mr. C. 

 Turner, and Mr. Weatherill, in good variety and condition. General 

 Simpson, Standard Bearer, Jaquinta, John Edwards, Victory, Gloire de 

 France, Reine des Amazones, Mrs. Halford, Noel, Duke of Cambridge, 

 Blue Bonnet, and Lord Raglan were very distinct and good. 



