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Year after year the plants can be 'grown in the open air. In winter they 

 may be housed in any cold pit where the frost can be kept out by temporary cover- 

 ing ; and from this a few can be taken any time, as they are wanted to be put 

 into heat. Old-established plants are veiy little trouble in summer, as after they 

 have done flowering they may be plunged into the open ground, or in coal ashes, 

 and require little or no artificial water or attention. It is advisable to have them 

 all under cover during the winter, so that they can be got at in any kind of 

 weather when they are wanted. 



Stourton. M. Saul. 



NEW FLORISTS' FLOWERS. 



JT the Ghent International Horticultural Exhibition, in 1868, there was a 

 great number of new Azaleas staged, and some of them were highly 

 spoken of at the time. It is only natural that some of these should be 

 just now appearing in England, and Mr. 0. Turner, Slough, leads the way 

 as an exhibitor of these new varieties. Thus, at the meeting of the Floral Com- 

 mittee, on the 4th of May, he received a First-Class Certificate for Madame 

 Van der Cruyssen, a bright rose-coloured flower, having the upper lobes somewhat 

 heavily spotted with dark purple ; a showy sort for exhibition purposes, but 

 not first-rate in form, being somewhat flat, and irregular on the edges. Again, 

 at the Royal Botanic Society's great show, on the 19th ult., he exhibited quite a 

 batch of new kinds, and received a First-Class Certificate for George Eyles, of a soft 

 pale salmon-red hue, a bold and showy flower, large, and tolerably smooth ; while 

 a Second-Class Certificate was awarded to Reine Marie Henriette, a large and 

 novel flower of a pale fleshy-pink coloui', with a narrow margin of white, and a 

 pale centre, some of the flowers having a broad flake of pale scarlet, and all 

 having the upper lobes handsomely and boldly spotted with violet-rose. In the 

 same group were Mrs. Turner, a variety in the way of Criterion, spotted and 

 flushed with rose, but somewhat thin ; Eclatante, bright orange-red, a telling hue 

 of colour ; President A. Verschaffelt, salmon-red, bold, but somewhat loose ; Duke 

 of Buccleuch, in the same way, but slightly paler ; Frederick II, still of the same 

 character, but paler ; and La Paix, a variety in the way of the purple Due de 

 Nassau, but not so good in quality of flower. 



Fit companions for the charming Azaleas are the new Clematises, exhibited 

 by Mr. C. Noble, Bagshot. At the meeting of the Floral Committee, on the 4th of 

 May, First-Class Certificates were awarded to Albert Victor, having large, smooth, 

 well-formed flowers of a shaded lavender-purple ; and, Miss Bateman, pure white, 

 a charming flower. Both these have bold and full-petaled flowers, and, coming 

 as they do, from a cross between C. Standishii and C. Fortunei, they will be of 

 great value for their early-blooming properties under glass. At a later meeting, 

 a similar award was made to another fine variety of the same batch, named Lady 

 Londesborough, with flowers of a very distinct pale lilac hue, the sepals having a 



