190 THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. [August, 



Of Roses, First-Class Certificates have been awarded to H. P. Mons. Wool- 

 field, bright pink, suffused with rose in the centre of the flowers, which were large 

 and full, a delicate and beautiful variety, from Mr. C. Turner, Slough ; to Climb- 

 ing Eose Duchesse cle Mecklenburgh, with pale salmon-coloured flowers, from J. 

 H. Arkwright, Esq., Hampton Court, Leicester ; and to Pillar Eose Prince 

 Leopold, with crimson flowers shaded with dark, brighter in the centre, from Mr. 

 William Paul, Waltham Cross. Finally, a First-Class Certificate was awarded to 

 Mr. C. Turner, for a White Clove named The Bride, having large and full white 

 flowers tinged with cream, likely to be very valuable for cutting from. 



There are now some really good things in the way of rose-coloured and lilac 

 bedding Lobelias, for in addition to the useful little Beauty of Eavensbourne, 

 and the somewhat taller-growing Eosy Gem, some useful varieties in the same 

 way were produced at the meeting of the Floral Committee on July 6, by Mr. 

 Appleby, gardener to Mrs. Harvey, Brixton Hill. To one of these, named 

 Mauve Queen, a First-Class Certificate was awarded : it is a variety of good, 

 though compact growth, producing plenty of bright lilac flowers. I put this 

 variety, with others of what is termed the Tom Thumb type, in an intermediate 

 position, between the ordinary L. speciosa type of growth and what is known as 

 the pumila section. The latter are not continuous-blooming in some instances, 

 and we have the testimony of Mr. Gibson that they will not as a general rule 

 stand exposure to the sun. 



Hybrid Nosegay Pelargonium Harry George, from Mr. J. George, of Putney, 

 awarded a First-Class Certificate, marks a fine advance in this section. The 

 flowers are of a bright deep rose hue, lit up with orange, the pips large, stout 

 and round, and produced in noble trusses. For the exhibition stage, this variety 

 appears well adapted. The Double Pelargoniums are continually receiving new 

 additions, though one fails, except in rare instances, to notice the advance made. 

 Marie Lemoine, Victor Lemoine, and Wilhehn Pfitzer are three kinds all lovers of 

 these double kinds should cultivate ; any advance on either of these must be 

 something good. But when are we to see the promised double white variety ? 

 Perpetual Picotee Prince of Orange, from Mr. Perkins. Leamington, and awarded 

 a First-Class Certificate, is a grand thing, either for conservatory and house 

 decoration, or to cut from ; it has flowers with a pale yellow ground, edged with 

 bright red. large in size, full, and good. 



I have just seen a grand new bedding Tropceolurn ; it is a seedling from that- 

 most useful variety. Carter's Crystal Palace Perfection, a sort that rarely seeds, 

 but the raiser of the new kind managed to save enough seeds to give him three 

 seedling plants ; of these, two were altogether unlike the parent, and quite 

 worthless, but the other is identical in every respect with the parent variety, ex- 

 cepting that the flowers are of a brilliant dark crimson. It is a true trailer, 

 creeps close to the ground, wants no pegging-down, and it is characteristic of 

 this type that it is wonderfully floriferous. E. D. 



