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and rose coloured varieties, and like 

 all Mr. Holland's plants, showed an 

 abundant and healthy foliage. There 

 were two very excellent collections of 

 a hundred hyacinths, exhibited respec- 

 tively by Messrs. Cutbiish of High- 

 gate, and Mr. W. Paul of Waltham 

 Cross. Each of these firms had also 

 fifty pots of tulips, which were rather 

 full blown. 



Cut roses were shown in abun- 

 dance, and were marvellously fragrant 

 and very beautiful, attracting a large 

 share of the admiration of the visitors; 

 eight boxes were from Messrs. Paul 

 and Son, Cheshunt, and five boxes 

 from Mr. W. Paul, Waltham Cross. 

 The principal novelties exhibited by 

 Messrs. Arthur Henderson and Co. 

 were Arisema ringens, the flower of 

 which is of a rather lighter green 

 than the leaves, with an under lip of 

 very dark purple ; Dracsena Can- 

 najfolia, a magnificent specimen ; 

 Pandanus elegantissima, and a new 

 Tropffiolum Ball of Fire, a very daz- 

 zling crimson, hairy and short jointed, 

 and a most abundant bloomer. 



EoYAL Botanic Societt, April 

 11th. — The principal attractions at 

 this show were the azaleas, but 

 hyacinths were still in pretty good 

 condition, and there was a liberal 

 exhibition of amaryllis and of fine 

 foliage plants. Cinerarias were very 

 scarce. Among the cut flowers there 

 was as fine a display of roses as any 

 usually seen in Jxme and July, and in 

 this department the Messrs. Paul had 

 it all to themselves. The small tent 

 in which the exhibition was held was 

 very tastefully arranged with a grand 

 bank of plants on one side, and on 

 the opposite side collections of small 

 plants and cut flowers, and at the 

 end the specimen azaleas with their 

 huge fronts of glowing colour. 



Mr. Turner made the grandest 

 show in azaleas, with a set of six 

 large pyramids, all perfect in outline 

 and even masses of brilliant bloom. 

 The varieties were Iveryana, Rosy 

 Circle, Prince Jerome, Admiration, 

 Holfordii, and Criterion. Besides 

 these, Mr. Cross, gardener to Sir 

 P. H. Goldsmidt, put up a grand half 

 dozen pyramids, in the very best style 

 of training. Messrs. Ivery, of Dork- 



ing, sent smaller plants, but as regards 

 quality they were certainly the best 

 azaleas there ; the blooms were larger 

 and the plants remarkablj^ symmetri- 

 cal, and finished off" in a most artistic 

 style. Some beautifully grown small 

 plants came from Mr. Cutbush, of 

 Barnet ; Mr. G. Taylor, gardener to 

 C. H. Hanbury, Esq., also sent a nice 

 half dozen, but the plants were not 

 well matched. Among the new 

 azaleas were many of great merit, 

 Messrs. Smith, of Dulwich. sent a 

 basketful of flowers of Flag of Truce ; 

 this is unquestionably a most de- 

 sirable variety, the flowers large and 

 well formed, and of the most pearly 

 whiteness. Mr. Bull showed a pro- 

 mising young seedling called Pandora, 

 the flowers of which were well formed 

 and substantial, and of a vivid car- 

 mine rose colour ; also Alexander II., 

 like Iveryana ; Due de Nassau, large 

 semi-double, intense lively rose. Mr. 

 Chilman, gardener to Mrs. Smith, 

 sent Princess of Wales, a finely 

 shaped flower of average size, the 

 colour pale rose, top petal warm rose. 

 Mr. Turner sent a superb white 

 azalea called Louise Yon Baden ; also 

 President, vivid salmon-red, remark- 

 ably symmetrical, and fine substance ; 

 Perfection, intense rose ; Duke of 

 Cambridge, salmon rose. Mr. A. 

 Todman showed Prince of Orange, 

 Kinghornii, and Dr. Livingstone. 



There was not much of a novel 

 character among the collections of 

 stove and greenhouse plants, very 

 good collections being exhibited by 

 Slessrs. J. and C. Lee, A. Henderson 

 and Co., F. and A. Smith, of Dul- 

 wich, and Mr. Williams, of Holloway. 



Among the miscellaneous flowers 

 the first in importance were the col- 

 lections of roses from the two great 

 nurseries of Messrs. Paul and Son, 

 and Mr. W. Paul. Imagine plants 

 and flowers equal to about a sixth 

 part of the first Is^ational Rose Show, 

 contributed by two growers in the 

 month of April, and it will give some 

 idea of the scale on which roses are 

 grown at the nurseries. Here, too, 

 were all the best of what we call 

 autumnal roses in their very best 

 state of substance and colour, show- 

 ing very careful and very gentle 



