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white and faintly lilac striped 

 flowers ; next Preclari, a diffuse bush, 

 smothered with flame-like flowers, the 

 colour a vivid tone of purplish lake, 

 with deep lake blotch on the top petal ; 

 Roi Leopold, clear salmon red, with 

 blood-coloured blotch; Chelsoni and 

 Etendard de Flanders, a charming 

 white ; those well deserved the extra 

 prize awarded them. Mr. Turner 

 sent four plants of Bougainvillea 

 spectabilis, in 7-inch pots, covered 

 with the lovely mauve-coloured bracts, 

 which render this plant such a superb 

 stove climber. Chinese primulas were 

 sent in excellent condition by Mr. 

 Todman, gardener to R. Hudson, 

 Esq., Clapham. Mr. Turner had a 

 set of six nice forced pelargoniums, 

 and was the only competitor in this 

 class. The forced spring flowers fur- 

 nished by Mr. Treen, of Rugby, were 

 models of good culture, and richly 

 merited the prize awarded them. 



A considerable number of genuine 

 novelties were shown, which added 

 not a l'tlle to the interest of the dis- 

 play. Mr. Williams, of Holloway, 

 had good specimens of Sarracenia 

 purpurea, with purplish green pitchers 

 and greenish yellow flowers, an un- 

 attractive species ; S. Drummondi, a 

 fine species, the leaves averaging 2 ft. 

 6 in. in length, ribbed with thin 

 lines of purplish red, and opening to 

 a wide lip, which, with the lid, is de- 

 licately reticulated with green and 

 pink veins on a white ground ; the 

 flowers are brownish-red, and in 

 their way as attractive as they are 

 curious. Mr. Standish sent a new 

 Eorsythia, completely covered with 

 canary yellow bios oms : this plant 

 will prove as useful for forcing as for 

 the shrubbery. Mr. Early, of Digs- 

 well, sent a seedling small-leaved 

 begonia, called Digswelliensis, which 

 produces large bunches of pinky red 

 flowers, varnished on the outside, 

 and with yellow stamens peeping out, 

 lighting up the whole plant in a most 

 peculiar and attractive manner. Mr. 

 Bull had a most attractive collection, 

 many of which have been already 

 figured and certified. The greatest 

 novelty in the lot was Dielytra spec- 

 tabilis alba, with white flowers — a 

 plant which will, no doubt, soon be- 



come very popular ; there was also a 

 very pretty selection of new ferns, 

 the most beautiful of which was 

 Asplenium ferulaceum, which Her 

 Majesty admired so much, that she 

 had the bell-glass removed in order to 

 observe it more attentively ; it is finer 

 cut and more delicate than either 

 A. diversifolium or A. viviparum, but 

 belongs to the same section. The 

 next best was Doryopteris alcyonis, 

 also from Mr. Bull ; this is a hart's- 

 tongue-looking species, from St. 

 Catherine, the fronds elegantly sag- 

 gitate, of a dark green, and with 

 Pteris-like marginal sori. 



The second show of the Royal 

 Botanic Society took place on Satur- 

 day, April 9th, and was a successful 

 exhibition in every reRpect. Nowhere 

 else but at Regent's Park can be seen 

 such excellent taste in arranging the 

 subjects exhibited, nor so much atten- 

 tion paid to the general effect of the 

 whole display, as well as showing 

 each separate lot of plants to the 

 best advantage ; and this circumstance 

 it is which renders these shows such 

 invariable triumphs, and has made 

 them the most popular of all flori- 

 cultural displays. The azaleas lighted 

 up the tent by their brilliant colours 

 in an extraordinary manner, the spe- 

 cimens sent by Mr. Turner being 

 perfect specimens of good culture, 

 and were so densely bloomed, that 

 not a leaf could be seen. Messrs. 

 Lane and Son took second prize, and 

 Mr. Bull third. The amateur col- 

 lections were all good ; but Mr. J. 

 Cross, gardener to Sir F. H. Gold- 

 smid, Bart., took first prize with six 

 finely-trained specimens ; the second 

 prize was awarded to Mr. Todman, 

 and the third to Mr. W. Young. A 

 pleasant change from the ordinary 

 sugar-loaf style of growing azaleas 

 was made by Mr. Turner, who sent 

 ten plants trained columnar fashion, 

 or like well-trained distaff fruit-trees, 

 which were so laden with bloom, that 

 there seemed almost too much upon 

 them. Cinerarias were shown in 

 abundance, and were of first-rate 

 excellence, but did not differ in any 

 notable way from those ordinarily 

 shown in previous years. Mr. J. 

 James, gardener to W. T. Watson, 



