134 THE GARDENER. [March 



gardener to H. J. Buchan, Esq., Wilton ITonse, Southampton, sent a plant of 

 Odontoglossum AVallisi bearing a spike of yellowish flowers with a pink- 

 tinted lip; and ]\Ir A. Wright, gardener to J. Brightwen, Esq., The Grove, 

 Great Stanmore, exhibited a plant of Aerides cylindrica, closely resembling 

 in stems and habit the peculiar Vanda teres, but differing in the flowers, 

 which were of moderate size and white. 



First-class certificates were awarded for the following plants : — 



Maranta crocata (Bull). — A pretty species, with elliptical leaves 3 or 4 inches 

 in length, shining green on the up[)er surface and purple beneath. It is 

 dwarf and compact in habit, and produces scapes 5 to G inches in height, 

 terminating in a small head of orange-coloured imbricated bracts, in the axils 

 of which the flowers are borne ; but the beauty of the plants rests in the 

 bracts. 



Vriesia FalTcoibcrgi (Bull). — One of the plants which Mr Bull staged in his 

 collection of new plants at the last summer exhibition of the Royal Horti- 

 cultural Society. : It has dark green leaves 1^ inch in breadth, slightly recurv- 

 ing, and purjilish beneath. The spike is about 8 inches high, with large 

 closely imbricated crimson bracts, with white apices at the upper portion of 

 the spike. 



Primula Dr Denny (Cannell). — A variety of P. sinensis with very large 



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 yellow eye. 



Lachenalia Nelsoni. — This was stated to be a seedling cross between L. 

 luteola and L. aurea, and was exhibited by the Rev. J. G. Nelson, Aldborough 

 Rectory, Norwich. The scape was 8 or 9 inches in height, with pendulous 

 ubular yellow flowers, with a tint of orange in the buds and at the upper 

 portion of the spike. It combined in a marked manner the characters of the 

 two parents, but was superior to both in vigour of habit and size of the 

 flowers. 



Cineraria William Jennings. — This and the following were exhibited by Mr 

 James, gardener to Mrs Watson, Redlees, Isleworth, and occasioned some 

 discussion as to the advisability of certificating varieties of Cineraria, but the 

 majority were in favour of doing so. The variety named above had handsome 

 symmetrical flowerheads about 1^ inch in diameter, and in colour a remark- 

 ably rich purplish crimson self. 



Cineraria Master Coloin (James). — Also of excellent form and substance; 

 the colour being a warm shade of purj)le with a narrow clearly defined ring 

 of white near the centre. 



Hamamclis virginica var. arhorea (Veitch). — A peculiar Chimonanthus-like 

 plant, with dense clusters of small flowers clothing the leafless branches. The 

 flowers are small individually, but collectively they produced a rather pretty 



ect owing to each having four long narrow petals and the same nximber of 

 short reddish sepals. — Journal of Horticulture. 



HORTICUIiTURAL EXHIBITIONS. 



" Grand " Horticultural Exhibitions are likely to be more than usually plen- 

 tiful this autumn. Foremost and most important— judging from the very 

 liberal schedule of prizes — is that to be held under the auspices of the Man- 

 chester Botanical Society, in its gardens at Old Trafford, on the 24th, 25th, 

 26th, and 27th of August, and it is to be an International affair. Liberal 



