448 The International Horticultural Exhibition [July, 
height, with Cruciferous flowers, and slender drooping pods which 
form the esculent portion or radish. Although the seeds of this 
plant when first introduced sold at the rate of eight for a guinea, 
yet as it thrives well in this country, it will probably soon become 
one of our commonest esculents. The Liliwm auratwm, the first 
bulb of which cost Messrs. Veitch 1,200 guineas, and Mr. Linden’s 
exquisitely delicate white flower, the Psychotria nivosa, attracted 
universal admiration. There were also some very lovely specimens 
of Anzectochilus. 
A box of 50 Alpine and herbaceous plants exhibited by Mr. 
James Backhouse, of York, not at all showy in appearance, neyver- 
theless attracted considerable attention on account of the variety and 
rarity of its contents. We noticed in this box the North American 
Cypripedium acaule and Dodecatheon integrifolum, Ranunculus 
glacialis which flowers amidst the melting snows of the Alps, the 
Myosotis montana or mountain forget-me-not, which forms a dense 
little bush of large clear blue flowers, Gentiana acaulis showing as in 
its mountain home its large deep-blue flowers, the scarlet-flowered 
Anemone fulgens, and several other Alpine beauties, familiar to the 
tourist, forming altogether a most interesting collection, reminding, 
doubtless, some of the visitors of Chamouni, the Grindelwald, and the 
mountains of Switzerland, with their robes of eternal snow. 
To attempt to enumerate all the rare and beautiful plants beneath 
the covering of that capacious tent is indeed a hopeless task. Messrs, 
Veitch alone had about 10,0002. worth of plants on exhibition, and 
30,0002. would not have purchased the collection of Orchids. Some 
idea of the immensity of the collection may be gathered from the 
lament of a well-known Hammersmith horticulturist, that he could 
scarcely find his name in the garden although he had sent down 
twenty wagon-loads of plants and trees ! 
Prof. De Candolle, the President of the Botanical Congress, 
together with some of its most eminent foreign members, were pre- 
sented to the Prince and Princess of Wales, who, accompanied by 
Prince Alfred, the Princess Helena, the Princess Mary of Cam- 
bridge, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and Prince Teck, 
honoured the opening day with their presence. 
Amongst the numerous foreign contributors to this truly inter- 
national display, who must have been at considerable expense in 
the importation of their plants, the collections of Mr. Linden, of 
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