140 BRIEF REMARKS. 



Gledstanesi, lateritia, variegata, speciosissima, splendens, Fielder's 

 Wliite, violacea superba, Smith's Red, and the Chinese Yellow. 



Rhododendrons. — A magnificent collection was shown by Mr. Ivison, 

 gardener to the Duchess Dowager of Northumberland, at Sion House. 

 It consisted of beautiful light and purple flowered kinds. The best of 

 the former were stated to have been obtained between altaclerense and 

 the while ponticum ; the others between altaclerense and the white tree 

 Rhododendron. 



Hoses in pots surpassed any exhibition of the kind we have hitherto 

 seen. The collections of both dealers and amateurs showed that each 

 had done his utmost, and the result is that the cultivation of the Queen 

 of Flowers in pots has attained a degree of perfection beyond which it 

 can hardly be expected to be carried. Notwithstanding the little sun 

 we have had, the flowers were beautifully coloured, especially those on 

 Messrs. Lane's plants, and the foliage was ample and clean. The 

 gems of Mr. Francis's collection, to whom the first prize was awarded, 

 were Paul Perras, with blossoms regularly dispersed over the plant, 

 large and well blown ; Coupe d'Hebe, with flowers rich in shape and 

 colour, reminding one of those of the old-fashioned Cabbage ; Lamarque, 

 a good wliite, and said to be beautifully scented ; Armosa, a profuse 

 blooming medium-sized Rose ; Chenedole, and La Reine. "We observed 

 in all instances that the buds of the latter did not open kindly. Madame 

 de St. Joseph, in Messrs. Paul's group, which was second, was the 

 admiration of everybody. It is a delicate salmon, with a delicious 

 fragrance, and the plant was covered with blossoms ; Vicomtesse cles 

 Gazes ha I been very fine, but its beauty was somewhat on the wane ; 

 not so Niphetos, which was just in perfection, and studded with flowers 

 of snowy whiteness; "William Jesse and Comte de Paris were also in 

 beautiful condition. Messrs. Lane's plants were insufficiently in bloom ; 

 three or four more bright days might have placed them in a different 

 position. Among them were the universal favourites, William Jesse, 

 Duchess of Sutherland, Aubernon, with foliage broad and clean ; and 

 the glorious Geant des Batailles. The first of these possessed a sur- 

 prisingly fine colour for the season. In the collections of Messrs. 

 Terry, Rozer, and Rowland were Aubernon, Fulgorie, Mrs. Bosanqtiet, 

 Nina, Marquise Boccella, La Reine, Armosa, Geant des Batailles, 

 Blairii No. 2, Augustine Mouchelet, Duchess of Sutherland, Goubault, 

 William Jesse, and Baronne Prevost, the latter with flowers at least 

 six inches in diameter. 



Cape Heaths were numerous, and generally finely flowered. Excel- 

 lent plants were furnished by Mr. Smith, Mr. Cole, Mr. Over, Mr. 

 Roser, Mr. Taylor, Mr. Stewart ; and in the Nurserymen's Class by 

 Messrs. Rollisson, Epps, Fairbairn, and Pamplin. The specimens, 

 both in eleven and eight-inch pots, were famous examples of good 

 Heath growing. In the different collections we remarked the follow- 

 ing varieties: — Tortiliflora, fastigiata lutescens, suaveolens, ampttllacea 

 carminbrata and vittata, ventricosa superba, coccinea minor, pfopendens, 

 favoides elegans, mutabilis, mundula, dilecta, aristata major, Beau- 

 montiana, perspicua nana, M'Nabiana, denticulata moschata, elegans, 



