I20 Notes and Gleanings. 



flower. Mr. Turner had a fine lot of new Alpine Auriculas, especially flowers 

 having maroon-crimson and plum-colored grounds : the most striking were 

 named Marvel, Charley, Arthur, Stella, and Godfrey ; but some account of these 

 will be given hereafter. A fancy pansy, Princess of Wales, from Mr. H. Hooper 

 of Bath, is a bold showy flower, with an almost white ground, and large, regular 

 dark blotches. Azalea Thackeray, from Mr. Z. Stevens, Trentham, a cross be- 

 tween Etoile de Gand and Imperialis, is a deep orange-red flower, having many 

 good properties, but with the edges too much crumpled to give it the desired 

 even outline ; being free-blooming, of good habit, and of a showy hue of color, 

 it promises to make an effective exhibition variety, notwithstanding the want of 

 perfect smoothness in the flowers. A very fine group of seedling amaryllis was 

 shown by Mr. Baxter, gardener to C. Keiser, Esq., Broxbourne. Three fine 

 varieties of the pale-colored or vittata series, named Mdlle. Titjiens, Olga, and 

 Alexandra, received each a first-class certificate. They are all bold, finely-shaped 

 flowers, with white bar or margin, and light rosy or carmine-red tints on the 

 segments. One, called Duke of Edinburgh, a rich, deep crimson, but rather 

 narrower in the segments, was awarded a second-class certificate. — R. D., in 

 Florist and Poinologist. 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society. — July i6. The opening of 

 the hall took place to-day, and, the exhibition being continued through the 17th, 

 both halls were occupied with the best display ever made at this season of the 

 year. The most striking feature of the show was the splendid geraniums from 

 Mr. Harding, who took both prizes for zonale geraniums, and also for variegated 

 geraniums. The display of plants on the centre-table in the upper hall was very 

 fine, mostly beautiful foliaged plants, contributed by Mr. H. H. Hunnewell, who 

 took the first prize for greenhouse plants, Hovey & Co., who received the sec- 

 ond, and W. C. Harding the third prize. The prizes for specimen plants were 

 awarded, first to Mrs. T. W. Ward, for Retinospora ; second to H. H. Hunnewell, 

 {or A but Hon Thompsoniij third to Hovey & Co., for Pandanus eleganiissimiis. 



Among the most beautiful plants, we noticed in Mr. Hunnewell's collection, 

 Coleus Satmdersii, Berkleyii (very dark and rich), Marshallii, Begonia picturata, 

 Fiats Roxburghii, Levistonia a/tissima, Vresia Glazionoma, Croton lo?igifolium, 

 an Alocasia niacrorJiiza, Alsophila excelsa, and other tree-ferns, besides caladi- 

 ums, dracaenas, ferns, &c. 



From Hovey & Co., Pandanus elegantissimus, Dracana nnibracylifera^ 

 Yucca aloefolia variegata, Coleus Berkleyii, Hibisctis Copeii, Areca Verschaf- 

 feltii, Maranta pulchella, Yucca quadricolor, Gladiolus Lyonesii, Latania 

 Borbonica, Agave Jilifera, Abutilon Thotnpsonii, Anthurium regale. Also 

 cut flowers of Viola cornuta. 



From W. C. Harding, Gymnostachium Verschaffeltii, Croton longifoliuvt, 

 Maranta pardina, M. zebrina, Rhyncospermum variegata, Anthurium regale. 

 Yucca aloefolia var., Pavetta Borbonica, Lycopodiu?n IVildenovii, caladiums, 

 ferns, dracaenas, &c. 



From Mrs. T. W. Ward, beautifully-grown gloxinias, also fine rhododendrons 

 and azaleas, and a remarkably fine specimen of fuchsia. 



