660 
8 ee is a new Page with longer 
pinnules, an exceptionally dense-looking p ant, the fronds 
y pinna overlapping the — * 
late this , and fe e specimens we 
fully developed, but the varieties were very nu and 
int A. elutinum i 
by good plants of 
on 
a grandipinnata, an uncommon an 
PALMS, &c. 
Mr, WILLIAM ee Putney Park Lane, 3 
of large ornamental Palms in 
orner of Sise d 28 1 
decorative specimens of Ken — - 
iana, Cocos flexuosa, Rhapis is, Drac 
australis and D. a. variegata, faced with well- iowered 
plants of 3 8 Tuberoses, ic aaj Ferns, 
ramidalis, otons 
mell-eoloured ch are of Barz a Fortunei 
der tg and diverse plants of dec 
value were included in this tastefully ar 
iip, 
At the further end of the same tent wasa — lot of 
& S EGAR, Onslow 
was 
arran er. and contained only excellently-grown 
speci e clean plant ia — occu- 
pied the centre, ng either side were plants of Cocos 
Weddeliana, Areca ta, nymphefolia, Zinziber 
variegatum, Alocasia rmedia, Leucostegia immersa, 
ul and highly decorative 2j tenuissimus, 
Dracæna Goldieana, &c., ed d faced very tastefully with 
smaller specimens of st f choio aperies o of fo oliaged plants, 
* Strobilanthes 
Messrs, SUTTON & N Reading, also staged some Palms, 
Liliums, Euryas, 
Mrs. INGFIELD, Ampthill House, Ampthill (gr., Mr. 
Empson), showed two excellent Drac lant of 
D. Doucetti of D. 8 
niae of the leaves, which n 
— B. S. as small collection of 
e best of which were 
— extra peas — of sole 1 deep scarlet with 
pt meee; Syren Paipa t red edged, white, rra distinct 
and 8 
kins, gr. 383 W. F. SMITH, M. P., staged a 
larger grou: p of seedlings ere several distinet forms, 
the lighter shades predominatin g 
flowers of extra size. 
2 
n both of these exhibits. 
CARNATIONS IN POTS: 
Mr. Jennings, gr, to LEOPOLD DE 
Leighton Buzzard » showed a 
ROTHSCHILD, Eeq., Ascott, 
a grand bank of Souvenir de la 
and vigour, very dwarf in * and bearing numbers of 
eac 
colour of W and 
the blush varieties were included, th 8 in the 
Mr. GEO. 1 gad Teddington, 
showed a number of plants of Uriah Pie bearing fine blcoms, 
of was as notable a as ever, the 
plants having also a number of advancing buds ; these were in 
the plaats in this : ee 
being more ren 
p ee 
cester, ext t satiny 1 ame van Houtte, 
large French white; and es, pale lilac these 
were all fine varieties. (See fig. 96 8 ) ; 
essrs, G. JACKMAN & SONS, Woxing, e a small grou 
of hybrids, ween C. coccinea Star of Tudi 4 
n 
habit and good — plan e the best of 
ek carmine- red; and Coun 
same colour. (See fig. 92, p. 647.) 
JAPANESE MAPLES, 
A group of Japanese Maples in great variety was 
shown . W. Fromow. & Sons, Sutton Gears 
Nursery, Chiswick. —— oval group consisted of 
capital plants, and well illustrated the exceptional 
plant 
$ 4 
ove. a 8 at 
vr 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
Ok the — forms such as Acer palmatum atro- 
n (broad foliage); end A. p. 
um, 
— atropu re the most distinct ;then 
forms, A. 80 mati tifen, A. — — 4 "A 
reticulatum, A, j. laciniatum, A. Pp. se mlobum, embrace 
considerable var erer e form of foliage; while of a misce 
an 3 more or less of a bizarre appearance, are 
p. marginatum, — p. variegatum, A. p. aureu 
variegatum p. marmoratum, p. dissectum varie- 
gatum, A. p. d. orna * and p. tricolor, the last-na 
a very high-coloured v ety. me tall plants = Lilium 
So 
longifiorum br oon er . enhanced the appearance 
of the collec 
_ Another — of these plants — Aer Messrs. JOHN 
Sons was grouped 
on the grass outside the entrance to one e of the ten ts. The 
those not: re above; indeed, they conveyed a better idea of 
ce of the plants when they have become of a 
— those usually La wn in pots. The varieties in 
be rhe were probea ewer than in the other, and the 
to some of A forms had not been added to 
— of . species 
IAS. 
Messrs. VEITCH & Son showed their fine strain of Gloxinia 
isti lets, and 
ponat varieties being especially fine; Flambeau, Monarch 
ved, and Radiance the best of the former; and of 
the E Ismenes and Circe. 
SUTTON & Sons also staged a well-grown wilsction 
of — the plants very vigorous, bgt blooms. of 
8 substance, the range of colour being all that 
one — 
Messrs. H. * mee & Sons staged Gloxinias, 3 
grown plants, bearing a 3 E flowers, the strain an 
excellent one, the darker es the spotted v — 
being well represented, Peigices et Wales and Beacon were 
t wo of the best of the former. 
n ; _ GROUPS. 
Mi scellaneous gro ps arranged for effect sae a less con 
feature — — exhibition than usual, pro bably “from 
the necessity that exists for econom ising 
to the encouragement given n by the Society to 
exhibitors to * all important plants, whether of — . 
foliage The 
> of hardy plants: staged by Moora. Jas een 
' Exotic Nurseries, King's Road, Chelsea, which 
pcr ar pc gy lowering specimens, and a pro- 
ion i plants of a shrubby nature, 
y na 
shown fi at last exhibition 
K the Temple, and figured in the Gardeners’ Chronicle 
recen as p. 517, was bited in bud i. X. 
prism on the other hand, had one bloom expanded 
ytisus reus, C. elon, O. scoparius grandi- 
sho spec n i 
es, were prese in 
pans, and Genista tinctoria, fi pen a double variety of this 
yellow species also. A well-flowered plant of Azalea x 
pre sgn Koster (figured in the Gardeners’ Chr ‘onicle, aa = 
were some finely-grown plants in flower of Lilium Jo ongiforum 
Harrisii, Clethra alnifolia, and Spiræa astilboides ; 
drangea paniculata | Viburnum — ; 
varieties of Azalea pee and a plant of Indigofera decora 
alba, were all effective 
Messers. WM. CUTBUSH 7 Sox „Highgate x. 
ts of Azalea mollis, 
rangeas, æc.; soms very well - flowered plants of Car- 
nation Souvenir de la Malma , and a group of a 
new white of tion named Countess, 
tree-flowering variety, Uriah Pike, was rep ted, and 
the strikingly coloured major, the whole 
we a good t of Pteris cretica Wi a plant 
which has become largel ; tum yllum, 
cristata variegata, and an excellent specimen in a 
sn of Doryopteris ludens. Asplenium caudatum 
noticeable, with its long pendent re from a sus- 
pended pot ; 9 clean well-coloured plants of Phrynium 
variegatum, T ry" . 
urprise. Th X baf 3 
8 
Gloxinias and a few Crotons 
. Hues Low & Oo., Clapton, had a group in * 
were a number iums, Orotons, Dracenas, a pan 
Begonia Arthur Malet, a pan of Piper — and Strobi- 
lanthes Dy $ display of the A white 
ants of 
suc wta al iago pianta, 
Pes papas ag 
the Sen lige aor ‘in 3 ‘including | 
sanguinea, Spiræa astilboides and $S, japonica 
ta, Trollius asiaticus, Iberis Garrexiana, 
— a es ium davuricum — 
d other plants making a bra 
HOSE & 
work, were a most attractive feature; this ex 
of Gentiana verna, Dodecat inte 
alpinum, Gentiana acaulis var. eclestin 
Myosotis alpestris var. arvernensis, ‘Lith 
folium, Meconopsis cambrica var. pl 
gulare var. proliferum Backhouseianum ( 
culus glacialis, Armeri tacea, D: 
thyllis montana var. r G. 
alpinus, Viola pedata, Lithospermum hirtum, 
Ranunculus nnan 7 : 
Phloxes, Saxifrages, 
nobile was also shown 8 wien panely a seen in 
wers.—There 
cut flowers shown i 1 ban ser hpa man 
essrs. VEL ate Sra n addition — 
features of interest. had e collection of cut ou, 
neludi „ self, frectified, and parrot types; ‘Ty, 
2 es ulus, uble hme and poet's Narcissus; 
single Jonquil Helene ae racilis, rose, with yellow cup; 
the old double Jonquil, P. ponies, Scilla, and „ re 
ing the wealth of spring-blooming bulbous plants in en. 
. Tuli re in great force, among them T, Billietian, 
delicate primrose, feathered with bright scarlet half-way ay 
he petals from the base. Mr. T. S. WARE had thirty bunchs — 
of the pink Malmaison Carnation, six blooms in a bund. 
backed with = sty &c., in very attractive display, 
Next CUTBUSH S, The Nurseries, 
Highgate, N., w ld and nicely arropit AAEE 
bo 
out flowers, 5 — little bays at in 
: 
als filled with small : 
At the back | 
were fine plants of Saxifraga pyramidal and W 
l 
„ sented by bunches Trollius in 
variety; Iris, Pœonies, Narci — the large white 
Rubus nutkanus, Doronicums, rums, Kc. Following 
is came Mr. J x, n ‘with a calle 
tion of similar character; had bunches of Pyrethrum, 
3, Primula Sieboldii, Iceland Poppies, Dracems 
Heuchera sanguinea, aS — ht colour; Aquilegiss in 
fine bunches, Gladioli of the early- sections, with 
Palms, &c., at back, and panels of flowers of the following 
Carnations :—Uriah Pike, Leopold de Rothschild, 
Ge , and 
© Next. in order of place eam he Shirly 
Nurseries, Southampton, with one of those collections ot 
pgs iid 
flowers he frequently brings to London; h 
of various Aquilegias, Ponies in ie 
nea in very fine patches, a ~~ 1 
FA ty 
E. 8. Hill, sin, eep in 
wana; eee roe ott varieties, 
Mr. J Standard, 
ca palo f w retroflexa, with the varieties in 
force ; double oe Narcissus, Gladiolus of 
bunc! 0 
the darkest; Alp Brats 0, 
white, very fine; i ; 
le Graye, single very fine; La Tour d 
& Son, ed 
Tulips, §c.— Then came Me Messrs. BARR aer 
Street, Covent Garden a collection in ja pet 
g 
thrums, 
pes; a 
merocallis Len eh Leek on Rea Ao a i 
— . Phi . bane 
