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JOURNAL OF HOETICULTTJEE ASD COTTAGE GAEDENIIR. 



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plant, which is the best place to view it properly, it will long 

 retain a place both on account of its own merits and for the 

 respected name with which it is associated. 



Charles Margottin will be another valuable addition. 

 Although of the race of the weU-known Jules Margottin, it 

 has more substance in petal and greater elegance of outline, 

 while it possesses all the brilliancy of the fine carmine with 

 fiery red centre. This Kose will be one of the best. 



Duke of Wellington will be sure to please ; notwithstand- 

 ing it is one of the many scarlet Eoses that of late have 

 been introduced, it has the distinctive character of tint in 

 being slightly shaded with maroon. Somewhat approach- 

 ing Louis XIX., but not so dark, and diflFerent in shape. 



Prince Eugene Beauharnais is another of the scarlets, of 

 which it will be necessary to see more before venturing an 

 opinion. 



Marechal Xiel has not been exaggerated as regards 

 habit, &c., but none of its blooms were sufficiently open 

 to afford a correct idea of its beauty. It has, however, been 

 eihibited by Jlr. W. Paul, and favourably noticed. 



Souvenii- de William Wood and Xavier Olibo were not 

 open. Favourably as they have been spoken of, they are 

 both surpassed in habit and foliage by Dr. Lindley, which 

 is not yet ready to be sent out, but wiU undoubtedly prove 

 worthy of the name of the venerable botanist. 



Here I must stop for the present. Our amateur friends 

 may thus see that they vriH be safe with Enshton Eadclyffe, 

 Charles Margottin, Glory of Waltham, and Madame EmUe 

 Boyau. Doubtless a few months' experience wiU bring 

 out other points of excellence not yet noticed, and several 

 among those not named in this account may be found to be 

 good. — Adolphkjs H. Kext. 



EOTAL BOTAXIC SOCIETY'S SHOW, 

 Apeii 29. 



The last Spring Show for the season was held on Saturday 

 last, and notwithstanding a chilly east wind the attendance 

 of visitors was very good. The day, however, was fine with 

 bright sunshine, but in temperature offering a marked con- 

 trast to the July weather experienced in the earlier part of 

 the week. 



As a whole the Show was in no way inferior to its prede- 

 cessors, while the objects exhibited presented greater variety. 

 Eoses again formed a principal part of the display, and it is 

 hardly possible to conceive anything finer than the pot 

 plants shown by Mr. Tomer and Mr. W. Paul. It was 

 evident at a glance that tlie contest for the first place lay 

 between these two exhibitors, but to decide which would 

 carry off the palm was not so easy, the specimens in both 

 collections were so fine. Mr. Turner took the first prize 

 with Gloire de Dijon, Baronne Prevost, Souvenir de la Mal- 

 maison, the blooms of the last very large. Souvenir d'un 

 Ami, Charles Lawson, and General Jacqueminot. Mr. W. 

 Paul had the second prize for Madame Boll, Souvenir de la 

 Malmaison, L^lia, Souvenir d'un Ami, with somewhere 

 about fifty blooms more or less expanded, Seuateur Taisse, 

 and Celine Forestier. Messrs. Paul & Son were thii-d. Mr. 

 Wheeler, gardener to Sir F. Goldsmidt, Bart., Eegent's Park, 

 ■was the only exhibitor in the Amateurs' Class. A numerous 

 collection in excellent bloom came from Messrs. Lane. 

 Eoses sent out since 1863 were shown in threes. Mr. Turner 

 was first with Lord Clyde, Alba rosea, white with a rosy 

 tinge in the centre, and Mrs. Wm. Paul, glowing in colour. 

 Next came Mr. W. Paul with Jean Goujon, very large and 

 full, rose, Vainqueur de Goliath, very bright red, and 

 Bourbon Madame de Stella, bright rose. The last-named. 

 Alba rosea, and Madame Alfred de Eougemont, which was 

 not so good as we have generally seen it, were exhibited by 

 Messrs. Paul & Son, who were third. From the same firm 

 came several boxes of cut blooms, containing excellent 

 examples of Eev. H. Dombrain, fine colour. Princess Ade- 

 laide, a fine pale yellow Tea, Charles Lefebvre, and many 

 others. 



Pelargoniums for so early in the season were excellent. 

 Mr. Turner, Mr. Wiggins, gardener to W. Beck, Esq., Isle- 

 worth, and Mr. Weir, gardener to ilrs. Hodson, The Elms, 

 Hampstead, took equal prizes in the Nurserymen's and 

 Amateurs' Classes. Mr. Turner had Desdemona, Beck's 



Amazon, Beacon, Sir C. Campbell, W. Bull, and Pescatore. 

 Mr. AViggins, Beadsman, Plene, Princess Mathilde, Eoseum, 

 very bright and showy. Empress Eugenie, and Madame 

 Eeiset, cerise with maroon spot. Mr. Weir's plants con- 

 sisted of the Fancy varieties, were from 2^ to 3 feet across, 

 and in very fine bloom. The kinds were Attraction, Ce- 

 lestial, Queen of Eoses, Acme, Carminatum, and Jenny 

 Lind. 



Collections of Azaleas in smaU pots were exhibited by 

 Messrs. Lane and F. & A. Smith, the former having also a 

 collection of hybrid Ehododendrons, while Messrs. Smith 

 hod a new Ehododendron called Queen of England with 

 white flowers 4 inches in length by at least as much across, 

 and five in a head. A first-class certificate was awarded for 

 this. Mr. Parker, of Tooting, likewise exhibited several 

 plants of his charming large-flowered, blush variety Coun- 

 tess of-Haddington. 



Of Auriculas Mr. Tiu-ner had examples remarkable for their 

 vigorous trusses and large pips of Mr. Marnock (Turner), 

 Sir Isaac Newton (Strong), Headl/s George Lightbody, 

 Negro (Turner), Bessy Bell (Spalding), and Sophia (Spald- 

 ing) ; in addition to which he had a fike collection contain- 

 ing Lightbody's Meteor Flag and Fair Maid, Waterhouse's 

 Conqueror of Europe, Popplewell's Conqueror, Turner's 

 Webster, Dickson's Duke of Cambridge, a charming variety, 

 and several others, with large pips. Mr. Butcher, Camber- 

 well, and Mr. James likewise exhibited good sixes. Two 

 new Alpines from Mr. Turner, Titian and John Leech, both, 

 very fiie, particularly the latter, which is a bold flower, 

 were awarded first-class certificates ; and Master Hole, a rich 

 maroon self, and Eev. J. Bramhall, green-edged, had second- 

 class certificates. Eobert Ti-ail, grey-edged, came from Mr. 

 Butcher, but did not receive an award. 



Of other objects stands of Pansies were shown by Mr. 

 Hooper, of Widcombe HUl, Bath, Ayres, Biggleswade, and 

 James ; Calceolarias of a fine strain by Messrs. Dobson & Son 

 and James ; Cinerarias by Mr. Wiggins and Mr. James ; 

 Amaryllis by Mr. Parker ; Begonias by Mr. Wheeler : flower- 

 ing and ornamental-foliaged plants by Messrs. Williams, 

 F. & A. Smith, Wheeler, and Stone; Palms by Mr. Bull; 

 and Ericas and a large plant of the ornamental yeUow- 

 flowered Genista Everestiana by Messrs. Low. 



Foremost among rare plants were four beautiful Alpines 

 from Messrs. Backhouse, of York, whose collection of such 

 plants is probably the richest in the country. These were 

 Andromeda hypnoides, a native of Lapland, not much higher 

 than a moss, and bearing charming little pendulous white 

 flowers with a red calyx ; Primula ciliata from Switzerland 

 bearing numerous bright purplish crimson flowers and hav- 

 ing a very briUiant appeai'ance ; Narcissus juncifolius, with, 

 yellow flowers, found in stony pastures on the Pyrenees; 

 and Primula fariuosa acaulis, from Cronkley Fell, Teesdale, 

 Yorkshire, having pale lilac flowers producad close to the 

 surface of the soil. For these a fu-st-class certificate was 

 awarded. Mr. W. Paul had a similar award for Eaphiolepis 

 ovata, a Japanese plant, which was noticed in the report 

 of his nursery in our last volume for its thick leathery 

 dark green foUage, but now bearing several large racemes 

 of white flowers, the plant being only 18 inches high. 

 Deutzia crenata flore pleno, noticed at page 306, and very 

 ornamental by its numerous white drooping flowers, also 

 from Mr. Paul, was awarded a medal. Mr. Bull sent a 

 numerous collection, and received first-class certificates for 

 his remarkable Hose-in-hose Mimulus, for Aubrietia pur- 

 purea variegata, and Salvadora persica, all of which have 

 been noticed in previous Numbers ; also for a Ehododendron 

 called Thibaudiensis, with tubular orange flowers. Primula 

 intermedia, and Woodsia polystichoides Yeitohiana. From 

 Mr. WUliams came Gymnogramma Parsonii, Peperomia aii- 

 folia, Anthurium magnificum, with deep green silver -veined 

 leaves, Aspleniums alatum and phiUipense, and Phoenicii- 

 phorum sechellarum, a Palm with noble foliage — one of those 

 grown in Belgium for baskets in rooms — all of which received 

 fii'st-class certificates, and several other interesting novelties. 

 An Auricula called nigricans plenissima, with very double 

 flowers and nearly black, and Petunia Blotch, with a large 

 rosy purple and white flower, a very promising variety, were 

 shown by Messrs. Smith, of Dulwioh, who likewise exhibited 

 several new Azaleas, of which Eichard Cobden and Mr. Mar- 

 nock were desirable varieties. Cineraria Dark Beauty, a 



