lxxii PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Cypripediums, Oncidiums, Lselias, and Dendrobes were in great 

 variety. 



Messrs. J. Laing & Sons and Mr. Peed also showed some 

 well-grown Orchids among their other exhibits ; while the Disa 

 racemosa of Messrs. Backhouse was greatly admired on account 

 of its rose-purple flowers. 



Boses. — There were several attractive collections. Messrs. 

 W. Paul & Son, Waltham Cross, had a large collection of 

 specimens, as well as a fine display of cut blooms. The beautiful 

 hybrid Moss Rose " Crimson Globe," raised by the firm, received 

 a first-class certificate. Other fine Roses were " Spenser" and 

 " Crimson Queen." 



Messrs. Paul & Son, of Cheshunt, had a remarkably fine 

 group, comprising over forty flowering specimens, among which 

 examples of " Her Majesty" were strikingly attractive. 



Some well-flowered specimens of " Niphetos " were shown by 

 Mr. W. Rumsey, of Waltham Cross. 



Ferns. — Such a fine display of Filmy Ferns was never seen as 

 that of Messrs. Jas. Backhouse & Son, of York. There were over 

 one hundred specimens, representing as many as fifty distinct 

 species. Some of them were about two feet across, and were 

 unique. Special mention might be made of Trichomanes 

 Lusclmathianum and its invaluable variety T. L. prolongum. 

 Very handsome were T. Borneense and T. meifolia, the latter re- 

 sembling a Todea superbain habit. The " Killarney Fern " was 

 represented in great variety, from the largest form of T. radicans 

 to the tiny T. r. alabamense. The "kidney-leaved" Fern, 

 Trichomanes reniforme, was two feet across. The Hymenophyl- 

 lums also presented a wide range of variety, and attention may 

 be called to H. tunbridgense, of which there were several forms, 

 H. demissum, H. dilatatum, H. obtusatum, H. scabrum, H, 

 magellanicum, and others. 



Messrs. Birkenhead, of Sale, staged about five hundred plants, 

 arrangedin sections, the Adiantums, Aspleniums, Gymnogrammes, 

 &c, being staged together. The hardy kinds formed an attractive 

 group in themselves, and showed some splendid forms of Aspi- 

 dium plumosum and crested varieties of Scolopendrium vulgare. 

 The Cheilanthes, Nothochkenas, and Davallias were worthy of 

 special notice, as was also the new Filmy Fern Todea grandi- 

 pinnula. 



