AUGUST. 



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AWARDS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY'S 

 FLORAL COMMITTEE. 



May 5th, 1863. 



Athyritjm Filix-fcemina var. sAgittatum {Moore).— Mr. W. Bull, Chelsea [F.C.C.]. — 

 A remarkably elegant dwarf sport of Fieldice of small neat habit, the fronds gracefully arching 

 and symmetrical, with the bifid form of pinna: extending over the greater part of the frond ; 

 the apex attenuated, and the normal basal pinnae small, so as to match with those above them. 

 The acute point and refracted pinnte give the frond an arrow-like appearance, and hence 

 the name. 



Browallia Jamesoni, var. multiflora. — Messrs. Yeitch & Son [S. CO.] . — A remarkably 

 gay-looking and free-blooming shrub adapted for conservatory decoration, quite like 

 B. Jamesoni, except that some of the flowers are of a deeper orange tint, and that the present 

 is an abundant bloomer, while the other is shy. It has the same neat ovate leaves and the 

 same tendency to an elongated habit of growth, which is its fault ; but in a large bush this 

 is not very apparent, and the flowers are so abundantly produced at the ends of all the twigs 

 that it becomes exceedingly ornamental. The young plants, which grow up with a single 

 stem, bear a head of flowers at the top. 



Cassiope fastigiata. — Messrs. Veitch & Son [F.C.C.]. — A beautiful dwarf Andromeda- 

 like hardy shrub, introduced to cultivation by Dr. Moore, of the Glasnevin Botanic Garden. 

 It is something in the way of Cassiope (or jLndromecla) tetragona, but has erect stems of some 

 8 or 10 inches high, clothed with imbricated leaves ranged in four rows, so that the branches 

 are tetragonous. They are freely decorated with drooping white bell-shaped blossoms. 



Clematis Florida v. Standishii. — Mr. Standish [F.C.C.]. — A very handsome Japanese 

 plant, apparently a variety of G. florida, having the sepals sessile as in that species ; the 

 flowers were of a deep violet blue. It was regarded as quite an acquisition. 



Clematis Fortunei. — Mr. Standish, Ascot [F.C.C.]. — A magnificent hardy Japanese 

 climber with downy ternate leaves, the terminal leaflet of which in the plant produced was 

 three-lobed. The flowers are very large, double, white, and with a delicious scent somewhat 

 resembling orange-blossom. The flowers were remarkable for having the sepals stalked 

 instead of sessile. It was a very distinct and remarkably fine plant. 



Dracophylltjm sp. — Messrs. Yeitch & Son [F.C.C.]. — An erect-habited, branched, 

 and rather sturdy-looking greenhouse evergreen shrub, likely to become a useful exhibition 

 plant. It had pungent, imbricating, awl-shaped leaves, and roundish terminal heads of 

 white flowers. It had been obtained from King G-eorge's Sound. 



Mimxjlus mactjlostts var. Marvel. — Mr. Bull [F.C.C.]. — One of a numerous set of 

 hybrids obtained by crossing the variety of garden Miniulus, called Gaiety, with the recently- 

 introduced M. aopreus. The result has been the production of a race of beautiful flowers, 

 speckled in various ways with coppery-red dots. The present is one of the paler sorts, with 

 the yellow ground-colour dotted with the deeper colour moderately thick, the dots being 

 rather more sparing in the centre of the segments, but in the lower central lobe somewhat 

 larger. "With this were shown three others, named Charm, Startler, and Special, varieties 

 of similar character, but differing in the size and intensity of the spots. The plants are of 

 moderately free habit, rather diminished in size by admixture with the smaller parent. 



Ourisia Pearcii. — Messrs. Veitch & Son [F.C.C.].— A showy herbaceous perennial, 

 with the general features of the pretty 0. coccinea (see Vol. II.), which was now shown with 

 it for comparison. It had dark red stems and leafstalks ; the leaves were flatter, more 

 regularly ovate and erenate; and the flowers, which grow similarly on an erect stem, were 

 larger, with a longer tube and more spreading lips. They were crimson, streaked on the 

 face of the limb with deep blood red. The plant was obtained from Chili through Mr. Pearce, 

 after whom it has been named by Dr. Philippi. It quite supersedes 0. coccinea. 



Rhododendron Picotee rosea. — Messrs. Veitch & Son [F.C.C.] — A hardy variety 

 raised at Exeter. The flowers were bright rose in close well-formed trusses, and are richly 

 marked with intense black spots on the three upper segments. A very ornamental plant. 



Hose H.P. Lord Macaulay. — Mr. W. Paul, Vfaltham Cross [F.C.C.]. — A vigorous- 

 habited Bose, with bold foliage and flowers of a velvety crimson in the way of General 

 Jacqueminot, " but brighter in colour, thicker in the petal, and more double." The flowers 

 were full and well formed, and altogether it was regarded as a first-class variety. 



Sarmienta repens. — Messrs. Veitch & Son [F.C.C.]. — A pretty creeping Chilian 

 Gesnerad, adapted for basket culture in greenhouses, bearing very pretty-constructed tubular 

 scarlet flowers. 



May 27th. 



Abies firma. — Messrs. Veitch & Son [F.C.C. and S.K.]. — A fine Japanese conifer, 

 of which healthy young plants a foot high were shown. The leaves of this Fir are split at the 



