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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 



Pince, & Co., of Exeter ; a large-berried, grizzly, or rather pale amber Grape not in good 

 condition from Mr. Melville, sweet and fleshy, but considered objectionable in colour; and a 

 large round-fruited Chinese purple Egg Plant, or Aubergine, was shown by Mr. Standish, of 

 Bagshot. 



A very highly interesting collection of Grapes came from the Society's Garden at 

 Chiswick. Among Black kinds were the Frankenthal, one bunch of which weighed 2 lbs. ; 

 Barbarossa, 4 lbs. ; Black Mill Hill and Dutch Haniburghs, one bunch of the last weighing 

 1 lb. 9 ozs. ; Black Monukka, 3 lbs. 4 ozs. ; Black Prince, Black Morocco, Esperione, Burchardt's 

 Prince, weighing 2 lbs. a bunch ; Morocco Prince, Muscat Hamburgh, Muscat Noir de Jura, 

 Oldaker's West's St. Peter's, weighing lib. 8 ozs. a bunch; Violet Frontignan, Strawberry, 

 Gros Colman, Prune de l'Herault, and Black Corinth. Of White sorts there were Muscat 

 of Alexandria, Golden Hamburgh, one bunch of which weighed 2 lbs. ; Boyal Muscadine, 

 1 lb. 6 ozs. ; Baisin de Calabre, Trebbiano, Eeeve's Muscadine, White Frontignan, White 

 Nice, Ward's Early, and some Chasselas variety. Among grizzly, or rose-coloured kinds, 

 were Ahbee, Chasselas Rose de Falloux, De Candolle, and Tokay des Jardins. Among these 

 the Ahbee and Golden Hamburgh were beautiful bunches, especially the latter, which was 

 well ripened and without speck or blemish. These were cut from the Vines in the great 

 conservatory, the crop in which this year has been in noways behind its predecessors either 

 in size, quantity, or quality. Qvo. 



AWARDS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY'S 

 FLORAL COMMITTEE. 



July 1. 



Acpophortjs apfinis. --Messrs. Veitch & Son [S.C.C. and S.B.]. — A large-growing 

 decompound Fern from Borneo, admirably suited by its creeping rhizome and drooping 

 fronds for large baskets. It is a pale green colour and shining, with finely -cut divisions, 

 which, however, overlap each other. Its fructification is of a davalleoid character. 



Adiantum Ghiesbpeghtit. — Messrs. Backhouse & Son [C. and B.]. — A drooping-habited 

 and very handsome species of Maidenhair Fern, the ample trapezio-oblong pinnules of which 

 were of a deep green colour, and lobed on the margin. It was a fine fresh-looking species 

 of very ornamental character. 



Asplexittm coxsimile.— Messrs. Veitch & Son [C. and B.]. — A sturdy-looking Chilian 

 Fern with short pinnate fronds, having thick, coriaceous, serrated, auriculate pinnae. 



Asplenium elegantulum. — Mr. Standish, Ascot [F.C.C. and S.K.]. — A very elegant 

 dwarf Fern, with the aspect of an enlarged and elongated A. fontanum. The fronds were 

 lanceolate in form, and bipinnate, with roundish toothed pinnules. It will be a pretty little 

 hardy evergreen Fern, and just the thing for glass cases kept in cool situations. 



Araucapia Potlei. — Mr. Bull [S.C.C. and S.B.]. — The plants exhibited were young 

 just-imported seedlings of this very fine new Caledonian conifer, which is remarkable for 

 having the broad flat leaves evenly produced all round the branches, and incurved or pretsed 

 against them, so as to lie imbricated over each other, and thus to give the branches consider- 

 able bulk. 



Bomapea mtjltiflora. — Messrs. Veitch & Son, Exeter and Chelsea [F.C.C. and S.K.]. 

 — A graceful twining greenhouse perennial, furnished with lance-shaped leaves about 4 inches 

 long, and I| inch broad, the stems terminating in an umbel of about a dozen flowers, which 

 were orange red in the sepaline divisions, and yellow dotted internally with crimson in the 

 longer and broader petaline segments. It had been introduced from Peru. 



Cattleya Aclandi-Lodmgesii. — Messrs. Veitch & Son [F.C.C. and S.K.]. — A plant of 

 especial interest, being a further instalment of Messrs. Veitch' s batch of hybrid Orchids. It 

 was shown as Cattleya hybrida ; but as this name is not stifliciently distinctive from their 

 other hybrid Cattleyas, it is better to apply to it the joint titles of its parents. It was a very 

 beautiful plant, of dwarf habit, with short stems, supporting a pair of oblong fleshy leaves, 

 and two-flowered racemes of large finely-coloured flowers. The rosy-tinted sepals and petals 

 were spotted over with crimson ; the broad column buried between the erect side lobes of 

 the lip was of a deep rose, these lateral lobes themselves being more widely separated at the 

 front than at the back, rosy outwardly and creamy yellow at the tip ; while the middle lobe 

 was roundish heart-shaped with a sort of claw, and so much recurved at the edge as to give 

 it a cuneately-flabellate appearance, the colour being creamy yellow at the hinder part and 

 rosy marked with deeper rose veins in front. 



Dictyogpamma japonica. — Messrs. Veitch & Son [F.C.C. and S.K.].— A bold-habited 

 Fern from Japan, shown under the older names of Gymnogramma japonica. The fronds 

 were 2 to 3 feet high, bipinnate, and of a bright green colour; the pinnae of a long lanceolate 

 form, and of considerable size. It had something of the character of G. javanica, but differs 

 in its netted veins. 



