THE FLORAL MAGAZINE. 



NEW SERIES.] 



JANUARY, 1875. 



[No. 37. 



FLOWER SHOW. 

 Very few plants were exhibited at the rooms of the 

 Royal Horticultural Society on December 2nd last, but 

 amongst the novelties we noticed a fine flowering speci- 

 men of Odontoglossum maxillare, powerfully fragrant 

 like Hawthorn, sent from Broadoaks, Bury, by E. G. 

 Wrigley, Esq. This beautiful plant, which was awarded 

 a first-class certificate in September last when exhibited 

 by the Rev. J. B. Norman, Edgware, we intend to figure 

 shortly. Messrs. E. G. Henderson & Sons were accorded 

 a vote of thanks for a good display of Tree Carnations, 

 in considerable variety. This firm also exhibited their 

 Dractena Duffii, a plant of great merit with broad bronzy 

 leaves, here and there striped with crimson. Messrs. 

 Standish & Co. forwarded a group of Poinsettias, with 

 the coloured bracts in a high state of development; and 

 Mr. Smith, of Ealing, sent a large collection of Cycla- 

 mens in great variety of colour and robust health, some 

 of the plants having (instead of five) some eight or ten 

 reflexed petals. 



THE PELARGONIUM SOCIETY. 

 The following prizes have been offered by the Pelar- 

 gonium Society (to which we have before referred in 

 these pages), and will be competed for at South Ken- 

 sington on July 21st, 1875: — Class 1. Twelve distinct 

 varieties of Zonal Pelargoniums, "florists' class," in 

 pots of 8 inches in diameter (open), First Prize, £8 ; 

 Second, £5. Class 2. Twelve distinct varieties of Zonal 

 Pelargoniums, "decorative class," in pots of 8 inches in 

 diameter (open), First Prize, £S; Second, £5. Class 3. 

 Thirty distinct varieties of Zonal Pelargoniums, "'irre- 

 spective of class," in pots not exceeding C> inches in 

 diameter (open), First Prize, £6; Second, £1. The 

 varieties to be shown in the above classes are to be of 

 the flowering section — not those with variegated leaves. 

 Class 1, designated "florists' class," is intended to in- 

 clude only those varieties which have finely shaped 

 flowers, according to the florists' model. Class 2 is 

 intended for profuse-flowering, showy varieties, other- 

 wise known as Hybrid Nosegays. Class 4. Six orna- 

 mental Cape Pelargoniums, dissimilar (open), First 

 Prize, £3 ; Second, £2. Class 5. Best Hybrid Pelar- 

 gonium, of distinct character (open), First Prize, £2; 

 Second, £1. Class C. Twenty-four Pelargoniums, cut 

 blooms, single trusses, dissimilar (open), First Prize, £2; 

 Second, £1. Class 7. Twelve Pelargoniums, cut blooms, 



single trusses, dissimilar (amateurs), First Prize, £2 ; 

 Second, £1. The judges may, in their discretion, and 

 subject to the approval of the Committee, award a prize 

 to any exhibit worthy of particular notice, which may 

 not be provided for in the schedule. They may also 

 withhold any of the above prizes if the exhibit be not of 

 sufficient merit. 



Conditions of Competition . — It is imperative that every 

 variety exhibited shall have conspicuously appended to 

 it its own name, together with that of the raiser, such 

 names to be either printed or written distinctly on a card. 

 The "Chiswick standard" to be adopted in regulating 

 the size of the pots — that is, " 8-inch pots" measure 8 

 inches across and 8 inches deep inside, at a point 1 inch 

 below the top ec ' 6-ineh pots, in like manner, mea- 

 sure 6 inches deep d 6 inches wide inside, at an inch 

 below the edffe. 



THE L. TE MRS. HOOKER. 



All readers of the Floral Magazine will share the 

 deep regret we feel in recording the sad misfortune 

 which has fallen upon the Director of the Royal Gar- 

 dens, Kew, in the terribly sudden death of Mrs. Hooker, 

 which took place at Kew on the 13th of November last. 

 Mrs. Hooker was a daughter of the late Professor 

 Henslow, and her many scholarly accomplishments ren- 

 dered her a valuable and willing assistant to Dr. Hooker 

 in his many scientific works. One of Mrs. Hooker's 

 last works was a translation of Le Maout and Decaisne's 

 " Scientific Botany," a very large and most difficult 

 piece of work, thoroughly well done. In the translation 

 of this work, which includes all known Natural Orders 

 of Flowering Plants, Ferns, Mosses, Lichens, Alga?, and 

 Fungi, and abounds with exact scientific terms, the 

 difficulty of a positively correct translation must often 

 have been excessive. 



TILLANDSIA MUSAICA. 

 Gustavus Wallis, the discoverer of this handsomely- 

 marked stove plant, sends some interesting particulars of 

 its inflorescence and fruit (at present said to be unknown 

 in a cultivated state in this country) to the Gardeners' 

 Chronicle for Nov. 21st, last. He there states that he dis- 

 covered this plant in 1867, and sent it to Mr. Linden in 

 1868. Wallis sawit again in 1873, bearing many fruits, at 

 an elevation of 3000 feet,in a dense wood next toTeorama, 

 at a small distance from Ocana in the Magdalena terri- 



