THE ELOKAL MAGAZINE. 



] APRIL, 1875. [No. 40. 



NEW SERIES. 



EXHIBITIONS. 



At the meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society, held 

 on March 3rd last, Mr. C. Green, of Reigate, exhibited 

 a beautiful specimen of Masdevallia melanopus, a plant 

 much in the style of the better known M. polysticta, but 

 somewhat smaller in growth, and less spotted in its 

 flowers. Mr. C. May, gardener to J. S. Bockett, Esq., 

 of Stamford Hill, sent a well-flowered specimen of 

 Coelogyne conferta ; and a finely-flowered growth of 

 Dendrodium mobile, on which were thirty-two blossoms 

 (produced in nearly every case three in a spray), from 

 Mr. Stephens, gardener to G. Simpson, Esq., Wray 

 Park, Reigate. The Meeting and show of March 27th 

 was more important than might have been expected, as 

 the Hyacinth Show had been virtually abandoned by 

 the Royal Horticultural Society. At the last moment, 

 however, it was reinstituted, under somewhat unfavour- 

 able conditions, which prevented anything like the grand 

 display we have seen on some former occasions ; added 

 to this, it is a notoriously bad year for hyacinths. The 

 Hyacinth Show was held in the Western Arcade, and a 

 silver medal was awarded to Messrs. Veitch and Sons, 

 for their collection, which included other plants besides 

 hyacinths. A silver medal was also awarded to Mr. 

 John Wills, of Sussex Place, South Kensington, and 

 the Melbourne Nursery, Anerley, for an extensive col- 

 lection of stove and other plants. The same award was 

 made to Mr. B. S. Williams, of Upper Holloway, for a 

 collection of plants ; and to Mr. William Paul, of 

 Waltham Cross, for a magnificent collection of Camellias 

 in pots. A good number of the old Hyacinths were well 

 represented, with a few new ones ; but no really first- 

 rate novelties were exhibited ; and none were certifi- 

 cated. A first-class certificate was awarded to Mr. H. 

 Bennett, of Stapleford, Salisbury, for a new hybrid per- 

 petual Rose, named Hippolyte Jamain — bright rose in 

 colour, with a fine dark crimson centre ; a handsome 

 and compact flower, with good bold foliage. Mr. 

 Bennett, of Hatfield, sent a fruiting spike of Hedych'mm 

 Gardneriantm, which was greatly admired for its 

 brilliant orange and crimson coloration. An unrivalled 

 specimen of Cattleya amethystoglossa, with seventeen 

 flowers on one spike, was sent by Mr. W. Wilson, gar- 

 dener to W. Adams, Esq., of Chace Park, Enfield ; and 

 a poorly-grown specimen of the handsome and curious 

 Tulipa Greigii, with spotted foliage, was forwarded by 

 the New Plant and Bulb Company, Colchester. 



L^ELIA JONGHEANA. 



This magnificent plant, with flowers nearly as large as 

 Cattleya Mossice, is now blooming in the collection of 

 Lord Londesborongh, at Norbiton. It was originally 

 introduced to our gardens by M. de Jonghe, of Brussels, 

 the celebrated fruit grower j it was discovered by his 

 traveller, Libon, who fell a victim to his zeal in the 

 Brazils, more than twenty years ago. 



VRIESIA REGINA. 



Under this name a most magnificent plant, which by 

 far eclipses any Yriesia we have seen in English stoves, 

 has been figured and described in the number of the 

 Gardeners' Chronicle for Feb. 20th last. We gather from the 

 description that the plant in question flowered for the 

 first time in Europe in the Emperor of Austria's private 

 garden at Vienna, last summer, and that the director of 

 the garden furnished the photograph from which the 

 figure was taken. The plant, it seems, has also been 

 known as Tillandsia regina, Vriesia gigantea, and V. 

 Glaziouana. The leaves, says the Gardeners' Chronicle, 

 are about four feet in length, and seven inches broad, 

 the flower-stalk, which develops with great rapidity, 

 attains a height of seven feet. The flowers are 

 arranged in two-ranked curved spikes, disposed in a 

 branched panicle, and spring from the axils of rose- 

 coloured bracts. The flowers are white, and have a 

 strong perfume of jasmine. The plant is a native of 

 Rio Janeiro, where, according to M. Glaziou, it grows 

 in the clefts of the rocks, flowering from October to 

 December. 



RARE SPECIES OF PHAL^NOPSIS. 



Mr. Low, of Clapton, Mr. Bull, of Chelsea, and we 

 believe Messrs. Veitch and Sons, and others, have now 

 in flower a highly curious new plant, under the name of 

 P. leucorrhoda, which Professor Reichenbach considers 

 to be a hybrid between P. amabilis and P. Schilleriana ; 

 the flowers, which are rather larger than the flowers of 

 an average P. Schilleriana, are borne in many-flowered 

 inflorescences ; the chief colour of the flowers is white, 

 the unusually long petals being washed in the middle 

 with rose. This plant, says the Professor, has a remark- 

 able analogy with Odoiitoglossam Warsceiviczii. It is 

 as inferior to a good P. Schilleriana as any Odontoglossum 



