THE ELOBAL MAGAZINE. 



NEW SERIES.] 



MAY AND JUNE, 1875. 



FLOWER SHOWS. 



At the meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society, held 

 on April 7, a first-class certificate was awarded to 

 Messrs. Veitch and Sons for Drosera spathulata, a small 

 and very elegant species having the habit of growth of 

 certain small Sempervivums ; for Croton Disraeli, a most 

 curious form, resembling in habit the BirdVnest Fern ! 

 (Asplenium nidus). This plant (with two other varieties 

 equally deserving of a first-class certificate) was received 

 from Mr. A. H. C. Macaffee, of Sydney. C. Disraeli 

 has been pronounced the greatest novelty that the genus 

 has yet produced, but it is quite possible that it may ere 

 long have to give place to some even greater novelty. 

 A first-class certificate was also awarded to the same 

 firm for a fine new semi-double crimson hyacinth named 

 Etna, which we figure in our present number. Mr. 

 William Bull received a similar award for Crinum brachj- 

 nema, an Indian species with drooping white sweet- 

 scented flowers, produced on a scape about three feet 

 high ; for Dracana iiisignis, a dwarf compact wiry- 

 habited plant, with leaves of a rich metallic purple 

 colour, and for D. Candida, a plant of identically 

 similar habit with the above, but with the older leaves 

 furnished with a creamy-white margin, and the young 

 ones almost entirely creamy-white. For their excellent 

 habit both these plants are decided acquisitions for the 

 table. A first-class certificate was awarded to Mr. B. 

 S. Williams for Geouoma gracilis and for Marlinesia 

 erosa, two remarkably handsome Palms. Botanical com- 

 mendations were voted to Messrs. Veitch and Sons for a 

 magnificent plant (covered with fruit) of Anthurium 

 violaceum and for Drosopliijllum lusitanicum. Cultural 

 commendations were awarded to Mr. J. Staples, gar- 

 dener to Mrs. Candy, Chipstead Place, Sevenoaks, for a 

 specimen of Dendrobium deusijlorum, with twenty-eight 

 fine spikes of flowers all in a perfectly fresh condition, 

 and to Mr. F. Moore, gardener to W. C. Pickersgill, 

 Esq., Blendon Hall, Bexley, for a specimen of Dendro- 

 bium nobile three feet through, and remarkably well 

 flowered. Messrs. Veitch and Sons exhibited a new and 

 remarkably handsome Aroid, under the provisional name 

 of Spathiphi/llum Wallisii. The committee made no 

 award for this, simply because they were uncertain of the 

 precise name of the plant, but there are no two opinions 

 held about the plant itself by all persons who have seen 

 it. The same firm sent a pretty blue-flowered plant, 

 named Exacum zeylanicum — a member of the Genti- 



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anacea — and three other Crotons not mentioned above — 

 viz., C. tortile, C. Lord Cairns, and C. append iculatum ; 

 we propose to return to these plants very shortly and 

 illustrate one or more, but undoubtedly the two first 

 plants, of a high order, C. tortile being after the manner 

 of C. spirale, but much more robust, and C. Lord Cairns 

 after the style of C. Disraeli, but of a totally different 

 colour. Amongst the miscellaneous plants, Mr. Bull 

 sent a specimen of the white flowering variety of Odon- 

 toglossum Roezlii, illustrated by us in our last number, 

 and Mr. Dean a fine collection of bedding primroses 

 and polyanthuses. 



April 21. — First-class certificates were awarded to 

 Messrs. Veitch and Sons for Dracana Injbrida, a hand- 

 some broad-leafed variety, the old leaves of which are 

 dull green, margined with crimson of various shades, 

 and the younger or crown leaves greenish white on the 

 upper side, and pale rose beneath ; to Mr. PI. Bennett, 

 of the Manor Farm Nursery, Stapleford, Salisbury, 

 for hybrid perpetual rose, Captain Christy, a large full 

 flower, with pale pink outer petals and flesh pink centre. 

 This rose has something of the colour and habit of the 

 Duchess of Edinburgh, but it has a somewhat different 

 colour and a different and far less powerful perfume. To 

 Mr. R. Dean, of Ealing, for his new double-quilled white 

 Daisy White Globe, which produces large and per- 

 fectly quilled flowers, and is a welcome companion to 

 the double-quilled red form. Mr. Bennett also sent a 

 magnificent collection of cut roses, including the two 

 above-mentioned plants, together with Jlippolyte Ja- 

 main ; Mr. William Paul also forwarded two new 

 hybrid perpetual roses for exhibition — viz., Villaret de 

 Joyeuse and Amelia Hoste. Messrs. Veitch and Sons 

 sent a notable collection of Orchids and other plants, 

 including Masdevallia Yeitchii, Dhalanopsis grandijlora 

 with seven very fine flowers ; several varieties of Odonto- 

 glossui/i Alexandra, Dendrobium Bensona, Phalaznopsis 

 JAlddemanniana, and its variety ochracea, in which the 

 petals and sepals are shaded with a soft yellow colour ; 

 Odoutoglossum pranitens and Saccolabium ampullaceam 

 with eight spikes. Mr. Bull sent a fine specimen of 

 Tillandsia musaica just showing its spike of rich yellow 

 and red flowers and Angtiloa, Turneri. Mr. Kinghorn, 

 of Sheen Nursery, Richmond, sent a beautiful plant of 

 his now well known Fuchsia procumbens covered with 

 flowers, but at present we have heard nothing of 

 the promised hybrids which were to be produced by the 

 influence of this pretty and novel plant on other mem- 



