THE FLORAL MAGAZINE. 



NEW SERIES.] 



NOVEMBER, 1875. 



[No. 47. 



EXHIBITIONS. 



At the Elower Show held at the Rooms of the 

 Royal Horticultural Society on October 6th last, 

 Messrs. Yeitch and Sons were awarded a first-class 

 certificate for a very distinct new Palm named 

 Brahea filamentosa. Mr. Croucher, gardener to J. 

 T. Peacock, Esq., Sudbury House, Hammersmith, 

 received a similar award for a new and strikingly 

 distinct Agave, named Agave Victorias Reginae, and 

 the committee recommended the plant to the Council 

 for the award of a gold medal. Mr. Noble, of Sun- 

 ningdale Nursery, Bagshot, exhibited and received 

 a first-class certificate for a magnificent plant of 

 Gynerium argenteum pumilum ; and Mr. Turner, 

 of Slough, received a similar award for a bouquet 

 Dahlia named " Dove," an exceedingly well-formed 

 flower, creamy-white, tipped with rose and pink. 

 Mr. George Smith, of Tollington Nursery, Hornsey 

 Rise, sent specimens of his fine semi- double scarlet 

 Pelargonium named " Wonderful," which must, says 

 the Gardener's Chronicle, become a grand market 

 plant, from its excellent habit and the persistency 

 with which its petals adhere together. Mr. Bull 

 sent a remarkable group of new plants, in which the 

 specimens were large, well-grown, and most beauti- 

 fully coloured, the subjects being Dracaena Eraseri, 

 Mooreana, Baptistii, and amabilis ; Croton majes- 

 ticum imperialis, Weismanni, spiralis, and volutum, 

 with several Cycads, Aralias, Palms, &c. : a silver 

 medal was awarded. From Mr. B. S. Williams came 

 an excellent collection of choice plants, including a 

 flowering specimen of Miltonia Moreliana, figured by 

 us in Plate 143 ; Oncidium tigrinum, with five 

 spikes ; Reedia glaucescens ; Adiantum gracillimum ; 

 th0 white Pancratium speciosum ; Cypripedium 

 Harrisianum ; Dracaenas ; Palms, &c. Besides the 

 new Palm above-mentioned, Messrs. Veitch and Sons 

 sent a second new Palm in Areca Dicksonii ; the 

 same firm also exhibited Renanthera coccinea, with 

 a beautiful four-branched spike of flowers, Masdevallia 

 amabilis, and Exacum zeylanicum. Mr. Wills for- 

 warded for exhibition a truly gorgeous collection of 

 Celosias, remarkable for their magnificent colours in 

 shades of yellow, scarlet, and crimson ; and Mr. 

 Peacock, of Hammersmith, sent Ficus Cooperi in 

 fruit, a very interesting and pretty plant. Mr. Green, 

 of Holmesdale Road, Reigate, again showed the 

 curious and beautiful hybrid Streptocarpus, named 

 S. Greenii. At the same exhibition there was also 



an instructive collection of Cones, and a few specimens 

 of Fungi. 



ROSE—" GLAZENWOOD BEAUTY." 

 As we foresaw when we figured this extraordinary 

 yellow Rose, with stripes of crimson, in Plate 174, 

 " Glazenwood Beauty " is attracting an extraordinary 

 amount of attention. In the last part of the Flore des 

 Serves the plate is reproduced in fac- simile, with some 

 remarks from the editor, M. Louis van Hontte, who 

 there says he " cannot resist borrowing the figure of 

 this extraordinary Rose, with its unusual colours 

 bordering on the fabulous." 



The horticultural press of this country has also 

 kept the Rose in view, and Mr. Henry Curtis, of the 

 Devon Rosary, Torquay, in the Journal of Horti- 

 culture for Oct. 21st, writes in the following terms of 

 " Glazenwood Beauty " : — 



" A few years ago we looked upon the list of forth- 

 coming new Roses with much greater interest than 

 at the present day, for so many new varieties are 

 annually poured into the market, which prove mere 

 costly rubbish, that we have had a cooling down. 

 Had Mr. Smith's illustration of ' Beauty of 

 Glazenwood ' in the Floral Magazine appeared in 

 those old times, it would have created a tremendous 

 sensation, and, cautious as we are grown, this real 

 novelty cannot fail to awaken much interest through- 

 out the Rose world. A Rose of golden -yellow, 

 striped and flaked with scarlet or vermilion, sounds 

 like a dream or a fairy tale. It is, nevertheless, a 

 reality, attested by Mr. Smith's brilliant plate, in 

 which Mr. Woodthorpe considers full justice is not 

 done to the richness of colouring of the Rose itself. 



" When I was in Essex, in July, I had the pleasure 

 of seeing fine healthy trees of this remarkable Rose, 

 but I was a little too late for the flowers. Some 

 blooms had just been sent to Mr. Smith for making 

 his illustration, which may have been seen already 

 by some of your readers. I am glad to testify to the 

 very vigorous growth and hardy character of this 

 Rose. The heads of standards of it consist of long 

 graceful shoots from four to six feet in length, which 

 were last winter perfectly uninjured even to the tips, 

 though quite unprotected. 



" ' Beauty of Glazenwood ' is a summer blooming 

 variety, and will make a beautiful climber or an 

 equally fine standard, flowering as it does from every 

 eye on its long pendulous shoots. Mr. Woodthorpe 

 describes it as strikingly lovely in the bud state. It 

 is like Madame Falcot in its yellow ground, while 

 the vermilion flakes on the petals resemble 1 the 

 coloration of a Tulip,' and it has also a delicate 

 fragrance. It will certainly prove an important and 



