THE FLORAL MAGAZINE. 



NEW SERIES.] ' MARCH, 1S72. [No. 3. 



EXHIBITIONS. 



ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, Feb. 14th. 



The council-room was on this occasion filled with a very- 

 charming collection of plants. Orchids in large num- 

 bers, primulas, cyclamens, &c, contributed by Messrs. 

 Veitch, Bull, Williams, Rollisson, Little, Standish, 

 Denning, and other well-known exhibitors. Amongst 

 the orchids were some remarkably fine examples of 

 Masdevallia ignea, from . Mr. Marshall, of Clay Hill, 

 Enfield ; Lycaste lasioglossa, a very curious species, 

 from Mr. Veitch ; Lselia Anceps, from Lord Londes- 

 borough's collection, with upwards of sixty fine flowers ; 

 Cattleya Euanse, from the same ; a very fine broad-pe- 

 talled variety of Odontoglossum Alexandra?, from Mr. 

 Richards, gardener to Baron Rothschild, Gunnersbury; 

 Ccelogyne cristata, from Messrs. Veitch, a very fine 

 specimen, between three and four feet through ; Odonto- 

 glossum odoratum, from Mr. W. Bull, and a very fine 

 Dendrobium nobile, from Messrs. Rollisson, Amongst 

 ■other noticeable specimens were Tillandsia Lindeni 

 Major, with beautiful bright blue flowers (figured 

 in our former series), and two new palms, from Lord 

 Howe's Island, exhibited by Messrs. Veitch — Kentia 

 Australis and Kentia Canterburyana ; a very fine spe- 

 cimen of Daphne indica rubra, from Mr. Johnson, 

 gardener to T. J. Clarke, Esq., Uxbridge ; and a 

 splendid specimen of Hippeastrum pardinum, from 

 Messrs. Veitch. Amongst the groups of plants, there 

 was an exceedingly beautiful collection of spring 

 flowers from Mr. Standish of Ascot, amongst which 

 were two remarkably fine crimson-flowered cinerarias, 

 Lord and Lady Kilmorey, one of which we hope 

 shortly to figure, and some beautiful small plants 

 of Bouvardia. Messrs. Carter and Co. had a group 

 of caladiums, exceedingly good for the season. Mr. 

 Little of Twickenham had a beautiful group of cycla- 

 mens, among which one called Admiration was 

 remarkable for its size and the brilliancy of its colour. 

 Mr. Ware, of Hall Farm Nurseries, Tottenham, had a 

 nice collection of hardy spring plants, conspicuous 

 amongst which was the lovely deep purplish blue Iris 

 reticulata. When to these are added the dielytras, pri- 

 mulas, lily of the valley, and other flowers, it will 

 be seen that the display was both numerous and 

 interesting, and fully sustained the character of these 

 "Wednesday meetings. 



MEMORIAL TO THE LATE MR. JAMES 

 VEITCH. 



It will be interesting to many of our subscribers to 

 know that besides a Portrait of the deceased presented 

 by Mr. R. T. Crawshay, the munificent sum of 900/. 

 has been subscribed and invested in the names of 

 trustees as a permanent fund for the encouragement of 

 horticulture. No more appropriate, lasting, or useful 

 mode of commemorating the eminent services of the 

 deceased could have been devised. The following is 

 the text of the deed securing the trust, with the mode 

 and conditions of its appropriation : — 



" The income of the said trust fund and the investments thereof 

 shall be applied by the said trustees in the first place in payment of 

 all costs, charges, and expenses which shall or may be incurred or 

 become payable by the trustees in providing a place of deposit and 

 exhibition of the said portrait, if thought expedient, or from time to 

 time altering such place of deposit and paying for the proper cus- 

 tody thereof, or the exhibition thereof, to the subscribers and their 

 friends and the general public, and also of insuring the same from 

 fire, and of preserving and repairing the same, and the frame, fit- 

 tings, and appurtenances thereof, and generally for such purposes in 

 connexion with the said portrait as the said trustees shall from time 

 to time deem meet and expedient ; and in the next place for provid- 

 ing and procuring the die or matrix for a commemorative medal 

 bearing the name, or a medallion portrait of the said late James Veitch, 

 from which medals may be struck for the purposes hereinafter men- 

 tioned ; and in the next place, of defraying the expenses of print- 

 ing, advertising, postages, wages of servants, messengers, and other 

 persons employed by the said trustees, and generally, of all expenses 

 connected with the trusts hereby created and the duties imposed 

 upon the said trustees ; and in the next place, of providing and 

 giving prizes for the advancement and improvement of the science 

 and practice of the culture, or for the successful culture of plants, 

 flowers, trees, fruits, and vegetables, and otherwise for the advance- 

 ment of the science and practice of horticulture, as the said trustees 

 shall think fit ; such prizes to be offered and given at such ex- 

 hibitions of the leading Metropolitan Horticultural Societies in 

 the three kingdoms as the said trustees shall from time to time 

 in their discretion deem most expedient, with power to the said 

 trustees to vary the number, value, and nature and subjects of, 

 and time or times for competition for such prizes, as to the said trus- 

 tees in their absolute and uncontrolled discretion may from time to 

 time seem meet; and to give the same either in the shape of com- 

 memorative medals, bearing the name or portrait of the said James 

 Veitch, or of money, or in such other mode or manner as they shall 

 in their absolute and uncontrolled discretion think best calculated 

 to effect the advancement and improvement of horticulture. Pro- 

 vided always, that it shall not be necessary for or incumbent upon 

 the said trustees, or any of them, themselves to take part in the de- 

 termination or selection of the successful candidates or exhibitors 

 for such prizes, or any of them, or the adjudging of the said prizes 

 so to be offered by them ; but the said trustees shall have full power 



