THE FLORAL MAGAZINE 



NEW SERIES.] APRIL, 1872. [No. 4. 



EXHIBITIONS. 



ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, March 6. 



A very pretty exhibition, but very deficient in novelties, 

 for with the exception of the pretty white Toxicophkea 

 (which we hope to figure), exhibited by Mr. B. S. Wil- 

 liams of Holloway, and a few roses, there was really 

 nothing new; for the Imantophyllum, although very 

 beautiful, we regard as very similar to one exhi- 

 bited by Mr. Bull some time ago. But if deficient in 

 novelty, it decidedly was not so in objects of interest ex- 

 hibiting great cultural skill ; foremost amongst which 

 must be placed the magnificent specimen of Phalsenopsis 

 Schilleriana, exhibited by Mr. Masson, gardener to R. 

 Milne, Esq., Viewfield House, Arbroath. It had two 

 branchy spikes covered with 207 of its beautifully 

 coloured rosy blossoms. Then Messrs. Veitch had some 

 beautiful specimens of Odontoglossum Alexandrce and 

 Triumphans, and Dendrobiuni Earmeri. Mr. Denning, 

 gardener to Lord Londesborough, had Cattleya Triame, 

 Cypripedium Lowii, Cypripedium eburneum, and other 

 fine orchids. Mr. Bennett, Manor Earm Nursery, Staple- 

 ford, Salisbury, sent some plants of some of the new 

 roses, and amongst them were Baroness Louise d ; Ux- 

 hull, Richard Wallace, Madame George Schwartz, and 

 Madlle. Cecile Berthod (Tea). It is very difficult, when 

 plants are so much forced as these, to judge of their 

 future prospects ; but one or two of these gave promise 

 of being good, the Tea-scented rose being a particu- 

 larly clear bright yellow ; but we dare say more will be 

 seen of all these by-and-by. The Council-room was well 

 filled with a large and miscellaneous collection of flower- 

 ing plants, such as Cyclamens, Orchids, Primulas; beau- 

 tiful hardy plants from Mr. Ware of Hall Farm Nur- 

 series, Tottenham, interspersed with Palms, Caladiums, 

 altogether forming a very beautiful show. The day 

 being fine, the room was so crowded that it was with 

 difficulty the flowers could be seen, and we believe at 

 the next show an alteration will be made by holding 

 it either in the French Court or Conservatory. 



March 20th. — "This," says the Journal of Horti- 

 culture, " was the first spring show ; well was it sup- 

 ported, well worthy of inspection was it by all interested 

 in those beautiful flowers which adorn our conservatories 

 and windows at the present season. The Hyacinths, as 

 they generally are at the Society's show, were superb ; 

 the quality was remarkably good throughout, while in 

 some of the collections — as those of Messrs. Veitch and 



Mr. William Paul — there were numbers equal to any- 

 thing in past years. In the amateurs' class there was 

 considerable improvement : Mr. Douglas and the Rev. 

 H. H. Dombrain stood far to the front, showing much 

 better examples than were produced in times gone by." 



Besides Hyacinths, there were some admirable col- 

 lections of plants ; among which we may notice a beau- 

 tiful collection of small plants of Camellias, shown by 

 Mr. William Paul, Waltham Cross ; Messrs. Lane and 

 Son exhibited a group of Camellias, Rhododendrons, 

 &c. ; Messrs. Cutbush of Highgate, a basket of their 

 very handsome Aucuba, Aureo-maculata (figured in our 

 former series) ; Mr. Denning, gardener to Lord Londes- 

 borough, a beautiful collection of Orchids ; Messrs. Rol- 

 lison of Tooting, and Mr. Williams of Holloway, a 

 beautiful collection of miscellaneous plants ; Mr. E. 

 Dixon of Beverley, some fine specimens of Antherinum 

 Scherzerianum, a fine pair of Trichomanes radicans, 

 and other plants ; and Mr. Ware of Tottenham a group 

 of hardy plants ; and Mr. Turner a collection of Show 

 and Alpine Auriculas, and a very beautiful basket of 

 Mrs. Headly, tricolor pelargonium. 



It is announced that a course of lectures on Flowers 

 and Fruits will be delivered in the Council-room of the 

 Royal Horticultural Society at South Kensington by 

 W. T. Thiselton Dyer, B.A., B.Sc, F.L.S. (Professor 

 of Botany to the Society), on the following subjects : — 

 April 11, " Flowers : their common plan of construc- 

 tion." April 25, Ci Flowers : the variety in their forms, 

 and how brought about." May 9, " Flowers : their 

 colours and odours." May 23, " Fruits : their struc- 

 ture." June 6, " How seeds are sown in Nature." 

 June 20, " Flowers and Fruits under cultivation." The 

 lectures will commence at 3 p.m. 



ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY, March 13. 

 The new corridor from the Conservatory was used for 

 the first time for a very beautiful exhibition, of which 

 Hyacinths were the most remarkable objects. Messrs. 

 Veitch and Son, who last year appeared for the first 

 time as exhibitors, came out very strongly on this occa- 

 sion not only with twelve magnificent spikes, but also 

 with a large well-bloomed collection of one hundred 

 pots. Mr. Veitch's twelve were, Koh-i-noor, Solfaterre, 

 Czar Peter, General Havelock, King of the Blues, De 

 Candolle, Grandeur a Merveille, Vuurback, Macaulay, 

 Haydn, La Grandesse, and Ida. Mr. Douglas, gardener 



