THE FLORAL MAGAZINE. 



NEW SERIES.] MAY, 1881. 



HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITIONS. 



We have now reached that period of the year when 

 Horticultural Exhibitions follow in somewhat quick 

 succession; and in taking up our record, we com- 

 mence with the meeting of the Royal Horticultural 

 Society on March 22nd. On this occasion First-class 

 Certificates of Merit were awarded to the following 

 novelties, viz. : Dendrobium litusflorum candidum, a 

 perfectly white-flowered orchid, exceeding chaste, and 

 perhaps the finest of all the white-flowered Dendrobes. 

 It differs from the species in the absence of colour, the 

 petals being pure white, and the concave shell-like lip 

 of a pale primrose shade of yellow. This came from 

 Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., M.P., Burford Lodge, 

 Dorking. To Amaryllis Mr. Henry Little, one of the 

 finest varieties yet raised, the colour of a rich rosy- 

 purple, being quite distinct from that of the majority 

 of existing kinds ; the flowers, which measure over 

 seven inches across, have unusually broad petals of 

 firm texture, and so arranged as to form a flower of 

 excellent shape and great excellence. This came from 

 Messrs. James Veitch and Sons, King's Road, Chelsea, 

 S.W. Fuchsia hybrida rubra, a new and striking 

 form, which we hope to figure shortly. It resulted 

 from crossing F. Dominiana with F. serratifolia. The 

 seedling in question is remarkable for its freedom of 

 flowering, and the brilliant colour of the blossoms, 

 which are some three inches in length, having a long 

 crimson tube and a vermillion-scarlet corolla. The 

 plant shown was about three feet in height, of bushy 

 habit, and thickly furnished with flowers, and it is said 

 to have been in bloom since October last. It came 

 from Mr. Wells, gardener to R. Ravenhill, Esq., Fern 

 Hill, Windsor. Cyclamen Persicum Ruby Gem, a 

 brilliant variety, with intensely deep crimson flowers, 

 probably one of the deepest-tinted varieties yet raised, 

 with blossoms of good size and excellent form ; from 

 Henry Little, Esq., Hillingdon Place, Uxbridge. 



Other novelties produced on this occasion included 

 Odontoglossum Lehmanni, the yellow lip barred with 

 brown ; from J. Southgate, Esq., Streatham : Masde- 

 vallia Roezlii, a species remarkable for its dai-k, 

 triangular-like flowers and pinky-white shell-like lip ; 

 from Charles Winn, Esq., Birmingham : new forms of 

 the common Primrose, from G. F. Wilson, Esq., Mr. 

 William Paul, Waltham Cross, and Mr. R. Dean, 



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Ealing : a fine variety of Imantophyllum miniatum, 

 named Cruentum, from Mr. B. S. Williams : forced 

 plants of Lilac Charles X., and Staphylea Colchica, 

 from Messrs. C. Lee and Sons, Hammersmith ; and cut 

 blooms of Fuchsias, Splendens and Cordifolia, and a 

 striking Bromeliad, Pitcarina corallina, from Mr. Green, 

 gardener to Sir George Mackay, PendrelFs Court, 

 Bletchingley. 



At the meeting of the Royal Botanic Society on 

 March 30th, First-class Certificates of Merit were 

 awarded to Messrs. Veitch and Sons, King's Road, 

 Chelsea, for Anthurium Andreanum, the fine new 

 South American Aroid which we have before described. 

 Asplenium Saundersoni, a graceful little South African 

 Spleenwort, with fronds six inches to nine inches long ; 

 Actiniopteris radiata australis, a larger and handsome 

 plant than the type, and having fewer segments, and 

 the fronds more pointed ; both from Mr. B. S. Williams, 

 Victoria Nursery, Holloway, who had the same award 

 for Laslia harpophylla, which we figured about a year 

 and a half ago : also to Messrs. Veitch and Sons, for 

 Odontoglossum Pescatorei grandiflorum, a superb 

 variety, larger than the ordinary form, and with an 

 exquisitely-marked lip ; and for Gymnogramma Schizo- 

 phasia, an elegant Fern, with long fronds cut into 

 delicate fine segments, dwarf in habit, and very distinct 

 from the other species in cultivation. To J. A. Titley, 

 Esq., Leeds, for Ccelogyne cristata alba, a fine variety 

 of the tall-growing type of C. cristata, with not a stain 

 of yellow on its blossoms. To Mr. H. Boiler, Kensal 

 New Town, W., for Mammillaria Caput-Medusa?, a 

 broad roundish mass of amillae; and for Haworthia 

 Bolleri, a neat, triangular spirally bronze-leaved form. 

 What are termed Floricultural Certificates were awarded 

 to the following new Hyacinths from Messrs. Veitch 

 and Sons, Chelsea, viz. : Magnificence, a semi-double 

 variety, but forming a close spike, colour porcelain- 

 blue, remarkable for its smooth, solid bells ; and Prim- 

 rose-Perfection, a very fine single yellow, the finest 

 yellow-flowered Hyacinth yet produced ; also for the 

 following: Amaryllis Cecilia, a broad handsome flower, 

 blood-red in colour, but having the apices of the seg- 

 ments boldly tipped with white; Madame Albani, 

 white, striped with rich deep lake, a large and bold 

 variety ; fetorr's Beauty, a fiower of exquisite shape 

 and very bright in colour, quite a soft shade of scarlet ; 

 and Empress of India, the largest of the new varieties, 



