Plate 439. 



CLEMATIS OTHELLO. 



It is to Messrs. Thomas Cripps and Son, Nurserymen, Tunbridge Wells, that we are 

 indebted for the opportunity of figuring this new form of the Clematis. With his 

 invariable care and fidelity to the subject he sketches, Mr. Fitch has drawn a picture just 

 as he saw it in the flowers ; but they were cut from the plant late in the season, and they 

 are decidedly undersized. The form and colour of the flowers he has faithfully produced, 

 and we are fully justified in stating that, in this new variety, Messrs. Cripps and Son have 

 obtained a novelty of high-class character in colour and distinctness. For a few years 

 past some of the new forms of the Clematis have been found to be of gradually deepening 

 shades of colour, and the depth of shade seen in C. Othello is all the more acceptable, 

 because so many of the varieties are of soft and delicate tints. 



The variety now figured is in course of distribution by Messrs. Cripps and Son, and 

 we are of opinion it will fully sustain the reputation of that firm for raising and dis- 

 tributing novelties of high excellence. 



Plate 440. 

 CINERARIA MASTER HAROLD. 



This fine variety of one of the most useful and popular of spring-blooming green- 

 house plants, the Cineraria, was raised by that well-known cultivator, Mr. J. James, of 

 the Redlees Gardens, Isleworth. In the April number of the Volume of the Floeal 

 Magazine for 1880, we described Mr. James's fine seedling as representing a variety 

 " remarkable for the fine shape and substance of its flowers, and the rich magenta colouring 

 of the margin, which was so broad as to almost constitute it a Self -flower; but it had the 

 defect of a grey disc, and a narrow irregular ring of white around it." Years ago, a grey 

 disc was regarded as a defect in a Cineraria, but florists are less exacting on this point 

 than they were then. The relative proportion of the zones of colour was also insisted on, 

 but occasionally flowers are produced, having some one or more points of quality in a 

 marked degree, and which overshadows the defects. Such a flower is that now figured, 

 and it was so recognized by the Floral Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society, 

 which awarded it a First-class Certificate on the 9th of March last. 



We do not know if it is Mr. James's intention to distribute his fine variety ; but it 

 marks a decided advance in point of form and substance, as well as rich colouring, in the 

 Cineraria. 



