THE FLORAL MAGAZINE. 



NEW SERIES.] JULY, 1881. [No. 115. 



HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITIONS. 



At this season of the year novelties in plants in flower 

 are somewhat numerously produced, and at the meeting 

 of the Royal Horticultural Society, on May 24th, First- 

 class Certificates of Merit were awarded to the following : 

 Gloxinias Fabiola, rich deep carmine-crimson, the lobes 

 distinctly edged with white, and the throat handsomely 

 spotted ; Gr. Brantome, a pretty reticulated deep violet 

 flower, with a clear margin of pale lilac on the lobes ; 

 G. Lady Marriott, an exquisite variety having the 

 whole flower spotted and dashed with carmine and lake 

 on a white ground, except the broad marginal baud 

 encircling each lobe ; all three belonging to the erect- 

 flowering type, and from the collection of Messrs. 

 James Veitch and Sons. The same exhibitors had a 

 similar award for Astilbe Thunbergii, a handsome 

 Japanese plant resembling a Spirea. The leaves are 

 pinnate and spread widely, and the flower-spikes, 

 which rise about two feet high, are pure white, and 

 have a feathery appearance. A like award was made 

 to Calceolaria, Cloth of Gold, from Mr. Rapley, gardener 

 to J. Brand, Esq., Bedford Hill House, Balbam. This 

 is a very large-flowered form of the herbaceous type, 

 the blooms measuring quitje three inches in breadth, 

 and of a canary -yellow colour. To Rubus deliciosus, a 

 lovely white-flowered bramble with blossoms two 

 inches across, produced on long elegant sprays ; it is 

 perfectly hardy, and forms a handsome dense bush ; 

 from Messrs. Charles Lee and Son, Nurserymen, 

 Hammersmith. To the following new types of the 

 Clematis, from Mr. Charles Noble, Nurseryman, Bag- 

 shot, viz. : William Ewart Gladstone, the largest- 

 flowered variety of first-class form that has been 

 exhibited, the eight-petalled blossoms measuring nine 

 inches in diameter, of good substance, the colour lilac 

 shaded with mauve ; George Eliot, a very neat dark 

 lavender-coloured flower, deliciously scented with the 

 odour of violets — quite a new feature in the genus ; 

 and Lady Constance Kennedy, a very beautiful semi- 

 double pure white flower, with two or three rows of 

 broader petals than are usually possessed by double 

 Clematises. Also to Reseda odorata prolifera alba, a 

 white-flowered variety of Mignonette, having the 

 singular tendency to produce secondary spikelets from 

 each flower. It is a very distinct variety, and is the 

 first form of a double Mignonette that we have met 



with. The perfume is as powerful as in the case of 

 the single flowers. From Mr. W. Balchin, Hassock's 

 Gate Nursery, Keymer, Sussex. Also to Tricopilia 

 suavis alba, from J. S. Bockett, Esq., Stamford Hill, a 

 white-flowered variety, with only a dash of yellow in 

 the interior of the shell-like lip to mar its chaste 

 purity. 



Other novelties comprised Serissa fcetida fl. pi., a 

 dwarf shrub of neat growth, with small white rosette- 

 like flowers ; two varieties of Acer polymorphum, one 

 named Linearilobum atro-purpureum, the other Sep- 

 tembobum laciniatum, both elegant varieties ; Croton 

 Bragsemum, a long- leaved variety, prettily mottled 

 with green, yellow and crimson ; and several new 

 Begonias ; all from Messrs. Veitch and Sons. Yucca 

 elegans, a very handsome kind, with gracefully re- 

 curved leaves about two feet long and one inch in 

 width, from Messrs. C. Lee and Sous ; some fine new 

 Decorative Pelargoniums from Mr. William Brown, 

 Nurseryman, Hendon, especially Stentor, Harry Buck, 

 Robert Green, and Enchanter, all very richly coloured ; 

 and from the General Horticultural Company (John 

 Wills), Limited, came Philodendron Wallisi, a hand- 

 some new Aroid ; Rivinia humilis variegata ; Pteris 

 tremula crispa, a variety with crisped pinnae ; and 

 Rhodea japonica aurea variegata. 



At the Exhibition held at the Crystal Palace, on 

 May 28th, First-class Certificates of Merit were 

 awarded to Begonia Davidsii flore pleno, already 

 described ; Begonia Mrs. Robert Whyte, one of the 

 finest of the pink-flowered varieties yet produced ; 

 Coleus Stanstead Rival, a pretty foliaged variety with 

 deep carmine leaves, edged with bright emerald green, 

 and mottled and blotched with various shades of 

 crimson ; and to Croton Laingii, a pretty plant with 

 long spirally-twisted leaves, orange in colour, as well 

 as the stem, and green at the tip: all from Messrs. 

 John Laing and Co., Stanstead Park Nursery, Forest 

 Hill, S.E. To Actiuiopteris radiata australis, Philo- 

 dendron elegans, Heliconia nigra punctata., Odonto- 

 glossum Alexandras grandiflorum, and Asplenium 

 apicidens, all from Mr. B. S. Williams's collection at 

 the Victoria Nurseries, Holloway ; and to Pelargonium 

 Martial, a beautiful new variety of the show type, with 

 flowers of large size and fine form, of a bright crimson- 

 lake, blotched and feathered with a deeper hue ; and 

 for variegated (tricolour) Pelargonium Henry Cox, 



