THE FLORAL MAGAZINE. 



NEW SERIES.] AUGUST, 1881. [No. 116. 



HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITIONS. 



We are now in the thick of these, and novelties are 

 produced more plentifully at this than at any other 

 season of the year. At the meeting of the Royal 

 Horticultural Society on June 28th, First-class Certifi- 

 cates of Merit were awarded to Sobralia xantholeuca, a 

 noble Orchid, very similar in habit of growth, stature, 

 mode of flowering, form and size of flower, to S. nia- 

 crantha, but the colour of the flowers is a pale sulphur 

 yellow on the sepals, while the large lip is a bright 

 yellow ; and to Phalgenopsis violacea, a new species of 

 dwarf growth, with broad deep green leaves, and 

 flowers one and a half inch across, prettily marked with 



deep violet-purple on the sepals and lips. These came 

 from Messrs. James Veitch and Sons, Royal Exotic 

 Nursery, Chelsea. A Second-class Certificate of Merit 

 was awarded to the same firm for Juncus zebrinus, 

 which is similar to our native Rush in growth, but the 

 leaves are alternately barred with green and yellowish- 

 white, which gives it a very striking and ornamental 

 appearance. The new double white-flowered Bouvardia, 

 Alfred Neuner, was produced on this occasion, but not 

 in sufficiently good condition to obtain for it an award. 

 Messrs. James Veitch and Sons had, in addition to the 

 new plants certificated, Globba coccinea, from Borneo, 

 a very remarkable species, with long slender purple 

 stems, and dai'k green convolute leaves ; the flowers 

 are deep scarlet-crimson, in spikes at the ends of the 

 branches, each subtended by a bract of the same colour; 

 Impatiens Marianas, a low growing plant, with green 

 ovate acute leaves, the veins picked out with silver 

 variegation ; Styrax serrata, a Japanese shrub, with 

 pale green ovate acute leaves, like those of Ligustrum 

 sinense, and with pendulous white bell-shaped flowers ; 

 and Talbotia elegans, a plant with a semi-creeping 

 rhizome, and closely-packed dark green lanceolate 

 leaves of a dark green colour, and white star- shaped 

 six-parted flowers on long slender peduncles. 



The Pelargonium Society held its annual exhibition 

 in conjunction with the foregoing meeting, and First- 

 class Certificates of Merit were awarded to the following 

 new varieties of the large-flowering section : — The 

 Abbot (Foster), a variety of good habit, producing 

 large trusses of flowers of excellent shape, having dark 

 maroon top petals, the lower petals rich reddish-crimson 



with dark blotches ; Duke of Albany (Foster), a dwarf- 

 habited plant, having flowers shaded with maroon on 

 the top petals, the under petals rosy-red, and a con- 

 spicuous white throat; Christabel (Beck), a very fine 

 white variety, with a large dark blotch on the upper 

 petals, the flowers produced on large trusses, and pro- 

 mising to make a fine exhibition variety ; Britomart 

 (Beck), dwarf and close in habit and very free-flowering, 

 upper petals dark crimson-maroon, the lower petals 

 being reddish-crimson ; Superb (Beck), crimson-scarlet 

 with rich maroon top petals edged with crimson, large 

 bold trusses of bloom, very free ; and Magnet (Little), 

 a variety in the way of Illuminator, but distinct from 

 it. Of Pelargoniums of the large- flowered decorative 

 section, First-class Certificates of Merit were awarded 

 to the following : — John Ashby (Hayes), bright rosy- 

 red, pink lower petals and white throat, the flowers a 

 little rough, but freely produced on large trusses ; 

 Metallica (Hayes), rosy-red, with a small maroon- 

 coloured blotch, good habit, and very free ; Annie 

 (Hemsley), pale rosy-red, but paler in colour round the 

 throat; Lucie Lemoine (Lemoine), pure white, with 

 the faintest tinge of colour on the petals, very pretty 

 and free; and Belle du Jour (Lemoine), which repre- 

 sents quite a new feature in Pelargoniums, the flowers 

 being pure white, semi-double, and are formed of a 

 dozen good shaped petals, the habit of the plant is 

 dwarf, and the flowers, instead of being produced in a 

 mass, come more successionally. 



The second Summer Exhibition of the Royal Botanic 

 Society took place on July 2nd, when Certificates of 

 Merit were awarded to the following novelties: — Globba 

 coccinea, Anthurium Kalbreyeri, a noble Aroid of great 

 beauty ; Laslia Dominiana rosea, a hybrid variety of 

 surpassing beauty, obtained by crossing C. Dourana 

 and C.Exoniensis,the lip being of a rich purple-crimson 

 hue, beautifully crisped at the margins ; Cattleya 

 McMorlandi, Saccolabium Hendersoni, Utricularia 

 Endresi, Phalasnopsis violacea; Cattleya dolosa, a beau- 

 tiful species of dwarf growth, having larger flowers of 

 a deep rosy -pink hue, rendering it highly attractive ; 

 Davallia Mariesi cristata, Croton rubro lineatus, a noble 

 variety, having long and broad leaves beautifully 

 marbled and streaked in yellow on a green ground, 

 and with crimson veins and markings over the whole 

 surface of the leaves ; and Carnation Gloire de Nancy, 



