THE FLORAL MAGAZINE. 



NEW SERIES.] OCTOBER, 1881. 



HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITIONS. 



The meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society, on 

 August 23rd, was a somewhat scanty one, owing to 

 the great Manchester Show falling on the same date. 

 One of the most striking novelties shown on this 

 occasion was Coleus Edith Sentance, from Mr. King, 

 gardener to Gr. Simpson, Esq., Wray Park, Reigate. 

 This is without doubt one of the most brilliantly- 

 coloured varieties in cultivation ; the leaves, which 

 are large, are of the richest purple-crimson, belted 

 broadly with a deep band of dark chocolate and a 

 narrow margin of bright green. This won the admi- 

 ration of all who saw it, and was deservedly awarded 

 a First-class Certificate of Merit. The marvellous 

 variety seen in the leaf-markings of the Coleus is one 

 of the features of the day. The same award was made 

 to Mr. William Bull, King's Road, Chelsea, for Lilium 

 auratum, var. cruentum, a variety carrying large 

 spotted flowers, and a broad purplish band on each 

 segment — a very fine form indeed ; and for Mormodes 

 Armenaica, a Phaius-like plant, bearing long drooping 

 spikes of rich cinnamon and golden-coloured, sweet- 

 scented blossoms. A similar award was made to Mas- 

 carenhaisia Curnowiana, " a new, remarkable, and very 

 interesting Apocynaceous plant. It is a climber, with 

 slender, dark stems, opposite, oblong lanceolate acumi- 

 nate shortly-stalked glabrous leaves, and terminal 

 trusses of rosy-pink flowers, each about two inches 

 across, and with lanceolate undulate segments. The 

 plant is a native of Madagascar, and, if not killed by 

 its dreadful name, has a future of much promise before 

 it." Such is the description given by the Gardeners' 

 Chronicle. It was shown by Messrs. H. Low and Co., 

 Clapton Nursery, E. To Centaurea Ragusina Russelli, 

 a very dwarf and compact-growing variety, with very 

 white leaves, and promising to make a good edging 

 plant; from Mr. Russell, Haverstock Hill, N. A Second- 

 class Certificate of Merit was awarded to Mr. W. Rapley, 

 Bedford Hill House, Balham, for Gloxinia Frederici, 

 the flowers of a rich claret-crimson colour, and having 

 white throats. 



A collection of hardy flowers, shown by Mr. Riches, 

 Nurseryman, Tooting, comprised Dracocephalum Ru- 

 prechti, with lilac flowers ; D. canescens, with hoary 

 leaves and lilac blossoms ; Castilleja indivisa, with its 

 magnificent crimson bracts — respecting which the 



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Gardeners' Chronicle remarks that it would be most 

 useful to know how this is grown, the plant being 

 considered partly parasitic in its habit : Veronica 

 longifolia subsessilis, with its long massive spikes of 

 deep flowers, and one of the very best of herbaceous 

 plants; the double-flowered variety of Geum coccineum; 

 Senecio niveus, with hoary oblong leaves and yellow 

 flower-heads, &c. A bushy white-flowered seedling 

 Lobelia, named Compacta bella, came from Mr. 

 J. G. McKenzie, Wensley Rectory, Bedale, Yorks; 

 a dwarf Tropasolum Empress of India, with deep 

 shining maroon flowers, from Messrs. James Carter 

 and Co., Holborn ; a fine single white Dahlia, named 

 White Queen, from Mr. T. S. Ware, Hall Farm 

 Nursery, Tottenham ,• and from Mr. Balchin, Hassock 

 Gate Nursery, Sussex, a well-grown plant of the 

 double white- flowered Mignonette (Reseda odorata 

 prolifera alba), to which a cultural commendation was 

 awarded. 



At the meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society, 

 on September 13th, First-class Certificates of Merit 

 were awarded to the following novelties : — Capsi- 

 cum Little Gem, from the Gardens of the Royal 

 Horticultural Society, a plant of dwarf habit, with 

 small oval red berries resembling those of a Solanum — 

 a decided and attractive novelty ; the stock of which 

 we believe is in the hands of Mr. B. S. Williams, 

 Nurseryman, Holloway : and to Pitcairnia Jacksoni, 

 a species with a dwarf stem thickly set with recurved 

 linear leaves, glossy above, ash-grey beneath, and 

 with erect spikes of rather large red flowers. This 

 also came from the Chiswick Gardens. To Euonymus 

 latifolius, a hardy shrub, laden with large pink-violet 

 capsules and scarlet seeds; very effective in the standard 

 form. To Nepenthes Morgan iana, a hybrid raised in 

 America by Mr. Taplin. The leaves are of a reddish 

 colour, and the pitchers are of medium size, winged in 

 front, deep red, but with a green lid. It is said to 

 have been raised between N. Hookeri and N. phyllam- 

 phora. And to Sarracenia Courtii, the result of a cross 

 between S. purpurea as the seed parent, of which it 

 has the deep wing, and S. psittacina as the male 

 parent, of which it has the general form and habit, 

 having small spreading pitchers of a deep red colour, 

 deeply winged, and with a concave, caul-like lid, as in 

 psittacina. The foregoing were shown by Messrs. 

 James Veitch and Sons, Exotic Nurseries, King's Road, 



