NEW SERIES.] 



HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITIONS. 



On the 25th of March a meeting of the Royal Horti- 

 cultural Society was held, at which Cyclamens, Hyacinths, 

 and Spring flowers were invited, and an extremely pretty 

 show resulted. Among- the rather more numerous batch 

 of novelties than usually puts' n appearance, were the 

 following hne things, which were awarded First-class 

 Certificates of Merit : — Hyacinth, King of the Reds, 

 figured in the present number of the Floral Magazine ; 

 Hyacinth Leviathan, lively fleshy pink, a very pretty 

 and attractive variety, included among the single reds, 

 producing a bold and massive spike ; Hyacinth, The 

 Sultan, rich bright plum-purple, a unique and novel 

 variety of great merit ; Hyacinth, Duchess of Connaught, 

 delicate single blue, a new and pleasing shade among a 

 number of splendid single Hyacinths of this character ; 

 and Hyacinth, Salmon King, salmon-pink, a new and 

 novel shade of colour, delicate and very attractive, spike 

 fine and striking. All these came from Messrs. James 

 Veitch and Sons, King's Road, Chelsea ; who also had 

 the same award for Amaryllis, Mrs. Baker, a very fine 

 form of great size, and singularly bold and handsome 

 rounded petals ; the colour rich bright crimson. 



In a group of Cyclamen Persicum, staged by Mr. H. 

 B. Smith, Ealing Dean Nursery, appeared C. Queen 

 of the Belgians, figured in the present number, to which 

 a First-class Certificate of Merit was awarded for its 

 valuable qualities. From Messrs. Hovey and Co., 

 Nurserymen, Boston, U.S.A., came some new Camellias, 

 remarkable for novelty of character and exquisite 

 symmetry of form, to two of which First-class Certi- 

 ficates of Merit were awarded — viz., C. M. Hovey, dull, 

 yet bright red, a somewhat new and striking shade of 

 colour ; and Mrs. Hovey, delicate pink, very pleasing 

 indeed, and one that is likely to become very popular ; 

 indeed, both these new forms will, no doubt, be generally 

 cultivated as soon as they are sufficiently distributed. 

 We hope to figure these in our columns before long. 

 To Azalea, Duke of Connaught, exhibited by Mr. B. S. 

 Williams, Victoria Nursery, Holloway, a similar award 

 was made. This is a hybrid of the Amoena type, and 

 gives us a hose and hose flowered variety among Azaleas, 

 the flowers are small, and of a deep maroon-crrmson 

 colour, and it promises to make a very effective decorative 

 plant. Other flowers similarly certificated were Hybrid 



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Tea Rose, Madame Alexander Bernaix, a beautiful 

 Continental variety, having large finely-shaped globular 

 blossoms of a bright pink colour, and promising to make 

 a splendid variety for forcing ; from Mr. C. Turner, 

 Royal Nursery, Slough. To Galanthus nivalis Mel- 

 villei, a robust growing Snowdrop of fine proportions 

 and pearly whiteness, raised by Mr. Melville, Dalmeny 

 Park, Edinburgh. To Davidsonia pruriens, an elegant 

 and singularly curious saxiirageous plant ; from Mr. 

 William Bull, King's Road, Chelsea. To Primula rosea, 

 a new introduction from Kashmir, of dwarf growth, and 

 bearing large flowers of a pretty, rosy-pink hue ; from 

 Mr. T. S. Ware, Hale Farm Nursery, Tottenham. Mr. 

 Fitch has made a faithful drawing- of this charminff 

 species, which we hope to give in an early number. 

 Among other novelties to which no award was made, 

 should be mentioned Salvia alboccerulea, a showy species 

 with cobalt-blue flowers; Salvia elegans, ruby crimson, 

 a bushy-growing and free-flowering greenhouse shrub ; 

 and Prostanthera lasianthos, an interesting and pretty 

 greenhouse shrub, introduced from Australia so far back 

 as 1808, and having purplish-lilac labiate flowers pro- 

 duced in terminal clusters. These came from Mr. C. 

 Green, gardener to Sir G. Macleay, Bart., Bletchingley, 

 to whom the Royal Horticultural Society is much 

 indebted for many interesting subjects by no means 

 commonly cultivated. 



The first Spring Show of the Royal Botanic Society 

 took place on March '26th, and, as usual, many new things 

 were brought to the notice of the Society. First-class 

 Certificates of Merit were awarded to Hyacinth Duke of 

 Connaught, figured in the present number ; Royal Blue, 

 single blue, with a light centre to the bells, and the 

 broad segments shaded with violet along the margins, a 

 distinct and decided acquisition ; Prince Imperial, single 

 blue, colour cobalt slate blue overlaid with a shade of 

 rose ; Duchess of Connaught, single blue, described 

 above ; Duke of Norfolk, semi-double blue, the margins 

 of the segments shaded with violet, a distinct and fine 

 variety ; King of the Reds, figured in the present 

 number; Salmon King, pale salmon-red; Lord Derby, 

 single red, the segments edged with pink, large bells, 

 and a bold and well-formed spike ; and McMahon, 

 single yellow, of a deep primrose shade, and good close 

 spike. All these came from Messrs. James Veitch and 

 Sons, King's Road, Chelsea. The same award was 

 made to the following novelties : — Cyclamen Persicum, 



THE ELOBAL MAGAZINE. 



MAY, 1879. 



