THE FLORAL MAGAZINE. 



NEW SERIES.] AUGUST, 1879. [No. 92. 



HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITIONS. 



If the weather proves hostile to Horticultural 

 Exhibitions, it does riot prevent the production of 

 novelties, for they appear to be even more numerous 

 than in previous years. We take up our record at the 

 exhibition of the Royal Botanic Society on June 18. 

 As is usual, Messrs. Veitch and Sons, Chelsea, were 

 again to the fore, and received First-class Certificates 

 of Merit for the following novelties : — Croton Princess 

 of Wales, an ornamental variety with long drooping 

 leaves, prettily mottled with pale yellow and green, 

 and spirally twisted ; Torenia Bailloni, figured in the 

 Floral Magazine a short time ago ; Araucaria Nie- 

 preschki, a novelty in the way of A. Rulei, with the 

 scale-like leaves densely imbricated on the branches ; 

 for Begonia Mrs. Arthur Potts, and Gloxinia Mrs. 

 Peploe. The same award was made to Mr. William 

 Bull, King's Road, Chelsea : for Croton roseo-pictus, 

 a pretty and distinct form of compact habit, with 

 bold fringe elegantly variegated with green and yellow, 

 the midrib and veins being of a deep rosy-tint ; 

 Eucephalartos Frederici Gulielmi, a very handsome 

 form j Lilium purpureum, a beautiful purpled flowered 

 lily, similar to L. Washingtonianum, of which it is 

 a variety ; Sari'acenia flava-picta, similar to the type, 

 but with the pitcher-like leaves larger, and the vein- 

 ings brighter in colour ; Dieffenbachia Leopoldi, a 

 beautiful plant of good habit, with large bold leaves 

 of a rich green, the midrib being broad and almost 

 white ; Nepenthes Viellardi, resembling N. distilla- 

 toria in pitchers and habit, but more deeply coloured 

 in all its parts ; Cespedesia Bonplandii, a plant of 

 shrubby habit, with large oblong leaves, strongly 

 veined and sharply toothed at the edges ; Blandfordia 

 flava, a beautiful species, with large bell-shaped 

 flowers of a reddish-yellow tint, borne in umbels ; 

 Bulbophyllum Beccarii, a very remarkable Orchid, with 

 leaves from one to one and a half feet in length, and 

 from six to nine inches wide, and of leathery texture ; 

 Carludovica Drudei, a very ornamental palm-like plant, 

 with fan-shaped leaves ; Cereus C. M. Hovey, a very 

 fine variety, with large red flowers, suffused with a 

 blue tinge ; and to Coleus Yellow Gem, C. Princess, 

 and C. Duchess of Teck, three fine and distinct 

 varieties with glowing colours on the leaves. To Mr. 



B. S. Williams for Eucephalartos Williamsi, very 

 like E. Frederici Gulielmi, shown by Mr. W. Bull ; 

 and for Lycopodium species, an elegant Lycopod, in 

 the way of L. phlegmaria, growing about one and a half 

 feet high, with the fruiting branching pinnee arranged 

 in a tassel-like manner at the tops of the stems. To 

 Mr. Louis Van Houtte for Bertolonia Rodeckii, a 

 handsome melastomad, with a habit like that of B. Van 

 Houttei, and leaves similar in size and form, but rich 

 green marked longitudinally and transversely with 

 silvery lines, and also copiously spotted ; and for 

 Bertolonia Killichii, similar in habit and markings to 

 the foreQ'oino:. To Messrs. E. G. Henderson and Son, 

 Pine Apple Place, Edgware Road, for Sonerilla 

 Hendersoni amoena, a pretty plant with silvery spots 

 on the leaves, remarkably bright and clearly defined. 

 To Messrs. T. Jackson and Sons, Kingston, for 

 Pteris serrulata magnifica. To Mr. W. Morse, 

 Nurseryman, Epsom, for Yucca Gloriosa elegans 

 variegata, a very ornamental variety, with the leaves 

 prettily variegated. 



At the meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society, 

 on June 23rd, First-class Certificates of Merit were 

 awarded to Mr. James Chambers, Westlake Nursery, 

 Isleworth, for Begonia Royal Standard, with large and 

 finely formed crimson flowers of a fine deep shade. 

 To Messrs. James Veitch and Sons, Chelsea, for 

 Davallia fijiensis major, a large growing form of this 

 species. To G. Simpson, Esq., Wray Park, Reigate, 

 for Coleus Eva, a new variety, with leaves of a warm 

 crimson ground colour, heavily blotched with yellow. 

 To G. F. Wilson, Esq., F.R.S., Heatherbank, 

 Weybridge, for Xerophyllum asphodeloides, a rare 

 North American melanthaceous plant, with white 

 flowers produced on a tall stem in the form of a 

 raceme, and which appear to grow freely enough 

 on the rock bed at Heatherbank. Other new plants 

 comprised Croton Bragseanus, a long narrow pendant 

 leaved form, boldly variegated with rosy crimson and 

 creamy yellow (Veitch and Sons) ; Rhododendron., 

 Duke of Edinburgh, a new hybrid, with dull salmon- 

 coloured flowers, from the same raisers j Amaryllis 

 Beauty of Chatsworth (Speed), bright scarlet crimson 

 in colour, with a white bar up the segments, flowers 

 wellreflexed ; Azalea amcena lateritia (Noble), a pretty 

 rose-coloured variety ; Gloxinia Mrs. Causton (Wills), 



