THE FLORAL MAGAZINE. 



NEW SERIES.] SEPTEMBER, 1879. 



HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITIONS. 



Among the novelties produced at the Exhibition of the 

 Royal Horticultural Society, on July 22nd, was Pesca- 

 torea Klabochorum, from Mr. Spyers, gardener to Sir 

 Trevor Lawrence, Bart., M.P., Burford Lodge, Dork- 

 ing. This is a new and remarkable species, with 

 white sepals and petals broadly tipped with chocolate. 

 It was awarded a First-class Certificate of Merit. 

 The same award was made to Mr. William Bull, for 

 Tradescantia multicolor, a very distinct and decidedly 

 pretty plant ; similar in habit to T. zebrina, but with 

 the leaves of a silvery-grey colour, banded with dark- 

 green and rosy-purple ; also for Sarracenia atrosan- 

 guinea, a new form of S. flava, and probably only a 

 variety, with long tubular pitchers, with reddish-brown 

 lids; and for Coleus James Bradshaw, one of Mr. 

 Bull's new race of hybrids, with bright yellow and 

 crimson mottled leaves, and a somewhat compact habit 

 of growth. The same award was made to Mr. R. 

 Lloyd, gardener at the Brookwood Asylum, Surrey, 

 for Coleus Dr. Brushfield, a strong, vigorous-growing 

 variety, with large bluntly-toothed leaves of a bright 

 orange-yellow colour, mottled with rose and crimson. 

 Mr. B. S. Williams, Victoria Nursery, Holloway, had 

 the same award for Bromelia Binotti, a striking plant, 

 with curved, sword-shaped, coarsely saw-toothed leaves, 

 four to five feet long, and two inches wide; the old 

 ones a deep-shining green, and those springing from 

 the centre of the colour of sealing-wax. The same 

 award was made to H. J. Elwes, Esq., Preston House, 

 Cirencester, for a magnificent variety of Iris Ksempferi, 

 raised by Mr. Max Leichtlin, of Baden Baden ; the 

 flowers measured seven inches across, and had a white 

 ground with orange centre, and the falls splashed and 

 spotted with rosy-purple — by far the most beautiful 

 light-coloured variety of this noble flower that has yet 

 been shown. From Mr. C. Turner, Royal Nursery, 

 Slough, came perpetual-flowering Carnation, The 

 Queen, a pure white flower of excellent quality, — far 

 too good to have the questionable award of a Second- 

 class Certificate. The same award was made to Mr. 

 R. Ward, the Rose Nursery, Ipswich, for a seedling 

 Hybrid Perpetual Rose, raised from a cross between 

 Baroness Rothschild and Sombreuil, and named Isabella 

 Ward ; blush-white in colour, sweetly fragrant, a 



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vigorous grower, and said to be a good autumn bloomer. 

 A cultural commendation was awarded to Sir Trevor 

 Lawrence, Bart., M.P., for a specimen of the handsome 

 Odontoglossum coronarium, with a cylindrical spike of 

 thirty-one flowers, which measured one foot in length 

 and six inches in diameter ; and with it there was a 

 plant of Dendrobium formosum giganteum, with five 

 remarkably fine blooms, produced more after the 

 manner of a Trichopilia than a Dendrobium. Other 

 novelties included a good pink zonal Pelargonium, 

 named Miss Bell, from Mr. A. Boxall, Claybury Hall ; 

 a double-flowered form of Begonia Veitchii, from 

 Messrs. Veitch & Sons, King's Road, Chelsea ; Eche- 

 veria caruncula, from Mr. William Bull, a singular 

 form, wherein the leaf is hypertrophied, and produces 

 a warted, lobed, fleshy mass on its upper surface, simi- 

 lar to what may occasionally be seen in the cabbage. 

 From Mr. B. S. Williams came Anthurium Walnewii, 

 a large, bronze-coloured, cordate-leaved plant, with 

 deeply-furrowed leaf stalk and scape ; Adiantum cune- 

 atum dissectum, and A. muudulum, the latter a de- 

 cided novelty, by reason of its diminutive, wiry habit. 



The meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society on 

 August 12th proved a very interesting one, and a 

 goodly number of novelties were forthcoming. Among 

 these were some fine forms of Iris Kaampferi, from 

 Messrs. James Veitch & Sons ; and to three of these, 

 viz., Charles Maries, pale mauve, marbled with dark 

 blue ; the Jersey Belle, pure white, with bright orange 

 spots ; and Sir Stafford Northcote, rich deep-purple, 

 with orange spots, — First-class Certificates of Merit 

 wei*e awarded. These were of great size, very massive, 

 and remarkably fine. The same award was made to 

 Sarracenia formosa, a very elegant hybrid, raised be- 

 tween S. pscittacina and S. variolaris, partaking of the 

 peculiar form of the former, combined with the freer 

 growth and large size of the latter ; and to Nepenthes 

 Viellardi, a handsome pitcher plant, similar in habit to 

 N. distillatoria, but very distinct from any other kind. 

 It has deep-green leaves, with a singular hoariness on 

 the upper surface and also on the pitchers, which are of 

 medium size, and entirely of a deep red colour. The 

 foregoing also came from Messrs. Veitch & Sons. From 

 Mons. Victor Lemoine, Nancy, came Gladiolus hybridus 

 Lemoineanus, a very fine variety, the result of a cross 

 between G. purpureo-auratus, and G. Gandavensis ; 

 the colour creamy-white, marked on the three lower 



