THE FLORAL MAGAZINE. 



of Merit was awarded. It is a finely-shaped flower, of 

 a rich orange-red colour, with a distinct pale-lemon 

 eye. 



Messrs. Veitch & Sons, Royal Exotic Nurseries, 

 King's Road, Chelsea, had a group of uovelties of a 

 very high order of merit. It included a collection of 

 hybrid Nepenthes raised at their Chelsea Nurseries, 

 also some new Cyjoripediums, and to two of these, viz., 

 C. calanthum, raised from C. Lowii crossed with C. 

 biflorus, and C. CEnanthum, raised from C. insigne 

 Maulei crossed with C. Harrisianum, First-class Certi- 

 ficates of Merit were awarded. Sarracima Chelsoni was 

 noticeable for its large erect red pitchers with broad- 

 eared lips. It is a hybrid between S. rubra and S. 

 purpurea, though not exactly a novelty in the matter 

 of recent production. 



For Drosera dichotoma rubra, Mr. W. Bull, King's 

 Road, Chelsea, received that most questionable award, 

 a Second-class Certificate of Merit. In his select 

 group were Dendrobium Goldiei, with pale magenta 

 flowers issuing from the top of a long thin naked 

 pseudo bulb ; and D. undulatum fimbriatum, whose 

 flower segments were of a buff colour, and curiously 

 contorted. A First-class Certificate of Merit was 

 awarded to Ophiopogon Jaburan aureo-variegatum, 

 from Mr. R. Lloyd, gardener to the Brookwood 

 Asylum, it is a very pretty plant when well marked in 

 its vai'iegation, having tufts of linear leaves banded with 

 white, and from whose midst are thrown up spikes of 

 small blue flowers. Clove Carnation, Susan Askey, 

 from Mr. William Culverwell, gardener to F. A. 

 Millbank, Esq., M.P., Thorpe Perrow, Bedale — a 

 charming sweet-scented white variety — was awarded 

 a First-class Certificate of Merit. 



From Mr. Green, gardener to Sir George McLeay, 

 Bart., Pendrell Court, came cut spikes of the noble 

 Gunnera manicata and G. Scabra, to show the difference 

 between them; flowers of the old Aristolochia trilo- 

 bata, very like pitchers from a nepenthes ; cut blooms 

 of the noble Pachira insignis ; and cut flowers of the 

 curious Lagerstromia indica and Montbretia Pottsii. 



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

 received a First-class Certificate of Merit for Til- 

 landsia Lindeni (genuina), a splendid Bromeliad 

 with narrow linear arching leaves, flat spikes of pale 

 pink bracts, and large violet-blue flowers. In a group 

 of plants, of which the Tillandsia was the chief object, 

 appeared Dendrobium superbiens, D. bigibbum, and 

 also a specimen of Nepenthes robusta, said to be a 

 hybrid between N. phyllamphora and N. Hookeri. 

 This was awarded a First-class Certificate of Merit. 



Mr. H. Boiler had a Second-class Certificate of Merit 

 for Agave marmorata. 



AURICULAS ATTACKED WITH WOOLLY 

 APHIS. 



This is an insect that fastens itself upon the points 

 of the roots and the collar of the stem of the plant, i.e. 

 that part just above the soil, affecting the health of 

 the plants and stopping their growth. We have heard 

 of it in several collections ; it comes no one knows 

 where, and spreads with great rapidity. A corre- 

 spondent, writing to The Garden, gives some account 

 of the difficulties he encountered in trying to rid 

 himself of it. Last year he found it very strong, and 

 had recourse to all sorts of things by way of preven- 

 tives. " I tried tobacco and gishurst, soft soap and 

 sulphur, and thought if my auriculas survived this they 

 could not be the very fastidious plants they were said 

 to be; they did survive, and so did the aphis. I 

 talked the matter over with friends, and amongst 

 others with Mr. J. T. D. Llewelyn ; he advised me to 

 try paraffin, and I have been fairly successful with it. 

 A teaspoonful to a quart of water is the proportion I 

 use, putting it into a quart bottle, and then shaking it 

 violently, and, before the oil has time to separate, 

 pouring it on the soil of the plant affected. I find that 

 I still have it, although not to anything like the extent 

 I had." 



It is not easy to get rid of. There is reason to think 

 that this aphis spreads more rapidly when the soil 

 above the plants is dry than when it is wet ; but we 

 have seen it covering the points of the roots of plants 

 thoroughly saturated with moisture. It is said to be 

 a winged insect ; the males are uniformly so, and the 

 females sometimes ; and there is about the bodies a 

 curious fluffy substance, something like the down on the 

 seeds of the thistle, by which they can be carried to a 

 distance. This aphis is a great nuisance; and the 

 remedy suggested above is one worthy the attention 

 of all auricula cultivators suffering from an attack of it. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



From Messrs. Sutton & Sons, Reading. — Sutton's 

 Bulb Catalogue for 1879. 



From Dick Radclifee & Co. — A Plant and General 

 Catalogue of Horticultural Decorations, Garden Re- 

 quisites, &c. 



From E. G. Henderson & Son, Pine-apple Nursery. 

 —A Catalogue of Dutch Bulbs and other Flower 

 Roots, Herbaceous and Alpine Plants, &c. 



