Plate 377. 



ERANTHEMUM ANDERSONI. 



This is not a new introduction, but it is such a pretty species and so charming in 

 appearance as to well deserve a representation in our pages. It is said to have been 

 introduced from the Island of Trinidad to our gardens, but is really a native of the East 

 Indies. It blooms freely, and continues several weeks in beauty in a stove ; the flower- 

 spikes are so exquisite in appearance as to remind one of a beautiful and delicate Orchid ; 

 they are pure white, the lower segment or lip being profusely dotted with crimson-lake, 

 and broadly margined with white. Quite a small plant will throw up three or four main 

 stems, each bearing a fine spike of blossoms, and when these are cut away other spikes 

 issue from the leaf axils. If the flowers be plucked from the spike singly, others will 

 spring up in their place, and being trumpet-shaped, they can be wired and used in 

 bouquets, button-holes, etc. It flowers in February, but can be had in bloom all through 

 the summer. It is a plant well deserving of a place in every stove, and appears to be 

 freer of flower than some other members of the genus. 



Plate 378. 

 AZALEA, DUKE OF CONNAUGHT. 



At the meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society on the 25th of March last, Mr. 

 B. S. Williams, of the Victoria Nursery, Holloway, exhibited an Azalea named as above, 

 having distinct hose-in-hose, or double corallaed flowers of a bright rosy-cerise colour. It 

 was so pretty and distinct that it is not to be wondered at it was awarded a First-class 

 Certificate of Merit. Of compact growth and marked freedom of bloom, it will, no doubt, 

 become popular as a most useful and effective decorative plant. 



We are informed that it originated from a cross made between Azalea amosna, and 

 one of the finest of the garden varieties. The flowers are small, like those of A. amoena, 

 yet of larger size than in the case of this species, and they are of a more chaste and 

 pleasing character than some of the large, uncouth-looking double Azaleas of recent 

 introduction. It is not improbable that a new race of hose-in-hose Azaleas will result 

 from the introduction of the type now figured. They could not fail to be useful in many 

 ways, and they would be highly appreciated by cultivators. 



