THE FLORAL MAGAZINE. 



NEW SERIES.] JULY, 1878. [No. 79. 



HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITIONS. 



The Great Summer Exhibition of the Royal Horti- 

 cultural Society took place on May 28th, and was a 

 magnificent show arranged with great skill and 

 judgment. Perhaps the large tent never before looked 

 to better advantage than it d-d on this occasion. New 

 plants were strongly represented, and the group of 

 nine, shown by Mr. William Bull, were both valuable 

 and interesting, consisting of Zanua princeps, a 

 very graceful palm ; Diptoris Horsfuldi, a curious and 

 striking fern from Java, suggestive of a fossil type 

 rather than of a now existing form ; Aralia concinna, 

 a fine ornamental plant ; Dieffenbachiaa Leopoldi, a 

 North American species, the leaves velvety green with 

 a midrib of white ; Croton formosus, the long narrow 

 lance-shaped leaves marked with orange-crimson, 

 green and lemon ; Davallia Pijiense, a dwarf and 

 elegant form ; Philodendron Carderi, which is sup- 

 posed to be a provisional name till the plant is cor- 

 rectly identified ; Anthurium insigne, a noble and hand- 

 some species ; and Dieffenbachia Regina, a fine and 

 handsome plant. This was the first prize group ; and 

 Mr. B. S. Williams came second with Dracasnus 

 Mastersi and speciosa ; Wallichia zebrina, Alsophila 

 Macleani, the genus however is a little doubtful ; 

 Adiantum Williamsi, Crotons Williamsi and Crown 

 Prince, Aralia nobiles, and Eucephalartos latifrons. 

 Many new plants were staged in other classes, but 

 having been put into commerce, have been reported on 

 from time to time. First-class Certificates were 

 awarded to show Pelargonium Fortitude, salmon pink 

 with white throat and dark tip petals, a particularly 

 soft and pleasing variety ; from Mr. C. Turner : Gloxinia 

 Berkshirei, one of the drooping flowered section, colour 

 violet with white throat ; from Mr. Fisher, Balham : 

 Clematis Duke of Connaught, figured in the present 

 number; from Messrs. G. Jackman and Son : Dracaena 

 Bijou, a very dwarf compact-growing variety, with 

 narrow graceful leaves of a dark bronze colour, mar- 

 gined with rosy crimson ; from Mr. B. S. Williams : 

 and to Kentia rupicola, a very graceful palm, with long 

 feather-like leaves and smooth glossy brown stalks ; 

 from Mr. W. Bull. 



The Exhibitions held at the Crystal Palace, Syden- 



ham, and at the Royal Botanic Society's Gardens, 

 Regent's Park, the third week in May brought to- 

 gether a goodly number of new plants, but generally 

 of those that are brought forward at the meetings of 

 the Royal Horticultural Society from time to time. 

 In the records of the productions seen at South Ken- 

 sington, will be found mention of the novelties seen at 

 the other Exhibitions. 



The Royal Horticultural Society held a Rose and 

 Pelargonium Show on June 1 8th, and once more was 

 the great tent full of subjects of a particularly interest- 

 ing character. The show of Roses was of a somewhat 

 limited character, owing to the rainy dull weather ; 

 and some of the Pelargoniums had suffered from the 

 same cause. But Special Exhibitions often vary with 

 circumstances ; they have their times of activity and 

 depression in common with other mundane affairs. 



First-class Certificates were awarded to the follow- 

 ing new plants and flowers : — to H. P. Rose, Countess 

 of Roseberry, pale purplish rose, a good full finely 

 scented rose, of a very pleasing hue of colour ; from 

 Messrs. W. Paul and Son, Waltham Cross : to Erica 

 Olbasta expolita, a free growing pure white variety 

 with large bold flowers borne on terminal clusters ; one 

 of the varieties of the section having blossoms with 

 gumless exteriors ; from Messrs. W. Rollisson and 

 Sons, Tooting : to Dactylis glomerata aurea, a golden 

 variegate form of this most useful bedding grass, in 

 which golden takes the place of silver margins ; from 

 Mr. Henry Cannell, Nurseryman, Swanley : to Lilium 

 Hansoni, a tall growing species bearing a profusion of 

 half drooping, golden yellow, medium sized flowers, 

 having recurved petals spotted with dark crimson ; 

 from G. F. Wilson, Esq., F.R.S : to Clematis Earl of 

 Beaconsfield, a grand new variety of the Viticilla type, 

 and therefore promising to be free to flower and grow ; 

 colour bright purple crimson, very striking* and showy 

 and a very rich hue of colour ; from Messrs. T. Criffs 

 and Son, Tunbridge Wells : to Rhododendron The 

 Tocsin, colour rosy purple, with bright crimson spots, 

 and minute trusses of flower • from Mr. Charles Noble, 

 Nurseryman, Sunningdale : to Potentilla Prince 

 Arthur, a fine double-flowered variety with pure yellow 

 flowers ; one of the best in this interesting section of 

 border plants ; from Messrs. E. and J. Perkins, Leam- 

 ington : to Dracaena Vivicans, one of the erect grow- 



