THE FLORAL MAGAZINE. 
A NEW DOUBLE-FLOWERED EPACRIS. 
Mr. W. Bull, F.L.S., of the King’s Road, 
Chelsea, has now in flower a beautiful form of Epacris 
onosmrejlora, named nivalis, which bears pure white 
flowers, each little rosette being the third of an inch 
or more in diameter, the whole being closely arranged 
in a columnar manner among the dark-green pointed 
leaves, by which a most agreeable effect is produced. 
This new form is quite distinct and far superior to 
the flesh-tinted double-flowered Epacris shown by 
Mr. Bull last season, and is so chastely beautiful that 
it must become a general favourite everywhere, when 
better known and more plentiful. 
THE NEW JAPANESE ROSE. 
A little episode, says the Irish Farmers’ Gazette, 
took place last week at South Kensington, on occasion 
of the usual meetings of the Scientific and Floral Com¬ 
mittees of the Royal Horticultural Society. Among 
the many interesting objects brought under the notice 
of the last-named committee was a flowering plant of 
our old but too seldom seen acquaintance Fortune’s 
Yellow Rose, and side by side with it another of the 
famous Beauty of Glazenwood. Both were exhibited 
by that distinguished rosarian Mr. Paul, of Cheshunt, 
who drew the attention of the committee to their 
identity. Both specimens were minutely examined 
in detail by the committee, the result being that on 
the motion of Mr. Noble, seconded by Mr. Turner, 
of Slough, it was unanimously resolved that in the 
opinion of the committee “ the rose known as Fortune’s 
Yellow and Beauty of Glazenwood are identical.” 
This needs no comment, and we can only sympathise, 
as we certainly do, with such of our friends as em¬ 
barked their guinea to buy a rose under a borrowed 
name, which eighteenpence would have procured 
under its true one. Few of fhe craft will hesitate to 
agree with the Journal of Horticulture, that in this 
instance Mr. Paul has done a service to rosarians, by 
placing the much-vaunted rose Beauty of Glazenwood 
in its right position. 
PHALiENOPS IDS AT CLAPTON. 
One of the large orchid houses in Mr. S. Low’s nursery, 
at Upper Clapton, is just now very attractive, upwards 
of 1000 fresh and healthy specimens being in full bloom. 
The aggregate number of butterfly-like flowers fully 
expanded, cannot be short of 5000 or 6000. A mean 
temperature of 60°, and an abundant supply of light, 
air, and moisture, are the main points observed by 
Mr. Low in the culture of these splendid tropical 
plants ; and that this treatment is suitable, is amply 
attested by the luxuriant condition generally of such 
an immense number of plants. The varieties are P. 
amabUis and P. Schilleriana, among which, as seen 
here, the most startling variety in form, colour, and 
markings of the flowers is shown. 
NEW PLANTS. 
Among other new plants exhibited at the Royal 
Botanical Society’s first Spring Exhibition, held on 
the 21st March, the following received first-class cer¬ 
tificates :— Pultenceia rosea, a pretty little shrub of 
heath-like habit, beary clusters of rosy lilac flowers at 
the ends of its young growth. Nephrolepis Euffii, a 
graceful little fern bearing constricted fronds a foot or 
more in length, their apices being curiously prolifer¬ 
ous or crested. Alsophila pliillipinensis is a very 
distinct tree fern, its ample dark green fronds being 
fully four feet in length, and the texture of the finely 
cut divisions is more leathery than in any other tree 
fern known to us. A. pycnocarpa, an allied species, 
although less distinct than the last, is a handsome kind, 
its large finely cut fronds being of alight green colour. 
Croton “ Earl of Derby” is a free-growing variety 
belonging to the C. trilobum group, and has halberd¬ 
shaped leaves of a dark-green colour, freely blotched 
with golden yellow. At the meeting of the Royal 
Horticultural Society, held on the same date, certifi¬ 
cates were given to the following plants :— Primula 
purpurea, a free-growing hardy primrose belonging 
to the P. denticulata section, bearing globose heads of 
lilac purple flowers well elevated above the fresh green 
leaves. Groton McArthurianum is a distinct variety, 
having undulate margined strap-shaped leaves of a 
dark-green colour, blotched with golden yellow; their 
apices being curiously elongated in a caudate manner. 
A new H. P. Rose, named “ Duchess de Vallambrosa,” 
which evidently belongs to the same race as “ Captain 
Christy,” also received a certificate, and a like 
honour was given to a seedling variety of Cyclamen 
persicum, named “ Ruby,” bearing vivid crimson 
flowers, and to Primula sinensis “ Marchioness of 
Exeter,” a rosy blush tinted kind with perfectly 
double blossoms. The specimen exhibited was con¬ 
siderably over two feet in diameter, and bore 113 
fully expanded flowers and a much larger number 
of unopened buds. 
