324 
THE GREEN-HOUSE GENISTAS. 
tively large, creamy white flowers ; it was 
named — evidently a misnomer— T. pentaphyl- 
lum. Mr. Glendinning, of Chiswick, had a 
strong young plant of the new hardy conifer 
Cryptomeria japonica ; also JRuellia macro- 
pkylUi, a strong growing stove plant, with large 
foliage, bearing small bunches of pretty scarlet 
flowers from the axils. There was also a plant 
shown, from Kew, of Torenia asiatica — a 
beautiful little thing, with mimulus-shaped 
flowers of a bluish lilac, with five deep purple 
blotches. Mr. Ayres showed Aotus gracillima, 
a neat green-house shrub, noticed at p. 26. 
Seedlings. — Besides the Pelargoniums, 
there was not much of importance in the way 
of seedlings ; and of these, those selected for 
reward, were Mr. Beck's Centurion, Gem, and 
Cassandra ; and Mr. Hoyle's President. Cen- 
turion is a deep rosy pink, with very clear 
centre, and dark clouding, shaded off' to the 
edge, and surrounded by a margin of rose- 
pink ; Gem is pink with crimson maroon tops, 
and narrow pink edge ; and Cassandra pale 
lower petals, dark upper ones, witli a narrow 
pink edge ; President is a medium sized 
flower, bright red, with a small dark spot. 
Mr. Beck had some other seedlings of the 
rosy class: — Favonius, Dobsoni, Glow, Round- 
head, and Cracker. Mr. Hoyle had Eosalind, 
Lily, Rowena, Gertrude, Saracen, Sunset, 
Brilliant, Ibrahim Pasha, and Stromboli. 
There were others from Mr. Clarke of Guern- 
sey, Mr. Gaines, and the Rev. A. Matthews 
of Weston, Oxon, but none of any very great 
importance. Of Calceolarius, there were but 
few. Mr. Gaines had Lady Smith, mentioned 
at p. 264. Of Fuchsias, there were several 
of the rival pale-coloured ones present. Dick- 
* son's Acantha is a pure colour, with scarlet 
corolla ; Gaines' Duchess of Sutherland is a 
good variety with purple corolla ; Newberry's 
Delicata is pure, with purplish rose corolla, 
and is of good habit, and a free flowerer. The 
"Fuchsia Challenge," between three growers, 
was decided at this meeting, unanimously in 
favour of Lane's Mrs. Lane, a variety which 
received a seedling prize at the Royal Botanic 
Society's exhibition in 1845 ; it is a dwarf 
close grower, very free flowerer, the corolla 
very large and very deep crimson ; the other 
varieties shown against it, were Hally's Em- 
press, and Epps's Countess Cornwallis. Ra- 
nunculuses were shown by Mr. T. Setinzee of 
City Road ; namely, Airzee's Island Queen, 
Leander, and Gem. Heath. — Mr. Barnes 
had one, called Erica jasminiflora vittata, 
in the way of these kinds; also a seedling 
Cactus, called elegans, in the way of Malli- 
soni, with rose and purple flowers. Pinks. — 
There were several shown, but none of par- 
ticular merit; among them were Norman's 
Henry Steers, Turner's Sir H. Smith, Ma- 
her's Caroline, Alarm, and Emperor. An- 
tirrhinums. — Mr. Miller, of Ramsgate, had 
Striata formosissima, white, pencilled with 
rosy purple ; Comet, orange buff ; Delicata, 
white ; Supreme, pale yellow ; Miss Pretty- 
man, yellow, pencilled with rose ; Caryophyl- 
loides superbas, striped white and dark red : 
these are pretty varieties. Hardy Lilies. — 
Mr. Groom showed some of his hybrids, grow- 
ing from eighteen inches to two feet high, and 
of various shades of fiery orange red: these 
were Prince Albert, Ibrahim Pasha, Rubens, 
Emperor Alexander, Voltaire, and Talisman. 
Of other features of the exhibition, on which 
we have not space to enlarge, we may men- 
tion some of Cutter's Coniferse, and seve- 
ral collections of hardy shrubs ; among which, 
in a group sent from Mr. Waterer, were a re- 
markable broad-leaved Box, and several 
Arbutuses. The Pelargoniums were very 
finely bloomed ; the pot Roses were superior to 
those brought to the last exhibition, some of 
them having as many as two dozen flowers ; 
the Cacti were not numerous, but well 
bloomed ; the cut Roses were numerous, and 
finely blown. 
Genista Canariensis. 
GREEN-HOUSE GENISTAS. 
Wherever half a dozen green-house plants 
are grown, some one or other of these Genistas 
ought to be included. Their recommendations 
may be stated to be — a dwarf compact habit 
