THE FLORAL MAGAZINE 
NEW SERIES.] MAY, 1880. [No. 101. 
HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITIONS. 
These are now following each other with that fre- 
quency peculiar to the spring time, for it is then the 
prettiest of these shows take place. At the meeting 
of the Royal Horticultural Society, on March 23rd, 
First-class Certificates of Merit were awarded to the 
following novelties : — Amaryllis King Arthur, a re- 
markably fine flower of good size and great substance, 
colour creamy-white, shaded with crimson ; Empress 
of India, a very large flower of a rich shade of ver- 
milion or crimson, extra fine quality; and Storr’s 
Beauty, crimson-scarlet, with a band of white down 
each segment. These were selected from a truly 
wonderful group of some three hundred seedling 
plants in which the blood of Hippeastrum Leopoldii 
largely preponderated. Some of the delicate-tinted 
flowers were very beautiful. This very fine exhibition 
came from Messrs. James Veitch and Sons, Royal 
Exotic Nurseries, King’s Road, Chelsea, who also 
received the same award for Hyacinth Cavaignac, the 
flowers large, solid, smooth and stout, colour pale 
greyish-blue, with a distinct flame of blue down the 
centre of each segment, and the reverse of the petals 
azure-blue. It is thought to be a sprout from the old 
single-red variety of that name, but we can scarcely 
believe this to be a fact, as the character of the flower, 
apart from the difference in colour, is so remarkable. 
Also to Hyacinth Queen of Yellows, deep in colour, the 
deepest yellow we have yet seen ; clear in colour, and 
with the segments destitute of the green tip found in 
some of the other yellows. 
Mr. B. S. Williams, Victoria Nursery, Holloway, 
had a First-class Certificate of Merit for Amaryllis 
exquisite, a medium-sized flower, bright scarlet in 
colour, with a white bar down the centre of the sear- 
ments. The same award was made to Double Cine- 
raria, Mr. Thomas Lloyd, sent by Mr. Greenfield, the 
Priory Gardens, Warwick, with very large and full 
purple-blue flowers, certainly the finest double Cine- 
raria yet seen. 
Other novelties shown on this occasion were a species 
of Frittilaria from Japan, with small pale green 
flowers (Veitch and Sons) ; the white-flowered Epiden- 
drum bicornutum, which is so striking by reason of 
its prettily-pencilled labellum (Veitch and Sons) ; a 
large plant of Imantophyllum muriatum, var. Martha 
Reimers, with a splendid truss of orange-scarlet blos- 
soms (B. S. Williams) ; also the double-spathed form 
of Anthurium Scherzerianum from the same; a Cyclamen 
Persicum of a sportive character, as it had red and 
white flowers on the same plant (W. Kimpton) ; and 
Dracaena Thomsoni, a fine new variety with large 
broad green leaves, margined with crimson, from the 
General Horticultural Company. 
The first Spring Exhibition of the Royal Botanic 
Society took place on March 24th, and Botanical Cer- 
tificates of Merit were awarded to the following 
novelties : — Tradescantia Madame Laguerise, a variety 
of T. Zebrina, with the leaves prettily variegated with 
creamy-white, pale green and a pinkish tint, and the 
surface of the leaf overlaid with a silvery lustre (Veitch 
and Sons) ; Hoteia japonica aurea-variegata, a variety 
with the leaves having conspicuous golden veins, and 
much more dense clusters and whiter flowers than the 
ordinary form, and altogether a much superior plant 
for decorative purposes (Veitch and Sons) ; Selaginella 
Kraussiana aurea, a golden variety of the common 
greenhouse kind, now pretty well distributed (W. Bull) ; 
Polystickum viviparum, a handsome greenhouse fern, 
with fronds about one foot long, lance-shaped, pinnate, 
and beset with stiff’ bristles (W. Bull) ; Anthurium 
Scherzerianum semi-plena, a variety of the well-known 
Flamingo plant, with a small supplementary spathe 
produced opposite the large one, which gives the plant 
a very distinct appearance (B. S. Williams) ; Coelogyne 
ocellata maxima, a large -flowered form, with longer 
racemes, and the markings of the flowers apparently 
more distinct than in the type (B. S. Williams). 
Floral Certificates of Merit were awarded to the 
following subjects : — Cineraria, Mr. Thomas Lloyd, 
described above (R. Greenfield) ; to the following 
beautiful varieties of Amaryllis, from Messrs. Veitch 
and Sous, viz., Iris, very large brilliant crimson flowers 
of fine form ; Emillia, greenish-white, heavily suffused 
with crimson ; Duchess of Connaught, pure white, with 
handsome tubular-shaped flowers ; Princess Augusta 
Victoria, greenish-white, dashed heavily with deep 
crimson ; and Thalia., crimson, shaded with deep blood- 
red, large in size and fine in form ; also the following 
new Hyacinths from the same firm : — Queen of Yel- 
lows, described above ; Distinction, very deep reddish- 
crimson, good colour ; Captain Boyton, pale porcelain- 
blue, large bells, splendid spike ; and Cavaignac, 
