THE FLORAL MAGAZINE 
NEW SERIES.] JUNE, 1880. [No. 102. 
HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITIONS. 
The agreeable meetings of tbe Royal Horticultural 
Society were continued on the 27th of April, and, as is 
usual at this season of the year, some very fine novelties 
were produced. Foremost among these was a very fine 
Odontoglossum, named Hystrix serratum, sent by Mr. 
Spyers, gardener to Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., M.P. 
It was a central figure in a group of Orchids of amazing 
beauty and fine development. This fine Odontoglot 
has uniform sulphur - yellow petals and sepals, the 
former cross-barred with rich chestnut-brown, the 
latter spotted with the same and very strongly serrated. 
It is a distinct and handsome form, with unusually 
large flowers, having the marking brighter and more 
clearly defined than in the type, though the dis- 
tinguishing point lies mainly in the finely-toothed 
edges of the sepals and lip. This was awarded a First- 
class Certificate of Merit, as was also a very fine and 
striking Coleus, named George Simpson, raised by 
Mr. King, gardener to G. Simpson, Esq., Wray Park, 
Reigate. This splendid and distinct variety is one of 
the most brilliant-coloured we have yet seen. The 
large, flat, ovate leaves are of the richest glowing 
crimson, dashed with maroon, the narrow-beaded edge 
being here green, there gold, and all the colours bright 
and effective, and well brought out by contrast. This 
will make a very fine and striking foliage plant for 
exhibition purposes. H. J. Elwes, Esq., received a 
First-class Certificate of Merit for Corydalis bracteata, 
a dwarf, hardy, tuberous perennial, with spikes of large 
bracteated pale-yellow flowers. Though not a new 
plant, it has of late years become very scarce, and 
has apparently been reintroduced in quantity. It is 
hardy, and grows 6 inches to 1 foot high. The Garden 
states this is quite distinct from the plant generally 
grown as C. bracteata, and often sold under that 
name, but which has purplish flowers, and is a variety 
of C. solida, with largely-developed bracts. A similar 
award was made to the following subjects sent by 
Messrs. Veitch and Sons, King’s Road, Chelsea, viz., 
Lastrea Richardsii multifida, a pretty tasselled Fern, 
of elegant character, the apices ot the pinnatifid piunm 
being prominently developed into a tuft of sharp- 
pointed segments. It did not appear to be certain at 
the time it was shown whether it was hardy or a green- 
house kind ) and to Amaryllis, Lady Bolsover, a variety 
with very large flowers, of good form, the colour scarlet, 
with a well-defined white stripe down to the base, 
which is dark-coloured, and more or less veined with 
white, a distinct and showy variety of the Hippeastrum 
type. A First-class Certificate was also awarded to 
Messrs. John Standish and Co., Royal Nursery, Ascot, 
for Rhododendron Snowflake, a handsome hybrid, with 
large heads of fine flowers which, when developed, as 
these were, under glass, are of a very pure white, 
without apparent spotting, the individual flowers being 
smooth and well-formed. It was certificated as a 
valuable forcing plant. The award of a Second-class 
Certificate was made to Messrs. Standish and Co., for 
Rhododendron Flag of Truce, of the same character as 
the foregoing, but less pure in character and smooth 
in the flowers. 
Among other novelties were a variegated form of 
Myosolis Sylvatica, named Elegantissima (Roger 
McClelland and Co., Newry), a delicate-looking subject : 
Acacia Sphmrocephala (W. Bull, Chelsea), a very in- 
teresting and by no means unornamental plant, with 
glossy compound leaves, and huge brown hollow thorns, 
in which a species of ant makes its domicile, whence it 
sallies forth to defend the plant against all other in- 
truders, taking toil for itself in the honeyed secretion 
formed in the glands on the leaflets: and a mottled-leaved 
Erythrina, called Marmorata ; Azalea Rollissoni (Veitch 
and Sons), a distinct type raised some years ago at the 
Tooting Nurseries, dwarf and compact in habit, with 
flowers about the size of a crown piece, of a very double 
character, and in colour a clear bright-salmon. Awarded 
a First-class Certificate of Merit. And from the same 
exhibitor came also Azalea Roi Leopold Alba, a use- 
ful and very free decorative variety ; and Pteris Serru- 
lata Shorei, a very heavily-crested variety, of drooping 
habit, likely to be handy for basket culture. Cut 
branches of a Hedera from Northern Russia came from 
Messrs. E. G. Henderson and Son, very much in the 
way of H. deutata, as to substance, size, and general 
character, but apparently producing more acutely-lobed 
leaves. 
At the meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society 
on May 11th, a new hybrid form of Anthurume Scher- 
zerianum, named Rothschildianum was shown by- 
Messrs. Veitch and Sons, and awarded a First-class 
Certificate of Merit. It is described as a remarkably 
handsome variety, the result of crossing the typical 
