THE FLORAL MAGAZINE 
NEW SERIES.] JULY, 1880. [No. 103. 
HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITIONS. 
The meeting of tlie Royal Horticultural Society on 
May 25th was of an unusually interesting character, 
many fine novelties being exhibited. The leading sub- 
jects to which First-class Certificates of Merit were 
awarded comprised Trichomanes parvulum, one of the 
smallest of the many species in cultivation, its fronds 
being about half-an-inch square in size, and finely cut 
into narrow segments ; they are deep green and trans- 
parent : to Lastrea maximocsiczii, a handsome Japanese 
fern, having fronds about one foot in length, and of a 
bright, glossy, green hue : to Yucca filamentosa aurea 
elegantissima, described last month : to Clove carna- 
tion, Sir Archibald Grant, a very distinct variety, with 
well-formed self, bright, claret-coloured flowers of great 
substance ; and to Erigeron pulchellum, a pretty dwarf 
species, resembling in habit E. speciosum, and having 
flowerheads measuring about one inch across, of a 
reddish orange colour. All these came from Messrs. 
Veitch and Sons, King’s Road, Chelsea. To Cereus 
C. M. Hovey, with large and richly-coloured violet 
purple flowers, very handsome and striking, and that 
flowers well in a young state, from Mr. William Bull, 
King’s Road, Chelsea. To Pteris internata,aWest Indian 
plant near Pteris multilata, and possibly a natural 
hybrid between that plant and P. heterophylla, which 
it closely resembles in the younger stages of its 
growth : Croton Warreni, desci’ibed last month : and to 
Nepenthes Atrosanguinea, a seedling variety, with 
long, deep, blood-red pitchers, remarkable for their 
high colour and elegant shape, and which are plenti- 
fully produced on comparatively small plants ; all from 
Mr. B. S. Williams. To Decorative Pelargonium Attrac- 
tion, rosy scarlet, with maroon blotch and violet 
centre, good habit and very free ; from Mr. W. Brown, 
Brent Nurseries, Hendon: to Decorative Pelargonium 
Defiance, with large, bright-coloured flowers blotched 
with dark, and good, free habit ; from Mr. G. Braid, 
Florist, Winchmore Hill : to Begonia Mrs. Laing, one of 
the best of the few white-flowered varieties of the 
tuberous-rooted section, good form and pure in colour ; 
from Messrs. J. Laing and Co., Stanstead Park Nur- 
sery, Forest Hill : to Zonal Pelargonium, West Brighton 
Gem, similar in appearance to the favourite old Vesu- 
vius ; very free, with trusses of fair size, and very 
strikiug in colour ; from Mr. W. Miles, Nurseryman, 
Hove, Brighton ; and to Tfilipa Gesneriana var., a 
remarkably fine form of this old-fashioned species, 
with very large flowers of a rich crimson colour, and 
having bluish-black blotches at the inner bases of the 
petals. This came from Colonel Trevor-Clarke. 
Novelties not certificated comprised a very striking 
Golden Horse Chestnut from Messrs. Garaway and Co., 
Durdham Down Nursery, Bristol; a bright-looking 
mimulus, named Ruby, from Messrs. James Carter and 
Co., Holborn ; from Mr. J. H. Goodacre, The Gardens, 
Elvaston Castle, Derby, came some small flowering 
plants of what appeared to be a minor form of Stephan- 
tis florabuuda^ which has the reputation of being a 
much more profuse bloomer than the ordinary type, 
from which it also differs in having much smaller 
leaves. 
At the exhibition held at the Crystal Palace at 
Sydenham, on May 29th, the following novelties were 
awarded First-class Certificates of Merit, viz. : Anthu- 
rium Warocqueanum (B. S. Williams), a very orna- 
mental fine foliage plant, with long heart-shaped leaves 
tapering to a point, and arranged vertically, the con- 
spicuous whitish veins forming a network on the deep 
shining green of the leaves render it very distinct. 
To Nepenthes Williamsi (B. S. Williams), a dwarf- 
growing kind of compact habit, bearing a pitcher from 
every leaf, the pitchers medium-sized, and heavily 
blotched with red ; the tendency to produce pitchers 
freely in a small state is a distinctive character be- 
longing to this Nepenthes. To Begonia J. 8. Law 
(J. Laing and Co.), a beautiful variety, with deep, 
orange-red flowers, free of bloom, and a robust habit 
of growth. To Fancy Pelargonium Duchess of Con- 
naught (B. Peed and Son), a variety of dwarf compact 
habit, with flowers intermediate in size between the 
fancy and show varieties, the lower petals white, the 
upper petals having a dark blotch covering a good 
portion of them. 
The Great Exhibition of the Royal Horticultural 
Society, held at South Kensiugton on July 8th, brought 
together, as might be expected, a large number of 
novelties. They included a very fine new ivy-leaf 
Pelargonium, with double flowers, from Mon. Victor 
Lemoine, Nancy, France, to which a First-class Cer- 
tificate of Merit was awarded. It is a variety with a 
good habit, and fine double blossoms of a lively rosy- 
pink colour. It is decidedly the best of the double 
