THE FLORAL MAGAZINE 
NEW SERIES.] 
NOVEMBER, 1880. 
[No. 107. 
HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITIONS. 
That novelties in plants and flowers should be few at 
this season of the year is what might be expected ; 
and the opportunities of their being produced in public 
are but scanty also, seeing that horticultural exhibitions 
are few and far between in the autumn. 
At the meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society 
on October 12th, among the novelties selected for the 
award of First-class Certificates of Merit, was a new 
Lily shown by Messrs. Veitclx and Sons, Royal Exotic 
Nursery, Chelsea, and named Lilium longiflorum verum. 
This is considered by Mr. Baker, of Kew, to be the true 
form of Lilium longiflorum of Japan, of which what 
we have at present in cultivation under that name is 
but a variety. Compared with this last it is a taller 
growing plant, with stout stems more thickly furnished 
with leaves, which are considerably longer and narrower, 
giving the plant a more graceful appearance. The 
flowers are not so long as those of the ordinary L. 
longiflorum ; on the largest plants three are produced, 
the number which the native species bears. The colour 
is pure white, stained on the outside with a purplish 
hue, similar to L. Browni. In some of the forms this 
outside marking is very conspicuous, in others it is but 
faint. It is the latest of all the Lilies to flower, a cir- 
cumstance which renders it doubly valuable ; for a 
white Lily to expand its blossoms in the open border 
in October is, indeed, a desirable acquisition. As to its 
hardiness there can be no doubt, for large beds of it 
have been fully exposed ever since the plants were 
sent here by Mr. Maries, from Japan, three or four 
years ago. We are indebted to The Garden for this 
interesting description ; which regrets “ that another 
name could not have been applied to it, as much con- 
fusion will inevitably arise from its being named the 
same as others already in gardens.” Messrs. Veitch 
and Sons received a similar award for Angrmcum 
Kotschyi, a singular and highly interesting Orchid 
from Zanzibar. The foliage is similiar to that of A. 
pellucidum, being of a deep transparent greeu tint. 
The flower spikes are about one foot long, and bear ten 
or a dozen flowers arranged alternately. The latter are 
one and a half inches in diameter, pure white, of wax- 
like texture, and each bears a singularly twisting tail- 
like spar some eight inches in length and of a pale 
chocolate hue, which constitutes its chief peculiarity. 
Also for Cattleya Mastersoniae, a beautiful hybrid 
orchid obtained by crossing C. labiata with C. Lod- 
digesii, the progeny of which partakes of the characters 
of the parents in a marked degree. The flowers are a 
little more than four inches in diameter, with broad, 
wide-spreading sepals of a delicate rosy lilac ; the lip 
is circular, crisped at the margin, of a deep amethyst 
hue, blotched with yellow and creamy-white. 
To the General Horticultural Company (John Wills) 
Limited, Warwick House, Regent Street, the same 
award was made for Cyperus laxus variegatus, a hand- 
some and most useful decorative plant, variegated after 
the manner of the old-fashioned Ribbon-grass, and a 
free grower to boot, producing, unlike C. laxus, a good 
bulk of leaves at the base of the stem. As a plant for 
general indoor decorative purposes it promises to be 
very useful. 
A new Dahlia named William Rawlings received a 
similar award. It is a Self-flower of large size and fine 
form, and having a deep rich crimson-maroon tint 
shaded with glossy velvet. It was shown by Messrs. 
Rawlings Bros., Nurserymen, Romford. 
Other novelties included Saccolabium denticulatum, 
a diminutive growing species, with a short dense spike 
of small orange and white flowers, which came from 
Mr. B. S. Williams, and was awarded a Botanical com- 
mendation; Stevia glutinosa, a useful winter-flowering 
plant, closely allied to Eupatorium, and bearing dense 
umbels of pinky-white flowers, from Messrs. Veitch 
and Sons ; a striking looking new Dracaeua, named 
Countess of Lathom, remarkable for the bright colour 
of the foliage produced while in a small state; and 
Aralia Chabrieri, a very elegant plant, quite distinct 
from any other plant we know of. The colour of the 
leaves is a deep olive green with a dull red and pro- 
minent mid-rib. The habit of growth is extremely 
graceful, and had a larger specimen been shown, a 
First-class Certificate of Merit would in all probability 
have been awarded. Both these came from the General 
Horticultural Company (John Wills) Limited. 
CLASSES OF CARNATIONS. 
In speaking of Carnations, growers and exhibitors 
divide them into hizarres and flakes — two main divi- 
sions. Bizarres are distinguished by having two 
