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THE FLORAL MAGAZINE. 
was first in this nurseryman’s class, showed a fine Pha- 
lsenopsis grandiflora, with four spikes, as well as many 
other Orchids. Mr. Denning, gardener to Lord Londes- 
borough, was, as usual, first in the amateur’s class. Our 
space is altogether too limited to enumerate at length 
the plants exhibited; they will all be found referred to 
in detail in the pages of the various weekly journals de- 
voted to Horticulture. 
REVIEWS. 
Orchids, and IIow to Grow Them in India and other 
Tropical Climates. By Samuel Jennings, F.L.S., 
F.R.H.S., late Vice-President of the Agri-Horticul- 
tural Society of India. Part I. L. Reeve and Co. 
This is likely to prove a very valuable book for growers 
of Orchids in this and other temperate countries, as well 
as for those who reside in the tropics, for Mr. Jennings 
not only brings a knowledge of species to the task before 
him, but that best of all knowledge required for a work 
like that before us, which is gained only by the actual 
experience of the requirements of these curious and 
beautiful plants whilst under cultivation. 
The introductory matter is exceedingly interesting, 
so is the chapter on the cultivation of Orchids ; and the 
very name of the third chapter (in this part necessarily 
left unfinished), “The History of Orchids,” shows what 
may be expected from our author. 
The first part treats, 1st, of Cattleya Exoniensis, with 
a descriptive list of all the known hybrids of Cattleya ; 
2nd, Dendrobium Wardianum, with full descriptions of 
all the Dendrobes most worthy of cultivation ; 3rd, An- 
grsecum sesquipedale, with a similar list of all the 
species best worth cultivati , , and 4th, Cypripedium 
Sedeni, with a list and full descriptions of all the known 
hybrid Cypripediums. 
The work is the same size as the Floral Magazine, 
and four coloured plates are given of the handsome 
plants above mentioned. 
California Horticulturist and Floral Magazine, San 
Francisco. No. I. Jan. 1874. The first part of this 
Magazine contains several valuable articles, well written 
and of great interest ; but the coloured illustration of 
Lilium Bloomerianum (L. Ilurnboldtii) is execrable both 
in drawing and colour. It is as unlike nature as pos- 
sible, and one of the worst plates we have seen. 
H Illustration Ilorticole, Ghent, which is now pub- 
lished in English as well as French, contains in its first 
part a large but rather formal plate, printed in colours, 
of Oncidium fuscatum, Reich, f. Ccroxylon andicola, 
Humb. et Bonp., a fine New Grenada Palm ; and 
Camellia, “ Don Pedro,” a first-class beautiful white 
variety, petals here and there faintly striped with delicate 
rose. The proof sheets of the English edition should be 
more carefully revised : “ rustic” is spelt “ Rustike 
“ awakened” is spelt “ awakeed ;” “ personally” is spelt 
“ personnally,” &c. 
La Belgique Ilorticole, Liege, Jan. 1874, contains a 
fine double plate, well printed in colours, of Billbergia 
vittata, Brong., var. Amabilis, in which the individual 
flowers and bracts are much the same in colour with 
Mr. Bull’s Billbergia Saundersii, figured in our last 
number, but with foliage and habit altogether dif- 
ferent. 
Gartenjlora, Erlangen, Jan. 1874, contains a large 
double plate, indifferently printed in colours, of Pit- 
cairnia undulata, Scheidw. ; a double plate of Saxifraga 
florulenta, Moretti — a handsome species, with pale rose- 
coloured flowers. 
GARDEN FLOWERS. 
There can be no doubt that of late years a strong re- 
action has taken place in favour of the good old- 
fashioned flowers of our gardens, which had been well 
nigh pushed out of their places by the old bedding-out 
system. Most of the best new florist’s flowers we have 
from time to time illustrated, as our plates of new 
Antirrhinums, Auriculas, Carnations, Pansies, Penste- 
mons, Picotees, Pinks, Violas, &c., abundantly prove. 
All matters pertaining to gardens, gardening, and 
garden literature, have long been making great advances 
in this country and abroad, and the culture of plants 
has made such strides that flower-growing for show pur- 
poses, as well as for the intrinsic pleasure imparted by 
their simple cultivation for their own sakes, is carried 
on by all classes of society, from the highest to the 
lowest; whilst the trade catalogues of our plant mer- 
chants are no longer mere dry lists, as formerly, but 
books often beautifully illustrated, in every way worthy 
of the drawing-room table, and valuable alike for the 
figures of plants they contain and the scientific infor- 
mation they impart. 
During the last summer we had a series of garden- 
flowers sent to us for inspection from Messrs. J. C. 
Wheeler & Son, of Gloucester, of such superior merit 
that we conceive they deserve more than a passing 
notice from us ; and of these we were especially pleased 
with a set of French Marigolds, of which we here illus- 
trate two— viz., the “ Gold Striped” and “ Dwarf 
Pigmy ;” the figures show the habit of growth of the 
plants as well as representations of the individual flowers 
