ing an angle of 45 degrees. This permits the recession and 
opening of the flowers, which are arranged one behind the other 
within the spathe. After a blossom has been open for a day or so 
it recedes, making room for the next bloom pushing ont from the 
spathe. This peculiar operation is repeated until all the flowers, 
usually six or eight in number, have emerged from their covering. 
The upper petals are bright orange in color ; the lower petal, 
sometimes called the tongue of the bird, is long-lanced and keeled 
through the middle, and is of deep azure color, making a gorgeous 
contrast with the upper petals. 
Plants of Strelitzia Reginae are easily cultivated, requiring 
heavy soil and plenty of water and sunlight. When grown in 
tubs they are serviceable for the conservatory and for the porch 
or lawn in summer. However, the best results, from the stand- ■ 
point of flower production are obtained from planting directly 
in the ground in the conservatory. 
(Mrs. Sloane has sent the following information from 
England, date of July 24th, 1922.) 
Of the new plants exhibited at the Royal Horticultural Society Summer 
yesterday, the most interesting was a hybrid Lily, shown by Mr. Hybrids 
Amos Perry, of Enfield, and obtained by crossing Lilium sul- 
phureum with the new Chinese Lilium regale. The hybrid grows 
4 feet or 5 feet high, and produces a terminal cluster of ten or a 
dozen white trumpets backed with a reddish shade of purple. 
The same firm also exhibited Eryngium prostration, a dwarf 
plant only 2 inches in height and very different from the tall 
thistle-like plants well known in our borders. 
A new border Carnation was shown. It is laced with lilac on 
a white ground and is called Jessie Murray. It is a fine 
variety, with the additional merit of possessing the scent of the 
old clove Carnation, which is so often missing in the modern 
seedlings. 
To most of us the word Delphinium stands for something blue, 
but raisers of these flowers seem to be making every effort to 
obtain varieties of another color. Messrs. M. Prichard and Sons, 
of Christchurch, received an award for a fine cream-coloured 
variety called Nymph. While the chief feature of the group, 
shown by Messrs. Blackmore and Langdon, of Bath, was the 
variety General Sir Douglas Haig, of which the flowers are a 
combination of dark blue and royal purple. 
Shrubs that flower in July are none too numerous, but Messrs. 
R. Veitch and Sons, of Exeter, showed both the downy and the 
smooth form of the beautiful New Zealand Plagiantlius Lyallii, 
with its clusters of white flowers with their prominent stamens. 
This shrub, as well as many others is flowering profusely this 
year, possibly as the result of the ripening that the plants received 
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