THE ELOEAL MAGAZINE 
FEBRUARY, 1873. 
[No. 14. 
NEW SERIES.] 
EXHIBITIONS. 
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
January 15. 
This, the opening meeting of the year, was an exceed- 
ingly interesting one, and doubtless to many possessed 
more charms than the more e.xtensive exhibitions held in 
the summer, as dowers at this season of the year are 
specially valuable. A magnificent lot of Orchids was 
shown by Mr. Denning, gardener to Lord Londesborough, 
while Messrs. Veitch and Sons, Mr. Williams, Mr. Bull, 
and Messrs. Standish and Co. of Ascot, contributed 
large collections of plants of various kinds which tended 
to make a very fine display. It would be impossible in 
our limited space to enumerate all the various objects of 
interest, and we shall therefore confine ourselves to those 
which were awarded certificates. Messrs. Veitch and 
Sons received first-class certificates for Odontoglossum 
Halli, a fine species with white and yellow flowers barred 
with brown ; Phaius Bernaysi, very similar in character 
to Phaius grandidorus, but with the sepals and petals 
white, with pale yellow lip ; Vanda Cathcarti, a very dis- 
tinct species with reddish dowers ; and a very elegant 
Gymnogramma, Mr. Haage, of Erfurt, was awarded one 
for Pilosorus Dautwitzi, a very interesting succulent 
covered with white down. Mr. Clarke, of Twickenham, 
obtained the same for Cyclamen persicum giganteum 
superbum, a very splendid light-dowered variety of very 
great size and beautiful shape. Mr. Green, gardener to 
Mr. Wilson Saunders, obtained a first-class certidcate for 
Stennorrhynchus Ortgusi, a pretty succulent with spotted 
leaves and reddish dowers; as did also Mr. T. Carey, 
North Lodge, Ipswich, for a double-dowered Primula 
with lilac-coloured dowers. A new Beet, called Clarke’s 
Variegated Beet, was exhibited by Air. Clarke, gardener 
to W. S. AI. Innes, Esq., Parsons Green, Edinburgh, 
and was awarded a first-class certidcate, as it was con- 
sidered a very desirable plant for winter decoration. The 
foliage varies from light carmine to rich orange, and the 
group exhibited on this occasion presented a most beauti- 
ful appearance. There were several other promising 
dowers, but they were not considered deserving of cer- 
tidcates, amongst them some bright dowering Primulas 
exhibited by Air. R. Dean, of Ealing, and one called 
Lady Aladeline Taylor, by Air. H, Caunel, of Woolwich, 
NEW WHITE HYBRID PERPETUAL ROSE. 
If we ai’e rightly informed a grand addition has been 
made to one of our most limited classes — White Hybrid 
Perpetual Roses — in the new rose, Aladame Lacharme, 
raised by Lacharme, of Lyons, and distributed by Alessrs, 
George Schwartz, the successors of Alessrs, Guillot, Ph'e. 
AVhen a raiser calls a dower after his wife we may he 
sure that he has formed a veiy high estimate of it, and 
when the raiser is so experienced as Lacharme, who has 
given us one of the very best roses in cultivation, Charles 
Lefebvre, we are the more inclined to believe that we have 
gained a gem of the drst water. It is said to be a seed- 
ling from Jules Alargottin, and to possess the dne habit 
and constitution of its parent, and to have dowers four 
inches and a half in diameter. Should it fuldl these con- 
ditions there is no doubt that it will be a great acquisi- 
tion. We are informed by a friend at Lyons, that of the 
roses sent out last season two of the greatest favourites 
in France are Aladame George Schwartz and Andre Du- 
nand. The former was dgured by us in our last volume. 
AYe then expressed the same opinion with regard to this 
country. 
SPRING CATALOGUES. 
These are now being brought out in considerable num- 
bers, and exhibit their usual tempting lists of novelties 
in vegetables, and llower-seeds, and plants. Indeed the 
amount of novelties is most perplexing, and it is impos- 
sible even to enumerate them. 
Alessrs. James Veitch and Sons’ Catalogue is illus- 
trated with a large colour-printed plate, and contains 
amongst other novelties Veitch’s Autumn Great Cauli- 
dower, Sutton’s Perfection Broccoli, Alajor Clarke’s 
Solid Red Celery ; and in dower-seeds, Celossi Huttoni, 
Amaranthus Salicifolia, Solanum Capsicum Yellow 
Gem, &c. 
Alessrs. Sutton and Sons’ (of Reading) Amateur 
Guide is as usual replete with information, containing 
some very beautiful woodcuts of vegetables and dowers; 
also a coloured plate of their Red Skin Flower Ball, and 
New Hundredfold Fluke Potato, and good woodcuts of 
new Peas, amongst them Emerald Gem, which we be- 
lieve to be a valuable early pea. 
Alessrs. Dick Radelylfe and Co.’s excellent and neat 
Catalogue contains a complete list of vegetables and 
dower-seeds, and especially garden requisites and deco- 
rations, for which this drm is noted. 
