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well for sale are profitable. In faet, the cost of these glazed wall 
covers can soon be recouped, by good management, in the value of the 
produce that may be raised with then’ sheltering aid. 
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
March 8th. 
Camhlllas from Waltham Cross, Daffodils from several firms and 
Orchids from amateurs, constituted the attraction at this meeting, and the 
exhibits being arranged in the Conservatory were seen to much better 
advantage than on the previous occasion. 
Fruit Committer —Present: T. Francis Rivers, Esq., in the chair, and 
Messrs. Wm. Paul, W. Warren, T. J. Saltmarsh, J. Woodbridge, G. T. Mile? 
S. Ford, J. Roberts, A. H. Pearson. W. Denning, T. B. Haywood, J. Fitt, j! 
Smith, R. D. Blackmore, and P. Crowley. Mr. G. Ford, Leonardslee, was 
awarded a bronze Banksian medal for nine dishes of Apples, remarkably 
fresh and handsome samples. The varieties were Flower of Kent, large 
and fine colour ; Hoary Morning, rich colour ; Adam’s Pearmain, Blenheim 
Pippin, Cockle Pippin, Dr. Hogg, Golden Russet, Barcelona Pearmain, and 
Sussex Bosom Apple. Messrs. T. Rivers & Son, Sawbridgeworth, sent 
several dishes of Apples, Wagner, Mannington Pearmain, Lord Burghley, 
Claygate Pearmain, Bailev’s Sweet, Buckingham, Duke of Devonshire 
Baxter’s Pearmain, Boston Russet, Duke of Devonshire, and Allen’s Ever¬ 
lasting being well kept. Mr. W. Roupell, Harvey Lodge, Roupell Park, was 
awarded a vote of thanks for well-kept samples of Melon Apples from trees 
Mr. Bickerstaffe), exhibited a plant of Phaius tuberculo 3 us var. superbus, 
the most beautiful example of this fine Orchid we have yet seen. The 
vZT™ W J 6 J, al ft ei a tha “ U8Ual >. l he u sepa,s auJ petals P« re white, the lip 
- n } ott1 ®; 1 with reddish brown on a yellow ground on the side 
lobes, purplish in the centre and margin, which is undulated, and has an 
orange coloured crest with a white irregular band bitween it and the 
A cultural commendation was awarded. From the same garden 
^.“ e , a fi , ne variety of Anthunum carneum, with bright rosy red spathe?, 
6 inches long and as much in diameter. The Hon. and Rev. J. T. Boscawen’ 
Lamorran, Cornwall, showed a well flowered plant of Dendrobium nobile 
nearly J feet in diameter. De B. Crawshay, Esq Rosefield Sevenoaks’ 
(gardener, Mr Cooke), exhibited a little group o^Odontoglossum?, chiefly 
O. Rossi varieties, O. Alexandras, 0. hebraicum, and O Wilckeanum A 
plantof Cattleya Triameand Masdevallia Shuttleworthi, var. xanthocorys 
Giln 80 lJ M n v d 'i W. Vanner, Esq., Camden Wood, Chislehurst 
(gardener, Mr Robins), sent flowers of Cattleya Triame Yauneriana, which 
has a yellow stnps down each of the sepals. S. Courtauld, Esq., Booking 
E 1 ? 0 *’ B^ntree (gardener, Mr. Wnght), sent a fine plant of Cattleya 
Triame Courtauldi, with numerous flowers, the lips very richly coloured, 
also a fine panicle of Phalaenopsis Schilleriana. 
Henry Little, Esq., The Barons, Twickenham (gardener, Mr. Hill), had 
a group of over fifty plants of Lycaste Skinneri, bearing four to six flowers 
each, and comprising some particularly handsome varieties. Especially note¬ 
worthy were Model, with beautifully formed flowers, pale pink sepals, while 
petals and lip ; picturata, distinctly marked ; gloriosa, large and well-formed ; 
marmorata, pink and white and marbled crimson in the petals ; and magnifica, 
large and white lip, blue colour. A cultural commendation was awarded. 
Fig. 86.— Glazed Wall Cover. 
p'own out of doors. The variety is strongly recommended by Mr. Roupel 
fOT cultivation in the neighbourhood of towns. Messrs. SaltmarBh & Sons 
Lhelmsford showed fruits of a seedling Apple named Lord of the Manor,; 
conical yellow Apple _ with numerous russetty dots. The Committei 
requested to see it again next year. Mr. Roberts, Charleville Forest, seni 
samples or white Gris Colman Grape, apparently the same bunches as thost 
shown before, but they were in such bad condition that the Committee coulc 
express no opinion concerning them. Mr. B. Looker, Kingston-on-Thames 
showed samples of the Patent Simplex Orchid Pot, in which the base if 
moveable, and Messrs. Spear & Jackson, Cannon Street, sent samples of hor 
ticultural tools. Messrs. J. Green & Nephew, 107, Queen Victoria Street 
glasses Warded a ^anks for a sample of elegant flower vases anc 
n r B'kOhAL Committee. —Present—G. F. Wilson, Esq., in the chair, anc 
J Vllk8 > J- DouglaB, J. Walker, H. Bennett, H. Herbst, G Duf- 
neld, W. B. Lowe, J. Hudsoa, W. Holmes, B. Wynne, R. Dean, D. Noble, T 
Tnm • P , 1 , lc !l e r’ J - hominy, H. Ballantine, H. M. Pollett, A. J. Lendy 
W xr m eD .’r G ‘ *’ Turner, W. Goldring, Shirley Hibberd, G. Paul, anc 
nr. M. i. Masters. 
Messrs.William Paul & Son, Waltham Cross, had a remarkably handsome 
aispjay of Camellias. About twenty specimens were in pots, healthy pyra- 
luai plants, well clothed with foliage and flowers, a dozen boxes of cut 
ooms being shown in addition. Some of the best varieties were C. M. 
°vey, bright red ; Marchioness of Exeter, very large, rosy salmon, Ninfa 
geria, Candidissima, and Alba plena, white ; Bealei, deep red; Comte 
m n Hrij U ’ de icate pink; Rafia, bright red striped white; Princess 
verfil . white, streaked red; II Commendatore Betti, soft salmon red, 
PRIf ’ Avenir, beautiful shape, rose with a few white streaks ; Princess 
rw t d ’ W “ lte > Andrea Dorea, small but neat, and extremely bright red ; 
lorio Beaut y> white, with a tinge of pink, very beautiful: and Matbotiana, 
nwfjiJP* ape ,’, an< * a pne dark red eolour. A silver-gilt medal was 
awarded for the collection. 
ir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., M.P., Burford Lodge, Dorking (gardener, 
Mr. Little also had a plant of Odontoglossum Littleanum, with a long 
racime of flowers, yellow, spotted and blotched with brown, and Cattleyl 
Trian* on a raft, a showy variety, and bearing over two dozen flowers 
Mr. J. Fitt, Cassiobury, Watford, showed a plant of Dendrobium nobile 
m a basket, about twenty growths being loaded with flowers. A cultural 
commendation was awarded. He also had an Amaryllis named Lord Esher 
very bright scarlet. B. D. Knox, Esq., Caversham, Reading (gardener, Mr.’ 
Laurence), had plants of Laelia anceps, Cattleya Trian®, and Odontoglossum 
Alexandras. A vote of thanks was accorded. 
Besides the plants certificated, Messrs. Veitch & Sons, Chelsea, had a 
pretty Fern, Lomaria gibba platyptera, a garden form, with handsome 
pinnate fronds, the pinnie regularly undulated, and Amaryllis Iona white 
with red streaks. Mr. Duncan Gilmour, jun., Sneflield, had a box’of the’ 
Tea Rose, The Bride, of a soft sulphur tint, the blooms of excellent shape 
very neat, especially in the bud state, aDd fragrant. A pan of Saxifraga 
Burseriana was sent from the Society’s Garden, neat tuft? being studded 
with its white flowers. A vote of thanks was accorded to Mr. F. W. Moore 
Curator, Glasneven Botanic Gardens, for a collection of Lachenalias com¬ 
prising aurea, Nelsoni, tricolor, and orchioides. Messrs. Pope <fc Son’s, Bir¬ 
mingham, had a group of Primulas comprising four good new varieties 
Victoria, blush ; The King, crimson ; Kingshorton Gem, purple ; and Ladv 
R. Churchill, pale blush, nearly white; all are single varieties, and a vote of 
thanks was accorded for them. Mr. F. Ross, Pendell Court Gardens, Bletch- 
ingley, was awarded a vote of thanks for flowers of Thunberg'a Harrisi, a 
species with pale violet or mauve-coloured flowers, and Acacia verticillata. 
Messrs. Paul <fc Son, Cheshunt, had a pretty group of hardy bulbous 
plants, Bulbocodium vernum being very pretty, Iris reticulata, Krelagei, 
Cyclamens Coum and ibericum, Corbulaiia alba. Flowering specimens of 
the purple leaved Primus Pissardi were shown by Messrs. Paul & Son, 
Cheshunt, and were much admired, the graceful white flowers having a 
purplish centre and reddish peduncles. It flowers freely and was shown to 
prove its value for forcing. Leucojum vernum, Saxifraga Burseriana, and 
Scilla siberica, with plants of the new yellow hardy Saxifrage, S. Frederici 
