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unlike Sempervivum californicmn ; and to Messrs. Paul and Son, for climbing 
Rose Victor Verdier . Some seedling Cinerarias were staged, but contained 
nothing worthy the award usually made to floral novelties of undoubted merit. 
Mr. Charles Noble staged several baskets of his new early-flowering Clematises, 
including Albert Victor , Miss Bateman , Princess Mary , Lord Londesborough, and 
Lady Londesborough , all in good bloom, and very attractive indeed. 
In contradistinction to this, the meeting of the Eoyal Horticultural Society, 
on April 19, was singularly productive of floral varieties. Foremost was a group 
of new Indian Azaleas , sent by M. Louis Van Houtte, of Ghent, that were great 
objects of attraction. The following were awarded First-class Certificates■ 
Comtesse cle Beaufort , salmon-rose, slightly dashed with purple, and densely 
spotted with dark brown on the upper part of the flower, very fine form, and with 
a bright glow of colour ; Marquis of Lome , orange-scarlet, with purplish-crimson 
spots on the upper segments, fine form, very bright, and free blooming; Alice , 
a double-flowered variet} T , of a violet-rose colour, the flowers large and full; 
President de Ghellinck de Walle , pale violet-pink, tinted with salmon, a double 
variety of good form, and free ; and George Loddiges , pale salmon scarlet, with 
dark crimson-purple spots and stains, large and very fine. In addition, Superba 
nova , reddish lake, suffused with purple ; Madame Alex . Hardy , pale reddish- 
salmon; and Vuurwerk , deep salmon red, were attractive. The same award was 
made to Mr. William Bull for Azalea Marvel , with purplish-magenta semi-double 
flowers, and apparently very free ; this appeared to have been bred from A. amcena , 
and to be a useful, decorative, or forcing variety. First-Class Certificates were 
given to Mr. C Turner for Tea Rose Belle Lyonnaise , with pale buff-coloured flowers, 
of large size and fine form, one of several promising seedlings from Gloire de Dijon ; 
and to Alpine Auriculas Sultan and Marquis of Westminster , both of fine form 
and quality. A very striking and richly-coloured blackish maroon flower, named 
Mr. Moore , was also shown by Mr. Turner. The same award was made to Mr. 
George Fairbairn for Rhododendron Bride , a hybrid in the way of R. Sesterianum, 
but with better-shaped, large white flowers; and also to Mr. William Lee, for a 
splendid brilliant-red forcing Pink , named Princess Louise , the flowers of which 
were of large size and very full.—R. D. 
In addition to the foregoing, First-Class Certificates were awarded to Messrs. 
Veitch and Sons for two very beautiful Japanese Maples, named Acerpolymorphum 
palmatifdum (dissectum) and A. japonicum ornatum , both with palmatifid leaves 
having narrow incised segments, but the former of a pale bright green, the latter 
of a bronzy hue ; to Mr. Williams, for Maxillaria luteo-grandiflora , with large 
yellowish flowers stained with deep reddish-brown ; to Mr. Denning, gardener to 
Lord Londesborough, for Odontoglossum odoratum , a neat-looking species, in the 
way of 0. gloriosum, with yellow flowers heavily spotted; to Mr. W. E. Dixon 
for Anthurium Scherzerianum Dixoni , a handsome variety, with double spathes ; 
and to Mr. Ward, gardener to A. D. Berrington, Esq., for a splendid plant of the 
