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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[June, 
Had bronzy orange-yellow flowers of a novel Hue, and was full, and of good 
form, came from Messrs. Paul and Son. Bougainvillea speciosa variegata (f.c.c.), 
the leaves of wHicH were somewhat deeply edged with creamy yellow, came from 
Mr. Masters, Slierburn Castle Gardens; as did also a perpetual-flowering Clove , 
named Miss Joliffe (s.c.c.), Having good full flowers of a pale-pink Hue, and 
remarkably fragrant. THe charming and almost forgotten pink-tinted Iberis 
gibraltarica (f.c.c.), was exhibited by Messrs. Downie, Laird, and Laing; it is a 
veritable prince among these useful Hardy plants, the flowers being large, and 
the truss of commensurate proportions. THe same firm exhibited Tropceolum 
Mrs. Bowman (f.c.c.), a sub-trailing variety, with deep reddish-orange flowers of 
fine shape. Mr. C. Turner exhibited a green-edged Auricula named Alderman 
Wisbeg (s.c.c.), one of Mr. Richard Headley’s seedlings. But attractive and 
interesting, as all these undoubtedly were, they were overshadowed by the magni¬ 
ficence and rare beauty of Primula japonica (f.c.c.), shown by Mr. William Bull, 
which has flowers something of the shape of those of an Oxlip, of a bright magenta 
colour, with dark crimson centre, and produced in circular tiers one above the other ; 
a pale-coloured variety of this Japan Primrose, named lilacina (f.c.c.), was also 
shown, and afforded a pleasing contrast. W. B. Kellock, Esq., sent to this meeting 
a rare and interesting succulent, Gasteria nigricans (f.c.c.), of Haworth, a species 
with handsomely-marked leaves, and which is exceedingly difficult of increase, 
the plant shown being chiefly interesting as being the identical specimen grown 
many years since by Haworth. 
The meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society on the 17th of May might well 
be termed the first of the great shows, though limited to the extent of one of the 
fortnightly meetings. Instead of being held in the close, inconvenient arcades, 
the plants were grouped under canvas at the south-west corner of the gardens, 
which was in every respect a change for the best. The most important novelties 
brought forward were the following :—Masdevallia Lindeni (f.c.c.) shown by Mr. 
Linden, of Brussels, a charming dwarf tufted-growing Orchid, from New Grenada, 
with a general resemblance to M. coccinea, but having the flowers of a lovely pale 
but brilliant magenta. Mr. Denning, gardener to Lord Londesborough, had the 
beautiful Cattleya Reineckiana (f.c.c.), which has lovely white flowers with 
remarkably broad petals, and a fine frilled lip, in which orange and purple are 
charmingly blended. Mr. B. S. Williams exhibited Adiantum asarifolium (f.c.c.), 
from Madagascar, a larger-fronded fern allied to A. reniforme, having the simple 
fronds nearly circular, and with a deep sinus at the base. Mr. W. Thompson, of 
Ipswich, produced the very pretty new Californian Collinsia violacea (f.c.c.), the 
larger part of the flowers (lower lip) being of a striking bluish-violet hue ; it was 
said to be quite as hardy as any other of the Collinsias. Mr. G. Smith, Hornsey 
Road, exhibited a pale mauve-coloured Intermediate Stock , Mauve Queen (f.c.c.), 
which seems to be identical with a strain of azure-blue Pyramidal Stocks which 
has been known in the seed trade for the past 15 years, and which, when sown 
at the end of summer, makes a capital Intermediate Stock. 
