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NOVELTIES, ETC., AT FLOWER SHOWS. 
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Enterprise , tlie ground-colour white, with a very dark blotch on each petal, and 
a fringed edge; it was very free-blooming, and highly attractive. This was 
shown by Messrs. E. G-. Henderson and Son. 
It will then be seen that in the matter of Show Pelargoniums, there has 
been no falling off whatever in the production of new varieties as far as the 
present year is concerned. And this is equally true of the hybrid Nosegay and 
Zonal types. In Mr. J. B. Pearson’s batch, in that raised by Mr. George, of 
Putney Heath, and in that of Dr. Denny, there will be found splendid flowers; 
rich in colour, stout in build, and fashioned after high ideals of form; and 
with these great requisites can be also seen compact branching habits, and large 
bold, and showy trusses and blossoms, which while they mark the onward 
triumphs of the florists’ art, are also among its chief glories. Some of these 
shall be noticed in due course.—R. D. 
NOVELTIES, Etc., AT FLOWER SHOWS. 
HE fall of the year is never favourable to the production of new flowers; 
consequently novelties* are but few at this season. October has been well 
described as the month when 
“ The year grows old : summer’s wild crown of roses 
Has fallen and faded in the woodland ways 
and the decay of autumn always sets in with this month. At the meeting of the 
Royal Horticultural Society, held on October 7th, but few plants comparatively 
were staged, and of those present it may be said they were quite eclipsed by the 
magnificent show of fruit gathered together on this occasion. There was, how¬ 
ever, a magnificent example of Miltonia Moreliana , bearing five very large and 
splendidly-coloured flowers, which came from Mr. Green, gardener to W. Wilson 
Saunders, Esq. This was quite a lion in its way, and attracted many visitors. 
Messrs. Veitch and Sons exhibited a specimen of the fine yellow-flowered Oncidium 
macranthum , having eleven bold, showy flowers. 
Desmodium pendulijlorum (f.c.c.), a rather new Japanese shrub, was shown 
by Mr. Bull, bearing plenty of crimson-lilac pea-shaped flowers; it was very 
pretty indeed, and promised to become a valuable decorative shrub, as it is said 
to be quite hardy. A very handsome Cycad that has been in cultivation for some 
years in England, by name Macrozamici spiralis (f.c.c.), exhibited by Mr. B. S. 
Williams, was certificated as a good old handsome green-house plant. Messrs. 
Standish and Co., Ascot, exhibited some seedling Gladioli, hybrids between G. 
brenchleyensis , and G. cruentus , that were more noticable from the fact that they 
seemed to point to something yet to be produced, than gave satisfaction as to what 
had already been accomplished. Such cases of hybridization as these are of a 
peculiarly interesting character, and a little perseverance in this direction may 
result in the production of something of undreamed-of beauty. A flowering 
specimen of G. cruentus was also shown by Messrs. Standish and Co., and was 
much admired.—R. D. 
