THE 
FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
RHODODENDRON PRINCESS OF WALES. 
WITH AN ILLUSTRATION. 
Q liave already figured several of the beautiful hybrid forms of warm green- 
house Rhododendrons which have been bred from E. jasminijlorum^ by the 
W Messrs. Veitch and Sons, of Chelsea. The original cross yielded the well- 
known useful decorative plants Princess Royal, Princess Helena, Princess 
Alexandra, &c.; and as the result of a subsequent cross, there has been obtained 
through these a race with larger flowers, and having all the other good qualities 
of the first hybrids. The variety we now figure, Ehododendroii Princess .ofWciles^ 
is one of this second race of hybrids, and one of the most beautiful of them all, 
the colour being a peculiarly soft but brilliant tint of rose-pink, which is set off 
by contrast with the pure white of the throat and tube. The foliage is similar 
to that of the other hybrids of like origin. 
This variety has been certificated by the Royal Horticultural Society and also 
by the Royal Botanic Society, and we are sure that those who grow it will be as 
charmed with the flowers themselves, as they must be by Mr. Fitch’s attractive 
picture of them. As decorative plants these cross-bred Rhododendrons are a 
decided acquisition, since in the genial atmosphere of a warm greenhouse they 
go on growing and flowering indefinitely.—T. Moore. 
NEW TUBEROUS-ROOTED BEGONIAS. 
W. E. GUMBLETON, of Belgrove, Queenstown, has communicated to 
the gardening journals the result of his careful study of several of the 
new Begonias of 1876, from which it appears that he would place 
Gloire de Nancy at the head of all the double-flowered varieties. This 
is really a magnificent plant, with flowers of a beautiful deep carmine-colour, 
of an upright and branching habit of growth, and exceedingly free-flowering; it 
has the additional great merit of having nearly all its blossoms male, and there¬ 
fore double; altogether he thinks it is by far the finest variety that has yet appeared. 
Its raiser was M. Lemoine. Balsamincejiora is another exceedingly beautiful and 
full double-flowered variety, with rather irregularly developed outer or guard- 
petals ; it has light green foliage, and apparently a compact and low habit of 
growth ; the blossoms are of a very pleasing shade of light red, and are produced 
in the usual proportion of one double male between a couple of females, which 
are invariably single. 
3rd series.—X. B 2 
