142 
THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
June, 
for twelve Filmy Fenis. A silver-gilt medal was assigned to Mr. Turner for Auriculas. Four 
gold and one silver-gilt medal fell to the lot of Messrs, W. Paul and Son, of Waltham Cross, for 
collections of Roses ; and a silver medal, for a collection of Apples, was assigned to Mr. Jones, 
of the Royal Gardens, Frograore. The exhibitors and the members of the jury and the Con¬ 
gress were most hospitably entertained by the authorities. They were invited to a reception 
{rout) in the Town Hall by the worthy Burgomaster ; a select but by no means inconsiderable 
number were invited to the palace, where they were most graciously received by the King 
and Queen, and had the honour of dining with their Majesties; and a grand banquet was 
given by the Flora Society, under whose auspices the show took place. Besides all this 
much private hospitality was dispensed, which will not soon be forgotten by those who took 
part therein. At the meeting of the Congress, the expediency of preparing a Hortus 
Europceus, or authentic catalogue of cultivated plants, was afiSrmed. A similar Exhibition is 
proposed for London in 1879, 1877 being understood to be taken by Amsterdam, and 1878 by 
the Ghent Quinquennial, and by Paris. 
- ^ BEAUTIFUL species of Eucharis^ imported from the United States of 
Colombia, and supposed to be new, has been flowering recently in Mr. Bull’s nursery 
at Chelsea. On examination, however, the supposed novelty proves to be identical 
with Eucharis Candida, as figured by Planchon in Flore des Serres, though it is quite distinct 
from the plant now everywhere grown for E. Candida, and which appears to have been known 
as such almost from the first introduction of the plant. The plant figured as E. Candida by 
Planchon, if the figure be accurate, is not the plant usually grown as such, the latter having 
totally different bulbs and distinct foliage. The garden Candida, for which Mr. Moore 
suggests the provisional name paradoxa, seems rather a shy bloomer. The following is a 
description of Mr. Bull’s plant:—Bulbs tunicate, ovate-oblong, with an elongated neck, from 
which grows out, with the flower-scape, a solitary leaf, having a longish flat petiole and a 
broadly oblong-elliptic acuminate blade, the base of which is decurrent; scape about 2 ft. 
high, compressed, bearing an umbel of several flowers, surrounded by a withering spathe of 
four or flve narrow segments; flowers with a slender decurved tube, about 2 in. long, 
with a short, narrowly funnel-shaped throat; perianth segments lanceolate-elliptic, the 
three outer ones narrower, all gently recurved (in this position the plant measures about 2 in. 
across); corona funnel-shaped, projecting (with the stamens) nearly an inch, six-parted, the 
lobes widening upwards to about the middle, when they suddenly contract into the short, 
awl-shaped filament, each crowned by a versatile anther, and somewhat shorter than the 
slender filiform style. The flowers are extremely elegant in form. 
- ;(1®[^ANY very fine Seedling Azaleas were exhibited at the recent Plant 
Show in Brussels, and from amongst them we have selected the following, as the 
most desirable and novel in character. M. Van Houtte exhibited Herman Luhlers^ 
a large crimson, with dark purple spotting, and having a small, close petaloid tuft in the 
centre; and Professor E. Morren, a bright crimson-scarlet, with several tiers of broad, smooth 
segments, forming a thin double flower. M. Jean Vervaene showed Flambeau, a very bright 
crimson, with small oblong segments; Jean Vervaene, a very showy variety, with large, deep, 
salmon-coloured flowers, having a blotch of purple spots, and a flush of purple on the upper 
lobe, vermilion-red flakes scattered here and there, and a white margin formed of irregular 
patches running more or less inwards; Noble Belgique, very large pale flesh-colour, with 
purple spotting, and a broad white edge; and Imbricata variegata, a double, with blush flowers 
flaked with red, the outer lobes being greenish. M. Joseph Vervaene showed a beautiful 
double-flowered variety named lniltr%(:giq., as full as a good double petunia, forming a close, 
solid flower; this is white, slightly barred and flaked, and of an entirely novel character. 
From M. Ch. Vuylsteke came Izouvenir de Madame jRudolph Abel, a delicate blush-white, with 
radiating patches of purplish spots on the upper segments, or sometimes continued also on the 
lower ones. M. E. Van der Cruyssen showed two Azaleas crossed with Rhododendrons, which 
retain the usual character in the flowers, except that they are very large. Of these Ea Vengeur 
has the flowers of a bright rosy pink, the edge slightly crispy, and the flowers fully 4 in. 
across ; and Pucelle de Garden is similar in character, with the flowers pure white. 
Curtis, of Torquay, writing some time since on the subject of 
Perfume in the Pose^ mentions seventeen different kinds of scent, namely ;—Sweet 
Briar scent, as in the garden variety ; Moss Eose scent, as in Common Moss and 
family; Austrian Briar scent, as in Copper Austrian and family; Musk Rose scent, as in 
Narcissus, old Musk and family; Myrrh scent, as in Ayrshire splendens; China Rose scent. 
