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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ July, 
about the size of small cherries, and have the appearance of strings of red corals. 
When expanded the beauty is of a different type, but still unique. It is a 
charming plant for growing in pots for conservatory decoration.—A. F. Barron. 
NOVELTIES, Etc., AT FLOWER SHOWS. 
J'R^kEAELY, if not quite, all the new things shown at the Crystal Palace and 
Royal Botanic Society’s Shows are also exhibited at the bi-monthly meetings 
of the Royal Horticultural Society at South Kensington. At the Crystal 
Palace Show on the 21st of May, Messrs. Carter and Co. received a First- 
Class Certificate for a Variegated Zonal Pelargonium, Lothair, robust in growth, 
finely coloured, and altogether very promising; there was a degree of distinctness 
of character about this variety, by no means commonly found in the new kinds 
lately exhibited. It is also pleasant to notice that First-Class Certificates are 
very sparingly awarded now for variegated Zonal Pelargoniums. 
At the meeting of the Royal Botanic Society on May 25, a First-Class 
Certificate was awarded to Mr. C. Turner, for Azalea Madame Van der Crugssen^ 
one of the newer Belgian varieties, having bold flowers of a fine rosy hue, and 
handsomely spotted. On this occasion, and also at the Crystal Palace Show, the 
same award was made to Azalea Eoi d’Hollande, described on page 141,—further 
proofs of its value as a fine deep-coloured variety, A First-Class Certificate was 
also awarded to Erinus alpinus albus, a charming white variety of this neat and 
distinct little Alpine and rock plant, raised by Mr. Atkins, of Painswick. 
The meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society on the 8th of June was the 
means of bringing together some very fine novelties. One of the foremost was 
the very pretty dwarf Leptosiphon roseus, a new and hardy Californian annual, 
with lively pink flovrers ; Cgclohothra pulchella^ a half-hardy Californian bulbous- 
rooted plant, by no means new, but very pretty, bearing pale yellow flowers ; 
Delphinium nudicaule, raised from seed received from California, apparently a 
great improvement on D. cardinale, and more easily managed ; and Brodicea 
coccinea^ with magenta-crimson flow^ers tipped mth green (see plate, p. 145). 
These were exhibited by Mr. William Thompson, Ipswich, and all received 
First-Class Certificates. 
Pinh Flower of Eden^ shown by Mr. E. Shenton, Biggleswade, and awarded a 
First-Class Certificate, scarcely deserved that award, if the Bride (Hodges), 
awarded this distinction last year, is to be accepted as a criterion. The latter is 
a pure white flower, with stout rounded petals and full substance, which cannot 
be said of the other. The same award was made to Bedding Pelargonium 
Master Christine^ exhibited by Mr. Cannell, Woolwich. It has the habit of the 
old pink Christine, but with a bright rosy pink hue on the flowers, and was 
scarcely worthy the high award made to it. Clematis Sylph, from Messrs. T. 
Cripps and Sons, Tunbridge Wells, is one of those fine early-blooming kinds that 
have been so freely produced during the past three years ; the flower is large, 
