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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
and Messrs E. G. Henderson & Son, had flowering specimens of Rudgea 
leucocephala, the former shown under the name of Psychotria macrocephala. 
In a miscellaneous collection of plants Mr. Bull had some species of Odonto- 
glossum, among which were several beautiful varieties of 0. Alexandra. 
Mr. W. Cruickskanks, gardener to W. Jones Loyd, Esq., of Langley - 
bury, Watford, received a special certificate for a box of cut blooms of 
Verbena Lady of Langleybury, described at p. 76. It is a sport from Purple 
King, not a seedling: the flowers prettily striped, the segments being of a 
pale purple edged with white, and having a very cheerful appearance at this 
season of the year. 
Mr. William Paul received first-class certificates for the following new 
Hyacinths :—Prince Albert Victor, single, glossy, crimson, very symmetrical 
spike; Blondin, very pale silver grey, excellent spike, and finely-shaped single 
pips; and Lord Shaftesbury, single, with immense large pale creamy-blusli 
bells. A second-class certificate was awarded to Limueus, a single bright 
magenta crimson, forming a dense spike, but rough. The foregoing, with Sir 
Henry Havelock, mauve, single, and Bird of Paradise, single, yellow, made up 
Mr. Paul’s collection of six new kinds. These will receive a more extended 
notice in a subsequent Number of the Florist and Pomologist. Mr. Paul’s 
stands of eighteen and six varieties of Hyacinths were wonderful examples of 
cultivation. Never before were such magnificent specimens seen. There was 
an exquisite finish about the whole that marked a near approach to the acme 
of Hyacinth cultivation. With one exception, Van Speyk, blue, his eighteen 
were all single varieties, namely:—Mont Blanc, La Grandesse, Snowball, 
and Grandeur a Merveille, white; Koh-i-noor, Yuurbaak, Prince Albert 
Victor, Solfaterre, and Macaulay, red; Sir H. Havelock, mauve; and King 
of the Blues, Baron Von Tuyll, General Havelock, Feruk Khan, Princess 
Mary of Cambridge, Blondin, and Charles Dickens, blue. p p 
OUR MONTHLY CHRONICLE. 
Royal Horticultural Society. —Tn ad¬ 
dition to the Bury Show, which takes place in 
July, the Society hold this year, at South Ken¬ 
sington, two Spring Exhibitions, one on the 
19th of March just passed, the other on the 
16th of April. A special Prize Show is to be 
held on May 7th, in which New Plants are to 
be a leading feature, and Major Clarke invites 
the very interesting class of “ Fragrant- 
blossomed Plants ” as a novel feature. The 
Great Show of the season is to commence on 
June 4th, and to last five days, the last of 
which unfortunately clashes with the opening 
of the Manchester National Show. The 
prizes offered are liberal, and the selection of 
subjects seems to be judicious, affording a 
considerable increase of variety. Zonal 
Pelargoniums are for the first time placed on 
an equality with other Pelargoniums as re¬ 
gards the amount of prize-money, a position 
to which their merits fullv entitle them, and 
a necessary step towards the attainment of 
perfection in their cultivation. A class 
is introduced for the Tricolor zoned Pelar¬ 
goniums with their beautiful foliage, and 
Hardy Trees and Shrubs are brought in. 
The National Rose Show of the 2nd of July 
a show which is always held in high favour 
by visitors, closes the exhibition season of 
the Royal Horticultural Society. 
French Botanical Congress. —The 
Botanical Society of France intends to organise 
an International Botanical Congress during 
the time of the Great Exhibition in Paris, to 
which botanists of all nations shall be invited. 
The Congress will open on the 26th of July 
next, and. will last for a month. Meetings 
will be held every Friday evening at the 
Society’s rooms, 84, Rue Grenelle St. Ger¬ 
main. On other days during the period, 
visits will be made to the Exhibition, to the 
Museum of the Jardin des Plantes, and to 
private collections; and excursions will he 
made in the neighbourhood of Paris. 
Royal Ascot Grape. —Among the new 
Grapes raised by Mr. Standish is one to be 
called the Royal Ascot, which possesses so 
many good points that it is likely to be a most 
valuable acquisition for early forcing. It is 
a Grape of remarkable prolificacy ; very com¬ 
monly throughout the house devoted to it, 
the young shoots each show four strong 
