MAY. 
Ill 
Leeks are less grown liere than in the north, still they are very useful, 
especially when Onions fall short in the spring. 
Cossey Park. J. Wighton. 
NOVELTIES, &c., AT FLOWER SHOWS. 
Wet and inclement weather has been the fate of all the spring shows 
held up to the present time. The show at the Regent’s Park Botanic 
Garden on March 23rd came in with heavy rain, which spoilt the attendance 
at a very pretty exhibition indeed. Here Mr. B. S. Williams, of Holloway, 
showed Amaryllis Iccion, a very striking flower of a vivid scarlet, the base 
of each petal being marked with a white hand; and Odontoglossum maculosum, 
green spotted with brown, and having a white lip curiously blotched. Mr. 
W. Bull produced in fine condition Camellia Lavinia Maggi rosea, a sport 
from the original striped variety, with the same fine outline and form of 
petal, the colour a soft rosy carmine, of a shade that will certainly be much 
appreciated. He had also a variegated form of Phajus grandiflorus, which 
besides flowering freely, is quite an ornamental-foliaged plant. Mr. W. Paul, 
of Waltham Cross, exhibited Rose Cceur de Lion, a very fine Hybrid Perpetual, 
the colour of which was a bright purplish rose, the flowers large, globular, and 
full; it is a good hardy variety of robust growth. Mr. W. Cruickshanks, of 
Langleybury, had a fine lot of cut flowers of his new striped Verbena Lady 
of Langleybury. All the foregoing were awarded first-class certificates. Mr. 
B. S. Williams received a second-class certificate for Azalea Charmer, a flower 
of a very pleasing bright rosy pink, and very promising on account of its 
colour ; and the same award for Ananassa Porteana, which differs from the 
common variegated Pine-apple in having a broad band of yellow down the 
centre of each bronzy green leaf, instead of the margins being light-coloured. 
Messrs. E. G. Henderson also gained a similar award for their Pyretlirum 
Golden Feather (not Golden Fleece as stated at p. 87), which gets more 
attractive with age. 
In Mr. W. Paul’s stand of six new Hyacinths, he had in addition to 
those mentioned at p. 88, La Grandesse, single, pure white, good spike; and 
Victor Emmanuel, pale crimson, striped with deeper crimson in the centre of 
each petal. Besides these, Carmine, single, very bright carmine crimson, 
the colour striking, but a small spike, and Lord Cowley, single, greyish pale 
blue, having a little more colour than Blondin, but not so much quality, were 
novelties in Mr. Paul’s large group of splendid Hyacinths. Roses in pots 
from Mr. Paul were very fine, a plant of H.P. Le Rhone being something 
marvellous in its way. Some Apples from Mr. S. Ford, of St. Leonards, 
Horsham, were good ; among them Ribston Pippins so well preserved that 
they appeared to have been gathered only a few weeks. 
At the Royal Horticultural Society’s Floral Committee on April 2nd, a 
very fine plant of the old Primula denticulata was exhibited by Mr. Mitchell, 
gardener to Lord Wenlock, Escrick Park, York, and was awarded a special 
certificate; it was thought by Mr. Mitchell to have been a new species, so 
finely had it been grown. W. Marshall, Esq., of Enfield, carried off high 
honours for Orchids, having a first-class certificate for Odontoglossum 
triumphans, a perfect gem, flowered for the first time in England ; and also 
for a superb variety of Oncidium carthaginense. W. W. Buller, Esq., of Exeter, 
received a similar award for Dendrobium thyrsiflorum, a very handsome new 
