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righting the Society with the horticultural body, the Royal Commissioners, and the Fellows 
generally, and of re-establishing it on a sound and enduring basis.-The Show of the Pelar¬ 
gonium Society , held in conj unction with the foregoing, was very well supported, many of the 
liner modern varieties being sliowm. This young Society deserves encouragement, so that it 
may include all the races of Pelargoniums within its range.-The Midland Counties Grand 
Horticultural Exhibition , which took place at the Lower Grounds, Aston Park, Birmingham (July 
1 to 5) was entirely successful as an exhibition, though not financially so, on account of the un¬ 
favourable weather. The display of Stove and Greenhouse Flowering Plants was particularly 
good, as also w r as that of Cut Roses, Fruits, and Vegetables.-The Nottingham and Midland 
Counties Grand Rose Show (July 8 to 10), for which the weather was very unpropitious, 
proved a remarkably good exhibition; it took placo in the Arboretum, which occupies 
a considerable extent of rising ground facing the town, and was held under canvas,—the plants 
and cut flowers being staged in one of Edgington’s mammoth marquees, which covered an area 
of about 30,000 square feet; while tw T o other good-sized tents were devoted, one to fruits and 
vegetables, and the other to table decorations, bouquets, and such-liko elegancies, the adjudi¬ 
cation of the prizes amongst which latter class of exhibits was enti’usted to a committee of 
ladies connected with the town and county. 
- Messrs. G. Jackman and Son, of Woking, forwarded to us a short 
time ago flowers of a Neiv Double Clematis , named Belle of Wolcing. It is a 
variety of A-l quality, and is referred, along with C. Fortunei , one of its parents, 
to the florida type. The leaves are ternate, with rather small ovate leaflets. The flowers 
are rather more than 4 in. across, with much the same build and character as Duchess of 
Edinburgh, having about eight rows of sepals, which are obversely lanceolate, acuminate at 
the apex, and narrowed below into a short stalk-like base, but forming a close rosette about 
3 in. in depth. The colour is a decided but charmingly delicate mauvo or silver-grey, 
the innermost sepals having here and there a bag or dash of reddish-lilac, which, however, 
is scarcely apparent. A small tuft of stamens occupies the centre, the filaments of which are 
white, and the anthers cream-coloured. The uppermost or bractiform leaves are simple, 
variously formed, and more or less coloured, as often occurs in these double flowers. It is an 
exceedingly fine acquisition. 
- ^The following New British Ferns , from Mr. Lowe, were awarded First- 
class Certificates at tlie recent great show at Nottingham :—Of Athjrium Filix- 
feemina: lineare refiexum , a strong-growing red-stemmed form of the Pritchardi 
type ; Kingscotei, a tall form with tasselled fronds and pimmo, and having very long narrow 
pinnules ; eukudes, a stiff erect tall form, with narrow pyramidal toothed pinnules; proteoides, 
tall and somewhat cruciate, the acute bipinnate pinnae being biparted at the base; Du 
Boidayce , a form in the way of tortile, with irregular refracted pinnules. Of Polystichum 
angulare: phmosissimum, a form very near Pateyi, with stiff erect fronds, having a broad 
base, and very plumy, set on in a twisted overlapping manner, and the apex slightly 
multifid; Cliftonice , with a narrow cruciate frond, multifid, deflexed at the tip. 
Of Lastrea Filix-mas: Leckenbyi , a loose form, with broad unequal pinnules, and the 
pinnsa often furcate. Of Scolopenclrium vxdgare: plicatum , with stiff, short, erect fronds, 
much undulated and crested; eulophon, another stiff, erect, undulated form, spirally 
crested, and somewhat deflexed at the top; miranduin, a narrow bimarginate form, crostod 
at top, the lobes flattened, and scimitar-sliaped. Of Adiantum Capillus-Veneris : Cliftonice , 
a smaller olegant form, resembling the garden glaucophyllum; polyhymnia , a stout, erect 
frond, with largish angulate pinnules. Adiantum concinnum pendens , a Forn of elegant 
drooping habit, from Mr. Low r e; and Pteris serrulata major cristata, a tall form not much 
distributed, with drooping crested segments, from Messrs. R. Edwards & Son, Nuttall, also 
received First-class Cei’tificates; as did a handsome variegated-leaved Rose from Mr. Lowe,, 
a sport from La Brillante. 
- Fn a description of Herr Leiclitlin’s garden recently published in the 
Gardeners Chronicle , Mr. Elwes mentions the following as the only five known 
species of Lilium , all accessible, which remain to be introduced to our gardens :— 
L. nepalense: belonging to the longiflorum group, and found in the Himalayas from Ivumaon 
to Nepal; this plant could be easily procured by many tea-planters or residents in Mussoorio 
or Almorah. L. oxypetalum: a small Fritillaria-like plant, figured in the Bot. Mag., t. 
4731; also found in the Himalayas, but ranging more to the north-west, and at higher eleva¬ 
tions. L. medeoloides: a rather small-flowered and not very showy plant, having tho habit 
