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Chrysanthemum called Sensation, with Ranunculus-shaped white flowers, and 
the leaves regularly and broadly edged with white. 
The fourth plate contains representations of three Verbenas, raised by Mr. 
C. J. Perry, of Castle Bromwich, and now in the hands of Mr. Turner, of 
Slough. Georye Tye is described as a deep lavender-coloured flower, with 
lemon eye, and 'well-rounded pips. Charles Turner “ is a French white, with 
bright carmine centre and Queen of PinJcs, bright pink, shaded with a deeper 
tint, and having a small yellow eye. All three are exhibition varieties, and as 
such it is believed that they will take a good position. 
Though the pile of “our contemporaries” is now somewhat reduced, we 
have yet many on our table, to which we shall return in a future Number. 
OUR MONTHLY CHRONICLE. 
Royal Horticultural Society. — The 
second spring show was held on the loth of 
last month, and coming between Good Fri¬ 
day and Easter Sunday it was not so exten¬ 
sive as would doubtless have been the case 
had another day been selected. Only one 
collection of Azaleas was exhibited, but to 
make up for this deficiency the Roses were 
very numerous and very good. Mr. W. Paul 
had a splendid specimen of President, with 
some two dozen blooms, each measuring 
about 5 inches across, and numerous buds; 
also a fine collection of nine, for which be 
had the first prize. Among the new Roses, of 
which numerous collections were shown by 
the same exhibitor, and Messrs. Paul and 
Son, Pierre Notting, and Madame Victor 
Verdier, were first-rate. Madame Emile 
Boyau, a showy rosy blush, and Princess of 
Lichtenstein, white, are good additions to the 
light-coloured Hybrid Perpetuals. Among 
new plants Mr. Veitch, of Chelsea, had three 
pretty Japanese Primulas, with saucer-shaped 
flowers—namely, P. cortusoides grandiflora, 
rosy lilac outside, paler within; amoena, 
dark rose ; and alba, approaching white. To 
each of the above a first-class certificate was 
awarded. Miscellaneous collections of flower¬ 
ing and fine-foliaged plants were exhibited 
by Messrs. Lee and Bull, besides which Mr. 
Hooper, of Bath, sent seedling Pansies, and 
there were a few Auriculas and Polyanthus, 
but these were very poor. 
The fortnightly meetings continue to in¬ 
crease in interest, and from the number of 
new, rare, and interesting plants that are 
brought to them have almost attained the 
dimensions of small shows. At the meeting 
of the 4th of April Messrs. Backhouse had a 
charming new bright blue Hepatica angulosa, 
and a Phycella with intense orange scarlet 
flowers. Mr. Bull’s Bertolonia margaritacea, 
the leaves of which are, as it were, studded 
all over with pearls, was an object of general 
admiration ; and so, too, was a variegated 
Lily of the Valley from Mr. Salter, in which 
the leaves are beautifully and distinctly lined 
with white. First-class certificates were 
awarded to Messrs. Cutbush for their new 
Hyacinths—La Fran^aise, single white, slight¬ 
ly striped with pink ; and Cuvier, a very 
good deep shaded blue. Hogarth, a pro¬ 
mising rose with a white centre, was also 
shown. Several new and scarce Orchids, and 
indeed many other interesting plants, were 
also in the room; and after the Committee 
meetings were over Mr. Bateman made some 
interesting observations on the cool culture of 
Orchids, and on the principal objects before 
the meeting. 
Another meeting was held on the 18th, at 
which Mr. Rivers exhibited a collection of 
upwards of sixty different kinds of Apples, 
many of them highly coloured and all in ex¬ 
cellent condition. They had been kept in a 
dry cellar where the temperature during the 
winter was never below 44°. Mr. Turner, of 
Slough, exhibited a fine group of Azaleas, 
and a Bougainvillaea with red flowers, believed 
to be a cross between B. speciosa and B. gla¬ 
bra. An Anemone called fulgens, but pro¬ 
bably a variety of stellata, was exhibited by 
Messrs. Backhouse, of York, and received a 
first-class certificate. The flowers were large 
and of a brilliant deep crimson. Two very 
curious Hose-in-hose Mimuli were exhibited 
by Mr. Bull, and the calyx being coloured 
like the corolla, when the latter falls there is 
still, to all appearance, a perfect flower. A 
magnificent head of Rhododendron Nuttallii 
was shown by Mr. Williams, who had besides 
a beautiful example of Sophronitis grandi¬ 
flora, the orange scarlet flowers of which were 
much larger than those usually seen; a 
pretty, crested, golden Gymnogramma, raised 
by Mr. Parsons, of Welwyn; and an extensive 
collection of other plants. Mr. Veitch’s new 
Primulas above alluded to, were again shown 
and received first-class certificates, and from 
the same firm came also the hybrid Cattleya 
Dominiana and other Orchids. Nor must we 
omit to mention a pretty Bletia, from Messrs. 
Osborn, which is nearly hardy; and a new 
pink-flowered Cape Heath, called fragrans, 
from Messrs. Low. Many other objects were 
exhibited, and among others Salvadora per- 
