Plate 292. 
HYACINTH, SIE HENRY HAVELOCK. 
There is no more charming display than that which is made 
at the earliest of the spring shows by the splendid groups of 
Hyacinths exhibited by Mr. Paul, of Waltham Cross, and Mr. 
Cutbush, of Highgate, and we have annually endeavoured to 
give a plate of the most beautiful of the novelties then exhi¬ 
bited. Hitherto we have selected our illustrations from the 
collection of Mr. Cutbush, this year we have taken one from 
that of Mr. Paul. 
Sir Henry Havelock was exhibited before the Royal Horticul¬ 
tural Society in March, and received the highest awarded merit, 
viz. a first-class certificate. There is but one bulb of it in Eng¬ 
land at present, which is in the possession of Mr. Paul. The 
colour of the flower is entirely new, nearer to Haydn than to 
any other variety, but of a darker and more intense colour, and 
possessed of a freshness and brilliancy, the absence of which in 
Haydn is its greatest fault. In one stage of the flower, the 
colour—which it is alike difficult to paint or to describe—is that 
of a ripe Orleans plum. The spike of the flower is long and 
massive. The flowers individually are of good average size and 
form,—certainly in advance of others in that class. 
As the Hyacinth is propagated but slowly, it will be proba¬ 
bly some years before bulbs of Sir Henry Havelock can be pur¬ 
chased, in the meantime we must be content to admire it in the 
hands of the fortunate exhibitor. Of other novelties shown 
in company with this were Vunxbaak , intense crimson, a flower 
of very great brilliancy; Bird of Paradise , yellow, a very pretty 
shade of colour; Beauty of Waltham , red, white eye; Princess 
Mary , porcelain blue; and King of the Blues, dark-blue,—all 
forming varieties. Mr. Cutbush exhibited also Auriculas Oocj , 
