worthy of the very high commendation it has in some quarters 
received. Josephine is a bright orange-red; and although it 
had not a very large spike, yet was very attractive. The same 
may be said of a lilac flower, Henrietta Elizabeth. The large- 
belled kind of the Pieneman type was represented by Thor- 
ivaldsen , a light-blue flower; but this class is not by any means 
to our mind so attractive as those with smaller pips and a fuller 
truss. We have reserved our notice of Robert Fortune , the 
subject of our Plate, for the last, as we believe it to be the very 
best of those exhibited as novelties. The colour is quite new; 
the spike well Ailed up, and large; the individual pips not very 
large, but of a tolerably good form. The colour is very difficult 
to describe ; some have called it a puce mauve, others, a crim¬ 
son-lilac ; each segment has a deeper stripe in the centre, while 
the margin fades off into a lighter shade, almost white. It is 
somewhat in the style of that old flower Haydn , but infinitely 
preferable to it, and we have no doubt that, when plentiful, it 
will be eagerly sought for, for collections. It was exhibited by 
Mr. Cutbush, of Highgate, and received a first-class certificate 
from the Floral Committee of the Poyal Horticultural Society. 
