June 1. 
THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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white flowers, having creamy sepals. This plant, also, 
is seldom seen at shows, although an old plant. 
The silver-gilt medal for Orchids was awarded to Mr. 
Clark, gardener to Mrs. Webb, of Hoddesdon, Herts, 
for ten species. The kinds were as above, with the 
j additiou, Oncidium luridum guttatum , spotted all over 
i like a brown-and-yellow spotted Calceolaria. 
A gold Banksian medal was carried off by Mr. Dods, 
! a chip of the old block, and gardener to Sir J. Cathcart, 
« Bart. Brassia caudata, I believe, being the only kind 
not already mentioned in the other collections. 
There was another collection from Mr. Green, 
| gardener to Sir E. Antrobus, Bart., with very good 
| specimens; but, I believe, not different from the above 
! kinds, except Dendrobium calceolare and Maxillaria 
ILarrisoniee. 
Pelargoniums.— There were two collections of fancy 
: Geraniums, and two collections of old greenhouse 
Geraniums. The plants in both kinds were well grown, 
j and were as large as I would ever think of growing for 
private use, and that I hold to be the best criterion ot 
i all show plants. The fancies were from Mr. Mokitt, 
1 gardener to J. Alnut, Esq., and from Mr. G ains, of Batter¬ 
sea ; but there was nothing new among them worthy of 
particular notice, except, perhaps, that one or two of the 
black ones came out again; but, as the ladies went to 
the launch, they could not call them “horrid,” this time. 
Mr. Dobson took the prize with Heck's purpurea, Rosa¬ 
mond, Ambassador, Vulcan, Gulielma, Leah, Glowworm, 
Delicatum —a fine, large, white one; Arethusa, a butf- 
salmonish tint, with a dark back; and Harriot (Dob¬ 
son’s), which looks as if it was a seedling from Arethusa, 
and an improvement on it. This Harriot is my own 
favourite of all of them, and it was the best bloomed 
Geranium of the old strains that I ever saw. 
From the Wellington Nursery, Messrs. Henderson 
and Son sent a collection of Bedding Geraniums, begin¬ 
ning with Lady Plymouth, alias Variegated Oak-leaf, and 
alias Grareolens variegata; Bridal Bouquet, with scarlet 
flower, and leaf like “ Flower of the Day;” Attraction, 
the variegated with the purple shade in the leaf; Golden 
Chain, in excellent condition ; Model, with flowers like 
those of Rouge-et-Noir, and a leaf somewhat like that of 
Unique ; if it flower freely, it will match Rouge-et-Noir in 
a pair-bed ; Rose Attraction, a fine, soft, variegated leaf, 
but no flowers ; Brilliant, a scarlet kind, with slight varie¬ 
gation in the leaves, and looks as if it were a cross 
between the Scarlets and the Ivy-leafs. Ramona, in the 
way of Richard Cobden ; Maria Van Houte, a very 
delicate dwarf of the Yetmeniana breed ; Glancum graiuli- 
Jldrum in a poor state, which was a pity, as it is really a 
new acquisition for fancy little beds. 1 recommended it 
to Mr. Davidson, my successor, as the best white dwarf 
with that kind of leaf, and he approved of it very much, 
and I believe he will try it this season at Shrubland 
Park—one of the best emporiums, if not the very best 
in England, for fancy beds and kinds of bedders; one 
called Lady of the Lake is too faint to bo a favourite. 
Most ladies have a particular aversion to all faint 
colours ; give them as many tints as you can find, and i 
in as many distinct shades as possible, and they will 
call them charming, but faint colours, and faint-hearted 
gardening, they cannot abide. 
The same firm sent a collection of yellow and buff 
Rhododendrons, and a miscellaneous collection of varie¬ 
gated plants, and some rare and extremely pretty foliaged 
plants not in bloom, including several species of Jaca- 
randa and Rhopalas, R. magnified, one of the finest- 
leaved of all Proteads, notwithstanding the great diver¬ 
sity of that large order of plants, and Mallea Jilicifolia 
looked as if a fine Mimosa had been changed into a 
Fern. 
Mr. Jackson, of Kingston, sent two new seedling 
Clematises, of continental origin, and both apparently 1 
from the Japan ones, called Azurea grandiflora and 
Sieboldii One is called Sophie, in the way of Azurea 
grandiflora, but a large flower, arid with an intermediate 
petal between each of the two petals all round, these 
extra petals being so many stamens con verted—this will 
become a great favourite. The second is a cross, cer¬ 
tainly, from Sieboldii, called Monstrosa, probably on 
account of the very large, white, ivory-like flowers. 
Among these new plants was a nice Clerodendron 
Bungea, from Messrs. Henderson and Son, with a flower- 
head something in the way of a Greek Valerian, and a 
growth like C. fragrant, but not so stout. 
A new bulb of the Amaryllid family, called Eucharis 
Candida, I never saw before. It is a pure white j 
flower, of medium size, and belongs to the Pancratium 
section. It comes very near Calostemma, the filaments 
being united ( decurrent ) to the little coronet all the 
way up. A bulb under this name was described last 
year in the Flore des Serres, but a very different thing 
if the descriptions were correct. It is there stated to 
have leaves like a Griffinia, that is broad leaves, with 
leafstalks (petiolated) like a Funkia leaf; the leaf of 
this exhibition plant is quite of a different form, being 
like a Hippeaster leaf. The coronet of the Belgian 
plant is said to have been of “ brilliant yellow antheri- i 
terous scales; ” nothing of the sort was in this flower; 1 
the coronet is fringed all round with thick, fleshy, arrow- 
headed anthers, as white as pure ivory, the stamens , 
being united to the cup, or coronet, as in some Pan- 
cratiums. The bulb was out of the soil, which did not 
seem to be agreeable to it; it is a very nice bulb ; also 
Boronia Brummondi, with very small leaves and rosy 
flowers. 
Messrs. Garraway and May, of Bristol, sent a large 
plant of Genetyllis tulipifera of gardens, but Hedaroma of 
botanists, quite a new plant to gardens, belonging to 
the Fringe Myrtles of New Holland, scarcely one of 
which is much known to our best gardeners. This plant 
looked like a Pimelia decussata, or between that and the 
old Diosma unifiora. The flowers are whitish, and not 
unlike a white Canterbury Bell, but not so bell-shaped. 
I think it was introduced by seeds, some years since, by 
Mr. Low, of the Flap ton Nursery. 
Mr. Veiteli sent a new Indian Rhododendron, with 
strong waxy flowers, and of quite a new tint all over, i 
for which the English language docs not supply a name, 
cream-colour comes the nearest, but it is richer than 
that; that pale yellow in some Dendrobiums, and in no 
other flowers, is the tint; the leaf is smooth and pecu¬ 
liar. This and R. javmicum crossed will give Rhododen¬ 
drons quite another turn, and we shall have crosses 
with all that brilliancy which is now peculiar to the 
Ghent Azaleas, and to the Indian Dendrobes. 
Cypripedium villosum, a new plant, and new colour in 
this genus, yellow and brown, was also in Mr. Veitch’s 
novelties, together with a new Hexacentris luteum, not 
so gay as li. mysorensis, but a good addition to pot 
climbers. 
From Isaac Anderson, Esq., of Edinburgh, was a nice 
French-white cross Rhododendron, between Gibsotiii and 
hirsutum. Mr. Green had Bossiaa cordata, a very 
slender kind, among “ new or very rare plants.” 
Azaleas. —These were the May blaze, but I have 
often named almost every one of them. Smith's Coronata 
was the best colour, according to my taste, and Delecta 
the next best; but here are all their names. Holdfordii, 
small and half-double; Knight's Broughtonii, peculiar 
light rose colour; Smith's' Broughtonii, orange and 
scarlet; Iveryana, large, white, with carnation blotches ; 
Murrayana, good red colour, and no bad shape; Vulcan, 
nearly scarlet; Leeana, a very large white, touched, 
here and there, with a dash of purple—a fine kind; 
Perryana, orange-scarlet; Triumphant, superb, nearly 
scarlet, and revolute ou the edges; Gonspicua purpurea, 
