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argentea; its leaves were pale green, mottled with white. A 
tine plant, called Cyanophyllum magnificum, with noble 
ovate-lanceolate leaves a foot long, and of a crimson colour 
on the under side. It came last year from Chiapas, in 
South America. Campylobolrys argyroneura, a beautiful 
crimson-tinted, velvety-looking plant, and several new species 
of Maranta, very pretty, but not so good as those already in 
cultivation; the best was M. pulchella , with-whitish stripes. 
The beautiful new striped variety of Tradescantia discolor 
was sent from a garden near Potsdam, and witli it some 
other good plants, including a small collection of Aroidie. 
The Orchids were remarkably small specimens; the most 
interesting was an open air species, Cypripedium speclabile; 
it was freely flowered. 
Of the fruit department I can say but little. There were 
three Pines, neither of which would weigh a pound and a 
half; a few dishes of Strawberries (Mammoth and Princess 
Alice), small, but beautifully coloured, and of a fine flavour; 
one dish of a very small-berried sort of white Grape; a few 
Plums, and so on. The vegetables were few, and still more 
uninteresting.— Karl. 
CALEDONIAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY’S 
SHOW AT EDINBURGH. 
This Society’s June Exhibition was held in the Ex¬ 
perimental Garden, Inverleith Row, on Saturday, the 27th. 
The day was beautiful, the productions excellent, but the 
attendance thin, which is always a hinderance to the success 
of our Shows during summer. 
Stove and greenhouse plants, although not numerous, 
were really fine specimens. In the collection presented by 
Mr. Blair, gardener, Mavies Bank, which gained the first 
prize, was a remarkably fine plant of Iloya bella , nearly 
three feet high, and as much through. His Statice Hal- 
fordi, Ixora coccinea , Aphelexis macranilia purpurea, Clero- 
dendrum Kxmpferi, JEschynanthus speciosus , and Tetrathcca 
verticillata were all examples of careful cultivation. 
Fancy Geraniums were in excellent condition. The first 
prize for large specimens was awarded to Mr. Stewart, Dal- 
housie Castle, and for those grown in six-inch pots to Mr. 
Henderson, gardener to C. K. Sievewright, Esq. 
Fuchsias were nicely bloomed, and showed a great im¬ 
provement on the over-luxuriant foliage and huge plants of 
former years, every flower being seen to advantage. 
Calceolarias and Phloxes ip. pots, which seem to be favour¬ 
ites here, were well managed. The latter are amongst our 
showiest plants out of doors, and would be no less orna¬ 
mental for the greenhouse could we only induce them to 
keep more dwarf. 
Cut blooms of Roses were numerous and generally good. 
Mr. Bust, Tynningham, who was foremost on the prize-list, 
had large and perfect blooms of Adam , Abericote, Triomphe 
de Paris, Reine des Fleurs, Louise Peronnay, Jules Margottin, 
and General Jacqueminot. 
Plants sent for exhibition only constituted the larger por¬ 
tion of the Show. Amongst these were a magnificent spe¬ 
cimen of Stanhopea oculata from Mr. Blair, Mavies Bank, 
and a well-managed Leptodactylon Calif or nicum from Mr. 
Paterson, gardener to Professor Syme, showing what this 
plant may be under skilful cultivation. 
Messrs. Cunningham, Fraser, and Co., Comley Bank, 
showed twenty-four blooms of the large red Rose, Souvenir 
d'un Ami, and forty-eight other sorts in fine condition, 
amongst which were Leveson Gower, Paul Ricaut , General 
Lamoriciere, Coupe de Hebe, Smith’s Yellow, La Reine, Me¬ 
lanie Willermosz, &c. Messrs. Downie and Laird had two 
fine specimens of Phlox Addisoni; Calceolaria Gem, a 
good variety for bedding; a stand of fine Verbenas, and 
miscellaneous soft-wooded plants. Mr. R. M. Stark, Edgeliill 
Nursery, had a varied collection, consisting of greenhouse, 
stove, herbaceous, and alpine plants, and from fifty to sixty 
of the prettiest exotic Ferns , pretending more of novelty 
and variety than size of specimens. Amongst the alpines 
were Orchis foliosa, Lychnis Pyrenaica, Astrantia minor, Cy¬ 
pripedium speclabile, Linaria organifolig, Helenium Hallerii, 
and a well-bloomed Dianthus alpinus, the best of the many 
beautiful alpines of June. From the same establishment 
came a neat plant of the delicate Todea pellucida, and the 
powdered Gymnogramma Peruviana argyrophylla, Pteris as- 
pericaulis, P. scaberula, Onychium auratum, Platyloma jlexu- 
osa, P. ternifolia , Gompholobium appendiculatum; Cheilanthes 
frigida, C. viscosa, both elegant Ferns in the way of lendigera; 
C. Alabamensis and C. micromera formed a beautiful section 
in this group, while C. hirta JEllisiana stood at the head of 
another division. 
The best plant of Linum grandiflorum rubrum that we have 
seen came from Mr. C. Alexander, Seedsman, Register 
Street. Masses of beautiful Stocks were exhibited, prin¬ 
cipally Bromptons, and a crimson variety called Young’s 
Intermediate, which seems the most useful for general 
purposes.—R. 
NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 
PuYA virescens ( Greenish-flowered Puya). 
Probably a native of Venezuela or New Grenada. Flowers 
in the stove in March.—( Botanical Magazine, t. 4991.) 
Rhododendron Veitchianum ( Veitch’s Rhododendron). 
This noble and very distinct species was imported by 
Messrs. Veitch from Moulmein, on the eastern shore of 
the Bay of Bengal. Mr. Beaton thus spoke of it at page 
83 of our present volume, when commenting on the plants 
at the Horticultural Society’s Show in May : “ Mr. Veitch 
had the best-habited new Rhododendron we have had since 
Javanicum, a stiff, sturdy, stocky, close-jointed plant, with 
smooth, thick leaves, and as thick as they are long, and 
silvery beneath. The flowers come in threes ; they are as 
large as, and of a clearer white than, those of formosum, 
and they are frilled on the edges like Azalea crispijlora, or 
rather more so. It is from Moulmein, a range in the 
Malay peninsula, next to Birmah, and, therefore, like 
jasminijlorum and Javanicum, it must have a greenhouse.”— 
(Ibid. t. 4992.) 
Dendrobium crepidatum ( Slippered Dendrobium). 
A very beautiful Orchid, native of India, and “ probably of 
Assam or Khasya Hills, in Eastern Bengal.” Blooms in 
April. Flowers white, tinged with pink, and lip blotched 
with yellow.— (Ibid. t. 4993.) 
Doronicum Bourgei (Bourgeau's Leopard's Bane). 
Found by M. Bourgeau during 1855 at Barranco de- 
Angostura, in the Canary Islands. It closely resembles the 
Cineraria, and is “ a highly ornamental greenhouse plant, 
flowering during the spring months.” The ray florets are 
lilac, and the disk purple, studded with the golden-coloured 
anthers.— (Ibid. t. 4994.) 
/ 
Forsythia suspensa (Pendulous Forsythia). 
It is the Keng jo of Ksempfer, Syrinya suspensa of 
Thunberg, and Lilac perpeiise of Lamarck. It was in¬ 
troduced from Japan in 1833 by Mr. Verkerk Pistorius, but 
has only recently been cultivated in England. Messrs. Veitch 
seem to be its first cultivators here, and sent flowering 
specimens to Kew in April of the present year. Its flowers 
are yellow, and “ larger and handsomer than those of F. 
viridissima.” — (Ibid. t. 4995.) 
CiRRHOPETALUM Cumingii (Mr. Cuming’s Cirrhopelalum). 
Messrs. Loddiges flowered this very lovely Orchid in 
1841. It was imported from the Philippine Islands by Mr. 
Cuming. Flowers crimson and purple. Blooms in spring.— 
(Ibid. t. 4996.) 
Fleur’s Castle. —Mr. Rose, foreman to Mr. Thomson 
at Dalkeith Palace, is appointed head gardener to his 
Grace the Duke of Roxburgh at Fleur’s Castle, the gar- 
denership being vacant by the death of Mr. Pillans. 
Extensive improvements are in contemplation, which 
will now place the gardens on a scale harmonising with 
that princely mansion. 
