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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[August, 
In this class Mr. W. Meadmore, Romford, was second 
and Mr. Wiggins third. Mr. Weston’s eighteen 
included Fanny Catlin, Sophia Birkin, Hettie, Rev. 
F. A. Atkinson, Lizzie Brooks, Circulator, King of 
Bedders, Hebe, Ouida, Laura Strachan, Mrs. Parker, 
Jeanne d’Arc, May Fytche, Charles Schwind, Tom 
Bowling, Gnome, and Titania; and in this class 
Messrs. Saltmarsh & Son, Chelmsford, were second, 
and Mr. Muggins third. The class for half-a-dozen 
double-flowered zonals was poor, and the first prize 
was not awarded, but the second was given to Mr. 
Meadmore, Brentwood, who showed Depute Yarroy, 
Noemi, Littre, Roi de Violettes, Azim, and Souvenir 
de Carpeaux; but though the plants were much 
smaller, there was much novelty and quality among 
the eighteens, with which Messrs. Saltmarsh & Son, 
Chelmsford, were first, Mr. Wiggins second, and 
Mr. W. Meadmore third. In Messrs. Saltmarsh’s 
group was Duchess of Albany, a fine pink. 
In the class for nine Ivy-leaved varieties Mr. 
Wiggins showed good-sized columnar-trained plants, 
very freely bloomed, amongst them being Gloire 
d’Orleans, double rose; Perle, double lilac; Anna 
Pfitzer, semi-double, rose-piuk; and Madame Emile 
Galle, semi-double, violet tinted pink. 
The classes for Cut Blooms of Pelargoniums 
were well represented, and had an extraordinary 
illuminating effect on that part of the tent in which 
they were placed, the colours being intense and of 
glowing brilliancy. The principal prizes were 
taken by Mr. C. Turner, Messrs. Cannell & Sons, 
Messrs. Saltmarsh & Son, Mr. Wiggins, and Mr. 
George. 
BEGISTER OF NOVELTIES. 
NEW FLOWERS. 
BEGONIAS ( Tuberous-rooted ).— Prince Albert 
Victor, a very fine double-flowered variety with 
large rosette-like blossoms of a bright cherry crimson 
colour; very free and excellent habit; Laing & Co. 
Zenobia, a double-flowered form, bearing large full 
flowers of a deep crimson colour; large, full, and 
good form ; Ernst Benary. Orange Giant, a very 
fine single form, raised by Mr. Barron at the Chis¬ 
wick Gardens; flowers very large, stout, of good 
form ; the colour vivid vermilion scarlet; extra fine; 
R.H.S. The foregoing received Certificates from 
the R.H.S. on June 26. Goliath, a double-flowered 
variety with very large blossoms, in size approaching 
a double Hollyhock; the flowers four inches across, 
and of a vivid blood-crimson colour; dwarf habit, 
extra fine; lst-class Certificate R.H.S., July 10; 
J. Bealby. 
Delphinium, Pick Sand. —A very fine variety 
bearing tall, commanding, and striking spikes of 
large semi-double flowers, of a very deep violet 
purple colour, extra fine ; lst-class Certificate R.H.S., 
June 26 ; J. Bealby. 
Lilium Sovitzianum pallidum .—A distinct and 
beautiful Lily, differing from all the for ms of the 
species in the flowers being of a very pale yellow 
copiously speckled with purple; lst-class Certificate 
R.H.S., July 10 ; G. F. Wilson, Esq. 
Lobelias. — Prima Donna, a dwarf bedding variety 
of the compacta section, and distinct in point of 
colour, the latter being deep puc.y purple, or maroon 
crimson ; very free and attractive ; lst-class Cer¬ 
tificate R.II.S., July 10; Carter & Co. FlorrieWood, 
also a dwarf and compact growing bedding variety 
with white flowers, and regarded as an advance on 
all previously shown; lst-class Certificate R.H.S., 
July 10; H. James. Swanley Blue, another bedding 
variety of the speciosa type, a compact grower, 
forming dense tufts of turquoise blue flowers; one 
of the best of the section; lst-class Certificate R.H.S. 
July 10; Cannell & Sons. 
Milla biflora. —A rare and beautiful Mexican 
bulbous plant, an old introduction but seldom met 
with, especially in flower ; very distinct looking, 
having grassy foliage and tall flower stems carrying 
white star-like flowers some two inches across, having 
remarkably long slender tubes; lst-class Certificate 
R.H.S., July 10; T. S. Ware. 
Nemophila atomaria atro-coerulea. —-A variety 
having bright azurean-blue flowers, the centre white, 
circled by a zone of black ; a very distinct and pretty 
variety; lst-class Certificate R.H.S., July 10; 
Carter & Co. 
Pelabgonium, Abel Carribre. —One of the Ivy¬ 
leaved section, with perfect double flowers produced 
in massive trusses and of a glowing cherry rose 
colour; very fine and attractive; lst-class Certificate 
R.H.S., July 10; Cannell & Sons. 
Rhododendron, Diadem. —A new variety of the 
Javanese section raised at the Chelsea Nurseries; 
the truss is large and well-filled, and the flowers of a 
bright orange scarlet colour are bold, and of good 
form ; lst-class Certificate R.H.S., June 26; 
Veitch & Sons. 
Roses. (H.P.)— Deinrich Schultheis, a new variety 
with large and full flowers of very fine shape and 
substance, and of a rich rosy pink colour. Mrs. George 
Dickson, also an H.P., with good-sized blooms of a 
delicate pink colour, full of massive w r ell-rounded 
petals; lst-class Certificates R.H.S., July 10; Henry 
Bennett. (H.P.) Violette Bouyer, a new French 
variety in the way of Madame Lacharme, the flowers 
large and full and almost pure white, delicately suf¬ 
fused with blush; lst-class Certificate R.H.S., July 
10; W. Paul & Son, and J. House. 
Verbenas. — Compacta, large well-formed pips 
of a bright purple colour borne on long conical 
trusses; fine and distinct. Delicata, soft mauve 
pink, finely formed stout pips and bold trusses. 
Fantastic, pink flaked with crimson, a very fine and 
distinct striped variety; and Mabel, delicate pink, 
stout well-formed pips and fine symmetrical trusses; 
lst-class Certificates to the foregoing, R.H.S., July 
10; W. H. Stacey. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
L’IllustRATION Horticole (6 liv.) contains 
Oncidium concolor, Hook. [t. 487] a well-known 
Brazilian species with clear yellow flowers. Im- 
patiens Sultani, Hook. f. [t. 488], a free-growing 
succulent-stemmed branching plant producing a pro¬ 
fusion of bright red flowers, and likely to be a useful 
decorative plant as it becomes better known and is 
less coddled; it is from East Tropical Africa. A 
double coloured plate in the same number represents 
an artificial cascade. 
Gartenelora for June contains Fchinospermum 
marginatum macrantlium, Regel [t. 1119], a very 
pretty hardy Boraginaceous annual which is best 
treated as a biennial and sown in August. It is of her¬ 
baceous character, growing two and a-half feet or more 
in height with lanceolate hairy leaves, and through 
the whole length of the stem bearing abundant 
axillary simple scorpioid racemes of pretty forget- 
me-not-like blue flowers ; St. Petersburg.— Pellionia 
Daveauana, N. E. Brown [t. 1120], a pretty 
variegated-leaved trailing stove plant, from Cochin- 
china, belonging to the Urticacem.— Zygadenus Nut- 
tallii, Watson [t. 1121, fig. 2], a neat Melanthaceous 
bulb with stems a foot to a foot and a-half high, 
having linear-oblong erect leaves, and a loose ter¬ 
minal raceme of small white starry flowers. N. W. 
America at an elevation of 6,000 ft. on the Sierra 
Nevada.— Zygadenus muscitoxicum, Regel [t. 1121, 
fig. 1], a N. American herbaceous perennial, better 
known as a Melanthium or Iiclouias; it is a half 
hardy perennial, with broadly subulate channelled 
recurved leaves, and an oblong crowded spike of 
