1831. ] 
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Lesseps, Boieldieu, Alfred Colomb, Marechal Nief, 
Prince Camille de Rohan, Captain Christy, Xavier 
Olibo, Souvenir d’un Ami, Star of Waltham, M. 
Etienne Dupuy, and Antoine Ducher. The Amateurs’ 
classes were led off by Mr. T. Jowitt, of Hereford, 
who showed very fine flowers. Amongst New Roses 
not in commerce, Mr. Cant was 1st for six trusses, 
with Sir Evelyn Wood, ii.p., a seedling with rose- 
coloured blooms suffused with purple; Mr. Turner 
2nd, with Alice Turner, H.P., pure bright rose, very 
soft in colour; the CranBton Nursery Co. 3rd, with 
Mary Pochin, h.p., a red-centred flower, with the 
outer petals shaded violet-purple. Mr. B. R. Cant’s 
box of Marie Baumann was the best in the class for 
20 trusses of dark Roses; Messrs. Paul and Sou’s 
Souvenir de la Malmaison the best in the light- 
coloured class; and the Cranston Co.’s Baroness 
Rothschild the best pink. 
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length ; and from their centre rises the flower- 
stem, which is very stout, 5 feet in height, fur¬ 
nished at its base with concave, acuminate, 
bracteal leaves, of a very pale, almost trans¬ 
parent, green, and terminating in a chandelier¬ 
like panicle, which is broadly and bluntly pyra¬ 
midal, upwards of 2^ feet in height, and almost 
the same in breadth at the base; the flowering 
branches being spread out, gracefully arched, 
and bearing on their upper side, in the axils of 
reddish bracts, the large white recurved-petaled 
flowers, which have the stamens and pistils 
projecting. 
The plant had previously flowered in Europe 
|0R the use of the accompanying figure 
of this noble Bromeliad we are indebted 
to the authorities of the Itevue Horticole , 
in which work, at p. 50 of the present year’s 
volume, is published a coloured figure of a 
portion of the plant. The woodcut represents 
the entire plant, one-eighteenth the natural 
size, as it flowered recently in the gardens of 
the Luxembourg. By some authors it has been 
called Glaziova insignis. 
This majestic plant is of yucca-like habit, 
attaining G feet or more in diameter, the trunk 
being very robust. The leaves are regularly 
acuminate, and between 2 feet and 3 feet in 
