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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[June, 
of which I am now giving a description is a 
chip off the old block, and is planted out in a 
brick box at the opposite end of the same 
pine stove ; it is about 6 feet through and 6 
feet high, and has upon it upwards of 175 of 
its rosy clusters of flowers, hanging not only 
from the extremity of the shoots, but through¬ 
out the old plant; and it is curious to note 
how the bloom buds will come out from any 
part of a dry stem without the accompaniment 
of leafage. 
The plant flourishes in the usual stove- 
plant mixture, viz., loam, peat, and sand, and 
with plenty of drainage, luxuriates in a liberal 
supply at times of manurial water. Any one 
having a little space to spare in the plant- 
stove would do well to plant one of these, and 
I feel sure that as it grew and flourished he 
would feel inclined to give it all the elbow 
room it would require, and feel quite surprised 
he had not sooner made the acquaintance of 
such a floral beauty. 
New and rare plants come and go—out of 
them nurserymen make their living and a 
great deal more—but many of them are either 
lost, forgotten, or thrown to the limbo of 
oblivion. The Medinilla magnifica, however, 
like our Camellias, Gardenias, Stephanotis, 
Azaleas, &c., will always command a place 
when some attention and consideration is 
given to the massing of such specimens of 
floral beauty and loveliness. 
I should perhaps add that this is one of the 
plants which can keep itself tolerably free 
from all lively insect pests, which is one “ con¬ 
sideration ” at least out of the many he has to 
consider, under which a gardener may feel at 
ease.— Wh. Miller, Combe Abbey Gardem. 
ALPINE AURICULAS. 
T" HAVE not seen or heard of any Alpine 
(I Auriculas going off in the way that they 
djY have done with Mr. Fish (see p. 57). I 
Y do not think the plants remaining on the 
same place for a period of four years would 
be the reason. We have a plant at Loxford 
which has not been touched for seventeen 
years ; it has now formed a clump nearly two 
feet across, and is now (May 2) in full flower, 
and as healthy as ever it was. The more 
delicate exhibition strains, planted out five or 
six years ago, are also in good condition, and 
have not been removed during that time. I 
have also had some remarkably fine out-of- 
doors specimens sent from Aberdeen, and also 
from Kent, but have not heard a word about the 
plants going wrong, I fancy it must be some 
local cause in Mr. Fish’s case.—J. Douglas, 
Loxford Hall, Ilford. 
NATIONAL AURICULA SOCIETY. 
Southern Section. 
HE Show, which was held at South Ken¬ 
sington on April 25th, exceeded all ex¬ 
pectations, which may be taken as an 
augury that the taste for these flowers 
which was stirred up in the south some few 
years ago by Mr. Dodwell, is at least not declin¬ 
ing. The chief difficulty to be overcome as re¬ 
gards the appearance of these flowers in public 
is that of fixing beforehand a day which may 
fully and equally suit even the southern growers 
themselves. The show was certainly the most 
extensive seen in modern times, and was pro¬ 
bably the largest ever brought together; and 
despite the autumn-blooming tendencies of the 
last season, the flowers were generally well up 
in quality, and the effect of the display as a 
whole was charming. The northern growers 
on this occasion had quite the best of it, as 
many of the southern flowers were past, though 
Mr. Turner, Mr. Douglas, and others made a 
good fight. We are glad to see Mr. Cannell 
entering the lists, for he is a grower who 
throws his whole energy into any matter which 
he undertakes, and even Mr. Turner must by- 
and-by look to his laurels. 
The following is a list of the awards and of 
the principal varieties staged :— 
Auriculas. 
Class A. 12 dissimilar. —1st, the Rev. F. D. Horner, 
Kirkby Malzeard, with Excelsior (Horner), green- 
edged; Agamemnon (Horner), a grand new green- 
edge ; Prince of Greens (Trail), Erehus (Horner), 
purple self ; Moonlight (Horner),grey-edged ; Frank 
Simonite (Simonite), w'hite-edged; Mrs. Douglas 
(Simonite), violet self; John Simonite (Walker), 
white-edged; Heroine (Horner), plum-coloured self; 
George Lightbody (Headly), grey-edged; Ajax 
(Horner), and Luna (Horner), both grey-edges; an 
exceedingly fine and well-grown lot. 2nd, Mr. E. 
Pohlman, Halifax, with Garibaldi (Pohlman), dark 
self; Beauty (Trail), grey-edged; Sophia Dumaresque 
(Lightbody), white-edged; Blackbird (Spalding), self; 
George Lightbody (Headly), Confidence (Campbell), 
Laura (Pohlman), green-edged ; Alexander Meikle- 
john (Kay), grey-edged; Prince of Greens (Trail), 
Brunette (Pohlman), a fine black self; Colonel Taylor 
(Leigh),green-edged; andAcme (Read),white-edged; 
plants of medium growth, with highly finished flowers. 
