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1882.—C. Turner. Amelia Hardwidge : gold-centre; 
very fine and attractive; tlie tube bright yellow, 
the lobes of a rich dark claret shading off to light 
bronzy cerise; lst-class Certificate N.A.S., April, 
1882.—J. Douglas. Charles Darwin : white-centre; 
a striking variety, with fine smooth pips, the lobes 
with a deep velvety plum-coloured base and a slight 
edge of bright purple; lst-class Certificate N.A.S. 
and R.B.S., April, 1882.—C. Turner. Princess of 
Waldeck: gold-centre; a very pretty variety, with 
clear golden tube, the lobes with a maroon base, 
edged with deep cerise ; lst-class Certificate N.A.S., 
April, 1882.—J. Douglas. Mr. C. Turner showed 
an interesting group at the Royal Botanic Society’s 
April Show, and received lst-class Certificates for 
the following in addition to those named above:—• 
Gladiator .- gold-centre, violet shaded edge ; J. T. D. 
Llewelyn : gold-centre, violet shaded edge; Mentor : 
gold-centre, dark purple shaded. 
Carnations (Tree). — Conqueror: Salmon-rose, 
slightly striped with purple, large and full, distinct 
and pleasing. Enchantress .- pale rose or deep pink 
flaked with dark purple, very fine and full. Flam¬ 
beau : pale ground, tfie petals deeply' edged with 
black and dull wine-red, fine habit, full and very 
free. Sector: pale red, fine petal, full. Juliette: 
pale bright rose, good petal, fine and full. Nimrod : 
pale clear red, large and full, fine petal. Premier .• 
bright crimson, large, full, and free, rather rough, 
but fine in colour. Rufus: rich scarlet, slightly 
shaded with dark crimson, very large and full, bright. 
Whipper-in: scarlet flaked with black, fine, lull, 
and free-blooming, unique in colouring. All shown 
by Mr. C. Turner, and all awarded a lst-class Certi¬ 
ficate, April, 1882, by a scratch committee of the 
National Carnation and Picotee Society. Howard : 
a pale scarlet, large and full, but a little rough; a 
good decorative and market variety, and awarded 
a lst-class Certificate by the R.H.S., May, 1882, as a 
decorative plant.—W. Howard. 
Cineraria (Double-flowered), Mrs . Thomas 
Lloyd. —A splendid double-flowered variety raised 
by Mr. Greenfield, gardener to Thomas Lloyd, Esq., 
the Priory, Warwick; the flowers are remarkable 
for their large size and brilliant colouring ; they are 
globular, more than an inch and a half in diameter, 
and of a rich magenta-crimson; lst-class Certificate 
R.H.S. and R.B.S., March, 1881.—Yeitch & Sons. 
Clematis (patens). — Charles Darwin : a very 
striking new full double variety, with flowers of a 
soft shade of lilac, of good size and form, and striking 
in character. Daniel Deronda : a large-flowered 
variety of good habit, with broad sepals narrow at 
the base and pointed at the apex, of a dark purple, 
with a paler coloured bar, and shaded towards the 
tips with a bronzy or coppery tinge. Princess 
Beatrice : a saucer-shaped flower of 9—11 sepals of 
a very pale reddish lilac, with white stamens.—All 
awarded lst-class Certificate R.B.S., April, 1882, and 
all shown by C. Noble. Of less merit in the same 
batch, were Maud Branscombe, white with red 
stripes; King Arthur in the way of Stella; Endy- 
mion, white ; Duke of Albany in the way of Princess 
of Wales; Duchess of Albany, white, with cuneate 
petals. 
Lobelia, Finsbury Park Blue. —A good bedding 
variety of the pumila type, producing its bright blue 
flowers in profusion throughout the season; it is 
well distinguished from other varieties by the absence 
of the usual white eye, and unquestionably the finest 
blue Lobelia yet introduced, and for carpet bedding 
unrivalled.—Veitch & Sons. 
Pansy (Bedding) Mr. Lleivelyn .- a large golden 
yellow self, with a dark blotch; of fine shape and 
good habit; lst-class Certificate R.H.S., April, 1882. 
—H. Hooper. 
Rhododendron, Alice Mangles : a fine hybrid 
raised between R. Aucklandii and the common R. 
ponticum; the flowers are of a delicate rose-pink 
colour, flushed with a deeper hue ; of free vigorous 
habit, and in all probability hardy; lst-class Cer¬ 
tificate R.H.S., April, 1882.—J. H. Mangles. 
Polyanthuses (Decorative). —White; Queen 
of Whites, large and circular, with crenate edge, 
creamy-white with very large radiating orange eye. 
Venus, somewhat smaller, but firm and circular, white 
with bold orange eye of five obtuse lobes deeper in 
the centre. Yellow : Aurora, large and well-formed, 
with broad segments often six in number, sulphur 
yellow with orange flame running half-way up each 
segment. Primrose Gem, a fine circular flower, pale 
yellow with a bold eye of orange-colour, deeper to¬ 
wards the centre. Her Majesty, similar in colour to 
the last, but more deeply marked in the eye. Dark; 
Jupiter, very rich dark velvety maroon, of fine shape 
and substance, with a five-lobed orange eye, pin¬ 
eyed.-—-All from Mr. W. Caudwell, Wantage. 
Polyanthuses (Hose-in-Hose) : — Yellow : 
Golden Prince, fiat medium sized deep golden or 
golden j'ellow flowers, fine rounded lobes, with a 
radiating orange eye. Irish Cowslip, smaller cupped 
drooping flowers, bright j’ellow and very pretty. 
Queen, large flat pips, of a bright yellow, with a 
radiating eye of deep orange. Dark : Charlotte 
Jones, large and showy but pin-eyed, the flowers 
crimson maroon with orange centre. Crimson Queen, 
bright chestnut red, with narrow yellow edge, and 
large orange centre. Magenta Queen, smaller than 
the preceding, the flowers of a lively purplish crimson, 
with a slight pale edge and orange centre.—All from 
Mr. W. Caudwell, Wantage. 
Rose (h.p.), Comtesse Camondo, with full, deep, 
firm, well-formed flowers of a distinct shade of dark 
claret crimson; the form all that can be required in 
the full cupped type, and the novel colour very 
pleasing ; shown at R.B.S., April, 1882.—Paul & Son. 
Queen of Queens: silvery pink or peach-blossom, 
large, full, and deep, but altogether of pleasing cha¬ 
racter, rather deficient in substance, and much wanting 
in fragrance.—IV. Paul & Son. Ulrich Brunner fils .- 
a rich carmine rose very bright in colour; a good 
useful looking flower, and very fragrant; 2nd-class 
Certificate R.H.S., May, 1882.—W. Paul & Son. 
Duchess of Albany, a hybrid Tea rose, with pleasing 
peach-coloured flowers having a soft rose-coloured 
centre.—H. Bennett. 
Viola (Bedding), Mrs. Laing: white slightly 
tinted with blue, dark eye; dwarf habit, and very 
good; lst-class Certificate R.H.S., April, 1882.—H. 
Hooper. 
NEW FRUITS. 
Grape, Alphonse Lavallee [Bull. d'Arb., 4 
ser., i., 72, with plate).-—A new Belgian Vine, raised 
by M. Narcisse Gaujard, from whom on his retire¬ 
ment it passed with other seedlings into the hands of 
M. Van Houtte; raised from the Gros Colman in 
1868 and first fruited in 1873. Last year it was 
cultivated with good results by M. Lerot, of Vilvorde, 
a vine grower of repute, who reports favourably to M. 
Burvenich. The bunch figured is short and compact, 
the berries large rather oblong-ovoid, of a deep blue- 
black with a thick white bloom. The skin is thick, 
so that it is a keeping grape of the Lady Downe’s 
type; it ripens with the Black Hamburgh, but is 
said to hang longer than this variety. One of its 
peculiarities is that the leaves are thin, almost mem¬ 
branous, slightly downy, and before they fall take 
on a lively wine-red tint. M. Van Houtte describes 
it as being robust, bearing abundantly bunches of 
enormous size, the berries large black, with tender 
flesh, and having a delicate and perfumed flavour; a 
variety of the first class, ripening with the grapes of 
the second series. It seems to be worthy of trial. 
