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the modern style of plant-house. Amongst the 
varieties which seemed to possess superior qualities 
to the general run, we noted Montironi, a good 
double white ; Marchioness of Exeter, a large flower 
with good broad petals of a rich bright-rose colour; 
L’Avenir, rose ; Mathotiana, deep crimson ; C. M. 
Hovey, bright crimson ; C. H. Hovey, dark crimson; 
Comtessa Mastiana, double white, and Donckelaari, 
semi-double, light crimson, beautifully mottled with 
white. A Silver Banksian Medal was awarded 
to the group. Mr. H. B. Smith, of Ealing Dean, 
received a similar award for a superb group of 
Cyclamens ; and for a smaller group, also of excellent 
quality, Mr. B. S. Williams received a Bronze Bank¬ 
sian Medal. Mr. J. James, Woodside, Farnham Royal, 
again gave us a taste of the quality of his Cinerarias, 
by exhibiting a collection of plants which it would be 
difficult to match for the size of their blooms, their 
beautiful shape, stout substance, and lustrous colours; 
Messrs. Barr & Son, in view of the meeting of the 
“ Daffodil Committee,” sent an excellent collection of 
cut - blooms of Narcissus pallidus prrecox, straw- 
yellow, the earliest Daffodil to flower ; N. obvallaris, 
bright-yellow, the second earliest, N. pseudo-Narcissus, 
N. Telamonius plenus and others, all shown in masses 
with good effect. 
The new and rare plants occupied the attention of 
the Committee for some time, and First-Class Certi¬ 
ficates were awarded to Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, 
for another of their seedling hybrid Rhododendrons, 
named Cardinale, and of the popular Cardinal red 
colour; for Cypripedium Sedeni candidulum, a new 
hybrid with white sepals and petals and rose tinted 
slipper ; and for Crocus, King of the Blues, a variety 
of large size, and of a deep blue shade of colour; 
to Mr. Ballantine, gardener to Baron Schroder, for 
Odontoglossum Wilckianum Godefroyaj, a splendid 
and distinct variety of a creamy-yellow ground 
frill. Mr. James had also a superb variety of 0. cirr- 
hosum, spotted with rich chocolate instead of black. 
The rare Phajus tuberculosus, which has only bloomed 
in this country once or twice before, was shown by 
G. F. Wilson, Esq., Heatherbank, Weybridge. Mr. 
Wilson’s plant bore a spike of ten flowers, and 
he is to be congratulated on its production. Mr. Bull 
contributed a collection of plants, including a number 
of Orchids ; and several varieties of Cattleya Trianre 
came from the collection of De B. Crawshay, Esq., 
Sevenoaks. A small but select group of Orchids was 
also brought up by Mr. H. M. Pollett, and N. C. 
Cookson, Esq., Oakwood, Wylam-on-Tyne, sent 
Dendrobium nobilissimi, a D. nobile with half of the 
petals of the same deep purple colour as the blotch 
on the lip. Mr. Turner, Slough, showed a fine batch 
of Violet Wellsiana, the fine large-flowered purple-blue 
flowers which was certificated last year. It is a 
good strong grower and throws up its numerous stout, 
THE NEPENTHES HOUSE IN AIB. B. S. WILLIAMS’S NUBSEEY (see p. 440). 
and the Committee marked their appreciation of the 
great merit of the collection by highly commending 
the strain, besides awarding a Silver-Gilt Banksian 
Medal. Groups of hardy spring flowers from Mr. T. 
S. Ware, of Tottenham, and Messrs. Paul & Son, 
Cheshunt, formed a pleasing feature in themselves, 
and claimed attention from all the visitors. The 
larger group came from the Messrs. Paul, and included 
beautifully-flowered masses of various mossy Saxi¬ 
frages, such as the rosy-purple S. oppositifolia, and 
its white variety, alba ; and the yellow S. sancta; the 
handsome Megasea Straeheyi, a species not much 
known, with flesh-coloured flowers ; the beautiful Iris 
reticulata, which, by the vigour of its growth, shows 
its liking for the deep, strong soil of the Broxbourne 
Nursery ; and various species of Cyclamens. Mr. 
Ware had some pretty pans of Cyclamen coum, 
and C. Atkinsii album, the lovely blue and white 
Chionodoxa Lucilee, the very fine scarlet Anemone 
fulgens semi-plena; numerous examples of Lache- 
nalia Nelsoni and L. luteola; and cut - blooms of 
various Narcissus, such as Telamonius plenus, pallidus 
praecox, obvallaris, spurius, and Pseudo-Narcissus. 
colour, with rich chocolate blotches, and for Imanto- 
phyllum miniatum Schroderse, a variety with a large 
compact head of pure scarlet flowers—a very good 
form indeed ; to Messrs. Paul and Son, Cheshunt, for 
the beautiful Megasea Straeheyi before mentioned, 
and for the scarce Japan Lilac, Daphne Genkwa, a 
very interesting Japanese shrub which produces its 
fagrant Lilac coloured blossoms before the new leaves 
are formed; and to Mr. H. Adams, gardener to R. B. 
Leman, Esq., Mount Lodge, The Avenue, Beckenham, 
for the very distinct Oncidium Brunleesianum, which 
bears branching spikes of small lemon-yellow flowers 
with a brown-black lip. Messrs. Shuttleworth, Carder 
and Co., 191, Park Road, Clapham, showed Odonto¬ 
glossum Humeanum, a supposed natural hybrid, 
between 0. cordatum and 0. Rossi, the flowers being 
much like those of cordatum, but with the lip and 
bracts of 0. Rossii. Mr. J. James, Castle Nursery, 
Lower Norwood, had a very fine variety of Cattleya 
Trianas, named Jamesiana, in which the petals 
measured 3 ins. across, and the whole flower 8 ins. 
across, with a most perfectly-formed lip of a rich deep 
colour, and rendered the more conspicuous by a white 
erect flower-stalks well above the foliage, a point in 
its favour which should create a demand for it. 
Messrs. James Carter and Co. received a cultural 
commendation for a good batch of flowers of the 
Scarborough Lily, Valotta pupurea; and Mr. Gaiger, 
gardener to S. Taylor, Esq., Burton Closes, Bakewell, 
received a similar award for a specimen plant of a 
pretty light-coloured variety of Lycaste Skinneri, 
bearing twenty-one flowers. A very pleasing display 
of cut-blooms of Camellias, shown rvith plenty of 
foliage, came from C. Scrase Dickens, Esq , Coolhurst, 
Horsham ; and Messrs. Cannell & Sons, Swanley, had 
a fine stand of cut-blooms of Zonal Pelargoniums, and 
some well-grown Spireeas. 
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Manchester Horticultural Improvement.— 
The last meeting for the present session of this Society 
was held on February 2Gth, at the Old Town Hall, King 
Street, Mr. Bruce Findlay, the president, in the 
chair. Mr. W. B. Upjohn, of Worsley Gardens, read 
a paper on “ Peach Culture under Glass.” He said that 
he purposely limited his remarks to under-glass 
culture of the Peach, having come to the conclusion 
