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THE GARDENING WORLD 
June'l, 1895 
two ago when the owners sent us a box of these 
lovely Roses. The flowers were very fine, large, 
full, long in the bud, glowing rich pink, and power¬ 
fully fragrant, and they lasted well, retaining their 
fragrance to a remarkable degree. The stems were 
stout and sturdy, and the foliage clean, bright and 
leathery. It is a seedling of La France crossed with 
Lady Mary Fitzwilliam.— Gardening, American. 
PLANTS RECENTLY CERTIFICATED. 
Royal Horticultural. 
Sambucus racemosa plumosa fol. aureus, Nov. 
vay. —Theleaves of this particular variety are pinnate 
and the leaflets are again cut down into linear or 
lanceolate segments and the whole are of a light 
yellow. Award of Merit, R.H.S , 14th May. Messrs. 
K. Wezelenburg & Son, Hazerswonde, near Leiden. 
Tulipa elegans alba, Nov. vay. — The type of this 
has brilliant crimson-red flowers, but in this case 
they are white with a narrow red edge to the satiny 
ssgments. Altogether it is a beautiful variety and an 
excellent companion to the ordinary one. Award of 
Merit,R.H.S., 14th May. Messrs. Barr & Son, King 
Street, Covent Garden. 
Lilac La Tour d’Auvergne. —While in the bud 
state the flowers of this variety seem of a decided 
purple, and even for some time after they are 
expanded, but finally they become tinted with lilac. 
They are imperfectly double with a varying number 
of segments and sometimes almost single. Award of 
Merit, R.H.S., 14th May. Messrs. Paul & Son, 
Cheshunt. 
Royal Botanic. 
Azalea Hexe. —This variety has small dark green 
leaves, and small flowers very freely produced. The 
latter have a coloured calyx nearly as large as the 
corolla and similar in colour, so that the variety 
would seem to belong to the Azalea amoena rather 
than the A. indica type. Floricultural Certificate of 
the Royal Botanic, 15th May. Messrs. Paul & Son, 
Cheshunt. 
Azalea M. V. Savart. —The rich dark green and 
medium sized leaves of this variety are almost hidden 
by the large and brilliant dark red flowers, which are 
spotted at the base of the upper segments. They 
are inclined to be semi-double, but in any case they 
are very telling by their colour alone. It will be 
very useful for decorative purposes. Floricultural 
Certificate of the Royal Botanic, 15th May. Mr. C. 
Turner, Slough. 
Begonia Lord Rosebery. —Here we have a 
double variety of beautiful and regular Camellia 
form, and brilliant scarlet. All the outer petals are 
broad and regularly imbricate, while the leaves are 
long and of a rich dark-green hue. On the whole, it is 
a beautiful and refined variety. Floricultural Certifi¬ 
cate of the Royal Botanic, 15th May. Mr. T. S. 
Ware, Hale Farm Nursery, Tottenham. 
Caladium Rose Laing. —The leaves in this 
instance are very large, shield-shaped, and of a soft 
pink with green veins and have a broad margin 
tinted with pale green on a white ground. It is a 
beautiful and showy strong-growing type. Botanical 
Certificate of the Royal Botanic, 15th May. Messrs. 
J. Laing & Sons, Forest Hill. 
Caladium Prefet Berger. —Here again we have 
a variety suitable for exhibition purposes on account 
of its large size. The leaves are of a rich carmine 
or crimson-red variegated with green towards the 
margin. It is bold and handsome. Botanical 
Certificate of the Royal Botanic, 15th May. Messrs. 
J. Laing & Sons. 
Caladium Ignatii. —The large soft, pinkish-red 
leaves of this variety seem subtransparent, and have 
a narrow green edge. Ultimately they become 
netted and splashed with green. Botanical Certifi¬ 
cate of the Royal Botanic, 15th May. Messrs. J. 
Laing & Sons. 
Caladium Pauline Guichard. —The large and 
massive leaves of this sort are bright red with a 
narrow bronzy-green margin, and ultimately more 
or less marbled with green all over. Botanical 
Certificate of the Boyal Botanic, 15th May. Messrs. 
J. Laing & Sons. 
Carnation Blenheim Beauty. —The plants of 
this variety stands about 3 ft. high in pots, and bear 
huge blooms of the size of those of the Malmaison 
type, and are white striped with heliotrope. The 
narrow glaucous leaves show that it is not actually a 
Malmaison. It is therefore a great acquisition and 
an improvement amongst the Carnations. Flori¬ 
cultural Certificate of the Royal Botanic, 14th May. 
Mr. Whillans, gardener to the Duke of Marlborough. 
Croton latimaculatum. —The leaves of this 
variety are of medium width and length, and dark 
green, with a large and very irregular bright yellow 
blotch running along the lower half or two-thirds of 
their length. Altogether it is very distinct, remind¬ 
ing one of the Caricature Plant on a larger scale. 
Botanical Certificate of the Royal Botanic Society, 
15th May. Messrs. B. S. Williams & Son, Upper 
Holloway. 
Dracaena lineata aurea variegata. —The 
ensiform leaves of this variety are dark green with 
pale yellow stripes and bands ascending from the 
midrib towards the margin. It will make a useful 
decorative plant. Botanical Certificate of the Royal 
Botanic, 15th May. Messrs. B. S. Williams & Son. 
Gloxinia Leopard. —The flowers of this variety 
are of large size, erect, beautifully and densely 
netted, and spotted with purplish-red on a white 
ground. Floricultural Certificate of the Royal 
Botanic, 15th May. Messrs. ]. Laing & Sons. 
Pansy Ceres. —In this we have a bold Pansy of 
the fancy class with large flowers having three 
velvety-black well defined blotches almost covering 
the three lower segments. All the rest of the 
flower is deep yellow. Floricultural Certificate of 
the Royal Botanic, 15th May. Messrs. Dobbie & 
Co., Rothesay, Scotland. 
Pelargonium Miss Louisa Coombs. —This 
variety belongs to the show class, and has large and 
showy flowers. The two upper petals are crimson 
surrounded by a red line, while the extreme margin 
is rose. The three lower petals are of a soft rosy- 
pink, except at the base, which is white forming a 
white eye. Floricultural Certificate of the Royal 
Bctanic. 15th May. Mr. C. Turner, Slough. 
Tulipa Gala Beauty.— There are frequently 
eight instead of six segments to this variety, and 
they are flamed and variegated with crimson-red 
on a yellow ground. The segments are more 
pointed than those of Tulipa Gesneriana. Flori¬ 
cultural Certificate of the Royal Botanic, 15th May. 
Messrs. Barr & Son. 
Tulipa Striped Beauty. —The segments of this 
Tulip are pale purple along the centre, and 
variegated on each side of this with crimson, red and 
white in varying proportions. Floricultural Certifi¬ 
cate of the Royal Botanic, 15th May. Messrs. Barr 
& Son. Temple Show. 
The following subjects were accorded certificates 
by the Royal Horticultural Society, on the 21st, 
22nd, and 23rd ult., at the show in the Inner Temple 
Gardens :— 
Incarvillea Delavayi. —New species of plants 
continue to be introduced from China as travellers 
and collectors penetrate more and more into the 
interior. This handsome species of Bignoniaceae is 
declared to be perfectly hardy in this country, but a 
little more time may be necessary to test it fully. 
The fact that it is perfectly deciduous and lived in a 
cold frame last winter is good evidence in its favour. 
The pinnate leaves all rise from the root, and vary 
from 1 ft. to 2 ft. in length, and have serrate leaflets. 
The large Bignonia-like flowers are produced singly 
from the rootstock on long footstalks. They consist 
of a long tube that is yellow and tinted with rose 
externally, and a large unequally five-lobed spread¬ 
ing lamina of a beautiful rose colour. The mouth 
of the tube is bounded with a violet-purple line that 
becomes darker with the age of the flower, and the 
interior of the tube is yellow. It is a great acquisi¬ 
tion to the list of herbaceous plants, and if perfectly 
hardy we may expect to see it in every garden of 
any pretensions. It is quite unlikely any plant now 
grown in the herbaceous border, which has no repre¬ 
sentative of this particular family, which, however, 
is represented by Catalpa amongst trees, and by 
Eccremocarpus and Tecoma amongst climbers. 
First-class Certificate. Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart, 
(gardener, Mr. W. Bain), Burford Lodge, Dorking. 
Dracaena Godseffiana. — Fine foliage plants are 
not yet played out, as was evidenced by the fine 
plant of this shown by Messrs. Sander & Co., St. 
Albans. The plant is closely related to D. surculosa 
in habit and foliage, and has slender twiggy stems 
branching very freely while yet in a small state as 
compared with the older ana better known kinds 
grown for decorative purposes. The leaves are not 
crowded in one tuft at the end of each branch, but 
are scattered in whorls of three or four, or are 
arranged in pairs on the smaller spreading twigs. 
They are oval, about 3J in. long, leathery and dark 
green, thickly spotted or blotched all over with pale 
yellow, changing to creamy white after the leaves 
are fully developed. Now the contrast of the two 
principal colours is not of a washy kind, but remark¬ 
ably distinct and effective. The stems of the plant 
shown varied from 1 ft. to 3J ft. in length, and the 
smaller ones assume a spreading habit. First-class 
Certificate. 
Begonia Lady Annesley. —This belongs to the 
Rex section of Begonias, grown chiefly or solely for 
the sake of fine foliage. The leaves are large, 
obliquely heart-shaped, lobed round the edge, and 
gray with a small olive-greea centre and a narrow 
margin of the same hue. It is very handsome when 
well grown so as to present a good surface of foliage, 
and this is not difficult to do, for its cultural require¬ 
ments are very easily satisfied. Award of Merit. 
Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans. 
Begonia Rex Sander's Masterp.ece.— The 
leaves in this case are smaller and produced in great 
profusion ; they are of a bronzy metallic red, with 
a narrow, green, more or less broken band j ust within 
the margin. They are firm in texture, handsome, 
and very ornamental in the mass. Award of Merit. 
Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans. 
Phyllocactus Excellent. —This is one of the 
very many recent new hybrids of a class of plants 
whose peculiar beauty is very fascinating and 
gorgeous, increasing in proportion to the size of the 
plant and the number of flowers upon it. The sepals 
and petals are very numerous and all highly coloured. 
The outer ones are the narrowest, and the inner 
ones the largest; all are of a glowing bright orange 
slightly tinted with rose at the margin. So many 
enquirers were after it that the plant had to be taken 
home owing to the want of stock. Award of Merit. 
Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, Chelsea. 
Caladium Henry Irving. —The shield-shaped 
leaves of this variety are moderate in size, and 
porcelain-white in the centre, with a broad, marbled- 
gray margin. For decorative purposes it will find 
many admirers, and the relatively small size of the 
leaves will enable it to be used for table decoration, 
where it cannot but prove a welcome change to the 
well-known subjects all too frequently utilised for 
that purpose. Award of Merit. Messrs. J. Veitch 
& Sons. 
Caladium Lord Derby. —The moderate sized 
leaves in this case are of a soft reddish pink and to 
the eye sub-transparent. The principal nerves form 
narrow dark green lines traversing the more deli¬ 
cately coloured tissue, which is bounded by a 
similarly narrow dark green margin. It is a charm¬ 
ing and pretty variety of sub-transparent texture, 
only slightly obscured by a pale shade of some 
reddish colouring matter, and must find many 
admirers in this class of plants yearly becoming 
more popular. Award of Merit. Messrs. J. Veitch 
& Sons. 
Begonia Samuel Pope. —Here we have a charm¬ 
ing tuberous Begonia of the double Picotee type. 
The blooms are of a great size, with broad wavy 
petals arranged round a common centre, and creamy 
white with a bright rose edge. In these characters 
it really imitates both the Hollyhock and the Picotee. 
In any case it is a charming addition to this popular 
class of plants. Award of Merit. Mr. T. S Ware, 
Hale Farm Nurseries. Tottenham. 
Begonia White Camellia. —This is well named, 
for at certain stages of the development of the 
blooms the latter resemble those of the old Camellia 
alba plena pretty closely. The broad, rounded, and 
imbricated petals are very neatly arranged round a 
single centre. The dark green and healthy looking 
foliage is tinted with bronze. There seems no limit 
to the developments of this beautiful class of plants. 
Award of Merit. Mr. T. S. Ware. 
Clematis Duchess of York. —Last year a variety 
named Countess of Onslow was honoured with a 
First-class Certificate, and was characterised by 
having four sepals of a rich purple with a scarlet 
band along the centre. The sepals are upright in 
the lower half and reflexed above the middle, giving 
the flower a well marked and distinct appearance. 
The variety under notice belongs to the same race 
or strain, and, no doubt, has a closely related pedi¬ 
gree. The flowers are of the same form, but differ 
in having four to six sepals of a delicate and pleasing 
soft pink. The variety is an acquisition to the list 
of hardy climbers. Award of Merit. Messrs. George 
jacksou & Son, Woking. 
