. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society of London. -known GrandLilas ; it was an effective sort. Another, called Mary, was apure white, with close spike, and broad, short segments to thecorolla, and hence less coarse-looking than such otherwise finevarieties as Queen of the Netherlands, the flowers being indivi-dually smaller but closer. Mr. Bartlett, of Hammersmith, showedhalf-a-dozen plants of Prunus sinensis alba, which is one of the mostchaste and beautiful of dwarf hardy shrubs adapted for forcing into EXTRACTS FROM PROCEEDINGS. XXXV early bloom. A meritorious specimen of Chorozema L
. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society of London. -known GrandLilas ; it was an effective sort. Another, called Mary, was apure white, with close spike, and broad, short segments to thecorolla, and hence less coarse-looking than such otherwise finevarieties as Queen of the Netherlands, the flowers being indivi-dually smaller but closer. Mr. Bartlett, of Hammersmith, showedhalf-a-dozen plants of Prunus sinensis alba, which is one of the mostchaste and beautiful of dwarf hardy shrubs adapted for forcing into EXTRACTS FROM PROCEEDINGS. XXXV early bloom. A meritorious specimen of Chorozema Laurenceanum,well flowered, and trained over a balloon-shaped trellis, was sentby Mr. Beasley, gardener to Mrs. Wood, of Acton. Adiantum Farleyense, Moore.—Few plants attracted moreattention at the late International Exhibition than the trulymagnificent specimen of this beautiful fern. The woodcut ex-hibiting the form of the pinnules was unfortunately not readywhen Mr. Moores paper was published (page 82 of this Journal).The omission is now March 15.—This was a fine show of Hyacinths and other springflowers. The collections of Hyacinths especially were of thehighest degree of merit, the first place being taken by Mr. The rosy pink variety named Macauley, the lilac-blueLord Palmerston, the white Queen of the Netherlands, the indigoKing of the Blues, the canary-coloured Ida, and the pucy Hadyn,were everywhere conspicuous. Some very fine new Hyacinthswere also set up. Yunxbaak, a brilliant carmine, was the brightest-coloured Hyacinth yet seen; Sir H. Havelock, a deep clear pucewith darker stripe, was the finest yet seen of this colour;while Bird of Paradise was an improvement on Ida, hitherto the d2 xxxvi POTAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. best of the yellows. There were also of noteworthy sorts—Mary,white with finely shaped flowers; Princess Mary of Cambridge,grayish blue, of large size ; Sir E. Landseer, a dark puce, andanother of the same name, a clear rose-pi
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