. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. isplay of bedding Pansies, Wallflowers, &c. FromChiswick, Mr. Barron sent a group of admirablygrown Gloxinias, and also of Cape species ofPelargoniums. New Plants James Veitch & Sons were awarded First-class Certificates for Chionographis japonica, aJapanese perennial white flowering, Melanthaceousplant, which is quite hardy, and admirably suited forthe rockwork. For Anthurium Scherzerianum Koths-childianum x , a very remarkable hybrid between and its variety alba
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. isplay of bedding Pansies, Wallflowers, &c. FromChiswick, Mr. Barron sent a group of admirablygrown Gloxinias, and also of Cape species ofPelargoniums. New Plants James Veitch & Sons were awarded First-class Certificates for Chionographis japonica, aJapanese perennial white flowering, Melanthaceousplant, which is quite hardy, and admirably suited forthe rockwork. For Anthurium Scherzerianum Koths-childianum x , a very remarkable hybrid between and its variety alba, raised by Mr. F.! Bergman, gr. to Baron Rothschilil at Ferrieres, andI which has the yellow spadix of the white form, and! the spathe creamy-white spotted with crimson—infact, exactly intermediate between its two parents ;and for Gloxinia Prince of Wales, an erect flowering variety, with medium-sized blooms, which have thesegments well defined by a marginal band of white,I and the throat beautifully reticulated with a pleasingI shade of violet. Gloxinia Chiswick White, an erect. Fig. 107.—anthurium scherzerianum var, Stamford Hill. Mr. Cannell sent a fine stand of cutblooms of Pelargonium cucullatum flore-pleno, avaluable plant for cutting, in the way of the oldCopenhagen but more decidedly magenta in colour ;cut blooms of the fine old border Campanula persici-folia alba plena ; several seedling varieties of PrimulaSieboldii; and cut blooms of brightly coloured andwell marked Mimulus. Messrs. W. Cutbush S: Sonshowed in Buxus rotundifolia aurea reticulata avariety of Box with the young leaves of a brightstraw-yellow colour. Lobelia Blue Star, a vigorous-growing and free-flowering variety, with large blos-soms of a bluish-plum colour and a white centre, wasexhibited by Messrs. Charles Lee & Son, of Hammer-smith ; and Mr. George, of Putney Heath, had somecut blooms of Carnation Surrey Belle, flesh-tintedpink, striped with rose. From Mr. R. Dean, of Eal-ing, came cu
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