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AN exhibition of South African wild flowers is to be arranged under the auspices of the Royal Horticultural Society on October 24 and 25. This exhibition, which is to be opened by H.R.H. Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, has been organised by an influential committee in South Africa and with the official patronage and co-operation of the High Commissioner for the Union of South Africa in London. A remarkable range of wild flowers, aloes and succulents, collected from twenty different districts in South Africa, has been dispatched, and the exhibition will provide the most representative and complete display of flora ever sent overseas from this Dominion. It will include many species of great beauty and rarity. Notable among the displays will be the remarkable variety of heaths, such as mealie heath (Erica abietina); dark-mouthed heath (E. sacciflora); red and yellow heath (E. exsurgens); Walker's heath (E. Walkeria); pink drooping bell heath (E. propendens); riversdale orange-and-green heath (E. blenna); many varieties of everlastings; grasses; orchids; numerous varieties of proteas, such as woolly-bearded protea (Protect, bargigera); giant or king protea (P. cynaroides); and the pincushion protea (P. leucosperum); specimens of bulbous plants, gladioli, succulents and aloes. The greatest care in handling and in the regulation of temperatures has been necessary in picking, packing and conveying these floral treasures from South Africa for their long journey of 6,000 miles to London. This in itself will make the exhibition noteworthy. The exhibition will be staged in the Royal Horticultural Society's Hall in Vincent Square, S.W.I, at the same time as the Society's Orchid Show in the new Hall; tickets of admission to either display will permit of entry to both halls.
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South African Wild Flowers. Nature 132, 542 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132542c0
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