SEPTEMBER. 209 



Queen Victoria (Simpson), Dido, William IV., Duke of Wellington, 

 Defiance ; 3d, Mr. Ward, Woolwich, with Fanny Gardner, Princess 

 Royal, Prince Albert, Queen Victoria (Simpson), Lady Ely, Admiral 

 Curzon, Squire Meynell, Georgiana, Black Diamond, King of Scarlets, 

 Lord Milton, Lord RanclifTe ; 4th, Mr. Frankland, City-road, with 

 Prince Albert (Puxley), Flora's Garland, Brutus, Princess Royal, 

 Lady Rowley, Defiance, Rainbow, Conquering Hero, William Cob- 

 bett, Beauty of Woodhouse, Double X., and Georgiana. 



Picotees. — 1st, Mr. Turner, with Portia, James IL, Constance, 

 Mirs. Norman, Enchantress, Lord Nelson, Green's Queen, Lady Har- 

 riet Moore, Prince of Wales, Mrs. Barnard, Juliet, Venus ; 2d, Mr. 

 B^agg, ^vith Duchess of Bedford, Mrs. Norman, Gem, James IL, 

 Prince of Wales, Miss Holbeck, Isabella, Portia, Princess Royal, 

 Lady Harriet Moore, Mrs. Barnard, Queen Victoria (Green) ; 3d, 

 Mr. Ward, with Prince of Wales, Lady Dacre, Princess Royal, 

 James IL, Regina, Mrs. Norman, Gem, Juliet, Venus, Alfred, Mrs. 

 Barnard, Maid of Athens; 4th, Mr. Willmer, with La Elyant, Goliath, 

 Rival, Sebastian, Isabella, Queen (Green's), Lord Nelson, Regina, 

 King James, Lady Harriet Moore, Venus, and Portia. 



Certificates were awarded to May's Falconbridge, pink bizarre 

 Carnation, a large finely marked flower, the best of its class. Several 

 Picotees were shewn : Marris's Victoria Regina, heavy scarlet edge ; 

 Fellowes' Ganymede, Hght purple edge ; HoUyoake's Duke of Rut- 

 land, heavy purple edge ; and Alay's Ophelia, light purple edge : all 

 possessed considerable merit, and the two former received certificates. 



Hollyhocks were contributed by Mr. Turner of Slough, and Mr. 

 Bragg. 



NOTES FROM THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW, 



AND OF NEW OR RARE PLANTS 

 FIGURED IN CONTEMPORARY PERIODICALS. 



Callistemo.n lanceolatum. An exceedingly handsome species, whose leaves 

 are larger than those of C. saligna, and tlie flowers are produced in elongated 

 sessile clusters, often six inches long, and of a bright red colour. If planted out 

 in a greenhouse or conservator}', it forms a very compact bush five or six feet 

 high, and when in flower is a beautiful object. It will succeed planted against a 

 wall, and protected from severe frosts during Avinter. 



Tricopilia marginata. a rather pretty dwarf Orchid, having long narrow 

 pseudo-bulbs with one leaf on each, and large spreading solitary flowers, sepals 

 and petals pale green, with purplish shading chiefly on the upper side, leaving a 

 light margin: lip very large, of a deep purplish rose or plum colour, with a Inoad 

 white recurved margin. It is a native of New Grenada, and has been recently 

 introduced to English collections by Mr. Linden. It will require the tempera- 

 ture of the cool part of the Orchid house. 



Labichea diversifolia. a rather neat free flowering greenhouse shrub, 

 with small leaves, and short clusters of axillary yellow flowers much resembling 

 those of some Cassia. This is rather a scarce species. It has flowered in the 

 nursery of Mr. Glendinning of Chiswick, and is a native of rocky places on tlie 

 west side of New Holland. 



Thyrsacamhus ltlacinls. An evergreen stove-shrub, about two feet high, 

 belonging to Acantliads. It is not very showy, but it is valuable on account of 



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