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(taedeners' Eoyal benevolent Society, June 26. — The anniversary 

 festival of this admirable society was held at the London Tavern, and the 

 number of persons present was larger than on any previous anniversary. 

 The upper end of the room was adorned with a magnificent staje of flowers, 

 forming a bank: they consisted chiefly of pelargoniums liberally furnished 

 by Mr. Charles Turner, and their beauty was greatly enhanced by tlie inter- 

 mingling of masses of Delphinium formosum with the crimson, scai-let, and 

 ■white of the other flowers. Among the company present were Sir Arthur 

 BuUer, M.P., E. M. Ward, Esq., K.A., Mr. Benjamin Webster, J. E. C. 

 Koch, Esq., General Ramsay, Captain Lees, Mr. A. Chapman, Mr. Wrench, 

 the treasurer, Messrs. Lee, Turner, Cutbush, Hibberd, Gray, etc. The 

 chair was occupied by the Eev. S. M. Bellew, After the usual loyal toasts, 

 the reverend chairman proposed "Success to the Gardeners' Royal Benevolent 

 Society," after which subscriptions to the amount of £300 were announced. 



Royal Botanic, July 3. — This was the society's last show of the present 

 season, and it was an unusiially interesting one. Stove and greenliouse 

 plants were generally good, and included several novelties. Roses, pelargo- 

 niums, and foliage plants — finer than at any previous exhibition this year, and 

 among miscellaneous subjects good culture made amends in most cases for 

 lack of novelty — and some old plants appeared in a condition to prove that 

 time and competition had not diminished their excellence. Mr. May, gar- 

 dener to J. Spode, Esq., was first in the class for sixteen stove and green- 

 house plants. He had Pleroma elegans loaded with pui'ple blooms, Azalea 

 Giedstanesi, Rhyncospermum jasminoides, a neat greenhouse climber, with 

 small white flowers, emitting a delicious perfume, one of the best plants of 

 the kind for amateurs. Mr. Peed, in the same class, had Roella ciliata, blos- 

 soms pale blue, a white-flowered Ixora, admirably managed ; and that 

 interesting plant Rondele'.ia speciosa. Mr. Baxendine had a fine Hoya bella, 

 Stephanotis floribunda, well bloomed ; Clerodendron splendens and Rhynco- 

 spermum jasminoides. Mr. Green, gardener to Sir E. Antrobus, was first in 

 the class for ten stove and greenhouse plants, but his sorts were much the 

 same as the sixteens, except that he had Kalosanthes, Hederomas, and a 

 Statice. Good culture rather than novelty were the distinguishing cha- 

 racteristics of this class. Messrs. Frazer, Cutbush, Rhodes, Page, Tegg, 

 and Kaile also exhibited in the same section. The collections of fine foliage 

 plants were the subjects of general admiration, and were contributed chiefly 

 by Messrs. Cutbush, Henderson, Jackson, Lee, and Williams. Caladium 

 Chantini was the best caladium there, as it is, doubtless, the best in cultiva- 

 tion. Farfugium grande was shown in very grand proportions ; Alocasia 

 metallica is coming into high favour as one of the grandest foliage plants of 

 our stoves ; Begonias were shown in abundance, with crotons, palms, ma- 

 rantas, and other established subjects. Mr. Stone, gardener to J. Day, Esq., 

 of Tottenham, was deservedly first in orchids ; his Ltelia purpurata, Cattleya 

 Wagneri, and Anguloa Clowsei were satisfactory evidences of his skill and 

 judgment in the management of this interesting tribe of plants. Mr. Milford, 

 gardener to J. McMorland, Esq., was second with some fine dendrobiums, 

 Lffilia purpurata, and Epidendrum vitellinum. The orchids from Messrs. 

 Baker, Bunney, Woolley, Green, and Chilmau, were too good to be dismissed, 

 as we must dismiss them, with the mere mention of the cultivators' names. 

 Roses were contributed by Mr. Turner, Mr. Mitchell, Messr.?. Paul, Miss 

 Crayshaw, C. A. Hanbury, Esq., Mr. Staudish, and Mr. Francis. Gloire 

 de Dijon and Auguste Mie were better shown than at either of the 

 subsequent rose shows. Messrs. Paul had Louis XIV. in fine condi- 

 tion, and in Mr. Mitchell's lot Senateur Vaisse looked charming. Mr. 

 Turner was, as usual, first for pelargoniums. Among his best were Prince of 



