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seven or eight feet before the end of tlie summer, and adds a fine feature 

 in rustic and wilderness scenery. 



ANDRoroGONE.!-:. — This tribe includes numerous genera of no general 

 interest, but Androjiogon sorghum is a fine grass, and may be added to the 

 list of ornamental species. s. H. 



Messrs. Milue, Arnot, and Co., of the Yauxliall Nursery, Wandsworth Road, have 

 been exhibiting their magnificent collection of large Camellias in their great Camellia 

 liouse, 180 feet long, containing some thousands of plants, both specimens, and stock 

 for sale. As arranged, the large plants are in a row at the back, a front stage full of 

 moderate-sized well-grown specimens, with large plants in the spaces between, under a 

 shaded roof, and with llie comfortable accessories of a matted walk and an agreeable 

 temperature. This has been the most at tractive nursery show of the season. Tliere are 

 between four and five hundred varietii's of this most popular of all our spring 

 flowers, and as their bloom is not yet over, and some fine specimens out of doors, which 

 have been planted many years, are just coming into fine bloom, we advise such 

 of our readers as are iri crested in Camellias, to pay a visit at; once, and make up their 

 lists of sorts to be added to their collections while blooms remain by which to judge 

 their merits. Our visit was paid after the prc.-ent number was in great part prepared, 

 so that we are obliged to defer till next month our notes respecting it, as also our 

 intended essay on the Culture of the Camellia. 



As the announcements of forthcoming exhibitions are of special interest at this 

 season, particularly to those who are growing for competition, we have classed alpha- 

 betically the following, with tlieir respective dates : — ■ 



Brighton and Sussex Floeiculttjeal Society. — June 22, 23; Sept. 14, 15. 



Beistol, Clifton, and West of England. — June 2, and August 25. 



Bhitish Pomological. — Award of One Cuiuea Prize for best Seedling late 

 Kitchen Apple, in dishes of ten fruit. 



IIoeticultuealSociety.— St. James's Hall, May 12 and 13; June 21) and 30; 

 December 7, 8, and 9. 



Hoeticultueal Society, Eeuit Committee. — April 5, May 3, June 7. 



KiEKSTALL Abbey, Leeds. — Second Exhibition, June 24 and 25. 



Royal Botanic. — Regent's Park, April 6 and 20. 



Stoke Newington Oeiginal Floeicultueal (Mr. Nicholls, Seci-etary). — 

 Exhibition of Dahlias, Asters, etc., at Hare and Hounds, August 30. 



■ Floeicultueal Society (Mr. Wortley, Secretary). — Ex- 

 hibition of Dahlias, Asters, etc., Manor Rooms, August 30. 



Cheysanthemttm Society (Mr. Wortley, Secretary). — Manor 



Rooms, Nov. 2 and 3. 



Cheysanthemum Society (Mr. Paxton, Secretary). — Manor 



Rooms, Nov. 7 and 8. 



TowCESTEH Floeal Society. — Annual Exhibition, September 8. 



Tunbeidge Wells Hoeticultueal Fete. — June 24. 



YoEKSHiEE Gala and Musical Exhibition. — Asylum Grounds, Booth.im, 

 York, June 13, 14, and 15. 



I>iNCOLN Hoeticultueal Society. — May 25, July 13, September 14. 



MR. SIM'S AIs-D MR. SALTER'S CATALOGUES. 



Ihess catalogues are of too much importance to be dismissed with a brief word in our 

 ordinary notices. Mr. Sim's catalogue of Stove, Greenhouse, and Hardy Perns 

 (No. 6) is a substantial book of sixty-two beautifully-printed pages, and contains above 

 800 entries of Perns and Lycopodiums. In the classification, Mr. Sim has adopted the 

 technology of Mr. Moore, as given in his " Handbook of British Perns" and " Index 

 Filicum," adding those of Mr. J. Smith, of Kew, and Mr. Newman, where difiering 

 from Moore, as synonyms. By this plan the multiplicity of names, by which many 

 Ferns are severally catalogued and described, no longer perplexes the reader, who 



