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represented. The growing interest which attaches to this fine plant 

 has induced us again to Ijring it prominently under notice. 



Messrs. E. G. Henderson, of WeUington Road, contributed a gi'oup 

 of plants remarkable for their beautifully variegated leaves, Gesnera 

 Miellezi, described elsewhere, and Tydsea amabilis, the last wuth 

 clear and beautiful rose-coloured flowers closely dotted over with 

 minute dark spots. The same firm also furnished a collection of 

 Gloxinias, comprising many of the newer and better kinds. From 

 C. Leach, Esq., came a withered flower stem ofiiuphane toxicaria, one of 

 the most poisonous of Cape bulbs. Messrs. Veitf h furnished a beautiful 

 plant of Wellingtonia gigantea, and a spike of their new Delphinium 

 cardinale covered with brilhant scarlet flowers. This is indeed a real 

 acquisition. Mr. Glendinning, of the Chiswick Nursery, again showed 

 plants of his new Larch (Abies Kjempferi), which we hope some day 

 to more particularly refer ; Lysimachia hneariloba, a Chinese species 

 with small white starry blossoms, the Chinese green dye [ilant, stated to 

 be a species of Rhamnus ; Limonia tritoliata, stated by mistake to be a 

 hardy Orange from the north of China ; and the singular hybrid called 

 Mandirola Roezli. Mr. Parker, of Hornsey, sent Epidendrum macu- 

 latum and Galeandra Stangeana, two unimportant looking Orchids. 

 Two sorts of Grass received from Buenos Ayrts along with the Pampas 

 Grass were furnished by E. Brande, Esq., of Turnham Green, to show 

 that all of what is imported under that name may not be Gynerium. 

 One was a species of Setaria, the other was stated to be some Sorghum 

 or Panicum. 



Mr. Wrench showed a few specimens of Myatt's Pine-apple Straw- 

 berry, the best flavoured of all Strawberries ; but unfortunately so difficult 

 to keep that most people have discontinued cultivating it. From the 

 Garden of the Society came a large collection of plants, among which 

 were Arduina bispinosa, an old-fashioned evergreen shrub, remarkable 

 for its delightful fragrance. Veronica variegata, a charming hybrid 

 raised by Mr. Anderson, of Edinburgh, and certainly one of the very 

 handsomest greenhouse shrubs in cultivation ; the Chinese Adamia 

 versicolor and the Indian A. cyanea, the former pink, the latter blue, 

 and decidedly the handsomest. 



The same Garden also furnished Myrtus Ugni in fruit. The great 

 excellence of flavour of the fruit of Eugenia Ugni (which this is now 

 called) has already been referred to in our pages, where an illustration 

 of the appearance of this shrub is also given, and the high character it 

 then received it still deserves. Though not altogether hardy it was 

 stated that it was by no means difficult to cultivate, and that Fig- 

 houses and places of that description wou|d doubtless be found to suit it 

 perfectly. A collection of yellow or iather straw-coloured French 

 Balsams also came from the Garden. They were beautifully grown 

 and flowered, a state into which they had been brought without the 

 aid of artificial heat. They had been raised in a cold pit and after- 

 wards transferred to a greenhouse. 



Dancer's Prolific White Gooseberry was also shown in a pot loaded 

 with ripe fruit. This was from the orchard-house, and was produced to 

 prove that, contrary to the opinion of many, Gooseberries will set and 

 ripen under glass. 



