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Martin, Partington's Trafalgar, M'Lean's Unique, Read's Miss 

 Giddings, Barlow's Morning Star, Turner's Galatea, Turner's 

 Colonel Champneys, Turner's Omega, Turner's Buckstone, Turner's 

 Competitor, and Lightbody's Richard Headly ; and Mr. James had 

 Spalding's Blackbird, Martin's Mayfield, Wild's Bright Phoebus, 

 Headly's Royal Purple, Turner's Webster, James's Mary James, 

 Lightbody's Meteor Flag, Smith's Mrs. Smith, and Martin's Mrs. 

 Sturrock. Mr. Turner exhibited a batch of new Alpine varieties, 

 all of which are decided acquisitions. The names and colours are as 

 follows : — Mr. James Butcher, very large, stout, and massive ; ground 

 colour deep maroon-crimson, very rich ; paste small deep golden 

 yellow ; truss good. Sultan, medium size, but smooth and well 

 finished ; ground colour brownish-maroon, shading to claret ; paste 

 large and sharply denned. Marquis of Westminster, rather above 

 medium size; ground colour rich chocolate-crimson; paste large and 

 smooth ; a beautifully-finished flower. Mrs. Moore, rather large ; 

 ground colour deep blackish velvety maroon ; paste large, smooth, 

 and richly coloured. Lord Lome, medium-sized and of fair form ; 

 ground colour bright crimson ; paste rich in colour, and well 

 denned. 



The most desirable of the new plants shown were : — Maxillaria 

 lutea grandiflora, a very fine and richly-coloured variety, from Mr. 

 B. S. Williams. Tea Rose Belle Lyonnaise, very large and double, 

 and of the finest form, from Mr. Charles Turner. Rliododendron 

 The Bride, a superb greenhouse variety, with pure white flowers of 

 large size, fine form, and great substance, from Mr. G. Pairbairn, 

 gardener to J. T. Noakes, Esq., Brockley Hall, Lewisham. Acer 

 dissecturn, a very beautiful variety with elegantly-cut green leaves, and 

 A. japonicum omatum, a variety with leaves cut in much the same 

 manner as the preceding, but of a dark bronzy crimson hue, from 

 Messrs. Veitch and Sons. Azalea amcena Marvel, a semi-double 

 form of this well-known and useful azalea, from Mr. Bull. Pink 

 Princess Louise, a magnificent dwarf-growing variety, with large 

 flowers of fine form, very full, and of the most brilliant scarlet 

 colour, and very fragrant, from Mr. Lee, Florist, Cross Bush, near 

 Arundel. Cypripedium niveum, from Mr. C. Ward, gardener to 

 A. D. Berrington, Esq., Pont-y- Goitre, Abergavenny ; and Odonto- 

 glossum odoratum, a pretty species, with yellow and brown flowers, 

 from Mr. Denning, gardener to Lord Londesborough, Grimston 

 Park, Tadcaster. 



It will be remembered that Mr. Trussler, the head-gardener at 

 High Leigh, Hcddesdon, contributed a paper on the cultivation of 

 camellias to the Floral World for December last, in which he 

 strongly recommended planting them out in a border of good soil 

 instead of growing them in pots ; and assuredly he can speak with 

 confidence upon that point. The large conservatory under his 

 charge is planted almost exclusively with camellias, and each plant 

 is a perfect specimen, some of them being nearly twenty feet in 

 height. Some are grown as pyramids, a few as bushes, and others 

 as standards, all being in the most luxuriant health ; and when I 

 had the pleasure of seeing them in March, they were literally loaded 



