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Messrs. Gedney and Bullen again showed excellent collections, as did 

 also Messrs. Woolley, Carson, Rhodes, May, and Page. In the 

 different groups were fine plants of the handsome Cattleya superba, 

 Cypripedium villosum, White Butterfly -plant, the singular-looking 

 Coryanthes macrantha, White Phaius, the yellow Anguloa Clowesi, 

 Dendrobes of different sorts, Miltonia spectabilis, Epidendrum verru- 

 cosum, Odontoglossum hastilabium, the green-tailed Dendrochilum 

 filiforme, Saccolabium Blumei and guttatum, Aerides odoratum, and 

 others, Stanhopea tigrina, various Oncids, Sobralia macrantha, and one 

 or two varieties of Brassia. 



Of new plants, Messrs. Veitch sent Fentstemon Jeffreyi, a pretty 

 blue -flowered kind from California, with a tinge of pink in it; a 

 Bilbergia, with a large branching spike of pale pink blossoms ; 

 Calanthe Dominii, with numerous spikes of pink flowers ; a small 

 canary-blossomed Calla, the singular Ceratodactylis Osmundoides ; 

 Pteris argyrsea, with large fronds striped with white ; Platycerium 

 Wallichii, from Moulmein ; two kinds of Blandfordia, Clianthus 

 Dampieri, Chamaebates foliolosa, Dichorozanclra vittata discolor, with 

 leaves striped with red ; Spraguea umbellata, a pink and white woolly- 

 flowered plant from California ; iEschynanthus tricolor, Boehmeria 

 argentea from South America, and Cyanophyllum magnificum. both 

 remarkable for the size and beauty of their leaves ; and Philesia 

 buxifolia. Messrs. Parker and Williams furnished the pretty white 

 and blue flowered Statice brassicaefolia, the double yellow Datura, a 

 variegated Tussilago, an Anaectochilus, Tydsea, and Begonia; also some 

 rare Ferns, Maranta fasciata, and others ; and a yellow-flowered grey- 

 leaved Centaurea. From Messrs. E. G. Henderson were the white 

 Portlandia platantha, Gazania splendens, a spreading silvery-leaved 

 plant with handsome orange flowers. Messrs. Low showed several 

 Bornean plants, some of which were without names ; others were a 

 variegated variety of Franciscea confertiflora, Myrsine picta, Gona- 

 tanthus cuprea (?) with metallic -like foliage, Pothos argyraea, the new 

 greenhouse shrub Chamaebates foliolosa, from California ; Plocostemma 

 lasianthum, an Asclepiad with bunches of tawny orange-coloured 

 flowers not unlike those of Cyrtoceras reflexum ; Spraguea umbellata, 

 and Gcethea strictiflora, whose naked stem was ornamented with flowers 

 enclosed within crimson bracts, in which the chief beauty of the plant 

 resides. 



The display of cut Roses was excellent ; beautiful collections of 50 

 sorts were furnished by Messrs. Paul, Fraser, Francis, Lane, and 

 Mitchell. Among the varieties were Victor Trouillard, Comte de 

 Nanteuil, Queen Victoria, Mathurin Regnier, Charles Lawson, Madame 

 Hector Jacquin, Kean, Gloire de Dijon, William Griffiths, Madame 

 Vidot, General Simpson, Niphetos, Prince Leon, Paul Perras, Louis 

 Peyronney, Boule de Nanteuil, Crested Moss, Louise Magnan, Juno, 

 Madame William, Devoniensis, Jules Margottin, Augusta, Alphonse 

 Karr, Baronne Prevost, Felicite Parmentier, Auguste Mie, Pius the 

 Ninth, Duchess of Sutherland, Vicomtesse Decazes, Coupe d'Hebe, 

 Souvenir d'un Ami, Narcisse, Duchesse d'Orleans, Marie Thierry, 

 Souvenir de Malmaison, Eveque de Nimes, Mrs. Rivers, Joan of Arc, 



