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hurt, and recovered during the following summer. The 

 White Tree Rhododendron, sown and treated as the above, 

 suffered much the same as R. argenteum. Again, in Sep- 

 tember last we had a sharp frost which cut the young 

 leaves of R. ponticum, while the Sikkims in the same bed 

 were uninjured, and during last month they again with- 

 stood 16 deg. of frost without injury. Owing to its very 

 dwarf and compact habit, together with its freeness of 

 flowering, the species uniler notice will be very useful for 

 many gardening purposes." 



To Messrs. Jackson, for Maranta (?) sanguinea, a South 

 American plant, which they have succeeded in flowering at 

 Kingston for the first time in England. It requires a stove, 

 and is valuable for its handsome foliage and, as it proves, 

 for the beauty of its flowers. 



Certificate of Merit : — 



To Mr. Atkins, of Painswick, Gloucestershire, for a very 

 handsome Cyclamen, the produce of a cross between C. 

 persicum and C. Coum, It partook very much of the habit 

 of the latter, w hile the flowers and leaves had the colour of 

 persicum. 



To Mr. Mitchell, of Brighton, for nice bunches of Black 

 Hamburgh Grapes, just ripened. 



III.— MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS OF EXHIBITION. 



Messrs. Rollisson sent a small but curious form of Cycnoches, 

 (musciferum) which was apparently new to gardens. It was 

 stated to have been purchased at one of Mr. Linden's sales. 



Messrs. Hayes, of Edmonton, sent two single fringed seedling 

 Chinese Prinmlas. One had handsome, large, bright rosy purple 

 flowers ; the other was chiefly remarkable for its stiff' dwarf habit 

 and disposition to curl, which was strikingly observable in 

 the leaves. 



From Messrs. Veitch came a flowering branch of Acacia 

 dealbata, together with the following letter respecting it : — 

 "Having seen in the Gardener's Chronicle of the 28th ult. an 

 account of the Acacia dealbata flowering against an open wall 

 at Enfield, we send a specimen in fine bloom, from a standard 

 tree which grows in our private ground at Exeter. It stands on 

 the grass, is upwards of 20 feet high, and from 18 to 20 feet 

 through the middle, feathered to the ground, forming a beautiful 

 compact tree, and covtrtd with floMers similar to the specimen 



