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spikes), DiefFenbachia costata, Dracaena terininalis, the varie- 

 gated Croton, Achimenes picta, and a few smaller plants. 



Certificate of Merit : — 



To Mr. Blake, Gardener to J. H. Schroder, Esq., F.H.S., for 

 Dendrobium albo-sanguineum. 



To Mr. Bunney, Nurseryman, Stratford, for Dendrobium 

 Farmerii. 



To Mr. Wood, of Norwood, for a specimen of the variety of 

 Cape Heath called Hartnelli virens. 



To Messrs. Henderson, of the Wellington Road Nursery, St. 

 John's Wood, for a Continental Camellia named Rizzio, with 

 t\A'o blooms on it, exhibiting the familiar sport of one flower 

 being red while the other was white faintly striped with 

 red. 



To Mr. Forbes, Gardener to the Duke of Bedford, F.H.S., at 

 Woburn, for four bunches of Black Hamburgh Grapes. 



To Mr. Meredith, Gardener to the Duke of Sutherland, F.H.S., 

 at Cliefden, for eight pots of Keens' Seedling Strawberry, 

 in fruit, and a similar number of Cuthill's Black Prince, 

 the latter being in 3-inch jiots and well fruited. 



To Mr. Lewis Solomon, of Covent Garden Market, for ex- 

 amples of Paris Cos and Grand Admirable Lettuces, im- 

 ported from France. Tlie attention of the meeting was 

 di'awn to the fact, tiiat the only persons who in this country 

 succeeded in producing fine Summer Lettuces at this season 

 in England were two Dutch gardeners, one of whom was 

 brought over by the late Mr. Labouchere. 



II.— MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS OF EXHIBITION. 



A small piece of a flower-spike of the lovely Odontoglossum 

 Pescatorei came from Mr. Mylam, Gardener to S. Rucker, Esq., 

 F.H.S. 



A Dendrobe from Sylliet, apparently D. heterocarpum in a 

 diminutive state, was furnished by Messrs. Jackson, of Kingston. 



Mr. Bunney contributed an imported plant of Dendrobium 

 nobile. 



From Messrs. Backhouse, of York, came a Cattleya, named 

 amethystina, but which appeared to be a variety of C. intermedia. 

 A Thysanotus, from Ncav South Wales, accompanied it ; but in 

 the absence of bright light, its flowers did not open. 



