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rosy flowers, which are covered all over with short dark- 

 coloured bars, like those of the blossoms of some Alstrce- 

 merias. It was stated to be a continental kind, the history 

 of which is unknown. 



To Messrs. Henderson, of Pine Apple Place, for four pots of 

 Viola pyrolsefolia, a hardy yellow-flowered scentless species 

 from Patagonia. 



To Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., of Exeter, for Calceolaria 

 Ajax, a dwarf shrubby bedding kind, remarkable for its 

 great trusses of brown and yellow blossoms, which require no 

 sticks to support them owing to the sturdy habit of the 

 plant by which they are produced. It was stated to be 

 from Sultan, crossed with some high-coloured shrubby variety. 



To Mr. Keeble, gardener to H. Davies, Esq., Woodlands, 

 Isleworth, for a very finely flowered Tropseolum tricolorum, 

 completely covering a circular wire trellis about four feet in 

 diameter. 



To Mr. Gaines, of Battersea, for a well-flowered specimen of 

 Azalea Holfordiana. 



To Mr. Dunsford, of Chingford, for a fine plant of Epidendrum 

 Stamfordianum. 



To Messrs. Jackson, of Kingston, for Dendrobium pulchellum 

 and Vriesia speciosa, the latter with two long feather-like 

 spikes of scarlet inflorescence. 



To Mr. Dobson, Woodlands Nursery, Isleworth, for eight plants 

 of Cineraria, all well grown and beautifully flowered. 



To Mr. Bennett, of Dulwich, for a dish of British Queen 

 Strawberries. 



To Mr, Spary, of Brighton, for six well-coloured bunches of 

 Black Hamburgh Grapes. 



III.— MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS OF EXHIBITION. 



Messrs. Standish and Noble furnished a " worked " plant of 

 Rhododendron Edgeworthi in bloom ; but owing to its having 

 been forced into that condition somewhat prematurely, the two 

 large white blossoms, which it had produced, were not at all 

 nicely expanded, and the delicious fragrance for which this species 

 is so remarkable was only just perceptible in them. From the 



