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and the foliage of K. ponticum, which it resembled in all 

 respects except in colour, thus uniting the brilliant flowers 

 of the tender Indian kind, with the hardy vegetation of the 

 Black Sea. 



To Lady Dorothy Neville, for Odontoglossum cordatum, a 

 somewhat scarce species from Guatemala. 



III.— MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS OF EXHIBITION. 



From W, Everett, Esq., F.H.S., Enfield, came a new garden 

 implement, which it was stated might in some cases form a 

 substitute for a rake. It had a long handle, on the end of which 

 was a small roller or revolving cylinder, in which knives or rather 

 bluntplatesof iron were set lengthwise all round it, about two inches 

 apart, and protruding from the roller about an inch. These were 

 said to break clods quickly, and leave the ground in small ridges 

 fit for sowing. It was mentioned that the rollers could be made 

 of any length that might be most useful. 



The Hon. W. Fox Strangways, F.H.S., contributed specimens 

 of an anomalous development of the wood of Arbutus Unedo, 

 which looked exactly as if that species had been grafted near the 

 •ground on A. Andrachne. The stem had bulged out at the place 

 in question till a large round excrescence had been formed; the 

 health of the tree became impaired, and ultimately it was cut 

 down, when, on splitting the part affected down the middle, the 

 two distinct kinds of wood presented themselves ; and what was 

 most remarkable, the wood of A. Andrachne was evidently formed 

 below that of A, Unedo. 



IV.— ARTICLES FROM THE SOCIETY'S GARDEN. 



A plant of the Sikkim Primrose, a singular form of Cowslip 

 found in that district of the Himalayas by Dr. Hooker. It has 

 long slender stalks, surmounted by bunches of pale yellow sweet- 

 scented flowers ; also two kinds of Cacti, both crosses between 

 the flat-stemmed C. crenatus, and the well-known C. speci- 

 osissimus. The effect of this cross has been in the one case to 

 substitute the violet-shaded red of C. speciosissimus for the white 

 colour of C. crenatus ; and in the other to replace it with pale 

 salmon, while both have the advantage of possessing a very 

 hardy constitution, which renders them very easy to manage. 



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