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sirable plant. Young plants three inches high bloom 

 freely." To Messrs. Henderson, of Pine Apple-place, for 

 a large collection of Hyacinths in bloom, comprising some 

 of the newest and best varieties. 

 Certificates of Merit : To Mr. Mylam, gardener to S. Rucker, 

 Esq., for fine specimens of Erica trossula, mundula, and 

 Neillii. To J. Montgomery, Esq., F.H.S., for a Gesnera 

 remarkable for its graceful and airy appearance, having 

 been grown mthout the sticks to which such plants are too 

 often stiffly tied, and which so much detract from their 

 beauty. To Mr. Glendinning, of the Chiswick Nursery, 

 for Cyrtoceras reflexum. " This," wrote Mr. Glendinning, 

 " has not in my estimation been sufficiently appreciated 

 as an ornamental stove-plant, for by a very little care it 

 can be induced to bloom in great abundance at any period 

 of the year. The same plant, in fact, can be made to flower 

 about every alternate month. This is the third time the 

 plant exhibited has bloomed during the past winter. Its 

 cultivation, too, is remarkably easy — a circumstance, no 

 doubt, of much importance to many. A temperature suit- 

 able in the winter-culture of the Cucumber will answer 

 admirably for the Cyrtoceras. It likes heat and moisture ; 

 and, when potted in sandy peat, intermixed with potsherds, 

 and plunged in a brisk bottom heat, there can be no question 

 as to its successful culture and abundant flowerins" at all 

 seasons. 



Miscellaneous Subjects of Exhibition. Statice frutescens 

 and imbricata, two new varieties from the Canaries, from 

 Mr. Albert of Fulham ; a rosy crimson-flowered Rhodo- 

 dendron, a hybrid from arboreum, with eight heads of 

 flowers, each head forming a cone six inches deep, and as 

 much across at the base, from Mr. Salter, gardener to G. 

 Stone, Esq., of Parson's Green, Fulham ; and a dish of 

 Apples, called Mannington's Pearmain, in excellent condi- 

 tion, from Mr. Cameron of Uckfield. This variety differs 

 from all others at present in cultivation ; it is middle-sized, 

 reddish, somewhat russeted, and said to be remarkable for 

 its late-keeping properties. 



Novelties from the Society's Garden. Ixora javanica, a 

 beautiful orange-red flowered species ; the double-blossomed 

 Spiraea prunifolia ; Henfreya scandens ; and a plant of the 

 Winter Violet Grass (lonopsidium acaule, or Cochlearia 

 acaulis), a little Portuguese annual which is beginning to 

 find its way into gardens. The latter was sent to the So- 

 ciety a few years ago by the Due de Palmella. 



