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mencement of winter, but that very weaklj-, and it is still 

 in a sickly state, the bulb feeling quite soft. The one kept 

 dry I placed on a shelf m a vinery that I had commenced to 

 force : it grew vigorously, but did not flower, I kept it 

 growing till the beginning of July, when I gradually with- 

 held water, and finally dried it off", keeping it the remainder 

 of the summer on a shelf near the glass, and again through 

 the winter dry and cold. It was again placed in the vinery 

 this spring, the heat at the time ranging from 48° to 55°, 

 where it soon began to grow. I watered it sparingly 

 at first, but increased the supply progressively as the plant 

 advanced, occasionally giving it weak liquid manure. About 

 the middle of June it showed its first flower-sheath, and it 

 was then removed to the green-house." To ]Mr. Dodds, 

 Gardener to Colonel Baker, F.H.S., for a Providence Pine- 

 apple, weighing 7 lbs. 4J oz., being the best of nine pines 

 of the same variety whose weights were respectively 8 lbs. 

 11 oz., T^lbs., 7 lbs. 12 oz., 7 lbs. 10 oz., 7 lbs. 5oz., 6 lbs. 

 13 oz., 6 lbs. 7 oz., and 6 lbs. These were stated to have 

 been cut from plants twenty-three months old, grown in peat 

 and in pots. 



Miscellaneous Subjects of Exhibition. A Peruvian Thi- 

 baudia, a pretty Yaccinium-like shrub, with long, waxy, 

 rosy pink tubular blossoms, tipped with w liite, from Messrs. 

 Veitch ; a variegated variety of Thunbergia aurantiaca, 

 named Doddsii, from Mr. Dodds ; Potatoes, from a cot- 

 tager's garden near Dorking, exhibiting the return of the 

 disease of 1845 in its worst form, from Mr. Whiting, of the 

 Deepdene ; Grapes literally covered with mildew (Oidium 

 Tuckeri), an evil unusually abundant this year, from 

 Mr. Allnutt, of Clapham ; Blooms of Hoyle's Scipio Pelar- 

 gonium, from Mr. Silverlock ; a light Fuchsia, called Snow- 

 drop, from Mr. Keynes, of Salisbury ; and a Phlox, named 

 depressa, a hybrid between P. Brownii and Drummondii, 

 from Mr. Henderson, of the Wellington Nursery. 



Novelties from the Society's Garden. Mr. Fortune's 

 double-flowered Convolvulus (Calystegia pubescens), which, 

 though hardy, makes a useful green-house twiner ; Indigo- 

 fera decora, also a Chinese plant, remarkable for the length 

 of time it continues in flower; Mr. Lobb's ^schynanth 

 (JE, Lobbianus) ; Salvia hians, a pretty hardy, herbaceous, 

 blue and white flowered perennial from Cashmere ; Monar- 

 della luidulata, a sweet-scented hardy annual, raised from 

 seeds sent from California by Mr. Hartweg ; and Adamia 

 versicolor, a hydrangea-like plant, with flowers which, wiien 



